Jake had lost count of how long he'd been in this cage.. He was weak but not as weak as he was leading Vladimir to believe. He hadn't seen Draco again since the first night but Vladimir had been a near constant sitting by the bars of the cage. At first Vladimir had tried to irritate Jake. To antagonize him, but Jake had been raised with Lane so he had learned to ignore that kind of thing.

Vladimir had grown weary of hearing himself talk and now just sat there day after day watching Jake and waiting on Draco to return. Jake forced himself to keep his head down and maintain his weak posture when the door to the basement opened and Draco walked in.

"How is our prisoner today Vladimir?" he asked his icy blue eyes taking in Jakes weak state with glee.

"He does little more than sit there." Vladimir replied his voice dull with boredom.

"Perhaps the news that I have will liven him up." Draco said walking over to the bars of the cage. He reached through and grabbed Jake's shoulder in a tight grip. Jake wanted to rip his arm straight off and smack him with it but knew he needed to drag out his weakness as long as he could.

"What news?" Jake said making sure his voice sounded as weak as he looked.

"I found your mate." Draco hissed. Jake felt fear grip his heart. "She screamed your name as I killed her." Jake waited for the anger to hit him but instead he felt sadness.. A sadness so overwhelming he thought it alone would kill him.

"I could tell you the details but I would rather show you. Let me start by saying that your idiot brother thought he could hide her in Vegas. Then he left her alone in a hotel while he went out and got drunk and gambled." Jake couldn't believe what he was hearing. Surely Lane would not have abandoned Angela! If Angela was gone then Jake had nothing left to fight for. He sagged under Draco's hand.

"Don't pass out on me yet. We have to watch a movie." Draco's grip tightened on Jake's shoulder. Jake felt the tugging sensation in his mind and then suddenly an image of Angela appeared. She was walking around a hotel room.. Pacing in front of a large window. It was like he was watching a movie in his head.. A movie he didn't want to see.

"You'll see her death through my eyes of course." Draco whispered in his ear.

Jake saw Angela turn her eyes full of fear when they fell upon him.. But it wasn't him it was Draco. It was like Jake was inside of Draco and so every move Draco made felt like his own.

"Leave me alone!" Angela screamed. "Jake will kill you!"

"Jake can't save you now." he replied his voice cold. Angela screamed when she saw the knife in his hand. She tried to run but he grabbed her arm and threw her down on the bed. She kicked and fought for all she was worth but he was much stronger than she could ever hope to be.

He raised the knife and felt her blood on him as he drove the long blade into her stomach again and again... She screamed in pain and horror.

"That took care of the baby." he hissed. "Now it's time for you." He put a blood covered hand on both sides of her face and her scream was silenced instantly as he twisted. Jake could hear the bones of her neck snap as if he was in the room. He looked down at her lifeless body and felt his stomach roll inside him.

His beautiful Angela lay there dead beneath him.. His eyes gazed in disbelief over her bloody body beneath him. He stared at the pale scar on her shoulder and then he smiled.

It wasn't him smiling as Draco inside this horror film but Jake smiling inside his silver prison.

"What the hell are you smiling for?! I killed her! Can't you see that?!" Draco demanded letting go of Jake's shoulder and shoving him. Jake spun around so quickly that Draco barely had time to get his arm out of the cage.

"You made a mistake, Draco."

"She's dead, Jake! Dead!" Draco screamed. Jake laughed then. The sound was so full of cold blooded hate and anger that Vladimir found himself taking a step away from the cage.

"You remembered her wrong. I give you credit for a movie well done. It was very believable. But you remembered her wrong."

"It wasn't a movie Jake it was my memory. I killed her and I killed that brat inside of her just like you killed my mate and child!"

"I didn't know your mate was pregnant and you abandoned her, so who is the real murderer?" Jake asked calmly. Draco was in a near blind rage now.

"She is dead, Jake! Angela is dead!"

"Why do you seem so convinced that she isn't?" Vladimir asked seeing that his friend was too consumed with anger to think straight.

"She is my mate. I know every inch of her body. I know every freckle, every curve. I know how the light looks when it shines off the silkiness of her dark hair. I know how her brown eyes shine with her good spirit and her passion. And I know that in our most passionate moment when I marked her as my own... I bit her other shoulder."

Draco sat silent for a moment. He thought back to that day at the pizza store when he had met Angela. He thought back to that pale scar he had seen on her shoulder. Her left shoulder..

He roared with rage and flung himself at the bars. Jake stood with his arms crossed and simply watched him.

"Someone's here." Vladimir said suddenly. Jake sniffed and his heart froze. He would know that lilac and vanilla scent anywhere. Draco seemed to calm instantly as he sniffed the air.

"It's her. And your brother.... And someone else. Another were wolf though I'm not familiar with him." Jake sniffed again. It was Angela, Lane and Lucas... What was his brother doing here with Angela and Lucas?

"I will just go up and say hello." Draco said changing into a large white tiger and slinking to the door. Jake felt the anger then. An anger, a fear, a rage stronger than any he had felt before. He grabbed two of the silver bars and with a growl that froze Draco in his tracks he moved the bars aside as if they were made of nothing more than clay. Jake jumped out of the cage and landed on the floor a three hundred pound snarling black wolf. His muscles were bunching and coiling as he stared at Draco and Vladimir.

"Kill him, Vladimir. I will take care of our visitors." Draco said and he raced up the stairs. Jake ran for the door but Vladimir caught him by the scruff of his neck and threw him across the room. Jake struck the wall so hard the cinderblocks cracked. He stood up and shook himself off.

"I've heard stories about you, Jake. Let's just see how tough you really are." Jake growled low in his throat and lunged.

888

"Someone's coming." Lucas said and reached his arm out to stop Angela in her tracks. He and Lane both sniffed.

"It's Draco!" Lane shouted. He grabbed Angela and hid her behind a large willow tree.

"Stay here." he said sternly. Angela looked down at the small brick house. It was the only home still standing solid in this apparent ghost town. She nodded and Lane released her and ran back down the small hill to join Lucas.

"Jake's in there. I can feel him. Whatever was keeping him from coming through before is gone now." Lucas said matter of factly.

"You can leave, Lucas. There is no reason for you to risk your life for us." Lane said to his cousin.

"Nonsense. We're family and family sticks together. Besides if you die then I'll lose out on all the money I'm going to make off of you in the future." Before Lane could respond the door of the brick home burst apart and a giant white tiger jumped out.

(Hello Draco.) Lane said. (Where is my brother?)

(He's down below fighting with my vampire friend. Jake is no match for him. Vladimir is almost a thousand years old.)

(What do you want?) Lane asked. Draco's eyes locked on something on top of the hill.

(Her.) he replied. Lane looked back and saw the Angela had come out from behind the tree and was standing there looking down at them.

"Dammit." he said. Draco lunged making a run to the top of the hill. Lucas changed quickly into a medium sized brown wolf. He stood in front of Draco and growled in warning but Draco raised one huge, sharp clawed paw and struck him across his face sending him flying and landing in an unconscious heap a few feet away.

Draco took off up the hill again.

"Dammit!" Lane yelled and he changed quickly and ran after Draco jumping on the large tigers back and sinking his teeth into the back of his neck. Draco let out a roar and twisted trying to bite Lane but Lane jumped off of him and stood in between Draco and Angela.

(Are you really going to try to stop me?) Draco sneered. (You are no match for me)

(Why does everyone think I'm so damn useless?) Lane demanded.( Just because I was always joking during my fathers lessons doesn't mean I wasn't paying attention.)

Draco raised his paw to swat Lane aside but Lane ducked beneath it and lunged sinking his teeth into Draco's neck. Draco ripped at him with his claws and teeth and Angela screamed as they became a blur of white, black and gray. Blood covered the ground and she didn't know how much of it belonged to Lane.

(Run little sister!) Lane yelled at her. She did as he said and ran down the hill toward the house.. She had to find Jake. She was almost there when she heard a pain filled yelp. She looked back up the hill and saw that Lane was losing. She couldn't let him die. She looked down on the ground and saw a silver arrow laying in the grass.

She hoped that silver worked against all were creatures and not just wolves. She picked up the arrow and ran up the hill.. Draco didn't know what hit him as she jumped on his back and sunk the arrow deep into his head. He managed to twist around and snapped his teeth less than an inch from her face before falling on top of her in a lifeless heap.

Jake burst from the house and froze while he quickly took in the scene. Lucas was laying alive but unconscious just a few feet from the house. Lane was laying in a bloody heap on the side of the small hill and Draco was dead where he lay on top of Angela.

Jake changed back to a man and yelled her name as he sprinted up the hill to her. He grabbed Draco's lifeless body and threw it aside.

"Are you ok?" he asked as he ran his hands along her body checking for any sign of injuries. Angela smiled and threw her arms around his neck.

"We're fine." she assured him as he touched a hand to her stomach. He kissed her and was closer to tears than he had ever been in his life.

"What are you doing here?" he asked,

"Lane and I... Oh my god Lane!" Angela jumped up and ran up the hill to where Lane lay. He had changed back to a man but he was just lying there perfectly still and covered in blood. His eyes were closed.

"Lane wake up!" Angela said as she pushed his hair out of his face. "Don't you dare die on me! This bambina I'm carrying around is going to need her favorite uncle." Lane smiled even though his eyes were still closed.

"Bambino. And I want him named after me." Angela nearly screamed with joy as she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him close. Then she pulled away and moved back to Jake's arms.

Jake's steady heartbeat against her ear reassured her that everything was ok.

"What about Vladimir?" Lane asked as he sat up gingerly and winced in pain.

"Dead." Jake replied.

"Vladimir...?" Angela started.

"Was working with Draco." Jake replied burying his nose in Angela's hair and breathing in her scent.

"Hey cousin." Lucas said walking over to them while rubbing the scratches along his jaw. Angela realized that he too was naked and she buried her face in Jake's rock hard chest.

"What is it?" Jake asked her.

"You're all naked." she replied feeling the blush rise on her cheeks.

"I've gotta get home cousin." Lucas said smiling at Jake. "Take care of her." Jake nodded.

"Thanks for helping them." he said. "But don't think this means that you can loan Lane any more money. I'll still kill you if you do that again." Lucas nodded and then was gone.

Jake looked at Draco's dead body lying on the ground. He had turned back into a man in death and the silver arrow was sticking out of his temple. Jake knew they couldn't leave him out in the open. He forced himself to let go of Angela and threw Draco over his shoulder. He carried him a little ways into the woods and found a large boulder.

"Lane lift that up." Jake said. Angela was about to protest because of the many wounds covering Lane's body but Lane threw a look that made her stop.

(Have some faith little sister). he said. Lane lifted the boulder and Jake laid Draco down on the ground beneath it. Lane let go of the boulder and it fell with a crack on top of Draco's body. Angela closed her eyes and winced at the sound.

"Alright." Jake said wrapping his arms back around Angela. "Let's go home and then you can both explain to me exactly why you were here."