Adam sighed. This had been a terrible time . Mimosa's minute-by-minute reports of Mimi's damage had Damon almost freaking out at times. Samuel couldn't bear to listen, he tried to drink so he wouldn't hear. Adam listened and took his punishment. It had taken him 4 weeks to rehabilitate and then the party just kind of hit him and he didn't even think it was just the beginning of the gig. Then when they'd finally finished, all the women had left and the house had been in a terrible state, they'd realized that 12 weeks had passed. The torment had started from there. All those fight clubs, the destruction of the three mafias, the jungles. Adam was going to go and help as soon as he found out where all of Mimi's house was. Monaco isn't a big place but it protects its inhabitants surprisingly well and with Mimi's network, the fleas, already respectably extensive, Mimi had a way of staying hidden.

Bran hadn't commented on the whole European thing. He hadn't even believed in it at first but that was pretty early on when one morning Bran came to breakfast quite serious and asked " Has Mimosa ever sent you any dreams? Poor Mimi. I was in Mimi's body at night, or so the Mimosa made it seem. German one-fight club. It was tight. But we must not interfere. That's why we're going to celebrate. Do you understand? Mimi needs to do this on her own. " Adam hadn't thought about it at the time, but later explained that Bran had decided it would be good for Mimi to do the job on her own at the end so that she would be more independent. Oh fuck, if he'd realized that, he wouldn't have gone to the party. He'd let Mimi down once again. And badly. But he'd go out of his way to help in any way he could.

Adam started looking for where Mimi's house might be. Mimosa wouldn't tell him. This was part of the punishment. Damon came up to Adam and asked him " What are you doing? You retreated here a week ago." Adam said "Mimi bought a house in Monaco, I'll see if I can find it and then I'll go help because Mimi hasn't got there yet, I'll help where I can. I'm not a doctor but at least I can help Mimi eat and rest. I can treat some wounds and injuries." Damon furrowed his brow, in Monaco. Interesting. He said to Adam, "Let me know if you find one, and here's a doctor to take with you." Adam continued his search. Damon said, " Remember she's in Springcove now." Adam fumbled for a moment and said " Found it. Here's the address. Start packing Salvatore what you think you'll need before we can order more. let's get that new van of mine. It holds quite a lot." Samuel came to the door and said "I'm coming too, I'm taking my van and I'm loading up already." Adam was pleased, a little lady wouldn't know what hit her.

I was still in the Paris house before I got enough orders to come to Monaco to live there. I had ordered Wagyu meat there already but one of my intentions was to look again for local farms and go through them now without medication. Maybe even look for flour and milk farms. I hadn't quite decided yet. But I had made it clear to myself that I was in no hurry to go to the gigs. I really had a lot of money. If I went to gigs, it would be more for fun than to make money. And all the safe deposit boxes were still pretty full of stuff, there was cash and everything. I hadn't even started to get myself in shape. I didn't even have the energy to cook enough food to eat properly, I ate anything that didn't require a lot of preparation and was quick to make. For example, a macaroni casserole. I cooked an insane amount of pasta and fried 1.5 kg of minced meat. I seasoned it and put it in some egg milk and put it in the oven.

You could eat it for days when the food didn't go down in terrible quantities. I had found a vitamin K preparation that I ate, which helped when some snake venom made my blood very badly clotted, I had had countless wounds for weeks that hadn't healed, some had been almost six months. They kept opening up. They would have to be cut out or there was something in the wound. I kept taking a strong antibiotic I had found here. Colin had left them sometimes. It probably prevented or helped the infection, if I had one now. Then it was time to start driving to Monaco. The drive would take 9 hours but I didn't mind as I could do it without any trouble at all. I made myself some coffee and rolls and several pans full of macaroni casseroles to take with me so I wouldn't have to go cooking right away.

The men arrived at the house and there was no one there yet. Adam had taken the house under the name of his own pack, not Bran. He had made it clear to Bran that they no longer belonged under Marrok. Bran didn't really listen. They started to put the medbay in order and other things that Mimi had apparently ordered there. They had only been at the house for 5 hours when they saw Mimi drive into the yard. They had parked their cars behind the house so Mimi didn't even see them. It was around 9:00 at night. Damon knew that Mimi had probably driven all the way from Paris for nine hours straight. She'd be an easy mark. They had most of their stuff brought inside, but there were no cupboards or shelves yet so things were on the floor in bags. Damon already had the anesthetic ready to be drawn into the syringe. He would anesthetize Mimi as soon as he could so they could get this done quickly and efficiently without a volley of objections or an I'm okay phrase.

I drove out to the yard and was exhausted. I knew there were a few rooms here with good beds and I was really looking forward to getting some rest. Recovery would have to be taken slowly as I didn't have the strength left until every now and then I would recover a little. I collected my groceries and other bags and went to the door. Damon opened it. I looked at him for a moment and then I saw Adam and Samuel. Oh, the knights to the rescue have arrived. Fine. I didn't have time to have a conversation now as I walked into my house. Adam said " Welcome home Mimi, this has already been transferred to my pack. Now you get some rest and we'll get you fixed up."

I looked at Adam and said " Oh just for your pack. fine. I'm going to go and get some rest now and I'll see you in a while. " Damon came over and grabbed me and said " You are going to rest right here in the medbay. I don't think you need any medicine when you are so exhausted. Do you have a sore spot when you whine?" Damon somehow managed to find all the wounds that hadn't closed. I said, "A couple of the wounds didn't close so they're a little tender, I don't know if there's something in them or what." Damon directed me to medbay. Well, it was a room with a patient bed. It had the sides and the shackles, the patient bed. Samuel followed. Damon helped me sit on the bed.

He said. "Take off your clothes and let's have a look at you. You're so weak I'm not going to give you any stronger medicine just yet until we get a general idea of your condition." I started to undress. It was slow and difficult but Adam helped and I got the clothes off and I was cold. I was in a bit of a slender condition if you can call it that. The bandages on my wounds were in place but a couple had already leaked through. Damon came over to check me over. He felt all over and my ribs were a little tender. I was more or less bruised on all sides. Samuel came to examine me too. Damon helped me to lie on my back and the doctors continued their examination. Damon gently undid one of the bandages and when he found it was stuck to the wound he put the bandage back down.

Then they retired to the other end of the medbay to mumble again so low I couldn't hear anything. Adam came to me and brought a warm blanket. It was hot. Adam said " An electric blanket. I bought these to stock up on when I actually found so to help keep you warm. How on earth did you get the whole gig done? It took me a month to recover from those 7 clubs. I said to Adam "I had no choice, I had to save the world, you know. " Adam stroked me and sat down. He kept touching me and I could see he wanted to gather me in his arms and keep me safe. I was tired and I closed my eyes. I was in pain but not so much that it disturbed my sleep, I fell asleep.

Damon said to Samuel "30-32 kilos. Chilled, listless. Sleepy. Sugars are probably non-existent, broken bones that have partially healed, and no ability to heal at all. Blood not clotting. Probably just fell asleep, or passed out. Where do you want to start? Those wounds smell like either, probably black fae or black elves caused them. They have very nasty poisons. That lady is going to have some work to do to make her well again. Let's go and see where to start. I'm still too scared to medicate with all those poisons and then Mimi usually chops them up and fucks them up..." Samuel was silent for a moment and said "Let's start by taking a tube of Mimi's blood and smelling or tasting it. What do the teeth think?" Damon nodded.

I woke up to someone taking my hand out. Samuel said " Just give it to me and I'll take a tube of some blood. Let's get a little idea of what all is or isn't in your blood. " I gave my hand and felt the needle go into my vein. Samuel calmly took quite a few tubes. Damon walked around with one tube and sniffed it. He went into the other room to concentrate on what he was doing. Samuel's neck vein suddenly looked very tasty, but I didn't even have the strength to plan my attack. Same deal. Adam noticed and went into the other room. A moment later, Damon came in with Adam. Samuel had just finished drawing blood and was putting a bandage on the stab wound. Damon came over to my bedside and said "Are you blood hungry or what? " I nodded. I said " I just can't do anything about it. Nothing"

Damon grinned and walked over to the side of the bed and sat down. He said "I'm going to help you sit down for a moment so you can eat right off my neck. You're so incredibly weak that you won't be able to eat long enough to get to your wrist, so you'll get to your neck quicker. Do you think you can?" I nodded and let Damon gather me up to sit almost on his lap. He put my head on his neck and I slammed my teeth into his without hesitation and brutally. And I started to drink. Damon just stroked me and supported me. I knew that now I would drink well and drink a lot. Eventually, I had enough and I pulled my teeth out. I laid back against Damon. That seemed to take the last of the strength I had left. Damon laid me back down. He smiled and said " Not bad at all, you just pulled 50 liters out just like that. It's very good for you. Now rest up, more treatments are to come when we get some results. I don't dare give any medicine yet, not painkillers or anesthetics because those fairy and elves' poisons are so nasty. My teeth are still figuring it out. " I closed my eyes again. Now I was full of lovely warm blood.

When a vampire eats blood, it can eat incredible amounts and that's because the moment we start eating blood, our vampire body, or specific cells, are activated. First, the water is taken out of the blood. So the blood in our stomach starts to be absorbed by a specific cell in the walls of our stomach. The blood condenses in an hour or two so that if we've eaten a big meal of blood over five liters, we start to condense. The blood is 95% water and our cells absorb about 65% of that, leaving us with thick condensed blood for leftovers. Then the blood gets an additive which is also secreted by the so-called Apollo cells in the wall of our stomach. So this additive starts to break down the blood in a certain way. It is fast acting and when the concentrated blood meal is pre-digested, it goes into the small intestine just like any normal food. This additive of ours protects the blood from the excessive effect of stomach acid. But it is always secreted only when our vampire side needs blood. One important thing we need is a certain lipid found in the walls of red blood cells. And there's more. It is not iron that we are looking for but generally, the blood cell structure has many essential compounds and energy bound in a certain way that the vampire can exploit. There's a kind of life force in the blood and that's one of the things that we actually feed on.

I could feel Damon's blood already beginning to condense inside me as my far-beyond-fullness slowly began to ease. I had read quite a bit of vampire anatomy and so I knew a few things. Not nearly everything. I was still lying in bed but now I felt maybe a little better. Then I fell asleep and started having tired nightmares again, the kind where I just didn't have the strength to run away. Then the nightmares slowly started to ease and I finally drifted off into a deep sleep. I wasn't able to see them anymore.

Damon and Samuel examined Mimi's blood test results and planned what to do first. Adam was getting worried. Mimi had fallen asleep and had some dream or nightmare and Adam was trying to calm her down and then Mimi just went deeper. She was just lethargic, and unresponsive. Her pulse was muffled and slow. Adam went to tell Damon, who came to see. "Oh, you're not doing that, missy, you're not doing that," Damon said after he had given Mimi a quick once over. He went to get the anti-hibernation drug. Damon turned Mimi on her side and stuck a needle straight into her brain and injected three doses of the inhibitor. That would help. Damon said to Adam " The lady tried to hibernate, notice how wet she is. That'll prevent it." Damon had already put Mimi's food and bump on the drip directly, he gave her black velvet because his teeth were doing it so hard. Mimi should get some sleep. Damon felt the velvet kept the nightmares and anxiety away, once Mimi was anesthetized with velvet, she usually felt safe. That's why Damon preferred velvet to any other drug. When Mimi slept deeply enough, Damon's teeth began to clench very hard. He had to climb on top of Mimi and sink his teeth right into her neck. Damon fell into a kind of sleep himself. It was his body's way of conserving energy between making and processing the tooth stuff. Samuel and Adam left Damon to do his work for the time being and Adam and Magnum started organizing the Fleas and their gigs again.