Hey! I am back, sorry when i started this i anticipated having more time to update. Since starting it though i have had a baby and gone back to work. Now i'm planning to move back to Australia so the family can spend some time with their little granddaughter. I wont make promises but i will try and update again sometime soon.

I am glad for the reviews. I wish there was more Carpathian femslash as well, that is why i wrote this, glad someone else feels the same way.

I don't own the Characters (except Temperance) or the universe its set in.


"Tamara where have you been?" Gabriel asked angrily when his daughter turned from a barn owl into the woman she was in front of him.

"I went for a walk. I ended up at the inn." Tamara said mildly, glancing from her father to her mother and then to her uncle who was standing beside her.

"There was a vampire but she was well protected, brother." Gregori said equally as mildly.

"A vampire? Tamara you know there are a large amount of vampires and an even larger amount of Sange Rau and rogue lycan in the area. You should have said you wanted to go to the inn and we would have sent someone with you." Gabriel said looking his daughter over for any sign she might have been hurt.

"Yes dad, that was why I didn't say anything." Tamara sighed heavily.

"You could have been attacked." Gabriel pointed out with a scowl.

"Yes but I wasn't so don't stress out. How are you mom?" Tamara stepped past her father as if to dismiss him and walked over to her heavily pregnant mother.

"About to pop I swear. You worried us Tamara." Francesca said with a smile.

"I am sorry, but I was fine." Tamara said hugging her mother lightly.

Gregori cleared his throat and shifted from foot to foot to get the attention of his brothers family. Tamara looked at the dark one curiously and knew what was coming but found she was glad the man was there and accepted how things were to be.

"I believe Gabriel, that it is unnecessary to introduce Tamara to the unattached males." Gregori said seriously.

"What? Has she met her lifemate then?" Gabriel turned from his brother and looked at this daughter.

"She has. But it is complicated brother, you must try to have an open mind." Gregori said firmly.

"What? What is it Gregori?" Gabriel's tone dropped and Tamara thought that it would make any enemy think twice before taking him on.

"It's interesting. Tamara's life mate is a female." Gregori said bluntly.

"I'm sorry I don't think I heard correctly... you said my daughters lifemate is a woman?" Gabriel asked with a frown.

"Yes." Gregori said without hesitation.

Gabriel stared for a moment before he started laughing, Gregori scowled but didn't say anything and Tamara glared at the legendary hunter.

My dad has lost his mind. Tamara thought as the man continued to laugh.

At least he is laughing and not breaking things. Temperance's voice sounded in Tamara's mind startling the young woman.

Not yet. Tamara replied after a moment.

"Gabriel... I don't think he is joking." Francesca said looking from her daughter to her brother in law.

"He isn't My lifemate is a woman." Tamara said finally when Gabriel seemed to be calming down.

"Don be silly Tamara, it's impossible." Gabriel said now completely sober.

"Apparently not, dad. My lifemate is a woman." Tamara spoke firmly as she scowled again.

"Then why are you so OK with that? You know how things are and you know that only Carpathian men can be lifemates to our women! Why am I seemingly the only one freaking out about this?" Gabriel was looking oddly hysterical, a way he got only when his daughters were involved.

"She is not wholly Carpathian, her lifemate. I am not sure what else she is, something I have not encountered before." Gregori said calmly to his borderline hysterical brother.

"Is she a threat?" Gabriel asked seriously, and perhaps a little hopefully.

"No, I do not believe so. She would seem to be quite a capable hunter." Gregori was all business as usual.

"And you have no idea what she is?" Francesca asked the dark one.

"None. She will come here tomorrow?" Gregori asked looking at his niece.

Of course I will. I would come now but I need to feed before the sun rises and I am running out of time. Temperance spoke to Tamara.

"Yes Uncle. She would come now but for the late hour and she needs to feed." Tamara explained with a smile.

"Brilliant. Then I suggest you all go to ground as it is beginning to get light outside." Gregori said gesturing behind himself at the distant horizon.

"This is ridiculous, she cannot be mated to a female." Gabriel said not letting it go.

Why am I mated to a female? Tamara asked curiously.

Do you mind? Temperance countered.

No. But I am curious as to why. Tamara didn't hesitate to answer, already accepting completely that her mate is a woman.

Might have something to do with what I was originally. I was revered once as the Kitsune. Temperance explained mildly.

What is a Kitsune? Tamara asked with a frown.

"Apparently she can as she is. I do not know how to explain it brother but it is what it is." Gregori said firmly.

"There has to be a way to change it. Perhaps this woman is mage." Gabriel said with a scowl.

He is barking up the wrong tree there. Kitsune are fox-shifters. Ancient Asian legends you could probably read about somewhere. There was a few colonies spread across the Asian continent. Temperance explained honestly.

I have obviously never heard of them. How did you become Carpathian? Tamara was curious.

You could look and find out, I wouldn't keep you out. But I will tell you tomorrow if you don't find out yourself. Temperance sent the impression of a warm smile.

I'll wait. I rather wish it were tomorrow already. Tamara said sending her own smile.

Me too. Go ahead and go to ground little love, I will be there with you tomorrow. Temperance's voice was warm and gentle.

Rest well, my fox. Tamara replied before turning her mind back to her father.

"She isn't a mage. She is a Kitsune. A Fox shifter." Tamara said looking not at her father but at Gregori.

"A fox shifter? I have never heard of such a thing." Gabriel said frowning.

"I have. Legends at least. They are from a disputed Asian origin. It is said that the wiser and older they are the more tails they have." Gregori said also frowning.

"Really? Is that all you know of them Uncle?" Tamara asked curiously.

"Afraid so. Perhaps Temperance will be willing to enlighten us tomorrow." Gregori said with a small smile at his niece

"I imagine she might be. I think it is time I go to ground how ever." Tamara said before giving her uncle a hug.

"Yes, Savannah has wanted me home for the last several minutes so I will be taking my leave also." Gregori said returning the hug.

"Be safe." Tamara said before turning away and going into the house.

"This cant be happening." Gabriel said again.

"It is, brother. Do not take it out on Tamara it is not something she could control, nor is it something within her mates power." Gregori said before smiling at Francesca and taking one of her hands.

"You have been awful quiet, sister." The dark one pointed out.

"It is a lot to take in Gregori, but I am willing to adapt. Go home, stop making Savannah wait for you." Francesca smiled at her brother law.

"As you wish. Rest deep, Gabriel." Gregori said clasping the mans arms before turning and leaping into the air, shifting as he did so.

Gabriel turned at stared at his lifemate for a long time before they both walked into the house and looked at their daughter who was sitting on the sofa there looking at a book. The young woman looked up when she realized she was being stared at and she smiled at them both.

"Don freak out dad, this could be a really good thing." Tamara said looking from her mother to her father.

"This is stupid and there has to be a way to stop it." Gabriel said finally as he ignored the falling of his daughters face and walked off into his bed chamber.

"Don take it too hard Tamara, he is old and set in his ways. He will come around, sweetheart." Francesca said taking her daughters hand and smiling at her gently.

"I know. I am sorry if this is causing you stress, I know you don't need it right now." Tamara said putting a hand on her mothers heavily pregnant belly.

"It is OK. Get some rest." Francesca said warmly.

"You too. Love you, mom." Tamara hugged her mother.

"I love you too." Francesca said returning the hug before going after her lifemate.

Tamara sighed heavily before turning and going to her own bedchamber. She sat down on the soft bed for a long few minutes before the rising sun began to effect her. Feeling heavy and rather tired she stood up and used to Carpathian heritage to move the bed and open the trap door there. She moved down into the secret chamber and closed the opening behind her and putting the bed back before she opened the earth.

Undressing herself with a thought Tamara floated down into the earth and got comfortable before she closed the earth over herself and as her last thought was of her mate she shut down her heart and lungs, succumbing to the Carpathian rejuvenating sleep.