ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Mar 20, 2021 20:30:02 GMT
 The last few months were ones that Ria never wanted to repeat. A man had broken into her home, knocked her out and kept her locked away for months on end. So many times she had tried to run away and she had known that her best shot at doing so was while they were on the move but no matter what she tried, the man always seemed to be one step ahead of her. In the end she had finally managed to get the upper hand and escape, though. She hadn't killed the man but a part of her had thought about it and that scared her. Instead she had managed to hold herself back and get out of there and after that something had happened that she hadn't expected - she had shifted into a panther for the first time. Her mom had told her that chances were she would take after one of her parents given that they were both supernatural but she had thought that werecreatures were meant to shift for the first time earlier than she had done. Either way it didn't really matter though because this was her life now and she knew that she needed to come to terms with that. That morning she had woken up cold and dirty given that it had rained the night before and the clothes she had been wearing were in tatters. Thankfully the photos the man had taken to taunt her with had been spared the same fate as her clothes and she slipped them into the pocket of the jeans that she had stolen from a clothesline belonging to a nearby house. Pulling in the jacket she had found over the top of a t shirt that was a little too big she finally forced herself to leave the refuge that the woods had offered her. She wanted nothing more than to be reunited with her mom after being away from her for so long but in order for that to happen she was going to need help and she felt relief flood through her as she came across a police woman talking to a man in the streets. She instantly looked concerned and Ria wasn't sure that she believed what she was telling her but the woman could see that she needed help so it wasn't long before they were on their way to the station. The next hour went by in a blur, she was examined and the man's DNA was collected from under her finger nails and she gave them her parents' names, both of them, before giving her statement. She could see the looks of pity in the eyes of the police officers now, they knew that she had been taken and now they believed her words. They knew that she was telling the truth and they assured her that her mom was on her way and all Ria could do was sit and wait. As the officer returned after giving her some space, though, the person with her was someone she recognised immediately but it definitely wasn't her mom. "Daddy?" she asked in disbelief, certain that she had to be imagining the man she had only ever seen before in photographs standing before her now. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
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Post by MARC FRASER on Mar 23, 2021 20:55:15 GMT
The plans were spread over the client’s kitchen table. Each carefully drawn the night before, lines precise, measurements absolute down to the millimetre. It was the way Mrs. Santino had expected it from the start. While her husband was off playing gulf or buying private islands or whatever it was the truly rich in this town did, Mrs. Santino remodelled the house. Again and again and again. She’d proudly shown him through when she’d called the number she’d gotten from a friend of hers – the woman whose base boards had left him picking mountain ash splinters out of his hands. Her third kitchen remodel in as many years. The last had been just ghastly … according to her anyway.
Marc glanced around the room as Mrs. Santino pored over the plans. His fingers slipped into the tops of the pockets of his jeans, his shoulders hunching slightly. The place looked like it’d been done pretty well to him. The units still looked solid, there was a shine on the hardwood floor that was hard to make sure stood up in a room like this. Even the proportions were decent but Mrs. Santino had decided that after just 13 months she couldn’t live with it.
Clearing her throat now, she looked up at him almost imperiously. ”The island’s not big enough. That’s the problem we already have.” One of the ones she’d listed to him at least. Each marked down in his notebook, each pored over just as hard when he’d been pulling the design together last night.
Leaning in himself, Marc tugged a hand free of his pocket. He tapped a finger against it on the plan. Each inch had been measured and transferred carefully onto the plan, taking everything she’d wanted into account. ”It’s eighteen inches deeper. You go much bigger with you and you lose your eating space in here.” They had a dining room, she’d shown him that but then she’d proudly informed him that this was where they ate when they didn’t have guests.
She was immediately bristling, her chin rising another notch and Marc knew he wasn’t going to win the argument. He’d do what she asked on the job and in eighteen months some other carpenter would be in here tearing it out again. Her mouth opened to correct him but his phone started ringing out in his pocket.
Gritting his teeth, Marc murmured an apology and pulled it out. Usually his phone was on silent during meetings, manners dictating it but he’d forgotten today. He went to thumb it off but the name and number across the screen had him freezing. Officer Patera. He’d met the guy at the hardware store in town, had shared enough of his story with the guy to know that he was military too, military now turned cop. A cold greasy feeling slipped into the pit of his stomach. ”Sorry,” he muttered to his client. ”Hi. What can I do for you Officer?” The first words out of the man’s mouth had him snorting in amusement. A kid at the station, his kid. No way in hell. He’d laughed out loud then, only for the sound to die in his throat as he stood there. Illyria Fraser – Ria – daughter of Toni and Marc Fraser. He was Marc Fraser right? If it hadn’t been for Toni’s name being invoked he might’ve blown it off but that was too much of a coincidence. Marc thumbed the phone off with a shaking hand. ”I’m sorry Mrs. Santoni. I’ve …there’s an emergency I’ve got to attend to.” He cleared his throat, ignoring her squawks of protest as he left the house.
It had to be a mistake. The thought ran through his head a dozen times over as he drove. Conflicting thoughts running through it. A sixteen year old daughter. He and Toni hadn’t been kids when they’d got together themselves but it was so easy to picture her growing round with a kid, a daughter with his eyes and her hair. By the time Marc pulled into the lot he was trying to shake them out of his head. He hopped out of his truck, tugging anxiously at the hem of his flannel shirt as he headed into the station. Patera wasn’t on the desk but the female officer there offered to take him back. She opened the door to an office, shooed him in ahead of her. If she’d followed him she would’ve run straight into his back. Marc stopped dead, his throat working as he stared at a girl who could’ve been a mirror image of the one in his head. He cleared his throat, staring at her. ”Ria? That’s … that’s what the Officer told me. You’re my …” Daughter. The word landed him a hammer blow as he lifted a hand to drag it over his face. ”Your mom … Toni?” He couldn’t get it out of his throat, everything emerged stilted and uncertain. After everything that had happened was there a chance Toni had hidden a secret this big from him?
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Apr 3, 2021 21:57:35 GMT
Ria still couldn’t quite believe that she was finally somewhere safe. For months she had been trying to get away from the man that had kidnapped her, she had never given up hope of escaping but the truth was that with each failed attempt she had started to feel more and more disheartened. Now as it was the police officer that had found her had assured her that they were sending someone to canvas the streets around the house that she had been kept in but she wouldn’t be surprised if the man was long gone by now. She had managed to knock him out but by the time she got outside the moon was full in the sky and she shifted for the first time. That morning she had woken up on the forest floor and her instincts had ended up kicking in. She had stolen some clothes and set off in search of someone who could help her and she had finally ended up finding the police officer. Her parents had both been called but considering that her dad didn’t even know about her she hadn’t for one moment thought that the guy would show up. It would take her mom hours to get there and she had felt sure that she would just have to sit around the station while her mom made her way to Mystic Falls and she was fine with that. At least at the station she knew that nothing bad could happen to her again and she knew that the man that had taken her wouldn’t be stupid enough to try something now. She was finally free and she knew that she could wait as long as she needed to before she was able to go home given everything that had happened. Officer Devereux stayed with her while Officer Patera made the phone calls and once they had the DNA and everything that they needed she started to feel much more like herself again. Ria knew that she couldn’t tell them what had really happened after she had escaped, her mom had told her how important it was to keep what she was a secret when she found that out, but she had at least been able to tell them a little. If she was honest she didn’t really feel much like talking after everything that had happened but she knew that she wanted them to catch the guy and make sure that he didn’t do to anyone else what he had done to her so she knew that she had to help in any way that she could. Needless to say it was a relief when the questions came to an end and time seemed to go by in a blur until a familiar face came into view for the first time in her life. She couldn’t deny that she was stunned as she looked up to see her dad standing before her. She wanted to hug him, wanting nothing more than to feel the comforting hold of one of her parents even if the one before he hadn’t even known that she existed until now, but she stayed where she was. As bad as everything had been for her and as much as she felt like she was barely holding it together right now she knew that this couldn’t be easy for him either. Ria opened her mouth to speak as he said her name and couldn’t finish his sentence but no words came out. As he mentioned her mom, however, Ria felt her eyes sting with tears pretty much straight away and she nodded. “That’s right,” she confirmed, finding her voice at last. “I know my mom didn’t tell you about me but it means a lot that you’re here. I’ve always wanted to meet you,” she added, biting her bottom lip as she willed herself to hold it together at least until her mom got there. She wasn’t sure how much her dad had been told but she knew that the last thing she wanted was for him to see her fall apart. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
Posts: 86
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Last seen Sept 4, 2024 17:41:33 GMT
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Post by MARC FRASER on May 14, 2021 16:21:06 GMT
There’d been a weird disconnection in his brain the day he’d arrived home to find his bags in the yard, the life he’d had until those explosions had gone off and not only destroyed his team but who he’d been since he’d first put that uniform on, who he’d been when he’d stood at the head of an aisle and slipped a ring onto Toni’s finger making vows that now lay shredded around those bags like confetti. Marc felt the same now, standing in the middle of a police station, staring at a teenager he’d sworn blind to the Officer on the phone couldn’t have been his. A strange gap between what he was seeing and what he knew was the truth, shock in that blank space. That punch to the gut as he studied a girl who looked so much like his own mother that he could’ve been imagining the whole damn thing. Had another switch been slipped inside his head in this town? Like a pin pulled from a grenade and crammed down his throat to explode somewhere inside.
Marc tried to pull himself back together, mentally scrabbling at those shattered pieces, trying to put them together to make an image of the life he’d thought he’d been living when really he’d been fumbling around in that false light created by his wife. He swallowed hard again as he saw the girl’s eyes fill with tears. Crap. He glanced around, spotting a box of tissues on one of the desks. Marc grabbed a handful out and sank down onto the chair next to the girl’s. ”But she told you all about me,” managed hollowly, holding those tissues out to her. ”I couldn’t have not come. I didn’t know anything, but … you shouldn’t have had to be here on your own.” Was being with a stranger much better? He didn’t know but he wasn’t about to walk now. Marc slumped down in the chair slightly, his dark eyes concerned as he continued to glance at Ria.
Dark brows furrowing, Marc shifted awkwardly in the seat. He stretched his legs out, crossed them at his ankles as he tried to find a way to ask what had happened, how she’d gotten here to ask for him. Officer Patera hadn’t exactly filled him in on the details – just that a girl had come to the station and they were trying to locate her parents. He supposed they hadn’t wanted to give too many details in case this kid wasn’t his but the longer he was near her, the more Marc knew in the pit of his stomach that they hadn’t gotten the wrong Marc Fraser after all. ”Were … you and your mom living here? I … I’m sorry … I didn’t know where she’d gone to after we …” How much had Toni told Ria about him? She could’ve sugar coated the whole thing, painted a prettier picture than there’d actually been when they had parted ways. The fact that Ria had wanted to see him said something about Toni not bad mouthing him. No matter how much kids wanted both parents, he couldn’t imagine them choosing to want to look up the worst possible parent.
Shifting, Marc towards her, swivelling in the chair to bring his knee up onto it, so he was facing her, rather than sitting there, half glancing, half staring at the wall ahead of him while he tried to make sure of this. He wasn’t sure how to speak to sixteen year olds, not really, but he cleared his throat. ”The officer on the phone … he really didn’t tell me much about what had happened. Are you OK?” It felt awkward on his tongue, like he should be asking something else, doing something else here. What was it that parents did to comfort their kids? Especially ones that they had no clue they’d had in the first place.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Jun 19, 2021 20:22:00 GMT
Ria had wanted to meet her dad for as long as she could remember but it had to be said that this wasn't exactly what she had expected. She had been taken from her home and dragged around the country for months so that her kidnapper could evade capture before she was finally brought to Mystic Falls. For such a long time she had been planning her escape, she had tried so many times only to end up failing but the night before it had finally worked and now she couldn't deny that she was relieved that she was never going to have to go back to that life. She couldn't deny that she was wary being around other people right now but she was safe in the police station and she knew that she needed to remember that. Nothing was going to happen to her while she was there and one of the officers had assured her that they had called her mom and that she was on her way. They had said that they'd called her dad too but Ria wasn't sure that she believed that. The man didn't even know that she existed so there was no reason for him to show up but as she looked up to see the person being led in her direction she recognised him instantly, it truly was her dad. Even though she kept telling herself that she needed to stay strong, Ria's eyes still filled with tears at the mention of her mom. It has been the two of them for Ria's whole life and it had been months since she had last seen her. She wanted nothing more than to have her mom there to comfort her now and tell her that everything was going to be alright but she had to wait to see her so she knew that she needed to stay strong until then. 'I'm ok, thanks," she said, shaking her head as he offered her a tissue and she quickly wiped her eyes with a hand that she did her best to will to stop shaking. "She didn't go into details about everything that happened between you but she told me some," Ria nodded. It was enough to make her decide to track down the man as soon as she was old enough to do so at least. As he said he couldn't have not come, Ria felt a smile touch her lips. "I'm glad you did, I've always wanted to meet you," she admitted. She had always envied her friends who'd had their dads in their lives but now hers was here and she had no idea what was going to happen. As he asked if she was living in Mystic Falls before apologising, Ria shook her head. "It's ok, mom told me she moved not long after I was born," she explained not wanting him to feel bad. "We've been living in Quantico since it's easier for mom's work," she added, still trying to gauge how much he had been told. She got the feeling that it wasn't much and it wasn't long before he confirmed that. As he asked if she was ok, Ria nodded. "I will be," she said honestly. She knew that it was going to take time but she knew that she would get there sooner or later. "I know how strange this must be for you, it's strange for me too," she admitted, not wanting it to be as awkward as it was between them right now. "You'll hear what happened eventually so you might as well hear it from me because I don't know how mom is going to react when she gets here, it has been months since I last saw her," she said, letting out a shaky breath as she did her best to hold it together. "She did what she does best and put away a bad guy but he wasn't working alone. The guy he was working with broke into our home and kidnapped me and he kept us on the move for ages before bringing me here," she explained. She wasn't ready to go into any more detail than that just yet since she'd already had to relive the whole thing while giving the officer her statement. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
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Post by MARC FRASER on Aug 20, 2021 21:05:37 GMT
Father. The word had seemed ludicrous. He’d been so sure he wasn’t anybody’s dad on the drive over but the thought that there was some kid, one with his own surname, her dad’s name identical to his own, had put him in that truck and on the road. Protecting others was one of the reasons he’d enlisted in the first place. Not running, not the way his dad would’ve put it, but going to something, a thing he thought was worth everything. Had it gone another way would his dad have appeared at some police station somewhere halfway across the country, a plea from his desperate kid? Marc wasn’t sure he would’ve done. The family were shunning him, even now, only Fergus keeping a tenuous grip on the cord of blood that had once tied them together. Fergus knew he’d been married, knew it had fallen apart, but this … this was going to be news, the sort that would stick in his throat until it tried to choke him.
Trying to be that decent guy he’d just intimated to the girl that he was, Marc had tried to push a handful of tissues on her. She took them, mopping at her eyes with a hand that still shook. His own tightening on the arm of the chair as he sank back down, he couldn’t reach out, squeeze Ria’s hand like he was a real father and not just the absent ghost of one he’d been her entire life. His gaze skittered as he nodded, palms restlessly peeling away from the arms of the chair to rub over his thighs again. ”We … had a difficult time after your uncle passed … she did what she needed to … I don’t blame her for that.” No condemnation in his voice, although at the time he’d wanted to scream about it, to rage against the kick against him when he was down.
Time had softened the hurt, given him the opportunity to drag himself back up and see that he wasn’t an innocent victim in it all. He hadn’t asked for what had happened to his team, none of them had, but he’d chosen his path afterwards and Marc knew there’d been missteps in it, ones it seemed Toni hadn’t bad mouthed him for to their daughter at least. Dark eyes studied the girl’s face, caught that smile that was just like her mom’s ad left him drawing in a breath that he let out slow. ”I’m glad I did too,” Marc promised. He felt it in his gut, even if he hadn’t known she was out there, he wouldn’t walk now. He had a kid and he was going to do the right thing by her.
Toni, it seemed, had already been trying to do that. Moving their daughter out of Galveston, probably away from wherever she thought he might come back to. Painful memories or a need not to have him just stumble over them before either one of them were ready maybe driving her. A trace of pride hit the smile that creaked onto his face. Marc raked his teeth over his lower lip before he nodded to her. ”Your moment was with the FBI before we got married. I guess it made the most sense for her to head back there.” Not that he’d ever thought to try and track her to Quantico. She’d just been out there somewhere, maybe waiting for him to pull himself together. That once fuming part of him dying back, the volcano going dormant. He did reach for her then, a little uncertain, just a hand on the girl’s arm, a light squeeze as he shook his head. ”It definitely wasn’t how I though my day was gonna go but … yeah, it’s a little strange.” His voice quiet as he admitted it, unaware of how much stranger it was gonna get. A kidnapping? The volcano started to bubble. ”Someone took you to hurt her? How did you get away? Did they get this guy?” Concern built, the ache in his chest borne of the idea that she might not ever have gotten out alive crushing until he peeled his hand away and settled it light on the nape of her neck.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Nov 7, 2021 18:05:01 GMT
Ria couldn’t help but feel like this was all a dream right now. Over the last few months she had been through so much and she knew that this wasn’t going to feel real until her mom arrived and Ria was able to feel the woman’s arms around her. The events of the night before had all happened so quickly, she had finally managed to escape but when she had made it outside the moonlight had touched her skin and her body had started to transform. Every bone in her body had started to break and she knew that she would never forget that pain. How she was supposed to go through that every month she had no idea but she could only hope that it would get easier in time. For now she knew that she just wanted to deal with one thing at a time. She knew that the guy who took her could have easily knocked her out and this could just be all in her head but she wasn’t sure that even she could have dreamt up meeting her dad like this, the dad who hadn’t even known that she existed. Right now she wanted to take comfort from someone but he was keeping a distance and she couldn’t blame him for that. Ria could tell that he didn’t know what to do or say and the truth was that she didn’t either. She had dreamed about finding him for such a long time but this really wasn’t what she’d pictured and she hated the fact that she had already broken down in front of him. That wasn’t who she was, she had always prided herself in being strong but after everything that had happened it was all so overwhelming and the truth was that she had no idea what to do right now. “I know it wasn’t easy for her and I bet it wasn’t easy for you either,” Ria said gently. Even without knowing all of the details she could tell that they had both been through so much. She would have loved to have both her parents in her life while she was growing up but it hadn’t worked out that way and while it would have been easy for her to resent her mom for keeping her dad from her the truth was that she had never felt that way and she knew that she never would. She knew her mom well enough to know that she wouldn’t do anything without a good reason so Ria trusted her judgement but that still hadn’t stopped her from wanting to reach out to the man as soon as she was old enough. She loved her mom and the life they had together but she also wanted to get to know her dad at long last and she wanted to make sure that they had the chance to do that now. As her dad said he was glad he’d met up with her too, Ria’s smile widened. “I’ve always wanted to meet you,” she admitted. She’d had so many questions about the man whose blood she shared but she wasn’t sure that now was the right time to ask them. He was still getting his head around the fact that he even had a daughter so Ria knew that she needed to be patient and keep quiet for the time being until he was ready. “It did. She loves her work and she’s so good at it. Her team became our family,” she explained, wanting her dad to know that things had worked out for them. Ria loved her old life but so much had changed now and she wasn’t sure just how much of it she could go back to. As her dad reached out and squeezed her arm, Ria brought her hand up and covered his so she could give it a gentle squeeze before lifting her gaze to meet his once more. “I can definitely understand that. I know this is a shock but when things settle down I hope you’ll see it as a good thing,” she admitted, knowing that the last thing she wanted was to end up being rejected by her dad now that she had finally found him. The questions that came next weren’t unexpected and Ria took a deep breath, knowing that she needed to answer them honestly. “Mom put a guy away but he had an accomplice and the guy took me as payback,” she explained, knowing that if she didn’t tell him then the police would anyway since they had already told her that they’d found the missing person’s report about her. “I kept trying to escape but each time he stopped me until last night when I finally got away,” she added, leaning into his touch slightly as his hand found the back of her neck. “I found out last night that I take after you in some respects and by the time I found the police officer this morning the guy was already gone. He knows how to lay low, I’m not sure they’ll ever find him,” she continued. She was certain that her dad would be able to fill in the blanks since the night before was a full moon. She knew that she could have just come out and said it but she didn’t want anyone else to overhear and she wasn’t sure that she was ready to say those words out loud yet. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
Werewolf
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Post by MARC FRASER on Jan 2, 2022 19:47:02 GMT
Talking about what had happened in the ambush with Antoinette had been hard enough. The military details couldn’t be given to a civilian, he couldn’t tell Toni about the sniper that had cut almost his whole team down, or even tell her where exactly her brother had died. The basics alone had stoppered up in his throat the minute he’d gotten home, her tears over her brother, her fears, enough to tighten an invisible hand around his throat. It had only gotten worse when the dreams had started and he’d wake her with his screams, the sheets damp, him flinching away from her touch. Marc’s hands curled over his knees, the tension creeping into his back, leaving his shoulders stiff, despite his daughter’s gentle tone. How did you tell a sixteen year old that her mom kicked you out because you couldn’t get your cracked mind together? You didn’t.
Marc’s jaw tightened as he forced his hands to loosen. He glanced sideways at Ria settled as he swallowed hard. That was a story for when she was older, when maybe he reached the point where he could actually tell it in the way she deserved to hear it. Her uncle had died trying to do the right thing and that loss had left scars she couldn’t see on her father. ”It wasn’t,” was all he managed tightly before he cleared his throat. Ria’s smile helped to unlock that tension. He hadn’t known he wanted this but now he had it, there was a relief working through him that he couldn’t describe. Putting an arm around his kid, Marc touched his lips to the side of his head. ”Now you get to. I’m sorry about the circumstances that got us here … but this means the world.” Those circumstances would likely keep them both tied up until the cops were ready to let them go.
By now the call have to have gone out to Toni. He could picture her tearing out of her office, screaming at some airline clerk to get her a ticket to the nearest airport to Mystic Falls. Had the shoe been on the other foot the fear would’ve been tearing him apart. Marc rubbed the heel of his hand against his chest, letting out a huffed breath. ”She always was amazing at it. I’ve always been proud of her.” Even if they hadn’t split, his own family wouldn’t have been there. That was another admission, an explanation Ria was due. His daughter squeezed his hand the way he’d done her arm, her reassuring him too. ”Hey, I do, never think I’d see this any other way, Ria.” A promise torn out of him. No matter what Toni did when she arrived, this was a turning point for him. A chance for them to at least get back on some steady ground.
He had to know the truth of what had happened to Ria to manage that. Too many questions and it would all swirl around in his head, leaving him more desperate than he was now to charge out there after the guy who’d done this to his kid. Marc never would’ve believed that Toni’s job could bite this way but she dealt with the worst of was out there, there’d always been a chance. His jaw tightened as Ria explained, the hand he ground against his chest not enough. ”They will get him,” Marc promised hoarsely. The hand that had settled on her neck slid around her and pulled his daughter into a hug, a promise in that too. ”Your mom’ll be able to track him and he’s gonna pay for this. You …” There was a burn in the back of his throat, the memory of turning out in the woods last night suddenly sharp. ”Your mom told you about that? She warned you? Are you OK?” His hand found her cheek, drawing her face up like he could see it there. Without an anchor turning was rough. He’d had guidance there through all of that but Ria had been alone.
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ILLYRIA FRASER
Werecreature
Were-panther
Posts: 54
Age:
19
Occupation:
Salvatore College Sophomore
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Adam Hawthorne
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 18, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Mar 10, 2022 22:47:54 GMT
It was all so much for Ria to take in at the moment – the kidnapping, the escape, her first shift and now meeting her dad – and it was overwhelming to say the least but she was doing her best to keep it together. This was the first time she had ever seen her dad and she knew that she couldn’t just break down in front of him, she needed to stay strong and she was trying but it wasn’t easy. She had lived in fear for such a long time but now she was finally safe and a part of her just felt numb. “Hopefully you might get the chance to work things out now,” Ria offered, knowing that it was easier to focus on what had happened between her parents than it was anything else right now. She knew that having their parents together was the dream for just about every kid out there and she would be lying if she said that she hadn’t wondered what it would be like but she wasn’t sure if it would happen and she knew that that would be fine too as long as she got to have both of them in her life. Feeling her dad’s arm around her and the kiss he pressed to the side of her head, Ria felt a pleasant warmth run through her and she leaned into him for a moment. “It means the world to me too,” she said, meaning every word. She had imagined this so many times and the more time they spent together the more they were both starting to relax a little. They had a lot of time to make up for but she finally had her dad in her life and she hoped that it would stay that way. How long it would take her mom to get there she wasn’t sure but at least she wasn’t alone and for that she truly was grateful. The more time they spent together the less she worried that her dad would reject her and as he spoke about her mom it was enough to make a smile cross her face. “I’m proud of her too, she’s great at what she does. The team she works with became our family.” They were no substitute for having her dad in her life but they were something at least. Now her dad was here and she knew that she didn’t want this to be the last time she saw him, she would fight to have him in her life if she had to. “I wouldn’t blame you if you did, you didn’t ask for any of this but I’m glad you don’t see it that way,” she admitted. She knew that it couldn’t have been easy for him to have found out about her the way that he had done but it really did mean a lot to her that he had decided to show up. She knew that she was safe at the police station but she had wanted nothing more than to see a familiar face and now she had that even if her dad hadn’t known about her before. “I hope so,” she nodded, a few tears rolling down her face as she hugged her dad back as it all started to catch up with her. “I hate the fact that he’s still out there.” Still out there to come after her again or do this to someone else. Wiping her eyes as her dad spoke again, she nodded once more. “She told me. She said that chances were I would take after one of you so I needed to be prepared for it either way,” she said, not offering any resistance as his hand found her cheek and he tilted her face up. “The pain was excruciating. To be honest I don’t remember much of it but I didn’t hurt anyone, I just remember feeling free,” she explained, hoping that it made sense. “I’m scared that I might not be as lucky next time though, how do you do it every month?”MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
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Post by MARC FRASER on Apr 25, 2022 19:34:17 GMT
Hope could hollow you out, had hollowed him out. Stepping onto the porch and seeing the half empty room behind the windows. Rattling at the doorknob until he felt like he was going to tear it off. The letter and that painful bite of the wedding room in his hand as he’d clutched them tight. Even after he’d received them some part of him had hoped Toni would still be there when he got back. As long as they could talk then it wouldn’t be too late, they could slap a band aid over the wound that had torn right through him, they’d heal. Bit by bit, as the weeks had gone on and every call he’d made to her cell phone had ended with voicemail and then that recorded voice telling him that the number was over of service, the hope he’d had left had vanished, leaving less and less of him in that shell of a man that remained.
Marc felt a crack shoot through what was left – what he’d thought had finally thickened up in the last couple of years – the shell more fragile than he’d have thought. There was a chance again, because his daughter had been kidnapped and held. There was an ache in his chest in it, hope rushing back in to push at those fragile walls. The small voice in his head told him it was foolish but he gave Ria a squeeze, not wanting to let her head it the way he did. ”Hopefully. Whatever happens though, honey, you’re gonna have both of us now. I can promise that.” Promises weren’t easy to give these days but for your child, you gave everything you had to make them happen. Marc rested his chin atop Ria’s head for a moment, eyes seeing well beyond the station. Maybe hope wasn’t entirely fruitless. He’d kept it, he’d ended up here because of it and now they had this chance.
He could imagine the relief taking Toni down to her knees, her own hope suddenly swelling fresh as she got the news. Toni wouldn’t ever have stopped looking and neither would the Bureau. It sounded like the time had gathered around to try and heal some of those wounds their marriage had left on her, giving Ria what he hadn’t been able to. ”I’m so happy you had that, that the two of you did. Did you get to spend time with your grandma and grandpa too?” Toni’s family had filled a hole his own had left in his life – God, that last conversation about her mom’s relish, something so stupid, had played over and over in his head as he’d tried to see where he’d gone wrong that day. He’d tried to reach out to them afterwards but every time Marc had started to dial their number he’d stopped. Not until he was close to whole again, not until they were.
His lips were dry, leaving him licking them to find his voice again after. They tipped up at one corner, his smile tight but definitely there. ”I could never begrudge anything that gave me you.” Ask or not he had a daughter and he wasn’t gonna run and leave her alone, ever. There were few things Marc could’ve said he was sure about but that was one, that he was gonna get his hands on the kidnapper and make sure there wasn’t enough left to put in a cell if the cops failed was another. ”I know so. You’re gonna have both me and your mom here to keep you safe now. Whenever you’re scared or worried, one of us is gonna be right there.” Surely Toni wouldn’t argue with that. She’d told Ria about him, about what he was, had prepared her at least a little. Still, alone and turning, it had to have been terrifying.
One corner of Marc’s mouth quirked up slightly. He brushed his thumb over Ria’s cheek, smoothing away the tears that stained it. ”I guess you had to get something from me,” he said lightly, even if he could see himself in her hair, her eyes. He pressed his lips together a moment, shaking his head. ”It’s not always gonna be that way. You learn to turn without so much pain and you find yourself an anchor that keeps a hold of part of you in here.” Marc thumped his palm against his chest. ”Your … your mom’s been mine since we met. Maybe she can be your anchor too. I hold her right here.” His palm flattened against his chest. Sixteen years and that love hadn’t faded.
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on May 14, 2022 20:20:44 GMT
Ria couldn’t believe that she was finally getting to meet her dad. She had dreamed about this happening so many times over the years, she had wanted to find him and reach out to him, to let him know that he was her dad, but she had known that she would have to wait until she was older to be able to do that. A part of her had been scared about finding him, he hadn’t even known she existed and she had worried that he might not want to be a part of her life but as she looked over at him now she could see that wasn’t something he wanted before he even confirmed it. “You mean it?” she asked, needing to make sure. Ria wouldn’t have blamed him if he’d wanted to forget that today had ever happened, she hadn’t meant for him to find out about her like this but the truth was that it was a relief to have him there while she waited for her mom to get to Mystic Falls. She knew that she was safe at the police station but there was something so comforting about having her dad there and she leaned into him even more as his chin rested against the top of her head. She couldn’t wait to see her mom again after so long but the truth was that she didn’t want her time with her dad to come to an end either. She wasn’t sure how her mom would react when she found that her dad had been called to the station and that he knew who she was but she couldn’t bring herself to worry about that right now. Right now she wanted to get to know her dad and she honestly hoped that he was right and that he would get to be a part of her life because she knew that she didn’t want to go back to the way things used to be now that she’d finally had the chance to meet him. “Yeah I did, especially when I was younger. They were there for me a lot when mom had to work late,” she nodded. She loved her grandparents and she couldn’t wait to see them as well but it was her mom that she was most eager to see. “I hate what that guy did but I’m glad it brought us together,” Ria admitted. She knew that she was never going to forget what the man had done to her and she didn’t doubt that it would all replay in her head when she tried to go to sleep but she didn’t want to think about that right now. She had thought about the guy too often over the last few months, her mind trying to find any way to escape and find her way back to her mom, and she knew that she wasn’t going to let him consume her life again. She really wasn’t sure if the police would ever find him, he was good at covering his tracks and that was clear from the way he had managed to evade being caught for such a long time while he had her, but she wasn’t ready to give up hope that one day her captor would get what was coming to him and would end up behind bars where he belonged. “Thank you, you have no idea how much that means to me,” Ria said gently, hastily wiping away the tears that began to fall at her dad’s words. He seemed to sure that the guy would end up getting caught and Ria knew that she had to have the same faith he did. As her dad said that she had to get something from him, Ria felt a smile touch her lips. She knew that she had ended up getting more than that from him but she didn’t know the full extent yet so the truth was that she couldn’t wait to find out. “It was really cool but it was scary as well,” Ria admitted. She had known that if she took after her dad then every bone in her body would break as she shifted into an animal but she had never realised just how excruciating it would be. How someone could go through that every month she had no idea but she knew that this was her life now so she was going to have to find a way to deal with it, she just didn’t know how. She hadn’t had anyone to help her through her first full moon but now that she was free of the guy that had held her captive she hoped that it would be different. “An anchor? What’s that?” she asked. It wasn’t a term she was familiar with but it sounded like it was something that she needed to find. As her dad said that her mom was still his anchor, Ria studied him carefully for a moment. “You still love her, don’t you?” she asked, able to hear it in his voice when he spoke about her. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
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Post by MARC FRASER on Jun 12, 2022 20:38:09 GMT
He could’ve told the deputy he had no idea what he was talking about and walked away without having a clue what was really going on. His client would’ve probably been happier but Marc would’ve felt that same bubble pressing up hard against his diaphragm like he did now. Even without it being his daughter you’d have to be a monster to leave a kid sitting alone in a police station. When he’d walked in the door he’d never imagined that it wasn’t a mistake but now he knew. Marc let his head shake slightly, back and forth over and over for a moment like he was brushing away all of Ria’s doubts. ”There’s no way I’m going anywhere, I swear,” he said firmly, squeezing his arms tighter around his daughter. His daughter. It had been hard enough walking away from his marriage, even after Toni had walked first. There was no way he could do it again.
She was gonna throw a fit when she realised exactly where Ria had turned up. Marc felt his stomach twist uncomfortably at the thought. Maybe she’d used those Bureau connections to keep track of him over the years and would know that some weird twist of fate had brought his daughter right to him but he had a far stronger feeling that this was going to blindside Toni the same way it had done him. They’d gone through that before and it had cost him everything when he hadn’t been able to claw himself out of it the way he needed to. The corner of his mouth kicked up as Ria admitted she spent a lot of time with her grandparents. Marc let out a little huff of amusement that rolled on through to his voice. ”I always got on with them both. Your grandma had this burger relish … she’d make a whole bowl of it just for me when they’d throw these barbecues.” They’d been joking about it that last time, just when the call had come in.
Thinking about those times was just gonna carve parts of him out, hollow him out when he needed to be anything but for Ria’s sake. Marc frowned as she admitted that she hated the guy that had taken her. He couldn’t blame her for it, the guy had done one of the worst things possible in the name of retaliation. ”You’re allowed to feel both,” Marc promised, the faint lines cutting between his brows. How did parents usually do this? He hadn’t been able to cope when his own life had been torn apart and now he was trying to coach his daughter through her own nightmare. He’d resisted professional help so much that Toni had left him. Seeing the tears trail down Ria’s face, Marc had used his thumb to wipe them away. He hadn’t gone through that parental stage of always having tissues or wipes on hand. ”You don’t have to thank me, honey, I wish I could’ve done it before. You always come and find us OK? Any time you need either one of us?” Toni could want to take Ria from town after this but wherever she went, he was going with them.
Toni had been the first family he’d had after losing his own, she was still his only one. Her and the daughter he could see so much of her in. Except Ria hadn’t taken after Toni and had become a phoenix. She was a werewolf like him, which came with its own set of problems. ”no matter how much you’re prepared, it always is,” he said, trying to reassure her. ”Even when you’ve seen it happen your whole life and your family’s right there.” He tugged his sleeve over his hand a little, brushing away the last of those tears before he let his hand fall away.
Marc swallowed, turned his head to meet his daughter’s eye a little more. ”Anchors are a way to hold on to yourself when you turn. They can be a feeling, a memory, a person. You keep them right here and it helps to stop you from slipping right into the animal you’re gonna become.” His fingers tapped his heart and then his temple as his lips curved faintly. ”I never stopped loving your mom, even though we weren’t together,” he said with a nod. ”Do you wanna come back to my apartment to wait for your mom?” He wasn’t sure if the officers were gonna let him go yet but even his spartan place had to be better than here.
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Jul 28, 2022 21:45:46 GMT
Ria knew that she wouldn’t have blamed her dad if he had dismissed the police officer’s phone call as being nothing more than an awful hoax. He could have walked away and not looked back but he hadn’t done, he hadn’t even known if it was true when he’d made his way to the police station but he had decided to show up anyway and Ria was beyond glad that he had done. She had loved growing up with her mom, the woman meant the world to her and Ria knew that she wouldn’t ever want to be without her again but she had always been curious about her dad. Her mom had told her about him to an extent but nothing would ever come close to being able to get to know him herself and Ria knew that she wanted to make the most of the time they had together now. “I’m going to hold you to that,” Ria nodded, knowing that the last thing she wanted was for her dad to end up disappearing from her life altogether now that she had finally found him. She had wanted her dad to be a part of her life for such a long time and she knew that she wasn’t going to take this for granted no matter what happened when her mom showed up. “So that’s where I get it from,” Ria laughed as her dad said that her grandma always made a whole bowl of burger relish just for him. “She does the same for me.” It was one of her favourite things and that was never going to change. Her grandparents had often stepped in to look after her while her mom had had to work so she had been lucky to spend a lot of time with them when she was younger. She adored both of them and it was strange being so far away from them now but she hoped that she wouldn’t have to leave Mystic Falls and her dad behind too soon. Her mom called the shots and Ria knew that but even though she had some bad memories of being in Mystic Falls she had some good ones now too and she didn’t want to lose those. “That’s a relief because to be honest it’s all a jumble right now,” Ria admitted. She had no idea how she really felt right now and she had a feeling that it would all come crashing down on her sooner or later but for now at least she was just doing her best to hold it all together. She had no idea what was going to happen when her mom arrived but right now Ria was safe and she was truly glad about that. She had been living in a nightmare for the last few months but now it was finally over and the truth was that she could hardly believe it. She had thought about this so many times and now there was a part of her that was worried that if she closed her eyes then she might end up finding that it was all just a dream. “I will, I promise,” she nodded as she wiped her eyes. “I really want the chance to get to know you.” She would be lying if she said that she might not get that chance if her mom decided to have them go back to Quantico but Ria knew that they would just cross that bridge when they came to it. Ria had always known that she would take after one of her parents in the supernatural department but she hadn’t known which one. She could have been a kitsune like her mom and she knew that that would have been really cool but at the end of the day there had always been a part of her that had suspected that she took after her dad. Ria hadn’t triggered a curse so it had come as a complete shock to her the night before when she had suddenly felt every bone in her body starting to break. She had no idea how she was going to be able to go through that every month but it was her life now and she needed to accept that. “It was awful. I had no idea what was happening at first I just knew that I had to get away.” Perhaps it was the full moon that had given her the strength to finally escape, she wasn’t sure, but either way the moment the moonlight had hit her skin her body had started changing and it was something that she knew she would never forget. It was incredible but it was terrifying at the same time and she knew that she didn’t want to risk hurting anyone. “Do you think we could maybe stay together during the next full moon?” she asked. Ria knew that it was a lot to ask for bearing in mind neither of them knew where she was going to end up but the truth was that she didn’t like the thought of going through it alone again. As her dad explained about anchors, Ria found herself nodding. “That sounds like a great thing to have,” she admitted. “How did you figure out mom was yours?” She didn’t know much about the time her parents had spent together and she couldn’t deny that she had always been curious about it. She knew that time would tell as to whether her mom was her anchor too but she hoped that even if she wasn’t then she would find one soon enough because the last thing she wanted was to end up hurting anyone. “I can see that, your eyes light up whenever you talk about her,” she said, a smile touching her lips as she looked over at her dad. As he asked if she wanted to go back to her apartment to wait for her mom, Ria nodded. “I’d like that, if you’re sure that’s okay,” she admitted. “Do you think we could get something to eat on the way? I’m starving,” she added. The guy had wanted to keep her weak so she hadn’t eaten properly in a long time and she knew that she needed to change that. MARC FRASER
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MARC FRASER
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Post by MARC FRASER on Aug 8, 2022 18:49:51 GMT
What had brought Ria into his life had been horrific enough that he never would’ve wished it on anybody. Some part of him had to be grateful for it though, didn’t it? His daughter was here because of that nightmare. If she hadn’t ended up in the same tiny little town he’d settled in looking for answers it could’ve been years before they found one another, if they ever found one another. It wasn’t as though he’d left some official trail of breadcrumbs for her to follow. Toni could be a bloodhound, had made a career out of being able to pick apart the human mind, but as off of the grid as he was Marc wasn’t sure she’d have found him either. This was a blessing born of a curse he would do anything to protect his daughter from now. Hopefully she trusted in that as he shot her a slanted grin.
That stubbornness was all her mom, the ability to pick herself up and dust herself off with a strength that amazed him. When cracks had shot through his own life he’d fallen to pieces instead, had been entirely unwilling to admit that he couldn’t pull himself together on his own. Toni had known where she could turn for help and, although her brother wasn’t there to hold her up, her parents had been. Marc felt that little bubble in his chest rise up as he realised they were both doing well. It was a relief and a pang all at the same time. All those years he could’ve been right there with them. ”Your mom always joked that it was so bad that I should’ve married your grandma instead. Have you ever talked her out of the recipe?” There was laughter in his voice, that little moment of joy that was sure to take a dip at some point when this rollercoaster of emotions went through its next twist and turn.
Burger relish hadn’t been a miracle after the ambush, it wouldn’t be now, but at least there was a light up ahead for his daughter. They had a way to work through this together … as a family. If all the pain he’d gone through was for something then Marc was sure it had to be for this, being able to help his daughter navigate her own nightmare without slipping from the path as he’d done. Marc swallowed hard, pressing a kiss to the top of his daughter’s head again as he brushed her tears away. ”It might always be. Sometimes those memories will come back and be clear enough that you can’t avoid them, sometimes you’ll never remember. You can take as much time as you need to get that jumble in an order you want to deal with, OK, honey?” They were reassurances Toni had gone him but then he’d shoved them away, wanting nothing more than to just be who he had been. ”No matter what happens now, we’re going to do all this together. We’ll get that chance, even if it means I follow you guys wherever you end up.” It would be easier for him than for Toni. Her life was now the tether his had once been.
For now though his life was the bed rock here, the thing Ria could lean on, rely on, until her mom got here and helped to pull what had been shattered back together again. Marc twisted towards her slightly, curling the cuff of his sleeve over his fingers. ”You did the right thing. It was an instinct and you listened. You should always trust those instincts.” He’d make sure that his daughter had the space to, he wouldn’t be the unyielding rock wall his own father had been. One corner of Marc’s mouth lifted as she asked about the next full moon. It would be the first time he’d run with anybody for years, let alone his own blood. ”Absolutely,” he promised. ”Your mom would want you with someone she could trust and I want to be there for you.” Until he proved to Toni he was OK, that they were through the night fine, she’d probably be freaking out. What choice did they have though?
Once upon a time Toni had been the one thing that had kept him sane. The last thought on his mind that he turned, the first thought when he came back to himself. An anchor in his life in more way than one. Marc nodded slowly, the warmth still in his heart, despite the years since they’d parted. ”It is, it makes all the difference.” Marc felt a little of the heat reach his cheeks. ”It was after we had started dating and I was on deployment for the first time since it had gotten serious. We were … in a difficult spot, I could feel myself starting to turn and then your mom was right here …” He bumped his first against his chest. ”The minute I started picturing getting home to her the panic started to ease.” After that it had been Toni every time. She might have lost that feeling, but he never would and their daughter knew it. Marc grinned back at her, not trying to hide it. ”I’m more than okay with it. You need to be somewhere quieter than here, some place you can relax. Absolutely, kiddo. How do you feel about burgers … without the relish?” He wasn’t sure if the police were done with Ria, but Marc stood and offered his daughter his hand.
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Post by ILLYRIA FRASER on Dec 27, 2022 22:54:57 GMT
Ria knew that it would be easy to lose herself to the horror of what she had been through but that wasn’t who she had been brought up to be. She was a fighter, someone who would always stand up for herself and those she cared about and she knew that she wasn’t going to let this ruin her life. She didn’t doubt that it was going to be tough for a while and she had a feeling that nightmares would plague her when she went to sleep but she knew that she would find a way to deal with it. Soon enough her mom would be there and she always made everything better as far as Ria was concerned. Right now it felt like she was a million miles away but her dad was there and that was something that Ria wasn’t going to take for granted. She knew that he had been a shock for him when he had been called to the station and she had let slip that she was his daughter but she couldn’t deny that she felt safe with him and that was what she needed more than anything right now. Talking about her grandparents was enough to make her miss them but truth be told it helped keep her mind off of what had happened even if it was only for a moment. “Now that would have been weird,” she laughed as her dad said that her mom always joked he should have married her grandma. “Even better, she showed me how to make it a few times,” Ria grinned. “I have it all locked away up here,” she said as she tapped her temple with her finger. “I can show you, if you like.”Right now Ria didn’t know how she was even meant to begin processing this but she knew that she had to try. She had always done her best to be strong so that her mom wouldn’t worry about her too much and she knew that she didn’t want that to change now. Her mom had enough to worry about with her work and she knew that the woman would have been worried sick about her over the last few months. Now she was finally safe and Ria knew that she needed to find a way to deal with what had happened so that they could get back to normal, or at least as close to normal as they could get now that she was a werecreature too. As her dad explained about what the memories might be like for her, Ria found herself nodding. “OK,” she said, her voice sounding more confident than she felt in that moment. “Is that what it was like for you?” she asked, unable to deny that it sounded like her dad was speaking from experience. As he said they would get the chance to do this together even if he meant that he followed them wherever they ended up, Ria couldn’t deny that she was surprised. “You mean that?” she asked, her breath catching in her throat as she looked up at him. “I loved our life in Quantico but to be honest I’m not sure I want to go back there, not to our old home,” she admitted. Just the thought of going back to home she shared with her mom, the place she had been taken from, was enough to make her feel sick to her stomach. She had no idea why the man had eventually brought her to Mystic Falls but at least here she had escaped and right now she felt safe. “I try to. Mom always taught me to trust myself,” Ria nodded. It had been just the two of them for such a long time that she’d had to learn how to count on herself while her mom was at work. Her grandparents had been there and so had the people that her mom worked with but Ria hadn’t wanted to put any of them out so as she got older she had started doing more on her own and in doing so she had learned to trust herself to know what to do. Ria knew that asking him to be there for her next full moon was asking a lot but she felt a smile touch her lips as he agreed and said that he wanted to be there for her. “Thanks dad,” she said without thinking. As she realised what she’d said, her eyes widened as she looked up at him. “Sorry, is that weird? I can call you Marc if you prefer,” she said quickly, knowing that she didn’t want to do anything that he wasn’t comfortable with. Her mom had tried to tell her a bit about what it was like to be a werecreature but Ria knew that it couldn’t have been easy for her since she wasn’t one. She had wanted to make sure that she was prepared for whichever way it went, though, and Ria was so glad that she had done. If she hadn’t then Ria knew that she would have struggled so much last night and it would have made it that much worse. As her dad explained about what it was like for him when her mom had become his anchor, Ria found herself nodding. “In that case I really hope I find one soon,” she nodded. She wasn’t sure if it would work the same for her with her mom being her anchor but even if it didn’t then she hoped that she would figure it out sooner or later. “That sounds great,” she nodded as she took her dad’s hand in hers and got to her feet. The officer came over then and said that they could go but they might have some more questions for her later. Ria simply nodded and headed outside with her dad. “Where’s good to eat around here?”MARC FRASER
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