SerenityxEndymion: glad you think so.

jessielee14: I do have them mapped out a bit but I've also been adding a bit as I go along. Especially if a new plot twist comes to mind that can work with the story. That will be coming shortly. Yeah I still have more to write out but for now there still a bit to come up. And Damon is the guy you love to hate. Lol funny thing is when I tried to 'humanize' him he became more narcissistic and has become more out of control, something you'll see coming up.

Guest (1): he just pressed himself against her. while he is stronger than her strength isn't everything…future note. 😊 lol

Mysticgrnbutterfly: pretty much in a nut shell. Lol damon has issues that were never resolved and because of how he is now the help he'd need he'd never get because it would be admitting to fault and he'll never be ready to do that. Yeah I wanted her to gain that while giving damon this ideal of wanting to hate her but wanting to have sex with her even more. He's conflicted obviously. That is one spoiler I will give out, she won't be turned. I'm still trying to find a way to fit the other girls in periodically but so far there haven't been to many areas where I can venture and do that. Ami was a stretch already as I had originally only planned to do usagi and rei. Any ideas are helpful. 😊

Guest (2): will do.

Sarah: no actually I went online last night and found that I had uploaded the same chapter twice last week and never deleted the incorrect one so I did that last night. I had incorrectly labeled the chapter as 12 when it was actually 13. My mistake.

Guest (3): that wasn't actually an update, I was correcting an error I made with the chapter uploads last week that I wasn't aware of till last night. Sorry.

OrientalDanceGirl: exactly. Its why his father is starting to question his ability to lead, not that his father saw it but he sees it in other ways. I think for Damon right now he's seeing that there's a war going on but from his perspective, they have so many vampires he's seeing it as more of 'we have the tools and vamp-power I don't need to do anything extra just yet'. He's thinking its just another battle whereas its not as simple as he thinks it is and he's going to find that out very soon. Right now he's letting his focus get shifted to thinking with his downstairs head cause for him that's a part of something he's lost control of and is trying to get it back. Bad thing is by throwing his focus there he's loosing sight of other aspects that are far more important making him feel closer to that breaking point.

8 reviews, though I know a few were from the confusion, sorry for the confusion in the chapters recently, I had one labeled wrong and must have had both uploaded instead of having it removed last week, so we still have more chapters to go. Now that I have the majority corrected 😊 please read and review!

A vampires forbidden love ch.14

Mamoru POV

It felt different and odd to walk around the mansion here like a free man. Other vampires greeted me and asked if I needed anything to work further on the Lycan problem. I was trying to come up with new theoretical ways to detect a Lycan before they became and see if there was anything that could stop a transformation. Unfortunately there wasn't to much within web portals that could be of real useful help.

There was a great deal of lore out there but so much of it over the years had been redacted and altered and in some cases called out as pure myth over truth that I couldn't find a reliable source there. I had even gone to the library in the mansion and found a few helpful tidbits but even after writing some notes down there wasn't so much I could come up with that would be useful to figuring out a solution.

Though I would love to see if I could get access to Lycan blood to examine it from a live patient on someone who's been a Lycan for a while and compare to someone who's just been turned. It is possible there's something there though doubtful. It's why I never brought it up. I rarely ran into Damon. The few times I did he was ignorant to me as he was more interested in being a brooding jerk to the others.

I felt the need to apologize on his behalf since it was kinda my fault being present here but the first time I tried the others refuted it stating it was his own problem if he couldn't handle being mature about things. I felt like I had respect here and that felt so strange and good at the same time. I felt a part of something bigger than myself again. First it was the hospital now something that had a great purpose to. Protecting the innocents of our world and fighting those that wanted us all dead.

I remember seeing the elder, Damon's father, walking along the hallways and seeing the respect he produced by simply walking. Everyone stopped in their duties as if he were royalty and didn't resume till he was gone. Damon, of what little I did notice, didn't hold the same favor. It felt this sort of sixth sense now that I was a vampire. I could practically sense his dislike of me, his anger at his father and his jealousy, anger and lust at Usagi.

It was strange to sense it but kind of handy to. I was improving in my hand to hand combat skills and even learning how to control how much strength I used to hit. I knew I was improving well when I gave one of the vampires training a broken nose. His buddy looked at me with a tinge of pride before advising me to work better on the control but that I was on the right path. It bode well for me that he thought I was improving my skill set. I wanted to show them that I could be more than just useful for the doctorial things.

Usagi for her part I remember came back from the recon operation with Damon with her own scratches and bruises but neither expressed what happened. They both looked furious with each other and she refused to acknowledge his mere existence for the next few hours in the early morning. She instead went down to the gym for training on the punching bag as he called upon on of his other women as Rei stated she was busy. From the look on his face he was surprised but acted as if it were nothing.

He instead went further down the hall to some red headed vampire named Ail as she welcomed him into her room. You'd think she won the lottery when he walked in. Door closed I didn't even bother to try and figure that one out. I walked away myself. The further away from Usagi and me he was the better as far as I saw it. I had also been glad that along with my training to hone in my new senses the need for blood wasn't so powerful.

As long as I had my daily doses in my coffee. The headaches went away in about a week's time as Usagi said they would. I kept getting tempted to take Advil for them but I knew it was pointless. Usagi had even insisted I get more blood in my coffee since I was a little bit bigger than her. Admittedly I worried about handling so much blood in me. The stories told about what happened with Diamond made me worry a bit.

I knew I wasn't him and this wasn't 1800 whatever but everyone does react differently and everyone does handle the blood lust differently. I had had conversations with several vampires on when they turned and most of them said as long as you have someone to guide you through it makes the transition that much easier. Making the time during it fly by and you don't have that much of the blood lust pressuring you to give in.

I had at one point been fearful that I would break since the servants here were compelled human's but I never once did and I held that thanks to Usagi. She may not have been there every second of every day but her presence when it was there made me feel so at peace that I never even though about the need for the red substance. I just wanted my girl next to me. Holding her as we made love, chatted, laughed together and even planned out this big all out assault against the enemy.

That whole day Usagi and I stayed in the mansion down near where Toki's study was and poured our mental energies into strategies that could be useful in the elimination of the whole place where the Lycan's were at. We were trying to come up with a solution that would be effective in killing them all, saving any humans, if there were any and not letting the public get wind of such a big ordeal.

The world wasn't ready to know that the things that go bump in the night really did exist and could kill them. I had a deeper respect for Usagi's job now. She did so much I really admired her tenaciousness and ability to do whatever it took to keep others safe. Even at her own peril. After finding out about her family and that scientist guy I had a feeling that part of why she did what she did was to make up for what she couldn't do back then. Survivors guilt was a terrible thing to weight a person down.

I had actually seen it happen with patients I had before all this happened. Some came in with broken bones so badly from street fights. Wanting to get even for their friends or family that was taken from them. Feeling guilty for surviving an attack made against them and finding that they were the only survivors can leave one feeling depression, lonely and in need of trying to figure out why they lived while they decide to take matters into their own hands and go after those that took their friends out.

Usagi suffered from that but did eventually get past. I could see that it lingered around. Her memory of what happened all that time ago still haunted her. She never got to have that normal life once Damon came around. He ripped that from her and made her a sex slave. How she survived everything that's she's been through and retain her humanity and not be an emotionless vampire that didn't care was a miracle.

One that I was grateful for or else I might not be here. Sure I held a little idolism towards her but only because she was this incredible beautiful person. One that I planned to show her exactly how happy she made me…later on. Right now we were still strategizing. "The warehouse has a ridiculous amount of entrances and exits." She muttered in complaint. We were looking over the blue prints of the place now.

As we looked it over I heard a noise behind us and found the elder himself coming in, "What do we have so far?" he asked. Respectfully Usagi nodded her head and said, "While we've been going over the potential scenarios I think we might need some added help." I looked to her as she went over what she meant, "While I do agree that we should take this place out we need to do it surgically." He nodded for her to continue.

"Obviously we can't risk the human world finding out so straight up dropping a bomb on it won't work." The slight humor in it had his raising his brow at her but he said nothing, "I figure we'd have to put at least three vamp's in at each exit and entry point but with that many vampire's there it leaves this coven vulnerable to an attack if they decide to." now I got it. It was another reason to admire her.

She was always trying to think of every vantage point. Every perspective. "You think they would dare hit here?" the elder asked, almost questioning her but she barely flinched, "I think if they see so many of us here they will automatically assume this coven is rip for the picking." She stated with confidence. "Not that the coven couldn't hold its own, it is a fortress here but the last thing we need is to be that split and divided to the point where we give them a vulnerability to attack and gain entry." He seemed to smile a little now.

"As it is I want to do one more recon job on the warehouse this is all being done at. Plus I want to get into Yamamoro's finances. See what other properties are his and make sure that there's no extra surprises waiting for us." Now she looked to have the elder's utter attention and mine. "If we attack without all the facts we could get ambushed by something that we just haven't seen yet." He nodded.

"Like the western coven." The elder muttered, "Correct. They had no idea that the Lycan's had managed to make silver nitrate bullets. Those that transformed attacked and those that stayed in their human forms shot the bullets to ensure the elder lineage would die out there." Then she looked to me, "Its why we have the tinted sensitive windows here. The bullet proof glass. The bars on the windows and doors for such emergencies." I nodded.

"This is our home and we refuse to lose another to them." her words were of conviction. It was something that I could tell made the elder pleased to hear, "So how many do you think we'd need?" I looked to her again, "Not sure and I don't want to give out numbers before I know for sure. To ask for them now and to need more would end up becoming futile for us. Its why I want to do another recon job. Get a better look at the inside. We don't need any surprises." The elder nodded his head.

"Once you have the number let me know. What of progress on the hospital front?" he looked to me now, "My contact that the other hospital just proved that yes there was activity happening but it seemed to drop when they killed the doctor that was figuring it out." He looked slightly stunned by that, "I wonder what would have happened now if it weren't for our Usagi here being there on that fateful night." I gave him a knowing look. Both of us fully aware of what could have happened that night if she hadn't been there.

I had her to thank for so much. "Luckily we don't have to know." she interrupted, "I think what happened was that the doc at that hospital got suspicious and it got him killed. The Lycan's couldn't afford any more heat over there due to the death as obvious there needs to be an investigation done as to why the doc was dead and if it was in fact a suicide." True, the hospital would have had a full on investigation.

Can't exactly build a werewolf army if the hospital you're army is getting sent to has come under investigation. People pay attention these days. "The Lycan's can't have that heat nor that that risk onto themselves especially if their making an army so they instead fled to Mamoru's hospital." It was plausible. I nodded to the elder, "It makes sense. They seem to have this deadline to have the army ready by." Which did seem to be the case. "This Yamamoro seems to want this handled yesterday." That gave the elder pause.

"Yamamoro is a wicked beast in his own right but if he seems to have a deadline then its with greater purpose that you find it. You find out whatever you need." He spoke as Toki came around the corner, "So do these numbers mean anything to anyone?" he pulled them up on the big screen in the corner. It was seemingly a random series of numbers. "Could it be a date?" I asked noticing it started with a 0.

"Bloody brilliant. I kept thinking of sequential numbering systems." He noted, "Could be their target date to do something big." Usagi noted, "It's the date of the great battle we fought." We all looked back to the elder, "I never thought he was a beast of this magnitude." I was curious, "Sir?" I asked, as respectfully as possible. He looked to me, "It was the date we had the battle. Many of our kind were lost to it." He looked to be in mental anguish.

Closing his eyes briefly, "Many died that day…including my mate…she was an elder as well…Damon's mother." Holy… "Gomen." I apologized bowing my head in respect. An automatic response, "Don't apologize." He looked at me. He looked form me to Usagi and back again. I looked to Usagi myself and wondered if he saw something that I wasn't seeing. I don't know what I'd ever do if I lost her. I didn't even want to think about what I would do. To spend eternity without her would be my hell.

The elders features were that of a man in reflection of great loss, "He's making a symbolic gesture. He thinks he can do so by killing us all on the exact date as the first battle was had. I'll give the man credit for the moment but he won't get under our skin that easily." Now he sounded more upset than any hint of distraught. "Usagi you make your recon trip and make sure that if they have anything new to report it to the tactics immediately. I refuse to take risks in this." He stated with anger.

"I agree. Usagi just like last time take someone with you." I would volunteer but I wasn't sure if she would – "Mamoru can come with me then. A recon trip would be good training." She noted. I looked over and the elder agreed, "Take him out but he is your responsibility. Gather what you can. Return back here no later than dawn." He remarked and began to walk out. I noticed Usagi and Toki begin to talk so I boldly walked to the elder.

"Sir if I may…" he turned around and looked to me. I gulped by the sheer presence of the man in front of me, "I've notice you get this odd expression in your eyes to me and Usagi sometimes. Is it okay that we're…?" I didn't know what to call us really. My girlfriend? My lover? Could I call her my mate? He smiled, "Young man…the two of you remind me of how my own love and I were…" I could see the expression of happiness run across his features.

"My beloved Delilah and I were two of the most powerful elders ever to rule side by side. When Damon came in he was a sweet loving boy. I loved my wife, my mate beyond words. I see how the two of you look at one another and I see the same love that I hold for my Delilah to this day." Wow…I had no idea. "Sir…" my voice softened, "I had honestly hoped that my son would have come around when it came to matters of the heart but alas he hasn't…" he turned his head away on that one.

"So when I see the two of you working with such ease together and the love growing stronger by the day it only serves as a reminder that this coven will have the strength it truly needs to move forward into its future. When Delilah and I were together we were unstoppable. When she was taken from me it was the most heart wrenching thing I ever had to deal with." the pain he must have felt.

He moved closer to me and it caused me to straighten up a bit, "Don't let my son's foolish pursuits take you from her." I nodded in utter agreeance. I would never let that prick come between us…ever. "More importantly…fight for her with your last breath, because to live without the one you love is to live an eternity of agony and loneliness in your heart. Usagi reminds me so much of my Delilah…she's the daughter we wished to have…" I could see a tear forming in his eye.

"Was she…?" I didn't dare voice out my question but it seemed the elder knew what I was going to ask, "Hai…Delilah had been pregnant with our second child when she was taken from me." I could only imagine the horror he had to deal with afterwards. "I never told Damon. Not another elder…not anyone…only she and I knew…" thankfully there were no other vampires within range to hear us.

"Usagi is the daughter I never had…and you…" he gave a tiny hint of an accepting smile to me, "You are the man that will make her endlessly happy. I can already see it. But you need to win this war first before you can enjoy and reflect in your happiness. We thought we had everything planned out then to but we failed." This must have been eating away at him all this time, "That's why Usagi is so important to you." I figured it out.

"She became that way a long time ago. Make her happy and you will never have to worry about me ever." I looked to him oddly and slightly fearfully, "Cause if you do break her heart I will kill you myself." I nodded with a tinge of fear in me. The elder could and would do it for sure. "Sir I love her more than anything else in the world…I shouldn't considering the time frame but I do. I don't think I could handle it if she were to…" I could even voice it out myself. He patted my shoulder, "How did you do it all these years?" I asked out of curiosity.

"I buried myself in my work. I hadn't had a choice. I was an elder and other than a one-month grievance I wasn't able to do what I really wanted to do." I looked at him for an explanation, "I wanted to be placed in a casket right next to her mauled form for eternity. Sleep till I was unable to be woken and the have my lifeline be severed. I wanted to die." That's a deep seeded love. I wondered how he was such a man and yet Damon was…Damon.

"But you couldn't…" I surmised. He nodded, "You needed to be there for Damon and the coven." I concluded. "I raised him as best as I could but once he came into his own as a vampire he made his own decisions and I didn't stop him. I should have but we can't change the past…only see how it can benefit our future. Don't let go of her…the loose will make you want to die as well." I noticed Usagi looking at me startled now.

Probably due to my talking with the elder by myself and talking to him without it being in his office, "Mamoru…" he gained my attention back, "If you truly love her as I can see she does to you stand by her side and do what's right by her as she has to you. Damon wanted you dead and still does yet she defies him at every instance now. That's true love." He then walked off before I could voice anything more.

Usagi came up to me, shock on her face, "What was that about?" She demanded. Not angry but curious and cautious. "Just something between guys." It was true. She gave me this skeptical look before she said, "And that something is?" she asked, pursuing it further. I smiled, "Just that he's cool with us being together." Which was true and it was all she was getting…for now. I wrapped my arms around her and felt her sink into the embrace a little. Conforming her lithe body to me just a little bit better.

It felt nice and natural. "So how about tonight when you get back we have a little alone time in your room." I suggested, giving her a tiny taste of me rubbing just under the radar of anyone that could walk by. "You are so naughty…" she whispered so shocked before she kissed me, "We should get back to that room now." I managed to get out. Trying to guide her back there, "We should finish in there." She tried to separate and pull me back in.

"Usagi we should do the recon before we make plans for an attack." I reasoned. She looked at me, "I will concede to that." She walked with me as we fast walked back to the bedroom. I just had to have her. After that conversation with him then to have her come up to me afterwards, I needed to reaffirm to myself that she was here with me and not to waste a second of time with her. I loved her and I could literally feel it.

We began to walk back to her room when we were interceded by Damon. Seriously is there a bell or something we can put around his neck? Maybe a tracking device for him, "Ah Usagi just the girl I was looking for." He remarked at her. I acted nonchalant but reality was I didn't trust this guy for anything. Not as a vampire not as a regular person. "What do you want?" she asked him. "You and I have some unfinished bedroom business." He said.

Sher laughed. Seriously she actually laughed. I turned my head over to look at her as she had a good chuckle before saying, "Damon if we actually could get high I would ask if you were cause seriously…?" she snapped, going from laughter to serious 'are you kidding me?' in seconds flat, "I made myself pretty clear on that. Its not going to happen again. Let it go." She made a motion to walk away as Damon grabbed at her arm.

Out of reflex I grabbed at his own arm and twisted it around to pull him from her and push him away form us both, "Why don't you lay off? She's made herself clear and we are together now so back off." I could see the vampire in him flashing as his eyes light up a bit. "Don't test me boy." He warned agitated. I stood in front of her, not that she needed me to fight for her but it was a natural reaction, and said, "Name's not boy its Mamoru and you'd do well to remember it cause I'm not going anywhere."

I pulled Usagi to come along with me when he grabbed at her arm again only this time he grabbed it within enough force to stop us both in our tracks before pulling her into his personal space, "Don't think for a second that I can't snap your neck before you know what hits you…" the threat was very real. Damon's need to be in control of this was getting out of hand…if it hadn't already.

"Damon…" she was about to retort when Toki came around the corner, "Damon, Usagi, Mamoru just the trio I wanted to see." we all three looked at him as Damon released Usagi's arm, or rather allowed her to pull her arm free of his grasp. "Toki." He said, politely though there was an underlying current of anger for the interruption. Toki looked at him oddly and kept a distance from him.

We nodded our hey's as Toki looked at us or rather at me, "Listen Mamoru I just wanted to say were all really happy about your contributions to the research regarding your recon mission going down tonight." He said as I noticed some others in the area giving me welcome smiles. It was refreshing to be honest. I felt like I could be a bit more open and not just follow Usagi around all the time.

There was no longer any major fear that Damon would try something now due to the vast amount of other vampires that liked my efforts here. Don't get me wrong though, I wasn't letting my guard down or anything. Damon was a volatile man and vampire. Something told me when the time was right he would make a move that would cost someone something precious to them and not care what it did to them. Honestly the further away Usagi and I were from him the better but we also had work to do.

Usagi spoke up, "Hai, Mamoru and I will be leaving tonight around 8pm for the warehouse." I could tell Damon looked clueless but didn't say anything. "Yeah, I ah ran into a few others that guard the estate and they said that they can no longer smell the hint of Lycan's near the area anymore." I didn't know they could smell them that well. "They actually ventured out further to see if they could sense anything then but nothing." I smiled.

I was happy that things were seemingly getting better, "I'm glad." It was a bit refreshing. I felt like I was building up a foundation here as another member of the cove. "By my calculations which I explained to them…" he thumbed back behind himself as an example, "If you hadn't figured it out and begun to help us we would have been over run and as good as we are as vampires we can still die and we can still be taken down."

I knew my efforts were positive but to find out that their numbers were dwindled down that much made me glad though it also made me want to have Ami ask around to other hospitals now and see if it was still stopped or to see if they picked up and went somewhere else…again. We didn't need it. "There's a lot of vampires around here glad to have another addition." I was shell shocked, "Arigato." I nodded and looked to see Damon displeased with this, "And Damon…" both vampires looked each other in the eyes.

"What is it Toki I have things to do." He said acting uncaring about whatever Toki had to say to him. I gained the impression that Damon was annoyed by anyone that was in favor of me, "While their out doing that can you dig up anything you can on Yamamoro…I'm trying to hack into this satellite feed that way when we do make our attack against them I can alert you all to any police coming your way or even more Lycan's." it was an excellent idea.

"Yeah that sounds great." I commended, "That way you could quarterback from here when that final attack gets made. You can be our eyes and ears on the outside and we can focus more on the actual attack." Toki was pleased with him agreeing with his idea, "Yeah so I'll be to busy with hacking to look up anything further. Honestly it would be good to know if that prick has any more properties we need to be aware of."

Damon damn near phished it away as if it wasn't necessary before saying, "Toki that's your job. Not mine." I said without thinking, "Damon were all doing jobs that we weren't originally supposed to do. I was doing research before getting into field work so maybe you can finding something new. A fresh set of eyes." I tried. Really I knew I shouldn't have spoken directly to him. The look of 'I hate you don't talk to me' was written in bold letters across his forehead. He was fuming.

"I'll get in touch with Rei – chan on this…" Usagi began looking to Toki, "I think having her on standby for us would be beneficial if she's available. That way if we run into trouble, though I doubt we will it is a recon mission, we'll need her to help us out. It is Mamoru's first time out in the field." It was plausible so when she pulled out her phone to call Rei the call lasted for about five seconds before Rei ended it, "Rei – chan said she's decided to watch over that Lycan woman to see if she can find out anything more."

Good idea but that left – I looked over at Damon whom in all honesty reminded me of someone waiting to implode or explode. I hated to even ask but if Rei was busy doing that then the only other vampire I knew that had combat training was - "Maybe Damon - " he immediately balked at the very idea of it. "Fuck that!" Damon snapped at me. His whole presence screamed I'd rather die than be second to you.

We all looked to him due to his outburst, "I don't need you to try and include me in the fucking recon mission out of fucking pity." He then directed himself at her, "I should be the one going out there with you." He looked back at me as his ire grew, "Let your pathetic Mamoru be the fucking back up!" he turned his anger towards me and he was getting louder. "Actually…" Toki looked to be straightening his back out.

As if he were preparing to stand up to Damon something that I got the feeling he either rarely did or never did, "Usagi has a point." Damon turned his ire to Toki as he took a hesitant step in our direction. Obviously preferring to be closer to those that could intercede if need be. Not that I thought Toki couldn't handle himself, probably could if he had to, but my guess was he was a tech guy for a reason. I don't think he had much for combat skills.

Damon took that as an insult. It was clearly seen on his face. "If Mamoru's going to be going out there to help us out he can start with a simple recon mission." Damon looked pissed that Toki was agreeing with Usagi regarding my help on the mission. Something tells me his holier than thou attitude wasn't being taken by the other vampires anymore and was coming undone and he was beginning to see it.

Damon looked livid that not only was Toki appearing to side but vocally as well. "Are you fucking serious?" he walked a foot closer. "Letting some newbie dick hole vamp help out with such an important mission?" Damon barked. His own vocal decibels getting louder. Toki gulped at the obvious anger coming from him before another vampire, the name eluded me at the moment came up.

"Hey take a chill Damon." He had a wine glass of what I presumed was blood in his hands as it didn't appear to be as watery as wine was, "It's a simple recon mission like Usagi said." He held up his glass to her, "She knows what she's doing out there, hell you trained her on a lot of that shit yourself and…" he looked at me and Usagi, "Besides…Mamoru's pretty good at the hand to hand combat from what the others have told us." A compliment.

Something that I knew Damon would hate. He literally was getting bombarded by other vampires around telling him to ease up and stop being so - "Listen here you little asshole…" it seemed the esteemed vampire was having no more of anyone telling positive things about me nor saying anything against him. It almost felt like the beginnings of a 'stage a coup' was coming upon us.

As in Damon was slowly being replaced and seen for the ass that he is and the others were starting to see that perhaps he wasn't the esteemed leader he had made himself out to be. If it hadn't been for everything he'd ever done to Usagi I would actually feel more remorseful and sorry for him but due in part to what he had done over the decades I didn't. His eyes flashed again, a show of power over the others.

He was stronger I knew that a lot of others here but he wasn't strong enough to take on all of them if this got out of hand and became physical. He walked up to the wine glass vampire and spat, "If you think for one second that - " "DAMON!" the shout was short and curt. Vampires in that direction parted ways like the red sea around his father as he came in to see what was going on. I looked over in that direction and noticed the small group of vampires watching the spectacle, "Father I was - "

"Silence!" he shouted. Somehow the man spoke loud enough to be heard but not to loud enough to seem that upset. It was the silence way he was that had everyone hanging onto what would be said next. Even Damon as pissed as he looked about and noticed the spectacle that was being made and had enough in him to look like he was feeling somewhat idiotic for unintentionally creating a scene.

"Usagi…" she and I both looked to the elder, "You and Mamoru go and get your end taken care of." Before we could move Damon said, "We were discussion something father." He was gripping his knuckles so hard they were getting white. "We are in need of finishing it without the audience." He was trying to get the rest to disperse and some did but some didn't. That made Damon pause.

"Hai, I heard your words. Hell half the coven could hear it from your loud obnoxious tone." I could only imagine how pissed off Damon was now. His father was scolding him to a degree in front of the remaining vamps in here. That had to be humiliating. "Mamoru being out on a recon job for something so important is absurd." He directed his reasoning to his father. Though if I remember correctly the elder agreed to it earlier.

Before leaving the basement area we had been in he did agree to it. Usagi had presented it in a manner that would be beneficial for all. "In fact anyone who agrees with it is quite foolish." I couldn't help but wince at that. His own father did and now he was about to get hit head on with his fathers anger over it. The elder's eyes widened a bit before saying, "Is that so…?" as if giving him an out to correct his wording. Damon nodded his head. Oh boy.

"DO NOT presume to act as if I don't know what I'm doing!" it was the first time I saw the elder upset to this degree before. Even Damon looked to be reigning himself back in. "Father these next few weeks are to crucial to let someone so fresh lend a hand in anything beyond his initial reason for helping would be to risky for us to take as a whole." He tried to subdue the angered elder from his earlier words.

"Your right that these next few weeks are going to be crucial which is why it's all hand's on deck…so to speak. I've already reached out to our neighboring coven for any aid that they can lend when the time is needed. You will be the backup and do your research." He stepped closer to Damon, "Am I in any way unclear as to your responsibility to this coven?" it looked as if Damon was treading a fine line between disobeying and utterly disrespecting his father in this power struggle that appeared to be going on.

"No…sir." His father looked over to the two of us, "I expect a full report in the am. Try to see if you can get closer and make sure to inform Damon if anything happens." We nodded as he walked away. Damon got into Usagi's face once the hallway cleared up a bit. Even Toki left to go back to his hacking. "Don't think for a fucking second that this is over. We have much to discuss." I saw the fire in Damon's eyes as he walked away to the office, "What do you think he'll do?" I asked her.

"He'll look for a way to get even." She surmised. "He'll do some research to help out but only enough then see whom else he can shuffle it off to. Damon has this weird thinking process that this place is impenetrable." She looked about the walls of the estate, "Its not like it's not heavily fortified but nothing is impenetrable. All it takes is one person making that one mistake and it could cost us everything." It sounded like it had happened before.

"What he'll really be putting focus into is getting even. Though how he will with everything going on is anyone's guess." She noted. She started to walk back toward her room, "He's only ever been okay with getting sidelined if he was going to jump into bed with…" she darted her eyes to me really quickly, "Anyways that was the only time otherwise he prefers to go out and do it himself." I got that she didn't like to talk about it with me.

I understood, I wasn't a fan of what she had to go through myself. "He's just the type of guy that has very little trust in anyone new doing anything like this unless he's with them." briefly I wondered why she didn't invite him to go with us but I knew why. I didn't know how I knew but I just knew that he would make an attempt against my life and Usagi would get hurt badly in the process…it was something I couldn't ever let happen.

"Sounds like he just wants to make sure the job gets done right." I tried to reason. I did actually know people like that. Had to be done their way. Control freak needs. "No, he has very little trust in anyone. He's always had that issue. If he's worked with you dozens of times before then he'll trust it but not for a first timer." She explained. "Besides…" she looked up to me and stopped in her tracks, "I just don't trust him not to do something stupid…" I knew deep down what she really meant to say.

She was afraid he'd try to get me killed even if by accident. It was the very same thing I feared he would try to do. though in my minds eye he would try, she would intercede and he'd either hurt her or accidentally kill her. Question is would he be remorseful considering their past? Would he be able to stop himself or would he end up killing her and just getting a new blonde mistress to bed?

The expression in her face said it all. I honestly didn't know what I'd do if I didn't have her in my life right now. I needed to show her that which shit was going to go down we weren't going to waste any time we had to have for each other. I wanted to remove that grim look off her face, "So bed?" I asked in a blunt manner. She looked stunned that that was where my head was at when she said, "You know what, lets."

We both continued on our trek to her room noticing other vampires along the way that acknowledged us and nodded at me. I really had become another member of this coven and it was feeling like a nice little support system. I'm pretty sure I had Toki's support and Rei's especially since she was voluntarily 'babysitting' that Lycan woman till we heard anything that tied hopefully Yamamoro to the attack and not another Lycan player.

It was an unfortunately possibility that we wouldn't get confirmed till she blabbed it. So once we rounded another corner we reached the door and went inside. I locked the door as she kicked off her boots and pulled me in for a passionate kiss. "Fuck! I've never felt so passionate towards anyone in my life as I feel towards you." I admitted. She smiled, "I feel the same way. Its like there's this kinetic energy." She described. "Exactly." I agreed.