Creek Tales - A Pack Legacy Challenge

Not being able to spend time with his family was not one of the consequences Valentine had foreseen when he chose to become a vampire. It was not that he wasn't aware of the bodily changes, and that he hadn't been aware of not being able to be in the sunlight, but he just never considered what it meant in terms of family celebrations often held on patios or sunrooms. But the hardest part for him was his parents' reaction, particularly his mother who immediately started speaking of finding cures and alternatives to drinking blood. Within hours of his turning she was reading up online about plasma packs and plasma plants and other alternatives to, as she put it, using the maid as your personal snack bar. Valentine would hear none of it. Why should he drink plasma when the lure of blood was so much sweeter? And it wasn't as if he'd killed the maid, or bartender for that matter even if his mother did not know about that one. His mother's arguments about the immorali...

With Link having moved away, the house in San Sequoia feels much emptier for the family. Harmony misses her older brother terribly, and while Christmas and Jamie are proud of him they too miss their baby boy. Amity is doing her best to keep them on their toes, however, by running off in a second so that you never know where you have her. Her motor skills are developing fast, as is her imagination. She's especially good at being creative with how to make a mess around her, be it in the kitchen... ...or the bathroom. No matter how many times her mother tells her not to play in the toilet. The one thing that can make her sit still seems to be Harmony reading to her, something her sister seems to have an endless amount of patience for. And when Amity misses her older brother the most, Harmony can also take the time to play with her the way he used to. It's not exactly the same, but close enough. Link's old room now functions as Jamie's new office. He and Christmas debated o...

As he promised, Valentine returned home before Winterfest. Well the night before, late after everyone was sleeping, but before. He feels weird, and wonders briefly if he's coming down with something before falling deeply asleep and sleeping well into the morning, until his loudly growling stomach wakes him up. It almost hurt being so hungry, and he wonders if he's ever been this hungry before. As he makes it down to the kitchen, he sees that his parents has decked out the entire house for Winterfest, and his mother has cooked a grand breakfast, but clearly waited for him to wake up before eating. It smells divine, so the disappointment is all the larger when he takes a bite and there clearly is something wrong with the food. His stomach violently protests, and he almost doubles over in pain. Getting up, he's just about to run to the bathroom to throw up when he instead has some kind of seizure. His entire body tenses up, quite literary lifts off the ground and a pain he has...