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Toying Alpha Chapter 6: Teeth and Fangs and Claws
Inexplicable rage was not usually the emotion Jamie felt herself swamped with. Normal rage? Sure. Irritation? Oh, almost a day couldn't go by back home without someone doing something stupid. But inexplicable rage? Or, maybe not so inexplicable, but Jamie was finding it rather hard to put into words just how p*ssed she was at the sight before her. Not at the packs shifted forms. No, she'd never judge that when she was reproachable enough to have a toy poodle as her form. She would never scorn another for being a Malamute, beagle, Schnauzer, Pomeranian or otherwise. What had her seething was the absolutely gigantic WOLF standing where Logan had just been. Not a Shiba Inu, not a Husky, but a true-blue blood wolf. It made no sense. Why was Logan the alpha when he most certainly didn't have Canis Syndrome? Why was he the alpha when he couldn't possibly understand? Questions without answers and Jamie realized with a sinking feeling that made the anger burn hotter that Logan still
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Toying Alpha Chapter 7: The Blood and Bones of Questions without Answers
"Ah!" Jamie gritted her teeth as Andy poked and prodded the area around her shoulder and collarbone, also pressing against her ribs. Valerie had left her to the pack medic's tender mercies, but he sure as hell wasn't tender. "I have to say, that punch was impressive." Jamie did a double take, looking at Andy, waiting for the rage, but he lacked anything of the sort. All he seemed was amused."I punched your alpha." "Yeah, and it was glorious. He hasn't had anyone challenge him in a while. He was starting to get cocky, so good on you for putting him in his place." Jamie blinked, staring as Andy bustled about for a few more tools, shuffling through bottles of medicine. Now that the anger wasn't so front and center, she was able to think more clearly, and this was not usually how a fight with the alpha went down afterwards. "Why are you helping me? I thought you were the pack beta." "Uh, yeah? And the medic? It's kind of my job?" "I mean, usually the pack beta's on the alpha's si
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Toying Alpha Chapter 8: The Lines of Expectation and Reality Blur
Once more Jamie found herself in bed at 11:00AM, smothering herself with her pillows. Only, with her broken collarbone and arm sling she couldn't lay on her stomach and had instead thrown a pillow over her face. It wasn't as effective, but she'd take what she could get. She'd woken up in the cabin. After Valerie had brought her back last night neither were in the mood for talking and had gone to sleep. Now the other was avoiding her. Jamie didn't blame her. It's not like she'd done herself any favors attacking the alpha, insulting him, disrespecting him, and a whole lot of other things that would usually be grounds for being tossed out. In her father's pack, people were friendly with him and joked around, but they knew not to go too far, knew that some topics were off limits, and deferred to him properly. She was way past too far after last night. Jamie groaned, almost rolling onto her side before she grimaced, the left side of her body twinging in pain. That was the other reason
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Toying Alpha Chapter 9: Pride and Pack
It hadn't changed, the way the Northeastern pack treated her that is. Jamie had thought it might after what had happened, but they were still nice. They still welcomed her into their territory, their home. They asked about how she was, if she was doing okay after being injured, and it left her reeling. In her father's pack, if someone had challenged him like that out of nowhere and lost, let alone a member of his pack doing that? They'd be treated more than just a little coldly if not outright punished for the improper conduct. Here though? Despite how poorly Jamie acted, they still treated her with kindness, and it made her feel…guilty, over how things had gone down. They both could've handled all of this better, but it wasn't all on them…that they didn't know. Logan had no one to teach him, and Jamie had no one willing to tell her. Tell her she was leaving, how the new pack worked, what was expected of her, if anything was at all. Was it fair? Oh, God no. None of this was fair.
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Of course, Valerie caught her, and Jamie thought she was doing so good at hiding it too. She didn't even need to see the other's disappointed face because Jamie was disappointed in herself enough for the both of them. Two and a half weeks in, having hidden about half the pills, Valerie had gotten up to get her a dose since she was 'obviously' in pain and shaken one of the bottles to only realize the pain medication was gone. And Jamie, being dumb like a stump, emptied out only one bottle instead of emptying both part way. She blamed the pain while Valerie just called her a dumb*ss. Neither of them was wrong, at least. Thankfully, it was the ibuprofen Jamie had emptied and not the stronger drugs. That would not have been a fun conversation to have. "You should be able to get a refill from Andy. Just go in and tell him what you need. If he's busy, just grab it from the medicine cabinet in the med bay's bathroom. It's always stocked up with the standard meds and bandages. Headaches d
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Toying Alpha Chapter 11: Secret Agent Vibes
Jamie did not manage to make it down to dinner beyond grabbing a bread roll and a banana, but the quick and easy lie of her ribs bothering her and going to sleep it off kept everyone at bay, even Valerie. It seemed no one was the wiser to her snooping, not even Andy. A blessing, truly, but a curse to her dreams since she couldn't go in guns blazing and hold the man up by the collar of his shirt and shake him till he confessed. She might've been just a bit murderous. Little Daniella didn't know why Jamie gave her candy, but the girl very happily accepted it. You paid back the little pups who helped you, even if they didn't know it. Jamie learned that from a young age, especially with their pack's beta Gabriel giving her sweets then releasing her onto the more misbehaving children in the sparring rings. The amount of people she knowingly or unknowingly sold out in her childhood was rather high, but she learned from it. Children knew things and could get away with things too. Even
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Toying Alpha Chapter 12: Alpha Retirement Plan
"So, I've been meaning to ask…" "Ask what?" asked Valerie, looking up from the book she was reading while in their cabin. Jamie had gotten rather lucky that the other very rarely stayed inside the cabin, preferring to go on long walks or lend a helping hand to whoever needed it. It was storming outside though, meaning it was the perfect opportunity for Jamie to ask what no doubt were sensitive questions as she tried to get dirt on Andy without making it look like she was targeting him. "About how old you are. You said you were with the pack for about 4 years so…22, like Logan, right?" "Ah…not quite," laughed Valerie nervously before closing her book and setting it aside. Aw crap. Jamie definitely put her foot in her mouth and tripped onto something way more than 'something sensitive'. It was personal. "I'm 24, my–uh, parents, well my mother, you see, was from outside the White Oak Territory. Traditions can be a bit different when that happens and one of them was that shifting c
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Toying Alpha Chapter 13: Helping You to Help Myself
All in all, four weeks to heal a broken collarbone was not bad. Shifters always did heal a bit faster than regular humans. While she was still a bit tender, and too many hits could re-break it, Jamie was feeling rather good. She had to get the bone rechecked by Andy and had to bite her tongue so she didn't bite his prodding fingers off instead, but she'd been cleared to remove her sling and was allowed to partake in light exercise. Valerie had even believed her when she said that she no longer needed the pills to deal with the pain–not like she was using them in the first place but still. It was nice to no longer have to carry on that ruse. Gathering dirt on Andy had been less successful than her healing bones though. The man was smart, or at least had a lot of practice on avoiding detection, discovery, and skirting the Territory Laws. Naturally, medics had an allowance for crossing the borders to get to patients. However, Andy seemed to take advantage of this for even when he wa
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Toying Alpha Chapter 50: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and Somehow
"—and then Logan busted down the door and almost hit me with it. Then I dragged his body back, my parents came by to help, blah blah, exposition travel, and now we're here." Finished Jamie. There had been lots of dramatic gasps and screaming during her explanation, and the alpha of the southern pack and his brother had to be held back from leaping over the tables to kill Andy, but other than that it went okay! Hardly anyone purposefully interrupted her for clarification that Valerie and Jamie's parents were able to help with. Everyone else made sure to keep to their seats since they didn't want to fight Jamie at all, even if they didn't know what her shifted form was. A few people were even crying, some families scattered across different packs reuniting for the first time in years. It was…almost gruesome in a way, to have it all laid out. How many people suffered for another's gain, but that was the question wasn't it."Andy Burroughs," started Ballie. "Why did you and your paren
Toying Alpha Chapter 49: It Starts Like This
Jamie was not allowed to get any f*cking rest. A true tragedy. She got a nap, that was all she was allowed before it was apparently time to leave at the *ss crack of dawn. She was given consolation hugs by her parents. They managed to talk the other packs down into a meeting and trial, but that trial was in the morning. Early morning, meaning they would have to leave even earlier to be there on time. Jamie was at least allowed the other front passenger seat in the car Logan was driving at the consequence of having to have Valerie in her shifted Dachshund form on her feet while Daniella sat in her lap. Daniella's parents were a smaller breed of dog and offered to shift so the others could fit. That left Jamie looking after a child while still very tired. She, thankfully, had the time to at least shower and change, donning her leather jacket and combat boots. Daniella was thankfully distracted by braiding her wild hair and Logan was focused on driving while jamming to whatever song
Toying Alpha Chapter 48: Sleep for the WEEK
"Tell me the truth Andy, did you do it?" asked Logan. "Do what?" "Don't play this game!" he snarled, dragging Andy closer. "Did you do it?" "Hey, yeah, can we know what 'it' was?" called Kim, voicing everyone's question."We were woken up looking for Jamie and now we're having an interrogation?" "Yeah, why is Andy wrapped up in duct tape and…did Jamie bite him?" asked Gary in disbelief."He stabbed me in the neck!" shouted Jamie hotly. "He's lucky I didn't do worse and that's only because the drugs knocked me out!" "Drugs?! What's going on!?" "Oh my god!" wheezed Valerie, still out of breath but now she was laughing. "You really did go through with it. You don't give empty threats, do you." "I don't." Jamie glared into Andy's soul, and he was deeply aware of the threat she was capable of being since he kept his mouth shut. "What did Andy do?" "That is a LONG story," grimaced Jamie. "We can help explain it though." "Dad?!"Jamie didn't know who was more surprised. The Northe
Toying Alpha Chapter 47: Apologies, We're All Out of Trust
He was an idiot! A really big idiot!Logan was trying to stave off a panic attack as he sprinted through the woods in his shifted form. It was a little bit hard though when his childhood best friend was apparently about to murder his girlfriend—ex-girlfriend. How the hell did Jamie not straight up murder him after that? He was supposed to at least hear her out, not just write her off! Oh God, he was what people talked about when they brought up their sh*tty exes. 'Yeah, my ex almost got me murdered because he didn't hear me out that his friend was experimenting on people.' Logan didn't want to believe it, that Andy could do something like that, but it all made sense, everything made horrible, terrible sense. Why Jamie was so wary of Andy, so odd around him. Andy's own interest in her shifted form—him never letting Logan see the bodies. He thought it was because it was too gruesome, but he knew his families shifted forms well, he'd seen what their claws could do. If he was allowed
Toying Alpha Chapter 46: Oh, Bloody Hell, That's Suspicious
Valerie knew something was wrong the moment she heard Jamie screech in rage before tapering out into silence. It was more than enough to know they failed in convincing Logan, yet she hesitated to call the Western pack. She should've gone with Jamie instead of letting her do this alone, that was on her. It wasn't over yet, they still had time. They still had all the proof they collected and photos of the experiment's documents. They needed Logan on this. Valerie didn't want to go to war with the other packs, not when she might be fighting people she knew. Not when she would never be able to bring herself to fight in Andy's defense after everything he and his parents did. If Jamie didn't succeed with diplomacy, then maybe Valerie should take a page from her book and beat it into Logan's thick skull. She'd do it, even if he could take her in a fight. It had to end. Valerie rushed out of the cabin with their copied medical records, looking for Jamie, but she was nowhere to be found.
Toying Alpha Chapter 45: Coming to a HeadButt
She woke up with a killer headache, her jaw aching but now it was bruised on top of that, and blood in her teeth.It was, arguably, the worst wake up of her entire life. Then Jamie realized she was in Andy's lab, collared to his weird chain wall and it immediately nudged the removal of her wisdom teeth into a distant second place."Good, you're up. You were out for longer than I thought you would be. To be fair though I did give you a second dose after you, you know, bit me." Jamie turned, gaze landing on Andy, his arm wrapped but there was still blood on his lab coat in a ring of teeth. "You're lucky that's ALL I did," she hissed, standing up and tugging on the chain. A thick metal collar with a lock was around her neck. She was strong but there was no way she was gonna be able to pry the thing open. "That's not gonna work. It's made with tungsten steel. It's funny, when did you start to suspect me?" he asked curiously, taking a seat in the swivel chair at one of the desks, messin
Toying Alpha Chapter 44: Jaw Pains and Gains
Somehow, after putting everything back in place, Jamie was even faster running back to the pack."Please tell me you have something good, and the lab place wasn't some sort of secret man cave," begged Valerie the moment she slipped back into their cabin. "If this doesn't convince him, I really don't know what will," grimaced Jamie, showing Valerie the documents she found. They were all signed off of by the Burroughs, all on different occasions. They were called experiments and subjects for God sakes. Valerie made a face as she looked at her before gasping at Logan's."Wait—Logan has Canis Syndrome?!" "I thought he might, but to think he really was 'a success'. Andy hasn't returned?" "Not yet," sighed Valerie in relief, checking out the window again and making sure of it. "If you're gonna talk to Logan, now's probably the time." "I know," murmured Jamie. "Keep the phone on you, if things go wrong…well, you'll probably hear it." "I can talk to him about this." "I know, but it's p
Toying Alpha Chapter 43: A Culmination of Things
For a moment, Jamie almost thought she missed whatever hidden lab, secret bunker thing Andy had when she sprinted for 15 minutes. It would be just her luck that after everything she missed the stupid thing, but a flash of metal caught her eye at just the right moment. Jamie went into a dead stop that almost sent her slamming into a tree, but it allowed her to keep her eyes on the metal, tracking it down in the last twilight hours of the evening. It was an old building, moss and vines crawling up the sides of it, the windows small and high, while the metal—the metal was the door. This was it, this had to be it. A quick inspection showed a deadbolt lock, and Jamie quickly searched the area. Andy had to keep a key somewhere nearby. He traveled across practically the entire White Oak territory and then some. He wouldn't just risk THE KEY to the lab. "Alright, if I was a smart doctor who was carrying a 20-year legacy having yet to get caught and trying not to, where would I stash the ke
Toying Alpha Chapter 42: Sprint to the Finish
"Did she mean we have seven days left today or it started yesterday?" asked Valerie.That was the question Jamie got the second she was awake, and the answer Valerie got was a very heartfelt swear. "I'm not sober enough for this." "You're not even allowed to drink." Jamie stared Valerie dead in the eye. "I'm not sober enough for this," she repeated, daring her to continue and Valerie raised her hands in surrender. "I'm gonna go tail Andy. We have a basic idea of his schedule so either today or tomorrow he'll head to his lab. My chores today are scrubbing the shower stalls." Jamie groaned heavily before giving a thousand-mile stare to the ceiling. "Is it truly too late to murder him?" "You've made it this far in, so I'd have to say yes. Just for bragging rights." "Go, I'll get the stalls. Don't get caught.""Knockin' on wood, girl." With a short knock, she was off. Hopefully Valerie would be able to find something. Getting up was a hassle. Jamie swore that once this was all o
