<div align="center">(http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l640/doteli/stories/00_frederick_manor.png)</div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">Location: O'Shea Mansion</span></span></div><br/><hr/><br/>His fledgling sure talked a lot. It should have annoyed Min Yu, but the layout of that thought pleased him. Caleb was<em>his</em>fledgling. It didn’t matter what followed over the next few hours. At the end of it Min Yu ha created something that belonged to him. Maybe not forever – it was possible that one day Caleb would be as angry with him as he was with Frederick. But for now the new watcher was a dollop of pure putty around him. And Caleb had even said his name right! Min Yu gave a pleased hum at that.<br/><br/>He laughed as Caleb rambled about having a ‘daddy’ and how Min Yu had no sense of humor. Min Yu thought he had a great sense of humor. For instance, he found this entire situation delightfully hilarious. He could have explained it to Caleb, but that’d take away what made it all so funny. Min Yu looked at Caleb and regarded him with a steady gaze. He wondered how Frederick would react to anyone calling him ‘daddy’. Min Yu knew that in another life Frederick had been an actual father. Would it be still a sore spot? Min Yu briefly considered the option of warning Caleb against that, just as he knew he should warn the fledgling against calling Frederick ‘Freddy’ or another other variation or diminutive. But that would ruin the fun and humor, wouldn’t it? Min Yu decided to keep quiet. Soon enough he’d get to see how things played out.<br/><br/>“O’Shea Mansion,” he said as he hailed down a passing white and red checkered colored taxi. He quickly wiped Caleb’s mouth with the sleeve of his jacket before he let him into the taxi. Caleb’s mouth was still stained with some red, but at least it was passable as the smear of lipstick or some fruity drink or food instead of blood. Unless Caleb was secretly a real estate agent, an avid consumer of New Arklow elite gossip, or a huge history buff Min Yu doubted he’d recognize or be impressed by name ‘O’Shea’ alone. Frederick tended to keep a relatively low profile. His name and person was, of course, highly renowned and well regarded among vampires. But among regular human society the O’Shea surname was just one of many old money households. Min Yu barked off the name of the address and neighborhood for the cabbie. At least he was faintly impressed by where his two passengers were heading. The old man was probably looking forward to a nice big tip since he was taking them to the ritziest corner of New Arklow.<br/><br/>Min Yu blinked when Caleb curled up against him like a kitten. At first he made a face at his fledgling’s display of overt affection, though when he noticed the cabbie’s sudden discomfort at what was happening in the backseat of his taxi Min Yu smirked and relaxed. He threaded his thin fingers through Caleb’s mop of blond hair and made soft cooing noises. Traffic was quite awful. For the whole ride Min Yu let Caleb lean onto his shoulder and petted his head, though with his free hand Min Yu was busy going through the cellphones he had taken from the scene of the meeting.<br/><br/>He was sending the incrimating photos out to both sides involved. He sent off a particularly gruesome one to Colin, Frederick’s jumpy and adorable driver. The young vampire was a Collins himself. No longer welcomed among his family for some reason or another and adopted into Frederick’s care, but when he received such a terrible photo he was no doubt looking to show Frederick at some point in the evening. As Min Yu finished sending out the photos he threw the cellphones out the window of the taxi, now worthless to him. The grey haired driver frowned and grumbled about that, but Min Yu waded up a fifty and threw it up on the dashboard to keep the man quiet.<br/><br/>It took them awhile before the taxi pulled up the long driveway of the mansion. Min Yu checked his phone before he stepped out of the taxi. Not a single sign of Frederick. There was no new text message and his sire wasn’t home yet; most of the lights in the house were still on.<br/><br/>“C’mon,” he snapped and jostled Caleb. He dug his fingers into the fledgling’s shoulder and pulled him out of the cab, helping to roughly guide Caleb. It looked like his blood high had finally wore off. Min Yu thought of killing the cab driver and giving Caleb a second meal, but thought better of it. Frederick was going to be angry enough as it was. No need to make him even more angry with having a dead cabbie in his house and a taxi cab sitting in his driveway. Min Yu paid the driver and tipped well.<br/><br/>“Welcome to your new home!” Min Yu chipped as he kept one hand on Caleb. With his other hand he gestured to the grand house in front of them. It was a very beautiful place, Min Yu had to admit. The structure was old but elegant and the lawn was immaculate. Made all up of red brick, littered with statues everywhere, and most of the windows were some some of stained glass. "In we go!" Min Yu said cheerfully as he shoved Caleb towards the large double doors.