Bit nervous about this one, but just wanted to add a bit something extra for when the drama happens.

Hope you all enjoy! 3

Part 11

"I'm gonna be right behind you. You know that right?"

"Stop worrying I'll be fine." Anna said, smiling up at Dwayne.

"Yeah, I know, you could probably kick his ass harder than all of us put together. But I swear if he…" Before he could finish, she pushed herself up onto her tip toes pressed her lips against his, cutting him off. "Stop trying to change the subject." He said, as Anna dropped her head against his chest and laughed. Between them they really did scale the heights when it came to stubborn.

"The little brother just left. You ready?" David asked Anna.

"Absolutely."

To be fair, it was an achievement that she was here with them at all. David had come up with this whole plan and less than a second after he'd finished explaining it, Dwayne had flat out said no. Which had been a shock to exactly no one. Hours must have passed, and he wouldn't budge. He kicked a table and punched a wall twice, each time anyone uttered the name Michael funnily enough.

"She's not going!" he'd yelled for at least the 20th time that night.

"Dwayne, she's not gonna get hurt! There's four of us and one of him and he's still in transition. He's weak."

"Well then, why does she have to be there. We can take him!"

"We're not gonna give him the opportunity to do shit man." Paul said.

"Yeah, well I'm not willing to fucking risk it!" he said before finally storming off towards the bedroom. When Anna saw David go to follow, she'd stopped him.

"Let me try." She said and David nodded in agreement. He knew deep down that even if they argued for the next week, it wouldn't get him anywhere.

"No offense dude but I'm pretty sure she can do things to persuade him that you can't." Marko said, to which Paul immediately dissolved into laughter. David however, just rolled his eyes. Of course, Marko was right, and at this point he didn't care what she had to do to, if she managed to talk him around.

"David's right. He's not exactly gonna be running to the door if he sees you 4 standing there." Anna said from the doorway.

"You're not gonna be bait." Dwayne snapped, as he sat with his ankles crossed and his back up against the headboard.

"That's not what he was saying." She said, moving towards the bed.

"He wants you to be the first one he sees. So, he thinks you're there alone. It's not happening." He said, defiantly, to which Anna sighed.

"Fine, then you're not going either."

"What?"

"You don't want me to get hurt, I don't want you to get hurt, so neither of us will go." She said, dropping down on to her side of their new bed. Well, it was Star's but it didn't matter, as David had decided she wouldn't be needing it anymore. Dwayne and Paul had dragged it to the bedroom the night before, just after they'd discovered, that the floor of a cave was not the most comfortable place to get amorous.

"You know I have to go."

"No, I don't."

"Yes! You do. You said it yourself, he tried to get between us!"

"Exactly! Us! If he's behind this, you don't think I wanna rip his dick off too! I'm not afraid of him Dwayne and I want him to know it!" When she was done, Dwayne stood and just looked at her for a few seconds, before his expression began to soften. There was even a hint of a smile.

"You're sexy when you're angry."

"Stop trying to change the subject!" she said, determined to not let this go. And that's when Dwayne let out an exasperated sigh.

"Okay, okay. But I don't want there to be one second that I don't see you, you got it?"

"Yes daddy." She said petulantly, before giving him a smile so smart ass, Paul could have been giving her lessons.

"What did I say would happen the next time you said that to me?" he said, in a tone that never failed to make her tingle in just the right place.

"Mmmm." She began, before pretending to stop and think "That you'd remind me exactly who my daddy was?" To which, Dwayne said nothing, just beckoned her to him with his index finger.

…

It felt like 5 hours passing before Anna saw a light go on in the window nearest to her, and when the door finally opened, Michael's face instantly drained of colour.

"Anna?" he said, in a voice, a couple of octaves higher than he'd ever hit before. Anna just smiled.

"What's wrong Michael? You look surprised to see her." David said, appearing behind her.

"What's going on?" Michael asked, finding his voice again, but when he saw Dwayne emerge and move to her side, he'd seen enough and bolted for the kitchen and the the back door. When he reached it, he all but tore the door off its hinges, and already had two feet outside when he was hit with a surprise ambush from Paul and Marko.

"Hey Mikey! What's up man!" Paul hollered, as he grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and tossed him to Dwayne who had gotten around to the back of the house, faster than Michael's brain had time to process.

"You don't listen so good do you asshole?" Dwayne growled, as he launched Michael down the few steps that led up to the porch, where he landed at Anna's feet. As she looked down at him, she couldn't help but laugh a little at how pathetic he looked.

"What the fuck!" Michael whined from the floor, not knowing which part of him hurt the most.

"Sorry for just dropping in like this." David said, seeming to materialize above him.

"Yeah dude, we didn't call we didn't write." Marko followed up.

"What do you want!" Michael spit out.

"We were all just curious" David began "Does Star know you've been talking to other girls?"

"What?" he said and David sighed, already out of patience with him.

"Let's not waist each other's time. Who told you where to find the girl?"

"What the fuck are you talking about!"

"He's talking about how you're not fucking smart enough to have done this by yourself." Dwayne spat.

"Tell him Michael and he might only break one of your arms." Paul shouted from he sat in one of the giant wicker chairs on the porch, with his feet up on the table.

"I don't know! I don't know any Zoe!" Michael cried.

"Who said her name was Zoe?" Anna asked, before hearing a familiar growl, and when her eyes found Dwayne, he'd already begun to vamp out.

"Dwyane no!" she cried out, but when his head snapped up to look at her, he was him again "Think about Max…and Lucy. I won't have you getting into trouble because of him." she said looking, down at Michael while struggling to keep her own temper under control.

"She's right. Plus, we need him. For now." David said in tone that could chill bones.

Dwayne looked between the two of them then, and as much as it pissed him off, he knew they were right. "Fine. But you know what." He said, as he ripped Michael up off the floor by the scruff of his neck "He's coming with us."

…..

"I still can't believe you did that to me." Paul complained, as he threw himself down length ways onto the couch, only to quickly have the wind knocked out of him, when Marko dropped a near full bottle of whiskey onto his stomach.

"Stop whining. But I have to say man, and present company accepted, you're the prettiest thing, I've had on the back of my bike in a long time." Marko said, and it was quickly followed up with a cushion being hurled in his direction.

….

When Dwayne had told them, in no uncertain terms that Michael would be going back to the cave with them, he'd been so mad, that he'd refused to even let Michael go on his own bike. And when it became apparent that no one wanted him on theirs, Dwayne ordered Paul off his bike, telling him to get on the back of Marko's so Michael could take his.

"Are you fucking kidding me! Why don't you go on with Marko and I'll take Anna?" He'd protested, until he saw Dwayne's expression had now turned dark enough to bring on thunder clouds, and had begrudgingly given in. All the way back though. The other three had driven in a tight formation around Michael, as to not give him the opportunity to break away. Not that he'd had any intention of doing that, he knew how they could ride and that if he tried anything, they'd be on him before he could blink.

…..

"Sit." Dwayne said gruffly as he shoved Michael down into the nearest chair then sat directly opposite him. He leaned forward so his arms rested on his knees, his eyes burning a hole straight through to Michael's soul. It didn't help that David was now, and by no accident, standing just outside of his peripheral vision, staring him down equally as hard. "Give me a name?" Dwayne asked.

"I don't know his name."

"You're a fucking terrible liar, you know that?" Dwayne snapped. Michael was quiet for a few seconds before he spoke again.

"He never told me his name alright. It was just some guy. He came up to me one night. Said he'd seen me with Star and he was glad I was there to help her. Said it was a pity there wasn't anyone who could do the same for Anna." When he said her name, his eyes quickly flashed over to where she sat on the edge of the fountain, and he could see about as much love for him emanating from her as he did from the 2 boys.

"Go on." Dwayne said, when Michael turned his attention back to him.

"He said, she was just latest one you took. That you were gonna make her one of you and she'd have no choice in it. It was just what you for fun or whatever. Said he knew all this because…you killed his girlfriend."

"Fucking Yuri!" Paul said, saying out loud what everyone else knew.

"You know him?"

"You could say that." Marko said.

"That's when he told me where to find the girl. Tell her where to look for Anna."

"He didn't send you to find that chick so she could help Anna. He knew it'd bring us out!" Dwayne growled from deep down in his chest. "And you wanna know why we ripped his girlfriend open!" he carried on, his anger starting to get the better of him "because that bitch was ready to kill my wife right in front of me. And I already told you, you breathe in a way I don't like when she's around…well I think you know how the end of that sentence goes?" The expression on Michael's face was now very much the one he had the night they were hanging off the bridge. Somewhere between abject terror and throwing up.

"I'm curious though. When he said we were gonna make her like us. What do you think he meant?" David said, unable to keep quiet any longer.

"I know about you guys" Michael began, swallowing hard. "I know what you are."

"And he told you we we're the bad guys, right?" Paul said, appearing out of nowhere behind Michael, causing him to visibly jump in his seat, before passing him the bottle of Jack, which he gratefully accepted. All of this brought snickers from boys, except for Dwayne of course, who was still in no mood to laugh.

"Thing is. We know you know what we are, but, the question is, do you know what you are?" David said, clearly enjoying himself way too much.

"What?" Michael asked, feeling cornered for the second time that night. Paul walked to David's side then and tipped his head from side to side, as if he was studying him.

"I see what you're sayin. He looks a little peaky." He said.

"Mmm hmm." David agreed "How have you been feeling lately Michael?"

"That's enough boys!" Max's voice rang trough the cave. When all turned to look, he was stood at the entrance, with Lucy was at his side and there was what looked like a blonde teenaged boy who would probably have had more success in hiding behind her, if it wasn't for the fact that he was almost a foot taller than her.

"Mom? Sammy?"

"Oh great, the whole family." Dwayne said, and when he saw Anna looking in his direction while trying smother her giggles, he found himself relax a little for the first time that night.

"There's nothing to be worry about Michael. Preferably I would have liked to have taken care of this myself, considering my relationship with your mother but…circumstances have changed." Max said, looking disapprovingly around the room at his son's.

"We didn't hold him down and pour it down his throat." David said.

"He's right, I had to pretty much wrestle it out of his hands." Marko said. That's when the truth began to dawn on Michael.

"Wait…what about the wine?"

"Holy shit! Dude. Just look at your hand!" Paul finally snapped, and when Michael looked down and ripped off the bloody bandage he'd wrapped around it when Nanook had bitten him, it was as if nothing had ever been there. That's when the lights went out for Michael.

…

"When he wakes up, make sure he sips this. I don't know what's in it, and I still don't. I just know it helped me at the beginning." Anna said, helping Lucy put a pillow under Michael's head. After Marko and Paul had placed him there. Well maybe placed wasn't the right word.

"Thank you Anna. If it's true what Max tells me, he doesn't deserve to you helping him like this." Lucy said.

"Well, I can't lie. He's not my favourite person in the world right now. But, I do know that these guys can be a handful when they wanna be." She said, acknowledging the other boys, now scattered about the room. Marko and Paul were running Laddie ragged, playing hide and seek with him and clearly letting him win. While Dwayne and David were off talking to Max on the other side of the room. No prizes for guessing about what.

"So, this is how it was for you?" Lucy asked Anna as she looked down at a still passed out Michael.

"Not exactly. He insisted on doing it himself." she said. Looking back towards Dwayne "It was our wedding night. In the heat of the moment, if, you know what I mean." Anna said.

"Oh…oh! I see." Lucy said, laughing softly when she caught Anna's meaning. The two women turned then, when there was a very intentional clearing of the throat behind them.

"Mom?"

"Oh honey, I'm so sorry, come over here, come on its ok." She said warmly. "Sammy, this is Anna." She said, placing both her hands on her youngest son's shoulders.

"Sam!" he said, quickly correcting his Mother.

"Good to meet you Sam." Anna smiled, taking his hand.

"Yeah kid I know, but you might wanna roll that tongue in." Paul said, from where he now stood behind Sam, and Anna shot him a "Stop torturing him" when she saw how much he was enjoying causing Sam's face flush all kinds of red. Anna felt a hand at the small of her back then.

"And sweetie, this is Anna's husband Dwayne." Lucy said, and instantly, Sam's face dropped.

"You guys are married?" Sam asked, obviously a little crushed.

"Be nice." Anna said to Dwayne as she liked her thoughts with his.

"Yeah, sorry man. I know I got lucky." Dwayne said, with a slight smile, as he wrapped and arm around her shoulder and began to turn her towards him. He'd had enough of sharing her for tonight. Almost mirroring them, Paul then threw his arm around Sam's neck and began leading him towards Marko, who was sat on the couch, flicking through comic books with Laddie.

"It only gets worse from here bud. Pretty soon she'll be your sister." Paul said, offering his own special brand of comfort.

…

"I better up my game I think I have competition." Dwayne said, tossing his jacket onto the nearest chair, as he followed Anna into their room.

"What you think he wants to fight you for my honour?" Anna laughed as she dropped down on the bed "Like in those old movies?"

"Does that mean I get to throw you on the bed and tear a you out of corset?" He said as he climbed on to the bed next to her, and straight away went to kissing her neck.

"Did you talk to Max?" she asked, while she was still capable of stringing a sentence together, never easy when he started on her with that mouth.

"Yeah. And I'll tell you everything…Hey…" he said, gently turning her face towards him when he saw her gaze drop sadly towards the ground "It's gonna be ok. It'll all be over soon. Tonight, I just want it to be us. Pretend everyone else don't exist, just for a few hours." He said softly.

"I like that idea." She said, leaning in to give him a quick delicate kiss.

"What?" He asked with a little smile, after a few seconds of her looking at him but not saying a word.

"I was just thinking. I know what I always say about, being able to take care of myself but, I kind of loved it, how protective you were tonight."

"Well, I'll never stop you yelling at me for being an over protective asshole. I'm just gonna do it anyway." He said matter of factly and causing her to laugh.

"That's why you need to always come back to us." She said, suddenly turning serious again.

"What? Those guys?" he said, nodding his head in the direction of his brothers in the main cave. They can take care of themselves, don't worry about it." he smiled.

"No." Anna said, taking his hand in hers and placing it against her stomach "Us."