The chaos happened here

The 12th of September 2021

Irina took a deeper breath in and leaned her head a little further back into the car seat before turning her head towards Nigel as the car parked. She agreed. She wished Quentin would be just out of their hair, and but Quentin was like a parasite that just kept showing up and never to be eliminated. "Yeah, hopefully his siblings can talk some sense into him, one can only hope," she sighed a bit. If they could just get Quentin shipped back to New York or to the other side of the world, that would be great. She got out of the car and ran a hand over her hair, before breathing out. She was a bit on edge on how Tyler would take everything. She didn't know how Tyler would react to the fact that his cousin was a werewolf. However, she breathed out as Nigel placed a kiss on her temple and followed him towards the house.


Cecilia took a deeper breath in and looked at Nia who was going spiral. "Nia," she breathed out and looked at her friend. She would have asked Lucas to join them, but he was spending time with his own little core four - and besides, she trusted that they could accomplish this with help from Nigel and Irina as well. "It's going to be fine," she placed the can of coffee and the cups on the coffee table. She had to believe they could convince Tyler that this Quentin person was bad news. But the family also had a trait of being stubborn bastards, which was what Cecilia feared the most about this. Then it rang on the door, and she went over to open it. "Hey. Come on in," she took a deeper breath in and stepped a little to the side letting Nigel and Irina in. "How are you? - You know despite everything?" Giving Irina a warm hug as she walked past, and then gave Nigel one. "Tyler should be here soon enough," she closed the door as they walked in, "We are managing, despite everything," Irina replied looking back at Cecilia, before she walked to the living room where Nia was. Irina walked in and looked over at Nia who looked like someone freaking out. "Thank you for being here, " Cecilia turned her head towards Nigel, knowing he possible had a bunch of other things to do as well, then again he was family. "Hey," Irina greeted Nia with a smile and walked closer to her, taking a deeper breath in as she felt her nerves poking her a little. "Grab some coffee, water or whatever you want - it's almost show time," Cecilia sighed a little looking from Nigel, to Irina to Nia.

It had been two days of recovery till he had gotten a magical little pick me up and was almost restored back into his usual. Cecilia had invited him, with a few others, so Tyler imagined they just wanted to make sure he was alright - given everything that had happened. But it was also a way for Tyler to check up on everyone, making sure everyone was alright, and there weren’t any monsters under the bed to be scared off. He wore a magical bracelet Quentin had given him, apparently it was supposed to glow if a supernatural creature was near him. Tyler got out of the taxi and looked shortly at the truck already holding there. He made his way to the house and knocked on the door, waiting till Cecilia opened it to walk in. Greeting her in a big warm hug. "Scones, amazing, let me guess," he pointed over at Nia with a warm smile. "Good to see you standing, Durak" Tyler chuckled a little bit while shaking his head walking over to give Irina a hug, it was only then he realized the bracelet glowing up, making him take a small step back frowning a bit, but not doing anything yet. He turned his direction over to Nigel, while trying to process why his bracelet was glowing - Irina couldn't be supernatural, could she? He handed his hand out to Nigel, it wasn't like they were strangers or anything, but it had been a while. "Good to see you again." After taking his hand back again he moved his eyes back to Irina shortly, but made the choice to walk over and give Nia a big hug. After all she had been the one he had spoken most to whenever she had time between breaks. Clearly he felt uneasy, and thinking about how to handle this.

Bloody hell, the bracelet glowed again and he realized it as he sat down. His brain was on fire, what was going on? Was Nia and Irina part of the supernatural? Was that why they had went into a fight with Quentin in the hallway? Why Irina had told him it was a bad idea to stay too close to Quentin? Why Nia had said it? They will leave you fooled, you can't trust them. The person you loved has long left that skin, its just the monster wearing its face - trying to manipulate you, Quentin's voice from when Tyler first had met the guy roared in his head. Tyler walked towards the couch, and took a deeper breath in, clearly being a bit out of it, his eyes shifting between Nia and Irina. "Uhm- " he didn't sit down just yet, but instead he looked around the room shortly. Irina took a step closer to Tyler, mostly because he looked like someone who had just seen a ghost and was about to pass out. Want some coffee, Tyler? He moved his head back to Nia taking a sharper breath in, and nodded a bit. He looked down at his bracelet the second, making both Cecilia and Irina follow his eyes to the glowing object.

Irina looked over to Nigel as he stated they were going straight into the crossfire, making her frown a little bit, till he mentioned that Tyler knew. She took a deeper breath in, and took a few steps to the side while looking back at Tyler, to sit down in the sofa next to Nigel. Mostly because she had no idea what Tyler would do or say when he had processed it. Cecilia narrowed her eyes a little bit, before summoning the bracelet to her hands. She wondered why it had glowed near Nia, making her eyes dart to her friend for a moment shortly out of breath, but it could wait. Tyler was her main focus. "How did you?" Tyler looked at his hand as he saw the bracelet was out of his hands. "What are you?" He asked his sister. "I'm your sister? I'm also human, with powers- but for now, breath. Sit down and we will talk about all of this."

Tyler slowly sat down in the armchair, taking a deeper breath in. Clearly being more freaked out than looking like someone who would harm anyone. But fear also made people do stupid things. "What are you?" His eyes moving from Nia to Irina and back again, making him rather dizzy. Cecilia put the bracelet on the counter before sitting down next to Nia, once again he looked to Nia, which had Cecilia and Irina also very curious - Cecilia the most.

Cecilia closed her eyes and took a deeper breath in, as Nia started explaining. She had always had a feeling back then that Nia was sick, but without the knowledge of her powers, she had believed Nia when she had told her that she was fine. But dying from Cancer? The nightmares back then had been more real than Cecilia first had thought. I'm a vampire. Cecilia blinked taking a deeper breath in, and just froze for a second. Her friend. Who knew that Cecilia now knew about this world had shown her powers to and told about her trouble, hadn't trusted her enough to tell her the truth? That she was a vampire. Nia was a vampire. No matter how many creatures she met or people she met who wasn't human, it was alright, she could handle that. What she couldn't handle was the fact that her friend hadn't' told her what had happened to her, and she knew she shouldn't be mad - and she wasn't really mad, she was just hurt, but also knew this wasn't about her and sucked it up. Looking over at Tyler wanting to observe how he took the news.

He starred at Nia, just like Irina did, but it was a different stare. Because Tyler was processing. Irina's golden eyes showed as the wolf tried to figure out how to feel about the vampire, and to be fair, Irina hadn't been around many vampires since the ones she had slaughtered back when she had just made it to Gaia - the night she had met Nigel. But she took a deeper breath in, trying to calm the wolf down. Tyler moved his hands to his head almost digging his nails through the skin, as he took a deeper breath in. The people you love would be gone. Don't let them fool you. Quentin's voice once again screamed at him, making Tyler breath slightly defeated out, because he didn't want to believe it was real or true. "Tyler calm down, breath" Cecilia tried to let her voice reach him, because she knew how this could go. Then he turned towards Irina seeing her golden eyes which possibly gave him the biggest scare, and made him search for something in his the inner pocket of his jacket, because he knew he had some wolf's bane on him. Quentin had given it to him. Irina blinked and had her normal eyes again, but the wolf was still very much aware of her cousin's rushed movements.

Cecilia rather quickly lifted herself a little up pulling Nia into her arms, as Tyler went a little bit crazy, and Nigel got up. But Cecilia couldn't handle seeing Nia upset, just wanted to hold her close. Because it didn't matter if Nia was a vampire, an alien or what else she could have been. To Cecilia, Nia was Nia, simple as that, even if she felt a little bit hurt about not knowing the truth - it still didn't change the bigger picture. Irina also shook her head a little bit as Nigel got up, mostly because she wanted her wolf to clam down, luckily it never really took long depending on how threatened she was or who was threatened. And since Nigel dealt with Tyler, and Cecilia holding Nia, Irina could breathe and get the wolf in control.

It was like Tyler's eyes grew bigger as Nigel stood up and grabbed his hand. Like a child who had been caught taking or playing with something he shouldn't, he held his breath looking up at Nigel as the was told to look at him. Tyler finally breathed out, as Nigel said he had been lied to, making him press his brows together. He didn't understand at first. Once he started to just listen and not think about what he just had seen or what he had been told, he only listened to what Nigel had to say. Because, one thing was Quentin had been the one breaking the veil that had kept the supernatural from Tyler, another thing was the people he knew and trusted telling him things. Being scared to tell him, because of how he reacted. The guilt started boiling in him as he realized he had reached out for the wolf's bane short moment ago. But he nodded to Nigel to confirm that it was what Quentin had said, and the other in the crew. "He said, ehm -" he took a deeper breath in trying to process everything. Looking shortly over at the sobbing Nia, and he felt the knife stab him with guilt once again. "You are a hunter?" He breathed out his words taking a deeper breath in, looking over at Irina, a hunter together with a werewolf. Nia sitting with Cecilia, looking more human than himself at the moment. It was like some of Quentin's lies started to become more silent in his head. "And you are a werewolf?" He knew but it was like he wanted Irina to confirm it to him as well, and she took a deeper breath in looking over at him. "Yeah, I was turned a few months after I left Russia," she replied while holding her breath. Tyler had spend time with her whenever he could afford to travel back to Bulgaria after that, Irina had lived with this other woman Selene. It didn't mean he didn't believe some parts of the supernatural wasn't bad, he still wanted an explanation on the things he had seen lately. Lights on the events that had happened over the last year.

"No, its alright. There has been a lot, it's okay," she took a deeper breath in and closed her eyes for a brief moment. It was the same with not telling Maeve, not telling Tyler, not telling the rest of her family - she of all people shouldn't judge that Nia not telling her. But she also knew what it felt like when people didn't. Cecilia nodded a bit, and breathed out following how Nia walked to the backyard, at least Cecilia had managed to make it presentable. Fixing the garden was her distress method, at least it meant she got some work done. Cecilia thereafter turned her head back to Nigel, and nodded to the fact she understood that Nia needed some time. It was also something suddenly being forced to tell someone anything like this. They were supernatural, and here she had been on full alert on how Tyler would react to Irina, when Nia had been sitting next to her all the time, and Cecilia hadn't known the truth.  

Tyler moved his eyes back to Nigel as he talked, being raised a hunter and all, but seemed like he had put that past behind him. Fixing houses, funny how that sentence was the thing that made most sense to him, but then again Tyler was an architect, so naturally it was a language he understood. But keeping his family safe from people like Quentin. People like Quentin, Tyler took a deeper breath in, was he like Quentin now. And was that killing without mercy? No, he wasn't a killer, he hadn't even dared firing at the demons that night, which was most likely why he had ended up injured. When Nigel let go of his hands, he breathed out for real, feeling like no one in the room saw him as a threat, as he wanted it to be. Because he didn't want to hurt his family. Just like Cecilia, Tyler liked reading and learning, so having book to teach him was perhaps the best way to understand all this.  He took a slightly deeper breath in, grabbing one of the books as they were placed on the table.

"It wasn't myself I was worried about," he looked up from the book and over at Cecilia, who clearly took a deeper breath in by those words. There was a lot. The curse, almost dying, the kidnappings in the family a lot that wasn't natural or could be explained and she knew she had been distant. Well, Cecilia hadn't known Irina was a werewolf till she met up with her here in March and had told her. Irina leaned closer into Nigel as he pulled her close, making her take a deeper breath in, eying the otherwise pretty plant that was the wolf's bane on the table. The plant making her a bit nauseous, on top of processing the whole thing. Cecilia looked over at them shortly then her eyes following the plant. "I will put this somewhere else," she got up and took the wolf's bane from the table, and walked out to the kitchen to throw it out. Looking outside from the kitchen window, hoping to catch a quick glimpse of Nia.

Irina breathed out, closing her eyes for a short moment, just letting herself find some peace. Tyler just looked through one of the books, letting his eyes scan the pages, as he suck up everything. Reading some parts, but mostly just letting his eyes run over the pages - he had heard Quentin and some of the others talk about some of their missions, about what creatures they had killed or anything like that, it made him more sick thinking about it now. Glad, he hadn't been a part of it, but sick that they had talked about it like that. Like Nigel had said; killed without mercy. He moved his eyes outside, felt like he owed Nia an apology that he had scared her, or he felt like he had scared her. He closed the book and looked over at Nigel for a second, to let him know he wasn't going to do anything stupid. And then he slowly made his way out to the garden to find Nia.

Tyler had always admired Cecilia for finding time outside of work to take care of a garden like this. It took a lot of work and a lot of care, but he also knew that she used it to forget about the world for a moment. He understood that. Over the last couple months everything had changed for him, and it was still a hard pill to swallow to think that Quentin had filled him up with lies. How he and the others had twisted the minds of others as well, making them believe they did a difference. Tyler was angry, angry at Quentin, at Quentin's clan, his people and mostly at himself for being foolish enough to fall into the beliefs of someone like him. It wasn't Tyler, it couldn't be. He wouldn't let it be. Tyler made his way around the garden, autumn was really here, it was clear how yellow the leaves were turning.

Finally, his eyes caught her sitting on the bench, and he made his way slowly towards her. The pained smile. It pained him to see her like this, trying to hide up everything that had made her go outside. Everything that had happened not long ago. He felt slightly better getting outside, feeling the fresh air, but also letting the other's be for a moment, he knew he most have scared Irina a bit, and he had time to apologize to her later and Irina had Nigel - he didn't like Nia was out here all by herself. Not after how it must have looked like when he had acted out the way he did. "No, its alright. I was actually coming out here to apologize for how I acted, it wasn't - I didn't mean to," he licked his lips a little bit taking a deeper breath in. "I'm angry. But not at you, not at Irina - I'm angry at Quentin. And I feel sorta sick, but only because of everything he has said and done, the illusion he created. But other than that, its - I don't know, how about you, how are you?" He walked over at sat down beside her.

It felt like a betrayal. Like his trust had been used, but not by either of the people inside these walls. He was mad about everything he had lost in the process of this. But he pushed it away to listen to how Nia was feeling, confessing she wasn't feeling great. Nia said he had every right to be angry, making him hold his breath for a second. Yes, he had lost a lot. But like she said, maybe they had just prevented that he would lose anything else. Tyler took an even sharper breath in, wanting to believe that now he at least got to have his friends and his family in peace, that he wouldn't end up losing them. Perhaps the first step was acceptance and then understanding of what Irina and Nia had been through. Listen to their stories.

Do you know what you will do now? See that was the question. What was he going to do now? He was going to make peace with Jessica, but no, he wasn't going to try get back with her, but he wanted to see his kids again. Tyler was going to be there for his friends. Be there for his family. Tyler looked over at her and took a deeper breath in as he replied: "I'm going to learn, listen, make up my own mind. And yeah, eat some scones," he gave her a small smile, before gently pushing his shoulder towards hers. Tyler looked as she put on the necklace again. "You know, you don't have to hide who you are. No you are Nia, who might burn food but is excellent in making baked goods, who makes lots of jokes - and you are amazing just the way you are, human or vampire. You are Nia, don't forget that," he took her hand and gave it a little squeeze. "I might not understand everything yet, but I see you Nia Lewis."

He gave her a smile. Not thinking he really deserved any of their kindness after the way he had acted out. Even if it had been out of fear and confusion, both Nia and Irina deserved he had acted better. Tried to understand rather than lashing out. "Maybe, I owe Irina an apology as well - none of you deserved the reaction you got," he breathed out and scratched the back of his head a little bit. He had actually reached for something that could have harmed her, that was how reckless the fear had made him, and he hated it. "I can't believe I believed a guy like that," he got up from the bench while shaking his head a little. Tyler was still processing the fact of how used he felt by Quentin and the others. How terrible he felt that he had believed him, and even if he hadn't hurt anyone - he would have. Just like he had made the others do. "But scones and coffee, sounds about right for the nerves right now," he chuckled a bit and handed his hand out for her to take. "Come on," Tyler nodded a bit towards the house, but wouldn't head back inside till she joined him.

Tyler entered the door, heading back through the sitting room and towards the living room. "Now you have left us some scones, right?" He chuckled a bit, making Cecilia looked back at Nia and Tyler as they rejoined them. "If you are lucky, I mean they are freaking delicious," she giggled a little.

No one is blaming you, those words echoed in his head for a moment as they walked in. Irina was possibly one of the most forgiving people in the room, then again he was in room with people who only had great sympathy and ability of forgiveness. Tyler chuckled a bit, watching Nigel eat a scone and Irina sitting there picking in one. Cecilia was possibly the worst of them, just sitting there eating whenever she had finished one she grabbed a new one. The wolf's bane hadn't really helped increasing the werewolf's appetite, but it was a battle between her and the little one if she was going to eat that scone or not. "Okay I give up," she put the scone on the table, looking shortly at Nigel where noticed his eyes were lowering to Tyler and Nia holding hans, making her frown a little bit before grabbing the sad remains of her coffee, before she leaned back. At least she could drink the last mouthful of her coffee in peace. The free hand over her stomach, while watching Nia realize she had held hands with Tyler. Like two teenagers being caught in the act.

Tyler took a deeper breath in hadn't even realized they had held hands, and it was really only Nia's realization that made him aware of it. So, he just stood there for a second as Nia walked over to grab a scone, and placed it in his hand before getting them a cup of coffee. Tyler took a deeper breath in as his eyes met with Irina's. He licked his lips a little making a small grimace as he sat down next to Cecilia. "I'm sorry," he breathed out looking down for a short moment before he looked back into her eyes. "I had no right to act out the way I did, no matter how influenced by the information I've been told. I should've known better," he breathed out biting his lips together while looking at Irina. "Yeah, you should. But I know what its like to end up mingle up with people who you believe has your back, so for that I don't blame you," Irina sat a bit more up, resting the empty cup on her knee. "Just do us all a favor and stay away from Quentin, alright?" Tyler nodded a bit, looking over at Nia to get the cup of coffee. "But what do I do if he reach out?" Tyler frowned a bit by the thought, Quentin didn't seem like the type of guy to take a simple no for an answer - not regarding stuff like this.

She chuckled a bit as Nigel took the half-eaten scone, "be my guest," the werewolf replied in a small laughter then looking over at Nia, with a small shrug, "not much, it's mostly scent provoked, but its fine really - for now, I'm not going to jinx that," she laughed a little bit. At least Irina felt the joy of actually just being able to embrace and experience the pregnancy, not having to walk on eggshells and hide it for everyone, and she was truly happy about that.

Irina didn't know what would be smartest around a guy like Quentin, he didn't understand hints and was built on threatening people. She listened to Nigel wondering if it would be enough, it could be. Irina chuckled a bit by the mention on Quentin still being afraid of Nigel, making her look to his side after she had placed the empty cup on the coffee table, she moved her hand up pushing some of his hair back on its right place, with a little chuckle. At least it seemed like Quentin feared Nigel, at least up to a point of rethinking his action just a little bit. "I will remember that," Tyler breathed out looking over at Nia.

Cecilia and Irina weren’t really surprised, yet still a bit surprised by the outburst. Cecilia especially about that big smile on the vampire's lips. But mainly they had seen Quentin run out of the hospital more freaked out than they had ever seen him before. Cecilia gently rolled her eyes at Nia but couldn't help but crack a laugh at Nigel almost choking on his coffee. "Yeah, it was quite a show, a shame you missed it," Irina pointed out to Nigel before turning her head to Cecilia. "He ran so fast," Cecilia breathed out and reached out for another scone. "Oh yeah, it was the ability you said you would show me one day," Cecilia pointed over to Nia. "Ability?" Tyler frowned a bit. Cecilia narrowed her eyes a little bit realizing she now had to explain this as well. "Well, some people - actually and surprisingly most people have some sort of ability. Like I can summon things and people, like I did with your bracelet - and see the future time to time," Cecilia informed with a small shrug. Tyler pressed his brows a bit more together, he had heard Quentin talk about powers before.

"She does, I'm the master villain of someone's story - I can live with that," she chuckled a bit by that thought. Coming to mind all the things she could summon if she wanted to, it was truly a power not to be given to the greedy. Cecilia sat back in her seat, and crossing her arms a little bit excited to see just what Nia was about to show them. Cecilia quickly uncrossed her arms as the table started to be filled with something almost taken out of a fairytale. Tyler too was completely stoked to be seeing this. Cecilia was used to see visions and things that wasn't really there, so seeing this was a lot but nothing she could grab her head around. However, she couldn't tell who was most confused Tyler or Irina. Irina grabbing onto Nigel's knee the second the scenario changed and they were on a beach. The werewolf hadn't really experienced these kind of powers before, and she gave herself a few seconds to breath before she calmed down looking shortly up at Nigel with a soft chuckle, then looking around them. Then it took Nia a snap with her fingers and they had all changed outfits fitting the sommer like scene set for them. "Remind me to find you next time I need a vacation," Cecilia chuckled a bit to herself. Tyler stood completely frozen while taking everything in, looking a bit pale to be honest. Cecilia laughed a little at her brother, "breathe Tyler, it's alright," she assured, leaning a bit back taking in the sun.

Irina could about now just realize why Quentin had put on his best running shoes to get out of the hospital. "And you thought you didn't ge any summer vacation this year, huh?" She chuckled a bit teasingly at Nigel, while moving her feet back and forth enjoying the warm water. This was insane. Imagining having so much power to make the world around her whatever she wanted with it. It was incredible. The werewolf looked back to her boyfriend, leaning over to place a tender kiss on his cheek, followed by a soft chuckle as she leaned her head against his shoulder looking over at Cecilia and Nia. Tyler still standing there taking everything in.

The shock from the water ballon colliding with his face, made Tyler almost lose balance completely. He shook his head a bit to the side, still feel like he was dreaming but he at least breathed out. Tyler watched as the small buckets filled with waterballons appeared. It reminded him of last summer back home, it was just like being on Varna beach, which was perhaps what made him smile most about it. Last summer. Life had been different back then. Irina closed her eyes the second the water ballon hit Nigel's face, feeling the water as it hit her as well, sitting up as he got up. "Oh yeah, as defending champion," Cecilia grabbed her own ballon, balancing it a bit in her hand before throwing towards Nia, attacking from the side. However, just as she threw, she was hit on the side of her head turning around. Irina made a small shrug. "You know you just declared war right?" - "What are you going to do about that? Defending champion" Irina dared her cousin. Tyler had picked up two ballon throwing one first at Cecilia then one at Irina, "suckers," then by the turning heads of Cecilia and Irina, he sprinted off alongside the shore to get to safety near Nia and her palm tree. "Oh it's on," Irina looked to Cecilia who gave her a confident nod.

Then they both grabbed a ballon each looking at each other, then both looked at Nigel. "See Nigel, we have an excellent offer for you - wanna team up for a little destruction?" Cecilia turned her head towards the palm tree. "Of course you can try handle things yourself, just no trying to steal my back player here," she pointed back at Cecilia. "Less talking, we need to take them down," Irina reminded Cecilia. "Either you are with us - or against us, you know I will come for you," she raised playfully on her eyebrow.

"I think they are trying to group up against us," Tyler popped out his head from the palm tree, looking at his sister and cousin trying to team up with Nigel. "I will give it to you Lewis, this is pretty amazing."