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phillynz: technically they are but he never did bite into her neck so…either way the rest see them as mated. 😊 she won't go to him. Lol

TropicalRemix: Damon will still end up doing much more than what's been done now and I can't wait to write that part out but its still a bit till we get there.

OrientalDanceGirl: he is and due to certain issues he's had before Usagi came around he will never be the man that would be worthy of her. he sees how close Usagi and Mamoru are and he hates it but not just for why you think… 😉

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A vampires forbidden love ch. 12

Damon POV

I had never been more pissed off in my years of living in this estate. It had been only a few days but Mamoru's presence had created a positive mood change that was putting me into a worse funk. Word was getting around for his efforts in our war and add to the fact that Usagi had turned him into a vampire he was now being befriended by several other vampires within our coven and despite my presence he was still here.

No fear of me at all was present on him. Weariness yes but no real fear. He was even making friends with the tech savvy vampires we had and the ones that had been working in the training rooms for a variety of weapons and hand to hand combat. It was like they were all buddies or something and it agitated the living fuck out of me. I was starting to spend an unusual amount of time in the training room just to get rid of the excess aggression.

He was good with some of the guns from what I saw and decent at hand to hand combat. He was starting to get the hang of his vampire instincts better than I thought he would. He definitely wasn't like Diamond. He was actually motived positively to do better and to keep it up. It did bode well for me as I watched the other guys with him watch his technic and correct him when needed but it wasn't that often.

I kept my eye on his combat training as I felt it would come in handy to know his reaction timing to things. If he wasn't sleeping with Usagi or had her eyes solely on him I wouldn't mind the prick around but right now I hated that he had her. It in turn made me hate his very existence and I couldn't touch him to kill him, "Come on Mamoru!" he got encouraged by another trainer as Rei had walked in. She usually did her strength training around this time.

The two guys he was working with were part of a team that we would send out to eliminate high valued threats. I planned to use them and Usagi when we found out who the fuck was behind the Lycan increase we had had before the prick here stuck his nose in and helped. I couldn't even mentally nail him for anything as he was working to help us. I hated him! I have NEVER in my life been rejected by a woman.

Seriously I never have. Not a straight woman that is…and that doesn't count! Not my fault if I don't have the right body parts. Anyways Usagi may not have ever liked me or loved me but I still had her as mine in the bedroom and now not even that! All because of HIM…I seethed as I punched the punching bag in front of me. I knew I was damn near breaking it with my hits but I couldn't have cared less.

I watched as Mamoru used some of the fight training he was taught as a way to test it out. And as he was also still figuring out how to use his new abilities some of his hits were harder than he intended making the two guys show him how to reign in his control. He was definitely way different from Diamond. He had more control and focus. I could see it in his eyes and the way he moved. The blood lust was still there but more like he put in on the back-burner and successfully so. I hated it.

I had that errant need to complain like a damned child and treat him like shit just to make myself feel better in the slightest but I wasn't a child and I wouldn't lower myself to acting like one. It would only show his power over me that he has and I refused to acknowledge that he has any power here at all. I'm the one that stands to gain the positioning as an elder here so no I wasn't going to give in and do said things…besides as it was I don't think I'd get far unless I had good reason to do so.

So when Rei got in to be a sparring partner I watch the two work out as the other two stood by and watched the match. Rei went easy on him and he to her, but their moves were carefully measured and I once again hate to say it but he was a quick learner. He was picking it up not to badly. So when the other two guys left out once he gave a good real hit and took a good real one in he and Rei began to talk. I listened in wondering if it would be anything to use against them but alas it wasn't anything useful.

"Just work on focusing your strength and how much to deliver in your hits. That way you won't burn yourself out as fast when you do end up engaging in a fight." She advised. "Plus you want to make sure that with you holding back till its time it gives you also a better idea of how strong your opponent is." She finished. I internally huffed as I heard, "That way when you take down the head honcho you're not as exhausted and worn out." He said.

I was not pleased. Not only was this useless to me but it almost seemed like they were just friends that could develop into sibling like behavior but nothing more. I wondered if I could change that. Before I could think to much more on it Rei mentioned him needing to go do weapons training now. Usagi was currently doing her own weapons training that she usually did once a week as she had missed her last few sessions.

Not that she needed training far from it but she liked to still train so she could keep herself in good reaction mode. Spending all that time babysitting Mamoru couldn't have been easy for such an active vampire as herself. It's one of the other reasons why I wanted her back at the estate. I knew she kept up weekly routines so it had to be nice to get back to that. Though the good doctor or whatever could have been left behind.

Plus I think his being here is also due to her deal with my father. Unable to ever kill Mamoru as long as she serviced me well on the battle front. I had to come up with something that would either kill him without any suspicion falling on me, which to many others already know of my dislike to put it mildly of him, so I couldn't do anything to him. Didn't mean I wasn't trying to find a way around that one and my only other option was to get her knocked off that little perch she was on as my second in command.

Thing was also due to my issues with her now it was pretty clear that unless she severely messed up I couldn't take her out of that positioning either. I actually did need her and she was also damned good at what she did. Its why I had her as my second in command, title-less granted, but still I had her in that positioning and now she was able to utilize it to her full advantage and because she was so good at what she did it was perfect for her.

Another reason to hate my situation. I knew he knew of my hatred and he knew of his precarious situation but it didn't seem to bother him. He wasn't running away he was actively engaged in learning more and in being the best he could be. I thought to entice his blood lust but I needed to see how well he could handle things first. New vampire or not the blood lust if not kept in check could make a newbie vampire feel as strong as someone like me…almost.

Blood lust was like crack cocaine. Once you have that first taste, without the will power to stop there is no want nor need to stop. You forego those you love and care for in the pursuit of more blood till you've gorged on it with a plethora of victims. Diamond and his victims the village that he had and more was that prime example and we have been avoiding situations like him ever since then.

I had REALLY hoped Mamoru would turn out the same way that way I could kill him with good reason and get her back into my bed and this time keep her there for two decades instead of just one just so she knew how badly she messed up in choosing another over me, but it seemed he had this wall up around that blood lust that kept it well maintained and well controlled at least for right now.

So seeing him ignore the blood that came from Rei off a hit to the face as her lip split open ticked me off. He had blatantly ignored it with ease as he helped her up. When she even went to lick her lip of the droplet he barely even glanced at it. I wondered if that's how he controlled himself for a moment by ignorance but when he saw the matching blood on himself from transfer on the mat he merely wiped it away without a care in the world.

I was having it up to my neck with my frustrations. I couldn't take it out on whom I wanted to and even though Rei was all to willing to be in bed with me she wasn't thrilled when I went into her room the evening before and threw a long blonde pig tailed wig at her and told her to wear it while I grabbed her and fucked her from behind. Laying into her sexually as I had wanted to do to Usagi.

I knew she could take what I had to give her just as Usagi could but I also knew when you ask a woman to wear a wig that makes them obviously look like another mistress and rival, let's just say the reaction isn't favorable. Hell she looked downright insulted at my request but did as asked. I personally didn't give two shits as she was just another mistress I had…nothing more nothing less.

She was a good fighter don't get me wrong but the love she developed for me over the years ended up being more of a nuisance than something I wanted to have consistently going forward so when I found and made my deal with Usagi I was in heaven for a while. I still had Rei on the side but I could tell she was jealous for a small amount of time. When Mamoru was out of ear shot as I couldn't have him hear this I developed a new plan.

Rei was staying behind for a bit to finish up her own training and cardio as she had done some of Usagi's 'babysitting duty' when she couldn't so I knew she'd be anxious to get some time in the gym in here and she did enjoy sparring with others to help get her aggression out. Maybe if I could get her to seduce him Usagi would give up on this fruitless pursuit and let go. Then I could get back in again and stay there.

Rei POV

I had to admit Mamoru was getting increasingly good at the combat training. Turns out he wasn't completely incompetent in it and picked up the new stuff he was being taught with ease, well easier than most. Once you've had a bit of training beforehand the rest does come much more easily than someone whom has no previous experience as it already had muscle memory to rely upon for the grappling technics.

Lycan's aren't the easiest to overcome when in full transition so the grappling technics we began using decades ago came in very handy to help take them down and be more manageable as enemies to eliminate. Though it was a tad easier for the females than the males. We were a bit more naturally flexible than them. Though in retrospect those that were older was stronger than us by far.

So we sparred for a few minutes and I could see the control he exerted over his performance and how he was becoming more calculated and in control of what he was doing. He was figuring out the new him and learning how to be better at what he was now. That was good. It showed strength of his person and of his character. I've seen so many people go down the rabbit hole of blood lust that I vowed to never turn anyone.

Then I looked at him and note that the one person Usagi turns, because as it is we don't really turn someone unless we have to like for instance needing more soldiers and 'cleaners' such as myself and Usagi for the more detailed clean-up work that we do. We're not big on turning others so it just figures that the one person she turns has the inner will power to contain his needs as he is.

Another thing to be slightly jealous of her on. It was almost as if the universe was trying to give her something in return for what Damon stole from her. So when Mamoru left to go join Usagi in the shooting gallery I watched Damon stride up to me. I smirked thinking he wanted a nice fuck session right here. Something I was not about to complain about as he walked up to me in a sexy manner that had me all too willing to drop my yoga pants if he asked for it.

It had been months since we'd had sex outside the bedroom so it would be nice to have it again. I couldn't help but swing my hips out with a little extra in my step as I knew he held a thing for my rear as he so enjoyed slapping it during sex…and definitely enjoyed anal. Well he enjoyed it when he got to put a blonde wig on my head which pissed me the fuck off but I did as he asked and bite my lip from the pleasure in my body and the pain in my heart.

"Rei – chan…" he murmured as I wrapped my arms around his neck. He kissed at my neck and asked, "So how's his training coming along?" I pulled back a little, "Is that what you really want to talk about? Especially when there's so many more interesting things to discuss." I asked with a smile on my face considering what I was thinking about doing. I went to wrap a leg around his waist when he said, "How jealous do you think Usagi would get if you were to steal Mamoru from her?" Wait…what?!

I blinked as I felt myself fall into a stupor. I pulled back and looked at his casual yet serious face regarding his words. I was genuinely stunned and honestly appalled that he even asked that of me. Not that I would have not seen him try to do something like this but to ask ME?! Knowing how I felt about him – ME?! This couldn't be happening. I had to be sure though. Maybe I heard wrong…right?

"Excuse me?" I asked him, feeling like I had been drenched in cold water now. I removed myself from his grasp as he let me go, "Do you think she'd let him go if you stole him?" he asked me point blank. I felt a crack in my heart at his words. Once more he was picking her over me…again and it was slowly killing me. I'd rather be staked right now that to feel this pain in my heart. Once more he wanted her over me. I wanted to demand to ask 'why wasn't I good enough?' for it to just be us but the words wouldn't leave me.

I knew the reason why. My questions was a mute one. He expressed himself to me in the beginning, he would be spending his nights with any of his mistresses of his choosing. I would never be his only one. I had fallen in love with a man that I thought…MAYBE one day…could love me as I did him but even now several hundred years later he still wanted to be with her most of all. It was a kick to the gut and heart for me.

He spent more time with her than any of us. She and I only got along due to her hatred of him and trying to evade him without it compromising her deal with him yet here she was down-right refusing him now and all he could think about was getting rid of Mamoru to get her back again. I was stunned. If it were any other female he wouldn't be putting this effort into it. What was so different about her that did it?

Was it because she refuted him and genuinely disliked him? The thrill of the hunt after a while even though he had her willing he never really had her. I was at a loose here as the man that I loved all this time would never want to be with just me…it would never happen and that fleeting dream of mine got stomped on and crushed every time he referenced his preference of her over me. I felt the anger rise up with me but it had nowhere to go.

Once again I wasn't good enough for him and once again someone that clearly didn't want to be with him kept getting him. I'd actually hate her if she liked him but the coven knew she merely tolerated his existence around her. She'd never forgive him for his past crimes against her family nor would she ever forgive him for what he did to the scientist guy yet he still pursued her like a prize...the ultimate prize.

"I believe they are strong together." Was all I would say. It was neutral. "Not what I asked my little fireball." His hand touching my face gently. I glanced away. I hated that he used his bestowed nickname on me for such trivial things now. It used to be something I treasured to hear during sex or even on the battlefield at times and now I was starting to hate it. It was a reminder now that he was simply using me and the rest of his mistresses.

"Look at me." I looked up at him and couldn't help the slight moisture that appeared in my eyes upon sight. He looked at it and frowned. I felt the disappointment for such weakness and felt angered at myself for allowing my emotions to show up. I loved this man and I couldn't even be emotional in front of him and why you ask… "Rei…I told you from the first day of your being here that I would never settle." He caressed my cheek and I had to resist the urge to cry out in emotional pain.

"Don't go soft on me now…fireball…" as he gave me a peck on the cheek. I closed my eyes and willed the weakness away, "I want you to try and seduce him away from her. He is still a male after all and what male can resist you?" he said it in a positive tone but my response that I couldn't voice was 'you…' but of course I couldn't because that would mean I was weak and he didn't want to see me weak.

For him that meant I wasn't his 'fireball'. I wasn't needed anymore and I wasn't wanted as his mistress. I forced the pain back and found him to be already leaving the room without more than a hint of wanting to enjoy time with me. When I could no longer hear him walking away I allowed the emotions to over-come me and let the pain out. The tears came out and my knees gave out. That's why.

I hated to feel the emotional pain. It was worse than any Lycan that could ever attack here. Of course it would be Damon…only he could hurt me so deeply and not give a damn about anyone but himself and what he wanted. I stood back up and wiped the weakness away as I in a fit of righteous anger gabbed my phone and called Usagi. I loved Damon so damned much but as much as I do I can't do as he asks of me this time. The pain in my heart is too much and it's not like seducing Mamoru will win me Damon.

If anything the moment I were to, which deep down I knew I'd never be able to separate them, get them to separate Damon would be all over Usagi and once again I'd be left in the cold and Usagi would be stuck with what I wanted. "Hey what's up?" she asked, I didn't bother to beat around the bush. "Damon wants me to seduce Mamoru away from you. Just thought to give you a heads up." I told her. "Seriously he's that desperate?" Usagi knew full well I didn't see Mamoru that way.

He was nice and cutie but my heart belonged to Damon and it always would. Even after everything that he's ever done. I wish with all my heart I had fallen for another, any other really, there were dozens of nice good vampires here and several had made their interest in me clear, but alas I hadn't and he owned my heart. Sometimes I wish I had died along grandpa back then that way I wouldn't be stuck living in this pain.

My only time I got to feel remotely loved by him was during sex but even that now was no longer something to enjoy. Making your mistress wear a wig to look like the one he really wants to be with is to damn far and low. It was the first time I regretted sleeping with him. This he may have had but he didn't own my will power nor my mind. That was still mine and I still did as I so choose to do with it. I just wish I could choose for him to love me back equally or at the very least for me to not love him.

At least then this pain wouldn't be too bad. It would be bearable and I could take my time as a vampire to get over it but I knew I would never get over him. I held the phone close to my ear as I pushed myself to move past the pain I was feeling. "Yeah apparently he is…" I could feel the emotions swelling up again and felt my lip tremble from it. I asked her in such low tones I was shocked she heard me, "Why do I still love him…?"

Why can't I stop loving him? Was what I wanted to ask but couldn't. I couldn't open up that can of worms. "Love is blind…" so true…I felt my chin trembling with my emotions as she spoke. I heard the soothing tone and wished to just be curled up and be crying. Perhaps I would go do that in my room later on today when I had the chance to but for now I couldn't. "We have no control over it…never have…never will..."I could only imagine what she was thinking about. Her time with that scientist guy she fell for and had ripped from her.

She couldn't help but fall for him just like she couldn't help but fall for Mamoru either. We don't have any control over who we love or how we love. Whether it be by friendship or head over heels or that of parental or sibling we can't help how we love another person. It's not a choice it happens and she knew how much I loved Damon. How much it tore at me to see him off with other women herself included…yet she was the only one in the coven sympathetic to my feelings regarding him.

The others I kept too far away personally to know how I felt. To know that yes I loved him but I also hated him for continuing his pursuit of other women. For not loving me when I loved him. I couldn't make him love me and it hurt. "All we can do is try to make good happen out of it…" her words rang in my head like a turning point. On one hand I could decide to grant Damon his wish to gain her back but in all seriousness why would I?

It literally made no sense for me. I wouldn't reap anything from it. "Yeah…I know…look just be on your toes…Damon is getting desperate if he asked that of me." I hung up before she could respond. Going over to the punching bag I pulled some gloves on from a bench nearby and began to pound it. My hits went from being coordinated to uncoordinated within a few minutes as more and more anger rose up from Damon.

Every time he left my room to go to hers. Every time he choose her over me. That stupid fucking wig and now…asking me to seduce her man so he could have her back in his bed. I was furious and for a moment I let go of my emotions. I rained down my anger and pain like the holy ghost against the punching bag with fists and kicks till one kick where I imagined it was his face I was kicking, broke it off the metal device that it was attached to up in the ceiling and dropped it to the floor. My body finally gave in and felt the anger begin to subside.

I collected myself with quickness as a few more people came in to train. I wiped my eyes before anything could be seen as I walked out without a word to anyone. I went straight to my room and was for once thankful that no one was in their rooms nearby as I shut the door, locked it, stripped myself of my gym gear and went to shower. Letting the hot water run down my form as I cried my eyes out. I cried my pain out in the few moments I had to be emotional.

It was only when the water ran cold that I got up from the bottom of the shower floor, walked out, got dressed in a new set of yoga pants and a t shirt before slipping into bed and turning the t.v. on. I popped on something funny to watch. An escape from the emotions and the hate I felt. An escape from this world if only temporary. I turned up the volume and forced myself to get lost so that way I could once again ignore the pain and ignore the hate I felt. It's how I survived the last near three hundred years, it's how I would continue to survive.

Usagi POV

I clicked the magazine into place as I pulled the safety switch off and started to shoot the paper targets that were a good twenty feet in front of me. My shots hit the center of the chest, neck and head. I looked over to find Mamoru squeezing off several rounds and hitting the chest and stomach. He was okay for a first time shooter. At least he was hitting the target. When one becomes a vampire one isn't instantaneously good at everything.

Your senses get heightened but you have to work to control them and not to let them overwhelm you. Mamoru was testing the limits of what he could and couldn't do but was still in the training stages. To get where I'm at would take dedication and practice just as I went through. Though my training went more military style for our jobs here so Mamoru would get some training but not to my level. Not unless he wanted to learn what I did. Now I have known some people to get cocky and hit everything but the target. "How are you doing over there?" I asked him.

He popped off his last shot and released the clip from the gun before loading a new one, "Not bad. I'm trying to aim for head shots but I'm just barely clipping the paper target." He noted as he took aim at the head. I put down the semi-automatic I had and walked over to him, "Just breath." I exhaled as an example. He did as told and hit closer towards the center of the head, "Good now once you get comfortable with that we work on moving objects." I smiled as he checked me out.

I smirked as he leaned over to get a clear view of my ass that I couldn't help but cock to one side a little bit extra. I couldn't believe I was flirting with him in the gun range. Anyone could see us and begin to make comments. Not that were hiding this but we have more important things to focus on in here rather than gossip. "Pay attention to your target." I smirked, "I am…" he whispered in my ear.

His tongue darting out to caress the shell of my ear making me shudder from the sensations provided. His body much closer to mine than before. My heart rate starting to accelerate. "Were here for target practice…" I reminded him as his hands slid around my waist. The 9mm gun sitting fully loaded on the stand in front of the range as Mamoru snuck a kiss from me. It was only the sound of another gun going off did we separate, "Yeah maybe not the best timing." He admitted sheepishly.

Releasing me both went back to the gun training. His aim was improving fairly well. I wouldn't put him on sentry duty alone at any point soon without several others there but he was getting ready for it that was for sure. So when I saw our resident computer hacker come in I put down my weapon again, safety on, and went to see what else was going on. "Usagi you have got to check this out!" he sounded excited about it.

"Lay it on me Toki." He had been with us for many years and was a master of the hacker world…at least according to him in his own head. He had been owned before by other hackers over the years but he blamed lack of proper upgraded computers to be the reason why. Damon wasn't tech savvy like he was however he didn't want to admit to it and put the blame on the hacker and not the equipment.

Don't get me wrong our equipment was good for the technology however it didn't mean we could hack into government databases without serious bandwidth…according to Toki. Or something like that. "Well at first it was a bitch to break into everything. Each folder was encrypted with these algorithms that would take a regular human at least a year to break because of all the different possible combinations to use to get in." are you kidding me? I couldn't believe this was that heavily encrypted.

"Seriously?" I asked, "Sounds like it was important then." Mamoru commented upon leaving his weapon, safety on in the shooting portion of the range. Toki brought his laptop out and had it sitting on the only other table in the room. "Way important. These files here were encrypted with such a complex algorithm AND they were password protected." I was stunned, "Nani?" what the hell was on the flash drive if it was that protected?

"The best part of this was if you entered in the wrong password more than three times the data would eat itself up and the file would essentially be wiped away within minutes of the wrong password entered but I used a - " I cut him off, "Please Toki we need this information!" I was sorry for being rude but we needed to skip to the finish, "Right, right, here's what was on one of the files." He turns the computer towards me.

"Is that a blue print?" I asked, the straight lines and overlaying on it indicated for a factory type of image. "For a factory. This place would be incredibly large and have tons of egress routes throughout the place." I looked closer at it, "Which also means multiple places where we would need to be at for an ambush against them. We can cut them off at all these exit points." I was already strategizing in my head on how to do this cleanly.

These had to be encrypted this detailed for a reason. "I can make a trip out there for some recon and gather more intel on how many and guard shifts. If I can get close enough I can get more detailed insight. Where is this place located at?" I asked, "That's the other thing, after a half a dozen shell companies were finally pushed aside thanks to yours truly…" he bragged as I rolled my eyes.

"Here's the gold star puzzle piece. It's owned by this man here." He handed me a profile picture. "I need to get this to Damon and his father. Their both going to want to see this. Follow me and bring your laptop." I motioned as I raced upstairs, Mamoru hot on my heels with Toki in pulling in the rear as I fast walked to the upstairs office. I didn't bother to knock, "Sir we have a serious update." I waltzed into the office and closed the door after both Mamoru and Toki entered. Usually I'd have waited for an invite but felt this was to important.

"Could you be anymore disrespectful?" Damon pointed out, "You both need to see this." I urged not paying him any mind but ensuring I didn't step on his fathers toes, so to speak I said, "I am sorry for barging into your office sir but this is very important." I hooked up the laptop to the big screen on the wall Damon's father kept hidden away behind fake out wooden walls. He opened them with his remote as we saw the blue prints next to the profile of the man we were now assuming to be in charge.

"Meet the top of the food chain of Lycan's if this intel is correct." Damon's father looked very much interested in the development. "I see." His face serious, "Still rude to ha - " his father glared at him, "She has important information on ending this war. And she even apologized even though its not necessary." He nodded to me. I knew I had Damon's eyes burning a hole in the back of my head but I didn't care.

"Now I remember this man or at least the image of him from a long time ago. Though I was under the impression he was deceased. I never remember the name of the man but when I saw this I had to show you. This here is Mr. Yamamoto. He has stuck his hands into everything from orange juice to private prisons for ownership. He owns the entire district that the building is in for these blue prints."

I showed him the image of those in closer detail. "Now sir…" Toki came forward, "I would have dismissed the Yamamoto lead as co-incidence if it weren't for this that I found." He pulled up new images of Yamamoto. All similar if not the same type of images but from hundreds of years apart. It was clear he was using his immortality to build the Lycan army back up for the longest amount of time. I could see the distinct hatred run across Damon and his father's face.

It took seeing the very first one taken for them to see what they needed to, "He's alive…changed his image greatly…but he's alive." Damon commented, his anger and hate greater than I had ever seen it. I had honestly thought that they were upset due to his being nearly untouchable due to his high profiled public image. It was obvious that he was a Lycan with this proof that much I knew, but it didn't look like that was really the reason why they both looked equally pissed and ready for blood.

"Sir…?" I asked, getting the elder back on focus here, "His real name is Yamamoro…he and his horde came from the east and started the great battle…" I walked up to the elder as he looked at the image in shock. His face seemingly in past memory anguish for a moment, "The same one where he ordered his men to rip apart my beloved." He looked at me then, his eyes a mixture of pain, anger and justice.

I felt a bit of an understanding pass over us now. I lost my family those that I loved and he had lost someone as well. He sent his trusting eyes upon me, "If you are able to capture him in battle do so. I want to see his face once more in person as I cut his fucking head off." I merely nodded my head never having heard the elder curse in such anger before. He stood up from the desk as if in preparation to leave.

"IF you are unable to capture him alive you are authorized to terminate him with extreme prejudice." The notation in his voice was clear as day, if he couldn't kill the Lycan I had to and knowing what he took from the elder who stood in his heartbreaking pain before I would do it with a smile on my face. Damon's father was a good man at the end of the day so if he loved someone THIS much then she must have been grand and special vampire to this coven. I may have despised Damon but held no ill will towards his family.

"I will kill this prick father I swear it." Damon made a show of it though. I knew he must have been feeling the effects to, this was the man that had his mother murdered by the Lycan's yet his father barely glanced at him, "Usagi ensure its breach-able that building and once you have all you need to take care of it do what needs to be done." I was shocked he didn't even address Damon in this but I didn't argue as Toki spoke up.

"And here I thought I'd have to go over the proof of how it was him. Cause unless he's got the best antiaging products all the yen in the world can buy or he's an immortal Lycan and over four hundred years old." That's when Damon's father spoke, "He headed the battle that cost us so much, trying to kill the elders and take over. He wanted to bring an end to our reign as a species and it seems he still does." He sighed in slight anger. "He won't." I promised him, "My child…" his hand reached out and touched my cheek.

It was the most fatherly affection that I had ever received from him and it felt like a fathers touch to, "I know…your passion and strength in this fight make you invaluable. I know you'll make me proud." For but a moment I felt that feeling of being someone's daughter again and it felt warming to me. "He's a strong Lycan, you'll need all the help you can get, I'm almost tempted to go out there myself." He remarked. I shook my head no, "Sir with all due respect I can handle this with a small team once we get the intel I need on the building."

"The only time when the elders should ever get stuck in battle is when the hordes overrun us and that will NOT be happening. We cannot take the risk of an elder going into battle before its necessary. You all are our leaders and the ones we go to for counsel. We cannot afford nor will we lose another elder." I wasn't sure how he'd take me referencing his beloved in there but the smile on his face showed his acceptance of my words.

Mamoru POV

This was a lot of information to get in just a few minutes. What concerned me the most though was the beyond pissed off expression on Damon's face. His father was essentially leaving operations with Usagi and Not mentioning to much of anything for Damon to do and even dismissing him. I gathered the 'beloved' his father mentioned was Damon's mother so I understood the blind vengeful need to kill the man responsible for her death, I truly did but I feared for Usagi's safety now.

Damon was looking at her with a newfound hate that had me worried even more than before. His fathers affection to a woman that he saw as a daughter to him was clear as day now and it was also clear as day now that Damon hated and envied her for gaining that attention. It was yet another blow to his ego that once he again she had something over him. First she managed to gain my freedom from the death Damon had planned for me and now this.

As we were leaving out as Usagi needed to take care of a few thing before leaving I asked her to give he and I a few minutes. She stood far enough away to not be able to hear anything so the conversation could be private. "Damon." He looked to me, anger clearly still there and on the wires edge of losing it. "Listen I know the last thing you want is to talk to me so I'll make it fast." I began.

"I know exactly how you feel when it comes to your mother." His eyes blazed with warning on bringing her up, "You know nothing." He spat. "I know I lost my own mother to the Lycan's when I was a child to." he had been prepared to leave and walk away but stopped when he heard my words, "She was ripped from me just like yours was from you." I could see some of the anger leaving him, "So what now you want to bond?" like a 'do you think that would ever fucking happen?' obviously it wouldn't and we both knew why.

"No cause we both know it wouldn't." he nodded in agreement. "What I am saying is till this war has been laid to rest we should work together to kill them and this head honcho Lycan." He knew that it was purely for work on this one. we were all together in this war now even if he hated my guts we were all working towards a common goal. Petty bullshit aside we had to come together here and I had a very strange but strong feeling that he was getting jealous of Usagi due to her connection to his father as he saw her as a daughter.

It had become clear that his father didn't see him in a positive light. Not a great one anyways and it was beginning to become more pronounced as things progressed onward. "If he's the one that other Lycan referred to as 'cock sucker'…" I still had to give a tiny chuckle on that one even as Damon rolled his eyes at it, trying not to chuckle at it. "If he's behind all the action going on then we need to put the petty bullshit aside and focus." He knew I was right and he might even hate me more for it.

"By doing this we need to make a truce." Now he looked away like he didn't want to even make the attempt to think on it. "Look I don't like it either and I think we can both agree that we dislike each other." Damon nodded to that with a nonchalant care to him. "But we can also both agree that this would us both getting justice for the mothers we lost in this battle. I just think it's time we settle the personal bullshit till this is done. Up to you." I walked away back to Usagi and let him think on it.