Bane heard the yelling and then stood. “Pardon me you two…” he slipped out into the hallway to see Sam snd moved over to her. “Ms? Are you alright?” He moved in front of her and said “it’s a lot to take in…the magic world under the human is confusing. But she isn’t lying to you”

He moved his hand and the shadows gather in his hand, moving within his fingers. “It’s a big world out there that your sister wanted to protect you from…I doubt this is how she wanted to tell you…but now you have answers to the many question…”

Sam had her arms folded across her chest, one hand up to her mouth as she tried to deal with the information that had been told to her. She knew Kay liked her fantasy worlds in books and her art style, but for her this was one step too far. She wasn't expecting anyone to come after her, so when Bane did she jumped ever so slightly before instantly calming down, wiping her face of the tears that had come down without her even realising.

She listened to his words and watched him as he made shadows almost dance in his hand, making her gasp, covering her mouth once again. "She should know me better than to think keeping this from me was the right thing" she told Bane, just assuming that Kay knew what she was this whole time. "How long did she know what she was? T-that she wasn't even human" she asked him, unsure if Bane would know the answer or not.

Kay remained in the kitchen, pulling out a stool and sat down on it putting her head in her hands. "I'm such a bloody screw up...." she muttered to herself, seeing teardrops drop onto the worktop. She was terrified of her sister not accepting her for who she was now she knew the truth.

Bane shook his head and said “not long. Many of the years she was on the run I think she just thought she was crazy. Serena went thru something similar…in the moment of fear humans hardly are able to think thru things this far. Kay thought it would keep you safe from her nightmares…”

He reached and took Sam’s hand. “John is human but have the powers of a mage. He has been able to care for your sister. Protect her. Kay is safe with him…he was the one to convince Kay it was safe to see you again. Kay didn’t want you to come to harm…”

Sam listened to Bane, there was something about the way he spoke, his tone that seemed to calm her a bit, but for her it was still a lot to come to terms with. Phoenix's, demons, shadow powers, magic? She couldn't wrap her head around any of it being real. She also knew what Bane was saying made sense, Kay had always put others before herself, despite the hard life she had grown up having. "she's always been like that...getting Kay to open up sometimes can be like punching through a brick wall" she remarked.

"I love that girl, I really do. I've tried to protect her all of our childhood, even at school when people found out she was an outpatient, I stood by her. I've done so much to try and make her happy that it's a lot to take in that she's gone through this without me and now she's the one doing the protecting. It's like when I came out to everyone as gay all over again. She's stood by me that whole time too" she replied, letting Bane hold her hand.

"I'm so thankful she's at least had John and that he convinced her to come here. But I'm going to need time to truly process all of this. But I want to thank John personally. How are they both? John and Serena that is" she finished saying.

Bane smiled and said “John is awake, needs to be treated snd then we must find out what happened. My guardian…Serena that is, seemed to have taken to the attack harder then John. I’ll need to check on her more detailed…”

He looked at her and said “there’s no rush when it comes to understanding…but just make sure you don’t shut Lay out when your trying to wrap your head around things.”

Sam nodded at his words until he said Serena was his guardian which just felt like even more overwhelming information. "by all means, go and see to her. If you need anything just ask... I guess I have a bit more talking to Kay to do..." she told him before glsnci g behind her toward the kitchen. Looking back at Bane, she spoke once more, "I won't shut her out, I promise".

Kay remained in the kitchen, regretting ever coming back here to Sam. She felt like she shouldn't ever have done this. She felt like she should have known better than to bring Sam into this world and situation and wondered if keeping her ignorant to it all would have been the better idea.

Bane smiled and nodded. “Don’t shut the door. It takes time, but know she is still your sister. Nothing has changed who she is. Your just learning new things about her as well” he bowed his head and headed back to the living room, John sitting up and watching him come back and asked “everything good?” Bane nodded and said “it will be…”

Sam nodded at Bane's words before letting him head back to the living room where John and Serena was. She looked back toward the kitchen staring at the doorway to it, trying to gain the inner emotional strength to go back in there and actually talk to Kay. She let Bane's words ring through her head 'she's still your sister' she thought over and over.

Kay was still sat on the stool in the same state as she was when Sam left the kitchen, she didn't even look up when Sam did eventually come back in and sat opposite her. Sam grabbed her hands gently and shakily to make Kay look at her. "I'm sorry... Its just... Its a lot to take in ya know?" Sam quietly and softly spoke. Kay nodded a little and looked at her in the eyes, "I know..until I met John, I didn't even know what I was. Who I was. Sam, if I could have guaranteed you wouldnt have been in danger at the time I would have come back to you so much sooner. But I couldn't... I can't lose you Sam" Kay told her.

John was sitting up holding his head as Bane was treating Serena. Bane looked over and asked “what happened?” John shook his head and said “we followed a sense of dark aura…we were trying to find the Apollo vessel…but then those vines came out of no where. Which we were fine until something hit Serena from behind and then I got shocked. Someone else was there. Helping that thing out. I think whoever has the vessel…tried to get rid of us”

Sam sighed as Kay said what she did, without saying a word she got up, walked round the counter and hugged Kay tightly, kissing the top of her head. "I love you sis. Its gonna take a lot to understand, especially as I'm still trying to compute you're even alive, let alone the fact you're, you're not fully human" Sam explained. "I know, I didn't want to bombard you with everything, not in one swoop anyway...." Kay replied.

"I know....look, we can slowly discuss this later, you got a boyfriend out there who needs you right now and I wanna properly meet the man that saved my sister's life" Sam smiled, making Kay groan and roll her eyes. "fine" Kay replied back, standing up and hugging Sam even tighter before pulling away and taking her hand, walking back into the living room with her.

Bane was sitting by Serena as they came back in. “Kay? I think John could use some ice. He has a headache. Serena’s head wound isn’t too bad. Just need to stitch the wound and let her come around. Is everything alright?”

John waved weakly and said “hey love…nice to meet you Sam…wish I had a better first impression for you…this isn’t my proudest moment. Bloody vines…”

Kay looked to Bane as he spoke up first about what John needed and then what Serena needed. Nodding, Kay went back into the kitchen and found Sam's freezer where she got out some ice and wrapped them in a tea towel then came back out and handed it to John, sitting next to him. Sam gave a small wave back to JOhn as he greeted her, "nice to meet you too." she replied, then looked at Bane, "everything you need to help Serena is in the first aid kit on the table" she explained.

She then looked back at John, "I wanna say before anything else thank you...for finding Kay and bringing her back to me" she told him. She wished it was under better circumstances but she was grateful, even if she knew deep down Kay wouldn't be staying. She watched as Kay checked John over, looking at the burn whip marks and how they were after she had earlier put the cream on, seeing that Kay really was looking JOhn over tentatively and showed great care towards him.

"it's clear she cares a lot for you" Sam added.

Bane turned and saw the medkit, then looked at the girls saying “right…human ways of doing this” he picked up the kit and opened it, looking for the tools he needed.

John smiled and took the ice, resting it on his head and muttered “love I’m alright. Just sore. And your welcome Sam…Shenis safe with me. And I’ll make sure she stays in touch this time.” He flinched as she touched one of the burns. “Thanks for getting us out, yoh two…we were in big trouble otherwise”

Kay wasn't satisfied with just being told by John that he was okay. She felt the need to know for herself, even though he was insisting he was fine. Seeing him flinch however made her pull her fingers away from his burns, "sorry and you're welcome. I felt you were in trouble and had to find you both" she told him.

Sam nodded, "I'm glad you're okay, you're all welcome to stay here as long as you need to save hotel costs. I've only got one spare room, so if two of you are fine with sleeping on the couches if you're here that long then you can stay" Sam explained. Kay smiled every so slightly, "you really haven't changed Sam" she commented, looking at her sister, "well I'm hardly gonna kick my long lost sister out as well as her friends and partner" Sam countered. "which I need to know more about, i'm surprised you're with anyone, relationships was my thing not yours" she added.

John smirked and laid the ice over his forehead. “Really? I find that surprising sense she is the one who made the first move” Bane was using the shadows to stitch the wound and suddenly Serena groaned. Bane stopped and said “Serena?” He looked over and said “I think she’s coming around”

Sam's face said a thousand things as she reacted to what John pointed out. She did glance every now and then at Bane helping Serena just incase she needed to step in, but it seemed Bane had it under control. "oh I have many stories to tell you about this one girl" Sam smirked mischievously, showing she really did have plenty of stories to tell John. Kay groaned and put her face in her hand, knowing she had opened a whole can of worms letting Sam meet John. "This girl here has always been the type to flirt greatly, but never let people hang around long enough to be in a relationship with. One birthday of mine we went to a bar and she was full on dancing on the bar drunk as hell reenacting Coyote Ugly. I swear, she was unstoppable. Next thing I see is her jumping off the bar, over to this bloke who wasn't part of our party and taking him to a corner where she snogged the life outta him before disappearing into the restrooms for a while!" she told the story chuckling as she remembered it, and seeing Kay getting highly embarrassed by her made it so much sweeter.

Serena coming round felt like an utter miracle to Kay as she looked up. "Serena?" she asked, "you're okay, you're at Sam's with all of us" she said.

John raised an eyebrow at Kay and said “well we will be talking about that later on won’t we…” then he sat up more as Serena slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She saw Kay and Bane and tried to move.

“What…hit me…” Bane kept her laying down and said “easy my lady…not too fast. You and John were attacked. Both of you have no energy right now. Either of you move too much you’ll pass out again”

John wanting to know more about those days of hers made her groan out of embarrassment, a slight pink tint appearing on her cheeks. She gave Sam a look that perfectly said 'I hate you' but she didn't actually mean it. Sam just looked smug at succeeding in embarrassing her in front of John.

"seems whoever was there didn't want you guys nearby. Vines attacked you and myself and Bane managed to get to you both in time. And whatever was controlling those vines did not like me there, the vines cowered away from me which gave me room to getting you free" Kay explained.

Serena groaned and held her head. “I felt another soul there trapped…I think the vessel was there…” John nodded and sat up slowly. “I think we found them…but we got jumped so they must have taken off with them. What I don’t get why take them in the first place…”

John moved the ice again as Bane stood and said “the different kinds of gods use their vessels differently…it could be the vessel doesn’t know who they really are…”

"sounds like the vessel is scared. Its acting out possibly out of survival and fear which I can't blame them for doing if that's the case. If you Serena had found me at any other time I probably would have done the same thing. As much as I don't wanna admit that, it's true." Kay replied after listening to them talk. "all we can do for now is rest up before coming up with another plan" she added.

"like I said earlier, you're all welcome to stay here whilst you all recover" Sam chimed in, not understanding a single word they were talking about and had no plans on trying to at this stage.