The boys burst through her cell door and see her barely conscious and half naked. "What the fuck?" Talon is the first to recover and runs to her side.

"W-water," Stephanie is so weak she has trouble even saying that much.

That's when the boys notice the burns on her chest. "Shit, they used the defibrillator on her without using the pads." There are three sets of burns on her chest. "She must have been really close to death." Talon is sick at just what she went through and doesn't understand just why they weren't as affected by the cleansing as Stephanie appears to be.

"Jet, test that water by her side. Is it clean and drinkable?" Talon demands. He has a touch of fire ability, but none when it comes to water.

Ethan is looking for something to cover Stephanie with. There doesn't seem to be anything in the room. His and the others have vomit covering their shirts or one of them would give her their shirt, but they don't want her vomiting any more and the stench is making her gag already.

Stephanie remembers that she can now communicate through her mind. "I need water please. Too weak to get that water at my side."

Jet hurries to her and helps her sit up. He has the water go directly into her mouth like a water fountain squirt, so all she has to do is swallow it.

"I need food, but I won't be able to hold it down with this smell." She is able to say once she gets enough water into her.

"There is a supply closet a couple of doors down and a break room next to it. The food should be good since it belongs to those that work here." Then she lies back down exhausted.

"Jet, see if there is anything for her to wear in that supply closet, and if there is something we can change into. I have no desire to smell this until we can get some of our clothing back. At the least we'll need hygiene supplies, soap and or shampoo.

"Ethan, see if there is anything that we can eat. Stephanie first and then if there is enough, bring some for us as well. I just wish I knew why she was affected so much worse than we were. They wouldn't have used as heavy of a dose on her as they used on us."

Talon holds Stephanie to him and is looking down at her so doesn't notice their nods as they accept his orders and leave. Talon takes her to the small bathroom and finishes stripping her down and sets her in the shower. Jet doesn't say anything when he comes back just hands him the soap and shampoo. He sets the comb and blanket on the bed. There were no clothes or towels so the blanket will have to do. They will be washing the vomit out of their shirts and having Ethan dry them.

Jet thinks that Talon will dress Stephanie in his shirt once it is clean and dry. He frowns at the thought. Talon won't be giving up his claim on Stephanie, but neither will he or Ethan. Would she accept all of them as her chosen? It isn't done in the human world and in the supernatural world very few have done it and it has never been done by witches.

Soon the smell of food enters the room as Ethan comes in with food heated up and sets it on the counter. 

Stephanie takes the blanket and makes it into a sarong or toga about her body and informs Talon that he needs to wear his shirt. At his hurt look she tells him that she doesn't want any of the females to get any ideas about him. She looks down and blushes at this admission, but Talon looks pleased by it. She then informed the others the same thing and they look just as pleased.

By the time they are finished eating Stephanie feels much better.

"Stephanie, why were you so much worse off then us? You were like I was expecting to be." Ethan asks her more than a little confused and asking what they were all wondering.

Stephanie goes quiet and looks down at the ground before answering. "I'm not sure how it happened. It shouldn't have been possible." She stops and thinks some more about what she's going to say next. Needless to say she has all three men's attention at this point.

"Somehow I pulled almost all of the compounds they used on you three through the blood bond we created before they showed up. It shouldn't have happened, but something similar happened with Bianca and her baby as well. She pulled all the chemicals into herself so her baby didn't suffer. Just like Alpha Luke pulled all that he could from Bianca. It's where I got the idea, but I really didn't expect it to work.

"How are you three freely walking about any way?" Stephanie demands, something she hasn't done before.

"We recovered quickly, far more than they had been expecting and we were able to deal with them, permanently." Jet answers her softly spoken question with his harsh words and cold tone.

Stephanie winces but doesn't say anything.

"Before we let out the supernatural prisoners we need to talk to the vampires." Stephanie says breaking the painful silence that fell after Jet's words.

"Do you know where they are being kept?" Talon asks her gently. They already figured that she somehow accessed the schematics of the place and listing of all the supernaturals.

"Yeah, they are down the corridor and to the right. They are the last door on the corridor." Stephanie responds sadly.

"Stephanie?" Ethan asks her gently.

"Yeah?" 

"What's wrong?" Ethan pulls her into his arms and she relaxes a bit at his embrace.

"When we are done, you three will leave and I'll be alone once more."

"Not going to happen unless you don't want us around." Talon says decisively. 

"You are our chosen and you have our blood bond. We aren't leaving until you tell us to get the hell away from you." Jet tells her sandwiching her between Ethan and himself.

Talon comes up and encompasses them all in his arms.

"I can't do that. I can't choose just one of you." Stephanie cries out. This is so not the time for her emotional breakdown, but she can't seem to help herself. The thought of losing just one of them, let alone all three of them is tearing her up inside.

"Stephanie," Talon says lifting her face up to look at him. "We don't want you to choose just one of us. We want you to choose all of us. None of us are willing to give up our claim to you. We all will fight the others for you and decided that if you are willing, that we will share you as our chosen. Will you accept us?" 

Talon and the others are waiting expectantly, breathing lightly, hardly at all, for her response. It isn't something that is done among witches or humans, at least not most humans.

After several long minutes of shocked silence, Stephanie finally is able to speak. "You all want me as your chosen, all of you?" She asks this specifically looking at Jet. Of them all, he has been the least accepting of her.

"Yes, all of us. I know that you might find that hard to believe, especially about me. I'm sorry about not making you feel more welcome. I have a hard time with strangers. It didn't help that you are by far a better storm rider than I am. For years," Jet snorts as do the others, "I haven't found any one stronger than me. Then here comes along an upstart untrained girl and easily rips a storm out of my hands. You made a tornado, Stephanie, and you were able to control it. As far as I know that has never happened before. 

"At first I was jealous of your abilities, but today, when you managed to control the tornado, all I felt was pride and love. I want you to stay, I need you to stay with us because it will be like ripping my heart out if you leave." Jet tells her and then looks away, his face burning in shame at his feelings of jealousy and embarrassment at his admitting his love like that to her.

Stephanie frees one of her hands and gently lays it on his face. "You felt pride in my controlling of the tornado?" Jet nods his head. Stephanie smiles in delight and gives him a kiss. Truly she had worried about Jet being upset that her abilities were stronger than his own.

She looks at all three of them and sees the sincerity in their faces. "You would honestly share me as your chosen?"

"Yes, it won't be easy, but it's better than you leaving us again or only choosing one of us, because the others would then leave. We don't want that. We are stronger as a team then we are as individuals. Our love is stronger together than it is apart."

Stephanie wipes the tears from her eyes.

The silence becomes oppressive as the three males wait in anticipation.

Finally Stephanie nods. "I can't choose between you and I don't want to leave. I've never felt love before you three and I don't think I could handle losing your love."

"We won't betray you like Chase betrayed Bianca." Talon says, the thought of what Chase did makes him furious. You don't betray your chosen, ever.

"Talon, didn't one of you say that the female was a witch?"

"Yes, but not an elementalist."

"Then she would have known that you all had power, that's why she targeted you. She was a witch of potions or spells so could it be possible that Chase was enspelled in some way? Chase that you told me about wasn't the kind of person to betray his chosen."

Talon looks at her consideringly. "That is the only thing that I can think of that would explain his behavior. I have never known him to do something so horrible before."

"Perhaps it would comfort Bianca to hear that as well? Although, I am not sure that she will ever want to speak or see us again." Stephanie says thoughtfully.

"She will want to be near us. At least you, Stephanie, after all you freed her from this slavery and probably saved her baby's life. She will feel indebted to you." Talon says thoughtfully.

"Talon, why did you make that escape route for her and the alpha?" Ethan asks into the newly fallen silence.

"I owed her a great deal for all the hatred I've held against her incorrectly for all these years. That hatred had no place, no right for her to bare."

"We all owe her, a great deal."

"You are right, Talon, but it wasn't her that bore that hatred, it was you. All of you. Now that you know the truth, will you let that go?"

The three nod their heads in shame. She was right, they condemned someone without knowing the truth. They need to let the past go and forgive the one that was wronged and hope that one day she will forgive them as well.