"Three? I-I can't leave here..." Kevin stuttered. There was no way that he could leave Eddward. In comes Danny to the rescue... "But what about Eddward and Marie, Momma?"
"What about them, Dear? They are vampires, they can fend for themselves and they won't be welcome where we are going." Victoria explains "Wait, who's Marie?"
"I am not leaving without Eddward, I'm sorry" Kevin refused. "Marie is my best friend, Momma! And Eddward! We can't leave them! The Evil Man will get them!"
"Don't be ridiculous! Why on Earth not!? They are vampires we are werewolves! You have no ties to then other than the fact they looked after you a bit!"
"Come on, Kevin. Let's not argue right now. We all just got our family back..." Lucas tried to persuade.
"We can't leave without them..." Nazz tried but was stared down but Mother Barr.
"Mother, I am NOT leaving without Eddward or Marie! Eddward would just track us down anyway!"
"Of course he wouldn't! He is the one that suggested we take you three away from here. He actually said off of this continent" Victoria says confused.
Daniel was so confused that he clung to Kevin with tears in his eyes "Doesn't Eddward like us anymore?" Nazz knelt down and gathered him in her arms, comforting him as he wrapped his little arms around her neck and cried. "I don't wanna leave! Why doesn't Eddward like us anymore?!" Nazz tried calming him and cooed sweet things to him.
"He wouldn't suggest that. We're mated!" Kevin growled "I'm not leaving without my mate!"
"What?!" Victoria shrieks "Why would you mate with a male vampire?!"
"Because we love each other! Why else?!" Kevin growled back.
Victoria backs away from her son "But you and Nazz..."
"We are friends, nothing more!" Kevin gritted out through clenched teeth.
"I tried, Victoria, but they are too connected to each other and its fine. They work well together! They belong together!" Nazz tried.
"What nonsense! He can't bare your children, how will you carry on the blood line?!"
"We'll figure something out if we want kids but that's not important to me! There is no way he told us to leave! You can leave!"
"He did, dear... He told me to take you and Daniel far away to somewhere safe, somewhere Alistar wouldn't be able to find you."
Marie comes out looking around "What's going on?"
Daniel, hearing Marie, flings himself out of Nazz's arms and clings to her. "Marie! You still like me, right?!" he cries hysterically.
"Look what you did! Danny is hysterical! There is no way that Eddward would send us away. It makes zero sense!" Kevin snapped.
Marie hugs him tightly "Oh baby boy, I'm sure he doesn't want you to leave, he just wants to keep you safe! I'm sure Eddward loves you just as much as I do, babe" she says gently.
"Like the girl said, maybe he is just doing it because he wants you to be safe, Kevin" his mother snaps at him.
"No one can take Alistar alone! He knows that, you know that, and I know that Mother! We are supposed to fight things together!" Kevin was fully agitated now and was holding back just enough to not transform to rip the house apart.
"I do not know why you are yelling at me when I am just relaying what he said" Victoria huffs.
"Because I don't believe you! Take Danny and Nazz if you want but I am staying here!" Kevin snapped at his mother. He was losing the battle with his willpower and he was transforming as the seconds pass. Quickly, there was a large and angry red wolf in the living room "Wait until Eddward comes back! You'll see!" Kevin said, more to himself than anyone else as he desperately tried to reach out and connect with his mate. He was being blocked and he didn't like it one bit.
Eddward feels the ginger trying to connect with him and can feel his anger before he even gets near the door. He sighs and steels himself for what is about to come and enters the house silently. "Do. Not." he deadpans, seeing the large ginger wolf go for his couch.
Kevin moved to stand in front and stare at his mate. "Tell them... Tell them that we are mated and you didn't tell them to take us somewhere else without you."
Eddward stares at the ginger then turns to the two older wolves. "We are mated and I love him and Daniel more than I could ever have possibly imagined I could ever love anyone. I do not want them to leave…" he says before turning to his lover. "But yes, I told your Mother to take you and Daniel far away from here, out of the continent actually is what I believe I said... I want you two to be safe and if he can't find you, then you will be safe" he says gently, staring into the ginger's green eyes as his heart continues to fracture.
Kevin narrows his eyes at his mate but before he could do anything, Lucas jumped and pinned him down to the ground. "Let me up!" he struggled.
"Please stop this, Kevin! We want you safe! Please!" his mother pleaded.
Eddward sighs "Let him up, anything he does, I suppose I deserve it" he says. Marie motions Nazz out of the living room and carries Daniel to her room.
Lucas adjusted himself to growl into Kevin's ear "You will stop this nonsense immediately! You are acting like a child and I won't tolerate this behavior from my grown son any longer! The vampire clearly loves you and wants you safe!"
Kevin seemed to ignore him "Get off me! Get off of me!" he shakes his father off, lunging at Eddward. They land with Eddward on his back and Kevin hovering dangerously over him, teeth bared and a growl deep in his chest. "Give me one good god damn reason why I shouldn't kill you where you lie!"
"Because you would die too" Eddward says calmly "And then where would we be?"
"The same god damn place if we follow this stupid idea!"
Eddward sighs and shakes his head "No, if you and Daniel are safe, I can focus on killing him" he says softly.
"Then have them take Danny. I'm not leaving you!"
"There is no sense in staying, you have to leave" Eddward says turning his head away.
"So you feel I'm not strong enough... You feel that you have to protect me too much so now I'll be in your way... Fine..." He gets off Eddward be makes his way to gather his brother and friend. Pushing open Marie's door, he said "You two, get your shit together and get outside. We're leaving, now" he leaves, getting to his bedroom and grabbed his pack.
Marie and Nazz look at each other dumbstruck but stay put and Danny has already passed out from crying snuggling into Marie.
Eddward sighs "Kevin..." he says, walking into the bedroom.
Kevin took his human form before Eddward got to the bedroom and was putting on a new shirt and pants that weren't in shreds. He didn't look up when his name was called and he had cut off his side of the bond when Eddward admitted to wanting them to leave. Grabbing his pack on to his back, he snipped "I'm leaving. I'm taking Danny and Nazz. Isn't that what you wanted?"
Eddward growls "No, it is not what I want!" he says, slamming the door and standing in front of it as he opens his side of the bond for the first time since he started breaking his own heart "I just need you safe" he says softly.
"No, fuck you! You want me to run off like some precious princess and await your return! I am NOT going to do that! Stop trying to protect me from every little thing! I! Am! Not! Pumpkin!"
"I KNOW YOU'RE NOT HIM! YOU ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN HE EVER WAS OR WILL BE!" Eddward roars as tears slip down his face "I'm the weak one... It's me... I can't... I can't see you hurt or suffer any more... I can't do it, Kevin... I can't see the only family I've known suffer any further..." he says softly. Falling to his knees in front of the ginger and hugging his legs, he begins to sob repeating "I can't..." over and over.
Kevin backed up and sat on the bed, with his head in his hands and elbows on his knees. "How do you think I feel? You think I like seeing you hurt? You think that doesn't affect me? You're my whole fucking world, Eddward! What makes you think it's any less worse for me?!
Eddward sits there on his knees staring at the floor "I... I am sorry... I am just so worried about you" he says wiping away tears "I did not think about how this would affect you."
Kevin knelt on the floor in front of his mate, cupping his face and pulling towards him to crush their lips together. "I'm not leaving you, ever. I'm not, so stop trying to make me" he sighed and pressed their foreheads together. "What makes you think that I'm not worried about you?"
"I know you are but in my selfishness I did not stop to think about how you would react or how you would feel about it" Eddward says wrapping his hands around the ginger's wrists that are holding him, as if to ground himself.
"Alistar has defied the rules of death... I don't think distance is going to stop him. Just as I don't think that is going 'someplace safe' is going to keep him from us. We need to stay together... And you need to apologize to Danny."
Eddward nods and grips the ginger tighter "God, Daniel… How can I face him after what I tried to do?"
"He was really hurt... Kept asking why you didn't like him anymore. He is in with Marie and Nazz" Kevin explained.
Eddward nods "I love you both so much, what will I tell him?" he says miserably.
"I'll help you... If my parents do have some place 'safe', I wouldn't mind them taking Danny but I don't think someone who defines the laws of death is going to be slowed down by us moving."
Eddward sighs and nuzzles into the ginger "You are correct, as usual, my love" he says quietly "I should listen to you more."
"I know! You always say that but you don't! It's like you enjoy punishment!" Kevin snickers. "Come on, you have to tell my parents that I am not leaving and make up to Danny." Kevin stands, tossing his pack back in the corner and opens the door.
Eddward nods and stands walking out the open door and to the living room "I apologize, Madam and Monsieur, but I do not want Kevin to leave."
"We figured as much..." Lucas grinned the same grin that Kevin inherited.
"We will have to have a change of plans then!" Victoria declared.
"What do you mean?" Kevin asked.
"We will be finding a permanent place nearby. We've spent too long away from our boys. Time to stay nearby and be there for them" Victoria explained.
Eddward nods in understanding "Why don't you stay here? Kevin and I will go to a different safe house with the females?" he suggests.
"That could work... Let's go talk to Danny, Eddward" Kevin nudges him towards the girl's bedroom.
Eddward allows the ginger to push him to the marked room where he stands there stiffly. "What will I say to him, Mon Amour?"
"That you still like him and you didn't mean it and... Whatever else you can think of. Use that big, beautiful brain of yours" Kevin knocks on the door before opening it and peering into the quiet room. Danny was still cuddled up to Marie and Nazz was curled around her, all of them fast asleep. "You wanna wake them up?"
"No, let them dream" Eddward says softly as he backs the ginger out and closes the door gently.
"W-was that a normal cuddle in there between those two? Danny'll cuddle with anyone but..?"
Eddward smirks a secret knowing smile and shrugs. "Was it darling?" he asks with a quirked brow and he makes for the living room again.
Kevin caught up and grabbed his hand, lacing their fingers together and squeezing. He wanted just to be with his mate, he was still wounded and he was emotionally drained. Kevin sat on the couch immediately and sighed, rolling his head back gently. Victoria went into "Mother Mode". "Kevin, what hurts?"
"Emotionally or physically?" he sighed "Caleb and Alistar's son tore me up yesterday. Danny healed us as much as he could."
Victoria shushed him and started to heal him. He opened his side of the bond and him and Eddward connected again. The combination of feeling his mother's healing touch again and his mate fully connected to him again was too much. Tears welled in his eyes and he tried hard not to break down. Eddward squeezes the wolf's hand comfortingly "Everything is alright, Kevin" he says soothingly.
"This is unbelievable..."
Victoria smiles "I know, dear. I'm sorry we didn't come sooner."
"I thought you were dead... I saw both of you die. I was just sure that they killed Danny... Then the whole thing with Nat rattled me big time but then I found Danny, then Nazz, then you two... It's almost too much... Thank god I have Eddward to keep me balanced."
Victoria looks mildly uncomfortable for a moment at the mention of Eddward and it doesn't slip past him but he ignores it as he rubs slow circles into the ginger's back.
Lucas spies his wife's look and makes a mental note to speak with her about it later. He wasn't going to have anything come between him and his son again and if that meant that he would have to deal with the vampire, then so be it. He did care for his children after all. The silence was broke by the girl's bedroom door opening and Marie and Nazz come out with a sleeping Danny. Eddward gives a knowing smirk to Marie who blushes and turns away.
Marie gently wakes Danny up. He wakes up with a jolt and a small cry "I don't want to leave! I wanna stay here with everyone!" as the tears start to flow again. Kevin looks to Eddward "There's your queue..."
Eddward stands and takes the little ginger into his arms. "Daniel, Mon Cher, calm yourself" he says soothingly.
"B-but why are you sending us away? Don't you like me or Kevin anymore?" he sniffs.
"Do not be ridiculous! I love you both more than anything! That is why I wanted to send you way to keep you safe, Little One" Eddward says gently.
"But I don't wanna leave you here... we should stick together like Kevin says! That's what packs do!" Daniel buries his face into Eddward's neck and wraps his little arms around him tightly.
"Daniel…" Eddward looks at Kevin desperately for some help
"We're all one pack, one family and family doesn't abandon each other!" Daniel cries. Kevin calls from the couch "But sometimes we have to split up to protect the younger ones, but for now no one is leaving, Danny. Calm down. The pack stays together."
Eddward hugs him tightly "I am sorry, Daniel. I love you, you are my little one."
Daniel buried his face again and mutters "I love you too, Eddward." Lucas looked on with a smile. That's when he decided that Eddward was on their side. No matter what... Anyone who cared about his sons as much as he did was okay in his book. He would work on his wife in private. "Well, Victoria, we best take our leave. Mustn't make a nuisance of ourselves, after all. We shall return when the Moon rises again. Maybe even take young Daniel on a hunt with everyone."
Victoria smiles and stands nodding her head "Yes, dear. We will be back, it was lovely to see everyone. We will be back at sunset" she kisses her sons and even Nazz goodbye, ignoring the vampires all together and walks outside.
Before he takes his leave, he looks to Eddward and Marie. "I apologize for my wife. I know she has some reservations about vampires but I will talk with her. You have proven yourselves to be admirable. Thank you for taking care of my sons and we will stop by sometime after night fall" he said his goodbyes and left.
"Well, that was fun..." Kevin mused.
"We get to stay?" Daniel asked.
Eddward sighs then smiles down at the little wolf. "Yes, you are staying" he says gently.