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Ch.3

Be curious, not fearsome.

previously:

The man in the shiny old car was deciding whether to talk to mamma or not. I ran his license plate number and he gave me the same name when he introduced himself, so the car was not stolen. He asked about Alcide, and some guy named Quinn, then he asked me about Dad. Then i got a feeling that he knew exactly where and how Dad was. We were both too shocked to talk to each other when Mom arrived. She was surprised to see him, and faced him with a distant attitude, until he started cuddling her and then she kissed him. I had to interrupt then. I started asking questions, but she told me the answers Delia needed to hear too. I went on my way upstairs to get her... "She can hear me" he told her, was I that obvious? But I did not hear my mother's response to that. I wondered if they were kissing again after I left

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I can hear Iron Maiden before I even knock on her door. She is going to kill her sensitive hearing in no time.

I open the door, walk over to her and tap her shoulder. She pauses her music and looks at me.

"Mom needs to talk to us," I say, still pissed. And her moodiness is making me even more pissed, she rolls her eyes and looks at me with a must I glance.

"Coming" she does a few things on her digital book before standing. She removes her ear plug mufflers too.

When we come back, I do not speak to Delia, she is moody and I am pissed.

As we arrive in the living room, Bill is sipping on a red bottle that reads GENERIC O POSITIVE. Where did mamma get that?

"Adele, Judith" she says to us. She only addresses us by our full names when something is serious.

"Adele, I'd like you to meet my ex-fiancee, Bill Compton"

"You left him for Dad?" she asks ungraciously.

"No, your father came later," I can tell she is lying, Adele cannot. "He brought some news about your father," she chokes out.

Bill put his full attention on Delia. I wonder if he is doing something to her, like glamour or something. Just because I have never met a vampire does not mean that I am ignorant, besides, at school we have a class that mixes historical mythology with modern realities. .

"Your father had gone to Louisiana to mediate a conflict between Alcide Herveaux and Orson Norris. They arranged a meeting just the three of them to talk about a peaceful resolution. Something went wrong because all three of them were found dead." He pauses, letting his words sink in. I am still too mad at the way he brings these news to my mother and my mother kissing him. Mom is sobbing quietly besides him, careful not to touch him too much. Delia snarls at him.

"He had another daughter" Mom interrupts, looking for the right words to say. "One from a pure blood shifter just as himself. She fled Louisiana when he died there, along with her uncle. Her mother had died a few years back. She has no one"

"How come he never told us this?" I ask, knowing my mamma will understand what I mean.

"He did not consider her his daughter as he does you two. He had her because it was his responsibility for his family, his ancestors. She's called Clara."

"The thing is, she is running from the wolves and she has no protection. She needs protection" Bill explains.

"And that's us?" I ask. Both of them nod.

"Okay, so we have a long lost sister." Delia says. "And Dad is dead" she manages to say, she is blinking back tears but does not want us to see her. "Can I go to my room now?" she asks after summing up.

"Not yet," Mom says softly, she comes to sit on the other couch with us and holds Delia in her arms and lets her start crying.

"There's something else you must know, something that I have never wanted to tell to either of you" she says.

"The love Bill and I share is much larger and greater than the love I have for your father" she shares. That explains a lot.

"We had been saving each other's lives for eight years since we meet, until we had a fight, well, another fight that definitely left us too mad at each other."

"Bill asked me to marry him, but I was selfish, I wanted a family."

"No, I was selfish, I wanted you all for myself" he interrupts. She shut him up with a look.

"Thing is, your father has always loved me, I do not really understand why, but he took me in. He loved me too much. Then he started saying that things were getting weird, so we moved. It was for the best, it was the best way to not get involved with any southern vampires anymore. I only keep in touch with one. She's been the closest thing I've had to a friend in a long time." She tells us with concern written all over her.

"Pam" I say. It was the first person she asked him had died.

"Yes, Pam." She reiterates.

"Judith, can you really hear his thoughts?" she asks me. I nod slowly.

"Is that a bad thing?" I question back.

"No, it's just that I had never been able to listen to him" she shares. I nod apprehensively.

"Do they at least know?" he asks mamma.

"No, not really. Girls, Bill is your godfather. I had to fight for it, if anything was to happen to me, by law you would go to Crystal, but I could not bear it. If anything were to ever happen to me and Sam, he would look after you."

"Yes" he states. "And now I will do exactly that"

"Mom, who is Quinn?" I ask.

"Who?" she is definitely bewildered by my question.

"Quinn?" I ask, enunciating slowly.

"An ex boyfriend." She replies simply.

"He asked me if I had heard of him. He asked me about Alcide too, and then Jason." I blurt out.

"Oh, honey, I was just jealous that maybe he had mentioned them and not me" Bill explains. Did he just call me honey?

"Okay" I reply weakly.

Then Delia roars. She is starting to change. Too late to get her in another room.

"Judith, take Bill and go to my room, I'll be there shortly. Close the door" she indicates. She let go of Delia as she writhes on the floor. Bill is watching curiously, I take his hand and pull him up the stairs behind me. I wonder how much more mamma had never told us about.