When we got home, 'Inside the Fire' by Disturbed was playing, and as with every other song ever, we were singing it as we made our way up to our room."GIVE YOUR SOUL TO ME, FOR ETERNITY, RELEASE YOUR LIFE TO BEGIN ANOTHER TIME WITH-" we scream sang until Nicki yelled something "ALEX!""SHUT IT!!" I yelled back and pulled my hoodie up before opening my door and closing it behind Jack. He was laughing when I shoved him towards the bed and grabbed a couple of Xbox controllers, and my drink."That was funny, you have to admit that," He said, chuckling, as I flipped him and continued mumble singing the lyrics to the song."Give your soul to me, for eternity, release your life to begin another time with her! End your grief with me, there's another way, release your life and take your place inside the fire with her!" I sang as the song ended, with a slow sarcastic clap for Jack."Technically, wouldn't it be 'him' in your case since your Hell-spawn?""Yeah, I guess, but it's just a song. Fuc
One.I fell backward out of our window before she even reached the window, falling to the ground, luckily I wasn't alone in this. I plugged my earbuds in and started 'The Vengeful One' by Disturbed as I neared the ground, opening a portal to hell at the last second. I met Jack within, and he was in our truck, playing the same song I had in my earbuds."I'M THE HAND OF GOD, I'M THE DARK MESSIAH," He said, pointing to me as the next lyrics came up, I knew them and flew into the car as I finished the line."I'M THE VENGEFUL ONE!" I screamed, and we continued singing as we made our way through hell towards the second portal I had made, that would drop us off in San Antonio. We stepped out and pulled our Bandanas on, not feeling like being recognized by the cops, and headed towards the bar we used to go to when we lived here, "La barra del inframundo". Green Day was playing as we entered, and sat at the bar, ordering Lucifer's brew for both of us."What's goin' on y'all?" The bartender, an
"I solemnly swear I'll be good...that just doesn't roll off the tongue as well as the original though, I wanna be up to no good.""Go back home and get some clean clothes on, I'm taking you to dinner.""Wait, w-what?""You heard me," She said and got really close to my face, and in almost a mumble, "See ya in an hour.""A-alright then," I said as she shifted and ran off in the opposite direction..."What the actual fuck just happened?!""You got asked out on a date, Jacob," Jack said from behind me, I was still on edge and nearly jumped out of my skin."You're a piece of shit and you know it!" I said, trying to catch my breath, it wasn't often that I was caught off guard, but when it did it was mostly Jack and that made me want to punch him."Come on, let's get you ready. You're not chickening out here.""Go fuck yourself," I said, opening a portal to my room and deciding on what to wear, it was either a clean hoodie and jeans, or my leather jacket, beanie, and jeans."Go with the bean
As we entered the bar, we were greeted with the same thing that I was greeted with the first time I went to this place, a bar fight. Whoever was losing was getting his ass handed to him and was thrown into me, which was the end of the fight. I grabbed the guy who was thrown into me and threw him outside into oncoming traffic, then grabbed the other guy and threw him across the bar. By the time I was done, Alex had already gotten a table and I followed her to it, in which she sat and smirked at me, I wasn't gonna hear the end of this."You really can't go one day without throwing someone into oncoming traffic, can you?""Oh shush, I don't take people being assholes to me, and neither should I or anyone in my family.""Does that include me?""Shut up," I said, trying to ignore the blush creeping on my face, as the waitress swung by and asked us for our drinks, and then left while Alex gave her a death stare, "Do you death stare at everyone near me?""No. Just the ones who think they can
I walked up to my room, Nicki and Jack tailing me asking all kinds of questions ranging from "Did you have fun?" to "Do you think you'll have another one soon? Or better?"."Let me at least get a soda, y'all, I need caffeine before I answer questions," I said as we got to my room, I knew there wasn't a point in trying to get them to leave me be, they were determined to find out as much as they could about what happened, regardless of whether or not I was comfortable with talking about it. So, I got a two-liter of Big Red out of the fridge next to my bed, poured some Lucifer's cola mix into a 52 oz cup, added some ice, and filled it with the soda, I needed as much caffeine as I could get."Okay, let's start simple, yeah? Nothing to overwhelm you. How did it go and did you have fun?""Yeah, I had a lot of fun, throwing some fuckwit into oncoming traffic was a nice touch and we talked for a solid couple of hours about random shit. We-""Wait wait wait, what the actual fuck?! Who'd you th
"Well well well, look who it is," I heard from behind me as I woke up in the mating link at the bench, Alex was sitting on the bench sprawled out like an alpha, trying to take up as much space as possible, while watching me like a hawk."I don't know why you're staring at me like that, I'm not edible.""You may not be food, but you are definitely a snack, little one," 'WHY!?' I thought as I averted my eyes from her, trying to not recognize my blush. I hate when I blush, I look so goofy and weird."Shush!" I kinda yelled, not letting her see my shy side...I thought."Nah, I like seeing you all shy, it's cute," She said as she stood up, walking towards the lake, part of me wanted to run into the water to make a splash."You know, I could do one thing and get you drenched.""Is that your way of saying you can make me wet?""Alex!!" I yelled and decided I was gonna run into the lake, I didn't bother taking my shirt or hoodie off, just ran and jumped in. Consequently, I did get Alex covere
"What are you on about this time?""You need to make more chaos, to balance out the lovey-dovey shit you got going on," Lucifer explained, pouring a shot of fireball, fitting, and taking a puff off of his cigar."And what would you suggest? I'm not letting it control me anyhow, I don't see how it's an issue.""You CAN NOT, I don't care where or with whom, appear weak. You are the spawn of hell itself put on earth to unleash chaos on those deserving, a spirit of vengeance without the restraint if you will.""And you think I'm weak? After pulling off a heist leaving San An in rubble??""I don't think you're weak in that regard, I think you need to be careful regarding Alex. Don't shut her out, but be careful, remember the last time you ran headfirst into something like this?"There was a rule I had, I wanted to forget what had happened and that meant I put a rule down "Don't bring the she-devil up", and he just broke it. The atmosphere around us changed, getting hotter and hotter, my ey
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!""Why?! Let the kid live a little, Nicki," I said as we walked into the kitchen, Nicki had basically been charged with raising the kid, and she did a pretty good job of melding us with human society to him so I couldn't say she did a bad job. After all, he can go from setting an entire field ablaze to haggling prices on a stingy businessman, all thanks to Nicki. The only problem was when she got in my way of letting the kid have some fun, like taking him for a joyride in a tank or going hunting with a rocket launcher."Do you really think it would be a good idea to let a kid whose age is lower than your IQ go joyriding in a cop car?""Yes...that's like the whole point. I teach him how to drive, and I get to raise a little bit of hell.""There is no way-""Hi baby," That was the jackpot, Jade had been interested in letting the kid go joyriding and was the key to getting away with this. If anyone could get Nicki to let the kid have some fun, it would be Jade and only Ja
Jacke's POVAs I continued showing Pete around the basement, answering his questions as they came, I realized that I had come a long way since the times when I first placed these items here. If you had asked me a century ago if I would be willing to show this room to anyone outside my family, I would've choked you with your own hands for asking a stupid question. Yet, here I was, showing Pete these artifacts from my past as if I had known the man my whole life. We continued going through the room with many questions asked and answered, and finally arrived at the most recent artifacts I had stored down here."This is the sword that belonged to a nobleman I had killed a decade or so ago, he had a significant bounty on his head, and I was bored that day. I grabbed two of my family members, got in one of my trucks, and flew out to Europe; He had been abusing his money and political influence to further his ends, without any care in the world for how it had affected his 'subjects'," I said
Jacke's POVI woke up the next day with Alex holding on to me with an iron grip, it looks like I wasn't getting out the easy way this morning. I grabbed her hand and kissed it trying to loosen her grip on me so I could stand up and start my day, but she wouldn't budge. With a little struggle, I turned around to look her in the face as she started waking up."Pup, it's early, go back to sleep," She groaned when she saw me looking up at her with a stupid-looking grin, I knew it was early in the morning but I had way too much energy to just sit still."I don't want to go back to sleep though, I have too much energy to sit still, Alex," I said as I wiggled around trying to get free, to no avail. She wouldn't let me go as easy as she did yesterday, even if it were so she could sleep in."You're not getting up anytime soon, you're going to sit here and accept my love, Nerd. Besides, it'll be more peaceful for food if we let the morning crew get their grub first," She said as I cuddle back i
Alex's POVWe made our way back home hand-in-hand, cracking jokes and talking about what would change in Jacke's life now that he was my Luna. It wasn't anything groundbreaking, but he needed to know that he would need to be more careful about his lifestyle; Acting more in the shadows and not trying to cause a scene everywhere he went. He took it shockingly well, going so far as to explain that it wouldn't be difficult to make those kinds of changes with the decades upon decades worth of resources he'd built up."It won't be a drastic change, from the sounds of it, it would just mean that I'd have to do less of the leg work and live a more peaceful life by your side," He said squeezing my hand, and I would've been lying if I said that my heart didn't skip a beat."What did I ever do to deserve you, Pup?""Do I need to make a list? I think the most potent reason would probably be that you exist," He said chuckling as we made our way up the trail back home. It took a lot of willpower to
Jacke's POVAlex took hold of my hand as we left home to go out on a walk, and followed the trail leading to where we hoped to find Mallow still there. We walked hand in hand with my music playing on my phone, I was more or less pestering Alex into telling me what her 'surprise' was but she wouldn't budge. She insisted that she wasn't going to spoil the surprise no matter how many times I asked, and I took that as a personal challenge. So, I did what I do best, and tried to tease her with a small whimper, but that didn't do anything but make her smirk."You keep making those kinds of noises, and we'll see who's really in charge here, love," She said looking at me, smirking with a look on her face that screamed 'Test me'."You're lucky I love you, Alex," I said trying to ignore the blush that was creeping on my face. I don't know how she did this, taking the stone-cold attitude I usually had, only to cast that aside to reveal my shy side without any issues."You're right, I am quite lu
Alex's POVI woke up later than I usually do to notice two things seemed off: One, Jacke wasn't in my bed, and Two, It was peaceful and quiet. With everything that was going on something smelled fishy, so I got up, got dressed, and left our room to head downstairs. Pete was in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee, so I grabbed one myself before taking a seat next to him."Morning, Alex, what's going on with you?""Have you seen Jacke? He wasn't in bed when I woke up," I asked before taking a sip of my coffee and trying to not let my nerves get the best of me."Jacke? Yeah, we had a conversation earlier about the speech before he left to go find Mason, I presume to have the same kind of conversation.""Fucking hell, have mercy on me I just woke up. Did the conversation at least go well with the two of you?""Oh yeah, I think it went phenomenally. He got straight to the point and was very kind, all-be-it concerned about having to give a speech to the pack as a whole. He told me about ho
Jacke's POVThe following morning I woke up early, at the crack of dawn, and got out of bed as carefully as I could to not wake Alex up and let her sleep in. I left the room and walked out and downstairs into the kitchen to see it was empty, leaving me all the room to make some food. We split and Jake took a seat while I grabbed a carton of eggs from the fridge, an onion, and a roll of ground sausage. Browning the sausage in one pan while I diced the onion to make some breakfast burritos, Jake sat staring into space deep in thought."What's on your mind, Bud?""Just thinking about how we're going to go about talking to Pete, and Alex's Beta. Pete seems like a nice dude, but I don't know how I'd be able to play nice with Alex's old bully," He said before I handed him a drink, "Thank you. I mean, is it just me? I feel like it's almost a test for us not to just deck the guy after what he put her through.""Under normal circumstances, I would agree with you one hundred percent, however, t
Jacke's POVWe descended the ladder into the cellar below with an empty jar, and once we got to the bottom Alex stood at the ladder to make sure no one else came in, while I made my way to the altar in the center. The ashes were still there in the pile that Lady Muerte had left them, and nothing had looked like it changed, but it was time for a change. I grabbed my knife from my coat and carefully moved the ashes from the alter into the jar, until there wasn't any left and twisted the lid on tight. I was going to take a trip later this week to the Gulf of Mexico and disperse the ashes into the water, symbolizing an end to our chapter of pain and suffering. That section of our life was over, and a new chapter was beginning to unfold before us, one with Alex by our side and a new family that was bigger and stronger than it had been before.I looked around the room and took in every last detail, from the chests full of coins we'd dug up over the years, to the racks of weaponry that we ne
Jacke's POVTo say I was anxious as we walked through the doors to see some of Alex's family members there would be a massive understatement, I didn't think I would've been asked to talk with them this soon, but I suppose it was better now than later. One of them walked forward to shake my hand and pulled me into one hell of a bear hug."It's about time we met you, Lad," He said before letting go, giving me room to breathe after he squeezed the wind out of me, "Alex has spoken quite highly of you, and rightfully so it would seem, as we're building our new home here. Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Pete, Alex's uncle and the one who more or less took her in after her parents passed.""Pete, I'm surprised you guys were waiting for us here, I thought we weren't to go through with the ceremony until later this week. You know, once we're done rebuilding and all?" Alex asked through a glare that would make most men shit themselves, but apparently, Uncle Pete had seen this glare before and
Alex's POVWe walked out the front door and out to watch as our families were hard at work, building back from the remains of La Bruja's damages, and building our new home bigger and sturdier. Nicki and Jade were working with my Beta to build a library due east of the center of town, Jacke made a note that 'Preserving the knowledge and history of the past, helps us to build a better and brighter future' before we continued onward towards the front of the town. They built a large gate for people to come in and out of, with a walkway and a driveway for trucks and cars, and as we passed by many of my packmates waved hello."Hey guys, good to see you back in action!" I said as we passed by, Jacke waved as we made our way to the garage. We got in his truck with me at the wheel, and head off towards his warehouse, where he had said the remaining members of his family from the Necropolis were waiting. We drove through town and parked outside the warehouse before heading inside to see everyon