Damon silently directs his men. In this instance they are acting far more like a military group than a mafia, but they work silently. Sleep grenades are thrown at the dogs and guards and once they are down grenade launchers  are used to send them inside the house as well. Damon had already told Ana that he'll pay for the damages.

Ana was more worried about the dogs. She doesn't want them hurt. Damon is using the gas least likely to hurt them.

The gas works quickly and the men start searching for the people they are to kidnap and take back to the estate. Damon has done his best to make things as comfortable for them as he can, but he still has to take them while they are unconscious.

He finds Trinity with Ana and isn't pleased to see that they will need to be dressed, but at least Trinity did as he was told.

Ana wakes to a killer headache. Damon is by her side with a water bottle and some pain meds. "Thanks," she mumbles taking the medicine. "Who dressed me?"

"Do you honestly think I'd let anyone else do it? I didn't think you'd have been sexually active when you knew that this was the night we were coming."

"Jealous?" Ana asks but she isn't taunting him, not this time.

"More than you can believe. Ready to start your role of indignant abductee?" Damon asks gently.

"Not yet. I need the medicine to start working. We need to talk when this is all over." Ana says wincing with the pain.

"We have time now," Damon strokes her hair.

"Very well, but what I'm going to tell you won't change anything. No one else knows either."

Damon gets worried about how serious she's being. "Okay."

"I'm pregnant, two months to be exact." She watches for Damon's reaction. He's stunned but slowly smiles.

"From when you were here?"

"Or within a couple of days after most likely. I don't know if you or Trinity or Jacob is the biologica..."

Damon kisses her to stop her from talking. "I told you when you left that if you got pregnant it would be mine even if it isn't biologically mine." Damon pulls out a box, "Well I guess this is coming in at the right time then. Ana, will you marry me?"

"Your timing sucks Damon. Ask me again after the so called party. If you are still alive then the answer will be yes. Most likely at least." Damon nods and puts the small box back into his pocket. She can't wear the ring if she is supposed to be angry with him. He really wasn't thinking.

"Open your other presents, they're for tonight." Damon helps her sit up and hands her a bag full of smaller gifts and a large box.

Ana opens the box first and has to wipe away a tear of happiness. "It's beautiful, Damon. Thank you."

The blue sleeveless dress was picked out by Gemma and should fit Ana like a glove. The bag holds all the accessories to go with the dress that she'll need for this party. She even pulls out a hair ornament that is in actuality a set of throwing knives beautifully decorated on the hilt to hide their true nature.

Once Ana has opened them all Damon hands her one final gift. The gun is small like her other one but the clip holds more bullets and comes with a thigh holster and a place to hold her knife. This is by far Ana's favorite gift.

"The dress has a slit up the side so you should be able to have fairly easy access to your weapons tonight. I hope you like your gifts. You might want to take some time to get used to your new weapons down in the weapons range. Just act like you are angry with me and people will leave you alone."

"These are the best gifts you've ever given me, thank you." That's saying quite a lot because Damon has given her some pretty wonderful gifts over the years.

Shortly after that the charade begins and Damon hurries out of her room to avoid having a knife thrown into him, or be gutted like the other ranked mafias that pissed Ana off.

Calum finds him out in the hall, "She didn't take to well to being kidnapped, huh?"

Damon snorts, "Did you really expect her to? You better not have any business with her for awhile or she might just do her original punishment for you."

Calum blanches, "Did she tell you what that punishment was?"

"Let's just say that it involves emasculation. That's just the start of it," Damon says with a touch of humor. Ana had told him in detail what she was going to do to Calum, but had put on hold due to him asking her to not hurt Calum.

"How are things going with you and Trina?" Damon asks as the two walk down the stairs. Neither one noticing the door closing silently having eavesdropped on their conversation.

"Oh, miss you look like a princess tonight." Gemma says as she and Shandee work on helping Ana get ready for her party. Ana has to agree, she just wishes the necklace and bracelet Damon got her last year was part of the ensemble. She had taken them off before Damon stormed Hawk's nest and he didn't think to grab them.

Gemma looks through the jewelry Ana left behind and finds a simple pearl necklace to place around Ana's neck instead. 

Ana had gone into the bathroom to slip on the dress, she didn't want either of her maids to know of the weapons that she has strapped to her leg. The only person that will know for sure is Damon and he would have guessed that she wouldn't go unarmed to her birthday/coming out party. 

Ana never goes anywhere without being armed with at least a knife. Shandee has no idea that the hair ornaments that she used in Ana's hair are actually throwing knives. Ana has lost her trust in most of Hawk's people, until she can figure out the traitor she can't trust any of them except Trinity.

Playing up to her role. Ana looks at herself in the mirror one last time and nods. "Now it's time to kill that bastard that brought me here. He knows it isn't safe." Ana is sure that the information had been passed onto Snake.

If Ana has read Snake correctly he won't be able to pass up the opportunity to strike tonight. All his enemies in one location. Ana at her weakest, since it appears that Damon only brought her and her two body guards and maid. In reality he'd brought over twenty men that are being used to bolster the security outside. They'll wait to strike after Snake thinks he's won.

Ana is nervous, there is so much that could go wrong with tonight. But for now she hides her thoughts and puts on an angry look and leaves. It isn't hard, she is angry, her family and friends are here and putting their lives on the line for her. She doesn't want any of them to die for her, she'd much rather die, although now that she's carrying a baby she's finding it hard to want to be in the front line action.

If Damon had known her thoughts he would be breathing a lot easier because Ana has a habit of putting herself in danger to save others.

Trinity and Michael flank her as she comes out of her room. Jacob joins them at the stairs. Ana gives Michael some last minute instructions then sends him off. If all goes well Michael will be taking over Snake tonight. He's still not fully prepared to take over but she and Damon, and Jonah will help him. Besides most of the decisions of import will still be hers since he's oathed to her.

Damon waits for her at the bottom of the stairs, "Damon," Ana greets coldly and Damon winces at her cold tones. Ana is a very good actress.

"Ana, ready for your big debut amongst the snobs of the city?" Damon hates the hypocrisy of the moneyed snobs.

"I still don't know why you feel this was necessary." Ana's cold tones are sharp as a  razor.

"This way you can be my escort to any further social functions I'm forced to attend." Damon patiently explains.

"I don't live here and I won't be going to those functions. The only function I might be going to is your funeral. How would you like it?" Ana hates to say anything like that because that is far to close to her nightmares. She doesn't want the universe to actually make it happen.

"You're hilarious, Ana." Damon takes her hand and escorts her to the ballroom. As they enter the music changes and a spotlight shines on Ana. The snobby elites politely clap at her entrance. Most of them are there because they fear Damon. They could care less about his nobody ward.

 Shortly after that gunfire is heard. As it comes closer the elite start to panic. Damon has his men escort the elites out of the room and to safety. At least the rooms are supposed to be safe, but if things don't go right they might not be. Damon shrugs, if things don't go right then he'll be dead and it won't matter to him anyway.