Alec looked around at all the puppets and back to Marcus, nodding at what the man said. He charged towards the first puppet, tearing it apart. He grabbed the knife in one and used it to tear the rest.of the.puppets apart. The witch closed his mouth immediately, glaring up at Marcus. He didn't want to give up and finally looked down, signaling that he had finally given up this vendetta. Alec had finished the last.puppet of, he tossed the knife to the side now. The witch was stunned."He....killed all.of them..." He said.

"Fine...I give up.." he said.

Marcus had to admit that he was impressed with the witch's refusal to drink. He didn't give up trying to get him to drink until all the puppets were dead and he could feel the fight leave the witch. Removing his wrist, Marcus smirked at the witch's reaction to how well Alec had done. "Of course he killed all of them. He was taught by Arya, Damien and myself, he knows how to protect himself."

The vampire finally released the witch upon hearing his surrender. He knew the witch could run all he wanted, still he didn't text Amelita to tell her to let him get away. The moment the witch exited his lair, he would get an arrow through his leg. Amelita didn't miss a target and he had instructed her just to stop him from running away, not to kill him. "You have 12 hours, if I can still use my tracker to find you then, you're dead. If I ever see you or one of your creatures near Damien again, you're dead. Got it? Now go," he told the witch.

Turning to Alec, he walked over to the boy and hugged him. "Your sister is still alive, let's get Damien and go get her," he said softly, waiting for the witch to leave first. He wanted to see the look on the man's face when he realized how serious Marcus was about the deadline for getting out of dodge.

The witch gave one last look to Alec then Marcus before quickly departing from the hide out, not even aware of the other vampire outside. Alec smiled and hugged Marcus back."I hope that Damien is ok...." he said softly. He looked alittle sadden then."Will anyone ever stop trying to take Damien away from you?" He asked. He didn't want Arya. Damien or anyone leaving him.

Gale was patiently watching from her vantage point. She had clear orders, she was to slow down the witch if he attempted to escape. Marcus had failed to mention that they were done inside the lair and that the witch had been allowed to flee, so she pulled back on her bow string, focused on her target and released her arrow, smirking when it hit her target. She had aimed to hit below the knee, but she'd hit the witch in the thigh instead. Maybe she'd wanted to slow him down a little too much.

Marcus sighed softly. "Damien only seems to be safe when he's on his own, it's easier for him not to draw attention then..." He didn't like it one bit, but it was true. Damien only seemed to be safe when he wasn't around, which was a thought he didn't like the slightest. But what was he supposed to do about it? It wasn't like he could change how he felt any more than he could change how other people viewed him after knowing him for close to two thousand years.

"I want you to bring Gale and go check up on Damien. If he's alright, I'd like Gale to take him to Arya. She'll be able to track me, or you from here. It's time we got Arya back home as well." He didn't know what to expect when he finally found Arya, all he knew was that she was alive. Leaving the lair, he set off towards Arya without explaining to Gale where he was going or why. Alec would have to tell her and now that she was lingering by the entrance to the lair that shouldn't be too difficult. He needed to know what he'd find before the others found him.

~*~

Arya had kept her word and hadn't hesitated when William put her back in chains. The bindings were of a different kind than previously and she had no chance of getting out on her own without picking the lock. Her dress was a mess, not only from the times William had slashed her with his knife, but from having this unfamiliar liquid poured on her wounds. Spitting a mouthful of blood at William, the blonde smirked. "Is that it?" she mocked him, a slight chuckle escaping her.

Sure, he'd hurt her, and it had actually hurt like nothing she'd ever felt when he mixed his magical solution with her wounds to keep them from healing quickly. She just hadn't given him the satisfaction of knowing just how much it had hurt and had literally been biting her tongue to keep quiet. Marcus was coming and it just wouldn't do for her to cry out in pain, so she was snarling at William or biting the insides of her mouth, depending on how deep the cut was and how deep the liquid penetrated.

What Marcus had said made him somewhat scared that he might leave to keep Damien safe. He couldn't say anything before Marcus took off to find Arya. He quickly found Gale and explained everything to her as they set of for Damien. Alec was quick to get back to where Damien was. Damien was pacing back and.forth, finally stopping amd.listened to what Gale.and.Alec.told him. He didn't even bother.telling the witch where he was going and took off where he sensed Arya and Marcus were.

Alec followed behind, he wanted to make sure that Arya was ok and still alive.

Marcus didn't want to leave Damien. He'd found someone he felt like he belonged with and didn't want to give that up for anything. It was more a case of he didn't know how much longer he could keep fighting people just to keep Damien safe. He had too many enemies to really be able to keep Damien completely out of harms way. Sooner or later a choice needed to be made, he needed to figure out how exactly he could keep his lover out of his fights without leaving him.

Gale went home with Alec and left with the boys again to make sure they found their way to Arya. Tessa returned back to the Order upon learning that the witch that had attacked Damien was on the run, her services were no longer needed so there was no point for her to really stick around any longer. She still had plenty of work to do, and Marcus had promised a handsome fee for helping out.

Arya knew Marcus was coming, she could feel it with every fiber of her being. He was coming, and he was going to see just how well he'd truly trained his first. She was weakened, hurt and tired, but she had yet to give William what he wanted. "You should have just ended things when you had the chance, Will, it's too late now." He wouldn't get away with his life anymore at this point, she was sure of it. Now she'd indirectly been the cause of the man's death twice. It wasn't often she could claim that to be the case.

He didn't kick down the door this time like he had done with the witch. No, Marcus knew he needed to be quiet to make sure this hunter didn't kill Arya in a fit of panic. Once he was inside the building, Marcus used all his stealth skills to sneak until he used his speed and pressed a blade to the vampire's throat. Soon thereafter, he snapped the guy's neck and went to tend to Arya. She'd never looked so much like an innocent, young woman since he'd first found her. Didn't matter that she was bloody, the moment he freed her and held her close she actually seemed to be shaking slightly.

Pushing Marcus out of the way, Arya got back on her feet and removed her right shoe before she jammed it through William's wrist and to the floor. She turned his head to the side with her left foot and gently pressed the heal of her shoe to his temple as he started coming to again. "I dare you to move," she said and pressed the heel down ever so slightly to prove her point. She didn't care at all that her dress was more or less shredded in the front or that Marcus probably hadn't come alone.

Damien led the way, telepathically telling Gale and Alec to be quiet when they approach the house. He tapped into his telepathy, hearing everyone's thoughts inside. It seemed the hunter wad knocked out and Marcus and Arya had the upperhand. He wasn't sure if going in there was even necessary anymore but that didn't stop Alec from going in when he felt everything was in the clear.

Alec looked down, wanting to tear the hunter apart for.kidnapping him and.hurting him and Arya. He.kicked.away.any.nearby.weapons, picking a.needle that had whatever sedative that had.knocked him out."Could stab him in the eye with this." Alec said, gripping the.needle.

Damien walked in, walking over to Marcus and hugged.him. He was afraid that he wouldn't see Marcus again.

Gale didn't enter the building once they reached the place where Alec had been held and Arya was now being kept. It must have been related to her being a hunter before or something, because she had gotten really cautious about being followed or trapped since she was turned. Marcus used to make fun of her for it and call her a watchdog, but if that was the case, it could've been a lot worse. She could've still been Arya's pet and had no other purpose than to amuse the woman.

Arya smirked slightly when Alec entered and kicked away all the weapons like that. "Maybe not in the eye, but knock him out good and proper so Damien can help question him before we turn him over to the council." Removing her heel from her fledgeling's temple, she bent down and pulled her other shoe out of the vampire and put it back on. Looking around the room, she found one of William's coats and put it on in case they ran into anyone on the way home. At least that way they wouldn't be staring at her like she'd done something bad.

She was nothing like her brothers, Arya knew that. Marcus would never go to extreme lengths to save her and if he did come save her, he did it discretely. She was trained differently from her brothers. All her skills and talents came from hard training and studying to great lengths. Alec had his hybrid powers and Damien his telepathy and nature based powers, she had her wits and pain tolerance. At the end of the day, she was what she'd been trained to be; a companion that wouldn't give up secrets even if she were tortured for them. It also meant that she was the only one of the siblings that could ever truly be safe since she wasn't as special as the other two.

Marcus hugged Damien back and held him tightly when he finally entered. He needed to find another way to stop people coming after Damien and Alec. With a sigh, Marcus let go of Damien and picked up William, flinging the unconscious vampire over his shoulder. He'd heard rumors about Arya's fledgelings, but he'd never quite believed it until he got to see one of them for himself. "Next time you get the urge to turn someone, please don't. Get someone else to do it for you," he told her before he led their group back outside so they could all go home again.

Damien was just happy that Marcus was alright and Alec was alright. He looked at the hunter, he had never really met any of Arya's fledgeings and wondered if all of them were like this? Alec only nodded, grabbing the hunters arm and pushed the needle into a veins, knocking the hunter out.

He put the needle back on the ground and sigh softly. Damien and Alec followed closely behind Marcus, Alec wanted to go home and just get some rest, he was tired after todays events.

Arya knew that her fledgelings always ended up losing it. She didn't understand why, especially since she'd had nothing to do with William after he was turned. She hadn't even known he was turned until she saw the mark on the werewolf boy. How on earth he'd ended up like the rest of them were beyond her, but maybe William could shed some light on that when she got to question him properly.

"I wasn't even aware that he was alive until today," she told Marcus in all honesty before she left with her family. It would be good to get everyone home safely and just put this all behind her. She seemed to have misplaced her phone somewhere, otherwise she would have called the vampiress she had bullied into going to the town council for her to let her know they had apprehended the hunter.

Wrapping an arm around Alec, she sighed softly. "What did he tell you before I got there? I need to know how far gone he is..." Looking at Marcus, she shook her head ever so slightly in defeat. "I need your help," was all she said. What she needed help with was a conversation best kept between the two of them. Marcus wasn't the only one with secrets to keep. He knew more than enough about her own and what had happened with one of her fledgelings in London.

Marcus brought William to Arya's place and locked him up in her playroom. It was safer to question the hunter there than at Damien's simply because Alec and Gale were out of harm's way that way. Besides, the hybrid needed rest to recover and Arya needed a change of clothes. The blonde didn't take long to return, her hair up and wrapped in a black, silk robe. "Damien, can you use your telepathy to make William act like a normal person for a little while? Or just have at him while I go wash off whatever poison he poured on my wounds so they can heal properly, it's up to you." With that she left the two lovers alone while she went to take a warm bath.

Alec looked at her."He didn't say much......I was knocked out majority of the time and said I didn't deserve to live because of what I was." He said. He didn't really remember much, that sedative that William gave him took a toll on him. Once they got back, Alec went to bed, he crashed rather quickly.

Damien followed Marcus and Arya to the red room, only nodding at what Arya said Anne watched as she left. He looked at Marcus for a moment before just sitting down.

With Arya otherwise preoccupied, Marcus sat down next to Damien and held him tightly. "Arya doesn't know this, but she had a curse put on her sometime in the dark ages. Until she redeems herself for the atrocities she committed towards a coven of witches disguised as clergy, she can't turn just anyone into a vampire without them losing it. I thought she'd stopped trying to make herself a companion after the disaster with Jack in London..." Marcus didn't want Arya to turn someone to replace her family, so he'd never told her about why her fledgelings had all lost their minds. He had been approached by the witch who'd cursed his fledgeling with a warning to keep away from them as well as information about the curse.

They still had work to do with William before Arya returned. And he supposed it was time to tell Arya why her fledgelings had almost all of them lost their minds and started hunting one thing or another. Nuzzling Damien's neck, he kissed it gently. "I shouldn't have said all those mean things to you earlier, can you forgive me?" he asked quietly. Fighting with Damien was his very least favorite thing in the world. It always left him feeling uneasy until they'd made up or he had something else important to occupy himself with.

Arya was taking her sweet time with the bath. Nothing had ever soothed her skin after one of Marcus's punishments as a hot bath and it seemed to clean away all the remains of whatever William had used on her and finally made her cuts close properly. She needed to know what had happened to William to make him turn out just like another Jack when she hadn't even been around to try to teach him. It made no sense to her, but she had stopped trying to turn anyone all the same to make sure it didn't happen again.

The water was getting cold and had turned slightly pink from the blood washing off of her skin by the time she got out and got dressed in a really short, black dress that clung to her figure and slipped on black pumps before she went back to her playroom. "Miss me?" she asked coolly and leaned against the door frame, a slight smirk playing on her lips.

Damien just laid his head on Marcus shoulder, wrapping a arm around the man. He loved when Marcus would hold him, he felt safe, like nothing in this world could touch him or harm him. He listen and was alittle stunned at this new revelation that Marcus told him. She even had turned Jack the Ripper. He had been in London during that time and even ventured out to the Whitechapel area but he could never find who this killer was. "That kinda surprise me....are you ever going to tell her?" He asked.

He smiled some at the kisses down his neck."I forgive you....I love you." He said

He looked up just as Arya had come back."His still pretty knocked out." He said

Marcus wished he could stay with Damien like that forever. His lover was safe and sound, they were together and no one was hurt at the moment. It was doomed to be a fleeting moment of happiness. Sooner or later, all good things came to an end, someone was bound to go after either Damien or Alec because they were special and there was nothing he could do about it. Unless he went back to Europe to sort things out with his foes on his own, but that still meant leaving everything behind with little chance of actually getting home safely.

"I suspect she knows something's up already. She spent half a century tracking down the few fledgelings she's made over the years and slaughtered them all. Don't ask her about it though, she'll never admit to anything being wrong. I'll tell her the truth if she asks for it." Marcus had no intentions of telling Arya just out of the blue that he'd known for centuries why the people she'd turned on purpose had all lost it. The only way she could make a vampire that wouldn't lose his or her mind was if she were trying to save their life (not from an injury caused by her) and they still died with her blood in their system. She was not permitted to turn someone as a selfish act to have someone around forever. The rules were very specific and he had decided a long time ago that if Arya asked for his help, she would have it, but not a moment before.

Arya could tell by the way the conversation seemed to have stopped when she was approaching that they'd been talking about her. Marcus had probably told Damien how all her fledgelings were mad, or ended up that way. She didn't really care at the moment, she wanted to know what had happened to her dear William. The way Marcus had tied him up didn't suit her at all, so she went over to the hunter and rearranged his chains so she was absolutely sure he was stuck.

Pushing the knocked out vampire down on the floor with her foot, she pressed the heel of her shoe into his shoulder until his skin broke and he started groaning in pain as she pushed her heel in further. "Time to wake up, William." With that, she stepped off of the boy and turned to Damien, positively gleeful for a moment. "Have at him." Nothing felt better to her than retribution.

He watched Arya now, hearing how William groaned in pain. He sat up and walked over to him, placing his hands on either side of William head. He began to fiddle around in the vampires mind, which he didn't like one bit but Damien held him down. Here rummaged through his mind till finally here let go. What he had done to the poor guy was mess with his memories, which could really do a number on people.