"Appa!" the prince screamed rushing around using his vampire speed, the man he was looking for no where to be found. 

"Suho got called into work, what is it Chanyeol?" Kris announced standing up from the couch where both he and Katherine were chatting. Chanyeol was surprised to see his father looking so casual after the news that he was sure he had been told about. 

"In that case nevermind." he muttered, pushing his hands into his jeans after having pulling his sleeves down so the plant drawing was unable to go noticed by either of the older vampires. 

Kris bet his son to the door, looking slightly smaller than the boy before him. "What is it son?" 

"Oh I didn't think you actually knew that word," the prince scoffed, staring his father in the eye. "besides it's nothing that concerns you I was just looking for Appa." 

"You are my family why shouldn't it concern me?" 

"Well you cheated on my Appa with Katherine and even forced him to go off to work even though his mother just died!" Kris was silent for a moment, this gave Chanyeol the fuel to continue. "You nearly killed him three times in the past couple moths and then six times before that. You tried drowning me in the bathtub when I was young, you forbidded me from seeing my Nana, you refused to allow me to leave this castle to find my mate. So Father you don't deserve to know what happened!" 

With that Chanyeol turned on his heel and walked out of the living room being sure to slam the door on his way out. Kris was going to go after him but Katherine's grip on his wrist stopped him. 

"I can't believe you, I knew you were an idiot but I never knew you were this bad!" Katherine chuckled darkly, her eyes lit up in flames are her nails digged further into Kris' skin. "You are staying in this room while I go and talk to your son, you are going to send someone to pick Suho up from work this second or so help me Kris the rebels will be the last thing you need to worry about!" 

"Chanyeol" she called knocking on the brown polished double doors of her lover's son's room. "Honey please open the door." 

With a silent click the doors opened and Katherine was able to step through. She rushed over to the boy on his bed and hugged him close, after all she has been doing it for over a hundred years. 

"I'm so sorry you had to be there to witness that Katherine, I'm really sorry about what I said about you too. I hope you don't think I don't respect you, I do. You're my Eomma since you're the only other female I have in my life right now, you didn't give birth to me but you have stayed by my side ever since I was child that's more than enough for me-"  

"Honey I know you meant no harm, Kris shouldn't have done all of those things to you or Suho. He's changed since both your Appa and I have met him, I'm not standing by his side against you Chanyeol. I agree with everything you said back there and I believe he needed that harsh slap of reality, he's had everything handed to him on a silver platter. I had no idea that he had sent Suho off to work, when you blurted out about Nana's death it was the first time I ever heard it if I had of known earlier you know I would have stopped him." 

Chanyeol's hands formed fists at the mere thought of his father bossing around his Appa. Usually you would expect some competition between the two people fighting for the king's attention but in this case Suho and Katherine had developed a close bond. Both looking after each other's children when their lazy father couldn't take his dick away from the house staff long enough to tend to his children. 

"I'm still sorry that I bad mouthed you Katherine." 

Katherine nodded, her long black hair flowing as she did. She wasn't born a vampire like Jongin, Kyungsoo and Chanyeol. She had been bitten. It wasn't a shock to most people in the kingdom due to the fact that she was a girl and could handle it. Had she been a man the survival rate of that happening was zero to none. Men had to be created. They must be born from both vampire parents, no human male would have been able to survive a bite from a vampire. Chanyeol had always found himself interested by the legend. Many of the vampires in his clan were women and he had heard stories of them each trying to bring a human man into the clan by sharing their blood and bite but not one of them had survived, resulting in the women being forced to marry other male pureblood vampires. 

"What's this?" Katherine wondered, pointing down to the revealed drawing on the Prince's arm. Chanyeol had rolled his sleeve back up when he had gotten back to his room, the sight of his mate's drawing making a smile develop of his lips. 

"I believe it's a flower." Chanyeol bit his tongue in an attempt to hold back his laughter after all Katherine's death glare was quite hilarious. 

"I'm aware of that you idiot, I'm asking when you started to become creative with drawing?" 

"I haven't," the prince explained with a small grin pulling at his lips. "Jongin and I are thinking that this is my mate."

Katherine gasped, her eyes filled with awe at the words Chanyeol had just spoke. "The way you communicate is through drawing on your bodies?" She wondered her head tilting to the side in curiosity. "You do know that is the rarest mate finder there is?" 

"I'm well aware and I believe so" the prince nodded. "I hope so." The prince wwatched in confusion as his Eomma stood up from his bedside and walked towards his table where she produced a black marker. 

"Draw something back to him then!" She giggled tossing the marker to her 'adopted' son with a grin. 

"How can you be so sure that it's a he?" 

"I'd be much more surprised if it were a girl my prince." Katherine joked, winking her joke away as she watched hopeful as Chanyeol uncapped the marker top. 

"What do I write?" he stuttered, looking back up at her with wide eyes. For the first time in years Katherine watched as Park Chanyeol suddenly became scared of something other than his father. 

"He's your mate Chanyeol," she explained, gently coaxing her fingers through his hair which she used to do all the time when he was a child and needed some comfort. "say whatever you want to." 

Chanyeol gave a nod, understanding the woman. Silently he thought for a moment before he began writing the word: Beautiful. 

Baekhyun couldn't help but roll his eyes as Mr Jung carefully settled him down on the bed like he was some strange plain of glass. "I'm fine, honestly!" He shouted, finding hiself frustrated by the events unfolding before his very eyes. 

A warm hand met Baekhyun's forehead checking his temperature and hoping not to find a fever, the boy couldn't help but sigh in annoyance. 

"Your temperature is fine but I am curious about your fainting earlier so I would like to watch you as you eat this." A small cupcake followed by a tiny orange were placed on the little pull out table the infirmary beds had. Baekhyun's stomach growled at the sight of the food, he hadn't eaten proper home cooked meals since the only food he had during the week was instant noodles. But now that exams were over and his study sessions hasd shortened greatly, Baekhyun willingly admitted that he was just too lazy to actually stand over his cooker and make himself something healthy to eat. Without further deliberation he plucked tyhe fruit off the table and began peeling it, tossing a glance to Lay who smiled back at him. 

"I'm really fine you know" he whispered, the teacher simply nodded his head. 

"I'm sure you are and I guess the fainting earlier was simply because of the lack of blood that was getting to your head at first then all at once, I wouldn't worry too much about it but you do need to eat something sugary after what you've just been through." 

"You should have been a doctor or school nurse instead of a teacher" Baekhyun laughed, plopping a slice of orange past his lips. 

"I just know a lot aboout kids is all," Lay shrugged his shoulders, actively dismissing the topic without indicating he was going to. "I love your drawing by the way!" 

Baekhyun glanced down to his arm, completely forgetting that he had created such thing the previous night.  A smile naturally grew on the student's face, proud of the praise and his drawing. "Thank you- AH!" 

Lay rushed to his side and raised a brow. "What's wrong?" 

"My wrist" Baekhyun admitted, biting the inside of his cheek to stop an incoming laugh. "it's tickling almost!" 

"Is it itchy at all?" Lay wondered, lifting the boy's hand from the white sheets of the infirmary bed. Baekhyun watched as his friend observed the area, the pair of them gasping at the word that had suddenly began appearing on his wrist. 

Beautiful.