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Bam

The heavy black punching bag swung from the impact of her fist. Momiji glared at the black bag as if it was the source of all of her frustration and anger. She hit it again.

Bam….creak….creak

Bam…creak

Bam

She threw her foot around in a roundhouse kick and kicked the bag several times before spinning around and smashing into the bag with her flat palm. She was breathing heavily and the sweat was dripping down her face.

"Does hitting that make you feel better?" asked a high pitched voice from behind her. She didn't have to look to know what Van was doing. He hung by his knees from a pull up bar, staring at her, his arms hung loosely around him.

Bam….bam…bam…creak….bam….bam

"Yes," she said as she began hitting it again.

Bam…bam….creak….bam….bam….bam

"Why?"

"Because I can't…hit….what I really…..want….to….hit." Bam…..Bam….Bam.

"You mean who you really want to hit," he said with a smile. Bam creak bam creak. "You shouldn't hit it so hard…."

Bam...creak…..spooosh….

Momiji looked down at the sand that was now piled at her feet, the top half of the bag now swaying with the momentum of her last punch. "Perfect…." Her eyes stared at the sand at her feet, they held no emotion and were glassy.

Van giggled from his bar, then let himself drop towards the ground, he flipped himself onto his feet landing as graceful as a cat in perfect balance. "You really should find better ways to take out your frustration, I mean being frustrated even here isn't good." He smiled cheerfully at her than ran towards the long balance beam in the middle of the room. He jumped onto the spring board and did a perfect flip onto the wooden beam. He spread out his arms at his sides to keep his balance.

"You have a better idea?" Momiji asked finally taking her eyes away from the sand to look at him.

"Do what I does, med..i..ta..tion," he said sounding out every syllable, he spun on his heel to look at her.

"I'm not the meditating type," Momiji said leaning on the opposite side of the beam. She looked across the room her eyes once again going glassy.

"You're mother seems like an interesting woman, she's strong spirited like you," he said. He pushed himself up into a one arm handstand and balanced. "You're father too."

"Their hearts are as cold as ice," Momiji said her voice monotone.

Van righted himself and looked down at her, "Well the same could be said about you." She looked up at him. "You kill Vampires for a living."

"Yeah, so?"

"Well how many of those Vampires had families, people who loved them, aren't they just creatures of earth too?"

"Vampires take people's lives," Momiji said.

"Yes but don't humans take the lives of cows, deer, sheep, birds, and all other creatures of God to survive," he said sitting down in front of her and letting his legs dangle. "Does that mean that those animals are allowed to come and slay you because you are killing their families?"

"We need animals to survive, we need sustenance."

"And Vampires don't?" asked Van.

"Vampires feed off of blood, a person's life force, there are substitute ways of feeding themselves," Momiji said.

"There are also alternative ways of you getting sustenance as well, being vegan, or vegetarian then no animals are harmed or killed," Van said.

"Are you comparing humans to livestock?"

"Well if you really look at it everyone is livestock to someone else, the bugs for the birds, the birds for the foxes, the fox for the lion, the lion for man, man to the vampire, vampire to the earth, the earth for the bugs. It's a continuing circle of life, no matter who or what everyone is an essential part of life and death, it's the circle, where we all begin, we end again." Van looked at Momiji, they both were silent for several moments until Van finally broke the silence. "Momiji where is Kusanagi?"

She looked at Van and her green eyes locked with his amber ones, she turned away from him before answering. "He's in a dark place."

"Did you send him there?"

She stared into space not moving, faintly around them there were harsh whispers and echoing voices. Van glanced around the room and yet saw nothing. "Momiji…"

Suddenly the entire room went dark and Momiji and Van were the only things illuminated, the voices grew around them and began to get increasingly loud. Van covered his ears while Momiji, who was used to them, only winced slightly. "Make it stop!" he yelled. He looked at her, she had closed her eyes, resigned to just wait it out.

The voices were screaming around them, Van clenched his hands over his ears, he couldn't make it stop. Suddenly a cold hand reached out and grasped his throat. He looked up into the shadowed face of Momiji. Her eyes were cold and her body was no longer hers. Van looked over at the Momiji still standing next to him, then back to the darker Momiji holding him in her crushing grasp. Van knew he was in danger, he knew it was time to sever the connection. He closed his eyes and pushed himself away from her.

His eyes shot open and he sat up quickly. Breathing heavily he touched his neck, he could still feel her fingers. A soft hand touched his shoulder and he jumped, he looked into Serena's blue orbs. "Hey kiddo you okay?" she asked softly.

Van nodded and took her hand, he touched it to his forehead letting the coolness sink into his flushed and overheated skin. "What did you see?" she asked.

"Momiji, I was able to connect with her," he said.

"Did she tell you where my brother was?" asked Darien's deep voice. Van looked up, at the foot of the couch stood the Vampire Prince.

Van shook his head, "When I finally asked her about it she reacted strangely, said he was in a 'dark place', when I asked her if she put him there she didn't say yes but I felt that there was something behind her answer."

"What forced you out?" Darien asked.

"I took myself out, she….she had another one," he said.

Serena squeezed his hand seeing the small amount of fear in his innocent eyes. "Another one?" asked Valencia from her seat behind Serena.

"There were two of her inside of her," he said.

"You aren't making any sense boy," Valencia said.

"My dear…." Kreon began, but he was cut off from a voice at the door.

"He means inside of her mind there was another being," Hermione said. The group turned to look at her, all except Van. "Inside of a person's mind there's your inner being, your mind or spirit, Van's saying that there were two beings inside of Momiji's mind."

"And it's not supposed to be that way?" asked Darien.

"Do you have two people inside of you Darien?" Hermione asked. She waited for his answer and then spoke, "I didn't think so." Hermione walked around the chairs that Kreon and Valencia occupied, she kneeled down next to Van and Serena and spoke softly to the boy. "Van was it Momiji or was it a barrier?"

He shook his head, "I couldn't tell it felt like her, but there was something there, it only showed up when I started talking about Kusanagi."

"Did you sense it at any other time?" Hermione asked him.

He shook his head again, "Only when I mentioned the Prince."

Serena exchanged glances with Hermione. Hermione reached out and touched Van's forehead, she brushed back his hair and smiled, "Thanks kiddo you did a great job."

Van leaned forward and fell into Serena's arms, she stiffened and looked at Hermione for help. Hermione smiled at her and then stood leaving Serena to deal with the boy. "I think Momiji definitely knows where Kusanagi is, she may even be somewhere near him."

Serena stood Van in her arms, he was now sleeping. She turned around and sat with him in her lap, his head on her shoulder. She looked around the room for help waiting for someone to take him from her, no one moved to help her. She glared up at Darien who looked as if he almost wanted to smile.

"Then we need to bring the girl in for questioning," Valencia said.

"It's not going to be that easy," Hermione said. "These people are strong their barrier spells are probably just as sophisticated as our own, maybe even more powerful."

Serena looked around waiting for someone to take the boy but still no one was going to take the sleeping child from her. She looked at Rei who was purposely ignoring her, to Darien who still was trying not to smile, and then at Daniel who was completely engrossed in Hermione's evaluation of the barrier spells surrounding Momiji. Realizing that she was going to have to take care of the boy herself, she stood and secured her grip around him.

She carefully made her way to the door, she felt Darien's chuckle tickle her mind, she turned around and glared at him. 'You may laugh now but just wait,' she told him telepathically. He was laughing inside, seeing her babysitting seemed comical to him. She glared once more at the occupants of the room and then opened the door. Maneuvering herself around the heavy door she closed it with her foot, trying not to drop or wake Van.

As soon as the door was closed several coven members looked at her curiously, two moved to take the boy from her but she held up her free hand to stop them, "Thanks but I have him."

They each nodded slightly at her as she passed by shifting him in her arms. She felt him clutch onto her shirt and burry his face into her shoulder. She rolled her eyes at the looks she was getting from members of the coven. As she passed Ami, she murmured a quite "Shut up" at the woman who had raised an eyebrow.

She turned down a hallway, not knowing where the boy's room was she stopped one of the maids and asked her. Serena declined once again when the girl asked to take Van and asked for directions. The girl told her it was in the guest wing. Serena thanked her and began carefully walking towards his bedroom.

"You're a pest you know that kiddo," she said to him. Van snuggled into her shoulder more, she had a small inkling that he was awake. "You're lucky you're not heavy or I would have dropped you on the steps." Though they both knew it wasn't true she felt like she needed to tease him, in her arms he weighed almost nothing, whether it was from her vampiric strength or from his small frame, she didn't know.

She shifted him in her arms once more as she turned the corner. Looking up and at his room she stopped dead her foot mid-step. She tightened her grip on the boy as she looked at a couple standing about halfway down the hall talking. Knowing that the only other way to get him to his room was to go outside and through a window Serena took a deep breath and began walking forward again. She felt Van tighten his grip on her shoulder, she couldn't tell if it was a reaction to her movement or her tension.

She said nothing as she neared the couple. The dark haired woman wasn't facing her but she would know that back anywhere. Serena kept her calm pace, she was only a few steps from the couple now, she could hear part of their conversation.

"Gaius brining them here was the only option."

"Elena they are human, this is a very dangerous…." Gaius stopped mid sentence and looked up at Serena.

She refused to look him in the face but she knew that he was staring at her. She shifted Van in her arms so that he blocked Gaius' face. "Come on kiddo almost there," she whispered. She passed the couple without a word, the tension in the hallway was like walking through water.

She was almost at Van's bedroom door when she heard a whisper, "Serena…"

Serena almost collapsed at her mother's voice, but right as Elena said her name Van moved his head, his lips brushing her cheek. She continued in her steps and quickened her pace. She opened his bedroom door and slammed it shut with her foot. She leaned back against it and tried to catch her breath. She held Van tight in her arms feeling if she let him go she would collapse.

It took several minutes but she was finally able to compose herself and take the boy to the bed, she lay him down and moved away. He held her hand till she pulled away completely. She smiled down at him he was so small compared to the giant king sized bed. His blonde hair and pale skin stood out against the dark red cover and pillows, "Get some rest kiddo, you did good."

She heard him sigh then turn over onto his side. She ruffled his hair once and then turned back to the door. She touched the door handle knowing that her mother was still in the hallway, however now she could feel that she was alone, Gaius had vacated allowing Elena the chance she had been waiting the last several days for.

Serena held her head high as she passed her mother. She refused to look at her and kept her eyes set on the picture that hung at the end of the hallway. "Are you never going to speak to me again?" asked Elena. Serena stopped, she didn't say anything, nor did she turn, she waited for her mother. "Serena it has been such a long time since we last saw each other."

"And whose fault is that?" Serena's voice was a harsh whisper.

"Serena…the reason that I left you with Abby…."

"So you do have a reason?" Serena turned on Elena, her eyes blazing a bright blue. Elena fumbled backwards, she had not been ready to face her daughters vampiric nature yet.

"I didn't know…that you're powers had…."

"Had what…had Surfaced!" Serena yelled. Her body was shaking as she stared her mother.

"Serena stop it!" Elena yelled. The hallway around them began to quake. "Serena I don't want to fight with you I want to explain!"

"Explain what? Why you deserted me? Why you forgot to tell me what I was? Why you ran off and forgot about me?" Serena yelled. She felt a warming presence in the pit of her stomach, Darien's calming thoughts ran across her mind. 'Calm yourself my dearest.'

Serena shook off his presence her fight with her mother was something that needed to happen. Elena took a step forward, her skirt rippling as she walked, to anyone else she would have looked like a goddess. "Serena I didn't mean for it all too happen this way, I wanted to tell you but Abby made everything so complicated."

"How!"

Elena looked down and waited a few seconds, she looked back at Serena her eyes blazing bright blue. "Abby took you from me."

The words hung in the air between them like a crushing weight. Serena didn't move a muscle, "What is that supposed to mean?" her words came out slow and full of malice.

"Serena when you went to Abby it wasn't as simple as you think, it wasn't just because you needed training, it was because Abby wanted you and because you were so valuable she would made me an offer that I couldn't turn down."

"An offer you couldn't turn down?" she yelled, "What offer would be good enough to give your child away for!"

Elena turned her head away from Serena so she wouldn't have to look at her, "Serena I don't expect you to understand my reasons…."

"Good because I'm not going to," Serena felt her nails digging into her palm. The silence that followed was heavy and Serena could feel her emotions flooding over her control. "You left me mother, you left me and you took Sammy, you made a new life for yourself, you forgot all about me. You didn't tell me anything about who or what I really am, do you know how frightening this has been mother? To wake up in the middle of the night hearing the pounding of a beating heart three bedrooms away from you! To feel the thirst all the time and never be able to quench it?

To feel your body pulling and ripping itself from the inside! To feel your head pounding! To hear things amplified a hundred times more and to not understand why any of it is happening! It's terrifying mother, it's the worst thing you could experience!" Serena smelled her own blood she looked down and saw droplets dripping from her hand onto the carpet. Elena had not looked at her the entire time, she had stood silently against Serena's onslaught. "What did you trade me for mother? I think I have the right to know what I was worth in the end."

Elena closed her eyes tightly and then exhaled a heavy breath, "Mortality." Serena looked up at her mother, "Serena I loved your real father dearly, but he couldn't accept me he was too set in his ways as a slayer. When he discovered my true identity I had to defend myself and in turn he was killed. It destroyed me, I wanted to die I hated the thought of living for centuries without him. Then I found out that I was pregnant, I was terrified Serena, the thought of presenting you to the coven, bringing a hybrid child into their ranks would have destroyed any chance of you having a normal life. I used what little magic I knew and found a witch who could help me, I asked her to suppress our vampiric nature. She did but not after I paid a heavy price." Elena's face fell as her memories replayed over in her head.

Finally after a few moments she spoke again, "I met your father then and….it was…it was like a powerful flame had burst forward within me. I had finally found a man who loved me unconditionally, he accepted my past, he accepted my baggage, and he even accepted that I was pregnant with another man's child. We were married soon after and we lived a happy life, and I felt for the first time that I was safe and that you would be safe with me. When you were born your father took you in his arms and smiled down at you. He kissed your head and said 'I'm your daddy,' then he named you, it didn't matter that you weren't his in blood, the very moment of your life when he set eyes upon you, he loved you."

Serena felt hot tears run down her face, she remembered her father well, they had always been very close. Then when her powers had manifested they had been pulled apart, he had been afraid of her and was torn between his love for her and his fear for his family. It had cut Serena deep and she knew that even now she had yet to get over it.

"We were safe for several years, you showed no signs of the thirst, you weren't violent, your powers weren't ruling you. You were abnormal yes but nothing that I couldn't explain away. Then when I was pregnant with Sammy the witches spell began to weaken, by the time he was born it was gone and I had to go to another powerful witch to bargain again. I succeeded but she told me the spell would only last a few years. I knew I was risking a lot but I didn't care, I needed you, me, and Sammy to be safe from my family and your real father's coven."

Elena paused, "When your powers finally broke through the witches spell it shattered all the barriers and everything that I had worked so hard to create. You were powerful even as a child Serena, a prodigy and a danger. I became panicked I didn't know how I was going to hide your existence, how I would protect Sam or myself." Elena stopped and sat down on one of the chairs in the hallway. "I had always told you that I had found Abby, but the truth is she found me. She had sensed your powers since the beginning and had been watching us and I, in my foolish thinking, had believed that it had been my sacrifices that had protected us while in reality it had been Abby."

"She finally came to me and told me what she had been doing. She said that unless I gave her to you then she would lift her protective spells and reveals us to the world. I begged her not to but she wanted you, she had plans for you. I fought her for two years and tried to keep us safe without her help but in the end I wasn't strong enough. I had to give you to her, and in return she used her magic to once again suppress our Vampire halves and this time it was even more powerful. I was able to live a normal human life without worry, I was able to marry after your father's death and be a mother to my step children. I had your sister and she's human Serena, full human no vampirism at all. I was given a second chance."

Elena refused to look at Serena, even without telepathic abilities she knew Serena was furious. Finally after a long silence pause she looked into her daughters eyes. Her fury was more present than before, Serena's blue eyes were glowing with anger. The light over head were flickering and Elena saw scorch marks around Serena's feet.

"You gave me away…to become human…to become a mother to….to…..to those insignificant little bastards!" Serena screamed. "I was your child, your flesh and blood, I'm part of you mother! I'm half of everything you are and you just threw me away so that you could have your perfect, normal, step ford life! I hate you! I hate you!" Serena lunged at her mother flipping them both over the chair and onto the hallway carpet. She began to scream and slap her mother, tears running down her face, she felt her power explode from her body. Several vases shattered from the heat and the candles melted almost instantly.

Suddenly the felt strong hands grab her and forcibly pull her away from her victim. "I hate you! I hate you I hope that they exile you forever! And that your vampiric nature comes back stronger than it ever was! I hope they realize what you are and despise you too! I hate you! I don't ever want to see you again!" She was being drug backwards through the hallway towards the main part of the house. She saw Gaius come out of a room and into the hallway to help her mother. Before the hallway disappeared from her view Serena saw two dark haired teenagers come out of one of the guest rooms and a small girl with waist length black hair run from the bedroom and hug Elena. Serena knew it was her sister.

"Have you completely lost your mind!" Hermione yelled. She threw Serena onto a couch and stood before her. "You just attacked her Serena! The freaking hallway has scorch marks all over it from the heat you were producing and Elena has second degree burns!"

"I don't give a damn about that woman!" Serena yelled pulling herself to her feet. "That bitch got what she deserved, and let me just say it wasn't even half of what I wanted to do to her!"

"You cannot go around acting like a crazy woman Serena! Valencia already hates us don't give her any more ammunition!" Hermione ran her fingers through her brown hair. She had felt Serena's anger in her dreams and it had woken her from her sleep. As soon as she knew what was happening she had run to the other side of the house and had rounded the corner to see her friend tackle Elena.

Hermione looked at Serena, she was breathing heavily and there were still tears slowly running down her face. Her face and eyes were red, her hair was mess, she looked like hell. Hermione sighed and looked into Serena's eyes. She softened her voice "Are you okay?"

Serena's lower lip began to tremble and her face contorted into anguish. "Nooo" she cried out. Hermione grasped her friend's forearms and held her tightly. "Nooo," Serena yelled again, she began to sob and finally her emotions overpowered her. She dropped to the floor taking Hermione with her. They sat across from each other, Serena sobbing her body shaking violently, Hermione watching feeling her own tears begin to cloud her eyes. Finally Serena pulled Hermione into a crushing hug and cried on her shoulder. Hermione tightened her hold on Serena and shushed her hoping that she would be calmed.

"It's all gone to hell Herm, everything…..Abby, Blake, Sarah, Momiji, Darien, mom, everything is gone!" Serena sobbed, "Why did this happen, why couldn't we have just stayed the way we were? Why did the syndicate have to give us that job?" Hermione knew she was talking about the attempted assassination of Ami. "If we hadn't been at that restaurant, if we hadn't…..none of this would have happened!"

"We would have been okay, we would have been together!" she sobbed.

Finally after several long minutes Serena began to calm down, Hermione pulled back and looked at Serena. She brushed her bangs back and stared deep into her friend's eyes, "But we were given those orders. We were there, we did meet them, Abby did get sick, and all of this did happen." Hermione swallowed, "We can't dwell on what shouldn't have happened and what did happen, this is our life now, it's what fate decided for us and we can't pretend like our dreams and desires are the most important thing."

Hermione sat back on her legs, "We have been given a destiny….and it's hard, and it's painful, and it's lonely. But it's ours, ours Serena. Yours, mine, Momiji's, Daniel's, Darien's, Kusanagi's, Abby's, Blake's, Sarah's. Our destiny is what has interwoven all of our lives it gave me you, and Momiji, and Daniel. It brought my sister back to me. I hate and love our lives Serena. And yes our lives that we had before, all of it, is gone. But we've known that….and now we have to move forward. We have to stand up, we have to keep going….and you have to be there with me cause I can't bring Momiji back on my own."

Another wave of tears fell from Serena's eyes. She pulled Hermione into another hug. "Okay…okay…" she whispered. She pulled back from Hermione and nodded her head, "Move forward."

"Move forward," Hermione repeated.

"Okay….." Serena wiped the tears from her face and gave Hermione a smile. "Thanks Herm."

Hermione nodded, "Next time try not to burn the walls."

Serena let out a laugh and nodded, "I'll try."

"Good."

"He's losing control, slowly but surely," said Sophia. Her arms were crossed against her chest and she was leaning on her left leg, her dark eyes stared intently at the video monitor in front of her.

"Come on Aunt Sophia can't we just up his dosage?" said Fei staring at the monitor.

"No if we give him too much it will overload his system," Sophia said. "I want him to slowly lose control. It makes him all the more dangerous."

"Having him in the house probably isn't the best idea though Aunt Sophie," he said with a yawn.

"And why not?"

"He's too close to his mate," Fei leaned back in his chair and put his feet up on the large computer consol in front of him.

Sophia leaned forward and smacked his legs down, "Momiji is not his mate."

"Come come Auntie, you've gotta see it, no matter how much you try to ignore or deny it they are joined, that's part of the reason he's fighting so hard, having her so near is giving him determination."

Sophia looked back at the monitor, Kusanagi's body was seizing slightly and she could see his lips moving, he was talking to himself. "He won't be able to fight it for much longer even with his mate being close."

"Whatever you say, but you had better keep watch on Momiji, my little cousins starting to lose it too," he said.

"What do you know?"

"I know she's conflicted, she's worse off than an epileptic kid in front of a strobe light," he said with a sadistic smile. "She's trying to fight her impulses to be with him using her logical thinking. However their bond was almost fully formed when they were separated so having them so close is only strengthening it and making it harder for her to fight against her subconscious."

"If you really want to turn her against him you have to scare her out of her wits, make her see what kind of a monster he really is, then the Slayer in her will come back out. All her instincts will tell her that he's the dangerous one and it may finally turn her against him."

"What exactly do you have in mind Fei?" Sophia asked.

He looked at her and raised an eyebrow, "There's some risk involved."

"I'll take the chance Momiji needs to remember who she really is."

"Well if you're that willing….."

My dear dear friends i am not feeling your love. What is going on in your little heads, tell me what you think, what do you want more of, what do you want to see happen
(i wont change the major plot but i can appease SOME of your longings) so give me some review give me some ideas anything...JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING!