Castiel really wasn't enjoying what was going on between Serix and Ryan. There was a challenge in both of their gazes as they stared each other down and snapped at one another, and Cassie could only hope that neither of them acted on that challenge. Sh was tense, ready to get in between them and push each other back. Thankfully, neither of them acting on their anger toward one another and she was able to relax a little. That is, until Ryan actually convinced Serix to let him have alone time with her. 

Not that she was scared of Ryan. No, she was sure he wouldn't hurt her. But he was very manipulative and knew he would try to put bad thins in her mind about Serix. It wouldn't change her mind about Serix of course, but she still just didn't want to hear it. So to know she would have to talk to him for an hour was a very draining thought. She just hopped all he talked about wasn't going to be him trying to convince her to leave Serix. That and, they had agreed to stay together here. They had both decided it was too dangerous to go off on their own. And now they were separating? Yes, she wasn't worried about herself, but what if the humans here tried to do anything to Serix? The thought scared her.

Looking to Serix, she gazed up into his violet eyes and nodded when Serix whispered in her ear and reminded her to contact him through panic link if anything went wrong. She just hopped that if it came to that she could focus enough to do just that. She had indeed gotten a lot better at links, but they had never tested it out in a dangerous situation. If she got too scared or something of the sort she might not even be able to focus on sending a link. She could only hope it never came to her testing that out. When he kissed her, she kissed him back for a moment and nodded "I'll be back soon Serix."

With that, she stood up and followed Ryan out of the dining hall, looking back over her shoulder at where Serix sat with all the others, hoping everything would be okay when she returned. They walked down the halls that by now Cassie had almost completely memorized, and they made it to the recreation field and the two sat down on the ground next to each other, staring out into the darkness of the room, the dim lights not doing but to light the large space. They were quiet for a long moment before Cassie finally spoke, "So.....Ryan. What exactly happened since I last saw you? I mean...a lot probably for you to have to have become the leader of the human resistance."

Ryan shrugged, rolling his shoulders, "My parents were the ones to build this place up. And they brought most of the people here to us." He sighed, "I'm going to guess you don't know a lot of our past so I'm going to spill the beans and not beat around the bush. Pretty much all of the sympathizers knew and still kept in touch with each other. There were twenty one sympathizers in all. All of them had children and --"

"Wait." Cassie cut them off, trying to count in her head, "But...you said there were only nineteen people here besides myself. And some of those are even siblings. If twenty one of them had children then where are the others?"

Ryan frowned more, "We loose people Cass. Some died during the first invasion years ago as children. And some died while they were here."

There was silence before she looked back to him, "How....did they die here?"

He was quiet for a moment before answering her question, "In our history, we've had about seven hybrids die. The first one to die was a man who went on a raid with us and was attacked by humans crazed by the plague. Another two died of the plague itself. Apparently they were more human than Lunairan and weren't able to fight the disease off. The next three were...." He took a deep breath, "killed here. By out own kind. Tensions were high after my parents died and there was an argument. I was still kind of young so they kept me away from it for a while, but when I finally did see some of it, thing had blown out of proportion and an all out death match had started between some of the men. Three of us died because they weren't able to control their tempers."

"And the last?"

"The last was a woman very close to us. She grew up with us and we knew her well. She had been living in this place for eight years for goodness sake." He sighed, rubbing his hands over her face, "She had a kid, the little girl in the dinning hall? You may not have seen her. She had her husband, Hunter. You know, the tall guy with blank hair and brown eyes. We should have never let her go on a raid, but we did. Let her kid with Emily and she came with us. And some wild dogs attacked." He shook his head, "Never thought something like that would end one of us, but it did. We brought her back here and she died that night. That was just two years ago. I don't think Hunter will ever get over it and the poor kid even sometimes still asks for her."

He sat up straight again, "Anyway, those of the lost. Back onto subject. All of out parents, every single on of us, they knew each other and stayed connected. They knew my parents were building this place and most of them made plans for them to come here if things got bad. But apparently the leaders caught on somehow and attacked before this place was finished. Everyone scattered and those who were still alive struggled to find each other. My parents were able to find most of the kids but by then, the parents had already been killed. They brought them all here and here we've been."

She frowned, looking at him, "And your parents?"

This made him sigh again, "Come here." Standing up, Cassie watched him curiously, and followed him deeper into the caves, to a place they hadn't gone on the tour. In this part of the caves, layed neatly carved and aligned stones that made her skin crawl. 

Graves.

"My parents are here. Most of the sympathizers and the lost children are here. All we could that is."

Cassie slowly walked up the stones, looking at each one. Some had names, and some were marked, especially the older ones from years ago, 'lost child'. Those were the ones they never knew names for. And, toward the end, two made her stop and sink to her knees rather quickly, grief and sadness overwhelming her as she saw two very familiar names written on two stones, a teddy bear sitting in between the two. On the graves was written [i]Garrett Greyson[/i] and [i]Kidamas Greyson[/i]. Her parents. She was speechless as she kneeled there staring at the stones and finally Ryan spoke behind her.

"You parents were the first people my parents wanted to find. They went to your house the night the attacks started but...you're parents were already dead...and you were no where to be found...." He sighed and kneeled down next to her, wrapping an arm around her shoulder when he saw some tears beginning to escape her eyes, "My parents brought their bodies back here and gave them a proper burial." He paused, "Castiel, what happened that night? Why didn't my parents find you?"

"I was hidden..." She whispered quietly, her eyes unmoving from the graves, "They put me in a secret room....the one who found me was my uncle. He came the next day and took me away."

"So you were there when my parents came there." He cursed to himself, raking his free hand through his hair, "That would have changed everything." He looked back to her, "And where did your uncle take you?"

"Everywhere." Cassie sat up a little more, "Anywhere we could live, find food, and stay away from people that could hurt us. He took care of me until the day he died."

She was still rather quiet and even had picked up the teddy bear as Ryan spoke again, "We....we thought you had died. Well, not me I guess. I always kind of just...[i]knew[/i] you still were here with us. My parents though brought that here. They knew it was your favorite toy and so they thought it would be a good 'memorial' for you? Since we had no body. I remember stealing it a couple of times to carry around. It...gave me hope I guess? I always knew I would find you again." He grinned and put his for head against hers, to which she sighed and put some space between them.

"Ryan...don't do that."

He frowned and rolled his eyes, "Oh yeah, that's right. You have your alien. How did you meet it anyway?"

"I met [i]him[/i]," She said with emphasis, "About two months ago. He was a scout and even though they were ordered to kill remaining life here, he didn't." She left out the fact that he had shot her. That information wasn't exactly going to get the people here on their side, "He let me live and it just..developed from there. And finally we got married."

He gave a condescending laugh, "Oh really? And how did you two get married? There are no witnesses and no one to run a ceremony."

"We did our own ceremony. Witnesses or not, we still said our vows and we are still married."

"No your not," He countered, shaking his head, "Cassie you are not married to that [i]thing[/i]!"

"Would you stop calling him that?! I don't understand why you can't just be happy for me!"

"Because he doesn't deserve you damn it!" There was silence between the two after he yelled that, his fist banging hand against the ground, and after catching his breath he looked down and shook his head, "Cass...his kind killed our parents...and I'm pretty sure it wasn't as smooth between you two as you claim it was....he's the enemy Castiel. He's not good looking. Not smart enough. Not human at all. He's not one of us. And he sure isn't good enough for you."

Cassie sighed and shook her head, "Ryan...what will it take to get this through your thick head? I love Serix. To me he is smart. And kind. And good looking. And the best man I've ever met." She took Ryan's hands gently, trying to get him to look at her, "Ryan, you are my best friend. But...you will never be to me what Serix is. Please.....don't make this harder. I've already lost my family. I don't want to loose my friend too."

He was quiet another moment, looking down at the ground, before he looked up to her slowly, thinking about it and slowly nodding, "I'm still here for you Cass. And I still am your best friend. I will...try to tone it down when you are around. But I'm not promising I'll stop hating him. Kind of hard not to hate the man that stole such a beautiful girl right from under my nose." Standing up, he sighed, "Come on, my time's up. Let's get back to the dinning hall before the thin--" Seeing the look from Cassie he corrected himself, "before he gets mauled by the others for dong something stupid." And with that, the were walking back toward and into the dinning hall.