"Shhh... Go to sleep, okay?" Jessica placed a finger against her daughter's lips to stop her from speaking. She tucked the blankets around her small body then kissed her forehead, "Goodnight, Sweetheart." She got up, turned off the lamp on the bedside table, and then went over to the door.

"Goodnight, Mommy, I love you. Happy Halloween!"

"Happy Halloween. I love you too." She quietly shut the door then sighed shallowly. She walked down the hall, down stairs, and into the living room where everyone sat waiting in their Pj's.

Kagome looked up smiling over a half eaten Halloween pumpkin cookie. "Luna in bed?"

Jessica nodded crossing her arms over her green bathrobe, "Yeah. She's really tired."

"Sesshomaru already went to bed?" Inuyasha lifted an eyebrow seated next to Kagome.

"Yeah. Rin and Kohaku went to bed too, along with Ryu. The only ones up are you guys, I, and the quiet couple." Jessica smiled nodding towards Sango and Miroku who blushed at the comment sitting on the large couch across from the TV. Jessica took a seat next to Sango on the end of the couch.

"Just like old times, eh?" Inuyasha asked casually leaning back and wrapping his arm around Kagome's pink covered shoulder.

Jessica nodded, "Only now Darien isn't here."

"But Sesshomaru took his place." Sango smiled.

Jessica smiled behind a big yawn, "Yelp and I'm happier." She got up and began to head upstairs, "I'm going to bed. I'll see you in the morning."

"Okay. Goodnight!" They called quietly after her as she disappeared at the top.

She headed to her room at the end of the hall. She quietly opened the door and then softly closed it behind her. The room was pitch black beside the stream of blue moonlight coming from behind the curtains behind one of the windows near the bed, which was empty. Confused, she took a few steps forward towards the unmade bed when two muscular arms wrapped themselves around her slender waist and lips planted themselves at the crook of her neck. Jessica giggled softly at his soft and tender touch.

"I thought you were going to bed." She leaned back against him as he kissed at her neck.

"Hm... I thought you were mortal." He murmured against her delicately smooth skin before lifting his head to study her suddenly stunned face.

Her breath caught in her throat. 'How- what- why?' Her mind went racing. She wanted to break out of his grip, but couldn't bring herself to. At the moment he was her enemy, but her body felt safe in his arms. She wanted to respond, but couldn't find the words. Suddenly, her conscience took over and she immediately turned to him while taking a few steps back.

"Where'd you get that kind of idea?" She demanded in an angrier voice than she meant to talk to him in. He stood his ground remaining as emotionless as ever. His eyes locked with her mixed emotion ones and soon she turned away his eyes obviously irritating her. "You have no right of accusing me of being immortal when you are the one who showed up as a demon in the first place." She crossed her arms looking back at him.

"You knew, did you not?" Her jaw immediately clenched shut and she looked away. "I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm stating what is obvious to me."

"And what would that be?" She eyed him suspiciously.

"For one, the wounds you had received should've scarred. However, they disappeared. Two, there would've been no way for you to survive from the amount of damage you had received. Let alone giving birth to Luna."

"How did you know of all that?"

"I have my resources." He stepped closer to her testing to see if she'd move away which she didn't. He was back in his full human form, but his senses were keen and he could sense her anger fading away at a fast and steady pace. "So, tell me exactly. What are you?"

She looked down to the floor before walking over to the window allowing the moon's light to fall on to her as she removed the robe and place it on the back of a chair sitting close by. Her nightdress was short and lime green colored with spaghetti straps and a black dragon wrapping itself around her torso to rest its head just below her left strap. Jessica looked back to him. Her green eyes shown sadly beneath heavy eyelids. She could not see him very well in the dark of the room, but she could make out the outline of his frame and his golden eyes which shown brightly in the darkness.

"You are right that I am immortal. But what I am makes no sense to me at all. I am human yet I have the ability to heal better than most and my mental strength is greater. However," She looked back out the window to the city, "I, like you and the others, do not belong in this world as Kagome does. Not even Darien or Luna belongs here for we all came from the past. From Feudal Japan." She turned back to him her hands gripping the rim of her thigh length nightgown in a tight fist. "I've always wanted to go back to my true home, but that is impossible." Her eyes looked to the floor sadly yet shamefully.

"Why?"

"Because… of my parents." She shook her head. "That is all I'm willing to tell you. I don't want the same thing to happen again." Her blonde hair swayed as she slowly turned from him and sat on the bed staring at the window. "I couldn't go through it again. Not with you."

He calmly walked over to her sitting down beside her. He brought her to him and gently kissed her forehead, "I already know, though."

"You do?" She looked up at him curiously.

"Yes. But for now we should probably sleep. You look like you'll need a lot of it."

She shook her head slowly before looking up at him, "I'm not tired, honestly. It's part of the immortality thing. In fact I'm so fired up I feel like running around the track five billion times like that stupid P.E. teacher made us do back in high school. I swear I was going to kill her."

Sesshomaru chuckled tilting her chin up lightly then leaned in to place his lips on her neck. "I remember that day well. It was the day you ran into me and Darien got jealous."

Jessica laughed lightly as Sesshomaru pushed her down slowly on to her back so he could kiss her easier. He crawled more on to her while her hands moved up his sides to stroke his neck delicately causing him to let out a small growl of pleasure and lightly nibble at her neck.

He moved up her neck to her lips and captured them hungrily before slowly sitting up, "Luna is coming." He whispered and sure enough a small knock came to the door. Sesshomaru got off of her and walked over to the window while Jessica sat up telling her daughter it was okay to enter.

"Mommy, I had another bad dream about daddy." Luna explained slowly running over into her mother's arms and burring her face in her mother's chest.

Jessica held her daughter tightly whispering in her ear that everything would be all right and to sleep here tonight. Sesshomaru turned watching her with emotionless eyes, but inside he adored her. She had gone through a kidnapping not too long ago and now she was sitting in front of him comforting her daughter as if none of it happened. His eyes softened. Or maybe that was nothing to her since she had lived some of her life like that.

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"Yes. I'll see you soon. Uh-huh. Okay. Right, Kagome, I know. All right. Tomorrow then? Then tomorrow. Bye." Jessica hung up the phone and placed it back on the receiver. "Sounds like Kagome is going to need a little help for desert tomorrow night." She smiled at Luna who returned it with one of her own.

"Does that mean Luna will get to see Inuyasha again?"

Jessica nodded and handed her daughter the ketchup. "Yes. Now eat your hash browns so we can meet Sesshomaru at work."

"Okay!" Luna agreed happily.

About fifteen minutes later the girls were walking down the street towards the large building Jessica's boyfriend worked at. Luna had Jessica's right hand skipping along enjoying the nice autumn weather. Jessica smiled beside her holding Sesshomaru's lunch in her left hand. She loved walking down the street holding her happy daughter's hand as if nothing was wrong. Even though as far as Jessica knew danger could be lurking at every corner.

"Mommy, will you and Sesshomaru get married?" Luna innocently asked taking her mother off guard.

"Luna, you have to understand that it is not my decision to make. It is Sesshomaru's if he wants to marry me."

"But you love each other, don't you?"

"Yes, but its' not that simple." Jessica sighed heavily.

Luna let the topic drop spotting a butterfly that flew past her face. "Mommy, see that? It's beautiful!" Jessica smiled at her daughter as she watched the small insect colored by cream flitter by.

Jessica smiled again before letting her face fall as concentration replaced it, "Luna, your scarf where is it?" She stopped turning her daughter to her.

"Oops. I must've left it at home." Luna smiled mischievously.

Jessica sighed heavily zipping Luna's thick pink coat to her chin. "You need to start remembering these things." She took her gloved hand with her own and began walking again just as a chilling wind swept by causing her to shiver slightly in her cream colored jacket.

She knew it was going to be a harsh winter this year. It had just turned into November when freezing winds turned on to Tokyo.

When they finally approached Sesshomaru's company they paused taking in the ten-story building. Glass made up the walls on the outside reflecting the seemingly cold sun. Jessica's green eyes searched the stories to see if she could see him watching out his office window facing the East side of town on which she lived. She had been here once sometime before Halloween, but couldn't remember the floor his office resided on.

Luna tugged her mother up the steps to the double glass doors that created the entrance to the magnificent building. Jessica opened the right door coaxing her daughter in front of her. Luna immediately removed her mittens, stuffing them in her pockets, before running up to the secretary seated at the front desk looking over papers. Jessica followed down an aisle of chairs set around the large room. There were a few business people waiting to be seen by someone. One of them waved at her from his chair in the corner next to a door that looked like it led to a bathroom. She waved back with a smile before setting the lunch bag on the desk in front of her turning back to the dark haired lady.

"Sesshomaru doesn't want to be disturbed at the moment." The lady was saying to Luna.

"Actually, Amari, Sesshomaru is expecting us." Jessica informed in her best 'I'm all about business' she had.

"Jessica, is this your daughter?" The woman's brown eyes flickered to her and then back to Luna.

"Yes. Is Sesshomaru in a meeting? He had said something about one this morning, but never mentioned the time."

"Well, no. I believe his meeting is over, but let me check to make sure it is over." She turned to her computer and clicked on a few things before smiling back at the family. "It ended five minutes ago so I guess it is safe to say can go right on in."

Jessica nodded nudging Luna to the elevator on the right side of the room, "Could you remind me the floor number?"

Amari chuckled, "Four."

"Thank you."

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"How did the meeting go?" Jessica asked after Sesshomaru sat back in his chair behind his desk from getting up to open the door for the two. Luna climbed into his lap holding up the cup of coffee she had retrieved from the brown bag now sitting on the desk in front of him.

"It went well. Everything as I expected it to be." He replied taking the Styrofoam cup and sipping it from the slit made in the black lid.

"Mommy helped me make lunch for you!" Luna declared excitedly.

Sesshomaru gave her a slight smile before following Jessica's movements as she made her way to the window directly behind him. He was just about to ask her something when Luna suddenly jumped upright in his lap.

"Mommy, I know what I want for Christmas!"

Jessica looked away from the window to her daughter obviously taken by surprise. "Really? What?"

"I want a little brother or sister!"

A/N- Sorry for the delay in updating, but I was having a tiny bit of writer's block for this chapter. Please review nd I'll have 7 up as soon as possible! Happy Holidays everybody!