A/N~ Please remember to read, enjoy and review. Thank you to everyone for enjoying the final part of my The Way to a Fae's Stomach is Through His Heart series. Hope you are enjoying it. Make sure to review it helps me write better. ~A

A/N/N~ Thanks to those who reviewed, viewed, etc. To Jommy26 hope that things are becoming clearer to you now. Zombieleopard- Yes more of Hale's family and I may eventually include Natasha,but I do agree with you. ~A

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Dyson was carefully following the Avengers to a bank. He was officially off the clock and had been for a couple of hours, but the way they had left had made he and his queen suspect the humans were going after the spiders. Ennoi had actually made them understand it in simple wolf terms. The hunters in them recognized the hunter instinct being triggered in another, in this case the Avengers.

The trio of men were joined by their companions outside one of the older banks in the city. The spiders for a change had waited until after hours at the bank. The men were discussing their plan of action.

Dyson inhaled deeply, using his heightened sense of smell to advantage. He detected the smell of ammonia, that was an indication the spiders were nearby. It wasn't usually noticed by either humans or most fae but spiders also usually weren't the size of a VW beetle. Also others didn't usually have his combination of fae heritage that included a Wanblee ancestor.

The shorter blond disappeared and after only a few moments, he was opening the door from the inside to let his companions inside. Dyson decided that he really liked these guys, yeah they were breaking the law but in this case they were doing it to help keep people from being hurt.

He noticed that they blocked the door open with a small door stop. The cop smirked and after hiding in an alley near the bank, Dyson emerged in his wolf form. Sliding through the door snout first, he followed the sound of quiet conversation and directions between the men he was tracking. The only problem was that they were heading towards the scent of the spiders.

Dyson moved around the outside of the main lobby, staying out of sight of the Avengers. The human men were not wearing their flashy iron suits, star spangled outfits, or armor. All of them were wearing jeans and t-shirts, and were each carrying their various weapons and the captain was carrying his shield.

Dyson leapt over the tellers desk and continued to follow the men to the back of the bank. Trying to get ahead of the men he moved over and under the furniture and equipment in the bank, trying to reach the vault before they did. He was only about halfway to the vault when he was able to hear the spiders moving around in the vault.

From the sounds of it despite Dr. Lauren's scientific fae advice, the spiders didn't sound as if they had collapsed under their own weight or that the spell, curse whatever had worn off either. Thus proving the Shifters theory scientific and fae should never be used in the same sentence together.

Thor entered the vault first, despite the Captains suggestion he stay out in the main lobby. As they all quickly learned, Thor's hammer, relatively small metal box and lightning, don't really work well together. Meanwhile Stark was putting on his briefcase model of the Iron Man suit.

Dyson had finally figured out one of the two mystery men was Hawkeye after he pulled a bow out of its case. Then he started putting arrows through the door of the vault into the spiders which only added to the chaos unfortunately.

Then Hawkeye saying something about a better angle climbed up to the balcony, making Dyson's previous endeavors at wolf parkour look clumsy at best. The Captain moved into the vault to haul Thor out when he was knocked down by three of the spiders. Using his Shield to cover hus fallen friend while Stark and Hawkeye covered the pair.

From the looks of the gore covering the pair though they had managed to kill or mortally wound at least one or two of the spiders in the vault. Unfortunately, they made the mistake of not looking up and when they came out of the vault a pair of larger spiders dropped a web of sticky fibers on top of them. Meanwhile the man who had been ordered by the others to stay back was trying unsuccessfully to cut through the material that was trapping his friends. Their archer suddenly yelped as two of the spiders dropped from the ceiling, one on his back driving him to the ground.

Quickly the Shifter was up the stairs and had bounced one spider against a nearby column, crippling it. His hackles raised when he came face to face with the other spider, standing between it and the fallen human, Growling, Dyson leapt against a nearby bookcase. Toppling it over, the spider nimbly leapt to the railing its crippled companion wasn't so lucky. Jumping again Dyson caught the spider and the pair went to the floor below with the wolf landing on top, and the eight legged menace exploded in a pile of goo.

A ground shaking roar had Dyson looking up to find the Hulk himself ripping the webbing to shreds, that had trapped his fellow Avengers. While the remainder of the spiders managed to escape through a hole torn into the floor at the back of the bank. Staying out of the line of sight of the Avengers, Dyson darted forward and carried some of the webbing away in his jaws as he slipped back through the doors of the bank.

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The Dahl Riata was open late for a weeknight, but only Fluer and Eric were upstairs serving customers. Bo was upstairs as well, waiting patiently for her lovers to arrive. Lauren like to sleep as long as possible at their shared apartment over the Carpe Noct. Nothing was more peaceful than a nightclub during the day. Vex would then either serve them dinner at the apartment or meet them for dinner at the Dahl

Trick was downstairs observing Ennoi and Kenzi as they wove intricate spells around Hale. The Siren for his part was also trying to observe the ribbons and sparkles of magic as they floated around him.

Bo was also watching out for Hale's sister, Val, who Trick had managed to get a message to through various fae that he trusted. These fae were also not to alert Sturgis to his son's current whereabouts.

When the beautiful high court fae arrives, her anger was obvious. Sparks of energy practically fly off of her. Furious at whoever would dare harm her brother in any way.

The young female fae Val, looked ready to eat nails and shoot bullets by the time she was escorted downstairs by the succubus. The Blood King and his granddaughter practically have to wrestle the young woman into a seat to keep her from her brother. The Shifter Queen and Annie continue their magic ignoring the commotion going on around them as Val demands, "What happened? Who did this to him?"

Trick and the others are concerned about what her reaction might be when she discovers that her father is responsible for the harm done to her brother. So he tries to smooth things over with the Santiago heiress. "We're not sure, we're trying to figure that out now. In the meantime Kenzi and Ennoi are trying to unravel the spells around him.

"Spells?" What spells?" Val asked studying the women and her brother carefully.

Kenzi began speaking absently as she continued to unravel the magic wrapped around her friend. First there was a tracking spell, a muting spell. I'm going to assume since he can still speak that one was directly hinged to his Siren abilities." She paused there for a minute as she unraveled a particularly nasty little magical knot. Before continuing, "Right now we are unraveling three different levels of control that seem to have come from at least two different spell masters. Yow!...nope make that four." She said shaking her fingers vigorously.

Then looking up at Val she said with a reassuring smile, "Don't worry, we're going to get him out of this," then she went back to work."

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Vex is very carefully hiding his boredom. He asks what he hopes are insightful questions at the right points to assure one and all that he is indeed paying attention. The deadly dull recital of the facts of the budget for some ceremony that happened over two months ago are very nearly putting him to sleep. No one was foolish enough to fall asleep in the Morrigan's throne room though, you literally might wake up dead.

The quarterly council meeting is being held, and in truth it was even more boring than one of her weekly State of the Tyranny addresses. Bo had dubbed them that after he came home from one exhausted in every way possible. When he relaxes after asking one of his vague, but interested questions, he has a sudden spear of wrongness and fear stab through. Making him actually jolt in his seat in surprise. He feels that hint of lavendar and antiseptic, and knows without a shadow of doubt that something is very wrong with Lauren.

Without hesitation he does something he has never dared to do before. He apologizes to the council, very deliberately not doing the same to the Morrigan. The Mesmer continues that he has an emergency he must handle personally and takes his leave with a respectful bow. The council knowing Vex has never shirked his duties before is somewhat understanding, the Morrigan less so. She seethes inwardly, taking the absence of Vex as a personal insult to her.

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Eric was working in the kitchen once more, he didn't like working this late on a school night, but Trick had explained it was an emergency and had offered double pay. There was a tap at the kitchen door and Eric carefully looked outside to find the werewolf Dyson standing there again.

The part time cook and barkeep opened the door wider and said with amusement, "At least you're dressed this time."

The wolf blushed slightly as he agreed, "Even have shoes." Said the wolf lifting his feet to show his stylish boots.

Eric chuckled as he let the wolf in and closed the door behind him. "I take it you're here to see Trick and the others. They're downstairs and Bo is at the bar, waiting for the Doc and the Mesmer." he said as he returned to the stove.

Dyson bypassed the bar as Bo's focus was on the entrance to the Dahl. Heading downstairs he almost face plants at the bottom of the stairs as he sees Kenzi and Ennoi doing magic on Hale.

Hale catches sight of Dyson and starts to rise from the chair only to be pushed back down by Ennoi, and Dyson simply raises his hand in greeting to the current Ashe and gives him a warm welcoming smile.

He moves toward Trick and Val. The female fae leapt up and wrapped her arms around the Shifter in obvious distress. The growl that ensued was deep and surprisingly hair-raising. The young fae carefully extracted herself from Dyson and looked around him to Kenzi, with a sincere, "Oops, sorry Kenzi."

The Shifter Elder gave the other fae a nod of acceptance for the apology before returning to the spell craft she was performing. Hale merely rolled his eyes at his sister who stuck her tongue out at him.

Dyson pulls Trick aside and shows him the densely woven webbing he retrieved from the bank, and explains what happened. He explains, "No normal spider, even the size of these things could make webbing like this. This is definitely Arachne's work."

Suddenly Kenzi's voice pipes up in her higher pitched, stressed voice as she says, "Someones trying to call him back to them, using the spells."

Ennoi replies, "You continue to unravel and I will track it back to the spell weaver and give them a little warning off." Kenzi nodded not even bothering to look up from her work. A tense few seconds later a translucent image appeared in front of the three and solidified into a misty but clear image of Sturgis Santiago weaving a magical sigil in the air while muttering under his breath.

Val gasped, staring at her father in shock, when the image was as clear as she could make it, Ennoi struck. The Messenger of the light court gave a rather unmanly shriek and the image disappeared. Unmindful of the two Santiago heirs in the room, Ennoi cackled and said, "Take that you stuffed cravat.

Before Trick can examine the webbing that Dyson has brought, they hear a loud commotion from upstairs, Dyson and Trick run upstairs to find Vex near the entrance of the pub. Bo was trying to get to her lover, but the other patrons were trying to make a hasty exit. Knocking over chairs as they try to beat a hasty retreat from the madness in Vex's eyes and the menace and desolation he is exuding through his power.

For a split second when Bo gets to the Mesmer's side, he is unable to speak and tries to exert his power she can feel the cold trickle over her brain. The Mesmer wrestles the power back under his control and uses his words to explain, "Lauren is in trouble! I felt her, she was angry, but mostly she was terrified and then she wasn't there!" Vex explained as he remained rigid and unmoving beside her. "I have tracked her to the light fae compound. She is still inside, she should have left hours ago." He looked at the succubus and said, "Hours, Bo, hours."

The succubus looked into her lovers eyes and understood. Vex was remembering his own eighteen months of being tortured by the light fae who were trying to control him. "We'll get her back."

"Yes we will," replied the Mesmer in a toneless voice that was all the more terrifying for the dead flat tone he used. The pair left the Dahl without looking back.

Unheard by anyone save Kenzi and Ennoi, Hale says under his breath, "Father what have you done?"