Darien jumped over the bar, startling the blonde haired girl that had been trying not to stare at his powerful green clad shoulders. She barely restrained herself from jumping up and following him in whatever direction he was going.

"Is that your new neighbor, Seren," Mina asked with an inquisitive look at the man with jet-black hair and sweet blue eyes.

"Yea, his name is Darien. Lives in apartment 307, right next to Lita, Mina, and I," Serena said, not really thinking.

"He's sexy, Seren. Maybe I'll come over more often now," Raye said with a devilish light in her amethyst eyes. "He'd make a strong father for the Children Of War. Oh, what I'd love to do to him," She purred.

Serena fell back a little bit in her red booth, "You like him, Raye?"

Raye laughed at Serena's innocence, "That is not the type of man you just 'like' Seren, he's meant for steamy nights beneath the bed sheets, and an arm for important galas. He's probably just like every sexy human, arrogant and stuck-up," Raye snorted.

Lita put a comforting arm around her sister, "He's a human Seren, remember the rules of the Gods. Only immortals will be able to survive taking your innocence, giving you children, and one day marrying you. Humans can only do the first two, and you are worth much more than that."

"Well Lita, a human may be able to couple with her and marry her in the ceremony of Gods, we just have no proof of it ever being done. So while the chance is slight, there is still a chance," the sea blue eyed girl, Amy, said clinically.

Mina sat with a goofy smile on her face, "And nothing can ever truly combat love. It is the greatest of all forces!"

Serena shook her head and laughed lightly. She put her palm on top of the delicate skin of her older sister, "Love? Mina I have barely spoken to the man. I can hardly say that the few words that we spoke to each other could put me in the running for falling in love."

Raye sat back, watching the expression of confusion marring the beautiful girl's eyes. "Love can occur in even the slightest instance. We are not always aware of why or even when, but if you feel that your heart is being gripped from the cavern of your chest, or your breath is being blocked from the innards of your lungs, then you have seen the first few steps."

Everyone sat stock-still. No one even dared to breath as they stared at the fiery vixen that had her fair share of trial-and-error relationships, never once crying over the end of any of them.

Raye raised a brow, "What? I'm not allowed to give my two-cents now?"

Mina shook her head and reached out her hand to touch the smooth white skin of the girl in front of her, "No, but that was just so… Uncincical of you."

"Uncinical," Raye growled. "That's not even a word, you blonde."

"Hey," two voices screamed out in unison. "Take that back!"

The two girls stopped and looked at each other, and the entire table erupted into laughter.

"But seriously Seren," Lita said after the mood went back to it's natural state. "Guard your heart. Zeus only knows what would happen to the balance of the natural order if you were to give it to the wrong person. Especially since you are our princess. Lykaes are much more powerful than the conventional fairy, and as such you do have to be extremely cautious with your decisions."

"I don't want to be cautious, Leets!" Serena whined. "I wanna have raunchy sweaty sex, and make the bed shake and al that jazz! I want to date a man, and practically have him panting for me from lust by the end of the night. Why can't I do that like I know you girls do?"

Amy looked at Serena, "I can tell you for a fact that I have never done such things before."

Serena scoffed, "Oh please, Ames. If I hadn't caught your mother walking in on you and led her the other direction at the Christmas party last year, you and Dr. Sweetooth would have been caught like fish in a net."

All the girls turned to the now blushing Amy is shocked silence. She slowly lowered herself down into the booth and ceased to speak.

"Who's Dr. Sweetooth?" Raye asked after the moment passed.

"Greg Handers, from the hospital. It turns out Amy's 'stomach virus' was really just a symptom of 'your smexy and I'm hot for you.' He surely gave her a lollipop after that visit from the way it sounded," Serena ended off in a giggle.

"Back to the topic at hand," Mina said was a gleam in her eye. "We have to see if he's your mate, Seren!"

All the girls looked at Mina like she was crazy. "Um, Mins. Mates can only be from the same species, I think we already covered that these two were not of the same species."

"Yea, Mina," Serena said with a comforting smile to the other blonde. "He's human as human can be. I couldn't smell anything unusual at all on him. He's clean, hates smoking, no pets, and-"

"Is coming right this way," Raye practically purred.

Darien looked positively frightening, in that sexy 'you better listen to what I have to say or I'm gonna take you outside and make you do so in a much more demeaning way,' type of way.

"When were you gonna tell me, Serena?"

Serena looked positively confused, "Tell you what?"

The man sighed and put a hand to her wrist, pulling her upwards as he spoke to her, "Come on, this place is too public. Talk to me outside please."

"Depends on what you need her for, buster. Because I must say it is very odd that all of a sudden it's imperative that you take her out of her friend's sight when you can just as easily talk to her right here," Lita said while Raye got up to grasp at her confused friend's arm.

"I don't trust you girls well enough. This is between her and me. Stay out of it."

"Darien why are you speaking to them like this? Just say it out loud, I trust them."

"But I don't trust Lykae, Rena. I can smell it on them. Every last one of them has this stench that I can't get out of my nose. Like forests and dirt. Jungles. Like animals. It's not safe for you to be around them."

The girls were all shocked to silence, "If you smell them Darien," Serena said quietly. "Then surely you must smell me."

"That was an odd reaction to me telling you that your friends here are animals. Do you understand me Serena," he whispered looking into her eyes while still keeping her in a position to throw her if they decide to attack. "Monsters of folklore and nightmares."

"I know Darien. I know all about the Lykae."

"You do," he questioned. "It's a bit uncharacteristic for a secret society to go about blabbing about themselves to humans."

Serena giggled, "But Darien, it's not them blabbing to anyone. I'm a Lykae too!"

Darien looked at her in utter disgust, "That's not funny Serena. Those creatures have no claim to you. You have the aura of a human."

Serena felt tears trying to force themselves to her eyes. "I'm sorry you feel that way about these 'disgusting creatures.' I really hope you never have to deal to closely with any of them again. Good day Darien."

She walked out of Darien's arms into her sister Lita's determinedly and walked with the pack. She turned around and let Darien see the true color of her eyes, the inhuman blue that she knew took up her entire eye, even her pupil.

Darien blanched. And watched them walk out of the arcade. He knew he would see her later so it wasn't so much worry that he felt when she left with the animals. He felt terror at the thought of his angel being such a monster. He was a monster, she was supposed to be the angel that fixed him and made him whole at the same time.

Isn't that a bit much to expect from any woman, Dare? Maybe you need to look past your prejudices and meet the girl behind the mask.

Darien winced, Yea that probably was not the best family meeting in history.