Dripping Roses

Panicking

The next few moments were a blur for me. Wesley taking my hand and rushing me out to the car. Clare signing us out and Kyle following us out to the parking lot. The boy with the ice blond hair was gone and Kellan was shouting into his cell phone. Tyler was looking around outside in frustration. 

Wesley slammed the keys into the ignition and pulled out of the parking lot. He pulled out his cell phone and handed it to me “look for johns number and dial it” I found johns number and dialed it, for some reason the adrenaline of the situation scared me. My hands shook as I put the phone to my ear and listened for my uncles voice.

 John answered in a groggy voice. Had he been asleep this late in the day? “hey Wes what’s up kiddo?” I spoke quickly “uncle john?! It's me its Skylar” john sounded alert “What’s wrong and why do you have Wesley’s phone?” before I could say anything Wes grabbed the phone and put it to his ear “ she knows and so does Dimitri” john must have been talking because Wesley only said mhmm or I know every few minutes. 

Suddenly Wes handed me the phone. John spoke quickly “listen to me very carefully Skylar, everything your parents have taught or told you was a lie to keep you safe, you and Logan. Everything Wesley told you is true. Well talk about it when you three get here” he hung up.

 I gave wes his phone and looked in the rearview mirror. Kyle was in his little truck following us. What am I? Who, am I? I looked down at my ring. Thinking of what wes said gave me the urge to take it off. No the curiosity to take it off. 

“I know this is going to be hard for you after your parents and the spells and us and the pack, all of it. But you have to believe that everything I tell you is true.” He stole a quick glance at me “I would never lie to you Sky” I looked at him “ is there a way for me to get my memories back?” he nodded “the pack Witch. He’s the only witch in this area and the one who erased your memory every year”. 

We pulled up in the yard by the house with Kyle right behind us. He jogged over to the driver side window “ Tyler and Kellan should be here with Clare and the others when school lets out”. I looked over at Kyle “ others? There are more like you?” Kyle said “you mean us?”. Wes turned around and looked at me. “There are fifteen of us in total”.

 Wes got out of the jeep walked around to my side and opened the door. I stepped out of the car as john began walking out to us. “you two inside. Kyle call Angus and the others, tell them it happened”

 I looked at john “ what has happened? Will someone please tell me what in the HELL is going on here before my brain explodes?” wes grabbed my hand ever so gently. I looked up at him my heart about to pound out of my chest. “ come with me and i'll show you” he led me to the house with john right behind us.

 We walked inside and john locked the door. I sat next to wes on the couch and john sat across from us in a recliner. He looked at me with a tight expression “your father and I grew up here in Piscataquis county and were born into this pack, the north American pack. Now your father met your mother at the Celetorin. Thats where all the world packs come together for a feast once a year.

 Your mother was in the British pack, they imprinted on first sight. Which imprinting is where you find your soul mate or partner for life okay? Well your mom and dad were soul mates and your mother moved here and they eventually got married and had you and your brother” 

He looked at wes and then back to me “now your parents were pure bloods which are descendants of some of the original werewolves, purebloods are usually paired with other purebloods. For instance you and wes, now a werewolf pure or not can only imprint when they have matured enough. You and wes were too young to know of imprinting at the time but our pack had already decided to pair you together. Now you two were supposed to inherit leadership of the pack but something changed that when you were children.”

“You two were playing hide and seek and of course I had followed you both to keep you safe. And found a rogue wolf waiting for an opportunity to take you Skylar.” I interrupted him “ why me? Why am I so important to other… packs” he chuckled “you are the only living female descendant of Jacob and Sarah two of the original werewolves. That is why anyone wants you, not just werewolves, vampires like Dimitri as well, they believe your blood will give them unbelievable strength and power.” 

Wes chimed in “ which is why you are being kept under my protection” I looked at wes and then john “ not to sound mean or anything but how is your protection that special?” john and wes looked at each other john spoke first “ the bond between a male and female that have imprinted is the strongest bond in the supernatural world, now since wes and you have imprinted he is stronger than any other wolf in north America right now. You how ever wont feel the full effects of the imprinting until that ring is gone.” 

 Kyle barged in the door “they’re here!” a guy with tied up black hair and green eyes walked in. He was about Wesley’s size and kind of resembled him. He looked at wes and then me “is this the girl?” Wesley nodded as the man walked over to me and extended his hand.

 “its an honor to meet you Ms. Morgenstern im Angus Reeves” I shook his hand “im sure you are very surprised about all of this” I nodded “yeah i'm kind of freaking out on the inside” he chuckled “ I thought you’d be, as you probably guessed I am Wesley’s older brother. He put me in charge of the pack while he waited for you”

 I looked at Wesley and him “I hadn’t guessed anything but okay” Kyle ran in the room “there is someone in the woods, I heard them” I stared at Kyle  “it's probably a deer” he shook his head “ I would smell it” 

I laughed “smell? What the hell, No this is all a joke. you guys are messing with me. Yeah this is all a prank for my birthday. And bringing mom and dad into it is not funny.” Wesley looked a little ticked off and walked over and stood right in front of me. His eyes turned orange . “does this look like a joke?” I rolled my eyes “contacts” he laughed and john looked worried.

“ NO” we all looked at john “Wesley you are not shape shifting in my living room, you can take it outside!” Kyle yelled  “GUYS THERE IS A VAMPIRE IN THE WOODS WATCHING THIS HOUSE RIGHT NOW! GET YOUR ASSES OUT THERE AND PROTECT HER” 

Wesley grabbed hold of my hand as John and Angus ran outside with Kyle. I looked at wes and he looked at me “like I said I am going to protect you” I shook my head “ I want proof” he nodded “ I can get your memories back when Arno shows up” 

I pulled my hand from his and crossed my arms “ I want proof right now, and i'll believe you, if you prove you are a werewolf I won’t question anything else” he nodded “what proof do you want first. I can prove all of it” 

I sighed “whatever you can give” he backed up and took his jacket off 

“um what the hell are you doing?” he pulled his t shirt off and revealed his muscled abdomen. I blushed like crazy as he unbuttoned his pants. he started to take his boxers off “ NO! leave those on!” he apologetically raised his hands.

 He tensed every muscle in his body and what appeared to be steam rolled off his body and he quickly dropped onto all fours and became a massive black wolf with glowing Amber like orange eyes. I stumbled backwards and hit the wall. My jaw dropped as he walked up to me. He lowered himself on his belly and whimpered like a dog. 

“ I… don’t … h-how?” I heard him in my thoughts “ everything is true Skylar, take your time. I will wait until you are ready, after all what are mates for?” he walked over and picked up his clothes in his mouth and walked to the kitchen.

 He walked into the living room fully clothed a minute later. I hadn’t noticed but tears had formed in my eyes. Wesley shot over to me and put his hands on my shoulders and started talking softly. “What’s wrong sky?” a tear dripped down my cheek “ why would my mom and dad keep this from me? Why would they lie to us like that?” another tear streaked my face.

 The next thing I know Wesley was embracing me in his arms. I hugged him back “ why would they keep me from knowing you?” I could feel his chest shake as he chuckled “they were protecting you and your brother Skylar, it's all they ever tried to do. And I don’t know why they would keep you from me maybe they knew you would have found out through me. I mean you did anyways, but still.” I giggled a little bit. 

He pulled away and looked down at me “I know you can get through this, you are my mate I know you better than you know yourself. Your stronger than you think” I was about to reply when the front door slammed. Wes moved over as Logan walked up to me. 

He hugged me and whispered into my ear “John told me everything and i'm going to be okay. I know you worry a lot, but I will be okay” he looked at me and then wes “don’t hurt my sister or i'll kick your ass” he then walked upstairs and shut the door. 

Clare followed in after Logan. She watched him walk up the stairs. “hey, I hate to watch you leave but I love to watch you go” she turned her attention to me and wes. “ The others shifted and are patrolling the property. I am to hold up here with you guys” she must’ve guessed I had been crying because she gave me a little hug. “don’t be upset Skylar being a wolf is awesome and fun as fuck.” She smiled “ trust me”. I nodded as Wesley laughed 

“so Clare, what happened a second ago with Logan were you just making fun or what?” she looked down and placed her hand on the back of her neck in a nervous gesture “ actually  no, you see I…”. Before Clare could tell us John busted open the front door with a skinny redheaded guy in a leather jacket. 

I watched John as He slammed the guy through the coffee table. Uncle john's face was half covered in shaggy sideburns and his eyes were glowing green. when he opened his mouth he had large yellow fangs coming from his lower jaw. 

“The other two got away but luckily we caught the runt” he lifted the vampire up by the front of his shirt and said “start talking or i'll break your arms” the guy just spit in my uncle john's face “ screw you mutt!” 

John slammed him into the wall making the cabin shake. “WHERE ARE THE OTHERS GOING?!” the vampire laughed as uncle john dragged him out the front door and into the sunlight. 

Wesley and I followed him outside “uncle john what are you going to do with him?” he looked at me with his eyes burning green “i'm going to gut him like a fish until he tells me what his friends are planning to do to my niece if they catch her”

 I gasped and Wesley said “but they’re not going to get the chance, the only way they will get you sky is if it's over my dead body” uncle John ripped a chain necklace from the vampires neck. The vampire twisted in agony as little blisters began to appear on his arms and face.

 Angus appeared with ropes dripping what appeared to be water. Kyle slammed a fence post in the ground and they tied the vampire to it. As soon as the ropes touched him he started screaming in pain. 

I looked to wes curiously and he said “holy water” I nodded “okay, so do wooden stakes kill vampires?” he grinned “yeah and so does blessed silver” huh? Silver? Hurting a vampire? he glanced at me whilst I was puzzled 

“yeah I know that people say silver can kill werewolves blah, blah, blah, but honestly it’s a long process, first you have to catch a werewolf, stab them with a silver weapon during the change, and rip their heart out ” I looked back at uncle john and angus, who were angrily stabbing questions at the boy who was in obvious pain. “that’s kind of a long process isn’t it? I mean is it really that hard to kill a werewolf?” he carefully said “true, but we protect people for the most part from you know, vampires and other things.”

He looked at me.before continuing “Look there are four types of werewolves, you have the endarkened, the lycans, the enlightened and finally the purebreds Aka pure bloods, you following?” I nodded as I drank up the new information. 

He continued saying “now there is a form of hierarchy in packs. At the top are the purebreds, below them are the enlightened, now below the enlightened are the lycans, and at the bottom are the endarkened”. Endarkened sounded pretty scary 

“what are endarkened?” he sighed “endarkend are kind of like dark versions of werewolves that love to hunt. And I don’t mean deer, hunt as in people they hunt and eat. A lot of times they hunt just to terrorize people and scare other packs but they are afraid of purebreds for the simple fact they are weaker than us.” 

I nodded “okay so you are a purebred? So your like a good werewolf?” he grinned “actually you and me both are purebreds” Everything was becoming clearer to me as we talked more and more.

 “so Wes what are lycans?” john interrupted us “Wesley take Skylar to her room and keep her there. shut the windows and curtains, I don’t want her watching us dispose of this blood sucker. Clare and Kyle will be standing guard outside while Logan, angus and I get rid  of this guy” he kicked the bloody and blistered vampire in the lungs which he never used anyways. 

Wesley grabbed my hand ( and I let him ) and he led me to the garage and into my room where he and I sat on the bed.Only because I didn’t really have much other furniture.

 I looked out the window, the sun was beginning to set. “ to answer your question Sky, a lycan is a werewolf who cannot shapeshift completely, he stays in stage two when attempting to change.”

I took my shoes off and my leather jacket and sat my shoes on the floor and slung the jacket over the head board. “ what are the stages?” he stood up and took his leather jacket off and sat it on the bed before falling back on it.

“when becoming a werewolf there are three stages: one the meta stage, your eyes change, your bottom fangs grow, and side burns usually come in. females don’t have it, but oh boy do the girls have claws.”

“well second stage is beta : your body gets mostly covered in hair and your muscles are expanded and your body is half way shifted into a wolf and you stand on hind legs or all fours and your hands aren’t completely paws yet. Now the final stage is alpha: you completely change into your wolf form, now the only thing that distinguishes you in rank is your eye color and A marking somewhere on your body. 

Now green eyes are pure breds on any demeanor. Alphas have orange and betas have yellow eyes. Now markings go full moon for beta. A star for purebred, and a crescent shaped moon for alphas. Regular omegas don’t have marks. And that is our wolf guide” he looked over and smiled at me. 

I smiled back and he raised his hand and barely grazed my cheek. “get some sleep beautiful, I know you must be tired” I nodded as he stood and retrieved his jacket “i'll go sleep in the living room” I stood and grabbed his wrist “ there’s nowhere to sleep in there though, I mean you’ll hurt your back. I don’t want you to sleep in the floor” 

He turned around and got close to my face and whispered “do you want me to sleep here then?” I blushed like crazy not knowing if he was joking or not. His serious look broke away and he started grinning. “I'll just sleep in wolf form it's fine it will be like a dog sleeping on your floor but a lot bigger”. 

The excess color started to fade from my cheeks as he walked to the door. He smiled and walked out the door. A few minutes later I saw a large wolf head poke itself through the door way and lay in my floor by the door. 

I went to the bathroom with my dads football jersey and my underwear. I changed into my pajamas and walked back out to see a wolf sitting on my bed. It of course had black curly fur and green eyes. It was wes, on my bed, as a big ass wolf. I sighed and pulled my cover back and lay down a foot from the wolf. He made a sighing noise and lay his head down near my leg. I pulled my knees up to my chest and fell asleep.