He swaddled her in another quilt upon arriving to his bedchambers.

Garrett had claimed the first quilt he had given him, the quilt Artemus had wrapped around him upon his arrival to the Haven, as his own, no questions asked.

So Artemus made another, specifically telling Garrett that the new quilt was not to leave his chamber.

Artemus was honestly surprised the quilt had not vanished the moment he turned his back to the boy, but he would take the miracle.

Regardless, the second quilt was wrapped around the young girl's shoulders in place of his cloak as he set her by the fire. It was not yet winter so he wasn't exactly concerned with frostbite as he had been with Garrett…

But he knew as well as the next person how nice a warm hearth could feel against chilled skin. He told her softly to stay put while he retrieve something to eat.

"I will return soon… Wait for me."

Artemus was honest when he said he would return soon. He must have only been gone for three minutes at most, at most! Granted, he practically ran the entire way.

But by the time he returned, Garrett was seated right beside the girl, pressed snug to her side, his arm around her shoulders, his cheek resting atop her head. Garrett's quilt wrapped securely around both of them…

They looked so… Remarkably similar… Comfortable beside one another. Dark raven hair, the girl's rough and choppy, matted, dirty. Garrett's tied back into a small, tight braid, straight if somewhat wavy when loose.

Dark eyes watched the fire, the golden glow warming the children's cheeks.

The door closed behind Artemus with a soft 'click' and the two younglings turned to the sound, their eyes falling to the Keeper soon after.

"I named her Erin." Garrett said quietly as he watched the Keeper approach, the girl slowly pressing herself further into his small side as Artemus passed.

"Did you now?" He asked softly as he sunk into the armchair just behind them. Garrett nodded as he abandoned his seat beside the girl to crawl into Artemus' lap once the Keeper had settled into the chair.

"She didn't like her name…" Garrett murmured softly as he pressed his forehead against his Keeper's throat, "So I gave her a new one…"

Artemus hummed softly against the crown of Garrett's head as he offered his other thigh to the girl, Erin...

Erin followed Garrett's lead nearly as soon as Artemus offered her a seat on his lap, albeit a tad nervously. Still, she too settled into Artemus' lap, resting her head against his shoulder as she drew the quilt tighter around her shoulders.

The Keeper doubted he would ever see that quilt again.

Artemus held the two children close to his chest until they were warm and fed, Garrett necessarily so.

He didn't bother sending Garrett back to his dorm room either, the young lad always had a habit of sneaking back into Artemus' bed, with an inordinately high success rate too boot.

Rather, he sent Garrett off to his bed to prepare it for Erin, which the young boy did dutifully, ruffling and shifting the comforter and quilts about to form a comfortable nest of blankets as Artemus bathed the young girl, Erin, as Garrett had called her.

Erin remained still as Artemus lathered her hair with soap and scrubbed the dirt and grime away with washes. Not a fear fueled stillness either, she was tired, too tired, it was expected given all that had happened to her that day.

Artemus dressed her in one of his lounge shirts, the sleeves fell to her knees and the bottom just to her feet, but it was soft and warm and clean.

At first, Artemus planned on sleeping on the armchair by the fire, leaving his bed to the two younglings. He tucked them in, snug and warm and left.

Not ten minutes later, Garrett slipped wordlessly into his lap once again, nestled close, and fell asleep. Not two minutes after Garrett's arrival did the girl appear as well, rubbing the sleep from her tired eyes as she blindly stumbled to the chair, quilt draped over her shoulders like a cloak.

Artemus sighed and hoisted the two now quite asleep children into his arms, returning them to his bed.

This time he didn't leave, the three of them settled into the bed, curled around one another snug and warm where they remained until morning.

Three days after Erin came into the Keepers compound, she firmly situated herself as Garrett's shadow and refused to leave his side, following after the older boy whenever she could, regardless of Artemus' fretting or the fact that Garrett had classes.

Garrett. The lone wolf within the Haven, was surprisingly content with having a tail, in fact, he seemed pleased by it.

When asked about Erin whenever the younger girl managed to sneak into class behind him, he would shrug and reply with a cryptic, "She's mine." Erin would preen in her seat until Artemus came to retrieve his wayward charge.

Erin was properly enrolled in the Haven far faster than Garrett had been, hardly a week after her arrival she was gently ushered into her first class by Artemus, bright eyed and excited.

Artemus would later be found once again leading the young girl out of Garrett's class after she realized that they weren't learning together. It took nearly a moon cycle for Erin to understand that she needed to stay within her own year group.

Besides their different schedules, however, the two were rarely seen apart.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and any moment of spare time they shared was spent together.

They would sit together in the library reading, or beside one another at Artemus' table doing their school work. Though nightly curfew would see the two separate for a time, many other Keepers had witnessed the chance occasion of either Garrett or Erin sneaking out of bed in the dead of night to go join the other.

Though more often than not, Artemus would wake to find his children pressed snug against his sides.