Chapter Three
Its been four months since Michael took off. Leona and Jacob are going to college together with Amy at Columbia Greene Community College (CGCC). Leona is going to college for photography and computer graphics & design, Jacob is going for state trooper training, Amy is going for Journalism/ writing. On weekends Leona spends most of her time with her parents and Jacob. Jacob and Leona has actually gotten closer since after Michael left. Marcus started to notice how Jacob and his daughter were getting closer as time pasted. One night Marcus invited Jacob & Leona to dinner with him and Michele. As they all sat around the dinner table and Jacob sat beside Leona who was sitting next to her father Marcus. "I hope you like Roast, Jacob. My mom makes the best roast." Leona told Jacob with a smile. Michele looked at her daughter with a smile and said,"I know its your favorite, Leona. So I made it tonight for you." Leona looked at her father and said," What are you up to? Or what do you want to know?" Her father smiled at her and said,"You know me to well. I want to know whats going on between you and Jacob. Are you two dating or seeing each other?" "Does it really matter if we are or not, father?" Leona asked him with a smirk. Her father smirked as well and replied." Not really but it would be nice to know." "We haven't really decided, father." Leona replied. Marcus smiled and they all began to eat. Half way through dinner Leona got up to get something to drink from the kitchen and as Leona was away from the table Marcus looked over at Jacob an asked,"So Jacob, are you falling in love with my daughter?" Jacob looked at him and answered honestly,"Actually I have always been in love with your daughter, my lord but she was with Michael and I didn't want to come between them." "Thank you for being honest, Jacob and for your honesty I will approve of you dating my daughter if that ever becomes reality. If you date my daughter, Jacob what would you do if Michael ever did come back?" Marcus asked concerned. Jacob just smiled and replied," Thank you and if that ever did happen, I would leave that up to her to decide." Then Leona came back and sat down next to Jacob. Leona looked at everyone and asked,"What did I miss?" "Nothing, I was just speaking with Jacob." Marcus replied. After dinner Jacob and Leona left. They went back to Leona's house and when they walked in Jacob sprawled out on the couch while Leona went into the kitchen. "So, Jacob you got my father's approval to mate with me I hear."Leona said from the kitchen and Jacob looked in her direction not looking very surprised but replied,"So, you were listening. Yes, I did get his approval and I didn't even have to ask for it. I was actually surprised when your father said what he had to say to me." Leona laughed a bit and answered,"Jacob, he is very observant when it comes to me. You have been fallowing me around like a lost puppy dog since graduation. We are always together and everyone is starting to suspect something. The next time that we have a get together with all are friends again we are probably going to be bombarded with a zillion questions. Michael has been gone for how long now, four months going on five. He's never coming back and we all know it. I have to move on." "I know it and everyone else knows that Mike isn't coming back but Leona, everyone knows how much he means to you or meant to you. Everyone just thinks that I'm rushing in to take his place but I'm not, I'm just hanging around. I like being with you and trying to make you laugh." Jacob said to Leona with a some what smile. Leona laughed again and said,"And attached to my leg, as long as you don't try to hump my leg we'll be fine. I know, everyone always has to expect the worse out of people. I swear people look for the worsted in people. Even are own people of our world look for the darkness in our hearts instead of the light." Leona walked out of the kitchen with a glass of green tea in her hand and as she went to sit on Jacob's lap, Jacob said laughing a bit,"Hump your leg, I wouldn't do that. Our world and the people in it always look for the darkness in people because it is always a fear for them cause the next person that happens to fallow in the ways of the darkness just might be the next to try to put an end to our peaceful way of life with the humans. It will always be a fear to them that the darkness will try to rise above the light, why do you think everyone is afraid that Razor will find a way to take over as king now that your time to rule as queen is getting so close. Ever since Razor found out that you were going to take your parents place on your twenty first birthday. Everyone's on edge right now and they all will be until you get crowned and marry." Leona looked at him with a smile and replied,"That wont be a issue for much longer. Next year I'll be crowned and maybe before then or what ever I'll have a mate by my side to help me rule our people. Everyone will be on edge and I know that until my crowning and until I marry but finding the right suitor isn't easy. All in time everything will fall into place." Jacob smiled at Leona and asked," Your father asked me what would I do if Michael ever comes back and I told him I'd let you decide because it is your choice but what would you do?" Leona sighed and simply said," If that ever became a reality, Jacob, I would have to search my heart and do as my heart tells me to do. As of right now I wouldn't take him back because of one simple reason. He abandoned me when I needed him most but that is life I suppose." They talked and laughed for hour until about mid-night when the phone rang. Leona answered it and it was Grora.
The conversation:
Grora: Leona, Jesse is back but alone. Jesse says that he left Michael in Texas with a vampire coven so that they can help him cope with the vampire ways and teach him are ways.
Leona: So, me and my family were correct. He has no intentions of coming back. I knew this was going to happen but I didn't think that he would go that far just to get away from me though.
Grora: Leona, are worst fears have been realized. We lost a valuable member to our covenant.
Leona: He made his choice, Grora and now we just have to move on. He has and now we have to.
Grora: How can you be so calm about this? You loved him, you wanted to mate with him, you wanted him to rule by your side. How can you just shrug it all off and not even think about the lose that you have encountered.
Leona:Grora, I loved him and I love him still but he made his choice. He chose to abandon me and our covenant. What am I supposed to do? Dwell on it until it eats me alive? No, I am moving on to make a better future for me, our covenant and our world. He made his choice, Grora and there is nothing we can do about it. Look what he did to me, he walked away from me as if I were nothing. And you expect me to dwell and cry over the lose of someone like that. You are mistaken my friend. I am upset about it don't let me fool you but me being upset about it don't change that he don't want me or my world. It don't change that he has no intention of coming back because if he did I would have seen it.
Grora:(Sigh) Your right,my friend. I'm sorry that I questioned you. This is hard for everyone. We all grew up together. This is just hard and it happened so fast. Leona, would it be alright if me, Amy and Pryase stopped by for a visit?
Leona: You know I would never mind a visit from my good friends and my adopted sister of mine. Me and Jacob would love more company.
Grora: Jacob? Leona, what is going on between you and him? You two are always together and it's never just you any more its always you and Jacob now.
Leona: Jacob, has been keeping an eye on me. Making sure that I'm always laughing and smiling instead of crying and frowning. He keeps me happy and occupied.
Grora: (giggled) Ya, occupied. I bet. Well we'll be there soon,Love.
Leona: See you all soon. bye, Grora.
Grora:OK, see you soon. Bye.
Leona hung up the phone and looked at Jacob. "We have company coming."Leona told him with a smile. Jacob smiled and replied,"I heard and they finally came out and asked you what was going on between us. Thats going to be an interesting conversation when they get here." Leona laughed a bit and replied,"Ya, she finally asked me and I can certainly see that this is going to be a interesting night with that subject." "what are we going to tell them about us? Should we tell them that we're dating or seeing each other or what? They are going to want to know and they are going to want an answer." Jacob asked her with a smirk. "Well, we'll worry about how to answer that when the time comes."Leona told him sweetly. After about ten minutes went by Amy, Grora and Pryase walked through the door to see Leona sitting on Jacob's lap and Jacob's arms around her waist. "So, nothings going on, huh? It looks different from this angle." Grora said smirking at them. Leona sighed and giggled a little. "OK, OK. We are seeing each other. We aren't dating but we are more then friends though. Don't even say anything, Amy because Jacob got the approval from my father tonight at dinner and we didn't even say anything to him that we were thinking about moving our relationship to the next level." Leona told them with a smile. "Jacob, what does your family think about this? What does your pack think about this? Mixing of the blood lines. I don't think that's ever happened before but its quite entrancing. A new breed about to be realized..." Pryase said but Leona interrupted him by saying,"Pryase, Its kind of early to think about mixing of the bloodlines and a new breed coming to reality. We are barley dating and marriage is not even in sight yet. We're taking it slow and moving forward one step at a time. So lets not talk about mixing of anything yet. OK? Please?" Everyone laughed and Pryase replied, "No problem, Leona. I just got excited." Jacob kissed her neck and Leona looked at Jacob with a smirk while saying,"And if you don't cut that out your not going to be sleeping tonight." Jacob smirked at her and replied,"The last time you said that you were right I wasn't and the next morning I couldn't walk." Everyone laughed including Leona and Jacob. "Vampire women, Jacob are feisty creatures by nature and when you arouse them you better be looking forward to a long night and being sore in the morning." Pyrase told Jacob laughing. Jacob laughed and replied,"Your not joking the first night we did something I thought I was going through the wall, bed and all. I have never been with a vampire women until Leona and holy crap, its been the most exciting experience I have ever had." Leona and the other girls laughed. "Well, it was also not fair because I didn't have sex for awhile until then. So it was very exciting that night." Leona said giggling. "So now your exciting but not trying to put him through a wall now?" Grora asked laughing. Leona laughed and replied,"Ya, now hes safe from going through a wall." Jacob laughed and said," Still very exciting but ya now i don't have to worry about going through a wall." Pryase looked like he just thought of something and started laughing. "Jacob, hows the biting and scratching? Or don't you do that any more, Leona." Leona turned red from embarrassment and Grora looked shocked at the new piece of information. "You and Pryase used to...?" Grora asked not about to finish the question. Leona and Pryase looked at one another and laughed. Leona replied with a smile, "Yes, Grora, me and Pryase used to be an item. He knows a lot about me and I honestly cant believe that he remembers the biting and scratching. So now i can just imagine what he remembers." "I remember a lot about you, Leona." Pryase said with a smirk. "What happened between you two then?" Amy asked. "I don't know really. It happened last year while we were in England. While we were in England we started dating and then when we got back, well, he ended up in a fight with his family over something and took off with out a word. So, I just moved on after awhile cause he was gone for a while before he came back." Leona said. "I remember that. He took off for like five or six months and then just appeared like he was never gone." Grora replied. "When I first got back Leona was the first one I seen. We talked and from then on we've been friends but with stories to laugh about. We have our own little inside jokes." Pryase said winking at Leona. "So that's were you two got the inside jokes from. You two are so unbelievable. Why haven't we heard about this before?" Amy demanded with a smile. Leona shook her head and just said,"Why should we? It happened and things didn't go well so we kept it to one another and not everyone in between too." "Well, that's understandable. So, why did you leave for five or six months with out even a word?" Jacob said and asked Pryase. Pryase sighed and answered,"I left because my family already had a arranged marriage set up for me and I loved Leona so i didn't want to go through with it but I got so emotional about it that I took off and forgot to even tell Leona what happened. By the time I came back Leona was upset with me. I felt really bad cause I made her feel like I abandoned her but I didn't mean to." "So that's why you left in the first place. they tried to force you into an arranged marriage. I would have taken off myself but why didn't you just tell me that so I didn't just think that you took off on me?" Leona asked. "I was just upset, Leona and You know by nature that vampires are impulsive. I just reacted and didn't think. I regret not telling you but I just wasn't thinking at the time." Pryase told her. They talked for awhile and hung out then Pryase had to leave because of a family emergency. "So, how serious are you and Jacob?" Grora asked with a smirk. Leona smirked and said,"Well, I share my bed with him so. You tell me." As Leona got up and went to the Kitchen to get another drink of green tea Grora said,"You two sure your not dating? You two sure act like it. You two are practically living together and you guys are always together." "Ya, even at school they are together. It seems as if they are attached at the hip." Amy stated with a giggle. Leona laughed and replied from the kitchen,"I know. We just enjoy are time together. We like being together and we have fun. We joke around, talk, and just relax together. He's like my best friend but hes also more then that." "I feel the same way about her. I honestly hope this don't end." Jacob said smiling. Leona came out of the kitchen with a tray in her left hand filled with glasses of green tea and she gave everyone a drink and then she put the tray back in the kitchen before she sat down next to Jacob. Leona looked at Jacob with a smile and said,"In away I hope this never ends myself." "You two make me so jealous." Grora said smiling. "What are you talking about? I thought you and my cousin Josh were doing good." Leona replied with a smirk. Grora looked at her with a dirty look and said,"How did you know that we were dating? We were doing fine but now his distancing himself from me and I don't know why." Leona smirked and replied,"Grora you should know by now that I find out about everything. Especially if it has to do with my family. If it has to do with my family I find out the same day it happens. He's separating himself from you, huh? Well, that's Josh for you. He's up to something and I'll find out what it is." Then Leona sighed and said," Well, I need some rest. I had a bissy week with school and everything else. I need to relax and get some rest. Oh and tomorrow I wont be home. I'm taking off with Jesse, Josh, Pryase, my father and my uncle to check on a problem that is accuring between the two wolf packs that live in Massachusetts. They have been fighting contently and they are starting to draw attention to themselves so we have to do damage control and try to get them to get along." "Oh we're going to miss you. Thats OK we'll torment Jacob while your gone." Grora said. "Actually I'm going with her. Just encase things get out of control. Me, John, Lacy, Daniel, Sophe', Richard and Mark are going to make sure nothing bad happens. We'll be back Sunday night or early Monday morning." Jacob told them. Grora and Amy gave Leona a dirty look with a smirk. "Your taking off on us. You are no fare at all you know this right. But we'll see you when you get back though." Amy said hugging Leona. "I know my life ain't fare but its all in the days work of being a princess. Can you imagine when I'm queen. Its only going to get worse but hey then we'll have a lot of adventures, we'll never be bored." Leona told them with a smile. "When your queen, we are all going to be having the best adventures that we've all talked about since we were children." Grora said smiling. "Well we'll talk to you later, Leona and Jacob keep her out of trouble. Bye, guys." Amy said as she started heading out the door. "Bye guys!" Leona said as Grora and Amy left. Leona kissed Jacob on the forehead as she got up to go in her room. She got dressed into her silk purple night gown that goes to her mid thigh. She went into her bathroom to brush her hair out and when she was done she went back into her bed room. Jacob was in bed waiting for her and she smiled. Leona crawled in to bed and cuddled up to Jacob. Jacob put his arms around her and he smiled at her. Leona looked at him not being able to not smile back and asked,"What are you smiling about?" "I'm smiling because I don't think I have ever been this happy before. I love every moment with you." Jacob told her kissing her sweetly on the mouth. Leona smiled and replied,"I love spending time with you but I also need my space. I am also still trying to get over Mike who just took off and the only thing he said to me was that he loved me but he couldn't get over not being able to get over what Grora did to him. Thats all he could think about, he acted like he never really loved me and like I didn't mean nothing to him. I'm trying to move on Jacob but its hard." Leona looked away and whipped away the tears that started to fall down her cheeks. "Leona, I don't know what your going through but I will give you the time that you need to cope with it. I just hope that I don't lose you in the end." Jacob told her sounding like he was about to cry. Leona looked at him with sadness in her face and said,"I have to think. I'll be back." She quickly got out of bed pulled on a pair of jeans and took off. Leona ran as hard and fast as she could. She ended up stopping at a waterfall in East Durham, she found a tree that hangs over the water fall and she jumped into the tree. She sat on a tree branch and she just leaned back agenst the tree, closed her eyes an just relaxed. Leona searched for herself and put all her thoughts together. When she finally opened her eyes, she smiled but she didn't move from her tree branch. She looked at the waterfall just enjoying the waterfalls splendor and the relaxing sound of the water flowing freely. Then she caught a sent of a werewolf but she acted like she didn't notice nothing but then she seen someone moving in the bushes so she moved like the wind and pounced. She landed right on them. "Hello, princess." Leona looked at the one she landed on and noticed it was John. "Oh, Im sorry but why were you watching me?" Leona said as she got off him and helped him to his feet. "I got a call from Jacob saying that you took off. He told me that you go to a place were there are nothing but waterfalls for about a mile one right after another. The only place I know like that is here which is behind my house by the way." John told her with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face. "This beautiful place that I've been coming to since we were kids is behind your house? Thats a bit freaky and weird." Leona said smiling. "This whole time you've been coming here, I've known that you've been coming here to think and get away. I keep an eye on you every time you come here, I was watching you the day you came here crying so hard that you dropped to your knees. I've always kept an eye on you here, you just never knew it." John told her with a small smile. Leona looked at him surprised and asked,"Its been you watching me?" John smiled and said,"Ya, I always keep an eye on you,Leona. I just kept hidden so you didn't know that you didn't know that someone was keeping an eye on you. I didn't want you getting mad at me for watching you." Leona crossed her arms but with a smile and replied,"Thank you for caring enough to watch over me. I always new someone was keeping an eye on me but honestly I thought it was Jacob this whole time because he's been flirting with me and everything for years. Now I know that its you." John smiled and said,"Nope, its been me this whole time. Jacob don't know about this place and for good reason." "Good reason? What do you mean for good reason?" Leona asked wonderingly. "Jacob has a bad, very bad temper and every time he looses it he destroys our meeting place. Every time he does that we have to look for a new meeting place. I never tell him about this place and never will because I wont allow him to destroy yours and my relaxing place. I've come here since forever to just get away from everything." John answered her. Leona sighed and said,"Don't worry I will never tell him about this place, I swear. the only person I ever brought here was Mike and hes no longer around." "I know I was watching you when you brought him here. How did you find out about this place?"John asked her wonderingly. Leona sighed and said,"Well, when ever I get upset or mad or I just need to get away from everything, I run and every time I end up here. So, this place has just become my get away place and I love it here cause no one knows about this place, well except you." John's cell phone rang and he answered it and it was Jacob. Leona listened to the conversation and Jacob was pissed off because no one could find Leona. John looked right at Leona and told Jacob that he couldn't find her any were. Leona smiled and mouthed thank you to him. After John hung up the phone and said,"You better get out of here because Jacob is on his way now. He'll catch your sent and be here to find you. You might have a mess to clean up when you get home cause like I said he gets very destructive when he's pissed off. He can be very violent too so be careful. Here's my cell phone number call me when you get home." John handed her a piece of paper with his cell number on it so she took it from him and put it in her back pocket. "Thank you and I will." Leona told him and then as quick as the wind she ran home. She got home within three minutes and when she got home she opened the door. As soon as she opened the door all she seen was a disaster. Leona took a deep breathe and found the phone, once she found the phone she called John like he asked her to and after the second ring he answered.
The conversation:
Leona: Is Jacob there?
John: Ya, he is
Leona: Good tell him I'm going to kill him. Tell him that he better not show up here because I'll sweep the floor with him. He demolished my house, I have to clean this whole mess up before I can even think of sleep.
John: I'll give him the warning. I'll see you as soon as the meeting is over.
Leona: huh?
John hung up and Leona hung up too. She started cleaning up the house and after about an hour an a half the house was all picked up. Just as she went to sit down on the couch someone knocked on the door, so she answered the door and to her surprise it was John. "John, what are you doing here?" Leona asked in surprise. "I told you that I was going to come over to talk to you." John told her laughing. Leona let him in and he sat on the couch an Leona sat in her lazy boy recliner chair. "So, what did Jacob say? Does he know that it was me who called you?"Leona asked wondering with a smirk. "No, I told him it was Grora and that Grora sends a warning that you are pissed off at him and if he shows up here that you will use him as a mop to clean up the mess that he made." John told her laughing. Leona laughed to and said,"Very clever. He would believe that because Grora has been on your ass lately." "You got it. She's been up my ass cause she's trying to hook me up with a friend of hers." John said rolling his eyes at his last statement. "So how did he react when you told him what I said?" Leona asked worried that he may have destroyed his house. John sighed and said,"Well, he got severely pissed off and tried to rip my house apart with my kids in the house. So I kicked the crap out of him and threw him the hell out. I cleaned up the mess, made sure my sons were OK and then I came over here." "I didn't know you had kids. What are they like?" Leona asked with a little smile. John smiled and said,"Johnathon is 2 and Jaden is 5 months old. They are with their grandparents right now, they're mother isn't aloud to be around them at all." Leona smiled and said,"It must be nice being a parent. To always come home to two little ones that love you no matter what mistakes you make. Why aren't they're mother around?" "I enjoy it, its rough some days but its better that way. She's not around because she doesn't treat them as her kids, she treats them as if they are a nuisance to her. She didn't like being a mother so I took the kids away from her and let her live her life the way she wants to, alone." John explained to Leona. "Thats sad, how can any one just not care about there own flesh and blood? It sickens me, cause I went through the same thing as those kids except for the longest time I was my fathers punching bag. I'm glad that they don't have to go through that though thank god for that." Leona said. "Marcus used to put his hands on you?" John asked angrily. "No, no. I keep forgetting that not very many people know that Marcus is my step father. My real father John, used to put his hands on me." Leona quickly explained. "Oh, OK. I'm thankful they don't have to go through that ether. So, Marcus really isn't your father but is your little sisters his? no, right?" John asked interested to know. "Well, most people don't know but Terrassa and Dakota are half werewolf. Their father is the leader of the not so nice wolf pack." Leona told him with a smile. "Really your two cute little sisters are half werewolves? Thats incredible. So they are like hybrids then. Thats interesting." John said. "Ya, but we haven't let anyone know the truth because we don't really know how the werewolf packs would react. Some would be alright with it yes but others wouldn't react all that OK with it." Leona explained to him. They talked for awhile and then John said,"Well, I'm going to go and get some sleep. We have a long day ahead of us. We are leaving in a few hours." Leona yawned a bit and replied,"Ya, sleep sounds good. We all have to meet up at my parents house and leave from there. I'll see you later, John." John got up and before he walked out the door and said,"Good bye, Princess." He left, closing the door behind him and Leona went to her room. She took off her jeans, set the alarm clock for 7:30 and climbed into bed an went to sleep. Later on at Leona's parents house everyone is arriving and getting ready to leave. Jacob and part of his pack were there that were leaving with Jacob. Jesse, Josh and Jay were there but Leona was no were in sight. Marcus called the house to find his daughter. Leona was in her closet trying to find something to wear. Leona's cell rang and so she answered it.
The conversation:
Marcus: Were are you?
Leona: I'm in my closet.
Marcus: Your in your closet?
Leona: Ya, I'm in my closet
Marcus: Why are you in your closet for?
Leona: I'm trying to find something to wear
Marcus: Well, you still have an hour to get ready so hurry up. I'll send over John or Jacob over to help you find something.
Leona: No, not Jacob! I'm pissed off at him.
Marcus: Why what happened?
Leona: I'll explain later.
Marcus: OK, see you when you get here.
Leona: OK, father. see you soon.
Leona hung up the phone and looked around in the closet for something to wear. She hears someone walk in her house so she went down stairs to see who it was and it was John. Leona smiled and said,"Didn't I see you earlier?" John laughed and replied,"Ya, actually I think I did. So, Im here to help you pick out an out fit huh?" Leona sighed and said,"Ya, I packed clothes for the next two days but now I have to find something to wear for the meeting with the wolves." Leona and John went up to her room and Leona went into her walk-in closet to find a outfit to show John. John sat on the bed while Leona showed him a few of the outfits. After the tenth outfit Leona walked out wearing a pair of black faded jeans with chains hanging around her right hip, purple spaghetti strap shirt, black combat boots, and a sleeveless black leather jacket that goes down to her ankles in length with a Gothic looking collar and John said,"That outfit is great. Why couldn't you of started with that one?" Leona laughed and said,"Because I actually didn't think you'd like it but you surprised me. Well, let me go brush my hair and put on some make-up so we can head out." John smiled and replied,"OK, just hurry up before your father calls up again asking if we got lost in your closet." Leona laughed and went into the bathroom. She brushed her hair and put her hair in a single braid, she put on her eyeliner, dark purple lipstick, and a little bit of purple eyeshadow. she came out of the bathroom and Johns jaw dropped. Leona laughed and said,"So how do I look?" John stuttered and replied,"You look great." Leona grabbed John's hand and dragged him out of the house. John jumped in his car and Leona grabbed her bags, threw them in the trunk an then jumped in her car. They finally pulled up into the drive-way of her parents house. Leona jumped out with John right behind her and said,"I'm finally here and on time." Marcus smiled at her and said,"Well, it seems like John did a good job dressing you." "Actually I dressed myself, he just helped me pick an outfit and this is the one we chose." Leona told her father with a smile. Marcus smiled and said,"Well, then maybe he should help you more often. Then maybe it will take you less time to get ready for a meeting next time." "Maybe, cause usually I don't have someone to ask there opinion." Leona replied with a smirk. Marcus raised an eyebrow at her and said,"Well you would if you would ever find a mate." Leona gave him a dirty look and said,"Well, I did but he took off on me remember or have you forgotten?" Marcus sighed and said," You will find another but you have to move on." "I will move on when I find someone worth my time to move on with." Leona said glaring at Jacob. Marcus shook his head and said,"Well everyone we will leave now. Jacob, you and your members except John and his sister sophe' come with me in my car. John and sophe' go with my daughter in her car. Jesse, Josh and Jay ride together in who's ever's car but no fighting this time you two." Jay looked at Jesse and Josh an replied,"If they fight this time on the way there I'm going to stick them out the window head first." Everyone laughed except Jesse and Josh. "Thats not funny!" Jesse and Josh said. Leona looked at them and replied,"We all thought it was." Then everyone got into their cars and were on their way to Massachusetts to see the werewolves. John is sitting up front with Leona and sophe' is in the back seat all relaxed. "So, your parents are spending time with your sons this weekend? That's nice, they must love being grandparents."Leona said to John. John looked over at her and replied,"They do love it, they just don't love the mother of my kids." "Well, its understandable after what she did. Has Jacob said any thing to you yet about anything?" Leona asked wonderingly. "He's not very happy I'll tell you that. He is not very happy with me right now ether." John told her amused. Leona raised her eye brow and asked,"Why the hell is he mad at you? You didn't do anything wrong, did you?" "He's mad at me because he thinks that I'm trying to take you away from him. He's very paranoid, Leona and he has a jealously streak like you wouldn't believe." John told her seriously. "Its not my problem anymore John. I had enough of him after what he pulled last night, there was no call for that at all." Leona said seriously. John smirked at her and said,"I seen Jacobs thoughts you know and most of them was you & him in bed together. From the looks of it you are quite good from what i seen." Leona looked shocked and sophe' was laughing in the back seat because she seen the same thoughts. Leona playfully punched him in the arm and replied,"Well, that's how I release all my frustration but Jacob could never keep up with me though." John laughed along with Sophe' and said,"That's what he told me too and I used to laugh at him about it because he always makes himself out as the almighty wolf that can keep up with any one but he met his superior." Leona laughed,"Well, In bed any ways. I don't know about anything else." They talked and joked around for awhile. As they pulled in to Ravlen the royal watcher's drive-way Leona's cell phone goes off. Leona let it ring because she's on official business so she turned her cell phone on silence. Leona, John and Sophe' got out of the car the same time as every one else. Leona walked up to her family with John & Sophe' right behind her. They walked up to the door & Ravlen immediately answered the door and he said,"Welcome everyone. Welcome your majesty & my lady. The wolves are in the forest now and they know of your arrival. They have had watchers watching for the past week ready and waiting for your arrival. They may get aggressive, my lords and ladies." Leona smirked and replied,"Let us worry about that my friend. We planned for any thing and will do what ever it takes to keep the peace." Marcus looked at his daughter and smiled. Ravlen looked at everyone and said,"Please come in so we can talk and I can give you all the details." So they all went into the house and sat in the living room. Ravlen looked at every one and said," The wolves have been very peaceful with one another until about a month ago. One of the moonlet wolves were murdered and in return they blamed the Raven Wing wolf pack for the murder. That's when all hell broke loose." Leona was curious and said," Then the first thing we have to do is talk to them and salve this murder. Wolf packs don't usually kill each other unless lines were crossed. There is something weird going on here." "My daughter is right. But all of us cant go cause they will defensively think we are up to something. Some wolf packs don't trust the royal family of vampires especially the ones from around here because of the stories that have been pasted down. but who will go?" Marcus said. "I will go. They may feel more comfortable with a girl because most think of girls as weak and innocent but they haven't met me yet." Leona said with a smile. Marcus smiled and said,"You do have a point, daughter. Alright you will go. But be careful." Leona smirked and said,"Ain't I always, father?" "Lord Marcus you aren't going to let her go alone are you? If she goes alone she will surely get hurt and get reckless." John quickly said with worry a crossed his face. "Of course I'm not letting her go alone that's why you, Jacob, and Sophe' are going with her." John sighed and replied,"Thank you my lord for agreeing with me." Leona looked at John and gave him a dirty look with a smirk. "We'll leave when the full moon rises. I ain't going with my strengths weakened just encase things do go wrong and plus don't wolf packs usually get together on the night of the full moon?" Leona stated and asked. John looked at her and replied,"Usually yes." "Were do the wolf packs meet?" Leona asked Ravlen. Ravlen looked at her and responded,"I'm not certain actually lady Leona. I just know that it is in the north end of the sparkling woods." "Sparkling woods?" Leona asked. "They call it the sparkling woods because when the moon light hits the trees it looks like the whole woods is sparkling." Ravlen told her. Leona smiled and said,"It sounds so beautiful." They all sat down to eat and Ravlen handed Leona a glass of warm blood. "Drink this. You don't want to go see them with a empty stomach." Ravlen told her with a smile. Leona drank it down and then whent out side. Leona took a deep breathe and looked up at the full moon. John came up behind her and said,"when do you want to go?" She sighed and replied,"Sooner the better." Then she turned around and looked at John as she asked,"Why didn't you just let me go alone? I can take care of myself you know?" "What I'm not supposed to care?" John asked her. Leona looked away from him and replied,"why should you? No one else does, so why should you. I can take care of myself." John lightly put his hand on the side of her face to make her look at him and with out removing his hand he said,"I do care and so does a lot of people. Don't let Jacob or Mike get to you. They are assholes for doing what they did. Am I not aloud to care? I'm going to care any ways and I will protect you like i have been for years." Leona said," I'll wait here and why don't you go get every one ready so we can go?" So John nodded and headed back into the living room so that he could get everyone ready. Leona smirked as soon as he left her sight and said,"I don't need a mans protection." She hopped over the railing and took off tords the woods. As John and the others went to head out the door five minutes later John stopped in his tracks. Marcus and John looked at each other and said,"She's gone!" John ran full speed out the door with Sophe' right on his heels tords the direction of Leona's sent and Jacob took his slow ass time like everyone thought he would. Sophe' shot past John in her wolf form and ended up falling into a trap. John Darted behind the tree while Sophe' was pinned to the ground by a bigger wolf and maybe five feet in front of her is Leona pinned to the ground by two huge wolves. John needed help and knew it but he didn't want to leave Leona or his sister just encase things went even worse. John jumped into the tree and climbed to the highest point almost and reached into his pocket to get his cell phone. He called Leona's father and quickly explained to him the situation. After he got done calling for reinforcements he hung up the phone and silently moved down the tree to see what the situation looks like. When he got down to the last branch he saw a muscular man standing over Leona who is now on her knees with her hands bound behind her, John listened to what the man had to say. "We know you and your family came here to silence us, Princess. We aren't stupid even though you may think we are." The man said sternly. "obviously you are if you think we are this weak. I just came alone to show you that we show you no harm. We just want to salve all this so that there can be peace instead of war." Leona said seriously. The man smirked and said,"You look pretty weak to me, Princess." Leona gave him a dirty look and quickly freed herself and stood in front of him. "Do I look weak now, Drake?" Leona asked him seriously with a dirty look. "Impressive, But how are you going to solve this whole thing?" Drake asked curiously. "We know that something strange is going on around here but we don't know exactly what but we promise you we will not stop until this whole thing is solved." Leona told him. Drake smiled and said,"Well, princess, it was the Raven Wing pack that killed Tonya." "Wait did you say Tonya? As in Tonya Grazler?" Leona asked mortified. "Ya, why?" Drake asked seriously. Leona looked at him and said,"I think I just solved this murder but i hope I'm wrong. If I'm right this just may have caused a huge war." "Princess in that case I hope you are wrong. Well, go now and solve this mess. I will go myself and speak with the Raven Wings leader about this." Drake told her. "Please do and I will come back to speak with you shortly." Leona told him. She bowed her head and then walked away down the trail that once she came. As soon as she got under nether the tree that John was hiding in he jumped out of the tree and landed right in front of her. "Do you have a death wish, Princess or are you just this stupid?" John asked her kindda angry. Leona walked around him and replied," I did what I had to do to earn there trust. I think I solved this but I need to speak with my father emedently. I hope that I'm wrong or else we have a lot of problems ahead." John fallowed her and asked,"Why whats going on?" "Tonya Grazler is the one that was murdered. Which is Michael's cousin. I never knew she was a werewolf until her name was brought up. That means the rest of his family are werewolves. Mike wasn't human he was a werewolf. If it was a vampire that killed her, John then the royal family will have more to deal with then just a war between two wolf packs, it will be between the vampires and the wolves. I will do anything to stop this from happening." Leona told him seriously.