"I thought that my head of security asked you to wait until we came for you?" The Alpha says to us sharply. "I am sorry. My mate here is pregnant, she just needs to rest and get some proper nourishment. We planned to wait but she got so uncomfortable that we had to come and talk to you earlier." Dante explains with a gesture to me.I still have not taken my eyes off my father although I have managed to school my expression better. As soon as his eyes meet mine I see a small spark of recognition, although he still does not move towards me. Instead, his eyes narrow slightly as he studies me. At first I thought for sure that he recognized me but now I am not quite so sure."If there is a pregnant Luna then we are obligated to bring you into the pack house. Please, come with us. Do not get left behind. Things here are not as peaceful as they seem." The Alpha says."I am sorry but, what is going on here? I have never seen a pack like this? Where are the kids and the rest of the pack membe
When the Alpha finally comes back, he brings bags of food. There are sandwiches, chips, cashews, and drinks. It looks like he just came back from the store. Where the store is though, I have no idea. He did not actually leave the building as far as I could tell. Then again, I was a little too focused on my father to focus on what the Alpha was doing. "I brought you back what I could find. I would love to offer you a warm meal but I am unable to do it at this time. I am sorry but things are not going well here." The Alpha says."I understand that you are in a difficult spot. As fellow Alpha can you possibly tell me what is going on. Maybe just some of it? I have heard that you have been having problems with the witches. Does it all come from that?" Dante asks concernedly.The other Alpha stares at him for a while deliberating. There has to be more than just the normal witch problem going on with how the entire pack is behaving. Normally packs do not hide just because of a witch proble
My father stares mutely at me for a bit before finally shaking himself out of it. Literally, too. He shakes his head slightly before he is able to say anything."I was really hoping that you would not say that. We can not allow any magic users in this pack. I am afraid that you are going to have to leave after your meal." He says to me sadly.After all of this time, he is going to make me leave. I have been blinded by the fact that as my father he has to still love me. Apparently, that does not mean anything to him as he stares at me in shock and sadness. I guess that even though the same blood runs through our veins, he is just going to kick me out and that will be the end of it."If that is what you want then I guess that is what will have to happen. I came here searching for the father that I remember from my childhood. I guess that guy really did die like I had always assumed until recently. Thank you for making it quick instead of waiting to tell me later. In fact, we will leave
"Why would they be afraid of you!" The Alpha shouts from behind us.Instead of answer, we just continue walking in the same direction we came from. There is no need to explain myself anymore. I want to get out of here before my emotions get the best of me. I am not going to allow myself to break down and cry in front of my father. I am bigger than that. I can cry later when I am surrounded by those that actually love me."What happened?" Dante asks quietly."Her father happened. I had quite a few words that I wanted to say to him but I am pretty sure that Laina handled it." Amora says proudly.Opening up our mind link more, I play the memory back for him. I let him see everything that my father said to me and what I said back to him. As we walk, Dante reaches over and rubs my hand soothingly."What did they mean that the witches will be attacking soon?" I ask him."I guess that they attack everyday at from 10 in the morning until noon. They do it to try to get your father to give him
Dante and Amora rush over towards me. I barely give my father a glance as we turn away swiftly. He does not need my attention any longer. I do not know why I was hoping that after everything he would have been a kind and caring man. Apparently, I do not know my father as well as I had thought I had."Wait!" The Alpha cries out.I do not turn back towards him but I do stop for a moment. I am not sure what he could have to say that would make me stay any longer but I can give him a shot. He is not the one that hurt me. As far as I know, he has been as welcoming as he could given the circumstances."What?" I ask hesitantly.Dante reaches for my hand again as we wait for him to speak. I glance up at him and see his eyes full of concern for me. He might know what all happened but there is no way for me to describe the feelings right now. Knowing my father wants me gone hurts more than I ever cared to admit."What did you do to those witches? They have been bothering us for years. How did y
After hesitantly accepting Rand's offer to stay for a little longer, Dante, Amora and I all head back through the town with him. My father keeps shooting me looks that I cannot decipher while Eric looks completely intrigued by all of it. I am sure that this type of thing does not happen often, or ever honestly."So, how did you find us?" Rand asks us politely."My grandmother managed to track him down. Not quite sure how but she told me where to find him and even told me about your battles with the witches. That is why she did not come as well. She did not think that a witch would be accepted." I explain.There was no need to say who the "he" was. Everybody knows exactly who I am talking about as they all turn towards my father and study him briefly. He at least has the decency to squirm a little under our scrutiny."I wonder how she managed to find me. I thought that I had hid my tracks well." He finally says to us all.I am completely caught off guard by this. Why had he tried to hi
It is hard to focus as we finish our walk back to the pack house. Nobody bothers talking or trying to be polite for the rest of the walk. It is completely silent. Completely tense as well. It only takes us a few more moments to get back to the pack house without any interactions between the six of us.Once we get to the pack house, we all clutter inside the entry way. I shift uncertainly as almost everyone's attention is on both my father and myself. The tension in the air could be cut with a knife. Nobody speaks as well all take turns looking between ourselves, questioning what to do next."You invited us to stay. So, now what?" I ask Rand defensively."Now, we need to rest for a while before we try to get to the bottom of what really happened all of those years ago. We all know that something did. Until we learn the full story from both of you nobody will be able to look for forgiveness. After what you did for the pack with the witches, we owe you some closure for sure." Rand says t
"Wait, your daughter is one of the girls that was taken? If she is with our pack right now then I have to warn you, she was brainwashed tremendously. The girls that I have barely speak and do not have minds of their own. All they believe in is serving witches." I admit to him."What did they do to her? She was always strong willed. That is how she was taken. She never listened when we told her to stay close." He says."I am not sure what all they did to the girls. I do know that we are working with them to get them back to themselves. They completely shut down unless a witch is there to help out so we have had my Coven stepping up and helping out as often as possible. We will get them back to themselves though. If you want we can set up a time for you to come and see if one of them is your daughter." I offer.Rand looks completely flabbergasted that his daughter is still alive. To find out that witches have somehow managed to brainwash her has to be a big shock. If we could get the gi
"Wait, you can do that?" Frank asks shocked. "Yes, of course I can. It is not something that I have done often, actually only one other time but it is an option. It is one that terrifies her." I admit. "Who did you do it to before?" Rand asks me. "I did it to Morden. There was no other way to stop her from coming after my pack or my family." I answer simply. "Your grandmother said that Simonetta was behind that the entire time. That only makes it right that she gets the same punishment if not worse than what Morden received." Rand points out. I had not thought of it that way but it is true. Still, we need to have a system set up for something like this. Otherwise, there will always be somebody that takes advantage of the power and that is not something that I can condone. "That is very true. I had not thought of that but this is not a decision to be made lightly. There might be longer reaching consequences that even I am not aware of by using this ability. Still, I see no other o
It did not take long at all for the Hybrid Council to arrive. They all file in looking a little shocked to see Simonetta there, unable to use her magic as she floats slightly in the air. Quickly, they find their seats. Then, both Rand and Frank walk in as well. I had not thought of inviting them but I am glad that Dante did. With how long she terrorized their pack it is only fitting that they are here for this as well.I smile at them all as they whisper among themselves for a few moments. This is a bit of a shock for those that were not here to see Simonetta arrive. For Frank and Rand, they finally see their enemy tied up and floating in the air. They are not aware that I can take away her ability to use magic so this is going to be a shock to them when the meeting starts. "I take it you called us all here for a reason?" Elle says once everyone starts to calm down."Yes, I did. As everybody here knows, Simonetta has caused quite a few problems for us. She has terrorized werewolves,
Simonetta rushes towards me using wind to guide her speed. It is not enough to throw me off guard though and I shove a wall of dirt up in front of me. She almost crashes into it before she is able to skid to a stop at the last second. If she had prepared then she might have been able to use the air that was helping her speed up to me to jump over the wall but instead, she is used to using her other powers for combat and did not make the decision in time.As soon as she begins to stop, I tear down the wall and shift into werewolf form quickly to land on top of her with my teeth to her neck. Out of all of the forms that I could have turned into this was the only one that registered as an option. I would like for her to see the one thing that she thinks is beneath her be the thing that brings her down. For once, she surprises me when she throws me off of her with some air. I quickly flip over and land on my paws. I shift back and face her again. She is breathing hard and I find myself a
As soon as my illsuion drops I see Simonetta's face blanche. Chelsea drops to the ground and has it swallow her up as she falls through it to meet the others. I send her a brief thank you as she helps to keep them all safe from whatever back up plan Simonetta could have.She sends me a sad farewell. Apparently she is worried about whether or not I am going to make it out of this one. I might not have used much magic recently but I guarantee that there is no way I will let her get away with this threat. Today, she is going to go down and she is not going to be a threat to anybody with werewolf blood ever again."Wait, you had the baby? No! You can't have had it already!" She screams in rage."Actually, I can. There was nothing stopping me from having it. There is also nothing in the way of me putting a stop to you and your bullying once and for all" I say. She takes a few steps back as she steels herself for what we bothk now is going to happen next. It is a shame that the rest of the
"Why would she ever want to go with you?" I ask Simonetta in shock."I am sure that she can see the benefits when she realizes that if she doesn't then she will never get to meet the bundle of joy in your stomach. I will personally make sure that you are unable to deliever them. After all, the more powerful the babes the less the mother can use magic so I am sure that you are not able to defend yourself very well." Simonetta says triumphantly.I try my best to look worried. I really do. I find that it is difficult to be worried about her though. She has never really had a lot of sway over me. Even when I first realized how much stronger than her I am I had found it difficult to be scared of her. "You really think that I am afraid of you? Even without being able to use my powers you do not worry me. I have plenty of other witches that are able to come and help me." I say."Not before something bad happens to you. Chelsea, I would hate to see for anything bad to happen to Laina. I just
Each team splits up and gets ready to make their way through the obstacle course. They are all going to have to take turns trying to make it through safely. Each team has a designated amount of time before they get elminated. The one that makes it through the fastest and with the least amount of mistakes, will be the ones to win the competition. The course is very similar to the one that we did with the entire pack when we first started training. The one that really got the women moving faster as they fought to make good time through the course to beat the men. This one is just a little more geared towards children and not fully grown adults.Some of the obstacles are smaller to better accomodate their size, some things are closer together and they have even added some new obstacles that would have been difficult for the adults. There are also some obstacles that are going to require teamwork to make it through. If they do not work together then they have no hope of making it to the
It takes much longer than planned to get the babies ready for travel. I have never packed a diaper bag before but luckily Scarlett shows up to help me get them ready and squeal over the twins for a minute. Or more precisely, several minutes."I can't believe that they are finally here! I swear it felt like your pregnancy was never going to end. Every time that I thought you were going into labor and you never did. Yesterday, I had no idea that you were going into labor. How did you keep that from me?!" She says to me."It was not exactly on purpose. I did not even know that I was in labor until I spoke to Dante and then Elle confirmed it. It was a really odd day. We had a lot that happened that day so I thought that everything I was feeling was just from stress." I admit to her."Ha! For once, I could have answered that if you had just talked to me. Instead, you have me doing made up jobs with you to help me out." She says excitedly.I shake my head as she begins showing me exactly h
The first night with the babies was quite a bit of a learning curve. Whenever we put them in their bassinets they just started to cry nonstop until we picked them up again. It took a couple of hours to find out that if we put them into the same bassinet they were able to sleep peacefully and not wake us up. By the time we managed learning that, I was beyond exhausted and ready to sleep. Thankfully, there was more than enough people in the house to help us out throughout the night.When I wake up I find that Dante is already standing over their bassinet watching them sleep. They have managed a few hours of sleep straight which for me was quite shocking considering that they are newborns. "How are they?" I ask him sleepily.Chelsea decided to sleep on one of the loveseats last night as well. She was just too excited to go to sleep in her bedroom after I had the babies. I do not blame her but as she shifts when I start talking I do realize that that might have been a mistake. She is goi
Chelsea comes running in once the babies start to cry for food. Her face is filled with excitement as she rushes over to me. Even though they are hungry, I allow her to hold and rock Caterine while I first feed Archer. I might get good enough to be able to feed them both at once in the future but for now feeding just one is tricky. I never knew that it could be this hard to feed a baby."Hi Caterine, I am your Aunt Chelsea. We are going to be best friends. You are going to get to go to school with werewolf pups and use magic. It is going to be wonderful. I can't wait to teach you everything that I know." Chelsea coos to the baby making all of us smile.It is a good thing that she already has so much experience being around babies because she does a great job holding Caterine while Archer is feeding. She does sit down though as she looks at her. Even though Caterine was crying just a moment ago from hunger, she is now looking at Chelsea with wide eyes. Werewolf pups have much better ey