Something was wrong. Vicktor had never seen his daughter look so depressed. She would normally greet him with a smile and a kiss every time she greeted him. This past week she had done neither. She had locked herself in her room and sulked for the whole week and for the love of all eternal life he could not figure out why! His daughter meant a lot to him. She would one day become one of the rulers of the covenant. She showed so much promise. She could not possibly show weakness now! Her vampire brothers and sisters would rip her apart the first chance they got. He had to find out what happened to make his daughter like this and exterminate the cause as quickly as possible.

If she wouldn't talk to her own father then maybe she would talk to someone else. He looked to the man he called into his office and gestured for him to have a seat.

"Krazen I am so glad you came so quickly on such short notice."

Krazen smiled as he straightened his clothes as he took the offered seat. "Why anything for you my lord. What can I do for you?"

Lucian was a bit nervous although he didn't show it on the outside. Well he had good reason it wasn't every day one sneaked into the castle after hours when all the good little lycans should be sleeping.

Lucian swallowed as he navigated his way upstairs. If he wasn't mistaken the vampires' sleeping quarters should be down the second corridor. Now this was the dangerous part. He wasn't exactly sure which bedroom was Sonja. He was pretty sure Sonja's room was one of the last ones. There was only one problem. Was her bed room on the right side of the hall or the left? He slowly creeped down the hallway thinking of how he got himself in this predicament in the first place.

Hadn't he decided they were better off apart from one another? What the hell was he doing? The answer was simple. The whole week he had been a miserable wreck. He didn't eat and couldn't seem to sleep for more than five minutes. He could hardly concentrate on any task he was assigned. He could only think of Sonja and kept looking for her every time he got assigned to the castle. He had gotten in trouble by the same vampire twice for leaving his post wandering the castle and looking for her. There was noise that sounded suspiciously like a crash in one of the rooms that snapped him from his thoughts and brought him back to the ever present dangerous reality.

Ok well this wasn't good. He ran a shaky hand through his dark hair and took in a breath and slowly let it out trying not to panic. At least he hadn't been caught. Worse things could of happened. Now he just had to go over the facts. He took another breath and repeated "You can only get yourself into as much trouble as you can get out of." He let his breath out and focused.

Lucian scratched his head thinking. Okay Sonja was Vicktors daughter and had a lot of influence so she would have to have the room farthest down the hallway sence the vampire got assigned to rooms based on status and the more lavish rooms were down the hallway. Also if Enkidu had been correct on the information he gave him it was an old vampire tradition for the males to be on the left side of the hallway. So if her room wasn't on the left her room must be the farthest on the right. He turned and stepped toward what he hoped was Sonja's room. He placed his hand on the knob and hesitated. He could hear noises coming from the room. If he opened this door he would not get a second chance. If he picked the wrong door he would be dead and none of his clan members would know why. He took his hand off the door and racked both of his hands through his hair.

He stopped suddenly and turned his head toward the opening of the corridor listening. Shit. There was a pair of heavy footsteps coming this way. Lucian looked around and saw no escape. If he hid in a empty room it would probably be the owner of the vampire that was coming this way. He had no choice. He turned the knob in what he hoped was Sonja's room and rushed inside and shut the door.

There was a loud gasp from the occupant in the room. A girl gasp. Lucian looked in the corner of the room where the noise came from. He spotted a young vampire with long golden hair and crystal blue eyes sitting in a chair. She dropped the book she was reading when she saw who came in her room.

"Lucian!" she exclaimed as she pounced on him and gave him a bone crushing hug that he equally returned with a relieved sigh.

They both held on a little longer than polite between friends and slowly let go of each other.

Sonja lightly cleared her throat "Lucian what are you doing here?" she asked as she let go of him.

Lucian shifted to his other foot and stared at the ornate rug on the floor. "I just wanted to see you again."

"Why didn't you come when you promised?" She asked staring at him while he seemed to stare at anything other than her face.

"I couldn't make it."Lucian walked over to her shelf full of books and picked up one and flipped a few pages into it.

"Oh." Sonja sat on her bed felling a little dejected. She had waited a long time for him and worried about him for days and that answer was the only one he would give her?

"So what did you want to see me for then?" she asked as he sat the book back down.

He shuffled over to where she was. "I just wanted to talk."

"You broke into the castle and snuck into my room to just talk to me?" Her tone questioned his motives.

"No." He walked over and stared out her window. Surprisingly she had an amazing view of the forest.

Sonja sighed. It was like pulling teeth to get him to tell her any idea of what he was thinking. "Then why did you really come here?" she asked standing up and walking over to the window.

"I…I….I wanted to ask you something." Lucian voice faltered as he scratched the back of his arm nervously.

"What is it?" she asked now curious. What had gotten Lucian so worked up?

"Do you think it would be possible….Maybe we could….. I mean only if you wanted to…" He trailed off murmuring seeming lost.

She grabbed his face on both sides with her hands and pulled his face up until their eyes met. Their eyes locked and Lucian brought his hands up to her waist and leaned forward until their lips met. The kiss was tentative at first full of questions then, it soon turned passionate as Sonja lightly kissed him back answering all his silent questions.