Christian looked at the two then back at Layla. 
"Maybe we can have two from each tribe. They can cover all sides that way."
He looked at the little one who still seemed a bit figgety and excited.

Rei watched as Layla nodded her head as that was fine with her.

{Layla} -That is a good idea.

Layla said in agreement as she saw the others also feel it was good.  As they went talking a bit more. 

He thought about the girl in the forest and looked at Layla.
"Keilani is to be left alone. I don't want anybody bothering her."
He looked over at the younger of the girls knowing that she had been around Keilani's home lately.

Rei shook her head as she was thinking about it.  Keilani has been a long time friend of all the women of the tribe.

||Rei||- She is a friend of ours.  

He nodded as he was happy to hear that.
"I am actually going to see her in a few minutes."

He smiled as he thought about her. He was hoping that he would be able to talk her into moving to the village.

Rei looked up at him when he said that as she was thinking about it.  She knew Keilani wasn't there right now.  Though she had been told to not say where she was going.

||Rei||- She isn't home right now. 

She said simply as she didn't want him to waste a trip to go there.  She didn't want to break Keilani's trust, and she knew Keilani thought she was doing the right thing..  

He frowned when he heard that.
"Just answer one question for me. Is she somewhere safe?"

Rei looked at him as she was thinking about it.  She didn't know this Pandora all that well, but Keilani had been told that she was the only one who could help her.

||Rei||- She is trying to get the vampire out of her.  She was told of someone who could do it. 

She said as she was being honest...  

He growled hearing that. He knew that would cause trouble with her brother.
"I won't tell her you told me. I'll find her."
He took off for the city to find Keilani.

Rei ran after him, seeing he was going in the wrong direction.  When he did stop she pointed back into the woods.

||Rei||- Pandora lives in the woods.  She hates the city.  

She said as she saw him nod and go...  

He took off hoping to catch Keilani before it was too late. He was relieved when he saw her.
"Keilani! I need to talk to you."

Keilani was just leaving when he showed up.  She saw him as she smiled a bit. He could tell as soon as she was close enough that she had done it.  The vampire side was done.

||Keilani||- Hello

He frowned as he walked up to her.
"Why? Why did you do it, Keilani?"

She looked at him, seeing him frown as she wasn't hurt by that.  As she didn't feel sorry either for what she had done.  As this was what she was wanting.

||Keilani||- Because, it was what I wanted. 

She said honestly as she was thinking about it.  She would be able to be happy and live in peace again.  She didn't have to worry about vampires sensing and trying to hunt her and capture her.  They wouldn't even be able to tell the difference any longer, because she was just a wolf now.

He reached out and gently pushed her hair back from her eyes.
"Why did you not choose to be like your brother? You know that would have made him happy."

She looked at him when he asked as she was thinking about it.  It may have been what her brother would of wanted more.   Though she knew he wouldn't hate her for her choice, because it had been what she wanted.

||Keilani|| Because, It is what I wanted.  This is the life I want, this is the one I choose.

She said as she had been able to do things the way she wanted with out any pressure... Pandora had let her choose with out feeling bad either way..

He slid his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him.
"I just don't want you to regret your decision later. You know that I would have loved you either way."

She leaned against him as she was thinking about it. She knew she wouldn't regret it, as she felt she had more to enjoy this way.

||Keilani||- I won't regret it.  I feel this lets me enjoy life better this way.  As the other way I wouldn't enjoy food, and other little plesures.

She smiled thinking about it...

He kissed her softly.
"We know how much you enjoy those little pleasures."

He cupped her face with one of his hands and kissed her again.

She kissed him back as she leaned against him a bit as she was thinking about what he said as she was thinking about it.

||Keilani||- Would you like to head back now?

She asked as she knew he didn't really care to be near Pandora, but she knew she was the only one who could help her...

He nodded and smiled at her.
"I want to be alone with you for a bit. Make sure that you still enjoy the little things."
He kissed her softly then smiled down at her.

She laughed a bit as she followed him as she was thinking about it.

||Keilani||- Isn't the alpha needed?

She asked as she also knew he had a lot going on.  She was aware that he found out about the other wolves.  So wasn't sure what he had to do there..

He shook his head.
"Layla and my brother has it covered for right now. I want to make sure you are okay."
He looked down into her eyes. Without her, he no longer existed. She was everything to him and more.

She was a bit surprised that he had trusted others to watch over the others.  As he didn't usually.  She smiled a bit as she was thinking about it.  Feeling as if he had come a long way as well.  

||Keilani||- Alright then.  Let us go.

She smiled as she followed him.

He walked with her and smiled as he held her hand.
"You had me scared when I found out where you were."

Keilani walked with him as she was thinking about it.  Her intent was never to scare him, even though this was something she felt she had to do alone.

||Keilani||- I'm sorry.  I didn't mean to scare you.

She said as she was thinking about it..

He stopped walking and turned her to face him.
"Promise me that from now on, we talk about important decisions like this, okay?"

Keilani nodded as she looked at him as she was thinking about it.  Willing to do that as she didn't want him to be upset with her in the future.

||Keilani||- Alright.

She said smiling a bit as she looked at him...

He looked at her as he was thinking.
"Just so you know, the female pack has moved into the village with us. It is safer for both packs to be together at this time."

Keilani looked at him when he said that as she was thinking about it.  She had kind of been feeling that would be happening.  She was also happy he seemed so open to it.  She smiled warmly as she was thinking about it.

||Keilani||- That is a good idea.  I know Rei has been talking about it a lot when she comes and visits. 

She said as she was thinking about it...

He looked down at her.
"Will you finally agree to move to the village with us? I worry about you being alone out there."

She looked at him as she was thinking about it.   Nodding her head after a moment as it was probably they were all together.

||Keilani||Yes, I'll move to the village.

He was happy to hear that. He kissed her softly but deeply.
"I will make sure you are happy there. That is my main goal for us. Making you happy."

She smiled warmly as she looked at him thinking about it.  She wasn't hard to please as she was usually a happy girl.  

||Keilani||- I am already happy, I am with you.

She said smiling softly.

He kissed her softly then opened the door to her home.
"I love you, Keilani."
He led her inside then closed and locked the door before kissing her again.

Rei saw Keilani and Christian walk into their home.  She smiled seeing that everything was alright.  She had also watched as most of her sisters were pretty well settled in now. Rei was just walking around checking things out, getting use to her new surroundings...  

Alex watched the two go inside and saw Rei also watching them. He smiled as he looked at her.

"Nice to see them finally getting along."

She looked up at Alex  as he was pretty huge... As she was a short thing, as she was hearing what he said.  She nodded a bit as she was thinking about it. 

||Rei||- It's nice.

She said after a moment... 

||Rei||- I'm Rei.  Who are you?

He looked at the small young woman and smiled a small smile.

"I'm Alex. Christian is my brother. Well kind of. His mother raised me with her own kids, but she is not my mother. It's a long story."

She looked at him as he was talking and telling her who he was and how he was related to Christian.  She smiled as she nodded.

||Rei||- I'm Layla's sister.  We have the same parents.  

She said as it was the only thing she could think of.

He nodded.
"It seems that you and I will be sharing a house for awhile. I hope you don't mind."

She looked at him a bit surprised when he said that as she was thinking about it.

||Rei||- Sharing a house?

She said as she had actually never been in a house.  Her and her sisters often slept outside..

He nodded.
"I'll show it to you. I think you may like it."

He held his hand out to her as she looked at it a moment, then reached out as she took his hand as she let him pull her, not that she could stop him, with how big and strong he was.  But she followed as he lead her to his place.

||Rei||- Okay.

She smiled a bit as she followed as he lead the way.

He led her to a ladder and smiled.
"You can go up first. The trap is unlocked."
.

Rei climbed up the ladder as she pushed open the trap and climbed in.  He was right behind her as she was just looking around a bit.  It was neat as she moved so he had room as he took up a lot of space.

||Rei||- Oh, very nice. 

She said smiling as she was looking around.

He watched her as she looked around.
"They figured you would like the tree house more than the others. More open and doesn't feel so closed in."

She did spend a lot of time hanging and swinging from trees, so this was neat to her.  She had never seen or been in anything like this as she was looking out seeing that she could see the other houses as she smiled.

||Rei||- I love this.

She said happily

He was glad she was happy about the living arrangements.
"Let me show you my secret place. We can't stay out there long right now. It's not exactly safe."
He took her up another ladder to the roof of the tree house. It was his favorite place to go when he needed away from everyone to think.

Rei followed him up as she looked around once they were outside.  smiling as she could see a lot from up here, and it was peaceful up here.  

||Rei||- This is nice.

He wasn't as comfortable up there as he used to be.
"Right now it is not as safe as it usually is. Too many dangers out there."

When he felt it was enough time out there, he took her hand and pulled her back in as she followed him back down and inside the house.  She thought about what he said as it hadn't been safe for a little bit. She was hoping that would change again, and that things would settle down and go back to normal.

||Rei||- Things have not been safe for a while now.

She said sadly as she was thinking about it.

He nodded and sighed as he thought about it. He missed the days when they didn't have to worry about everything.
Hopefully. I would love to be able to do things again without having to worry if someone is nearby watching.

.

He was worried about them watching, she was worried about trying to be killed again.  She didn't want that.

||Rei||- I can understand that.

She said as she looked down thinking about it.

He sighed as he thought about the stuff that had already happened.
"I just don't want to see anybody else die."

Rei nodded as she didn't want to see anyone else die, she didn't want to see anyone hurt at all.  She sat there curled up a bit thinking about it all.

||Rei||- I don't want to see anymore violence.

He nodded agreeing with her.
"Did you lose anybody important to you?"
.

Everyone had been important, but she thought of who hit the hardest when she started to lose loved ones.

||Rei||- I lost my parents.

She said as she was thinking about it, feeling sad.

He knew what it felt like to not have parents.
"Me too. I'm sorry."

She looked at him as she was thinking about it.

||Rei||- It stinks.

He nodded.
"I was only a few months old when my parents were killed. Christian's mother found me and took me home with her. I was lucky to have them."
He thought about the woman that raised him and sighed. She hadn't been killed like hyis parents had, but instead died naturally. It was still hard and he missed her.

She listened to him talk as she was thinking about it. 

||Rei||- Layla and I lost our parents over a year ago.  When they were killed, Layla had to take on Alpha and keep everyone going.  

She said thinking about it as she knew it had been hard on everyone, especially her sister.  

He listened and sighed. They had so much in common.
"She seems to be a good alpha."

She nodded as she was thinking about it.  Feeling her sister was very good at what she did.  She cared and watched over a lot of them.  She always put everyone before her. 

||Rei||- She is..

He thought about it then nodded.

"Christian is pretty good too. It's nice to see them working together to protect everyone."

He didn't want to see anyone else die. 

She thought about Christian a moment as she nodded her head agreeing as she also thought it was nice.  It was better for them all to work together.

||Rei||- It is nice..

He gave her a small smile.
"You hungry?"

She nodded as she hadn't eaten anything sense yesterday.

||Rei||- I'm starving..

He was glad he had already stocked the kitchen before she arrived.
"Chicken, fish, or steak?"

She didn't mind which he wanted to cook as she didn't have  a favorite and was good with either of them.

||Rei||- It doesn't matter to me, what ever you are in the mood for...

He thought about it then pulled out the fish.
"Fish tonight so it doesn't stink up the rest of the stuff in the fridge."

Rei nodded as she was fine with that as she was thinking about it.  She moved a bit as she followed him looking around a bit as she went and helped him a bit in the kitchen.  She heard him say thank you for helping.

||Rei||- You're welcome.

She said as she walked with him as they put stuff on the table and sat down to eat.

He looked at the food then grinned.
"I'm not the best cook in the village. That would be Alan. I'm not the worst either. That would be Christian. I do fix edible though."

She listened to him talk as they were eating a bit.  She was thinking about it as they didn't do much cooked stuff there, they moved a lot and did open fire meals, and made sure it was all cleaned up and looked like they weren't there.

||Rei||-  Nice