"Then don't say anything," Liam replied coldly. "I don't see how it's any of your business anyway."
Jack snorted and leaned forward. "You know why it is. What is going on Liam? Because the last time I checked, no one was supposed to know anything about us. As a matter of fact, anyone who found out was supposed to be killed."
"First of all," he growled as he turned to face them. "She didn't find out, I told her. Second of all, if you even think about laying a hand on her, I'll kill you myself. Understand?"
Jack stared at Liam. "Are you serious?" he demanded in disbelief.
Mike snorted and stopped pacing to look at him. "He's serious."
Jack sat back. "We weren't supposed to tell anyone, unless we changed them," Jack finally said. "Which we agreed not to do without consulting each other first. Since none of us have been consulted, and Doug and I didn't even know that she knew, I'm going to say that rule is pretty well shot. I don't know what you're doing Liam, but you had better let us in, and now."
Liam sighed angrily and began to pace. "Look, she knows, but she isn't going to say anything. As for changing her, that isn't going to happen."
"So she's going to grow old and die, and you're just going to pine away, forever young. You're right, you have thought this all out," Jack spat sarcastically.
Liam wanted desperately to punch him in the face. "If that's the way it is," he hissed. "Then yes!"
"I hope she wants that too. To be attached to a young guy, while she grows old. To never be married, to never have children. To constantly have to move so that people won't notice that you're not aging. Great life you're giving her Liam, truly."
His fists clenched as he took a step forward. Mike stepped in front of him and put a restraining hand on Liam's arm. "That's enough!" Mike said firmly. "We're not going to sit here and fight with each other! It's done and over with. Besides, Jack has a point."
Liam whirled on him. "Hey calm down!" Doug yelled. "Just calm down, all of you."
Liam forced himself to take a deep breath as he tried to steady his nerves. He wasn't angry at them, he was angry at the fact that they were right. He turned away from them and walked back to the window. Leaning his head against the pane, he let the cool glass calm the fire in his body. The truth hurt, it always did, but he hated having it slapped in his face.
"Look Liam," Jack said. "I don't want to fight with you, but you kept us in the dark on this. You purposely left us out. You must have had some concern that she would say something about us."
"Maybe at first, but I would have stopped her."
"You would have killed her?"
Liam lifted his head from the glass and turned to face him. "No, I would have locked her away from the world, and from you, but I never would have killed her."
Jack shook his head in disbelief. "Shit, Liam. Shit."
"She's not going to say anything," Mike said as he ran a hand through his tussled hair. "There's more," he glanced at Liam, who shrugged. They might as well know it all now. Liam turned away as Mike filled them in on everything that had happened with Jacob.
Jack sat with his eyes closed as he rubbed at his temples. "Are we safe?" Doug asked.
"For now."
"What do you mean for now?" Jack demanded.
"So far nothing has been mentioned, and I got rid of the body."
"Where?"
Mike sighed and glanced back out the window. "An old stone quarry in Quincy. By the time someone finds him, if anyone ever does, we'll be long gone."
"And if people start questioning his absence?"
"They haven't yet."
"It hasn't even been a week!"
"We'll worry about it then!" Mike exploded. "For now, leave it be!"
"Wait till David finds out about this mess. Or do you not plan on telling him too?"
