Luna sat on her last plane taking her home to Stockholm, stroking the Protection Talisman under her thermal long sleeve as she watched a movie off her new Kindle Fire, the present Eric had given her before she left that night. She felt the slight pull of their bond that was telling her to go back to Eric. It was an odd feeling that she never got use too because when she started to feel it she was back by his side. It was the bond of blood, and ownership on Eric's part, that told her that she belonged with him and to him. Though now it wasn't as strong as it was before. But it still gave an annoying, itchy tingle that crawled all over her body. A smile crossed her face, as her body relaxed feeling Eric send love and comfort to her through the bond.

"Please fasten your seat belt. We will be landing in Stockholm Arlanda Airport in just a few minutes." A flight attendant announced over the intercom.

Luna shut off her Kindle and put it away in her backpack, fastening her seat belt, she waited for all hell to break loose when she got off the plane and met up with her family.

Getting off the plane, putting her heavy coat on and strapping her backpack on. She found her mother and father, with 2 of her 5 older brothers, her twin brother Bjorn, who had been sent back to Stockholm after being kicked out of the Exchange program for being caught doing drugs and her younger brother Eli. It was strange seeing her mother again out of all of them because she was pregnant again, for the last time Luna hoped. Not counting the one on the way and herself, there was already 7 Corvinus siblings in the family and Luna was the only girl, her father's pride and joy. Luna secretly wandered if she'd still be his pride and joy when and if they ever found out that she wasn't only dating a 1,000 year old Vampire, but he had also claimed her as his human for his and her existence. Wandered which they'd be more pissed at too, the fact that Eric's 983 years older than her, he was a Vampire, that she had let him bite her, drink from her and mark her and had drank from him too or that no matter what they did she'd always belong to Eric and be bound and drawn to him for the rest of her life. She put her money on all the above.

Luna's mother busted out into tears as she pulled Luna to her, making the teen uncomfortable against her swollen belly. "Min lilla flicka." she cried, making Luna's neck wet with tears. (My little girl)

"Hej, Mamma." Luna replied, pulling out of her grasp and hugging everyone else. "Hej, Pappa." she smiled, hugging her dad.

"Hej, bebis." her father, Kalle smiled hugging her back. (Hey, baby)

"Yo, Luna." Bjorn said, fist bumping her.

"California really rubbed off on you, didn't it?" Luna laughed, fist bumping him back.

"Ya know it." Luna busted out laughing, hearing her twin try to act and talk like a Californian with a Swedish accent.

"Vilken idiot." Luna laughed, letting her own deep Swedish accent out. She hadn't let it out other than the times Eric wanted to go into deep in depth Swedish conversations where she needed it to properly say the annunciations or when he just wanted to hear her accent, which he found as a crazy turn on. (What an Idiot)

"Luna." her mother, Kia snapped at her. The twins smiled at each other, then Luna said hi to her second oldest brother, who was ironically named Eric, but with a 'k' and her brother Axel, who was a year and some months older than her, then her little brother Eli.

"Are you happy to be home?" Axel asked her, as they piled into the car to head home.

"Oh yeah." Luna half lied. "I've missed you guys a lot over the last 8 months."

"We've missed you." her father said from the driver's seat, Luna blushed as he said it.

"So, Luna." Kia called from the passenger's seat. Luna knew by the tone of her voice, a major question was coming her way. "Why didn't you like your first host family?" Took all Luna had not to grimace with despair.

"They were just too pushy." Luna lied. "They wanted me to go to church with them every Sunday and when I wasn't around they'd go through my stuff."

"What!" Erik snapped from the back seat.

"Yeah, they heard about Bjorn and were checking to see if I was doing the same stuff." Luna said, not a lie. The Riley's, the host family she stayed with, had found out that Bjorn was in California doing drugs and that he got kicked back to Stockholm for it and started searching her things. It got more deep when she had met Eric in his club after her and her friends had lied their way in, he took interest in her for not having interest in him or any of the other Vampires in his club. In fact she didn't have any interest in being there at all. She wanted to be back at the Riley's studying, not underage clubbing in a Vampire bar in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was when she told her friends that she was gunna go sit in the car and read some of her book assignment for English class and try to finish her math homework she had started on the way there from Jonesboro. She had been in the front seat, the seat laid back as far as it would go reading Mice of men, when Eric knocked on the car window and started up conversation with her. At the moment she first saw him smile and say her name, Luna knew that she was lost to him for the rest of Eternity. She busted her ass to finish all her homework for the week and weekend, just to drive to Fangtasia on the weekends to see him. Then, she'd leave Fridays right after school to go to his house and stay until late Sunday night and drive back to make it on time for school at 8am on that Monday.

Kia went off on Bjorn in Swedish for doing what he did and putting Luna though what she had to deal with at the Riley's do to it. After she finished, the rest of the ride home was quiet. Minus Eli randomly busting out into the Spongebob Squarepants's theme song, which stuck in Luna's head for the next 2 days.

"So, how are your new Host family treating you?" Kalle asked, as they got into the house and settled down. "The...?"

"Northman's." Luna smiled, "They're great, Mr. Northman is actually Swedish. He was born in Öland. He moved to Shreveport for business and that's where he met Mrs. Northman. They're really sweet people, I enjoy living with them."

"More than you're own family?" Her mother sulked.

"Never." Luna defended.

"You're mother knows that, Luna." Kalle smiled assuring to his daughter and wife.

Luna's cell phone alarm went off in her pocket, taking it out and dismissing it, she got up and excused herself. "I'm gunna go to bed. The flight swamped me big time." she said, picking up her backpack, shoving her cell back in her pocket and heading upstairs to her room.

"But it's only 8.30, Luna." Kia called to her from the bottom of the stairs. "And we haven't had dinner."

"I know, but I'm exhausted." Luna called from the hallway to her room. "I ate on the flight too." she added, closing and locking her bedroom door. She sighed looking around at her bedroom. It was nothing like the enormous luxurious room she shared with Eric. Her room here looked like the size of her walk in closet at Eric's place with a bed, black walls, which she had done months before she left on her Exchange program, posters of bands and random wild animals, a flat screen desk top computer, a window that looked over the small lake that was in the private community that her family lived in, a twin bed, topped with a bunch of pillows and her favorite stuffed animal a little cow named Mr. Moo. Smiling seeing her old friend, Luna dropped her bag on the floor by the door, plopped down on her bed and hugged the little cow.

"Oh, how I've missed you, Moo." she said, hugging it tighter. Groaning as her cell went off again, telling her it was 15 minutes after the last time it went off. Luna pulled her pjs out of her bag, turned the lights off and fell asleep holding the talisman in her hand.