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All That I Am	By : kitten7315 Category: Anita Blake > Het Views: 5396 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 7

Tension had been running high since Bernardo told his story. I looked around the room at everyone that I had grown close to and thought of as my family. I would do anything to protect them. Hell, I had even spilled blood for them. I had begun to realize that it wasn’t enough anymore. I was going to have to help them help themselves.

“I am going to call around the coalition and ask for them to keep an eye out for new shifters in town," I told everyone, "especially those of the leopard variety. Then we are ALL going to sit down and try to come up with a plan.”

Everyone turned and looked at me stray. y. “All of us, ma petite?” Jean-Claude asked with a surprised questioning look.

“I know I normally don’t involve everyone, but it is time for you to learn how to protect yourselves and make plans,” I said looking at my pard. “This way you all will have a say and know what is expected of everyone. When this is over you will feel as though you did something and not just hid in the dark. You might not be able to fight physically well, but you all have intelligent minds and that is what we will use for now. Later we will work on the physical part.”

I watched as my pard began to perk up at the thought of helping in any way. I felt my heart squeeze at the possibility of them being healthy one day, even Jason and Stephen were included in that. I had been there for them as well.

Ok, I have really lost it. There had been too much emotional stuff for one day. I realized that I truly loved Jean-Claude, took the fourth mark, helped Bernardod fod found out Elizabeth had betrayed me- yet again, and now I had to face the thought of my pard becoming more independent. If only Edward could see me now, he might just try and put me out of my misery.

Shaking loose thoughts of Edward, I grabbed my cell phone and began making calls to the shifters in the coalition. Lastly, I called Rafael to see if he could use his connections to find out something about this Caitlin person.

After finishing up with the phone calls, I turned back to the group. “Ok, I have everyone on the look out and Rafael said that he will see if he can find out about Caitlin. Now, where do you guys want to stay until this is blown over? I’d like for as many people to stay together as possible. Safety in numbers and all that.”

“You are all welcome to stay here at the Circus, ma petite,” Jean-Claude stated “That way they will be harder to get to and my vampires will look out for them as well.”

“You don’t have to do this Jean-Claude,” I told him “You will also be putting your vampires at risk”.

“It will not be a problem. By doing this I will also be sending the message that no one can come for my Human Servant without trying to go through me as well,” he simply stated.

Figures he would have an ulterior motive, but hey, that’s one of the reasons I love him. He always had a hidden motive or plan of some sort. Who am I kidding? Most of the time he had both. He put Machiavelli to shame, but I’ve always known that. Through it all, he had done all he had done to keep us all safe. He always protected those he was responsible for, and I knew he would do no less for my pard.

“I will do what I can also,” Damien stated. I glanced up at him and smiled. I still felt weird having a vampire servant, but Damien was extremely loyal to me. I guess I needed to work on our relationship as well, but bad guys first.

“Nathaniel, Zane, Cherry, Gregory, Vivian? What do you want to do?” I asked them.

They all looked at each other. “We will stay here at the Circus with you,” Zane said decisively, as the rest of the group nodded in agreement. Ok, that was painless.

I got off the bed and began pacing. “Now, as you might have noticed there is just the original pard here, minus Elizabeth, of course. You guys have spent more time with the newest members, with the exception of Micah. Anything that you might have found that was off or odd?”

Cherry was the first to speak up, “I noticed they really don’t want to talk about their life before they came here, but I just figured that they had some of the same kinds of experiences as us and they were just trying to forget. After what happened with Chimera, after what we had been through with each other, I thought it would be easier on them to open up to us, but there seems to be something more than that. I don’t know. I can’t really put my finger on it.”

“I trust Micah to help keep us safe, but I don’t know about the rest,” Nathaniel said softly. I turned and looked at him. Even after everything I had been through with Micah, I only trusted him to a point. My instincts were telling me that there was something he still wasn’t telling me about his past. I was hoping it was not as bad as the whole Chimera thing.

Vivian spoke up, “I think you should talk to him, Anita. Ask him if that thing he is keeping from you may have any effect on us now. We all would like to know. The only Nimir-Ra I want is you, I won’t let anyone take your place!”

“Thanks Vivian,” I said smiling at her. “You know at first I had a hard time accepting that I was your Nimir-Ra, but you guys are my family now. I won’t let anyone hurt you, and I am glad that you feel the same,” I told them, feeling my heart constrict once more. “Please let me keep them safe!” I prayed silently. “You are right Vivian, Micah needs to tell me if his past is going to haunt us in the future. It’s bad enough that I make lots of enemies, but at least I know most of who they are and how I pissed them off. It is the unknown that scares me. I’ll call him and ask him here tomorrow evening.”

I turned to Bernardo, “they are going to sleep in here with you tonight to help you heal. The touch of the pard helps when you are injured.” Bernardo nodded and closed his eyes. I knew he was exhausted. It had been a long night! I wanted to crawl into bed and sleep as well. “I need to get some sleep. I feel dawn coming soon. It has been a long day and there is a lot we have to do tomorrow.”

Jean-Claude stood up and held his hand out to me. “Shall we retire to my room?” he said causing shivers to run down my body. Silently I placed my hand in his and turned to Asher. He had been extremely quiet through this whole ordeal. Asher looked far away like he had other things on his mind.

“Asher? Coming?” I asked. Asher seemed to snap out of his dream state. He looked at me and smiled. “I need to change, then I will join you.”

“Good night everyone” I said as we left Bernardo’s room.

“I must ready myself for sleep, ma petite. I will be with you shortly,” Jean-Claude said and turned and went into the bathroom. I grabbed my bag and dug through it for something to sleep in and found my favorite penguin shirt Nathaniel thoughtfully packed for me. After putting on my shirt I crawled into the bed and awaited Jean-Claude and Asher.
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