Reuniting Tornedalians

(Should we skip a few weeks and say they've grown a bit closer so we can do the capture?)

((Yeah sure and I'm going to be slow because I'm in work))

(It's no problem I'm out most of today anyhow....so a few weeks then? Want me to start?)

((yeah sure and if that's okay, would you midns tarting?"

A few weeks later Jessie was outside in her usual spot. She had been speaking with several men earlier in the day but was now alone.

Eric was sitting in a clearing somewhere int eh forest and his whole family was there. They had just come back from a hunt so were having some fun in the sun.

She had known this of course having learned Eric's routine over the weeks. She was also very close by waiting for them to come her way.

Eric was laughing as he and Angel started play fighting as Elijah and Caleb looked on, Caleb watching Alexander who was still trying to feed properly from a rabbit that Laura had caught him. Whilst Christian was lying in the sun watching everything.

When they hadn't come her way like she had expected she went to find him. It was easy enough for her to remain hidden checking what they were doing. Realizing they seemed to be spending the day out she disappeared to find the hunters.

Elijah was on his feet, scanning the area around them, he had sensed Jessie and he had sensed her leave, he found it odd considering how close she and Eric were.

Eric looked over at Elijah as he tensed. "Father?"

"Daddy?" Angel asked, looking at him, stopping her movements and freezing.

"Father?" Christian asked.

If it had been any other day she would've remained but it was and she couldn't. When the group of hunters arrived she was nowhere to be found.

Everyone was on their feet. "Eric, Christian take Angel and Alexander, and go, now!" Elijah told them.

"But father-" Christian started.

"Go now." Caleb told them and the boys had no choice, Eric gripped Angel's hand as Caleb gripped Alexander's hand the four started running.

It seemed the hunters had known what they would do quickly closing in on them all, drawing them back together.

Marie and Laura were on their feet as well as Michelle.

Christian and Eric didn't get far with the children and they pushed the younger children behind themselves, using themselves as the shields for Angel and Alexander.

"What's happening?" Angel asked, sounding like she was going to cry.

Elijah and Caleb stayed close to their wives.

Michelle shifted into a large tiger and was pacing back and forth, teeth bared as she moved in front of Christian.

The girl kept their backs to the others forming a circle around the children.

Christian kept his eyes on her, his hands gaining a soft red charge, his powers obviously gearing up to help protect his family just as Eric's did only his was a soft blue.

"How did this happen?" Caleb asked.

"Jessie....She was here..." Elijah told them.

Michelle growled.

Marie frowned and opened her mouth to speak as shots rang out around them.

Elijah and Caleb managed to deflect most of the gun shots with their powers, bit Christian and Eric struggled until eventually Eric got hit by a bullet, it just missing his heart. "Eric!" Christian and Angel shouted, but Christian stood firm, using his powers to shield, his brother, his sister, his cousin and his girlfriend.

Michelle darted around in attempts to get the shooters to go after her so that the others could get away, attacking one that she had been able to get close to.

Both Marie and Laura were trying to protect the children while not getting hurt. Laura getting shot in the shoulder.

Caleb tried to get to his wife but a hunter ended up taking him down.

It wasn't long before both Michelle and Marie were taken down by the hunters themselves. Once this happened the hunters closed in on them to capture them.

In the end it was Christian and Elijah, father and son fighting side by side, but even they had to succumb to the force of the hunters, so they stopped fighting knowing that it wouldn't do them any good.

They were all taken to a place where they were placed in cells.

Angel was curled up in her cell whimpering, Christian was put in another opposite her, with Eric in one beside her and Alexander across from him. All four of them looked tired and Angel and Alexander were whimpering softly.

Michelle had been given something that made her change back to human and was sat in a corner of her cell.

Both Laura and Marie were in cells beside their children.