Creek Tales - A Pack Legacy Challenge

Whatever Valentine was expecting when returning home, a locked door wasn't it. But that's, nevertheless what he got. Checking the time, he wonders if he's just too early. It's 8 PM, sunset in Tartosa, but in Forgotten Hollow the sun dips behind the mountain far sooner than that. Even with the door bolted shut during the day, it should be open now. As knocking gets him no where, he heads off, uncertain of where to go, or if he can return at all. Has the count really thrown him out? Without saying anything? And what will he do if that's the case? He has things he wants, possessions that he's brought with him that he cares about. And while he can always spend a day or two at Helenas, they just started seeing each other, it's not like he can just ask if he can move in. Can he? No, no, he can't, it's far too soon. For a while he wanders the town, but then he remembers that Caleb told him he could always come see him. And so he decides that's what he...

"Why do you so often do what the Count tell you to?" Helena asks him one day after they've made love. "What do you mean?" Valentine asks. "Well, you return home, for one. Every single morning, never staying the night, sometimes even at the risk of the sun." "You mean you want me to stay?" "Maybe." "You've never asked me to." "Why do I have to? If you want to stay, you stay, if you want to return, you return. You're a free agent and can do what you want." "And if I don't want to be a free agent?" "Are you asking me what I think you are?" "What if I did?" That morning, Valentine doesn't come home as usual, but instead tries to sneak through the door as the sun is descending, hoping the Count is not up from his slumber yet. Unfortunately, he has no such luck, the Count materialises in the hallway the moment he steps through the door. "I had expected you this morning...

Asking a parent for help isn't always easy, especially when you've barely spoken to them for the better part of a year. Yet calling his mother to ask about what flowers to get a girl is the only option Valentine can think of. He knows nothing about flowers, or if he's entirely honest, women. All his teens he was so focused on his quest to learn as much as he could about vampires, and how to become one, that he never took the chance to explore what it was to be a teen. Dating, a first kiss, a prom date and the fumbling first, none of these things were things he explored. Sure his father had "the talk" with him, and there was the sorry excuse for sex-ed in school, but he never paid it any attention because he saw no reason to. Now he wishes he had paid more attention. He calls his mother from his bedroom first thing as he wakes up, not wanting to have this call downstairs. He knows the Count disapproves of him contacting his family, and he is fairly certain that he ...