Jeremy's POV

I listened to clays story, and only interrupted so that I could take a look at his wounds. Looking him over I wouldn't have said that he was hit by a truck. Most of the sings of that were gone. Wether his ribs had been fractured in the hospital will remain a mystery, because some are clearly broken now, quite likely from the fighting. He did seem a bit concussed though. I bandaged his ribs and tended to the flesh wounds.

He finished detailing the nights events. I nodded, this was an unusual situation. At this pint the sun was up and Clay was clearly exhausted. It had been a long day followed by an even longer night for him.

I tell Clay "I want you to go up stairs and eat. Then you need to go rest. We will discuss our course of action with these mutt after you have had some time to recover. I'm not sending you after them again until we know more" He goes upstairs with no resistance.

"Do you believe him?" Elena questions. I nod. "But don't you think this whole thing is odd?"

"Of course it is, but Clay has no reason to be dishonest in this."

"So you don't think he bit this woman also in an attempt to make me stay?"

That question surprises me. "No, absolutely not, even if Clay had a reason to bite her he would have never don this." I wave my hand indicating the injuries the mutts had inflicted. "Whatever you think of him, you know I'm right about that."

Elena didn't look fully convinced. She gazed at the woman for a while longer. "So what happens now?"

I sigh "Now we wait. It takes a few days for the change to be complete. The injuries will make the transformation more difficult for her, but I will do what I can to help her along. I may need you to help as well, being that you have experienced this it could calm her and make it easier for her to trust us."

Elena nods and sniffs at that. This must be hell on her right now. Although Clays bite was the smallest break in the skin that he could manage it was a violation of her trust. She didn't have to deal with the physical attack but she is still recovering from the emotional one.

"You should go eat and rest as well. We need to rest wile when can because we may not have the chance to later" I pull her into a quick hug, Then move her to the stairs. Maybe I can shield Elena from the worst of this, but if the woman dies Elena will not handle it well. So over the next few days I must have Elena down here enough that she can bond with Siobhan (that was her name right? I'm not completely certain but I need to start thinking of her as a person with a name) so that she is more likely to survive, my instincts tell me that will be important, but I also need to make sure Elena isn't in here so much that in the event of Siobhan's death it will make it impossible for her to stay. I don't even think that is a line I can walk. It leaves not middle ground.

Elena brings me breakfast and coffee, then leaves silently. At least I didn't hear her and Clay get into a fight while she was up there.

I make a call to Antonio, quickly informing him of the situation. He will make the calls and do the leg work to make sure no questions are asked about a man who had been in the hospital and disappeared even though he was seclude for surgery. Antonio would also come up with a way to cover up Siobhan's disappearance. Then there was also a matter of the dead werewolf in the alley to be cleaned up. I trusted Antonio to make sure not connection was made between the three events.

Then I moved on to the first problem for me to figure out. Jack McMillan. He had been up to more then we knew. Clay and Siobhan had paid the price for our ignorance. That will not happen again.

So long as I'm down here I start to pull records and files on Jack, his family, and known associates. In short what I find confirms that he does have family that are werewolves. Cousins Mike, Josh, and Brian, as well as an uncle Arnold. From the descriptions we know Josh is dead, thanks to Clay. He had had a thing for Elena, as many mutts who meet her do, and therefore "ran into her" a few times. I update some information in the files now that I know for sure that Arnold is around and potentially the head of the mutts operation. That leaves Mike and Brian as wild cards. Order of business will be find the other two cousins and determine if they are involved. Then see just what Arnold and Jack are up to. I set the folders aside for Elena to work on she usually keeps tabs on the mutts and knows them best out of all of us.

My next problem is Siobhan. Weather or not she healed Clay isn't something I can answer. It's out side of my realm of understanding. And it's a moot point if she does not survive. I am certain however that she knew of us, werewolves. That was forbidden information, I need to find out how she found our about our existence and how she knew Clay was one. Being that Siobhan would not be able to answer questions for the time being would hamper figuring that out. However the questions regarding Siobhan are not as pressing as the mutt problem. I decide that after Antonio has dealt with the issues at the hospital I will have my friend and his son Nick help Elena gather the information we need.