He learned a lot and he learned it quickly.

The investigator got back in touch with Ralph a week later, and met up with Ralph again in Aberdeen.

Kira was a bit stir crazy and wanted to go, but the investigator had seen pictures of their daughter, he didn’t need to know that Kira existed.

When Ralph met him, the investigator made quick work of what he found. Celeste was in London, and was working as a prostitute.

She had a nondescript flat in the red light district. She was a working girl, but was well thought of, and the locals looked out for her.

The customer opinion of her was very high, as she was very busy, working in a brothel most of the time, a safer work environment, and she was able to charge more for her services than most of the ladies of the night.

She might not look exactly like Kira, but there was no doubting her beauty. She didn’t have breasts like Kira, but hers were a very good fit for her frame, being taller and more slender.

He found out that the local police watched this trade carefully, knowing it was going to happen anyway and allowing it to happen safely. But they looked out for known criminals and for **** use and other crimes, but they weren’t looking at Celeste closely at all.

She was flagged as a deviant, as she was one of the few prostitutes they knew of who were willing to sell their services to women, but as much as homosexuality was illegal at the time, London police had better things to do than prosecute it.

He also found out she had a son named David, who was just over a year old, who would spend his time at a neighbors house when Celeste worked at night.

It was unclear if she paid for the child care in money or with her body, it wasn’t something the police were interested in. The family that watched her son David however did not seem the sort to press her for sex. They were just a family struggling to get by, like most others.

What surprised the investigator was why Celeste stayed in the run down flat in the district she was in, with her earnings she could live much better, why stay?

“She is saving up lad, and she is laying low. Smart girl...” Ralph replied.

As before he paid the man and brought what had been learned back to John and Kira.

When they heard about their daughter, they started discussing how to bring her out to them, if Amber wasn’t around, what was the harm?

“Do you think that wise?” Ralph asked them, “didn’t she participate in what happened to you? Didn’t she know what was happening to you?”

“She did, yes.” John replied, “but she is our blood, our family. And that might be my son with her, we can’t just leave her there.”

So a plan was out into place, and a risky one. Ralph arranged to have several of his men available to drive a couple of his trucks to London, and also for their newly rebuilt boat to be in London in case needed for a speedy exit.

Ralph hated the idea of Kira being in London at all, they had pictures that looked just like her up on the walls of local police stations. It was a recipe for problems.

“We have to go, I have to go, if we are going to get her out of that place,” Kira told Ralph. And that was that.

About a week later Celeste was coming back from the market with her son and some shopping, and when she turned the key and entered her flat her heart dropped. She knew she wasn’t alone.

“Don’t be afraid, we aren’t here to harm you,” Kira said softly, as she and John stepped into the light. “We are here to help, if you want help.”

Celeste saw her dad, and saw their countenance, and more importantly saw their energy. She was weaker than she had been before but she could see it. They were not angry, and they were telling the truth.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know what my mom would do, I didn’t mean for any harm to come to either of you.” She said softly, holding her infant son tightly.

“We know, she can be very convincing,” John replied gently. “All the things that that happened, they weren’t your fault, we just could not leave you in this place when we found you.”

“She was furious dad,” Celeste replied. “If things had not gone as they did, she was talking about killing you two, somehow. She was beside herself for a couple of weeks, then she calmed down.”

Kira and her dad glanced at each other, they had been right to hide for a while.

“But nobody knew where you went,” she continued. “They found their car in Belgium I think, they had no idea where to look. You have been in England all this time?”

John answered her softly, “there will be time for that, we can answer anything you want answered, but it shouldn’t be here, Kira isn’t safe in this city right now. The police have your mom’s picture up, and well, they look a lot alike.”

Kira spoke up gently, “come with us, we have a secluded place far from here, it is very remote. A nice quiet place where you would have everything you would need, and no more need to work in this city.”

Celeste dropped her head, but Kira walked over and embraced her gently. “There is no shame in surviving. You were alone. You should not have been alone, in a country you had never been to, without any money, and pregnant?” Kira smiled warmly, “we are proud of you for surviving, but please come with us.”

“What about this place? My job? I have agreements in place with people here, there are expectations.” Celeste replied, “shouldn’t I stay long enough to settle all of that?”

John spoke up gently, “don’t worry about any of that darling, we can settle any debts you have. We know people who can settle up for you when we are back home, we don’t have to be here. You don’t have to stay in this place another hour.”

“Dad, I don’t want them hurt,” she said softly. “They aren’t good people, but they aren’t bad people either. It was with their help that I survived.”

He laughed softly, “we don’t hurt anyone darling, that isn’t what we do and never has been. If they need to be paid, they will be paid, I have plenty of money. Harming people causes people to investigate.” He said softly, and she could see he was being honest, “and we want you to kind of just disappear from their memory.”

Celeste finally relaxed, and started to cry tears of happiness. She wasn’t meant for this sort of life. She was smarter than the people here, and stronger than they were, and she knew she would outlive all of them. And her dad could see her happiness quite clearly in her energy, he and Kira moved in and hugged her tightly.

“Is this...” he said gently, and Celeste smiles and nodded.

“Your son, David.” She said, handing her father the son he had never met. It was a happy moment for them.

A few minutes later John signaled at the door, and Ralph came up to them, and Celeste was shocked. “Who is this, and why does he...why is he like us?” She saw Ralph had their energy, their sort of glow.

“Another answer for another day, let’s pack what you want to take and go home,” her father answered. “He is a friend, a good friend. A new part of the family.

They had their choice of methods of getting home, and Ralph suggested taking the boat, and letting the trucks pick up supplies. He was now running four ship yards, he always needed more supplies.

Ralph told them to gather their things, and headed to get the boat, stopping at a pub for a few quick pints on the way. He no longer felt an impact from two pints, so he had four. Then moved along and signaled his people to being the Eternal in.

It was a beautiful sea craft, at this point as modern as a boat could get. Sleek, long, powerful, modern, and thanks to the recent rebuild, as physically strong as a boat could get that wasn’t military.

He sent his men to find his trucks and join the supply run, and slowly moved the boat to a dock near the red light district, where John, his daughters and his son waited for them.

They made good time headed back up the coast, faster than you could do it on land these days, as the roads were really getting bad.

They slept on the boat at night, as it had comfortable arrangements for four to sleep. And they also had the ability to make hot food, and had some other comforts.

A couple of days later, one night when the sun was going down, they pulled into their boat house not too far from their farm, and drove a truck they had there up to the compound.

Celeste seemed happy, she looked like she hadn’t been resting well. And as it happened, she hadn’t been.

They found that she had been in constant worry that the French police would arrest her, that the London police would arrest her, that some customer would harm her, or her son, or worst of all that her mother would come looking for her.

When Celeste found out that her mom and the twins were on the run and were probably somewhere in mainland Europe, she relaxed.

“She won’t find us here, nobody will darling,” her father said gently. “No more running, we will be staying here. We just have to be discreet, and be careful.”

There were a lot of questions, about Kira’s pregnancy, and she was shocked to learn her father was not the father of the child.

Celeste was even more shocked to learn that Ralph had been added to the family, given their abilities. She had thought it was through birth only.

She was pleased to see how well set up the farm was, and how well sorted Ralph’s growing business was. It was a means to have the business survive, and through rotation of employees, and with a combination of Ralph, and the three of them handling the business, their long lives might be easier to conceal.

What Celeste did a lot of was sleep, she was tired. And she started drinking Kira’s breast milk as the two men of the house did, and it helped her energy greatly.

Her dad tested her breast milk and found it was potent, just not quite so much as Kira‘s was, but it was still powerful. And she began pumping as well, to help with the growing demand.

Sex did not happen quickly, but she did have urges, as she had lived a highly sexual life. Before all that long Celeste fucked her father again, after getting on his birth control. She fucked Kira as well, as she enjoyed women as well, and this sexual contact, the shared orgasms and the breast milk brought her back to a place where she felt strong again.

She did not understand at first that Kira would occasionally fuck another man, but understood that Ralph was one of them and the father of her unborn child.

Celeste had worried about raising her son where they were, she was trying to find a way to get out, maybe to Canada, but she knew she was home now. At least for a while...whatever that meant to people who lived forever.