The doctor came out with Raylin and gave them a list full of different allergies, asthma, and other minor things. He also handed over a small list of medicines that would be good for Raylin, but would cost a fortune. When they stood up to leave, Hugo put his hand on Billy's arm to hold her back "Ve vould like to speak vith you privately, ve can arrange for the kids to have a day out. Get new clothes, food, fun, etc. Vhile you come and talk vith us." He said seriously, Billy figured he wasn't really asking, but he was giving her that option. "Ok, sounds like a plan to me."
Billy talked with Stag and Ray, told them to enjoy themselves and that she would see them later. She then got in a car with Hugo, Wicki, and Smithson. "Are the other two guys going to stay with them until they get someone to take them around?" Smithy looked at her and nodded "Yeah, probably take them someplace to eat, we won't leave them with anyone we don't trust either" He added, so she knew they wouldn't be with complete strangers.
They arrived at a huge villa style manor, plenty big enough for them, plus ten guests. They liked the space. Hugo was out of the car and around to Billy's door the moment it stopped moving, he had the door open almost as quick. She followed him up the steps to the main doors, the garden looking as if it had stepped out of the pages of better home and garden magazine. Hugo held the door to the manor open for her as well, then lead her to the main sitting room.
Everyone but Kagan and Sakowitz was there and none of them looked pleased. They hadn't gotten the experience with the kids, so they didn't really have the connection. Aldo stepped up and offered a hand "Hello miss, I'm Aldo Raine, suppose you could say I'm leader of this little group. We would be more than interested to know how you and the kids you look after know bout our kind, and what if anything you've told to others." He said in the most gentlemanly way, but to Billy, who was southern, the threat was clear. He gestured to a seat and she took it.
"Each of us has a different story, Mr. Raine. I'll start with Ray's, poor girl. She comes from a less than loving family, her mother a drug addict, her father an abusive asshole. She was the oldest, so she took care of her younger siblings. But her parents got into some trouble, trouble that involved a vampire. So to repay the vampire they sold their youngest children and then gifted him with Ray. Ray wasn't so stupid, she knew she would die, so she ran away before the actual exchange could take place. I have been taking care of her since." She said, not really seeing them anymore. Then she looked right at Smithson who stood next to the newly entered Kagan and Sakowitz "Then you came along and wanted to help her, now she probably doesn't know what to think." She smiled.
She let out a small sigh "Stag, is well, a wonderful kid. He has an amazing mind. He has always been able to work things out. I figure he would have figured it out regardless of if he hadn't been stuck in that hole. See, Stag's mother was one of those self-destructive types who wanted to take everyone around them with them. She nearly did too, until she met the vampire. He had no mercy for her, but for Stag….I think he could see Stags mind, and didn't want to destroy it. But who knows for sure." She said shrugging. She looked over at Raines and smiled "How am I doing?" He chuckled, and shook his head "Pretty good, what about you, girlie?" He said goodheartedly.
She sighed sadly and looked at the biggest of them, "My story is….dark. I was a plaything, a toy to use. He was the cat…I the mouse. My parents were in the way, so he killed them. For six mouths I lived in hell, until I found a way out…I can't fully remember how I did it. Just a lot of yelling." At the looks she was getting she smiles softly, feeling safe with them. "He didn't feed from me, he just liked to hear me scream." Donny walked over and kneeled in front of her "How old were you?" He had a thick Boston accent, she liked it. "About…6ish." She had never heard such loud angry snarls before. They all were pissed, Aldo and Hugo walked out of the room, leaving her to the cuddling mercy of the former Bear Jew.