A/N: I understand some people think it's too soon for Amie to have a child and I agree. But understand that Amie is still very immature and if you recall Jessica tried to turn that trucker to stop him from dying and Pam had a child that she released when she was very young as well. Though this seems to come out of no where I at least know where this will go and trust me, it will be very dramatic.

Godric in the snow and the moonlight with the blood dripping from his face reminds me of the night he saved me. He has to understand why I did this, he just has to. His eyes are raging tsunami's that frighten me because I know I'm going to get yelled at and I really don't want to get yelled out so quickly I ask, "Did you guys take care of everything?"

He takes in a large breath-almost like a gasp-as if I hit him in the gut or something but before he speaks Damien's child AnnaBella calls out to us, "Is everything alright down there? Amie, you're alive?"

I look up to her from the window I had come from-I almost forgot I got shot! I press my hand against my side and I know there is nothing but dries blood. I give her the thumbs up and answer her, "Yup! Just got shot but that's okay. It was a shot gun so I'm fine."

"Good, I can't take another sobbing vampire. Jolie's inconsolable, could really use your help. You know she loves you."

Even from far away I can see AnnaBella's pained eyes and I can see she is desperate to stop her sister's despair. I look down to my Bernard and maybe it's my blood flowing through him or something but I already feel a strong need to protect him and in the moment just imagining his death puts me in the same mindset as Jolie. I nod my head, "I'll be there in a minute!"

She sighs thankfully and is gone...leaving me to face the angry Godric. I look up to him as I tighten my arms around the young boy and hide him in the large fur coat with the hopes that if Godric doesn't see him he won't be so angry but nothing stops his expression. He opens his mouth as if he is going to shout but suddenly it drops into a thin line, "Amiena, what were you thinking? Forget that you are not even a year old, forget that you were attacked, forget that you could be dead, forget that I thought you were dead! Amiena, the vampire community has stepped into a very strenuous time period and the fact that I was not sentence to my own death is a miracle! And now! Do you know how difficult and straining it is to care for a new child? And now you expect me to take care of two! I will not, you will leave him to die in peace and he will not complete the transformation!"

"No!" I scream out, holding onto Bernard so tight if he were still alive he would be crying. "Please, Godric! Please! I beg you! I will take care of him and raise him like you're raising me! We can grow together! We will be good! Please Godric! I can't let him die! I have to save at least one person! I can't save anyone just let me save him! Please!"

"Amiena," It seems like my words are falling on deaf ears but I still have to try. I go for another angle, one I know he will have to listen to.

"He-He was abused, Godric. Abused like you were but he...he's not as strong as you were. When I found him he was with that man that shot us and his arm was broken and rotting and he's hardly wearing any clothes and his sister-I tried to save the girls in the basement but there were too many and his sister got killed and I couldn't save her and she asked me to save him and please Godric...," tears had been falling down my face because his expression doesn't change and I'm terrified I'm going to lose him. I beg once more to try and drive the mail in the coffin, "Please? You saved me, Godric. Let me return the favor."

His face changes then and it seems to work. His tsunami's have simply turned into rainstorms but there is still that look of anger. The whole time I had just been feeling a blind kind of rage from him but now it simplifies into dull jealousy. Is that why he's upset?

"Godric...he's not going to take away my time from you. He's not going to take away my love from you either. I am yours. I am your love, your girlfriend, and your child. He will just be my child. That's all. I know you we're worried my love for you was only because you were Maker but I thought I proved you wrong already. I'm in love with you forever and always, Godric. You have to believe that," each word I spoke in a quiet voice that only he could hear because the words were for him and no one else.

After a few moments he sighs and turns his face away with a brief nod of his head, "Fine. But that is it. I will not allow you to collect children like stray dogs. The blood is sacred, Amie. Always remember that. We must rejoin the others now. Bring him along."

It's like a torch was lit inside me and I grin happily at Godric's final decision. I stand quickly and with Bernard in my arms I rush to him and rest my face on his large arm. He lifts it up and wraps it around my shoulders and though he is still unsure I know we can get through this together. I lean up and kiss Godric's cheek as I mumble against his skin, "Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Godric. Thank you!"

He doesn't say anything but he nods his head and we walk to the front of the house where many blood spattered vampires stand. Brother, sister, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle; they all hang their head in morning. It's then that I remember Jolie again and her infinite pain but I am thankful there was only one loss. We walk back in through the front doors where Jolie has thrown herself onto a pile of Beau's dead gush and holds it under her as if she is trying to shove it in her belly to rebuild him again. Damien cries desperately with his hands on her shoulders and his whispers things in a kind of French I can't really understand but nothing comforts her.

I look up to Godric with a frown that is my unspoken and unthought question. He nods his head and I shrug Bernard out of my arms and into his. I pull off the fur coat and drape it over Godric's front and for some reason I think they look like a big bear and a little bear and then I remember my dream! We are the bear family and I can't be happier..well I could if Jolie wasn't so sad. I turn around and walk to her and Damien.

I place my hand on Damien's shoulder who has his hand on Jolie's shoulder and I feel an odd flow go through us. I don't know if they feel it but there is a hiccup in their crying and they look up to me in a sad kind of confusion. Damien pulls his hand back and I drop my own so it takes his place. He steps to the side and I lean forward so that I can rest my body against Jolie's back and wrap my arms tightly around her shoulders. She begins to cry again-though much softer-as she sinks into the embrace and I stay quiet as I hold onto her.

I know better than to comfort her. Even imagining myself in her place just isn't enough. I stroke her hair along the side of her face and ask her quietly, "Was he your first child?"

She nods her head sadly, a whimper falling from her lips before she speaks, "I thought I would never want children. I just wanted to stay by Damien's side and help raise my brothers and sisters but then I saw him. Damien was hosting one of his parties and I wanted to feed so I went out into the street and then...there he was. He wore such terrible clothes and stood on a street corner, SMOKING with other boys. And the way he spoke. Such a beautiful voice for such foul words. When I came up to them...he chocked on the smoke in his throat. The other boys there looked upon me with monstrous desire but his eyes...his baby blue eyes. I plucked the cigarette from his lips and took his hand and lead him away. I took him back to the party where we made love for the first time and it was such a joyful experience because I knew he had to be mine forever. I left him to join the other and indulge in the experience and that was when I informed Damien he was to be my child and Damien agreed. I took him away when he had climaxed seven times and was exhausted with pleasure. I caressed his face and before we had spoken our first words I turned him. On the night he emerged I made love to him again and when we finished I had arranged to tell him but he did not stop. We made love all night and then Damien came and joined us and we did not stop until the sun was to reach the horizon. My child, my beautiful child."

At her final words I see Damien's hand rest under her chin. A large force pulls me away but I know it's Godric's hand before I have to worry. I'm about to ask why he pulled me away but then I see why. In front of me I watch Damien and Jolie kissing deeply with their hands all over each other and I know for a fact if I had still been there they would have pulled me into the kissing that will surely become more. Before I even blink the room is filled with the nineteen vampires that were outside. I look to Godric and he gives a sheepish sort of shrug as he steps back and I go back along with him.

We watch as one by one the vampires join in the kissing and suddenly clothes are being thrown this way and that and noises are being made in the mess that used to be Jolie's child. I conclude again to myself that vampire families are extremely weird. I wonder briefly if other vampire families are like this, if sex is a definite part. Godric and I are now in an intimate relationship and Pam and Eric definitely are and now almost Damien's entire lineage before me.

For a second I'm afraid this is the vampire norm but then Stan walks in with a loud and panic, "What the fuck!"

Isabel also watches beside him with wide and confused eyes and I let out a little laugh because at least I know it's just this family before me. I see behind them are some of the girls that I rescued but they are dressed differently. Some wear beautiful clothes while others where all black and I see they must have gone through the beautiful women and the men's clothes for some sort of comfort to where. I'm about to open my mouth and suggest we go out to the cars that wait for us outside when a little voice, the girl that seemed younger than me asks, "Can I join in?"

Jolie's head peaks up from the mess and she steps away from her family to look over the girl that has big blue eyes and long dark hair and I think Jolie is thinking of Beau that had similar features. She nods her head as she reaches her hand out but I worry for the girl, she is so young! The girl leaps forward and I wonder why but it damns on me quickly. The motion of their bodies and the chorus of their moans is almost hypnotic with how loving everything sounds. Who wouldn't want to be apart of it?

A few more girls step forward tentatively and they are quickly welcomed by either of Damien or Jolie's other children. This whole thing seems a bit unbelievable to me but then Stan comments again, "What the fuck!"

Isabel coughs and looks back to the other girls behind her, "Let us all step outside and continue making your arrangements."

Godric and I are the first to reach the snow and slowly the others trickle out behind us. Some girls speak to Isabel and tell them their names and where they are from and Isabel talks into a phone that she uses to repeat the information. Other girls-about ten-crowd around Stan as if he is a god or something. One of them finally works up the courage to say, "I want to be a vampire."

But Stan shoots her down with a, "Good for you."

I'm expecting that to be the end but suddenly Godric beside me speaks, "Don't you think it is time you have a child, Stan? You have reached a good age and now that you will be joining Jolie and raising your political ranks you should consider creating a group of vampires you can definitely trust."

I harp onto it, "Yeah, the only vampire a vampire can trust is the one he created."

Stan looks over me and Godric and Bernard before looking down at all the girls. He gives a disinterested grunt before asking, "Do any o' you know how ta play poker?"

I let out a little laugh as I look to Godric and lean up to kiss his cheek. He turns his face once I finish and kisses my lips. I reach my hand up and rub at Bernard's dead head. I think everything will be okay.