Adrian stares at Crystal who sips her coffee, he sighs as he walks closer to her before he puts his arms around her and she puts her head on his shoulder.

"You okay?" he asks and she nods her head.

"What happened?" she asks him.

"Don't you remember?" he asks.

"All I remember is someone asking me to follow them and then there was nothing but pain, it's all blank after that"

"When the vampires attacked Antonio's pack, I knew they were going to attack the palace as well, but I calculated wrong. I did not know they were going to attack at the same time"

"What about the men that went for Antonio's aid?" she asks him.

"We have no news"

"Is this the no news being good news part, Ad?" she worries making him sigh.

"I don't know, Cry" he admits and both of them stay in silence.

"We should go for their aid" she suggests and he nods his head.

"I will"

"But..." she tries to protests but he shakes his head no.

"You need to rest, I will go with some of my men, Warren will stay with you. I have tried to contact Dante but he has been MIA, but I am sure he will be back soon until then you stay here"

"Before you leave can I go see the palace?" she asks and he gets up to stand in front of her.

"There is nothing left to see of the palace, Cry" he informs and she stares at the ground.

"Oh"

"I will be back as soon as I can"

"No, you need to stay and check on them. Make sure they have enough help. It's all my fault I should not have..."

"Regretting the past will only bring regrets Crystal, right now we need to stay strong and gather our allies"

"Allies? Who are they?" she questions and he sighs.

"We all knew this would happen sooner or later Cry, this is what we all have been preparing you for. The betrayal of your own"

"I don't even know who are my own" she confesses and he kneels to hold her hands in his own.

"You, you are your own, gather the strength within yourself. We already have a fallen palace, we do not need a fallen Queen as well"

"Being Queen has turned to be nothing but a title, I am scared of my own self, to save one life I have sacrificed many. I just wanted to help" she points as he squeezes her hand.

"I wish I had words to make you feel better but all I can say is gather your strength, a warrior fights until his last breath, it does not matter if his hits are not strong to hurt an enemy but if he can use his last breath to keep the enemy distracted enough for other to come to help, he does that, uses his breath to keep enemy engaged, distracted"

"I feel I am my own enemy"

"Never known more truer words than that, but you are still a Queen, so head always high, My Queen. Even if they do not accept you, for me, you will always be the Queen" he points and she smiles as she gets up.

"Go and hurry back" she smiles and he nods before taking his leave.

*******

"I swear never seen anything as funny as watching those blood suckers fall off the walls and pillars as if leaves" Warren points as he along with Crystal stroll around the ground where they palace was once held.

"This is...how?" Crystal asks and Warren shrugs his shoulders.

"No idea, until we got here it was all gone poof"

"What about the guards and people?" she asks and he stares at the broken walls.

"That is what both Ad and I find strange, yeah, we lost few good men but beside them, others were just fine. Like you, we found them unconscious as if someone planted them like that"

"Means?"

"Not a damn idea, Cry. Let's say we were lucky. Now before Ad finds and tries to rip my ear off with his growls and shouts what are we looking for?" he asks and she sighs.

"There really is not any thing left to see" she points before Warren stands still and a growl passes his lips as he grabs Crystal pushing her behind him.

The ground shakes a bit and before they know the ground starts to not just shake but open as well.

"What the..." Warren narrows his eyes as he grabs Crystal around her waist and jumps away before the ground opens and the bits and pieces of the palace is eaten by the ground.

Warren runs away from the area carrying Crystal, they stop and stand far away to watch everything vanish inside the ground.

"What the fuck just happened?" Warren asks as he looks around the empty field.

"Portals" Crystal whispers and Warren frowns.

"But who opened it?" Warren questions before a girl stumbles in front of them.

"Work all done, here" a girl sighs before she turns to scream.

"Humans!" the girl screams pointing her little fingers at Crystal and Warren.

"Not humans" another voice adds before Warren and Crystal finds a group of little girls peeking at them.

"Uh-oh, you said there was no one" one of the girl points.

"There was not supposed to from my calculations" someone else grumbles while Warren and Crystal stares at the girls dumbstruck.

"What...what the fuck are those?" Warren asks pointing his hand at the girls.

"Hey, watch the language we do know that is a bad, bad word" one of them shout at Warren.

"And by the way we are berry fairies"

"Berry what?" Warren frowns.

"Ugh, why do we even try, lets just erase their memories and be gone, no one is supposed to know about us"

"But playing with memories is bad"

"So, what you mean you are ready for humans to know fairies are real thing?" the girls fight among them.

"Girls!" someone shouts and all of them turn to stare at the first fairy who stumbled out.

"Hurry and erase their memories" the girl orders and both Crystal and Warren steps back as a burst of lights rises from the girl's hands shooting it the pair.

Warren groans as the power hits his chest and he goes flying crashing into a tree and Crystal raises her hand to stop the shot only to feel cool air touch her face before warm arms holds her.

"God damn, now what!" the girls all groans at once and Crystal stares at the face of her mate in shock.

"Con..." her eyes roll upwards and she loses her consciousness even before she could finish his name.

*******

"I can feel the fairy dust all over him" one of the girl points as Connor puts Crystal down before he glances at the group.

"What did you all do?" Connor asks the group.

"He is handsome" one of the girl's murmurs.

"Focus" someone snaps.

"Who are you? And why is there fairy dust all over you?" one of the girls asks.

"I asked first" he points before the brave one flies closer to him as she flies around him, returning back to her sisters the girl shares her thoughts and all of them once again turn to face Connor.

"So, you are her mate" the girl asks as she points at Crystal.

"What did you do to this place?" Connor asks ignoring her questions.

"We were just cleaning up" one of them states as she tries to fly closer but gets pulled back.

"Cleaning?" Connor asks and the girls nods.

"He already knows about us; fairy dust is all over him so what the point?" one of them points before they all gather and murmurs and when they agree on one thing they turn towards Connor.

"Fairies are not supposed to be in this realm"

"What?" he frowns.

"We are extinct ones; we are not supposed to be seen by any human forms"

"You do know we are not humans, right?" he asks.

"You are humans to us, just the dangerous kind"

"What do you mean we cannot know you are here?" he asks wanting to get to the point.

"Because you hunt us down and use our powers for bad things"

"Hunt?" Connor frowns as he stares at the group.

"Uh-huh, years ago fairy hunting was like a game to your kind. We were hunted down, used and now we live in a different dimension one you can never get to...

When we felt the fairy dust all over this place, we were assigned to come and clean this whole place down" they explain.

"For that you have to make everything disappear?" he asks.

"Well, it was all your fault for hitting and touching everything this place had while you had fairy dust all over you, it's like you sprinkled the whole place with dusts...

It will take us few days to clean this place, so instead of doing so we made it disappear"

"He got fairy dust all over him, shall we take him too" a girl whisper shouts before she gets scolded.

"What did you do to the man?" he asks pointing at Warren.

"We just made him forget we happened"

"So, I guess you will do the same with me and her?" he questions and the girls look at each other.

"We are supposed to, but why are we not doing so instead telling you this?" the girl frowns.

"Because we have been charmed by him" another fairy narrows her eyes at him.

"He does not have to charm me" the flirty one giggles and everyone groans.

"You said you are here to clean up"

"Yeah"

"Like cleaning the traces of the fairy?" he asks and the girls all nods at once.

"If you can clean one's traces can you hide her?" he asks and the girls glances at each other.

"Uh-oh, he is the dangerous human" the girls whisper.

"I have no intentions to put anyone of you at harm" he promises but the girls all feel unsure.

"We barely know you"

"I do not have much time" Connor points before they hear the groan from Warren.

"Sorry girls" Connor states before he pulls the rope he had set while they were all busy talking to him.

The girls shriek before Connor grabs them all and disappears just as Warren wakes up.

*******

"This is so humiliating, not one but all six of us getting kidnapped" the fairy groans as they are tied to the tree and Connor stares at them.

"I swear it's always the quiet ones, who disappoint you" one of them mumbles glaring at Connor.

"I am sorry to tie you all..."

"No, you are not! I even thought you were handsome and charming" one of them shouts and Connor sigh.

"I just need to know more about you all"

"Well, you really have a weird way of wanting to know someone"

"That man was going to wake and I could not risk being seen"

"Are you running?" they ask.

"Kind of" he sighs.

"Why do you have fairy dust all over you?" the girl asks.

"You don't know?" he asks back and the girls stare at each other.

"Well, we did not want to make assumptions"

"We do know she has a fairy inside of her, she used to come fly in our dimensions at times" the girl sighs.

"She did?" he asks and they nod.

"Yeah, we know about her but she does not know about us. It's a very complicated thing"

"So, you all were here to protect her?" he asks and the girls nods her head.

"Protecting her means protecting ourselves. Fairies are not made for your world; we are too fragile"

"Then what now? You all will always come clean up for her?" he asks and the girls sighs.

"Do we have a choice?" the asks in unison.

"There must be a way to take the fairy back" he suggests.

"It's dangerous, she can die, the fairy has lived with her all through her life, they must be attached by now"

"Can you not do anything else?" he asks and they girls shake their head.

"We can help you hide her" the flirty one points.

"NO" all the five of them shout at her and Connor perks up at the hope.

"What is it?" he asks.

"Don't listen to her, it's too dangerous" the girls warn Connor.

"But I want to go back home and stop cleaning for once" the flirty one groans.

"Girls, if there is a way" Connor starts.

"We can give you enough dust to hide the fairy from everyone else and make her sleep" the flirty one shouts.

"Oh, someone shut her mouth" the remaining one's groan.

"Do you all know that she has shared her blood with others?" Connor asks the group and the girls sighs.

"Yeah, we heard, it was a stupid decision" one of them start.

"She can hurt someone, or herself" one of them add.

"There are people who are hunting those kids who share her blood" he points and all of them winces making Connor frown at them suspiciously.

"Girls?" he asks making them sigh.

"We know we have been trying to track those kids, her blood in them is like a red signal, anyone can differentiate those kids, in our eyes their blood gleams differently than others...

We have been working so hard to clean the fairy dust and we all are so tired. And to top it all, we had to clean the palace so we decided to make it's pieces disappear so no one could see it"

"You have been following the kids?" he asks.

"What choices do we have? We already are so little in numbers and now she went and shared her blood with everyone...

No one can know fairies are alive"

"Why are you all so dangerous?" he asks the girls.

"We are not dangerous but people use our magic for bad things. And because she is a Queen and is blessed by the powers of many her blood is strong" they point.

"Is there any way to stop it?"

"We do not know, we have never shared our blood with anyone, it's a first to us as well"

"Will you girls be here for a while?" Connor asks expectantly and they nod.

"What choices do we have, to hide our identity we have to share this world with you all" they point and he nods as he makes his way towards them.

"Uh, why are you coming closer to us?" one of them asks before they all scream as he reaches his hand only for them to stop screaming when he loosens their binding.

"I am sorry for tying you all up, but I had no other choice" he apologizes and the little fairies flutter their wings before circling him.

Connor stands still as a ray of light surrounds him as the girls circles which touches his body before they disappear.

"Now you are clean" they announce making him smile.

"Are you girls hungry?" he asks and this time they scream in cheers.

*******

"What happened?" Crystal groans touching her forehead as she wakes up to find Warren kneeling in front of her.

"I guess it was some sort of earthquake" Warren states as they look around the area to find it empty.

"Well, that was some...are you okay?" Crystal asks as her head throbs.

"Yeah, but are you?" he asks and she shakes her head no before groaning in pain.

"Come on, lets take you back to village. Adrian will kill me when he finds about tonight"

"If he finds out Warren, he already has lots in his plate"

"We will worry about that later, come on" Warren states as he helps her up as they make their way towards the village.

"What?" Warren asks as Crystal stops before turning at once and looking around.

"What?" Warren asks again and Crystal shakes her head.

"I just...nothing, I must be hallucinating" she sighs before they walk back while the dust of fairy slowly disappears from the place.

*******

Two years later....

"How bad is it?" Antonio asks as Romano walks in the room.

"They have formed a new council" Romano points out and Antonio shakes his head.

"And who gave them the right to?" Antonio growls in anger as he slams his hand on the table.

"No one has to Antonio, so calm down"

"And who are these council members?" Antonio asks as he stares at his friend.

"Who else fucking vampires!" Romano growls.

"Are you not the one?" Warren asks as he glances from the corner to the room.

"Well, I am not the one who wants Crystal dead and all of you, so" Romano points making Warren nod his head.

"How is Crystal?" Romano asks Warren who moves away from the wall.

"Fine. She is staying with a witch clan; Adrian thinks it is better that way. Our pack has been attacked like in every two days"

"How long will they believe she is with your pack?" Antonio asks.

"We don't know, but whatever it is we need to do something. We cannot forever keep hiding Crystal from one place to another. She is already losing herself, it's painful to even see her take all the blame" Warren points.

"We know, but what can we do, with packs being under attack to even try to think of saving her and vampires all against her, it has been difficult not just her but us as well...

I wonder how much long before the witches start to get burn" Antonio sighs as he rubs his face before the door to his study bursts opens and his son comes crawling in.

"Julian" His mate's voice makes him look away from his son who giggles who crawls faster to reach Antonio.

"I think we need to chain him" Marisa points as she stares at her mate who grabs his naked son.

"Da-da" Julian gurgles before giving his father a sloppy kiss.

"Why are you making your mother run behind you?" Antonio asks his son as he hangs the boy in the air and Marissa slips the diaper on the boy who wails in irritation.

"There you go" Antonio grins as he hugs his son who pouts before playing with his father's beard.

"Leave him with me" Antonio asks his mate who nods before touching his arm and leaving the men alone.

"Enzo" Marisa calls her son who stands on the doorway watching the men around before he grabs his mother's hand and walks out of the door.

*******

"Any changes in your boy?" Romano asks Antonio who lets his son down who hurries to grab the papers and spread it all over the floor.

"No. Enzo keeps things to himself. Though, we have made sure he is not left alone"

"Did you find out the men who tried to kidnap him?" Warren asks and Antonio shakes his head no.

"No. My men are trying to track them but...the situation is so difficult around, none of them want to leave their homes and I do not want them to leave their families as well" Antonio points.

"Is that why I am here?" Warren asks and Antonio nods his head.

"Most of my men are mated and with families, with the situation we all are in, we do not know when the next attack will be and moreover, this is three times in a row this month that someone tried to attack Enzo...

There is just so much the boy can handle, he is just two"

"We understand"

"No, you don't. What happened two years ago should have never happened. If I had known that I was opening the door to death when I let Crystal save Enzo, I swear I would not have agreed to it...

I have failed to protect my pack that night, I brought the death in their doorsteps" Antonio sighs rubbing his face.

"Da-da" Julian calls for his father as if sensing his father's emotions.

"Do you regret having me?" Enzo's voice makes Antonio's head snap to stare at the door to find his son standing with a color book in his hand and Antonio stands up at once.

"Enzo, what are you..."

"I am sorry, I am weak" the boy states before he turns around and run away.

"Enzo" Antonio calls as he goes to follow his son but Warren stops him.

"You will just ruin it more, let me go check on the boy"

"He is my son"

"Should have thought so before saying whatever you said" Warren mumbles as he follows the boy out.

*******

Warren finds the boy sitting beside his mother with the drawing book open, he nods at Marissa who nods back before clears his throat to get Enzo's attention.

"Want to take a walk?" Warren asks and Enzo glances at his mother.

"If you want to go" Marissa smiles at her son as she runs her hand on his hair, Enzo puts his book down and walks to where Warren was standing.

Getting out of the house, Warren stops when the boy does not step out but stands on the doorway.

"What?" Warren asks the boy.

"I am not allowed to leave the house; bad things happens when I step out" the boy points and Warren grins.

"But is it not good if bad things just stay out? What if the bad enters the house, what happens then?" he asks the boy who frowns.

"I...I don't know" he whispers.

"Then step out and find out" he points as he starts to whistle and turn around walking while Enzo fists his hand biting his lip and staring at the door with a frown.

*******

"Good boy" Warren smiles at the boy.

"I will be staying at the pack for a while so don't you worry, no amount of bad waiting for you outside will scare you" Warren promises as the boy.

Enzo runs to his mother's side before coming to a halt as he finds his father in the room, Antonio turns to stare at his son before he kneels down and calls Enzo closer, when he reaches his father, Antonio pulls the boy in his arms, hugging him tightly.

"I am sorry, son. I did not mean to hurt you" Antonio apologizes rubbing his son's back who puts his arms around his father.

"You are the best thing that happened to us, Enzo. It's just, something that should have been a celebration turned into something bad and I regret that not your birth" Antonio sighs before he stares at his son's face and cups it.

"You do know we love you right?" Antonio asks his son who nods his head once.

"Good, never forget that" he asks before picking up his son and turning to face his mate who takes a deep breath before she wraps her arms around her mate.

"Soon, it will be okay, everything will be okay" Marissa smiles as she cups her son's cheek who holds her hand.

*******

"What do you mean, she refused to see me?" Adrian growls at the woman standing at the door.

"She has asked to be left alone"

"Tell her I am here" Adrian asks and the woman sighs.

"I did say and she specifically has asked to not be disturbed no matter who is on the door to see her, she is not available for visits" the woman points.

"I left her in care of your clan not to hide her away when I have something to talk to her"

"I understand your frustration Alpha Adrian but when she arrived in our clan it was you who asked us to take care of her and to see to it that her wishes to be granted"

"Then at least let some of my men stay as guards" he grumbles.

"And show a red flag to the people who wants to hunt her down?" the woman asks making Adrian growl as he turns to leave.

"Tell her I will be back..."

"Why don't you wait for her call, Alpha" the woman points and Adrian stops on his steps.

"We both know she will never call if we wait on it, so tell her I will be back next week" Adrian states before he walks away with his men in tow.

*******

"He has left" the woman points to Crystal who nods her head once while standing with her back to the woman.

"Don't mind me, but may be if you met him once he may stop coming to check on you" the woman points to Crystal.

"I would like to be left alone" Crystal points and the woman sighs.

"Of course, but Crystal it's not just him but even we have not seen you for months" the woman points out but when Crystal says nothing the woman sighs.

"You saved my daughter Vivian's life, Crystal for that I will forever be thankful and grateful to you but isolating yourself from everyone is not the answer. Even if the times are bad, just know we all are together in it" the woman points before she leaves Crystal alone in the dark room.

*******

Walking away from Crystal's room, the witch meets with few of her people.

"Have all the wolves left?" she asks.

"Yes, they have"

"She is being stubborn, holed up in the room for months! The vampires are getting impatient" the witch mumbles.

"We know, but what can we do. If we forced her, she may do something and we can lose this golden opportunity to have her powers"

"I know, that is why I have been so patience with her. But we do not have any time, if the vampires take action before we find the source of her powers it will be over for all of us. We are not the only one who wants what she has...

She holds the power of life and death within her, if she could save a dead child imagine what else she is capable of doing. It's not just the magic she holds as a witch, it must be something more...

If vampires are so desperate to have her alive, she must be worth much more than we imagine" the witch points before a scream are heard.

*******

"What is going on?" the witch asks as she hurries to see what was going before her eyes widens as the gates to her clan breaks open and few of the vampires stands on the door.

"Where is she?" the vampire growls and the witch's eyes widen.

"This is not..."

"Shut it, give her to us, we have waited for too long" the vampire growls as they start to sniff the air to find Crystal.

"Either you give her willingly or we take..." the vampire gasps before he falls down as a black wolf lands on the ground with the vampire's head on his mouth.

The witch steps away as the ground is filled with wolves and vampires before they all start to attack each other.

"Vivian" the witch whispers hurrying to grab her child who may not be as special as Crystal but she had the blood of crystal running inside of her.

Adrian howls giving the cry of fight as his men shifts and fights the vampire who attacks not just them but the witch clan as well.

Few of the witches attacks back to protect their homes and themselves and soon there remains nothing but chaos on the ground.

*******

Crystal jumps as she hears the cries and scream, she stands and steps back as someone bangs on her door, gulping she steps towards the door but jumps away at once and it break and a man stands with a smile on his face.

"I know this is not the best way to meet but, uhh...we need to hurry, kind of in middle of a war and we better miss it" the man smiles as he grabs Crystal's hand who hiss pulling away.

Crystal stumbles back before she hits the lamp on her bedside which falls on her bed and the fire starts to burn her bedsheet.

"Crystal" the man gasps in shock and Crystal covers her face horrified.

"Please go" she begs and the man sighs before he curses and Crystal feels a jacket covering her.

"I am Jasper, Jasper Summer. Jade's mate" Jasper informs as he picks her up and hurries out not just from the room but the chaos heading towards them.

Crystal wraps the jacket around her face while she grabs the fur of the wolf who was running as fast as he could and when the screams and growls of the fight behind them starts to fade, she feels the wolf relax.

*******

Crystal peeks through the jacket around the forest to find no one, she glances at the man who walks out of the trees, now fully clothed.

"We must hurry, before they start to trace us" he states but Crystal makes no move to go anywhere.

"I know this is unexpected and you must be confused but I had no other choice but to move you away as fast as I can from there"

"What about them?" she asks nodding towards the way they came from.

"To be honest, as long as we are alive I do not even care. I am not physically or emotionally invested to them so, come on" he nods as he starts to walk.

"How did you get there?" Crystal asks the man.

"Well, you know my mate, Alpha of the pack Summers? She has been worried for you for quiet sometimes and I had been curious about you...

When I heard what happened to you and the palace and all this nonsense going on, I felt bad"

"So, you took pity on me" she corrects making him chuckle.

"Pity, ah please. I just felt as a wolf it was my responsibility to protect My Queen"

"Very funny. I am no longer a Queen" she points and he shrugs his shoulders.

"My Jade always addresses you as one, always saying she is our Queen, how can anyone treat her any different" he laughs.

"It must be nice" Crystal states and Jasper stops to face her.

"What?" he asks with a frown.

"To have a mate to talk to, to laugh with" she points and Jasper blinks before he turns and continue to walk.

"I have not seen my mate for more than a year, actually" Jasper confesses and Crystal frowns this time.

"What, why?" she asks confused.

"Because I have been looking out for you?" he points halting her on her steps.

"What do you mean?" she whispers asks.

"Let's just say, I am keeping my promise to look after you" he grins and Crystal stares at the guy before she slowly drops the jacket off her head and Jasper hurries to grab it.

"Jade is very lucky to have you as her mate, who is keeping his promise to look after someone he does not even know" she whispers as he puts the jacket around her.

"Umm, well. I don't think my mate will think so when she meets me again" he grins.

"You should go back" she smiles and he sighs.

"Actually, I am just lengthening the time to see her" he admits.

"Why?" she asks.

"I have been a rogue, not the bad kind but you know. And she is an Alpha but a cool one, I mean how many packs have a woman as an Alpha....

It's cool and stuff but I am kind of like a wanderer, I love her, like honest to God but leading a pack, that's not my cup of tea"

"But sticking around me without my knowledge for more than a year is your cup of tea?" she teases.

"As I said, I made a promise and I like to keep them" he smiles.

"If I was your mate, I would have been really jealous" she smiles making him laugh.

"Oh well, good thing we are not" he grins and she nods before they continue to walk.

*******

"She reeks of you" Connor growls at Jasper as he throws the jacket off Crystal's body.

"Whoa, don't kill the messenger. My jacket has saved us today" Jasper states as he picks it up and throws back at Connor.

"She should not have been in a situation where she needs saving" Connor grumbles as he touches Crystal's hair pushing it away from her face.

"Whatever, I am going to go take a bath, you catch up with her" Jasper groans as he stretches his body.

"How much dose did you give her?" Connor asks as he picks his mate in his lap.

"Enough for you to be a pervert" Jasper teases before he runs when Connor glares at him.

"Annoying wolf" Connor grumbles.

"Grumbling Vampire" Jasper shouts back with a laugh and Connor sighs.

Pushing the hair away from her face, he frowns staring at Crystal's face, he shakes his head as he rubs the side of her face which was turned half black.

Pulling a bottle out of his jacket, Connor opens it before he pours it on her face, she shifts a bit before laying still as the fairy dust he had collected from those little fairies starts to work, clearing her face, hiding the bitter truth of his mate.

"Rest" he whispers as he stares at her sleeping face while running his hand through her hair to calm himself.

*******

"Three kilometers from here, you will find a cabin, take here there and let her rest as long as she needs. And no matter what happens do not let her see her face or go near river" Connor orders.

"What if she is thirsty?" Jasper asks before he rolls his eyes as Connor pulls a water bottle.

"Aww, so sweet" Jasper teases.

"Jas, stay focused"

"I am man" Jasper grumbles.

"The fairy dusts need to do its work; it will take few more hours so until then"

"Got it, got it, she cannot see her face"

"Be alert, I will signal you as soon as I reach the cabin"

"You know it will not kill you if you showed yourself to her, you know"

"Someone has to stay back and see if we are followed" Connor points.

"I can stay and check that, Con" Jasper sighs.

"I cannot let her see me, Jas"

"Come on, man, she is your mate. What is stopping you?" Jasper asks the same question he has been asking for, forever.

"Everything within us" Connor states as he stares at the sleeping form of his mate.

"Connor like..."

"I cannot be with her, Jas"

"Why?"

"I just cannot. I don't care if you do not understand, if she does not. It does not matter if no one does but I can never be with her, at least not for now"

"Just because he has to stay celibate, he is making me stay celibate as well, this must be what true friendship looks like" Jasper sighs as he grabs the bottle and walks towards Crystal.

"Jasper" Connor calls.

"Connor" Jasper uses the same tone as he turns to face his friend.

"I am not celibate; I am a virgin" Connor states before he disappears and Jasper drops the bottle which wakes Crystal up.

"What?" Crystal asks as she looks around, startled.

"God bless you, Crystal. I hope that is worth everything"

"What is?" she asks him sleepily.

"That, what he just said"

"What, who said?"

"Come on, we should really move" Jasper sighs as he helps her up before they start to make their way to the cabin.