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Vladimir shook his head to shake away the thoughts. He gently held her hand and nodded. He then watched as grant became impatient. It was weirdly funny to him. Though time did matter more since he was in love with a human. Be shook his head and gently picked up Sasha.

"Take us to the safe house. We may talk more on the way." the look on his face was one that showed no chance of arguing. He looked at Sasha. "I almost forgot about your parents. What do you wish to do for them?" as on do you want to say goodbye or leave without saying anything. The option was totally up to her.

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Sasha O'Neill&Jean Belair

Sasha looked at Grant as he asked his question. Meaningfull she looked at him.
''I am here becasue I put my trust to easy in one induvidual. I hope I will not make that mistake again Mr Holiday'' She spoke and wrapped her arms around Vladimir as he lifted her out of the bed. It had become clear that a bit of the naive Sasha had died within the mines. Her easy way of trusting people had diminished and she had become more carefull.

''Wait... Vlad.. is it smart for me to leave the hospital? I can barely stand on my legs'' Sasha said as her voice became a bit higher. ''and I think it is best if I send them a text explaining it in rough lines. They will stop me for sure if I say goodby now''

''So? what is the plan exactly. I take the kidd to Montreal and you and Vladimir go to the safehouse where the rest of our unkow allies are?'' Jean spoke, taking his carkeys in the hand.

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Montreal, Sasha's office, sometime later.

It was about 10pm. The building was vacant, and the lights were off, but Mithias didn't need them. Darkness was never perfect enough to blind the undead, and for the last 700 years, Mithias hadn't need so much as a candle. An old cellphone flared to life after about 20 minutes of charging, providing the vampire intruder with a wealth of information at his white fingertips. It seemed this O'Neil girl made a lot of recordings and memos. Too bad she didn't have time to have her old phone erased and recycled after she got her new one. Mithias turned off the ringer and pocketed the old phone to be examined later. The scent of a werewolf and a vase of dried out flowers with a notecard from "Vlad" was equally revealing. Mithias had known a hybrid, probably the only one in the world, named Vladimir from his time with Soldier. Could it possibly have been the same one?

In a black scarf, hat, and long black jacket, Mithias went through Sasha's desk drawers. He found information on her family, her old stories, and her obsession with vampires. Mithias recognized that her friend was Nior Youyou, another ex-soldier assasin gone traitor. This woman ran with a very dangerous crowd. A squeal sounded through the closed windowpane from outside as some human ran a red in the intersection. Ignoring this, Mithias turned on Sasha's computer. He had certainly hit the right place in his sleuthing. Now to see if this human had any solid evidence of Dracula's return.

Violet wrote a few texts to some of the older vampires telling them that she needed to talk to them about something regarding the blood compact. The needed to come to her house asap. She could have summoned them but figured that was a little rude to summon everyone all the time. She sat and waited, with a pack of wolves outside vampires in the house and a hybrid in a bathrobe downstairs. When she thought of it that way she laughed softly to herself. She looked at the clock and went downstairs. "Piper? I'm going to work now." Piper looked at her as if she heard wrong. "You are what?" shocked she said, "You work? Like go to work and earn a paycheck kind of work?" Violet smiled and said, "What better way to keep my humanity than to keep having a regular life? Here is my cell. Text me when the elder vampires get here. There should be several of them."

With that Violet left and went to work. She oddly enough was a florist. She loved flowers and usually kept them all over her house too. She owned her own shop and kept herself busy.

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Ben Winters
Music

He nodded at Piper's question. "I didn't hear any of him just yet." Grant sure likes to take his time now did he? It was quite a while ago since his last text, and he hadn't hear any of him just yet. Ah well. He had the time anyway.
There still was a very odd stence in the air. He sniffed once more. Werewolves? He then walked over by the window. He looked, and saw that there wasa whole pack waiting outside. Ben whisteled again and grinned. [color=7bcdc8]"Bringing out the big guns eh Piper?"[color] He asked, as he turned away from the window.

Hen then walked over to a chair, and lied his feet on the footstool. Now the waiting game once more started. There were two things that Ben worried about now. One: The weapon used to kill Dracula. It has to be somewhere in this world right? He preferred a weapon since using to much magic is way to risky in his opnion. Magic only brings about bad things. Like disturbing perefectly laid out time lines and angering other ones. Number two: They still had a freshspawn in the midst of learning his powers. He was worried that the kid woulden't make it when they tackled Dracuul head on. In his opnion, it was the best to let the kid out of danger just now. He was afraid that Rick only would become a nuisance. He looked at the kid from his chair. It's a good soul, and it would be a shame if he died. "Kid." He was looking at Rick. ""Come here, I want to ask you something."

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"Yeah, well I got into it with the leader of their pack and I killed him in a fight so I became the new leader. They are my responsibility now. With any luck they will survive this. What do we do about these magic weapons? How do we find them?" Piper asked. She had heard there were certain weapons but she had no other information.

Piper grabbed her phone and texted Grant. We are all in hiding at Violet's. I am a pack leader now. I miss you. Please be safe. She listened to Ben and Rick after Violet left.

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Rick Hoover

''what is it you want to ask, mr Winter?'' Rick asked afther he had watched miss violet leave.

He looked at piper as he asked herself where they could find one of the weapons. Jokes are on her for he already knew the location of one of them.
''Piper...how...would you react if I say I know where to find one of the three weapons'' Rick smirked as he sat down, wrapping his hand around Nora's shoulder.
''Remember that little cousin of mine, You know, the one Grant is with right now. She was trained by a line of hunters coming down from Jonathan Harker, along with being trained she as well recieved a knife...the knife of Jonatan Harker''

Piper went upstairs to locate some clothing other than a bathrobe and she found some jeans that were a little tight but they fit well enough she figured. She grabbed a t-Shirt and put it on and went back downstairs and looked at Rick. "Okay so assuming you can get that what and where are the two others that we need to take him down? I'll gladly go look for them. Right now I'm just hoping that if he tries to summon me that he won't have a strong pull but I'm also worried that being the same bloodline that he might. That is why I've been wolf lately. The pull is not as strong as it is in human form."

"Ben? Do you have any idea who these Elders are? Are they the new council or something? I've only ever heard of a few that weren't on the council and Nora mentioned Violet once before I got her summons today."

A little while later the doorbell rang and a good looking vampire in an old time suit was standing there. The sun had only been down about twenty minutes. "I'm looking for Violet. She asked me to meet her here." Piper nodded and let him in. Not ten more minutes another 2 appeared. Piper allowed them entry and texted Violet that the house was filling up with vampires.

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Ben Winters
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Ben looked at Rick. His one eye looked very serious for a change. He remembered something Rick said the other day. It was about his niece. "Rick. How did your niece aquire such powerful weapon?" How was very intrueged by how a simple human got hold of such weapon, and why Rick hadn't said it earlier. "Also, does she know how to use it?" Dracula wasn't a disturbance to be taken lightly.

Then Piper asked him something. Ben smiled. "Might be. I bet that they are simply elders who wish to stay in the shadows. Away from the council. Like me." He chuckled. They are simply free souls. Who have little to no desire for connection to the council. Like him, they simply just wanted to continue with their daily life. Without the calling of the council.
He then awaited, while the house was filling with elders. He reconised some faces from paintings he had seen. However, he kept seated in his chair. Not interested in social formalities. Then somebody walked up to him. He then reconised the face. It was Carina. The vampire he knew from Chile. She started a conversation with him. How many years it has been..the usual stuff.

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Grant Holiday

"That could work. Here."

Grant took out a notepad and his pen, wrote down directions for the safe house, then gave the piece of paper to Vladimir.

"Go to this address for the safe house. When you get there ask for a Miss Nora Baker. Tell her you were sent by me, but if you would be so kind as to now tell her the specifics of what I am doing I would appreciate it. It is not as if I do not trust her, and you will be safe with her, but.........I have my reasons."

Grant looked at Jean.

"I believe we should start moving as soon as possible."

Grant walked over to the other side of the vehicle and got in.

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Vladimir nodded when Sasha asked if it was a good idea. "I'll carry you and if your pain worsens I'll provide some of my venom." he lightly kissed her forehead. "A safe house would be safer then a place protected only by humans." he nodded to grant and took the paper.

He had soon memorized the directions and headed that way. He ran in such a way that Sasha wouldn't get sick. Cradling her to him just so he was able to hide her eyes from the blurring world. He reached the house and froze. There was a pack of werewolves outside. He let out a soft warning growl to them before banging on the door with his booted foot. "Hello?! We were sent by Grant holiday" he was tense not knowing what to expect in the other side of the door. He was more vulnerable like this, but he was still fast enough to be able to put her down and fight. He hoped it wouldn't come to that.

Piper answered the door and saw Vlad carrying Sasha. As soon as he said Grant's name she opened the door and quieted the pack. "I'm Piper Lance. The pack will leave you alone. No worries, they are mine." Piper looked at Ben and Rick who immediately made room for Sasha to lay on the couch. "Who are you and is Grant alright?" she asked.

The house was filling up with vampires, the 2 hybrids and the wolf pack outside. When Violet walked through the front door she was greeted by a lot of old friends and some knew ones as well.

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Sasha O'Neill&Jean Belair&Rick Hoover

Jean put the keys in the keyhole of the car and opened it. He had gotten a bit of Sasha's love for the old fashioned way, and opened his car manual. That and he has had it one time that the automatic lock of his car did not work.
''Step in kid'' Jean said as he put his seatbelt in place. He pushed a button and the license plate of his car twisted like you saw in those James Bond movies. He hated to get any speed tickets a this point, and time was of the essence, he did not wanted to daddle to much in their office and leave Sasha alone for to long. Who knows what Calis was planning.

After driving away with a high speed Jean turned towards the highway and finnaly shifted into his final gear. ''So this is weird, don't you agree?'' Jean spoke as he glanced to Grant. Both of them were assasins, both of them had killed a lot.
''We can almost call eachother colleauges, unfortunalty I stopped some time ago''

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It was late in the night as the pair arrived at Montreal. It was along and exhausting drive and to be honest, Jean did not look forwards to driving back without at least a few houres of sleep in his system.
''we have to be quiet, no one is allowed in the office at this time of the night'' Jean spoke as he guided Grant to a backdoor. Sneaking up the stairs He made sure to make no sound whats so ever. Clicking on his flashlight Jean shone around the hallway and noticed something strange. The door to their office was opened.
''Grant'' Jean wisperd barely able to hear himself. He motioned to the door and pointed at the vampire to go and check it out. He followed with his gun in the hand, and his flashlight out.

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Sasha hugged herself closer to Vladimir's body as he sped through the woods. She wished she could run like he did. Free through the Woods.
A bit scared she looked at the pack of wolf she saw as they had reached the safehouse Grant had spoken about. The pack seemed to split as Vladimir walked though it, growling low. Sasha looked inside as the door got opened by a girl with dirty blond hair. Behind her stood a older man, a young woman and...
''Rick...'' She said slow and soft
''Sasha!'' Rick almost shouted and he rushed forwards to his little cousin. He was very ready to take her out of the arms of the buff looking man that held her but something in the eye's of the hybrid told him not to even try it.
''Piper, they are good folk, This is my cousin, Sasha. The man is unkown to me'' Rick said as he let the two enter. Leading them to the living room, he trew the pillows on the couch at the side, but left a few to make sure Sasha could lay comfortable.
''What in heavens name happend to you?'' Rick asked and Sasha looked at his teeht. She noticed his sharp k-9 and she returned his question.
''What happend to you?''
''Long story short, fell in love became a vampire for her. I will tell you the rest later''

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Vladimir raised a brow as Rick came up to them. He unconsciously held Sasha closer and gave a 'don't even think about it' look. He barely looked at piper as he responded. "I am Vladimir. My last name doesn't matter." he gently laid Sasha down and sat down in front of the couch. A rather protective stance since he did not trust these....individuals. He inhaled and recognized the scent of hybrid coming from piper. Another brow raise and a head shake. "Grant was fine when we last spoke."

He saw the elders gathered and gave a grin. They would recognize him...even without his captains coat. He sat in such a way that at any threat he would have two swords at their throat. His hands resting on his legs. He looked non threatening but to think that of Vladimir would be a deadly mistake.

Violet smiled, walking into her home as if it were full of different breeds of people every day. She smiled and shook hands and/or hugged everyone. She walked over to the newcomers, "Piper? Have you ever met another hybrid before?" "Not until today. I must admit there is a certain familiarity that I recognized immediately." Piper held her hand out to Vlad to shake it. "Grant is my mate. He is also a good man." Piper said. Nora came downstairs. She nodded and smiled at everyone. "Wow, the house certainly filled up quickly."

Piper caught a scent on the breeze and took off out the back door. She didn't have to say anything to her wolves they took off and a few minutes later they returned with another vampire. He was in tatters. Piper lifted him up by his throat and demanded, "You are his lackey, what are you doing here?" After a moment of derisiveness from him she threw him to her wolves to tear apart. His screams were plenty amusing to her ears.

Violet could hear something going on and walked outside. Seeing Piper had it under control she went back inside as the others were starting to talk and share information. "He has sent someone to spy on us. Piper's pack is taking care of it." She said. "I have one request. There is not to be one citizen in my town harmed or you will answer to me and I don't care who the offender is." This request was made and as nice and seemingly sweet as Violet was there was an underlying tone that vibrated with a seriousness that was not to be ignored.

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Grant entered the office cautiously, senses heightened as he scanned for any intruders that might still be there. He found that the window over the street below was wide open, a sheer curtain gently wafting a goodbye from whoever had been here. Sasha's computer was on, and the light from her monitor illuminated an empty deskchair in front of it. A few papers were laid out haphazardly over the keyboard, still tussled gently by the breeze of night air coming from outside. Some intruder had been searching through Sasha's things, and clearly they weren't looking for money.

Mithias remained motionless in a dark corner, allowing his dark clothing and undead heart to maintain perfect stealth, yet somehow, Grant was getting closer. Mithias realized quickly that he was out of time and was about to be discovered. At the very same moment Grant's honed senses detected him, Mithias leapt at him from out of the shadows, grabbing onto the vampire's neck first thing.

A brief struggle ensued as Grant found that the intruder was stronger than he was. The attacker was in all black, a wide-brimmed hat settled over otherworldly brilliant eyes and a sash covered over his mouth and nose. Mithias wrested to a position behind Grant, stifling any noise his enemy might have made by squeezing his throat. Quickly, grant felt the cold edge of a blade slip under his attacker's arm and press against his neck.

Mithias kept Grant grappled between himself and Jean. "Try and escape vampire, and I'll kill you. Succeed in escaping, and I'll kill your human friend." He turned his yellow glare to Jean. In truth, Mithias hadn't had time to flee the scene before Jean and grant had arrived, but that was no reason to give up the upper hand. "Who are you? And don't try to play any games."

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Vladimir did not move from where he was sitting. He raised a brow when hands were offered to be shaked. Instead he lifted his hand and took two fingers...tapping to his forehead then away. He looked at piper with an eyebrow still raised. "Interesting" he did not seem interested or caring too much.

He looked over at violet and gave a grin. "Don't worry unlike some other leeches I feed on animals" he eyed the elders with a knowing look. He then pulled a flask out and swiges the liquid back. He then paused and pulled out a syringe. He injected the animal blood into his vein before taking another swig of rum. He still stayed in front of Sasha.

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Sasha O'Neill&Jean Belair&Rick Hoover

Rick listened to the conversation that took place when something got his attention.
"wait...what. Vampires can also drink animal blood?" He said suprised as he looked at Vladimir. He wished someone had told him that before he akwardly had to bite into some guys neck.
"please tell me that that olis not only a hybrid thing, if it isn't sign me up for that diët. I rather drain a bunny than a Bonny"Rick laughed akward as he sceatched his head. Sasha giglged as she saw Rick act like that. She was glad that even though he had turned into a vampire, he was still himself.
"So now that we are all together, do we have some sort of a solid plan we are working on. I mean we are all gatherd here for one thing. To balance the scale by removing the weight we know as Vladimir"
Softly she laid her hand on the shoulder of her Vladimir moved it upwards, letting her fingers touch his black hair.
"and I am not talking about this Vladimir. Though he can come over as rough he has his heart on the right place" with a bit of trouble and a slightly pained face Sasha leaned forwards and kissed his cheek. "Vlad, I do not know rest, but I do know Rick. At least you can trust him"

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Jean was shocked to see the vampire who stood opposide of him, holding Grant in check.
"great, of all the vampires in the world we had to stumble upon you" Jean said as he carefully moved closer. He raised his hands, knowing that if he amde a weong move, Grant's head would roll.
"the proud guard dog of SOLDIER, I can only hope you havw not recieved a order to kill me, but luck hasn't been on my side lately" Jean spoke. If Mitthias was send to kill him, Jean knew he would not leave the building unscathed, heck it would be a miracle if he survived it. He had gone rusty over the years.

Grant Holiday

Grant calmed himself and relaxed his muscles. He dared not move an inch, for multiple reasons. He was trapped. But lets take it back by a few minutes. When Jean and Grant had walked into the place, Grant could tell almost right away something was off. Grant tried to detect anyone with his sense of smell but did not notice anything right away. Every moment though a certain scent grew stronger and stronger. Whoever had arrived first obviously knew what they were doing. And from the smell.....Grant shuddered. This was someone ancient and powerful. He knew he was ill prepared to fight someone of this nature. He only had his dead mans blood, and that was it. No traps prepared in advance. It was foolish of him, but Grant truly thought that he could gather what he needed and not come under and trouble.

Grant held up a hand to Jean to signal him to stay still. For a moment Jean listened. Grant walked forward, surveying the place. Things were messy, papers were everywhere, there was a window open. Grant looked at the window and his eyes narrowed. He sniffed the air and stared at the windowsil. While whoever it was scent was there, there was no hand or foot prints. Even if whoever it was had jumped through the window, the scent lingered at the window and did not move. Grant realized whoever it was had wanted them to think he had left, and was more than likely there.

Grant walked forward a bit more when he realized too late that he had walked into a trap. Another being sprung from no where, attacking him. After a brief struggle he held Grant in his grasp, and his mercy. He felt the blade pressed against his throat.

Try and escape vampire, and I'll kill you. Succeed in escaping, and I'll kill your human friend. Who are you? And don't try to play any games."

Present time, Grant eyed Jean.

"Good sir, how about we not antagonize the man who has a blade pressed against thy throat. It would not serve me well at all to be beheaded at this time. It is as well, Piper would be furious if I was beheaded."

Grant eyed Mithis again.

"Release me at once. Violence shall accomplish nothing, if you wish to speak then we are all for speaking. Words part my tongue in such an elegant fashion."

Grant shot Jean a look that said "Shut up and let me talk. Dont speak just listen."

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Mithias blinked. He watched jean carefully, but other than that, his thoughts and expressions were hidden in black. Suddenly, he recognized Jean from Soldier's records on him. "Youyou." Mithias said, and kept his hold on Grant, revealing what he knew to the human. He took some satisfaction upon seeing Jean's reaction to hearing his old name. He figured Jean had probably been able to recognize him because of his unique eyes; so much for the ninja getup. Mithias was too easy to recognize.

"You've come a long way since your betrayal of Soldier, assassin. I find it very interesting that you're associated with this O'Neil reporter. How did that come to be? I wonder." Knowing who Jean was gave Mithias plenty reason to keep his guard up. However, since Mithias himself had so recently been betrayed by Soldier, surviving a bomb blowing up in his car, he and Jean may both have been on the same side of the fence by now. It would depend on how much Jean and this vampire friend of his knew about what was really going on within Soldier.

Mithias had yet to find out who this handsome vampire was that he was holding, and it did not escape his notice that his direct question had gone blatantly unanswered. Regardless, he had already gained a lot of information on the two of them and their characters. Chances were, they weren't going to be enemies in the end. He have to take a chance in trusting them.

He looked down at Grant and eased his blade away. It was one of his katana-style swords that he kept at his sides. "So, I see you are not cowards. Fortunately for you, neither am I." Mithias didn't fear for his life so much or doubt his own abilities such that he would kill two potential innocents. He let Grant go. "We will talk. Why don't you begin by answering my question, vampire. Who are you, and why have you two returned here tonight?"