Sabre and Rosemary
Sabre paid off the taxi driver and helped Dru and Rosemary out of the cab. "So, here we are again. Oh, joy."
"You're so funny, Papa!" Rosemary giggled and flung her arms around his neck.
"Yeah. Sod. I want to go hunting again already, and we just got here." Sabre sighed, then picked up their bags. "C'mon, me girls. Let's get ourselves inside."
Dru and Rosemary
Dru and Rosemary followed Sabre, dancing through the halls. "We must go down to the med bay. They are all gathered there. The stars want to help my baby," Dru said, her eyes flashing yellow.
They joined the group that was keeping a vigil over Dawn and Faith, lying side by side on hospital beds.
"My sweet!" Dru cried, kissing Dawn, as her tears fell onto Dawn's face.
Nyx, Nathan and Rosemary
"Vampires!" Nathan jumped to his feet, frightened eyes going from Rosemary to Dru rapidly. He scrambled backwards.
"Sabre! Thank the powers you're here! Hello, Dru." Nyx nodded.
"Ooh, Mummy, he smells so sweet." Rosemary stalked towards Nathan. "Calling to me with his blood." She vamped out. Nathan grabbed a chair, broke it into a rough approximation of a stake and dove at her.
Dru, Rosemary and Scott
Rosemary watched as Nathan staked her, the hole almost instantly closing up.
"Can I eat him Mummy?"
"No, sweetie, Papa's sister wouldn't like it. This is Miss Nyx, my pretty kitty, your Papa's sister. That makes her your auntie," Dru smiled.
"He does smell sweet, though," Dru said, looking at Nathan wistfully.
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Scott put his arm around Nathan, guiding him away from the vampiresses.
"Seraph, that's Spike's sire. I don't know the other one, but the dark-haird one is part of Dawn's Pack, she's claimed Dawn as a childe, and Dawn has taken her as her mother. I'm assumiong that the other is one of Dru's childer. They won't hurt the mutants here, Sabre, Nyx and Spike won't let them. That's Nyx's brother." Scott tried to calm Nathan down.
Nathan, Rosemary and Sabre
"I don't believe you. I've spent most of my life running from the things that want to eat me. they want to. Oh god. In my head." Nathan clutched his hands over his eyes. "I need to leave." He stumbled towards the door, then halted, turned back. "She wins. Can't see when, but she should win."
"Why do you say that?" Sabre asked, curious.
"I see. It's what I am." Nathan shrugged. "You're a cat, you see some. She sees more, that one. I can see it...the stars sing." He looked at Dru.
"Oh, he smells like fear and sugar. Can't we have just a sip?" Rosemary asked Dru.
Rosemary
Spike stepped out of the shadows. "No, luv. I'm your brother. William the Bloody. Welcome to the family," Spike said, kissing her quickly on the mouth.
"Oh, I like you," Rosemary said. "You smell like Papa. Dark and light. All these children, and I can't have a sip." Rosie pouted.
Nathan and Astrid
"Going now." Nathan turned on his heel and ran.
"Hey, Spike. How ya been?" Sabre stepped forward and shook Spike's hand.
"Alright, mate. Except for this..."
"Yeah. And why are the wards set up so strong? And what's an agent of the Aesir doing here?"
"I be here because Loki is playing his tricks," Astrid replied calmly.
"Loki? We havta deal with Loki as well?"
"The Norns laugh, ya? Oh, how we are all laughing."
Dru
"Too many people, crowding my baby. Can some leave?" Dru asked, worried about Dawn.
Astrid, Nyx, Sabre and Rosemary
"I will go. Anything changes, please come and get me. Sigurd will want to know." Astrid left quietly.
"Yes...I better stay. Sabre, you go and check my wards? Please?" Nyx sighed.
"Alright, lovely." Sabre nodded. "C'mon Rosemary." He left with the fledgeling. "Remember no biting."
"Of course not, Papa!"
Dru, Scott and Willow
Dru looked at Scott. "Have you slept yet, child?" Scott shook his head.
"We will watch over her. You are to be a Daddy soon, you need your rest while you can get it." Wearily, Scott agreed and went up to his and Jean's room.
"Goddess, take a rest as well, child," Dru prodded Willow. Sulking, Willow curled up on one of the spare hospital beds and fell asleep.
Nyx
"How was Europe, Dru pet? And why did you bring a Childe here, hmmm? You know that I can't let you hunt here." Nyx looked a bit white from trying to heal Dawn and keep her alive all through the night, but she still managed a smile for the vampiress.
Dru
"I couldn't leave my new baby. She's a quick learner, she knows not to hurt family. We will not stay to hunt, we will go into the city. The subway has good memories," Dru grinned. "Rosie won't hurt anybody, if her Papa and Mummy are nearby."
Nyx
"Oh, yes...good memories..." Nyx sighed wistfully. "I want to come with you. Oh! I finally tripped Logan into bed. He's good. And nummy."
Dru
"Your brother isa very skilled lover, and my sweet Rosie is a quick study. PLease, kitty, get some rest, my William and I will watch over Baby."
Nyx
"Glad to hear it, Dru sweetie." Nyx curled up on a bed. "Watch her for me." Nyx fell into an exhausted sleep.
Dru
Dru sat in a chari next to Dawn's bed as everyone napped. She held her 'daughter's' hand and sang softly.
"Run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch."