Daniel smiles and nuzzles into Eddward a final time before pushing out of his arms and going to Kevin. "I'm hungry..."
"You only talk to me for food! Is that all I am to you?!" Kevin laughs.
"Yes! And playing!"
"I am not playing with you tonight... go play with Nazz or Marie!"
Eddward chuckles and looks at the two girls who are now whispering "Why don't you play with me tonight, Daniel?"
Daniel looks at him, seemingly to size him up "Are you totally healed?"
Eddward shrugs "Is that relevant?" he questions.
"I don't wanna hurt you by playing" Daniel says simply, transforming into his wolf form and getting ready to pounce on the vampire.
Eddward quirks his eyebrow and takes a defensive stance "you can try" he growls playfully.
Daniel grins, jumping and chasing Eddward. Marie and Nazz jump back to avoid getting wrapped up in the boys play. "Hey! Take it outside before your destroy the house!" Marie yells out.
"I'm sorry, I forget… Whose house is this?" Eddward asks, putting his hands on his hips.
"You don't intimidate me, sir! The other inhabitants would like to not get killed by you two!" Marie sasses back.
"It is my house, so if I want to destroy things, Marie, I damn well will" Eddward sasses as Daniel leans over the back of the couch. "Yea!" he adds for Eddward.
"You're a shit... Get over here!" Kevin laughs and takes off after him, catching the little red wolf and hauling him outside. Transforming and looking back at the two females "Since we're taking him outside to wear him out, you two can get some meat ready for Danny and I when we get back. Thanks!" Daniel squeaked as he saw his brother and the vampire, that was as much of his brother as anything else, chase him around the house. Finally some happiness in the dark... for now.
"You father won't be happy that you did not get the child" Caleb growled.
"Shut the fuck up, it's your fault" Kev snaps.
"Such vulgarity... How is any of this my fault? I only want Kevin, Daniel is of no concern to me. Or your little fling…"
"I will fucking end you if you call him that again! I hate him and I can't wait for him and his little lap dog to die! If you hadn't have come along I could have plucked the little bastard up and ran, but nooooooo… because father wants you alive, for some reason, I had to stick around! It's your fault."
"You did not have to stick around, that was your own failing. Lie to me all you want, it makes no difference to me. However, you may want to reign in your emotions... They were out for everyone to see."
"Shut the fuck up before I decide to go against my father's orders again and kill you."
"And you lying in your current relationship does not bode well... You would take care to note that." They get to the compound and Caleb walks off to his quarters. He didn't screw up, that was the young doctor, let Alistar deal with him alone.
"Ah you're back!" The doctor's assistant says with a small smile. "How did it go darling?" he asks, kissing Kev's cheek.
"Hello to you too, Edd. It didn't go well, Daniel got away, as did Eddward and Kevin. Father will not be pleased."
"Oh no" he says worriedly "Darling, you don't think he will take it out on you, as he does the others, do you?"
"Let's hope not..." he wraps his arms around the small raven and hugs him close before he hears heavy footsteps approaching. Loosening his grip, he walks to meet his father.
Edd looks after him worriedly before he begins working again "Where is the little bastard?" Alistar asks in a foul mood because Eddward got away.
"That disgusting dog made me drop him and he took off. I couldn't follow without Kevin trying to kill me. I'm sorry, Father."
"WHAT?!" Alistar roars.
"It was Caleb! Then Eddward showed up and kept throwing me around!"
"BULL SHIT! YOU LET HIM GET AWAY! AFTER EVERYTHING HE DID TO YOU! BETRAYING YOU AND KILLING YOU, YOU STILL HAVE FEELINGS FOR HIM, DONT YOU?!" he bellows smashing his fist into the small ginger's face.
Kev reeled back "N-no, I don't! He is stronger than me! Weren't you supposed to keep Eddward at bay until we killed Kevin and got Daniel?! What happened to that plan?" he shouted. Edd cringed, knowing his boyfriend had said too much and now the punishment would be severe. He just hoped it wouldn't last through the night like last time.
Alistar growls and grabs the ginger's throat roughly, digging his nails in. "He ran like a little bitch" he hisses before throwing him against the wall. "Get me the healing serum" he hisses at Edd.
"Yes, sir" he ran off as fast as he could, grabbing the serum and bringing it to Alistar.
Alistar grabs the ginger, bringing him into the compound and slams him on the table. Chaining him down, he injects his son with it before grabbing a hammer. Kev struggles and pulls frantically at the chains, screaming as the serum heals the wounds he just got and begging his father to please release him. "I promise! I'll go back and get Daniel! I promise!"
"Aye, that you will lad. You are about to learn a hard lesson… One you think you would have learned by now" Alistar says before he slams the hammer down onto his rib cage, breaking two. Kev screams from the pain of the hit and then from the healing. "Please! Father! I was careless! It won't happen again! Please, let me go and redeem my careless actions."
"You will silence that tongue, boy!" Alistar says bringing the hammer down on his jaw, breaking that. Kev tried one last valiant effort to pull the chains loose but he was losing strength and the pain was unbearable. He tried to grunt and groan at his father, praying he would end the torment. Alistar ignores his son and grabs a knife stabbing him in the chest, stomach, and sides intentionally going for vital organs knowing the pain would be worse.
The sickening crack of bones coming together and mending sounds throughout the room before screams of agony accompany them. Kev spit out a few teeth before trying to plead again. "Make me stronger... Make me able to beat him. Let me kill him, Father, I want to feel his life leave him. I want to make him watch as I kill his little family! Please!"
"I can do no more with you. Your body will reject anything I do to it because it is weak like you are" Alistar growls.
"No, try it again! I'm stronger!"
"I have tried countless times, you are worth no more of my effort" Alistar says stabbing him and leaving the knife in this time. "He will stay like that for forty-eight hours, no food and no drink" he growls at the smaller Doctor as he sweeps out of the room.
The Moon rose over the trees and Kevin slowly woke up, his mate cuddled around him. Slowly detangling himself, he moved to the living room to see Danny, passed out on the couch. Just as Kevin was going to wake him up for the night, a knock on the door sounded. Looking out the window, he saw his parents. "Good evening Mother and Father" he greeted with a smile.
Victoria sweeps in giving him a hug "Hello darling?"
"Hey, son. How is it going?" he asks clapping his hand over Kevin's back.
"It's good to see you. What are you doing tonight?" Kevin asked. All the noise woke up the smallest person in the room. Yawning largely and rubbing his eyes, he looked up to see his brother and parents. He hops up on the back of the couch and greets his parents. Eddward hears them bonding in the front room and gets dressed before slipping out the window. He got the feeling that Victoria did not like him and he wanted Kevin to spend some time with his parents.
Kevin invited them in and sat down in the living room. "Where did you guys sleep last night? Did you run into anyone?"
"We found a cave and hunkered down in there. It's was very nice actually, a nice cool breeze, flowing water... It was perfect for us." Victoria mused.
Lucas continued "The forest is silent. As you know, we don't know this area as well but it's too still for my liking."
Danny leaned against Kevin with wide eyes, silently asking to go play outside. "Go. Away. Go track and hunt outside but stay where I can see you!" Daniel answered with the affirmative, took his wolf form, and trotted out the front door.
"When you found Danny, did you check him for a tracker?" Lucas asked.
"I did a cursory once over and didn't see anything and then Eddward looked him over and didn't say anything. He also gave him a full bath with nothing seen."
Lucas and Victoria give each other a look and Victoria nods "Kevin..." she begins gently.
"What? I couldn't just leave him there on the off chance that he had a tracker on him... Does he?!" Kevin was starting to panic. Eddward is gonna be pissed if he did.
"Yes, he does and I wasn't going to suggest you should have left him" Victoria says gently "I was just going to inform you that he did have a tracker."
"Where?! We both looked him over, top to bottom. We both have given him baths and don't see anything."
"Alistar implanted one in the back of his neck under his skin most likely" she says gently pointing out a scar in her own neck.
Kevin sighed "Why can't anything just be EASY?! How do we get the tracker out of him?"
Lucas and Victoria share another look and Victoria shakes her head and shuffles uncomfortably. "Well, son, we have to dig it out of him..."
"D-dig it... No... You don't know what I went through with his leg... You have to dig it out?! With what?!"
Eddward had begun feeling the ginger get upset so he headed back. Feeling him get pissed, he bursts into the house and looks about the situation sighing in relief.
"You see Danny outside?" Kevin asked in a flat, irritated tone.
Eddward looks back and nods seeing the small ginger jump out of a bush "Yes."
"Hope he didn't find that skunk again..." Kevin snickers, knowing it would rile the vampire up.
Eddward groans "Oh God, please no…" he says shutting the door "Now, what has you so upset, Mon Amour?"
"Trackers... Daniel has one in him. My guess is so does Nazz and, quite possibly, Marie."
Eddward quirks an eye brow "How do we get rid of them?"
Lucas exposed the back of his wife's neck, showing the tiny scar. "They are almost always inserted in the back of the neck. Loosely attached to the spine to prevent easy removal."
Eddward sighs "I can do it" he says thoughtfully. "With little to no scaring but I'm not saying it won't be painful, unless I knock them out."
"I will warn you that in some cases, Alistar would change where they put them. Some are by the heart, some are in their mouths, I've heard rumors about them being rigged to explode if removed. You have to be very careful. We have scanners that can find the tracker but nothing to decipher what kind of tracker it is."
Eddward nods "Get me that scanner and I can figure the rest out" he says confidently.
Lucas produced the scanner but before handing it over completely, he said "I know the other two are important to you two, my only request is that you take Danny first. I fear he may be the one to give you trouble considering he was with Alistar the longest and was one of the youngest. His body would heal fast and would take more abuse than someone older."
Eddward nods "I had planned on it..." he says taking it.
"Thank you. If you need us, we will be available to you. Victoria's healing abilities do come in handy with procedures such as this" the older werewolf offered. Trying to make sure that Victoria knew not be a bitch and she was to help heal everyone, should it be asked of her.
"...I'm going outside..." Kevin quickly got up and left the house, finding Danny laying in the moonlight, panting heavily. "What did you do?" Kevin asked, flopping down next to him.
"Chased some stuff..." Daniel started telling Kevin all that he caught and what he tried to catch.
Eddward shuffles awkwardly "I would be very grateful if you could help me, madam" he says politely.
"No problem" she says stiffly, with a fake smile. "When will you be ready? Do you need tools? We have some that may come in handy... We ransacked a few of Alistar's labs once we broke free" Lucas grinned.
Eddward shakes goes head "No, I broke into a hospital a while back and I am well stocked. I have to be with your sons about" Eddward chuckles.
Victoria laughed but before she could respond, they all heard Daniel squeak and run and disappear under the house with a larger red wolf skidding to a stop right where the smaller red head vanished. Kevin turned and walked a little ways away before laying down, his back to Daniel. Soon a small head appeared, Daniel padded quietly over to his big brother before attacking him and wrestling around in the dirt.
Eddward sighs "You see what I mean?" he asks.
"Nathan and Kevin where just the same... It's hard raising one pup, let alone two. Kevin was kind of forced to grow up too quick with Lucas died so a lot of this is him making up for lost time" Victoria explained. A second later, Daniel burst through the front door, triumphantly. "I win! I drew first blood!" Kevin came in, in human form, holding his ear. "You just tugged on me too hard, shut up..."
Eddward chuckles and walks over to the ginger "Mon Amour, let me see" he says gently. Kevin took away his bloodied hand and let his mate tend to his ear. Eddward, without even thinking, licks the ginger's ear, stopping the bleeding and licking up the rest of the blood.
Kevin's eyes widen before a smile spread across his face. He grabbed the vampire's hip, where his parents couldn't see and squeezed.
Eddward quirks a brow "I was healing you don't get any ideas" he scolds light heartedly.
Kevin just grins and walks away but not before sending a shock a pleasure through their bond. Suddenly, Kevin turned serious... "Well, he's tired and in the house. Tell him about it" he motioned to his parents.
Eddward growls "You're getting better at controlling our bond" he says quietly to the ginger as his parents explain things to Daniel.
"Oh am I now?" Kevin's grin never left his face as he leaned in and gently claimed Eddward's lips as his own. "You ready for this?"
"For you? Always... However for operating on Daniel and possibly Marie and Nazz... I do not know" he says honestly. "I am confident in my abilities but Alistar is a sick bastard."
"I've seen my mother practically bring people back from the brink of death with her abilities. She is one of the strongest healers in generations so use her." Kevin grabbed Eddward's hands and linked their fingers "If things go wrong, I won't blame you, ok? Just remember that."
Eddward quirks a brow "You may not blame me but I will blame myself" he says softly as Victoria and Lucas finish telling Daniel what's going on.
"You are always your worst critic..." Kevin sassed as Daniel came over to them and held onto Eddward's arm. "Am I gonna have ta wear a cast again?" He asked with the most serious face. Naturally, Kevin laughed.
Eddward smiles "No. mon petit. With your mother's abilities and mine put together, you'll be running around terrorizing your brother again by tomorrow night" he says gently.
" 'Kay!" Daniel smiled and went back to his parents.
"Well, let's get it started. I wanna get these done and over with. I may pick my father's brain about Marie and the brainwashing. He may know something... Unless you need one of us?" Kevin didn't want to help. It made him squirm but he felt he should offer.
Eddward could feel Kevin's discomfort "No, mon amour. I won't be needing your help… Go on" he says, waving him off with a smile.
Eddward cleans the entire kitchen and then sets out his medical supplies next to the table and walks back into the living room "I am fully prepare if you two are."
Victoria and Daniel walked to the kitchen with Eddward. "Father, the other vampire that lives here, Marie. She has some sort of brainwashing going on. She has tried to take Daniel to Alistar during our sleep. We have her under lock and key now but maybe you can help?" Kevin asked Lucas.
"I will try" Lucas follows Kevin to the bedroom door. "Hold on..." He knocks and opens the door seeing Nazz and Marie whispering to each other. When he opens the door they break apart very quickly, blushing hotly. "I don't care, ya nasties. We need to talk to Marie about her brain washing."