Issack sighed as he walked around the party, eyes looking over all the party goers. Checkov was off welcoming guests. He had not brought any of his council with him, and his daughter was probably off making an embarrassing fool of herself, as children do. This was fine though, Issack had his own plans once Checkov announced their official alliance. So seeing all the people that would come to see Helena off to marriage wasn't a terrible thing.

His eyes caught sight of Dana and Penelope drinking and laughing obnoxiously. While he had no real feelings towards Dana, he honestly hated Penelope. No small part of the reason being that he had tried to charm her, and was turned down, very rudely. Though what took his attention as he got closer was the fact Penelope's daughter was laughing along with them. Wine glass in hand. "Honesty Penelope," He said taking the wine glass from the mer child "you're so much of an alcoholic you're going to let your own child drink?"

"'Cuse you!" Penelope started before Alina cut her off and started laying into him.

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"Thank you, Cass helped me pick it out." Isabella said as Helena held her at arm length to look at her dress. She had been so excited to see Helena that she barely noticed the men with her, and apologized for interrupting the conversation they were having. Smiling a little as the two of them chuckled. 

Oh so this was Lucas, she hadn't got a chance to officially meet him yet, she looked him over as he spoke. "It's nice to finally meet you too. I can't believe it took this long." She said with a soft smile before giving a small curtsy in response to his bow before turning her attention to Cade. Her smile widening a bit and a blush came to her cheeks when he took her hand and kissed it. "Oh…the pleasure is mine. I'm Isabella." She said, softly taking her hand back from him. Helena had told her stories about Lucas and Cade and the trouble they got into before, but he definitely had her attention now. "Oh and this is my bodyguard, Eve." She gestured to Eve. 

Eve smiled a bit and nodded her head. "Good to see you both again."

"Some wine for me too please." She asked before letting her eyes roam over Cade as he walked away. He definitely was nice to look at in a suit, with a nice smile, and all those tattoos. Helena got her attention away from him as she took her arm and she smiled at Helena again, light blush for getting caught.

"Hi Helena. You're father said he'd meet you later." Eve said with a smile and light chuckle. "Thank you, I guess Cass picked mine out too?" She honestly didn't know for sure, while she loved the dress, they were more Izzy's thing then hers. Though she frowned a touch when asked how she was, Issack had threatened her life yet again before the party if she lost Izzy again. "I've definitely been better." She answered, giving Isabella a look. She was happy to hear that the West Coven was starting to come back together, she really did miss her home.

Izzy smiled at Helena when she talked about the West and how it was starting to come together. It was really nice to see her friend so happy and proud of something. "Who knows once everything is taken care of, and calms down on my end. We can take a trip over there to see it."

"Or you can just ask Issack, Helena, he'd see it as a chance to suck up" Eve muttered behind them loud enough for only them to hear. 

Izzy giggled a bit at what Eve said before nodding a bit. "That is a fair point. He is convinced you are going to take this from your dad. Are you hoping to take some of the witches and vampires back from here?" She asked in still hushed tones. 

"Oh I've been great this week at least. I just came back from sneaking South with Cass. It was a great week. Probably not my smartest move but I was shut in my room the whole time I was visiting here before, so it seemed only far." She said with a rebellious smirk, she always hated the way her father treated her like a fragile doll. Lord forbid they found out she had magic!! She lowered her voice a bit. "Met Cass's wolf friend, which I hope you don't mind I invited." She said, touching Helena's arm. "I thought it might be useful for you and Lucas." She sighed, back to usual volume. "Other than that, just put away somewhere safe." She said with an eye roll as they slowly made their way into the party room. 

"Thank you." She said softly when the men caught back up with them and she took the wine glass handed to her. Not even getting to take a sip before the sound of loud laughter turned into grumpy scolding, and Izzy let out a loud sigh letting go of Helena as she saw her father was the one getting scolded. "Fuck. Excuse me." She said not even blinking as she felt Eve take her glass as she started towards her father, though she was taking her time a little enjoying her father being scolded by Alina. 

"Father" She said loudly as she got closer to them, cutting whatever retort he was going to make and dig himself in deeper, off. "look, Shaun is over there, why don't you go talk to him." She said redirecting her father like one would a toddler, not that it would matter because he took the chance to leave as soon as she gave it. "I'm so sorry about my father miss Alina, he is a bit of a moron." She apologized as she took her glass from Eve and offered it to her.

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Niko hadn't moved very far from the witches that he had followed into the ballroom, when Cass found him again. Sipping his wine quickly as he watched the vampires around him. "It's fine darlin', I jus' followed Mercy around until she ran off on me too." He said with a laugh, before raising a brow as he turned before seeing Lia and blinking before smiling a bit at what Cass whispered in his ear. It had been years since he had seen Lia, and she was one of the few people outside his pack that he considered a pack member without actually being one. 

"Look at you all mad' up." He responded to Lia once she came over before hugging her back, unable to hide the slight wiggle before he let her go. "I've been pret'y good. My pack is the second larges', 'pparently Cass and the little eastern vampire girl has brough' me here for alliance talks." He humbly bragged a bit. "How'e you been?" He asked. 

Lia brought up Aless, and Niko gave a knowing look. He got this question from Aless every once and awhile too. At least now he would be able to answer them. He looked at the witch watching them and nodded to her a bit, before looking back at Lia. "Don' mind them darlin', their my witches." He reassured. "And it's been a coupl' weeks but she stops in to check on me. Yells at me for not eatin' righ', asks 'bout you and brings me witches to help." Niko answered with a smile, aside from getting yelled at every now and again, the visits from Aless always made him happy.

"So this is where you'e been hidin' then? If it wasn't for Cass tellin' me she saw you when she went up north I would be worr'ed." He said with a laugh trying to change what he was sure was a sad topic. Nodding a bit as he listened to Lia tell what had happened to get her here. Not to lie, it raised his opinion of Checkov even more too. Not a lot of other people were as accepting of Lia back then. "Eh, who likes vampires anyway." He chuckled before smiling as Lia talked about this Mitch man. Because he knew Lia well enough to know that look she got talking about him. 

He didn't really get time to respond before Cass came back with Lia's bodyguard. "Nice to meet you. Good to see Lia is bein' kept safe." He said offering a hand which Mitch took after a moment with a smile.

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"Right?" Kat asked when Atty said he even couldn't tell the castle was usually dark and dreary. It really was a huge surprise. She smiled when he agreed to get drinks with her, she knew the whine would calm her nerves. The woman that met them on the way to the drink table was very pretty and nice. "Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if she did." Kat said with a laugh and offered her hand. "It's nice to meet you Mercy, and it's Kat please." She looked at Atty when he didn't do anything but stare at her. "And this is my bodyguard and friend Atticus." She added nudging him a bit before side glancing at Atty as he responded. [I]"Sorry, right. I'm Atticus."[/i] 

She nodded a bit when Mercy talked about the whine, it was something she seemed really passionate about and it made Kat smile. It was kind of adorable. "Oh thank you." She said, taking the whine handed to her. Before nodding at Atty's words about sweets. "We really do, my teacher Lia bakes enough to feed an army a lot." She said before making a small face. "I tried once but I almost burned the cottage down." Kat joked before looking at Atty as he whispered in her ear. She glanced at the men looking at Atty, looking them over, and when the blonde one whispered to the other one. Kat moved her hand where she was holding Atty's hand and glared at the dark haired one still staring for a moment before they headed off.

"Your dress is really pretty." She complimented Mercy, keeping the conversation lightly going until Atty came back to her so it didn't look weird for them to stand there. Once Mercy left them she turned to Atty with a worried look. "It's alright but are you okay?" She asked before nodding a bit. "Yeah that sounds good, then maybe find where Lia and Mitch wandered off to?"