Reuniting Tornedalians

"Right, well, I'm talking to a couple of witches tomorrow about your situation so, hopefully, we can get that all fixed soon."

Geo just snuck up the stairs to bed before he was noticed.

"I heard YOU Geo." Andre told him. From where he stood at the top of the stairs.
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"No need, I've got a handle on it."

Geo jumped when he saw his father, shrugging ever so slightly. "I'm just going to bed, came down for some blood. Is that crime?" he asked, though he tensed when he heard Belle in the livingroom. Glancing over his shoulder to listen in.

"You do? Okay, these are things that you need to update your family on when we are all working towards the same goal. What's happening?"

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Ella was tied up in an underground cellar, the upper bars covered by a cement slab which she was trying to push off with the one hand she had managed to get free. Around her neck was a collar, that had spikes pertruding inward secreting a herb that prevented her from shifting. Her body was covered in bruises and deep gashes - gaunt and skeletal from where she had been starved.

Faun soon found her and she looked to the sky, howling loudly to alert the pack before she turned back to her vampire form. "Ella!"
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"Where have you been?" He asked as he listened.

"It's sorted mum, it doesn't matter how it got sorted."

"Where I always have been, trying to help her. Doesn't matter anymore apparently." Geo mumbled, shoving his way passed and going to his room. Slamming the door closed behind himself.

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"It being sorted and you having a handle on it are completely different things, Belle, be more clear."

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Ella didn't say anything, still trying to push the stone slab off of the bars

"How much more clear do you want me to be?"
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Andre sighed.
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Faun pulled the slab off to help her.

Ella wrapped her fingers around the steel bars once the concrete slab was removed, flinching when she heard a door slam to the side of the room she was in.

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"Spell it out to me like I am stupid, I need details to understand what is going on." Peyton answered.

Faun used as much strength as she could to try and break the bars.
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"Mum there's nothing that you need to worry about now, and if I told you you would only be mad, can we just drop it?"

"Your going to be okay now?"

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"Go," Ella told her as she heard footsteps approached. Backing up into the corner of the dark underground room and watching the door.

"I'm not leaving you." She told her as she hid, she was in her vampire form. So it wouldn't be unusual.
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She nodded.

Peyton just exhaled in relief, and pulled her into a hug once again. Whispering, "I love you, sweetheart."

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Ella flinched when the door to her cell slammed open, stood in the doorway being a witch whom didn't say a word. Simply, little mermaid style, making a motion with their hand which forced some kind of energy out of Ella's mouth before it evaporated into the air; taking her voice. Just as quickly as the witch had appeared they left again.

When the witch was gone, Faun made her way round to find the door that led to her cell.
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"I love you too."

Ella watched her closely, stood tense in the back of the room.

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"Would you like a hot chocolate or should I leave you be for the rest of the night?"

Afyer a few tries she managed to get the door open.
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"I'd rather just go to bed."

Ella sprinted to her thrn, burying her face against her shoulder. Trembling.

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"Okay... sleep well."

She held her close just as the wolves got there. "Come. On, let's get you home." She told her.
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She headed upstairs.

Ella nodded, opening her mouth to talk and frowning when no words came out. Lifting her hand up to touch her throat.

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Peyton exhaled slowly then, leaning her head back and watching the ceiling.

"Let's not worry about it right now, we need to head home."
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Andre joi Ed her.

"Did you catch any of that?" Peyton asked him quietly.

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Ella quietly headed out.

"Yeah."
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Faun brought her to the pack and she watched as Alys wolf ran over nuzzling her daughter.

Ella sat down on her knees so she could wrap her arms around her mother and bury her face in the fur of her neck.

Max stood just behind, resting his hand on Ella's shoulder gently and squeezing it.

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"Okay. It's good she is safe now, hm?"

Aly licked her wherever she could reach.

Faun nudged Max and asked him to join her away from the group.
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He nodded. "Very."

Max gave her an iritared expression but didn't argue, wandering away from the rest of the pack to talk to her. "Can this be quick?"

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Peyton watched the ceiling in silence.

"I think this is bigger," She told him. "They stole her voice Max." She told him. "And next time let me know what's going on with our family."
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He watched the ceiling with her.

"I can't. Abigail knows the bare minimum too, the circumstances are complicated and delicate. I know, Aly knows, as well as Jeni and Oliver - we are the only ones fully clued in." Max answered, "If it gets out to the pack it could cause chaos."

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"I wish she would of told us she'd found a way to fix it, all of that stress, phone calls and sleepless nights. She could of spared us that..."