Chapter 18

A few days later, Destiny woke up in bed. She looked around and everything seemed the way it was before. She got up and went to the window. She saw the kids, get into Jewel's and Kallie's cars. They all waved good-bye to Andy, whom was standing on the front porch waving back; like a proud dad watching his son go to school for the first time. After the cars drove away from the house, Andy turned to the house and started up the stairs, and entered their room. As he did so, she looked at her hand and there sat her mother's old wedding ring.

"Good morning, Sunshine." He said and kissed her.

" Hello to you too." She smiled.

He picked her up, fire-man style and carried her back to the bed. He laid her down and started her to kiss her again. He made he was down her body, hitting all the right spots at all the right times. Destiny couldn't believe her luck. She had six beautiful and wonderful children, a wonderful caring husband, and the home of her dreams; what more could she need? "Nothing." The word shimmered into her mind. Destiny allowed her self to drown in the passion of her and Andy's love-making. The room was soon filled with affection, compassion, need, but mostly her and Andy's love for each other.

Three hours later, Andy and Destiny sat in the kitchen and were talking amongst them-selves.

"So what do you know about that guy, who attacked us?" Destiny asked. Andy drew in a breathe and blew it out.

"Well his name is Chris Walker. He knew me from when I was living in Texas. He killed my Father. Chris and his team are paid assigns. They work for a very powerful hit-man named Xander Matthews. I don't know what you did to make him want you dead." Andy whispered.

"Xander is my brother-in-law. He wants me dead, because I killed his brother, my ex-husband. Although I didn't kill him, I witnessed it."

"Who did then?"

"Jewel did." Destiny sighed and started to tell the tale of when Jewel killed her father. "When Jewel was thirteen years old, she came into the kitchen late one night. She walked in when David and I were arguing. He hit me. She flipped and ran over and smacked him. Like she saw in the movies. She learns everything from the movies, like how to punch and everything." Destiny smiled at the ground, before continuing. "He hit her back and hard. She fell to the ground. She just stood up, punched him, and stared at him. She had flames of blue in her eyes, she looked so angry. She had never looked so angry." Destiny looked at Andy.

"She drowned him from the inside out, and made sure he had a heart attack. By the time I realized what was going on and was able to get up, he was dead. She didn't have the control then that she has today." She continued and wiped her tears away.

"Kallie came down right after. She went back up stairs and asked Jade to sit with the children while we 'talked' about something important. When she came back into the room, we took the body and hid it. It was all my fault. I should have made sure the kids were sleeping and…"Destiny tired to explain.

"It's no body's fault, D. Jewel's instincts to protect you kicked in. She was too young to control her temper. If it were the other way, you would do it for her, and so would Kallie " Andy reassured her.

"Yes, BUT they were so young. To young to have to deal with death. Jewel was way too young to kill anyone, Kallie too young to help. They're still too young, to have to kill other people to have to survive and clean up messes that shouldn't be made. And Xander's not going to stop. What will we do?" Destiny started to cry.

Andy wiped her tears away, hugged, and kissed her. After 15 minutes of comforting her, he turned to her and said "I'll tell you what we're going to do. You're going to stop crying. We're going to raise our children, because they'll be home any minute. And enjoy all the happiness we have right now. If Xander tries something….then we'll deal with it, Matthews's style as a FAMILY!"

Destiny smiled at him and kissed him. She heard the front door open and heard the laughter of all her children. She turned to the door and started to the love hugging Andy.

"So you were a cowboy, huh?" Destiny asked, looking up at him.

"Yes, ma'am." Andy answered her in his best country accent.

Jewel then walked in with Kallie laughing about something. With Jean right behind them smacking at her twin's hands. Both of them laughing. They were followed by a laughing Jade and Scott. Scott was making the noise of a crow, to make Jade laugh. Destiny couldn't help but smile at her children, as they entered the kitchen and sat as they started their homework.

"Glad to see you're feeling much better, mom." Jean said.

"Yeah, mom. We're starting to think that Jewel started to screw up." Scott laughed and nudged Jewel.

"Be careful, it might be your skin that needs saving next time." Kallie defended her sister.

"Been there, and she did a great job at it. We can wrestle and I don't have to worry about killing him now." Sean complimented.

"Doesn't she always?" Jade complimented her older sister as well.

"Thanks guys. Mom, how are you feeling?" Jewel asked.

"Great. How are you guys doing?" Destiny answered.

"Great." All the children answered at the same time, which had everyone laughing again.

"How about you, Andy? Need another healing session?" Jewel asked Andy. Destiny looked at Andy, concerned.

"No, its okay, Jewel. I'm great. The pain passed two days ago." He simply answered.

"What pain?" Destiny asked, feeling lost.

"To save you we had to give you a lot of blood. Sean and Scott were busy applying pressure to your wounds and calming Jean down. Jean was helping take away the pain. Jade and Kallie were busy cleaning up. I was healing you, so that left Andy. After we were done. He had given you so much blood, we had to give him blood. We each gave him a pint of blood to make up for the six pints he gave you. Only Sean and Scott both spilt one last pint, so since he had so much paranormal blood and most of it was vampire's blood… he changed into a vampire." Jewel explained.

Destiny was very shocked. She thought about everything that Jewel said and decided to be happy about it.

"Thank you." She said to each of her children.

"No problem. We like Andy." Jewel said and kissed her mother's cheek. All the children nodded as well.

"Besides, life would be boring without Andy to beat up on." Sean laughed, and Scott nodded.

"What he means, is Andy spends time with all of us, and life would be boring without that. Besides he's family." Jean said.