Everyone is looking at Alice. "I.. I don't understand. You were dead. You died fighting. How can you be my mother and be dead?" Alice smiles and walks over to me. "I didn't die. I made a pact with God. I will live until my work is done. I was weakened though for twelve years." She almost died after I was born and was fully healed when I was twelve. "How come you never visited me?" My mom, or at least I think she is my mom, sighs. "You had a new family. Your father with a new woman and a sister. I couldn't break that apart. What kind of mother would I be if I broke your family just to have my own back? You were happy and your father was. That was all I cared about." Tears fill my eyes and Alice hugs me. Her scent is so familiar and it makes me feel save. "If you want, I can show you exactly what happened." I look into her eyes and nod. Alice looks around and counts the people outside. "You can have two people who you can take with you. Pick." That choice is easy. "Keal and Vanessa." Alice nods and Keal and Vanessa walk closer to me."You two. Put one hand on Alex her shoulder. Each take one shoulder." They nod and Keal puts his hand on my left shoulder and Vanessa on my right." Alice snaps with her fingers and everything changes. I see a woman on bed and my dad is standing next to her. The woman is in a lot of pain. "Come on Alice. Push a little more."My father is holding something. I walk around and see a head in his hands. Alice pushes more and the rest of the body comes out. The baby is crying. "It's a girl," my father says with joy. "That means you win, so you can pick the name." Alice smiles and my dad his eyes are shining. I have never seen him this happy. "I will call her Alexandra. I chose this name, because it starts with an A just like your name." Alice tears up and smiles. I hear another finger snap and we are in the middle of the war that Carrick started. My mom and my grandfather are fighting together, but I don't see my father anywhere. Alice is using magic, but got dragged away from my grandfather. Carrick and his pack are holding my mom still and she mumbles a few words in Latin. Deus meus ad me vivere factumest.(God, let me live until my deed is done.) Carrick stabs her multiple times with a dagger that I have seen before. Tears roll down my face when I see Alice bleeds out and I hear Carrick whisper: "I know that your daughter will find out what happens, but she will never see you again and I will kill her too." Another finger snap. I see my father running with me in his arms. Little me is crying. "You will be save Alex. I promise you that I will keep you save." He stops running and lays me down on the ground. He holds out his hand and closes his eyes. He playbacks words that I can't understand. Purple fog surrounds me. I look closer. It's not surrounding me, it comes out of me. "This must be the spell that your father used to surpress your Lycan blood," Vanessa says. I nod. Little me stopped crying and my father walks around like a zombie around with me. He bumps into a woman. My stepmother. She looks concerned. My dad falls on his knees and whispers: "Alice..No.." My stepmother doesn't understand, but my father explains and she believes him. Another finger snap. Back to now. I look at Alice and the only thing I can say is: "Mom." I cry and hug her. She strokes through my hair and the only thing I'm focusing on is her scent. I don't ever want to let that go. I just can't.