Dylan looks down, a single tear running down his face. "Moms fine. Shes waiting for my return. Dad...I'm sorry but dad...dad." He stumbles repeatedly, tears flowing thicker and faster from his eyes.  My eyes water , hoping that I don't hear what I know is coming next. "Dads dead." It's barely a whisper but he might as well have seared the words into my mind. They repeat continually in my head. I start to cry as the story is told.

"Dad and I went to visit you and the others. On the way back, we must have been followed by some wolves with a camp near by because the next thing we knew, we were being attacked, and...and"

He stutters again taking deep breathes before continuing. " We fought them off but our scent was already in the area and before long  we were once more surrounded. The palace guards arrived quickly but not fast enough. By the time they got there dad had taken a horrible  blow and was lying on the ground. All I wanted to do was make sure he was alright but I couldn't, because of that our father... he didn't make it through the fight. He died not long after falling."

I gasped. My father, a man I had loved so much even when I didn't remember him. In school I had always loved learning about the royalty of vampires. I never understood why I was so fascinated. Why hearing about all the vampire people who got hurt in the battles bothered me. Now I know, now I understand the silent tears I would shed in class when hearing about all the widowed husbands and wives, all the orphaned children living on the streets. Why I fought the urge to defend them even when all I new was what we learned about in class.

Now I know the king, my father is another one of those dead victims and the queen, my mother is another saddened widow, waiting for a husband to come home that never will. Waiting for the last of her children to flock home and help her with the war that was why they had to leave in the first place.

I bury my head in Peters chest and cry into his shirt. Crying for the great fallen king, crying for a great father I would never really know. "So your saying that if you didn't come and visit Isabella, visit us, dad would still be alive?" Willow asked, Dylan sighed.

"Maybe, but him not visiting might have killed him as well." I look up, tears crusting to my face, eyes red from crying, and more salty water falling from my emerald-sea green orbs.

"Why did you come visit us int he first place?! Why did you risk getting caught to see us when we didn't know you? Why would not having visited have killed dad? WHY?!" I screamed before reducing to tears again. My waist long black hair shielding me from sight. Everyone's eyes went wide. I wasn't known for my out bursts but when they happen you know.

"Isa, dad and I came to visit because we missed you and the others so much. We hadn't seen you in years. We wanted to feel like we were still part of your life a t least slightly. Even if you didn't remember us we knew you and we still got to share in some of your memories. Like when you first met Peter, your first fight with Willow, your first day of school.

"All of it, just about, we were there for. The last time dad came to visit  he had been moving slower and had been badly wounded in a recent battle. The wound was fatal, and the blade used had vampire poison and it was slowly killing him anyway. He wanted to see you one last time before passing, to have a fresh memory of all of you. He really missed you!"

I cried harder and tried to speak. "I-I'm sorry! I j-just miss him, I didn't really know h-him but he's m-m-my father a-and now I know he's d-dead! Plus Graces betrayal. She was my mother for years and I loved her, I just can't forget the woman who held me when I was scared. I-I just can't!" Peter tightens his grip around me and Willow nods and gives me a hug while crying as well.

Angle smiles, an empathetic look in her eyes. "It's alright, we get it. How about we head to sleep and continue on in the morning?" We all nod and Alex comes over to sleep next to me. Like he always does when in need of comfort. I put my arms around him, give him a kiss on the forehead and a smile. " I love you sis!" Is the last thing I hear before drifting to sleep.

Authors note:Hey guys! This is a really emotional chapter isn't it. I cried while writing it. I should have chapter 6 out soon. Tell me what you think of this chapter in the comments below. Sorry for the conversation length but it was necessary to kind of get the story moving a bit. And don't worry, Alex, Lucy, and Willow will become more important characters. Just be patient. Also another character you all should recognize will be coming back, well a couple actually. So keep your eyes peeled. Hope this was to your liking and I'll see all you lovely readers in the next chapter.