A/N APOV MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE. I WAS HOPING TO GET THE NEXT CHAPTER OUT BEFORE NOW I HAVE BEEN SICK AND WAS RELEASED JUST YESTERDAY. BUT HERES A TEASER FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER IT IS THE ROUGH DRAFT I HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS. I OWN NOTHING. THIS HAS NOT BEEN BETAD SO ALL MISTAKES ARE MY OWN.

NEWS TO ME

APOV

I watch the bain of my existence saunter up to us. When she licked her lips and heard about the trouble on the news I had one hell of a brain fart as Sook would say. I made excuses to Octavia and John to make a call.

If those daggers shooting from her eyes at me were real I would be six feet under already. Quinn picks up on the third ring and I quickly relay my idea and get him started spreading word.

I know for a fact that bitch took journalism in college and she is most likely working for one of the networks. I reign in my total disdain for the mistake of the century and return to the group to make nice, after all I need her fucking assinine self on my side for now at least. I give her a nod and she turns on the crazy like a god damn faucet.

I lay my idea out to John and the others and they all agree to it and the bitch even offers to get a news conference together for me.

Dammit just when I thought she was gonna do one thing she surprises the shit outta me by helping us all. Hell women just confuse the shit out of me. I'll never understand them.

Jason pops home to alert everyone to my idea and to record my live broadcast. Trying to clear my mind is a hell of a lot harder than it should be.

I try like hell to focus on what I want to say but my mind keeps wandering back to all the different possible enemies we have.

Sophie was never found and she's most likely being her usual bitchy self. She's crazy enough to be a threat. Especially now that Eric's the King.

Newlin and the FOTS are still a huge thorn in our collective asses. There is a rouge Fae that is apparently helping to kidnap vampires.

Orrian is still a huge threat that I hope will soon be neutralized by our own Sorcerer. The damn rouge weres are just hired muscle. They'll turn tail and run when the shit hit's the fan I hope. If not then they will have to be put down.

I hear the door close behind me and with out turning around I know it's her by her scent. The smell of her arousal is absofuckinglutely pathetic and repulsive to me. I will never understand what the fucking hell I ever saw in that bitch.

She knows I am married for fuck's sake. What is her fucking problem anyway. With out turning around my voice laced with as much venom I growl.

" What do you want Debbie? I am trying to gather my thoughts. I don't need your damn drama right now."

" I wanted to talk to you for a minute."

" That's not what it smell's like. You know I'm married yet you come in here and belittle my marriage by reeking of lust and stinking of desperation and want. So I ask you again Debbie, what the hell do you want?"

" We were good together Baby. I still love you. I know just how to please you. Why won't you give me another chance? Let me show you hell prove to you that I am you were mate. I know that you loved me once and I know you will again..."

" Stop right fucking there. Let's get a few things straight. First off we were kids and it was more lust than love. And the love was coming from you. I was in like and lust with you. While I admit that I cared about you, it was mostly as friends. But your cray ass ruined any thing we might have had years ago when you tried to trap me by telling me I knocked you up.

You lied to me at every turn . You screwed yourself over then had the audacity to blame me for the loss of you fake pregnancy. You are the one who fucked around and then tried to play the martyred girlfriend when I called you out on you bullshit.

Why is it just now that I find out you are a god damn witch? You didn't think I should know about that? You fucked up. Your bad."

" I wasn't. I mean I was but I wasn't practicing or anything back then. I swear to you Alcide I only did what I thought I needed to in order to prove to you that we are mates.

Besides you told me that you could produce cubs! You lied to me too! What about those mongrels you have with that white trash..."

" Don't you even fucking go there. I have never hit a girl in my life out side of wars but I will make the fucking exception for you. That is my wife and those are my children you are insulting and as your Regent I will have your head if you disrespect my family again. Are we clear?"

" But..."

" No you only need to answer with a yes or a no. Are we clear?"

" Crystal. Yes."

" Good. I'm gonna lay it out for you for the final time. I am married to my soul mates to which I love more than life itself. I will kill anyone who so much as looks at them wrong. You and I have a history and it will be one that I regret for eternity.

There is nothing that your lying cheating ass could say or do that would make me want you. After today I want you out of Louisiana and on the west coast by the end of the week. I do not want to see you ever again.

If I do or I hear of you disrespecting my family I will kill you after I torture you for it. Don't think I won't. I have changed bitch and you are still the same crazy bitch that you always were. I abjured you from our pack all those years ago. I won't fucking hesitate to abjure you from all weres worldwide. As Regent I have the power to do it.

You will bring new meaning to lone wolf if you try me ever again. We are not friends now and we never will be. You were just a mistake that my dick got caught in for a while. You have used up all your second chances, free passes, do overs, and whatever the fuck else you want to call it. Now do you have anything else to say?"

" Yes. You will go live in five minutes. You need to let the make up artist come in and knock back the shine on your face for the cameras. It will make you look more appealing and likeable to the humans."

" Debbie what the fuck are you doing? Trying to cast a spell on me won't... You fucking bitch!"

"Alcide baby, I I'm sorry..."

" Get the fuck out! Better yet Jase!"

" Yea."

Take her to a holding cell for her Execution later. Watch yourself she's been trying to cast spells on me since she came in here."

" Get your fucking hands off me you fucking human trash... Alcide don't do this. You will love me and you will regret treating me this way. I should have killed that white trash crazy ass bitch when I found out she was living with you back in college. Let me fucking go ass hole...What the hell are you?"

" I'm ya worst night mare bitch. I'm the over protective dumb jock big brother to that white trash crazy ass bitch ya been talkin 'bout. You signed you own death warrant bitch. Say one more word about my sister and I'll kill ya my own damn self. Later Alc. So glad I wasn't dumb enough ta get caught in her cunt."

Pop

" Sir we are ready for you."

" Thanks, I'll be out in a minute."

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the press thank you all for coming on such short notice. As everyone is well aware with the true blood factory bombings that there are some vampires that are taking advantage of the situation.

My hope is that I can maybe head off the oncoming war that will result if more fighting breaks out. Now there are several things I would like to say before I answer any of your questions.

So please indulge me. I am not a public speaker and I am not accustomed to making speeches. That being said, there are many vampires who are appalled at what has happened and they are working feverishly to get the money needed to relocate the factories and start production again. They do not want to see anyone else hurt.

The vampires as you may or may not know have there own governing body just for them. They are in the process of finding out who is responsible for the bombings.

I can assure you that they will be brought in and dealt with by the appropriate authorities. In the mean time I want to give you all some more information.

Knowledge is power and can help you in making informed decisions. I hadn't really planned it this way but... My name is Alcide Hervaoux- Northman and I am a Were wolf. "

"Now let me explain. We are not like what is usually depicted in movies. Yes we change into an animal at the full moon. But we are also stronger and have sharper senses than humans. We have lived among the humans for as long as civilization has existed.

I am over all the weres, and we want to help protect the humans from all rouge vampires. We also will protect vampires from humans bent on killing them.

We have a real problem right now, and we need to all come together and try to help each other out. You see a few hundred vampires have been taken just before the factory bombings. Each and everyone of these vampires were taken during their day rest.

Most if not all are young. Less than a decade old. That can make them dangerous even volatile to their own kind. Being so young they need nourishment nightly if they go without for more than a few days they will go after the weaker ones for their blood to sustain themselves. Problem is that vampire blood can drive another vampire crazy."

" Please calm down, I'm not telling you this to cause a panic. We weres will be protecting you from any who will try to cause anyone any harm. We are everywhere.

Our problem is that we don't know who has taken them or where they are being kept. We have several leads that are being followed as we speak.

But time is not on our side now and we need to find them now. If anyone knows anything please call 1800 for were. It doesn't matter what state you are in that number is our phone tree. Who ever answers will get a message to me and the proper officials in that city.

I could sit here and blow smoke up your ass um butts but you have all seen what has been happening everywhere. If we want to all survive this then we all need to work together. If you have any questions please ask them now."

" Yes George Schiller with CNN. I have a couple of questions. Why are you all just now coming out and saying that y'all are willing to protect all the humans now when so many have already died? Just how many vampires are missing?"

" Arnold Fisher from MSNBC. Why reveal yourselves to us now? Are you saying that we should just trust you to protect us without knowing you are all capable of doing so? "

" Yes at last count it was at 400 from all across the United States. We have been protecting humans all along. Unfortunately we didn't know that the factories were going to be bombed until it was to late. We lost hundreds of fellow weres during the bombings. As to answer Mr. Fisher we have been protecting humans all along you just never found out about us and the few that did usually chalked it up to aliens or they were convinced that no one would believe them either way. We have since then been doing our best at policing the vampires that go rouge. They are brought down and held for sentencing."

" Roberta Bryant for CNBC. Ah Mr. Hervaoux-Northman can you tell us how do we spot a were and exactly how will you be protecting us from this unseen threat? What can we do as humans to protect ourselves from the threat of all the starving vampires?"

" You can protect yourselves by staying in your houses from dusk to dawn. Keep all the curtains closed so that you can't be glamored into going outside. If you are approached by a vampire while in your home call the number 1-800-for-were and a were and vampire will come and detain or remove the rouge vampire. As to how to spot a were you can't. As I said we are everywhere living our life just as our human counterparts do."

" Hi Sally Teasdale with FOX NEWS. If there are vampires and werewolves, are there any other creatures that go bump in the night so to speak that we should be made aware of?"

" I am not hear to deny or confirm any thing other than that weres are real. Just like vampires we only want to be accepted for what we are. "

" Thomas Cumberland with VNN. R...Right, can you give us any information on what we are to be looking for? With that many vampires missing are you sure they are all being held together? "

" We are still looking into that. But for now if you see anyone going into a known vampires home during the day call us. Same if you see unusual activity taking place where there is usually none. We will keep you all informed of any new discoveries that we make. Until we can find these missing vampires and catch the rouges that are causing havoc nightly we hope that you will all heed our warning and do as requested. Thank you all for coming."

THERE WILL BE MORE TO THE INTERVIEW AS WELL AS ALC'S THOUGHTS. BUT FOR NOW ENJOY. THANKS FOR READING. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!