Ana snuggles into Damon's arms as he carries her inside. He smiles softly as he looks down at her sleeping form. It was obvious that Ana enjoyed the day. He hasn't seen her smile or laugh like that for some time. He makes a note to himself to make time for more outings for her.

Calum meets him in the entry way. "How'd it go?"

"She was laughing and having fun. She insisted on sitting close to the orca tank during the show and we all got soaked. It was worth the inconvenience of being wet to hear her laughter though." Damon says looking down at the sleeping girl once more. Then he looks up at his second sharply, "How'd it go here?"

"Quiet. I haven't been able to find out anything more about the accident." Calum frowns and presses his lips together tightly.

Damon shifts Ana's weight in his arms as he pierces his second with a hard look. "We've received more threats from Hawk. I believe that they are totally unrelated to the other matter. He's made it clear that he knows about Ana. Some of the remarks are rather pointed about that."

Damon loses his contented look and fires of anger light up in his eyes. "You're sure that it's unrelated?"

"Not one hundred percent, but more like ninety-nine point nine percent. He sends commiserations that your newest pet was injured in the crash and wishes her a full recovery. He made it sound dirty Damon. That man is a pig and thinks that everyone else is as well."

"He thinks I'm sleeping with her?" Damon asks in outrage.

"That's the innuendo he was conveying, yes." Calum lets the disgust he feels at that come out.

"I'll kill him," Damon says softly and Calum shivers. This is the deadly Damon. 

"You are evenly matched men wise. We don't have enough men to attack Hawk directly." Calum reminds him.

"He'll come to me. The man is nearly as stupid as my father was erratic."

"So what do you want us to do?"

"Keep the men alert. Hawk isn't patient either. Dammit! I have a fucking date tomorrow. That's when he's likely to strike. I can't get out of it either, it's one of those pointless social things. I hate those mixers or cocktail gatherings or whatever they are called."

Calum presses his lips down, that is the likely time for Hawk to attack. "Make sure Jacob stays with Ana, no matter what happens he's to get her out of here. Jackson is to keep Hawk's men as far away from her as possible."

"Yes, sir," Calum goes to tell the others what is likely to happen and make arrangements.

"Damon, are you going to be late tonight?" Ana asks watching as Damon finishes getting ready. She thinks he looks very fine in his tuxedo.

"Possibly." Damon says giving himself the once over one last time in his full length mirror and straightening his jacket.

"You going to bring your date here?"

Ana's question gets Damon's undivided attention. "Again possibly, depends on how bored I get at the party."

"I'll shut my door then," Ana says pouting.

"Ana, do you mind when I bring girls here?" Damon asks curiously. It's never seemed to bother her before.

"I know why you do it, Damon."

"And why is that Little One?"

"You need to fu-"

"That's enough, Ana. Yes, I have needs. I'll open the door when she leaves," Damon kneels before her and takes her hands in his. "Okay?"

"Okay." Ana looks at him in confusion, "Why don't you ever let them stay in bed with you?"

"Just because I have needs doesn't mean that I want them to stay near me." Damon smirks at her.

"But you don't even let your girlfriends stay with you."

Ana always asks the hardest questions. "I don't want them to. They don't like how much time I spend with you and always try to talk down about you. I won't let you scream from your nightmares just because some bint wants to sleep the night next to me."
Ana raises her eyebrow, "Some bint?" She starts to giggle. She doesn't like Damon's girlfriends. For someone that usually has excellent judge of character he chooses the worse possible females for girlfriends.

"They are all bint's Ana. If they can't understand me taking care of you then they don't deserve any other name."

"So you use me as a way to test them?" Ana asks him carefully, her head leaning on her shoulder.

Damon smiles at her, "I guess I do at that. So far none of them have passed the test."

Ana gets impatient then, "So why do you stay with them?"

"The ones I stay with are the good lays. All the others I dump after I-" Damon swallows what he's about to say. He and his men have been a bad influence on Ana and her language choices. He's been making an effort to not be so foul mouthed around her at least.

"Damon?" Ana asks hesitantly as Damon stands back up and goes over to his bed to put on his dress shoes that match the tux.

"Yes, Little One?" Damon asks when Ana doesn't continue. He braces himself. She only does that when the question is particularly either adult or personal in nature.

"When did you first fu, I mean have sex?" Ana asks looking at him innocently.

Or when she asks a question that is both. Damon sighs. He's made it a matter of policy to answer all her questions honestly and as fully as he feels she is able to handle. She's able to handle a hell of a lot.

"I was twelve when my father thought I was old enough. He took me to the strip club for the first time and gave me a beer. He could tell that I was getting excited and so hired one of the girls to take me to the back room and give me a private dance. He gave her a bonus when we had sex."

Ana takes a minute to absorb what he just told her. Damon hopes that's all she's going to ask.

"What was it like? For you I mean?"

This is one of the subjects she's not going to drop, Damon sighs and gives her his full attention. "Honestly? It's different for boys than it is for girls. It felt good, the most pleasure I've ever felt before. Boys are almost always pleasured when they f-have sex. It's not always pleasurable for females though. I'm afraid I didn't do much to give her pleasure, I didn't know any better, but she told me it was alright, she hadn't expected any different. She then told me some ways to be better the next time."

"Damon, how old will I be before I have sex?" Damon just about has a heart attack when she asks that.

"Not until you are thirty." Damon says the first thing he can think of.

Ana protests, "That's not fair. You were only a couple of years older than I am right now."

"So you want me to let you have sex for your twelfth birthday?" Damon's having trouble breathing at this point. "Do you have someone in mind? Jacob perhaps?"

Ana looks at him like he's crazy, "Jacob is gay, he won't want to sleep with me."

Damon looks at her curiously, "How do you know that?"

"I've seen how he looks at certain boys. He never looks at girls that way."

"Ana, you are perhaps the scariest girl I've ever met," Damon says about her observation skills. He only then thinks about what he just told her and hopes that he didn't offend her.

"You're avoiding the subject Damon, when will I have sex?"

"I hope you wait until you are far older than I was. It's one thing for guys to have sex. WE don't get pregnant."

"If girls shouldn't have sex, then neither should boys. That's a sexist double standard that makes no sense anyway since you have to have girls to have sex." Ana stops and looks at Damon and smiles slyly, "unless of course you're having sex with guys."

"Ana, have you ever seen me bring a man here?" Damon says in exasperation.

"You don't have to, Damon, there are like twenty that live here permanently, and others that visit nearly every day." Ana says giggling at his outraged expression.

Damon closes his eyes and counts to ten, when he opens his eyes he looks over at the giggling girl and can't help but smile at her. "Stay close to Jacob tonight. If anything happens get to safety. That's an order, Ana."

Ana stops giggling, "What's going on?"

"Hawk has been making talk of starting a war with me. He's mentioned you specifically. Ana, that man is a perverted animal, he likes them young, like you."

"I'll do my best to stay safe, Damon." Ana says and she isn't giggling anymore. There is a look on her face Damon hasn't seen before. If Hawk comes, he's in for a nasty surprise in Ana.