The Naive Mate of a Werewolf

Chapter Ten: We Are (not) the Same

Klyie's P.O.V

Dawn was awake now and playing with some of her toys. She looked around. “Daddy?” She was really close with her father and spent most of her time with him since Carissa did the majority of ruling their kingdom.

I walked to her and picked her up. “He’s gonna come back in the morning.” I locked my door and sat on my bed with her. I blew a little fire near but away from her for comfort. The flames and its warmth reminded her of her father. Sometimes I think Dawn loves being around me because I’m what both of her parents are, maybe I reminded her of both of them.

When I heard a knock I put Dawn down and gave her a dragon stuffed animal and the picture of me and her mom to keep her happy. I walked to the door and opened it, Casey was at the door. “Hey Kylie.” She greeted then saw Dawn “Aaaw she’s the cutest thing!” She ran over to her but Dawn got up and waddled away and crawled under the bed. 

I chuckled and closed the door. “She’s easily startled, she’s my niece I'm watching her for the day.” I grabbed her from under the bed and put her on top. “Let’s start.”

Casey nodded. “Yeah I thought she looked fae.” She giggled and sat on the bed next to Dawn who still had her stuffed dragon in her arms. “Okay so you should probably know our problems with the werewolves first. They used to force our successors to cast spells for them, they’ve oppressed us in this town since our great great grandparents arrived. They push us around and act like they own us. They don’t run the town; we have a council of representatives of each group so they shouldn’t act like they’re so much more in control than we are.” She had fair points. 

I wrote down notes as she spoke. “We probably can’t get apologies but we can come to an agreement about how they treat you guys and maybe they’ll try to stop. This is just the first steps of the process.”

“Are you and their alpha hooking up?”

My chest got heavy and my face was as red as a tomato. “No… we’re here to talk about how we can progress the overall relationship between the two groups and the wolves not my s*x life Casey…” 

“Yah but we’re friends it doesn't all have to be business.” She smiled and it made me feel a lot less lonely, I guess she made me feel like I actually fit in with her. Not because we’re both fae but because with Casey I didn’t need to be an elf or a dragon or a hybrid just like with my mate around the two of them I could be Kylie.

I opened my mouth to answer her previous question but Isaac walked in which pretty much answered the question itself. “Ky I-” He stopped when he saw Casey then looked back at me. “Just came by to check in, I got everyone together in the conference room, we’re gonna talk among ourselves for half an hour so I’ll see you then.” After he updated us he left.

Casey started laughing. “Wow, he really played that off well.”

“What do you mean?” I was confused about why she was laughing. “He was just updating us, what's funny?”

She slowly stopped laughing to talk.”No, you didn’t see the look of disappointment and annoyance when he saw me, He stopped what he was saying, he probably wanted a quick-” She stopped talking when I threw a pillow at her and she laughed. 

“We aren’t doing that stuff, we’ve never kissed or anything.” That much was true. “He doesn't really like me in that way. We’ve just been hanging out.” I lied but sometimes I wonder if that is just what it is, maybe he only wanted to hangout with me because how the mate bond made him feel and he didn't have actual romantic feelings for me.

We heard a light knock on the door. “Come in” Casey said.

The door creaked open and it was Brent. “Hello.” He walked over to us so I got serious again started asking Brent some questions about how spell casters felt about werewolves. “The same as the magic users I’d assume. They forced our people to do spells for them, they push us around in general. They place down these rules so they can stay on top.”

I nodded and put down any notes I needed and we left to the conference room. I had to bring Dawn along since I’m babysitting her, hopefully it’s not an issue. On the way to the conference room we saw the alpha walking down the hallway and it made me really uneasy I just didn't know why. Once we got into the room we all sat down but Dawn kept trying to get my mates attention. “Hi, Hi!” She giggled and reached for him.

I sighed. “Hold on.” I reached into my bag for her and gave her a sippy cup and her dragon plushy so she’d calmly down and forget about Isaac so we could start our meeting. Me, Casey and Brent were on one side of the long rectangular shaped table, Bay, Ron, and John on the other and Issac at one of the ends.

Everyone was just staring at Dawn, elvish babies had a mesmerizing glow to them, any fae baby did so me and Casey were used to it but not the rest. Isaac cleared his throat and it got everyone’s attention. Bay spoke instead of Isaac. “Let’s get this over with, what exactly are you demanding? That we magically get along?” Her tone was snarky and what made it worse was her nails clacking against the table while she said it.

Brent decided to speak next. “We want restrictions lifted and to be treated as equals.” He demanded

Casey nodded. “Our magical abilities should not be exploited by you guys anymore.”

Issac looked bored, he was staring at Bay the whole time and it made me jealous. I know he wasn’t pushing for everyone to get along like I was but he wasn’t even looking at me.

Ron the Delta shrugged. “I don’t see how this benefits us.”

John the gamma nodded. “If you guys deserve to be treated equally then why don’t just show us, unless you can’t then you’re not equal. We’re stronger that’s just a fact.”

“Not as strong as we’d be with the Ra orb.Get us that and maybe we’d care enough.” Ron said and both him and John laughed.

Roman's body language changed when they mentioned the orb, he looked like he really started to think. Issac still didn’t react or say anything, like he was a kid who was forced to be here and that distracted me.

Bay glared at me when she realized I was staring at Isaac instead of pay attention to what everyone else was saying. “Hello?? You wanted this meet, at least be apart of it.” I hated to admit it but she was right I needed to stop focusing on my mate.

I felt my heart beating against my chest, this wasn’t going well and I wasn’t sure what to do, I recalled all the lessons I got on negotiation but it was blank, this would never happen to Carissa. I was so unsure and my mate wasn’t helping the situation. “We don’t have to be our parents, let’s think for ourselves, we aren't that different.” I’m definitely not my sister, She got two entire species to get along and stopped a war between two kingdoms. Being only a year older than I am now and I couldn’t even get four small groups at a high school to get along. 

Bay laughed. “You guys have wings, pointy ears, magic coming out of your finger tips, you’re fragile creatures who don’t even belong on a non magical plane. We are strong, agile and powerful.”

Brent stood up. “You might have originated from this plane but so did witches, we’re more human than you’ll ever be. The reason you’re so strong and powerful is because of magic, the moon goddess incorporated magic wh-”

John stood up and growled at him. “Don’t stand there and try to tell us about our goddess!” 

Brent backed up a bit. “You put down magic but you are magic, that’s how you can shape shift your entire mass into completely different physical entity. It’s not exactly earthy natural, you don’t see something from the earth like elves shifting.” I looked away and Ron stood up angry but Brent continued, this was the most I've seen Brent speak. “Or something created without a natural source of magic like humans shifting.”

Isaac finally realized what was going on. “Stand down.” He ordered Ron and John and they did. He turned to me with a blank expression, I don't know why but he couldn't even look me straight in the eyes. “We’re done here right?”

I frowned. “No, no we still can come to an understanding.” Casey got up. “Wait guys.” They started walking to the door and everyone else got up to. I felt so terrible, I think Dawn could sense it because at that exact moment she had a hiccup. A dragon's tail appeared and she blew fire as if she sneezed. I felt paralyzed that she did that and all eyes were on us. “She’s… a hybrid, her mother is my sister, she's an elf but her father is a dragon shifter.” I explained worried and Dawn went back to normal.

Everyone looked around at each other than at Dawn. I realized at that moment that hybrids meant something, that species so different actually could get along. “Let’s continue this Monday.” Ron suggested and we all agreed except Bay but she didn't try to convince anyone, none of us said anything else to each other.

I got a second chance and I wasn’t going to waste it.