Reuniting Tornedalians

"Mm, thats my other baby." Peyton confirmed proudly with a grin.

"We have enough madness to be keeping under control at the moment." Harrison mused. "Never a quiet day, but then when has there ever been."

"Sorry for dragging you guys out here." Koby told them and he looked TO Faun. "What can you smell?"

"Another person was here." She told them.

"Yeah we know your mothers boyfriend." Belle told her.

"You don't mean Andre, do you?" Peyton asked quietly.

"Hunter." Harrison frowned.

"No, Harrison we've met him before." She told Harrison.

"Who?" Harrison asked with a raise eyebrow.

Peyton frowned at that, listening to the two of them in silence before glancing towards Belle to try and work out what she was thinking.

"Remember that hunter thatwere in our lands last. Month but no one could find him."

Belle watched them.

"Its the same one?"

Peyton quietly wandered to the edge of the cliff, looking down into the ocean

"Smells like him."

Belle looked to them. "Can someone. Tell. Me. The point of this?"

"I agree with Belle, can't we just focus on finding Max and Andre? It doesn't matter if this hunter has been at the pack or not."

"It would mean Max was the main target, so he'd be kept alive if they were taken. The vampire on the other hand would be disposable to them." Harrison hummed to Belle.

"He wants Max, your boyfriend is just collateral." She told him.

"He isn't going to get either of them," Peyton mumbled, watxhing the flow of the ocean before walking away from the cliffs and heading down towards the beach.

----
Overnight, after becoming washed up on the beach Max had gotten dragged into the forest by the hunter and was currently chained up to the trunk of an oak tree; still unconcious from the gunshot wound to his head - though there was no hunter in sight.

Andre washed up on the beach and had beeb left there by the hunter.

Faun followed her mother and she watched as Belle. Ran to Andre 2hen they saw him, but she started smelling around for clues.

Peyton followed Belle, sitting down on her knees beside Andre and took his hand gently. "We're here now, you'll be okay." She whispered to Andre, lifting her gaze to Belle for a moment for confirmation of her comforts. Though, after a moment she swallowed thickly glancing around in search of Max.

"What do you smell Faun?" Koby asked.

"This way, Maxs scent goes this way." She told them as she followed the trail.

Peyton watched them walk away, glancing back to Andre and the back again. Clearly torn on whether to stay or go. After a moment whispering to Belle, "I don't see any injuries, lets turn him over. Check his back."

---
Harrison followed Koby and Faun. The hunter still no where to be seen where Max was.

Faun followed the scent and they eventually came. Across the hunter and Max, Faun and Koby hiding behind trees.
_____

Andre's back was. Covered in bullet holes.

Harrison stuck with Faun and Koby.

The hunter wandered over to Max carrying a few empty glass vials; forcing Max's mouth open to see his teeth and pressing on the gums about his fangs in order to extract hybrid venom and collect it in the vials.

---
"Belle, go get something for him to drink from while I get these out?" Peyton asked quietly.

"We need to. Stop him. Before he takes. Something else." Faun whispered.

They didn't. Really have time. To. React. Before there. Was. A. Gunshot and if they looked closer then they would have seen Aly taking shots at the hunter, having Max teach her how to shoot.
______

Belle. Nodded.

"Be quick," She encouraged already starting to pull the bullets out, grimacing after she heard the gunshot."...And careful. He'll be okay, Belle, I promise."

----
The hunter jumped, the bullet just coming short and hitting the ground near his feet. Glaring over at Alyssa. "As you can see I am very busy and it would be better if you were to just leave. I have no interest in you."

"Funny, I have an interest in your head." She told him, her eyes turning to thay of the wolf before she shot at him again.

Faun looked to Harrison. "remind me not to piss her off." She whispered.
______

Belle. Nodded and she was back. Soon after.

Harrison just chuckled quietly as he watched.

The hunter ducked just after the shot went off so that the bullet went over his head. "You want the boy then have him. I've gotten more than enough of what I came here to get."

----
By the time she got back, Peyton had already removed all the bullets and was sat holding Andre up slightly in her arms so that it would be easy to pour the blood down his throat. "Now give it to him."

"No I don't think you have." Aly told him and she nodded to behind him, she hadn't been shooting at him she was shooting at the bag he carried with the vials and she had managed to smash them. "No one touches him, no one!" She shouted and she then pointed the gun. At him.
_______

Belle. Done as she asked. "Come. On Addy."

Peyton watched closely, using her free hand to brush her thumb in small circles against the top pf his head, just near his hairline. "Time to wake up." She encouraged quietly.

----
The hunter inhaled sharply, frozen in fear then.

"Why do you want Max?" She asked him.
_____

Andre stayed out of it for a while. Before he started to stir.

"It isn't him I want," The hunter sneered. "Just what those like him can give me."

----
Peyton exhaled in relief, "Well done," she praised softly, "Hi there you, you're safe. You're okay, we've got you."