As always I do not own SM or BS.

Darien Ambrose sat in the middle of a meeting with the owners of the company he would soon be taking over. James Kalhon sat across from him his face was one of anger, and Darien could feel his power rolling off him in waves. Any vampire could tell he was a supernatural creature, a werewolf. He had the look of a werewolf as well; he had dark shady eyes and dark brown hair that was shaggy like a dogs and his tanned skin made him look extremely dark.

Darien then focused his attention on the man who was handling the merger, one of his most trusted friends, Jadeite. He was tall and slim, with a mass of shaggy blonde hair, which hung low in his eyes which were a misty blue, his skin slightly tanned. Jadeite moved with confidence as everyone in the room watched him. He was dressed very professional, a navy blue suite highlighted his hair, and his light blue tie matched his eyes. Many women would love to welcome him to their beds at night but only one did, Rei Ambrose, Darien's younger sister.

Darien was rather bored at the moment he knew the entire thing like he knew the back of his hand. He was tired of going over it over and over again. James had insisted on going over it a few more times so they both understood the terms, truthfully he was trying to find a loop hole to keep Darien from taking over his company. But Darien knew that his sister had made him and iron clad contract and there were no loopholes in it.

After going over the agreement once more Darien insisted that they finish quickly. When they were finished they all shook hands, when Darien shook James' hand James squeezed quite hard. When the room was empty except for Darien and Jadeite the mood changed.

"What do we know about Bella's murder?" Darien asked his mood changing hostile.

"Not much it was the same slayers as always, two of them killed her one drove the car, all were women and all professional" Jadeite said.

"Do we know who the man was?" Darien said as he walked out of the room with Jadeite following him.

"Just some guy she meet at the bar, she didn't think that he had any significance, but he in fact did" he told him as they turned a corner and walked past his secretary and into his office.

Darien sat down at his desk and leaned back into his chair, Jadeite threw a file onto his desk. "Darien this guy was a vampire and not just any vampire he was one of Elsa's," he said. "And let me tell you she is pissed as hell that one of her boy toys was killed by humans trying to find information about you," Jadeite said as he sat down exhaustedly into the chair opposite Darien.

"Well it looks like we are going to have to find these slayers and dispose of them" Darien told him. "Do it as quickly as possible, put tags on every member of the Royal Family I think they are going straight for us." Jadeite nodded his head and quickly exited the room to make the preparations.

Not ten seconds later another one of Darien's most trusted men walked in to speak with him. Zoicite took Jadeites abandoned seat; he folded his hand over his lap and waited. His long blonde hair matched his twin Jadeites, but his eyes were a light green different from his brothers, the rest was the same, height looks and skin. But Zoicite was smarter than his brother, and he had used it to his advantage and became a doctor. That's where he had met his wife and mate Ami.

"Is there something that you wanted?" Darien asked in an annoyed tone.

"Ami has been inquiring to me about some things" he said, "and she wanted me to ask you about them."

"What does this concern?" Darien asked suspiciously.

Zoicite sighed, "She wants you to let Mina out."

"No."

"Come on now Darien it's been six months, and she's getting better every day" Zoicite said. "Both her and Ami agree on this, getting out would be the best thing to help her condition."

"Other doctors have told me that Mina should stay put, and that her mental status is deteriorating at an alarming rate," said Darien.

"Are these doctors human?" Zoicite asked.

"They are the best in the field."

"You know human doctors know nothing about vampires, Ami and Lita both seem to agree on this matter," Zoicite said.

"Could that have anything to do with the fact that they are her best friends?" Darien asked. Zoicite became silent, and he lay back in his chair. Darien looked out the window, "What does Devin say?"

"You know, the same as everyone else, she's not doing good," Zoicite said.

Darien looked at him, "And what do you think?"

Zoicite's head snapped up at him then he took a second to think. "Mina suffered through a horrible ordeal and now the effects are catching up to her, her physical and mental state is deteriorating and she probably won't make it to next year without a cure."

Darien thought about what had happened to Mina; once she had been beautiful, smart, funny, loving and happy. But then after a certain battle with slayers where she was capture she had changed. She had been with them for three weeks and no one was exactly sure what had happened to her. When they got be back she seemed to be fine but they soon realized that something was wrong.

After a few weeks she began to change she became violent and began talking to herself. Two weeks of testing showed that she had been infected with some sort of virus, one that took over your mind, and after it had complete control ever that it went after the body. Mina had been infected nine months ago and had fought off the worst till six months ago, then she began to go downhill. She had tried to kill Darien and her lover Malachite when they tried to keep her from jumping into a roaring fire.

After that Darien had her institutionalized where Ami, Lita and Zoicite could keep a close eye on her. They had made good progress with the physical aspects of the infection but not with mental. Because of her mental state she was hurting herself physically, she had tried to kill herself on numerous accounts and because of her vampire strength she had almost succeeded.

"Darien the slayers must have a cure they wouldn't infected someone with something that could spread rapidly unless they had a cure," said Zoicite. "We need to find it."

"I know I have teams working on it, they have raided every slayer home that they found had acquired this stuff but no one gave up the location of where they got it from, these slayers have been taught well," said Darien.

"Perhaps too well."

"Alert my brother, tell him to come here from New York and to get Daniel on the way" said Darien then he got up and left the office.

Momiji was squatting on a branch of the giant tree the next morning when Serena found her. She was looking for clues, and so far she had found some. She had found blood splatters on the branches.

"Hey what are you doing?" Serena called to her.

"Looking for something" Momiji yelled then she jumped down from the tree and landed in front of Serena who was wearing a fluffy pink bathrobe.

"Find anything?" Serena asked sipping her coffee.

"Yeah, look at these branches" she picked on up off of the ground. "They broke off last night when I was shooting."

"So you probably shot them off," Serena said with a yawn.

"No look at where it was broken off at," she held the edge up to Serena's face, "something broke this off."

"Probably squirrels."

"There's blood in the tree," Momiji said looking out over the land.

"You most likely hit an animal while you were shooting last night," Serena said.

"Animals don't have black blood," Momiji said. Serena's eyes widened and she stared at Momiji. Serena's eyes began to comb over the grounds as well.

"Should we tell them?"

"No we don't want to cause them panic, let's talk to Hermione see what she knows and then we'll decided to tell them or not." Serena nodded. Momiji took Serena's arm and quickly lead her into the house.