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When Isaac reaches the cave with the waterfall he looks around frantically for Faye, knowing she's there but not sure where. So obsessed is he with finding Faye he doesn't hear about the water, since it obstructs her scent. When he sees Arden pulling her out of the water he hurries over and helps get her ashore, holding her hand as he cries. If only he hadn't of said anything to her, then this wouldn't have happened.

As he watches Alice treat Faye, he can still smell the one who attacked Faye nearby, being able to smell a concentration of her blood on them. Furry begins consuming him as he looks around for the culprit, his eyes burning like crimson fire as his eyes become slits, much like a cat's when there's a lot of light. Peering into the darkness of the cave he can see an outline of something, he's not sure who or what kind of creature they are.

"I don't know who you are, but you better come out or I'll rip your cowardly head off!" His fangs are fully extended, hissing like a viper at the cave.

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The man retreated deep into the cave as he watched the situation unfold where he met up with someone else. "That's a good little pup. Your sister abandoned you to die, she deserved that. But next time, make sure she's actually dead before throwing her away!" Another man growled, hitting the younger one upside his head. "Even if she didn't die, she's living in her own torment. Still, she deserves even worse but I don't think death will be the right punishment. Her living as what she is, is an quite the punishment already. We just need to get the others to hate her. Make her all alone. Make it to where death would be a blessing. She deserves nothing else." Her brother said to the man who chuckled in delight. "You are a wicked one, aren't you?" He chuckled some more. "She left me for dead and for all these year I had no one but you. She had a family, I didn't. Though how she met the vampire, I don't know." Her brother didn't realize that their parents were dead not too long after his supposed death. "Well, I think he wants you to go out and fight him, what are you going to do?" The man asked. "Nothing. I have no interest in him. Besides, he's much older than me, even if I wanted to kill him, I wouldn't be able to. But I do plan to kill him and make sure that Faye feels like it's her fault." As the young man talked, his voice showed no emotion along with his expressionless facial expression. With that, the two left the cave, going through a different exit point like all caves have.

Faye began coughing up water to get out of her lungs. She slowly opened her eyes and yawned once all the water was out. Her night wear that she was wearing was left over in the cave but it was ripped after turning due to emotional stress. As she looked around, there was no recognition in her eyes even as she looked at Isaac. But when she looked at him, she was filled with anger and rage, not that she understood as to why. She barked and growled at him as she slowly backed away.

"Oh my, this isn't good." Alice sighed as she rubbed her temples. "This is much worse than I had expected." Arden sighed as well at the situation. "This isn't good at all." He huffed. "Isaac, I think it will be best that she lives with us." Alice told him. "Right now, shes unaware of who she is, it happens sometimes to us when we are inured badly in our heads, mostly when we are in our wolf forms. We loose our human side of ourselves and really only time will tell if we will ever recover because there has been some who are still unable to remember who they actually are. And the way she reacts to you, I just don't think it's safe for you to let her live with you for now. I was afraid of this but I was hoping that her vampire side would keep her from becoming like this." She bent down in front of Faye who looked very scared when looking at her but there was a comfort that washed over Faye that allowed Alice to pet her. "Oh you poor girl." She kissed her head like a loving mother would to their child.

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Hearing Faye bark, Isaac turns around, tears in his eyes, glad to see she'll be alright. But the pain in his chest returns when she backs away from him, his eyes turning ruby red as he's still crying.

"I'm so sorry Faye, its all my fault, if it wasn't for me you wouldn't have gotten hurt. If you never remember me it will be what I deserve after letting you get hurt like that." He turns to Alice and Arden, "You'll let me know when I can visit, right? I can meet with you at the edge of your territory if that's alright with you. Either way though, I should probably find someone to drink from, I'm still really drained from earlier. I don't even really know what came over me either but now I have a splitting headache." He gives Faye one last, saddened look before returning home to change into something more presentable while he goes out to find blood.

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Alice frowned at Isaac as he left. She then turned her attention towards Faye and wondered how they would get her into the pack. She knew it would be impossible to keep her a secret from everyone unless they disguised her scent, maybe make her smell like the forest and drown out her own scent and then sneak her inside. Honey, I think it will be best if we hide her. What do you think?" She asked Arden. He just shrugged. "I don't know. What if she gets loose, then everyone would find out and they might not trust us again. having her come back with us is very serious. Just because we are the leaders, they can over throw us if they feel like we are not going our job properly. This is something that needed to be discussed wit hour fellow pack members. Keeping secrets is a sure fire way of being dethroned." He warned her. He was not happy about bring Faye back without telling the others so there was no way he was going to keep her hidden from them and chance being kicked out of the pack. Alice didn't think about that but her mate was right. "Fine, we will have a meeting about her the second we are able to." She told Arden. Then as they went to get Faye, they noticed she was gone. Faye ran away, she was scared and was running on pure instincts.

Faye didn't stop running until she saw a family outside of the forest. She was right on the edge of the forest, jut watching them play. There were two children, the mother was pregnant with another child and the father was making sure the the mother was alright playing with the other two. The older one was a girl who looked no mare than the age of our while the brother looked no more than the age of two. Something about this scene grabbed her attention until she finally walked out to reveal herself as she was compelled to play. or some reason, she felt peace and wasn't afraid of them. But the family was of her. They tried to gather up the children and run, though one slipped out of the mother's hands. Fay lowered her ears as she saw the boy fall out and she rushed to him to keep hi from hitting the ground. The mother and father were shocked at what they saw and their defenses lowered.

"Honey, she wasn't trying to hurt us. I think she's just curious." The mother lifted up her son while she patted her head, making the wolf's tail wag happily. "Can we keep him?" The little girl asked. "It's a nice doggie!" She said. Getting out of her father's arms, she ran to the wolf and petted her. Faye licked the girl's face which made her giggled. "You know, we do need someone to protect us while you're away working. I know we don't have the expensive to keep a pet but I think we can make a budget for her." She suggested. Sighing, he let out a chuckle and nodded. "Fine. Even though it's very insane to keep such a beast but, with you about to give birth, I think it would be nice to have someone watch over you and the children while I'm away. But if that beast hurts anyone of you, it's gone." Though he didn't mean gone as in making it leave, he meant gone as in dead. He would kill Faye if she hurt his family. Faye took quite the liking to the boy though as she followed them inside.

Alice and Arden was at a lot for words. They didn't know what should be done, what would the right thing be? Faye looked rather happy being with them. Forcing her away from that family would just be bad, she would act on pure instincts, like she's been doing, and not only be afraid of them even ore but als hate them and distrust them.

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Having changed Isaac takes a carriage into the town, becoming depressed once more at having scared Faye off once more. As the carriage goes by an alley he smells blood, and commands the carriage to halt. Getting out he goes into the shadows looking for what the cause for the blood was.

"Ah, sorry, is this your domain? I didn't know there was a vampire around here, though you're too young to be a lord." W beautiful woman with cascading blond curls smiles at him, dressed in a stunning blood red dress. In her arms was a young woman, turning pale from the lose of blood.

"Release her, you've had enough blood from her." Smiling the vampress licks where she's been drinking and lets the girl slump to the ground. When he turns to leave she follows him, holding the door open and preventing him from shutting it.

"Now that's no way to treat a lady, you're the most handsome guy around, and I'm new in town. Why don't you show me around?"

"I have no interest in talking to you, nor anyone else." The vampress is actually surprised, never having met a vampire male that wasn't interested in her at all.

"Well, aren't you a grump. You need to go to one of the meetings, you don't get out enough and socialize with the rest of us it seems." Letting out a sigh he glares at her.

"If you want me to drop you off somewhere then fine, but as I've said I have no interest in you or anyone else. I'm more concerned about drinking blood right now than anything else.

"Then way didn't you just finish that girl off? There was still plenty of blood in her to tide her over." His eyes burns crimson as he glares at her.

"If there is no need to kill while drinking then why should I? There's plenty of people to drink from around here, no need to get them killed and raise a ruckus." The woman smiles as she climbs into the carriage and tells him her she wants to go. She just thought of an interesting way to spend her time since he seems to have a soft spot for humans.

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The family decided to play outside some more. They began to throw a ball towards her. "So what should we name him? Or her?" The mother giggled. "Her, definitely a her!" She told her husband. "I-I wanna name her Emi! Just like my friend!" She stated excitedly. "Oh, Emi? You miss your friend don't you? Well, I'm sure Emi misses you too Bridgette!" She kissed her daughter's head. "Ok, Emi it is! Come on, let's go get her a collar an a leash and food and other things she will need!" She smiled. "Can we bring Emi? She will cry being by herself." She told her parents hoping that their new family pet could go with them. "Alright, fine. So getting a leash and collar is first on our list." She smiled. They went and got a stroller for their son and began to walk with Faye following along with them.

"I will go talk to Isaac about the situation since I know you're not one for conversation with others. How did I get a man like you as a mate when I love to talk?" She giggled. Indeed, it was odd but she still loved him no matter what. And he talked to her more so than anyone else which truly made her feel special. Arden usually only talked to the pack only when absolutely necessary. With a kiss, they both went their opposite ways as Alice went to find Isaac to let him know and to show him where she would be staying.

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The carriage stops in front of a fancy looking restaurant for rich people, the vampress tugging at his arm, which he just glared at her for.

"Oh, stop being mister grump, you can get a bite here too. They have a special menu for people like us." She gives him a seductive smile, which he sighs in response to.

"If it will get you to leave me alone then fine, then I'm leaving." Smiling, she leads him inside and to the back of the restaurant. There she knocks on the door and whispers a password low enough that Isaac can't hear. The door opens and she leads him into the darkness, through a hallway and another doorway. Isaac is frozen in shock at the sight before him. There's humans among groups of vampires, most of them having been bled out or crying for someone to save them.

"A bit surprised? This is how we live, feeding off of humans is nesscery for us after all." She sees Isaac's eyes burning crimson with furry, and just finds it amusing. "You're going to have to accept that this is your life at some point, you can't hide what you are forever after all. I can help you ease into this life better, since you're not that old and set in your ways yet." She doesn't notice the shadows from the room gathering around him as he glares at all the vampires in the room with his crimson eyes. Then the shadows spread out, connecting to the shadows of all the vampires and coiling around their bodies. Confusion quickly spreads as they are pulled away from the humans, "What's going on!?" The vampress tries to turn towards the rest but can't move, then looks down and sees the shadows gripping her like the rest. Looking back at Isaac she sees that his fangs are completely out just as he bites into her neck. Tears of fear roll down her cheek as Isaac drains her of every last drop of blood, consuming her. She turns to ash and forms a pile on the ground, Isaac stepping over it to consume the other vampires, the humans that can still move running to hide in a corner as a dark shadow with glowing crimson eyes begins to consume all the vampires in the room.

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As Alice was trying to find Isaac, she could smell blood coming from a building. Then she remembered that Faye was a vampire. She wasn't just a wolf. Leaving her alone with that family would be a death sentence to them right now. Fear consumed her as she thought the worse had already happened but she needed to check out where that blood smell was coming from just in case Faye had ran off and began to drink blood from others. As she entered the blood scented building, she noticed a vampire feeding off of someone but then realized that it was Isaac. There was ash on the floor which made her know that he wasn't drinking humans' blood, he was drinking from vampires. "Isaac! Are you ok?" She asked. "I need to discuss something with you about Faye! It's important!" She told him hoping to get him to listen to her. "Faye found humans who want her but...I would have taken her back right away but I didn't think it would be a big deal but I had forgotten that she's also a vampire. I don't know how it will affect her if she's like this. I don't know if she will want blood or not. But I thought you should know that she's staying with them. I will check up on them and give her my blood from time to time so she doesn't attack the family. But she looks really happy being with them. They have two children and a third on the way. They have a girl and a boy. She took a liking to him. But she may be become unstable when she wants blood." Alice felt really irresponsible at the moment but she just seemed so happy and didn't want to ruin it. So she was going to try to help her in secret without the family's knowledge. "I can show you where she is if you want." She offered. Though she didn't know if Isaac was paying any bit of attention to her.

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At first Isaac can barely tell that someone is talking to him, then he hears Alice say Faye's name. Slowly the shadows return to him and the vampires that are left ran away from him in fear, calling him a monster and other such things. The humans are afraid they will be next but he doesn't make a move towards them, just leaves them there without even looking at them.

"Sorry, I'm fine. I let my temper get the better of me, though now I'll have more familiars that are vampires I consumed. Seeing them treat the humans like that just really made me angry. I hated myself for killing humans when I fed. And, I might have a bit of a solution in regards to Faye feeding. Twice now she's drank my blood and seems fixated to its taste, though I can't say I'm any better, I can't resist how she tastes either to be honest. All I wanted was for her to be free to experience the world before tying herself to me, and look what's happened. Anyways, take me to this human home, I'll have her come to me with my blood. This way she'll ignore the humans' and drink from me instead. I don't know if she'll come to me easily or not, but my blood should at least lure her to me and we can present her a deer carcass or something if she doesn't want to drink from me. Vampires can drink from animals but its not as good as human blood." He leads the way out, leaving the door open for the humans to escape if they have the courage to do so. Opening the door to the carriage, he bows and lets Alice on first.

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Alice was worried about Isaac. He had acted so recklessly. Even if they were vampires, that was very dangerous for him to do. "You have to go see this witch soon. When Faye comes back as herself again, she would be devastated to learn that you consumed more vampires. Besides, what if she wanted to be with you? Have you ever thought that you were enough for her? I have never been this far into human society before and I have lived for a long time. Maybe not as long as you or my mate, but I have lived longer than a regular human's life span and never once did I ever want anything more than my pack. I was completely happy staying there. Of course when I met Arden things changed, I went to a different pack but I am very much happy staying where I am. And unless you talked to her about this, she may feel the same way. This is the first time I have ever been in human society." She told Isaac. "The way you acted, I'm just going to come out right and say it since I don't think you realized it but...I think that you and Faye are mates. And I think because you rejected her, she's feeling hurt. You might not have said those exact words but if she wanted to stay and you wouldn't let her, you broke her heart, and your own. Usually it's best if mates come together on their own but in your case, I don't think it matters because you rejected her." She told Isaac. She told him which way to go but ended up seeing Faye walking with the family. "There she is!" Alice pointed to her.

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"I wasn't trying to push her away, I just wanted her to be sure she was getting what she truly wanted. I never did deserve having anyone with me, I've caused so much suffering. And those vampires, I couldn't hold back because I was so mad, and the one was goading me on purpose to try and break who I am." He shakes his head sadly, feeling shamed for what he had done, but knowing he couldn't go back now. When Alice mentions Faye he looks out the window and sees her and the family she's with. "I see why now that she went to them, they remind her of her family, she had a little brother after all, just like I had a little sister." Getting out of the carriage he stands near the front of the carriage, pulling out the letter opener. Without even batting an eyelash he slices open the palm of his hand, then holds it out for Faye to be able to smell. His hopes where that she's come back, though after everything that's happened he's not sure if its possible.

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Alice moved closer to Isaac and rubbed his back. "Just the mere fact that you have guilt shows you have a conscious and shows that you do deserve someone in your life. You aren't a horrible person, besides, the way she sounded, maybe she deserved death, though by you sucking her blood, I don't think that was very helpful but you probably saved so many humans lives! You probably even saved Faye's if words gets out about her being both. Even in our world that's not normal. How she was able to survive both bites, I don't know but usually the person either dies or whichever one is strongest in their blood, that's the one they turn into." She told Isaac and sighed. She hoped that she was getting through to him.

Faye was walking along side the boy when she began to smell blood. She left the family before they could notice that she was leaving to go find the source of the blood. She then saw the source of the blood coming from the man from before. She cautiously approached the man but when she saw the blood, her eyes zoomed in on it and nothing else. She licked up his blood then bit down with all four of her canines, into his skin to get more of his blood. She wanted to drain him dry but hearing the little boy cry brought her out of it. She whimpered as she heard him and then looked up at Isaac as though she was confused on what to do. Her anger dissipated and instead, she really wanted to be with him but the family wanted her. She didn't know what to do but then hearing the others calling for her by her new name, she left. She took quite the liking to the young boy most likely because she subconsciously felt like the family was much like her own, except her mother wasn't pregnant.

Alice looked at Isaac. "I'm getting this bad feeling. I don't understand it but I think forcing her to stay with us will not end up well right now. I will keep an eye on her and take turns with Arden. And I have no doubts that my son will also." She told Isaac. She could see the pain within him.

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He smiles reassuringly at Faye when she looks up at him, he just lets her drink since he's had plenty of blood. Seeing that she wants to go back to the family he lets her, understanding in a way how she feels since he probably would have done the same. Instead he licks the bite on his hand so it heals, "I think I might have a better idea, but I have to test the family first before I can go ahead with that plan. I'm going to warn you now that if this works, they will be under my care with a blood pact just like Amelia. I know Faye is tired of moving anyways, so I was thinking of staying here for a while. It would help having people to help tend the house and there is plenty of room for them."

With that he slowly walks over to the family, greeting them with a bow. "Excuse me, that is a gorgeous canine you have there, I couldn't help but adore her when I saw her. She has a very friendly personality, especially towards your son it seems."

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Alice wasn't so sure of his plan but she wasn't about to stop him if he wanted to do that. She just hoped that all went well. She just hoped he knew what he was doing, otherwise, he would be risking a lot.

The father got in front of his family as a strange looking man approached them. Faye was licking the boy's face as he giggled. He was happy to have her back. "Yes, well, she just came to us. I know she has to have wolf blood in her, she's even bigger than a lot of wolves I have seen but she's a sweetheart and thought keeping her would be best especially while I am away for work. I feel much more comfortable having her watch over my wife and children." He explained. He watched Isaac as he was weary of his actions. "Now, if you will excuse us, we have things we need to do." He stated. The little girl was on top of Faye as though she was riding her like a horse. Faye stared up at Isaac unsure of what to make of him. His blood tasted really good, and taking in his scent, it was really making her crazy. She walked closer to him and sniffed him before licking his hand. She was able to be calm around him now.

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Reaching down he pets Faye's head affectionately, "It must be expensive feeding a large canine such as herself. Oh sorry, I've forgotten to introduce myself, I'm Isaac Crawford, I live just outside of town. I don't get out often, I'm very busy in my lab after all. Though right now I'm in town because I'm looking to hire some help around the house. It's a small house but I can't do much work during the day time sadly, so I'm looking to hire some servants. Do you happen to know anyone who'd be interested in a live-in position? They wouldn't have to worry about food, and since I'm a doctor I can take care of most medical needs. I don't mind children either so if the person has some I don't mind, even if they are a single parent for one reason or another. But I also need someone who is reliable and understand that certain things are to be kept private, one of the reasons why I haven't wanted to hire anyone until now. Though I haven't the slightest clue where to look first or even if there's an office for such things, I don't get out too often as it is. Though I suspect that with the pay and everything else the job will probably have a lot of people applying for it, since a job like that doesn't appear so often since nobles tend to choose their servants from their servants' children."

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"Greetings Mr. Crawford, I'm Lucien Turner, my wife, Elizabeth, our daughter Bridgette, and our son Emmett." He introduced his family. "Well, you can ask any number of people but by the way it sounds, you want us to take the job. She certainly is big but for my family's protection, we can put her into our budget. We may not be rich by any means but I am too proud of a man to allow my family become servants." He wasn't about to take what he felt was a hand out. His wife on the other hand slapped him. "Hun, what if we stayed there while you're away? You're leaving soon and I'm very afraid of having this baby alone with no one to watch the children, even with Emi. Only when you leave is when we go to live with him so we don't have to worry about anything. It will take a load off of my mind. It should bring you peace knowing that we won't starve and we will have a constant roof over our heads." She explained trying to get her husband to agree. "You're pregnant, you simply cannot work when you're about to give birth any time now!" He wasn't about to have his pregnant wife working. "We will have to decline, my wife isn't about to work while pregnant. There are many others who are pitiful enough to take handouts, ask one of them." He said, refusing the offer.