Family meeting...

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After the EMT's had left, Brea sat down beside her father and fussed over him a little. She needed the distraction from what was happening, at least physically. She'd already made Eban a cup of tea and she was making sure that he drunk it. Worried eyes watched him before they flickered back towards Hawken. How had everything turned on it's head again.

"I don't understand something," she said softly, "Why dad, why Bella?" She was talking to Solomon of course, but she didn't look at him as she kept an ever watchful eye on her father. "Tell me why they'd come for him. He's not your father nor your blood, and Bella is nothing to do with you at all." It didn't make sense, at least not to Brea, why come for those two if they wanted to do some damage, they could have come for her.

Her eyes glanced around the room and she let out a breath, she knew the longer they waited the worse that could be happening to Bella, "Where are they," she whispered as she glanced around again, then turned her attention to her father. She didn't know if she should call Fia as the last she'd heard he'd made his choice and had chosen not to be part of this family. "If they hurt her, Albert is going to go nuts."

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She watched him leave before she moved to lay on the bed next to Eban, "This is so weird," she said softly as she curled up next to him. "How are they even here?"

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"Of course I'd miss them, but you are my future and the man I'm going to spend my life with. They will always be my family and always be in my heart. But you are the one I want to be in the arms of."

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Albert snorted softly, "Me and you, I was nothing but a toy to you. The moment you got bored of me you'd move on to someone else. And I love him because of him. When this whole this is over, when Bella is back, you and I shouldn't be around one another."

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Eban drew Alba close to him, needing her warmth. His voice low as he spoke.

“I do not know how this is possible. Even understanding how I am still here, is impossible to comprehend.”

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“Is this what it means to love?” Hawken watched her with curious eyes.

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“If I am so bored of you why am I here kissing you and not else where kissing some one else?” He threw his hands up in the air, pacing.

“You said you fought all the time and he was off kissing everyone else, how can you even love that? Jesus, Al, and you say I’m worse?!”

He paced straight up to Al. “No. We should be around each other.”

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"Don't talk like that, I can't... I don't want to imagine my life without you. You're the only sane thing in my life right now." She let out a breath as she cuddled closer to him. "I love you."

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"Love is different to different people, for me it is doing anything I need to have you in my life. I can't imagine being without you. In fact we both know I can't function without you. I'm a mess."

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"Because I'm here and you're here and you have this thing for me that's just lust and will never be love." Tears prickled his eyes and he looked down, "Well maybe it's me. You never really wanted me and neither did he. He said he loved me but he wanted other people too. But I can't help how I feel, fuck I wish I could because I would be with you in a heartbeat. But I love him!"

He pulled back and then heading back into the house.

[hard_luck_tour]

Eban kissed Alba softly. "Why didn't you go with Breacan or Eothian? You stayed with me."

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Hawken gave a wry smile. "I thought you couldn't function without me because I am just that good."

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"Lust..." Eothian followed Al back to the house. "If lust is love, must mean I'm in love with you." He called after Al's departing back.

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She pulled back and looked at him, a smile playing on her lips, "Why would I go with either of them? They are my past and you are my present, my future and the man I love. Which is very lucky as you're the one I'm married too," she teased softly.

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She rolled her eyes at him, "You wish." Moving towards him, Brea took hold of his hands. "Promise that no matter what happens you'll still be able to marry me."

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"Lust isn't love!" He turned and faced Eothian, "And if you loved me, you'd not be doing this shit right now because some fuckers took my daughter. You'd be getting that brother of yours here so we could go and get her."

And he walked back into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of whiskey and a glass. He was losing it.

[hard_luck_tour]

Eban didn't want to say anything after that. He pulled her to him and kissed her instead.
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"And miss out on fighting with you about panda's at our wedding? No way, brat, I'm getting married to you." He gave her a mischievous grin and pulled back, suddenly serious.

"I have a couple of things I need to do. I'll be back soon."

With that he vanished.

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Finding Al in the kitchen he wasn't going to let the topic drop.

"Your daughter. When did you have a daughter? Baby, you have love all messed up. I'm supposed to stay with you, not leave you."

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Which was a good thing as there was nothing to say to it, Alba knew her heart and it was the man who was in bed with her right now.

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"Let's not forget our bridesmaid dressed as a cow!" She laughed softly and watched him as he pulled back, "Hurry, we need to move soon.

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Albert downed the whiskey without a thought, pouring another one.

"When Audr left her with me and your brother, right around the time he was off kissing redheads." He couldn't help but snap, Eothian was screwing with an already messed up head. "Yeah, I have. Probably because of my experience with it fucking sucks." And another shot went down before he poured another one, walking to the living room this time, and if Eothian wasn't going to call him, Albert would. "Fiachra MacLir get your fucking ass here right now, Bella's been taken and so help me god if you don't get here right now I'll make you pay for it."

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Had anyone had a chance to respond to anything being said, it was over with the moment Hawken returned empty handed.

“Mac, isn’t coming with us.” He replied to Albert, matter of fact and began to call out to Brea. “Brat, get your backside moving we’re ready to go.”

Turning to Eothian Hawken shot the youngest child of Lir a dark look.

"You, you stay here look after Eban and Alba. And keep out of trouble."

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Those words his Albert like a ton of bricks and he just stared at Hawken, eyes turning so cold. Slowly he downed the whiskey and watched as his sister entered the room.

If there was anything left in Al it was crushed in that moment, Fia had really chosen others over even his own daughter and with this and the arrival of Eothian it had broken him inside completely.

"Lets go," he said without saying anything else and moved towards his soon to be brother in law, before turning to look back at Eothian, "And when I come back, I want you to stay away from me."