Luna and her group of friends walked around the mall, clutching giant slushees and cookies and laughing at stupid teenage jokes. Every now and then, Luna would look around for Elander, but could never spot the Vampire, not knowing what he looked like didn't help either.

"Luna, who do you keep looking for?" Her friend, Sid asked.

"No one." Luna replied. "Just looking around." she told him.

"Being in America has really changed you." he told her.

Luna frowned, "What do you mean?" she asked as the group sat at a table in the food court.

"You just seem anxious and stuff." Sid told her.

"Yeah, and you have like a weird glow to you. Like your overfull with life." Jace chimed in. Secretly, Luna panicked at they could somehow see that she had been with a Vampire and drank an insane quantity of his 1,000 year old blood. She laughed it off.

"How is someone overfull with life, Jace?" she retorted. "It's not fucking possible."

"Yeah, it is." Jace argued. "It happens when you've lost you're...you know what and it was like the best shit in the world." A few of the friends agreed with nods. "So, who was he? Some sexy as American boy from your Chemistry class."

Luna watched a rather pale, young looking male sit down a couple of tables in front of them, she stared at him and he starred at her, then gave her a nod, touching his nose with a telling smile. Elander. Luna thought. "He was in my Biology class and wasn't American. He was something like Puerto Rican or some Latin shit like that." she answered, her eyes unfocused as she continued to stare at Elander. "And it was only my first time, haven't done it since. So, I wouldn't know if it was the best in the world." She lied to them. By the expression on Elander's face, he could hear what they were talking about and approved of how she easily danced around the subject. But Luna couldn't help but think that the way she put it made her sound like how Eric may have said it. It was causal and over intelligent and confident. Her friends seemed to have bought it though.

"Fair enough." Sid said, sucking up the last of his Slushee.

The teens got a large pizza and had gotten a third of the way through it, when Luna got up to use the bathroom. Going down the hall in the food court that led to the public bathroom, someone grabbed her the arm and pulled her in to a door cubby that led into the utility closet.

"The fuck?" Luna snapped shoving the person off her. "Don't touch me, dammit."

"Eric doesn't like it when you use all those cuss words, Luna." Elander said, leaning against the wall of the cubby.

"Yeah, well you could have given a person some more warning before kidnap grabbing them into the cubby of supply closet, Elander." Luna snapped, crossing her arms and looking at him. He was shorter than Eric, about 6 foot, slim build, smooth face and green eyes. He looked about 20, but if he was a trusted Vamp friend of Eric's he had to been a few hundred years old. "What do you want?" she asked.

"To introduce myself too you." He smiled, extending his hand to her. "I'm Elander Larson." They shook hands.

"So, how do you and Eric know each other?" Luna asked, making light.

"We met back in the Finnish war." Elander answered. "And yes I was already a Vampire. Had been since the middle of the Theater war." he added, rolling his eyes.

"Okay, well nice meeting you, Elander. If you excuse me I have to use the bathroom and go back to my friends before they think I ditched them." Luna said, walking out of the cubby and into the woman's restroom.

"She definitely has Eric's blood in her." Elander laughed, pulling out his cell and calling Eric to tell him about her so far.

Getting back to the table with her friends, Luna's mood was tilted with boredom and anger for some reason. "Let's go to central and do some shit." she said to them. They all looked at her, got the hint and absorbed her mood within themselves. Getting up, leaving all the trash on the table the teenagers left the mall, took a bus and walked the rest of the way to Stockholm Central park, which they commenced to rip apart and create chaos.

Elander was still on the phone with Eric when he came back out to the food court and saw the table totally empty.

"Eric." Elander whispered.

"What, E?" Eric's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Their gone." Elander told him. "Their not in the mall anymore. I lost her, she ditched me and I don't know where she went." The young Vampire started to panic, Eric was going to kill him for loosing his precious teen human lover. Eric growled from the other side.

"She's walled herself up from me. I can't feel her and I can't sense her location from this far away." Eric told him. "Let me hang up and call her. If she doesn't answer my calls I want you to get Marcus and Lucas and find her." he told Elander, then hung up to call Luna's cell.

Calling Luna's cell, Eric listened to it ring and go to voice mail. Hanging up he called again and listened to it go to voice mail...again. On the fourth time, he left her an angry voice mail, demanding that she answer her phone and tell him where she was at. With their distance, Eric couldn't sense where she was from their bond, he could barely feel her emotions, which were erratic. After the voice message, Eric called Elander back.

"She didn't answer me." He snapped at the Vampire when he answered.

"Okay, I have Lucas with me now. We'll start looking for her. Any suggestions?" Elander replied.

"She never talked about any places she liked being at in Stockholm. It was mostly about school, family and friends. Try tracking down a kid named Jace Vikorson. They've been friends since they were two."

Elander nodded, "Yeah, she was with some guy named Jace. I'll go through the channels and find him." he told him their plan. "We'll call you with progress."

"Good."

"And, Eric?"

"What, Elander?"

"I'm really sorry about this." he apologized to the elder Vampire.

"It's alright. She's a typical 17 year old teenager, she was bound to defy the rules at some point." Eric assured him.

"She's not one anymore, Eric. She's a rebellious, digital age 17 year old girl running around Stockholm with an insane amount of 1,000 year old Viking Vampire blood in her. God only knows what you're crazy ass blood in making feel like she can do." Elander pointed out.

Eric sighed pinching the bridge of his nose, thinking back again to the time when Luna thought she could fly off the second floor landing to the first floor and survive cause of his blood. But she was hyper than too and when she wasn't hopped up on sugar and energy drinks, Luna was very rational about Eric's strong blood in her. "She won't do anything because she has my blood in her. She's a good kid, just hanging with bad kids and being her age." he answered back.

"Alright, Eric. We'll get her back home safe and sound by sun rise and if not, I'll send Tristan out to find her."

"Alright." Eric sighed and hung up.

"What's wrong, my Child?" Godric asked coming into Eric's room and crawling into the bed beside him. "You're stressed, I can feel it."

"Luna ditched Elander with her friends and they can't find her." Eric told his Maker, cracking his neck. "I'm worried at the other Vampires there are not going to heed my claim over her and harm her to get back at me." Godric nodded, laying down next to Eric, curling up against his side.

"She's a smart girl, Eric." he told him. "She'll be fine if they do get a hold of her. Which I doubt, the Vampires there are smart enough not to upset you not only because they know what you'll do to them, but because they also know that I don't like it when my Child is unhappy."

Eric smiled at his small Maker and feathered his fingers through his short brown hair, smiling wider hearing Godric purr, something the 2,000 year old Vampire had picked up living in the wild with animals for so long. "I believe you, Godric."