Santuary of love

(B2: Hiana) Chapter 4

      Veronica looked at the two men who seemed to not know where to start the dialogue. It had been a strange dinner. They had eaten almost in silence, the little conversation had to do with the situation of some children, the growing teenagers, and their interests, of course, the needs of clothing for the future cold weather. After dinner everyone sat in the small living room, surrounded by a dead silence. That night Armatos for the first time seemed to want to run away in the opposite direction. A man who from boy had put himself in front of the problems. He always was looking to work out all the crap that life had placed in his life.

     “Now gentlemen explain that f**k, it is happening.” Derek just looked at the floor and showed his neck as if waiting for someone to rip it off, which was ridiculous, since after climbing several different stairs during the day, she was with her foot up and unable to stand up from the damn chair. It was strange, it wasn't bloated, and it wasn't exactly in pain, the discomfort she felt it in the same way in different parts of her body. She had left those details as a secondary effect of the fall. The only problem? The thing did not improve with time. 

      “Veronica... I swear we have been looking for information… away... well... it has been difficult. The thing is that we believe we can have a Laycan close to the cabin of Doña Carlota. And that was what bit you?” Armatos seemed to want to jump at the growl of Veronica who looked at him defiantly. 

      “Okay? Let's say I understand the language you are using Armatos. I start by asking what... well what the hell is a Laycan. That doesn’t tell me anything. Even more, is not an answer to why both of you smell so good for me. There is no doubt that something is happening. I think I not that I would like to eat any of you. Although my imagination is driving me crazy.” Both men looked at each other in silence. Veronica's wandering thoughts did not bode well, but they hoped to have some answers for her by this time. But the information was very little. Replies to her questions a week ago would have been impossible, to which both agreed according to their looks. “Could you two stop doing that s**t, I'm tired of you just talking thru your looks and I continue without understanding what happens between them.” 

      “No need to upset you, remember what the doctor tells you. No fussing.” Armatos smile has lost some watts in brilliance.   

      “Armatos if you do not want me to throw the water glass over your head, start to explain that you want to say with one Laycan in the mountain and do not forget: Why you two smell good? 

      “Well... the truth is that it is... a long story.” Armatos say looking at his side, where Derek was pale. Derek keeps moving his leg with nerves she hadn’t forgotten that he didn’t look at her eyes for days.

      “That is no problem, tell me what's important, I have plenty of time trapped in this chair. Or at least until you kill my patience, after that I don’t promise anything. The truth... I want to know what happens. Why he was n***d… damn it that was weird, and I know it was not a dream.” Armatos affirm smiling to his sister, he knew that could never be a good excuse with her.    

      “I met Derek nine years ago, I was getting my second master in administration. We share some groups of interest. We start dating. After a little bit we ended, not in a very good way, or in a way that I could understand what was happening at the time. Two years later an i***t, after graduation some people got to my home and took me with… o damn… with his family, I think. 

      “How the hell didn't I hear about that? Armatos...”   

      “Relax Vero, I met those who took care of Derek, not in a very good way, but enough so that he could survive, even with everything against him. There I discovered that they had legal problems, and a lot of them didn’t have official papers, I offered to help in exchange for Derek could get out of their group. At the time Derek is the son of two different paranormals, was not accepted by the community.” Armatos wait a little bit, Veronica looks him as he had grown a third eye.   

      “Ok, Derek is never going to go back with those assholes. What do you mean by two paranormal?”

      “Until now I only knew of the existence of men who change the form, in the case of Derek, wolves and the existence of God, and others... as elves, fairies, and vampires. The latter was Derek's father, providing the mix. As they explained to me, it is not normal that he had would have grown to adulthood. These children, hybrid children, tend to be killed at birth or soon after. 

      “Ok... you are telling me that there are others...                     

not humans, killing baby’s?” Armatos realized that he had lost her before he could explain the real problem they had. That what would happen when you put Veronica in front of a problem with children. Se would surely forget everything else.

      “Other species... Veronica the point is the information you ask us.” Armatos looked like Veronica's face was contorted and the nails sharpened, her wolf was very close to the surface. 

      “Species... they kill children for these being... 

DIFFERENT...!!!! Okay, Derek, you have more work. We must do something for those children. These s**t stop now.” Veronica wanted to kill someone. How they dare to do something so atrocious.

      “Thanks, Veronica, you don't know how important your words are. The problem for you at this moment put your life in the line.” Veronica heard Armatos last words, his voice had been monotonous, perhaps to get away from the pain she could see in his eyes. He has put on his lawyer's face trying to not show his emotions. She on her side wanted to rip off some heads. She tries to take a deep breath, attempting to remove the gore images that were strolling in her brain... “Veronica what I try to tell you is that Derek was born as part of another species. Well two species, to be exact. Now the problem with you... these species do not infect humans, contrary to popular belief. You cannot change a human being to be like Derek, a wolf, or a vampire. Which is a long term benefit the world, compared to humans’ lives and death, regularly before getting to our hundred birthday. Plus, our birth rate in them would be a nightmare, the last centuries having a child once every fifty years. Now the birth rate has been a problem for them, there are fewer births of the pure type. They still don’t accept the babies from mixed couples.” Armatos took the hand of Derek, he was waiting for the answer of Veronica to that point.    

      “I'm thinking at this point to send you to a psychiatrist nearby. Ok, and I are going to be close to you… because I’m believing all this. What the f**k is all this? What of the children I want to understand... I think. As a point apart... what is that about changing a human being? I’m so confused.” Veronica changes the focus of her eyes, there was something inside her telling her that all of these were true. But why she focuses only on those babies… pups… Veronica started to breathe more strongly trying to get out of that nightmare.  

      “Please calm down, the truth is that these weeks we have in our hands a full moon and you... if you cannot control your wolf, you would die.” Armatos look at her hands, the got long nails that appear of nowhere.   

      “What? You're f*****g with me... right?” 

      “No, that's what we're trying to tell you. The children of these species tend to have humans or others like them. However, when two humans unite with wolf genetics in them it can be born from them: a Laycan. The only one with the ability to turn a human into a wolf, that according to the ancient texts. Derek was investigating and this is almost impossible, but it has happened before. Nearly two thousand years ago, these babies are rejected by the herd and take to humans, sometimes they don’t know about their connection with shapeshifters. Moreover, when born without the knowledge of the pack, they do not understand the shifter that could be born from them. We believe that what bit you on the wrist is the first Laycan in centuries. 

      “s**t, the truth is you tow are completely crazy.” Veronica tried to stand, but the look Armatos threw to Derek 's stopped her. She knew that look; she knew very well what it meant: “This is not all.” 

     “I know we haven't told you yet why Derek was n***d when he found you.” Do you want to see the reason?” Veronica didn’t understand the reason why she agrees, but the discomfort that normally took anybody seen someone taking their clothes off was not there. Maybe because she had seen all, but the thought causes a little discomfort, not the act but the absence of some rejection of her part. Would all that be a dream? Shortly after her reality turned it legs up. In a couple of blinks, she had a beautiful huge wolf in the middle of her living room, exactly where Derek had been a few seconds earlier. Veronica lifted her lip and growled without power to avoid it, more even knowing the reason, she wanted to go in four at the floor and squeeze the neck of the wolf between her teeth. The wolf threw himself to the ground, showing his neck and belly, as he groaned submissive. “Well, that is clear. You are an alpha wolf or as they are called within a pack when they are female, dominant. We just must wait for the full moon and pray that you do not lose your sanity.

      “WHAT!!!!!” The shouted of Veronica caused the wolf moan with more strength. 

      “Ok, here goes the difficult thing dear, on the next moon a wolf will be in your place, if we don't get you to join her in your first twelve hours, we can lose you. According to the legend, the wolves turned by the Laycans tend to be much more aggressive than those who are born in a pack. Derek and I have concluded that this is due to the fight between the human mind and the wolf. According to the information that we were able to recover from the ancient texts, in that part we were lucky, Derek family has kept the records. We do not want eyes of any pack looking in our direction, nor in these forests. For now, we have been able to justify the search for information, in an attempt to help Derek better in a new environment, but I don't think that will help us for long.” Armatos stroked the head of the wolf, hoping to control the shiver that landed on his back. Having enemies’ eyes in that forest would be very bad news for the wolf and Veronica. “You have to understand that when you are born with this duality, there is not a conflict, good at most given cases. The human children, have senses more developed, sensitive hearing, smell and taste refined... but not the abnormal strength of their parents and many more the instinct of hunting.” Armatos looked at Derek and smiled at him, he was beautiful. The wolf ended the crawling to where he was and found a place almost covering all his body, waist down. He was a wolf that looks Armatos with... love?

      “Shit... You knew that something was weird. That is why your smell is all mixed up, one to the other, you are one couple... But why you smell so good for me?” Veronica was confused, she never had look at her brothers like that. She didn’t like guys… or girls. What the hell?

      “Yes, but we are much more, we are part of a whole, we are soulmates. The reason we smell good to you is that we are part of your pack. I must say that at this third encounter and with his freedom, Derek could admit that I am his life companion. According to the Alfa Marcus, of whom I was speaking, it is the first time a wolf shifter is paired with a man by the Moiras. But Derek has always been the breaking of the rules with its existence, we cannot leave him in the old rules.  We are both satisfied that we can be together again.” Derek shifted again before her eyes and hugged Armatos tightly. Veronica sighed, accepting that they both looked beautiful together, happy and that Derek deserved to be taken care of. 

     “Ok, what should I expect on the full moon. 

      “It depends on how clear our information is. The truth is no one knows. Remember that it is the first time in centuries that we have had a Laycan, it is also the first for this type of change, at this time we just hope for you do not go crazy. We have a week to help you find and accept your inner wolf. On the other part, we should find the Laycan. He cannot remain free in the forest, yours could well have been an accident, but who knows.” Veronica nodded even when she felt like she had been hit in the head and thrown into Alicia's hole, or the damn mirror. She had to read the novel again if she had some time, she only remembers the films. A yawn took her by surprise, and the image of her sleeping between the two men seemed somewhat normal. That was weird, she never had wanted to share her bed with anyone. More than strange, a crazy thought!

      “That's the face of someone who has an idea and doesn't like it...” Derek's whispered words made Veronica shiver. 

      “What were you thinking?” Armatos 's looking worried or scared... If only he knew... 

      “I don't understand why it seems good to sleep with you. No sex... but something like a pile of puppies seems correct to me. I have never liked sleeping with someone next to me. 

      “Your body is trying to heal, and your instinct tells a way to heal quickly,” Derek whispered into the neck of Armatos, which make him smile.

      “OK? Pajama party...” the laughter of Veronica did not hide the fear, but not had a way to avoid laughing at the face of the mischievous face of Armatos and the face of scare Derek had was something more to think about. For that mischievous smile on the lips of her best friend, she was willing to spend a strange night.