The mysterious mate

Motive

Henry, despite all the stress and the fear of losing his friend, found himself in an unstoppable giggle. How did she always end up in weird situations like this one? He got a scolding look from Ethan and pulled himself together. She then explained how Jeremy told her about Jazz and she wanted to investigate why she was taken. After a little talk about not trespassing on private property, some apologies to Charles, Ethan asked what she had found. She then put everything on the floor. Starting with the picture. Charles explained that this was the party when Penny announced her pregnancy to her mate, Nathan. She then got excited and pulled Donna-jo's and Fatima's files from her mirror saying that the word pregnancy came out twice.

Charles: It is... VERY illegal to read medical files like that. I can't loose my... Alpha, will I lose my job?

Ethan shook his head. She didn't know anything about not reading those, so he tried to calmly tell her to never do it again and ask Charles directly next time she wanted to do this kind of stuff. She apologized again to Charles.

Charles: No biggie... yeah no it's fine. You, looking in private documents is fine, I mean... I do too.

Dracy: Great. I also found this!

Charles rolled his eyes in desperation. Ethan also had to explain sarcasm and she really could not do it again. She apologized a numerous of times, promising to never do it again.

Charles: All right... all right. Now, while you were there, what did you find?

She pulled the white stick she found in the trash and gave it to Ethan, who didn't dare to touch it. Instead, Charles snatched it from her hands. His eyes watered, his breathing fastened and his legs gave out.

Charles: Oh ... She .. Oh, my goddess. I'm gonna be a dad. No, she's gone. I won't be a dad ... Oh, my goddess. What do I do?

Ethan: Henry, gather every one, every pregnant wolf should be protected and escorted. For further questions, talk to me.

Henry nodded and left, mind-linking the pack for a meeting. Ethan crouched to meet Darcy's eyes and simply said "Good job, baby. Now let's find a way to catch that demon.

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Once they got back to Ethan's office, Charles became so eager to find his mate. He became somewhat excited, tireless and hyperactive. Moving and pacing at a rapid pace. He took a book and looked at it for a while before screaming something about the book being in French and wanting to ask Dr. Tremblay to read them. Ethan had already asked and got a book for him to read. Darcy had round eyes that followed the zooming of Charles while holding the sapphire ball in her hands. She could not concentrate on anything with this many disturbances next to her and Ethan began to get tired of his sudden behavior, yet he understood his pain. If the demon had taken Darcy, he would have lost his mind too. He tried to calm him down, but Charles became even more upset, wondering why he was so calm despite the horrible situation they were in. He began talking fast, too fast, and his heart was pumping in and out of his chest like in cartoons. He cried, he screamed, he snapped at Darcy who was just sitting there, he paced, screamed again, wallowed, paced faster and snapped at her again when suddenly he fell right down on the floor. Darcy looked at him in silence, wondering what had just happened, until she saw a claw mark on him and the cat, stretching next to his inert body.

Ethan massaged his temples, when he saw the cat he rolled his eyes and crouched next to it.

Ethan: Of course you'd do that, you little ... Macaroni!

Darcy: Mustard...

Ethan: I KNOW!

She flinched, bringing her knees to her chest. Ethan softened up with guilt, kneeled, pulled her legs back down and placed his head on her lap. Her heart calmed down after she buried her hand in his hair to massage his scalp. He kept caressing her sides and apologized for snapping at her like this. He needed a win. Only one would suffice. He couldn't handle it. He thought he had become the worst Alpha in history. He couldn't protect his pack, his best friends, nor his mate. He felt like a failure. How would he be able to keep being an Alpha if he couldn't handle a "simple" demon? He was doing well during the vampire strike. How could he fail like this over a demon? He felt like crying, but the touch of his mate calmed him down. His inner wolf begged him to reach out to her. He lifted his head to snuggle with her chest while she kept caressing his hair. Eventually, he lifted his chin and met her lips in a slight kiss. Seeing no sign of struggle and her black pearl shining in tenderness, he combed her hair with his finger and brought her closer to meet him in a passionate kiss. From his lips, she could feel his pain, his love, his desire to make it all better. She kissed him with all her might before breaking it because the cat kept meowing for attention. Ethan let his head fall on her lap again in deception, but stood up when he saw Mustard with something in his mouth. Et joined the cat and forced open its mouth to take it out.

Ethan: Don't eat just anything you stupid cat!

A peace of chalk fell on the floor, bringing Darcy's attention. Once she picked it up, Mustard fled from Ethan's grasp and tried to pull the heavy carpet away with its weak little mouth. She understood the assignment and pulled the two armchairs off the carpet. Seeing this, Ethan began to help her by taking Charles and putting him on the floor next to the door. She then lifted the carpet and pulled it to a corner. The cat walked in circle in front of Ethan's desk repeatedly. That's went she started to draw in chalk the pattern the cat drew with its passage. At first, it looked like nothing, but eventually, Darcy realized it was some kind of pentacle. A pattern made to do something, but she didn't know what. When she was done, the cat tried to put back the carpet, so they did in a way that the drawing would not be damaged. It was heavy. Darcy almost dropped it a couple of times, but once everything came back in place it was like nothing happened.

Ethan: Now what?

Darcy seemed confused as to why her cat did this. Mustard walked to where would appear to be the middle of the incantation and walked around where the drawing was without exceeding the pattern. He meowed, tried to put its paw out, but seemed like it could not. Darcy looked at Ethan with an excited light in her eyes.

Darcy: It's a trap! The trap Oliver didn't have time to show me! That's it!

Ethan: What? Why the demon would come in my office.

Darcy: Because the demon took possession of someone! That someone has to be in this manor, someone that eventually will come in your office, and then we'll know exactly who it is, and we could go to the west wing without any problems, since the bad guy would be trapped here!

Ethan: Why go to the west wing? If the demon is trapped here, we should kill the guy he possesses.

Darcy: "The guy" could be anyone. For all we know, it could be anybody and killing the vessel will just kill the vessel. We need its name. The demon was probably released somewhere in the west wing, which means there is a book! Which means we can find out its name and a way to send it back to hell!

Ethan stayed silent for a while seeing his mate excited and talking this much for the first time since she got there. He found her incredible and smiled. He then crouched and petted the cat "good job".

Ethan: Yeah, well... we still need the demon to come here.