And You Thought You Could Hide...

[Kasura Zhefarovich]

Kasura had never been so nervous for anything in her life before this day. Not even the day she decided to leave home ten years ago and go out into the world into her own. The fact that she was actually going to allow someone else into her life and possible allow herself to become more docile and controlled was so huge for her that it scared her to no end. As hard as it was to believe she had gone through this once before as well and it was the whole reason she had left her family behind to make her own life. Once when she was about seventeen or eighteen her parents tried to set her up in an arranged marriage and she had stayed quiet about it until her actual wedding day when she freaked out and left the man standing at the alter. There was no way she was ever going to let her parents or some man control her life without her wanting to let them, that day she had walked down the aisle of the church in tears and whole new person was formed. Someone who was angry and wanted no one in her life but herself. Now there was someone, well more like a group of people considering the fact that she also had a daughter and two unborn babies growing inside of her right now. Thankfully she was able to magically charm the dress so it hid the fact that she was highly pregnant with two twins right now, it appeared as if she had her regular figure back just until she removed the Charm which would be once the wedding was over. But aside from all of this she was now going to officially give her heart and her word to someone else. Kasura was going to trust Vladislav not to break her and to remain loyal to her like she was going to remain loyal to him. There had never been anyone else but him.

For a moment Kasura's deep purple eyes averted to the ground before they returned back onto Vladislav, she didn't know if he could tell that she was uneasy. She was trying as hard as she possibly could to hide it but he seemed to be able to read her well even when she didn't want him to, and that was why they clicked so well. That and he was persistent as hell, kidnapping her was something no other man had ever done except him even if she tried as hard as ever to leave once she had given birth to Demonia but he didn't let her leave. Somehow in the mix of him pissing her off and them fighting as if there were no tomorrow she had fallen for him. Why it was him and why god was so insistent in finding her love she could not tell you but she was that he had been brought into her life and that now she had him she wasn't going to let anyone else have him. A pale hand went up to brush some of her bangs out of her face before she bit her lip and let her eyes lift once again to another place for her to focus at. It was the nerves that were making her act like this and she hoped that it wasn't bothering Vladislav.

Something was giving Kasura a bad feeling and it wasn't Vladislav or the fact that she was going to get married either, but it was just something that was making her feel weird as well. The purple eyed beauty shook her head and attempted to focus onto something else since this was her wedding day and overall she wanted it to be a happy day for her.

 

[Vladislav Zhefarovich]

Vladislav stood at the alter with the priest. This would be the first time he had ever really been committed to loving someone enough to marry them. Last time, it was more like a best friends, best do it because we are pure-bloods type of ordeal. But they were all dead, and all he had now was Kasura and their children. There was nothing else he could ever ask for in his life. The priest was an old man that had no idea about either family, and there was a few witnesses from Vladislav's days in school. There weren't many witnesses at all, and for that Vladislav felt safe. Though he had been constantly worried over the fact that now that he was exiled, he was free game to be killed by his family. Vladislav was never a huge part of the family, and he had irked off quite a few members as of lately, not even meaning to. Though all of these thoughts were aside right now, and he turned his eyes to see Kasura in the wedding dress. She looked divine. His heart filled with love as he remembered their first meeting, and then all the times afterward. He had to admit, he had never had as much fun as he had with her. It was beautiful.

Vladislav remembered when she basically told them that they should get married, and of course he had no objections. Now here he was, standing before her, and he smiled down at her. Her purple eyes were gorgeous, and he could stare into them all day - alas, that was not so as she averted her eyes from him. Was she having cold feet? He would hope not. That would be just horrid if she did! He looked pretty fine in a tuxedo, he had to admit. The priest started in on the words, and the ritual of commitment had begun. The vows had come, and he said his own, and then stared at her with adoration. There was nothing but truth in his words that he had just spoken, which was rather basic and almost corny, but they were true regardless. Then, he felt a wave of regret wash over him and he wondered what was going on. Something about today made him uneasy. He hinted at the priest to hurry. They would need to leave...and soon.

 

[Kasura Zhefarovich]

It wasn't until the Priest started to speak and the Vows were started that Kasura had kicked herself out of her worried phase and realized that she had nothing to be worried about when it came to Vladislav. When it came to him nothing really ever made sense but thats why she loved being around him so much, despite the fact that she was giving her heart to him he allowed her to be as free as she wanted. Aside from the fact that she must now only be loyal to him, something she agreed to completely. When it came to be her turn to say the Vows hers were a bit different but they still had just as much meaning to them, she had never really cared about anyone as much as she did him and their children. No one had given her the chance, at least no one had given her a chance until she actually left home to try and make her own life the way she wanted it to be lived. Kasura was thankful she had run from her old life, if she hadn't she never would have come to that bar that night and gotten soup dumped on her by Hollace. If it hadn't been for that idiot her and Vladislav might not have ever gotten together like they, she would need to be thanked later. Once again Kasura was knocked out of her thoughts by the Priest, she hadn't realized that the ceremony had gotten so far because when was time for the while kiss the bride thing she finally realized that before she knew it her own Wedding was over and done with. Kissing him softly she knew that after today things would be different after today. And Kasura was ready for all of it, she would only have to get used to be Kasura Arnaunt instead of Malkov like she had been for the past twenty-eight years. Without hesitating her smaller hand went up to grip his softly.

"I love you." She gave him the closest thing to a smile she could. Kasura couldn't remember if she had ever said that out loud to him or not, but if she was ever going to say it to him now would be the time. They were married now so she might as well be as honest with him as she possibly could, there was nothing to hide from him except for maybe the fact thats he was the one who hogged the blankets and night and not him. Hopefully he would never be forced to meet her family either, they weren't quite as scary as his was but they were still pretty annoying. In fact she could already see her father throwing a fit over Vladislav, her mother just looking worried, her brother not caring, and her sisters secretly fawning over how lucky Kasura had gotten. Turning her head to glance around she still felt like something was very wrong here, her hand gripped Vladislav's more tightly. Whatever it was it unnerved her a little, and thats now she wanted to feel right after her Wedding. "Vlad....something's really wrong here. I can feel it but I'm not quite sure what it is yet." Kasura commented lightly, feeling goosebumps forming all over her body from the chills. Her head shot up towards Vladislav just in time to shake her head then release his hand, she was going to head out of here right now. Kasura slowly started to head away from the alter where she was just married and towards the door, but then something or rather somebody's presence stopped her.

 

[Axel Zhefarovich]

It was the blood of the night that caused Axel to leave the confines of his home. He recalled kissing Avory and his darling children goodbye, before he was out of the house, apparating to the Manor. He had four children at home, now that Leviathan and Kamaria went on their ways to Hogwarts once more. Athena would not be attending school for two years now, and then it was Aleric who was almost two years old. There was a gap between the children, but there was a larger one between the women he was with. He only lusted one, and fought her tooth and nail for his children back, and then there was Avory, the love of his life. How could he not adore such an angel? Pure-blood or not, she was the love of his life. He knew her blood, and even now, he still loved her. He did not care in the least bit. Allow the rest of their children be mixed-bloods, for he had already spread his line successfully with Athena, Kamaria and Leviathan. His deeds were done.

Fresh afternoon air coursed through his lungs as he stood outside of a church. How odd, a church in the magical kingdom. It humored him somewhat, but even he guessed that there must be some that believed in a higher being. Axel himself did not believe in that himself. He did not believe in anything at all except for blood, love, lust and power. Axel had brought Danielle with him, for more than one reason. She was Renee, and another, he wanted to see her in action. This was a free game. Anyone exiled could be killed. This would just be fun for the two of them, if they succeed. Axel went into the church first, opening the door with both hands. An evil smirk painted across his lips as he called out with his deep, Bulgarian accent voice, "Is it too late to object to this marriage?" His eyes landed on his uncle, and with a snap to his fingers, his wand went from its holder to his hand. He wanted so much to attack Vladislav now, but he had to wait. His eyes went to the women he was marrying, and come to his knowledge, she must have loved older men. He snickered under his breath, and he waited for a reaction.

 

[Danielle Zhefarovich]

Danielle silently stood beside Axel and stared up at the Church with her angelic blue eyes and no emotion shown upon her beautiful face. Some might have believed that because of her appearance that she would have belonged next to a place like this , she truly looked like an angel to most. But anyone who truly knew her well knew that she would never ever belong in a place like this, she was nothing more than a demon trapped in an angels body. Or at least that was the excuse that some gave for her pretty face but her wicked heart. Coming here today was something she felt was a honor to do, it gave her time to spill some blood and to spend time with her dear Step-Son that she had come to get to know a little better recently. He certainly was an interesting one from what she had seen and heard about him, and him inviting her out just added that much more respect to his name for her which was rare for her to ever do. Following after Axel gracefully she felt her silk dress pool around her, she probably looked dressed for a wedding but she always dressed in elegant gowns unless she was resting or doing..other things. Axel opened the door and spoke to the couple inside that the two of them had come to destroy, after all they were said to be free game to anyone in the family now. A Beautiful but haunting smile rose to Danielle's pale face as she gracefully stepped beside Axel and listened to to him speak and taunt the newly married pair. "Gee Axel, they didn't even think to invite us. Thats no way to treat family Vladislav." Danielle spoke, a French accent coating her words lightly as they came out of her mouth like Venom. She did not know if Vladislav knew of her marriage to Asparuh or not but then again she didn't really care either. Danielle remembered him quite clearly as he was nothing but a pain when she had met him many many years ago. Recently there had been times when Danielle felt weak or sick that she had kept quiet about in case it were nothing more than the change of season, but right now she felt great and more than ready to spill some blood.

Holding her hand out she wandlessly summoned her wand to her hand and smirked once her pale fingers wrapped themselves around the wood. After a moment her angelic blue eyes shifted over to Kasura Malkov, someone she knew quite well only because the Lefevre's owned and controlled the Malkov's to an extent. This had been the loudmouth and foul-tempered daughter of Isaak's, the one Danielle really disliked because of it too. "And Vladislav, I'm surprised you'd go for such...young...street trash. Hope you don't mind if we rip her apart just like Asparuh did to the rest of your family." Danielle taunted as her fingers ran gently down the length of her wand slyly, she was unsure if it would upset him or worry him at all, for all she knew the man could be using Kasura but either way Danielle was pretty sure that the darked haired would be anything but pleased about all of this. Silently her eyes shifted back to Axel, he had yet to make a move so she would remain still as well.

 

[Vladislav Zhefarovich]

Vladislav whispered in return, "I love you too." But how could he inform her that there was just something wrong about today? Something that just made his skin crawl, something that made him want to do nothing more than just run from here. He murmrued, "Kasura, I know. I think we should-" Then, the doors slammed open, and Vladislav's blood froze in his veins. It was just hard to believe that today made the day that they would come. His silver eyes inclined and made their way to the entrance of the church. The priest had vanished now, maybe because he knew what was to come of this day? Vladislav eyed Axel and then over to some blonde woman. He recognized her to be Danielle. They sent the two worst ones other than Asparuh himself! Vladislav put his arm over Kasura, as if to block her from any blow that Axel and Danielle send. Vladislav narrowed his eyes at Axel's taunting. This was just too much, even for him. He wanted to leave, but they could just follow.

Vladislav felt the emotional blow Danielle sent out and he averted his eyes from the haunting sky blue ones. Vladislav knew that he could have protected Kasura if he had just given himself up to die. But his fight to live was more than any normal soul. He flourished his wand, and he shouted, "Don't you lay a finger on my new family! The Zhefarovich's were nothing more than power hungry leeches that did everything they could to control your life! I won't allow that to happen to me, or my new family now!" Vladislav knew for a fact that if they attacked he and Kasura, there was no way to live from that. Axel was trained to know about every way to kill a man just by using a toothpick or the room around. It was ridiculous. Vladislav yelled, "Stupefy!" The jolt of red light was sent hurling at Axel and Danielle. He whispered to Kasura, "You should leave, while you still can, love." If a fight was what Axel and Danielle wanted, a fight would be what they got. Vladislav could escape later. Right now, his priority was getting Kasura and the twins out of harm's way.

 

[Kasura Zhefarovich]

Kasura was confused for a moment when two people entered the Church, one was a male that looked a little like Vladislav and the other that was a very beautiful female. It took her less than a moment or two to realize that the female was none other than Danielle Lefevre, or rather Zhefarovich if she had known about the marriage into another family. But after hearing a bit of the conversation between the two Wedding Crashers and Vladislav gave her the idea that they were both related to him somehow but exactly how she was a little unsure herself because apparently he had a really big family. when Vladislav put his arm over Kasura to protect her from harm she gave him a softened look as she knew he already lost people in his family because of them so it must be hard for him to think of her and the twins being in danger as well. "Vlad no, I told you waaay long ago that I was not leaving you alone if they came for you." Kasura said to the man she loved gently as her hand went up to grip his arm gently, her purple eyes that she knew he loved was pleading with him not to fight them.That she wanted him to just leave while he still could because she didn't want to lose him as soon as she finally got him Once her hand released his arm she looked away before she retrieved her wand. The babies were a bit still so she hoped they were okay, she wasn't going to be foolish and let them completely go after her enough to hard the children but she wasn't going to let them harm Vladislav either.

"GO AWAY!" Kasura hissed at the two of them as she raised up her wand and called out 'Reducto', casting it at them with as much force as she could manage in her current state. One she particularly wanted to being harm to was Danielle for her words about her plus all of the awful things she had done to people in the past, as angelic as she looked she was nothing but a pure demon inside that fed off the misery of others. "Shut your f*ucking mouth She-Devil." Kasura angrily stepped forward and away from the close protection of Vladislav, which was a foolish mistake on her part because she was now closer to the two who had decided to crash her wedding and attempt to destroy the family she needed so badly and the family she had wanted for so long.

 

[Axel Zhefarovich]

Axel flourished his darker wand and deflected the spell sent at him from Vladislav. It was a weak spell nonetheless. "Attacking first? How rude." Axel would have brought out his other wand, but this one was specialized for the dueling and dark arts, and the other is for healing. The wand for healing would be of no use here. Axel though thought twice. The healing wand did have some good defensive spells behind it. He flourished it into his right hand, and he cast protego for Danielle for the spell that the violet eyed girl had sent out. He did not know her name but he did not care to know it either. Why would he want to bother her when it was her new husband that he wanted? Axel twirled his wands as he made his way down the aisle. The new wife had children in her but he could care less on how that turned out. Right now, he wanted nothing more than blood shed.

He glanced at Danielle and he said, "You take out the trash, I got the stupid gloat." Axel smirked deviously, as he rushed up the aisle, but then he apparated, and he reappeared behind Vladislav. He wrapped his arms around his torso, a wand at his neck, and he whispered into his ear, "A fabulous hunt. Think I'll have your head stuffed for a trophy. I could put it in my new shop." Axel liked more of a fight than this, but with his body keeping Vladislav from doing anything, and also himself, he kept his eyes on Danielle, and he wondered just what she was wanting to do with the woman. "I could use your unborn babies as target practice, just like Bashta had." Axel laughed, and he released his uncle from his hold. He put his lighter wand away, and he reached out to grab Vladislav by the throat. The fun had begun.

 

[Danielle Zhefarovich]

Danielle thanked Axel quickly when he cast Protego to protect her from the spell that young Kasura had cast at her out of pure anger, it wasn't necessary as Danielle was skilled enough with magic to not even require her wand to block it. But she was thankful he was there in case something had gone wrong and she was unable to block it. When Axel told her that it was pretty much her job to deal with Kasura she smirked and allowed herself to watch him for a moment as he dealt with Vladislav, she had to admit right away that he was well trained and could probably be considered to be amongst one of the best fighters she had ever seen. Even up there with Asparuh and Kalif, whom both had killer instinct lodged into their system since birth pretty much. Then again Vladislav also had the blood that Axel had so there was always a chance that he could get an upper hand on Axel, though it was unlikely that something like that should happen. Once she saw that he had securely gotten Vladislav pinned and such she wasted no time in hurrying over to, instead of wrapping one hand around her waist she instead went up behind Kasura and wrapped her arm around her neck so the woman's back was up against her chest. With little effort she summoned her wand and aimed it at Kasura as Danielle pulled over more over towards Vladislav and Axel a bit.

"Axel I think we should mess with them a bit, before we tear them both to pieces. I don't know about you but I'm always up for a little torture." Danielle offered to Axel when she saw that he had Vladislav by his throat. Kasura attempted to struggle a little but Danielle tightened the grip on her throat until she heard a gasp for air and a cough, but it wasn't until Kasura stopped struggling that Danielle loosened her grip. Her sky blue eyes turned to Vladislav before she gave him a haunting smile, just how miserable could she make him with just this woman? 'Unborn babies hm?' Danielle smirked, she actually didn't mind children as she had always wanted more babies of her own but Vladislav deserved this suffering for betraying his family. If he didn't want one family he couldn't have the other. "Do you like blood Vladislav? I could easily make her bleed." Danielle dug her nails into Kasura's neck a little as she attempt to keep her still more, after all Kasura was bigger than her. The only reason she probably had not tried to run was because Danielle had a wand to her neck and was worried over Vladislav. "I've also heard that I'm quite the skilled Potion-maker, Make I could have her drink a poison that would easily kill her and those brats of yours. You left the Zhefarovich Family, do you think it's fair to have another one Vlad? You could have been great, powerful, feared, but now your just a joke. Do you even really truly love this one or is she going to become like all the other woman...a toy?" Danielle was hoping to hit a sore spot somewhere, she wasn't sure if he even had anymore left but she loved to make her victims suffer before she killed them and such, Vladislav deserved this. A small breath escaped Danielle as when felt a weird feeling in her abdomen, but she ignored it since the past few months she had been feeling weaker and weaker by the day. It was probably just a minor illness taking over her old body.

 

[Vladislav Zhefarovich]

Vladislav would have loved on Kasura if they were alone because of the dedication but this was not so. Vladislav kept his eyes on Axel, and knew that this was the newer Viscount in the family. It had to be, with the way he twirled his wands and the fighting style. The moment he apparated, Vladislav prepared himself. Then, he felt the Viscount hold him down, and the whisper in his ears caused Vladislav to almost panic. This was not right. This supposed to be a happy day. What happened? Danielle's words caused Vladislav to have a little extra moisture in his eyes. He couldn't help it, those words hurt more than anything. Axel attempted to grab him by the throat, and Vladislav himself tried to knock him down like the rest, but somehow, it failed. He was gasping her air, and he could not fight the Viscount no matter how much he tried. Vladislav hissed at Danielle, "I would not be fighting right now to kill you both if I didn't truly love her." It didn't really look like he were fighting, but he was, but Axel was just too smart and stopping him from doing anything else. "Kasura, she's smaller than you, take her out!" Vladislav glanced down and with a punch, he punched Axel square in the ribs, to attempt to do damage. Though both had similar body structures, he doubted that he had much power in the punch, but maybe it was enough to get through to Axel that he was still a Zhefarovich on the inside, and if he were to die, he would go down fighting.

 

[Kasura Zhefarovich]

To be honest Kasura had never been as afraid in her life as she as now, not even the first day she arrived on the streets and truly learned what it was like to live on her own did she feel this afraid. Especially the threats that came from Danielle's mouth, the woman was definitely one to keep her word and if she really wanted to hurt Kasura and Vladislav she could despite her appearance to those who didn't know her. Plus the display of what happened between Vladislav and Axel worried her to the bone. As much as she knew her husband was trying to fight back she also noticed that it was doing nothing to stop the other man from causing him harm and such, was he even a man at all. 'No wonder Vladislav left this family!' Kasura wanted to rip Danielle's head off but she knew better than to try such a thing with the other man here and a wand currently at her neck. When Vladislav told her to take the woman holding her hostage out because she was bigger than her, Kasura could not help but roll her purple eyes a little. "A lot easier said than done, Vlad!' She muttered softly as she mentally prayed that he would be able to hold on just a little bit longer while she tried to think of a way to get out of the woman's grasp and maybe help Vladislav out in any way she could possibly manage. After a moment of desperately thinking something finally came to mind but she would need to work carefully to get this to work. Letting her body go limp for a moment instead of struggling so she could move her elbow and aim it a little towards Danielle's stomach. With a large swing of her she nudged Danielle as hard as she could with her elbow and let out a gasp of relief when the older Death Eater let her go.

 

[Danielle Zhefarovich]

Danielle had lost focus for just a moment with the battle going on between Axel and Vladislav and that was how the purple-eyed girl was even able to move her elbow to begin with. But when she felt something painfully collide with her stomach that was harsh enough to force her to lose her breath she was forced to release the girl and clutch her stomach out of pain. Usually a blow like that would never bother her as badly, especially when done by someone as weak as Kasura appeared to be but for some reason this time the pain was more than enough to force her to recoil for a moment. There could have been some serious damage done to her stomach the other lives within. After a moment the pain subsided but was replaced by a somewhat weak feeling, but of course for the moment Danielle was going to try and ignore it while she ripped Kasura piece by piece right in front of her pathetic husband. "You stupid b!tch." Danielle hissed out as she summoned her wand to her hand and ever so quickly but still gracefully approached the woman who had slammed an elbow into her stomach. Of course she was backing up in fear and attempting to get as far away as possible but Danielle was persistent and was willing to track her down until her blood was all over the place. Hopefully Axel could handle Vladislav on his own for a moment or two while she fully dealt with Kasura once and for all. However after a moment or so of walking over and trying to catch up with Kasura Danielle started to feel that something was very wrong. Her stomach started to ache like it never had before, and she felt so dizzy that she suddenly found herself seeing two of the dark-haired girl.

Raising a wand to shoo the damned killing spell at the girl before she could get away again Danielle only ended up lifting it to suddenly find herself feeling the pain and the sick feeling increase. With a frustrated cry Danielle threw her own wand aside as she pressed her hands up to her face in an attempt to make the Church stop spinning, her face felt hot too even though her body was ice cold. 'What...what's the matter with me.' It almost reminded her of the feeling that she that day when she had almost died from losing all her blood, Raisa had saved her by giving her some of blood. Danielle decided she thought her face felt to warm to keep her hands there and attempted to remove them. However the moment she moved them from her wave the dizziness and feeling of general faintness and sickness became to much for her and she collapsed onto the ground without another word or movement. Passing out was not something she had planned to do at all...

 

[Axel Zhefarovich]

Axel glanced to see Danielle collapse and faint. That was the end of it. She was more important than the deaths of these two maggots. With a few jabs, Vladislav was on the ground, and unconscious. Pressure points were rather easy to find and locate on the large man. Axel rushed to Danielle's side, and he thought, Pregnancy symptoms worked a little slower on her. Axel turned his glare to Kasura and Vladislav. He hissed, "You are one lucky *****." Axel gathered Danielle into his arms and apparated away. If she had not collapsed, he would have destroyed Vladislav by tearing him apart, which was one of his specialties. It was unwise to mess with a discount, and it was unwise to have a pregnant woman with him fighting another. Strangely enough, both were pregnant with boys. Axel arrived in the Zhefarovich Manor, where he put Danielle in his father's chambers for her to rest, before ducking out to his own family. By now, those fools would have left the church.