Hey people, this is my second main story intended to be a sequel to 'Those Snake Folk' (if you haven't read that I strongly suggest it, not just so this one makes sense but because I'm very proud of it). It will cover the Dawnguard questline and a few OC story arcs. I hope you all enjoy it, so let's see what are favourite Tsaesci peeps are doing now :)

Also, the name of this story is courtesy of SpiritOfJazz.

Brelyna POV

"Do you think Resh might be getting a little too stressed recently?" Brelyna muttered to Lydia, already knowing the answer as she nodded towards the furious golden serpent currently punching cracks in the wall and screaming at his guards.

"I guess you could say that…" she replied, knowing that her lover would most likely break a knuckle or two by the end of the day. "I swear it should be you being the most stressed out of all of us though considering you have 14 children."

The Dunmer laughed sardonically. "You're kidding right? I've spent the last half a year having the best break of my life. With no work to do at the College, servants working to serve me and most importantly Kayci doing all the work with the children I haven't slept easier in my life."

"Doesn't it upset you slightly not getting to spend all your time with your babies? me and Resh both spend as long as we can around Lissandre, and I know how protective Kayce is being," Lydia asked sympathetically, the Tsaesci woman had killed people for going near her children, so it was no surprise she even felt uncomfortable letting her lover near.

"I still get to be with them a fair amount of time, she just gets upset if I try to do all the hard work. I'm basically getting the best out of child raising with none of the bad stuff," she smiled, before frowning slightly. "I even got to hear… 'Reshies' first word… divines I hate Kayce for picking that fucking stupid name, even Resh didn't want her named after him."

"Well, I can't say it's the 'best' name, but it's not that bad. I like some of the others though, 'Cellador' especially." Lydia mused, thinking that name was quite possibly the best sounding sequence of sounds in the Tamrielic language. "Now, I should really try to see what is wrong with Resh, he really doesn't look so pleased... "

Brelyna nodded in understanding and decided to head back to her girlfriend, she figured the longer she spent around the children the faster Kayci would slip out of her over-protectiveness, with any luck it would only be a few weeks until the two could leave the room at the same time and go out to places, with someone else in there looking after the kids of course.

Once she'd left Lydia strode over and grabbed Resh's arm, stopping him from likely backhanding a terrified soldier. "Resh! what's going on?" she hissed, grabbing his attention. Lydia quickly made eye contact with the shaking man she had saved. "Get out, I'll handle this."

Resh looked like he was going to aggressively snap at her for a moment, but instead he just sighed, not wanting to be angry at the woman he had grown to love in the last few months. "Everything… everything I have done for this place has meant nothing."

"What do you mean?" Lydia quickly replied in shock. "You've done so much for the Reach! you gave everyone religious freedom, even daedra worshippers; the Orc's are now helping you smith and forge goods; not only that but you dismantled the Silver-Bloods who were practically running this city and then also you excavated the Dwemer ruins providing housing for everyone. How can that be 'nothing'? it's so much!"

"I know, but it still hasn't helped! now the Legion aren't garrisoned in Markarth crime has gone through the roof, and I barely has the soldiers to hold keep it under control, let alone the Forsworn are back fucking everything up. I let their leader go and this is how he repays me? I'm going to fucking kill all of them!" Resh shouted, venting his frustrations.

Lydia frowned. "I heard about that, it might not be Forsworn and you know it, it could just be ordinary bandits that attacked that caravan afte-"

"Don't get me started on trade caravans… that's the worst fucking problem of them all. Do you have any idea how much it costs to get trade done now I'm a fucking independant leader? very fucking much! it's bad enough I don't get the same trade deals as other countries, but the Reach doesn't have any ports, I have to pay fucking Elisif every time I want to get anything sent out or bought in because it goes through Skyrim first! I'm barely even breaking even despite all the new mines and better craftsmen," Resh cried out, finishing his rant. Lydia had to admit, the Reach was in quite a bad spot.

Hugging him closer she attempted to comfort him. "Don't worry Resh, we'll pull through this, we always do."

"Lydia, be realistic about this… the place is also in massive debt ever since my Dwemer excavations. I've given everything I have to give to the Reach, and it still hasn't been enough," he said sorrowfully, he was sure that in a few months the true effects would kick in, and it wouldn't just be his mental well being in distress, but the whole country.

"Have you thought about asking the Thalmor for help…? I know things didn't end very well for you with them, because of… her… but I'm sure they would still be happy to bail you out and help set things right," Lydia carefully suggested, knowing that this was a very soft spot considering what Elenwen did to him.

Visibly stiffening Resh spoke quietly. "Avoiding her name doesn't change things… but as for the Thalmor, they should be sending an envoy I personally know over, but it's been three months and they're still not here, so if they do help it might be too late."

The Nordic woman paused for a few moments. "Is there anything we can fix…?"

"Well there is the Vampire issue… we could always send Kayci and Brelyna to do that, I don't mind looking after their children," Resh muttered absentmindedly. "And I guess there is that other Tsaesci I had thrown into Cidhna mine… I should really find out what he wanted with me…"

As you may have guessed I couldn't think of baby Tsaesci names, so I would be very grateful if you guys could help me out. I'm looking for 12 female Tsaesci and Dunmer names. Thanks. (also, there was a movie reference in this, try guessing what it is)

I hope you all enjoyed that chapter (I'm not really sure how well it turned out :/ i was just trying to make it a chapter to discuss the current issues and remind everyone of the characters. actually stuff should happen next week), so please follow my new story, favourite and review it to tell me what you think.