After the attempt on his life Xavier is faced with a difficult recovery, with loved ones at his side he feels he can surely pull through. However as his seventeenth birthday draws near he discovers there's something big they've all been hiding from him. Something he isn't sure he's ready for just yet.

"Human or not. Demon or not. He would face the coming challenges and over come them all, he would learn and grow. He would live and recover. Xavier would advance in to someone his friends and family could love, into someone worthy of the life he'd tried to throw away."