The Alpha's Human Mate

The Attack

Peter came out of his musings when he heard the sound of breaking glass. He glanced to where his daughter was standing, her eyes round in fright; looking at the broken clear vase in pieces on the brown wooden floor. Her hands still clutching her pink Disney princess's backpack as she raised her eyes to her father. Lilly picked up her daughter and her backpack and walked over to the two-seater couch near the big windows and sat down with Gemma on her lap.

Peter walked over to his daughter and looked at his fingers, his worry that she may have a glass cut apparent even though she had not been near nor touched any of the broken pieces. He caressed her left cheek lovingly with one hand as he looked at his daughter.

" Are you OK Pumpkin? What were you looking for in the backpack?"

"Mr Shuddles. He gets scared without me" Gemma replied, her little body shaking from the shock of the accident. Peter looked at Lily in question, only to be met with her worried blue eyes. She darted a look towards the kitchen and bit her bottom pink lip. Peter realized that in her hurry to bring their daughter into the house safely, she had left the stuffed elephant in the garden.

Peter straightened up and took a step forward toward the kitchen area when he was suddenly pulled back. He turned around to see that Lily had grabbed his hand and was shaking her head, causing her hair to fall out further from her messy bun. She bit her lips in worry as tears gathered in her eyes. He opened his mouth let her know he would only be a minute when suddenly The Pirates of the Caribbean tune played out from the mobile phone in his hand.

"Jon" Peter said as he answered his phone

"Peter, we just turned into your road and two minutes away"

"We are ready" Peter said as he closed the call. He looked at Lily who had just zipped up Gemma in her soft pink parka jacket and closed her backpack before going to put it with the other few bags which were now at the bottom of the stairs.

Peter quickly went to the small cloakroom beside the main door and picked up his black woollen jacket while grabbing his own black duffle bag. He then grabbed his red gym bag and placed it along with the other bags just as he saw two large black Land Rovers pull up in front of the main door from the Corner of his eyes. He quickly opened the door and walked out to the front step just as the first car door opened and Jon came out.

                       He walked up to Peter and grabbed him in a one arm hug as the pack's beta Liam and his wife Carrie went into the house. The second car's door opened and some of the best pack fighter came out to watch guard with their leader and the alpha's third, Owen Thorn. His 6'2 bulky frame looked poised for a fight as he nodded in respect at Peter before fanning out to take a protective stance.

Liam and another pack member along with Peter started to grab the bags from the living room and store them in the car. As they worked systematically and worked out the best way to pack the car, Jon walked into the living room and smiled warmly at the little girl who was asking her mother if her aunty Heather would make her some fish finger sandwiches.

"Hi pumpkin" Jon said, opening his arms open for the cuddle he knew she would give. Gemma squealed in delight as she ran to him and was lifted and thrown in the air before being caught in his secure loving arms.

"Uncle alpha can I have some fish finger sandwiches?" she asked, her mischievous smile lighting up the otherwise sombre atmosphere.

"You can have anything you want pumpkin. In fact i already know that aunty Heather had started making the sandwiches when I left the house" Jon confirmed, his heart melting at her innocent demand.

Carrie walked into the house, up to Lily and grabbed her in for a hug. Lily softly sniffed as she whispered into Carrie's ear quietly.

"It's all my fault" She said, her eyes watering "I did this, I bought this on us. Promise me that you will protect her"

Carrie pulled away from Lily and looked towards the alpha who looked to be only interested in the conversation he was having with Gemma who was describing her recent tea party. Carrie looked back at Lily and touched her arm in affection.

"Nothing is going to happen to you. I won’t let it"

"Promise me! Promise that you will protect her over me. That you won't let her live as I did" Carrie shook her head sadly as she realized the demand her best friend was making. She looked away from Lily's eyes and huffed out a breath.

"Lily-"

"Promise...me" Lily stressed out the words "that you will protect her...Vo-Suie" Lily whispered softly so only Carrie could hear.

                            Carrie stiffened in shock at the ancient word spoken. Demanded. Carrie's body shook from the force that word set in her body, she looked at lily's eyes, and she found that it was Kiora who was looking back at her. Carrie's eyes watered for a moment before she blinked a couple of times. Finally, looking at her friend, she bought her second wolf to the surface and her eyes changed to the lavender colour; the colour only someone of Lily's power could see.

"She's the only one that matters here" Kiora said to Carrie through mind-link while she grabbed onto Carrie's pale hands and squeezed them with her own trembling tanned, well manicured ones. Carrie sadly nodded as she realized that both Lily and Kiora had come to the same decision and would not be deterred. They would not have it any other way, and she could not deny them their demand.

"I promise... WiOfa" Carrie whispered back in mind-link to them both.

Lily's eyes changed back to herself, and she gave a watery smile as Carrie hugged her again. They both turned in time to see Liam and Peter come back into the house and the alpha looking at both the two women in quiet contemplation, one of his eyebrows raised in question to their huddled conversation as he handed a delighted Gemma back to her father who opened his arms in welcome. Lily blushed and picked up her own black coat from the couch and put it on, her hand grabbing a small red velvet pouch from the side of her purse and putting it into her coat pocket.

"That's it. Everything's packed" Liam said in his strong Scottish voice as he looked at the group in front of them. He pinched his head and groaned "No offence mate but can we get the fu-" Jon and Peter cleared their throat as they reminded Liam of innocent ears around them. Liam blushed as he looked away from his glaring wife and changed what he was going to say.

"Uh… I mean can we go now. Too much wolfs bane is starting to make me feel sick. I don't know how you can stand the stuff" he grimsed.

Carrie and Lily grabbed the last bag's and walked out as Peter locked up the house, and they separated into different car's with Jon, Carrie, Lily and Gemma in the first Land Rover and Peter and the warriors in the one behind. Lily looked sadly at the house and realized this was it. This was she saw in her dreams all those years ago. This is what it all came down to.

As the car's started to drive off, she knew it would be a good fifteen minutes before they even made it near to the town centre. After marrying Peter and moving to Galashiels, the small and quaint little town in the Scottish Borders; Lily had fallen in love with the house seven years ago. She had been sceptic about joining the Red Rock pack when she first encountered them almost twelve years ago when they all met at the same university. Her life took a dramatic turn when she met Peter. A full human who, at the beginning didn't even know supernatural existed as most humans don't. She could still remember the shock of meeting them all after years, no decades of hiding.

But she couldn't wish it any different. Not when she had the love of her life. Two love's of her life. She looked at Gemma and lovingly brushed a few of her blonde strands of hair away from her face, reached into her pocket and took out the velvet pouch.

"Hey pumpkin" she whispered "Look what I have for you" She took out the silver necklace with the moon pendent in the middle and showed it to her daughter who was looking at it awe. She saw Carrie look at her from the Corner of her eyes, but she continued on in a soft voice.

"It's a special pendent for a special girl. It's magical" Lily said as she took the moon pendent into her hands and with her fingers twisted it. It separated into two pieces. The part with the chain looked like a half moon shape while the other part was of the full moon which slotted into place to make one big moon pendent. Gemma looked at the necklace in awe as she reverently touched it. Lily put it on her daughter's neck and arranged her hair around it.

Gemma tried to copy her mother's action to try separate the two parts but unable to. In her frustration, she stuck out her little tongue from the side of her mouth and kept on trying. Lily watched her daughter try, knowing that she had to let her figure it out on her own; knowing that if she was wrong then she could be there for her. Oh, how she wished that her daughter couldn't reveal the secret of the pendent. Seeing her daughter's frustration mount and her concentration rise, Lily for a moment started to believe that maybe everyone had got it wrong. That maybe it wasn't Gemma. That the seer's had got it wrong all those years ago and that -

Suddenly Gemma laughed in delight as she was able to separate the pieces just as her mother showed her. Gemma showed her mother proudly as she repeated the action a few times to show she now could do the same trick without any problem. Lily smiled as she watched her daughter put it back together again. Suddenly Gemma started to twist the pendant in a different way to how her mother showed her and Lily frowned as she started to reach for the necklace.

"No pumpkin, you -" Lily let out a small gasp as her eyes took in the scene before her. Her daughter's happy face looked at her with triumph. Gemma had rejoined the pieces together and with another twist from the other side of the pendants, two small dots appeared. Glowing blue and lavender a small circle appeared on the same side of the pendent but one at each Corner. Lily looked up at Carrie's face only to see that she had turned pale.

Carrie stiffened and started scanning the wooded area with more concentration as she shook slightly from what she had witnessed.

"Remember your promise Vo-Suie" Lily mind-linked sadly.

"Daddy look look!!" Gemma squealed in excitement as she pulled the pendent from her neck to show her father.

Peter turned round and looked at his daughter. He paled as she saw the necklace and turned his deep blue eyes to look at Lily as the implication of the necklace hit him. He tried to speak and found he couldn't. Clearing his throat he looked back at his beaming daughter.

"That...that's gorgeous pumpkin. But I think mummy was meant to wait-"

"She needs it now" Lily interrupted quietly, her voice trembling as she turned her own watery blue eyes to her husband. Peter shook his head and reached with one hand to capture Lily's hand in his as he squeezed her fingers.

"No" he said softly, his heartbreaking at what was being left unsaid.

"I'm going to show it to Max and Maddie. Mark doesn't like girly stuff, so I won’t show him, but Max always listen because he is like alpha Jon and Maddie is my best friend, and she likes the same things as me" Gemma said excitedly. Her innocent voice hinting at her plans once she meets her friends.

"Lily-" Peter started

"Look out!!!" Carrie shouted before the car was hit from the left side. Jon swerved the car to the right as Gemma's terrified screams filled the car. Jon swore viciously as he put the car back in the middle of the road, knowing that a big dent would now be on the left side of his car. Carrie's amber eyes flashed as she took in more wolves coming towards the car from the left; masses of browns and grey coloured fur could be seen moving as one as they chased the car.

Jon looked in the review mirror and saw the second car already had it's left side mirror dangling by one wire while the left passenger side door seemed to be bent it. He groaned at the thought of trying to get both these cars's fixed. These were custom-made paints and that meant someone up in either Edinburgh or a trip near the border of England for repair work. Just as Jon was going to escalate the car, the front tiers blew. His back window smashed as a grey wolf managed to get his snout part way into the car; it's front two paws gripping on with its lethal claws, trying to get further in.

Gemma screamed as Lily grabbed her daughter, tucked her head into her lap and raised her right hand. With a few choice words, she blasted the wolf with a white and blue energy causing the wolf to yelp in pain and fall back out of the window Jon's eyes widened as he tried to control the car and realized that more wolves had blocked the road up ahead.

"Are you really just gonna hit them?" Peter asked, his eyes wild as he looked between Jon and the wolves on the street. He glanced about as he realized that no other cars except these two were on the road. Just as Jon opened his mouth, the roof of the car dented in.

"What the f**k?" Peter gasped as he looked up at the continual sound of banging as someone tried to get in through the roof. Carrie pushed Lily and Gemma down as Jon tried to control the car which had now started swerving all over the place. Suddenly a small hole was ripped opened and a hand with sharp nails came through; trying to grab any body that was close to the roof.

Carrie ripped into the hand with her hands and teeth which had now partly shifted to wolf. She threw out a chunk of skin when the creature above shrieked. Gemma's eyes turned as she growled in anger.

"Vampire!!" She hissed.

Lily looked at her wide-eyed as she held onto her daughter. Carrie Suddenly was grabbed and pulled through the hole which had been punched bigger, dragging her out of the moving car. Jon slammed on the brakes just as Carried launched herself further, surprising her attacker as they both flipped over the moving vehicle and fell to the road. The car behind had stopped a fair bit back as they saw the scene before them. Liam shouted for his mate as the wolves got out of the car but before he could reach his mate, further wolves blocked their way.

Their growls menacing as they moved closer to attack. Liam and the warriors shifted, their bodies twisting and contorting as fur sprouted out of their skins. Liam and Owen growled a warning to the rouges as they moved forward together. One of the rouges, clearly the leader of this group, howled before the full gang ran to attack the warriors. Liam and Owen ran faster and encountered two of the rouges at one time before biting and snapping at them with their teeth before bringing four of them down at the one time.

Carrie rolled with the vampire a few times before she rolled far enough to take them away from the first car, her wolf growling dangerously. The vampire looked at the light brown wolf with the lavender eyes and smiled eerily as a sinister looking smile split his pale face making his black eyes bigger.

"Aaaah. I see I picked the right car then.... Vo-Suie"

Carrie's wolf showed its surprise as it took a step back but keeping her eyes on the threat in front of her. The vampire laughed as he shook his head. His voice just as creepy as his smile.

"That's right little protector. I know who you are...just like I know who else was in that car" He laughed. "Tell me Vo-Suie, how long do you think you could protect her?"

Carried changed back into her human form, her clothes materializing with her. She took out two lethal looking blades, the Kukri. He looked at her with surprise.

"Well, well. You are prepared aren't you. Impressive, since I'm sure you didn't have these on your person when i grabbed you"

"There's plenty where that came from scum bag" Carrie said as she twirled the knives clockwise in each hand, her focus and concentration on the vampire complete. She took a running leap forward as she pulled up the knives and managed to use one to s***h at his arm as she landed behind him, her body now protecting the car.

Sounds of fighting could be heard all around as Jon got out of the car. He kept his eyes on the rouge wolves in front of him as he spoke to Peter.

"Peter, stay in the car and protect them" Jon said as he shifted.

Jon was a sight to see. All the Red Rock Pack wolves were similar in colouring, from the lightest shades of brown to mahogany in colour with each wolf having their black markings on various parts of their body. Owen has black socks on all four of his paws with a deep brown coat and white underbelly fur. Liam's ears were black tipped while Carrie's snout right through to her forehead was grey/black. Once you were part of the pack, you would take on some colouring to show which pack you were from.

                                                                                                                                     Jon being the alpha meant that not only was he a colour that people in the pack called umber (a mix of reddish-brown earth pigment) but his black tipped ears and paws made him a unique colouring. His massive human frame doubled in size in his wolf form, bringing his head to almost Peter's waist. His impressive paw's had lethal claws and his fangs were bigger than an average wolf. Jon howled as he launched himself at the seven wolves before him, snapping at whatever body part he could get.

Peter opened his red bag that was sitting in front of his feet, pulled out a Glock and c****d it. Lily paled as she looked at her husband.

"You kept that in the house?? Are you insane!" she screeched, shielding Gemma who was now quiet and clutching her mother. Lily leaned over and gripped Peter's seat as he turned to look at her.

"It's not like I could have protected you if anything had happened without the pack!" He shouted back "It's always been my back up. The bag has always been kept inside the locked box -"

"In the god-damned cloakroom Peter!!" Lily cut in. Gemma whimpered in fright as she had never heard her parents argue like this.

"Hey, hey it OK pumpkin" Peter said gently as he reached over to touch Gemma's hair. Peter quickly leaned back as a grey wolf tried to burst through the front glass window.

                                                                                                                    Just as he reached for the door to open it, Jon had grabbed the wolf by it's neck and with his powerful jaws, snapped it neck. The alpha turned to look at Peter as more of their pack warrior's joined them. He pointedly looked at Lily then him but Peter ignored the command to run and hide with his family. He stepped out of the car as Lily started screaming.

"What are you doing peter!"

"I may not be a wolf but this is still my pack...and I'm going to even the playing fields"

He started firing off the Glock and wolves started going down. The rouge was still fighting but the alpha of the rouge who had been fighting with Jon; suddenly looked and howled at his fellow rouges with the command to take Peter out. Five wolves turned toward Peter and made their way to him. Peter hit another wolf and it went down. The rouges looked at the whimpering grey wolf in confusion before looking back at Peter.

"Wolfs bane covered silver bullets motherfuckers!" He said proudly then proceeded to fire off as wolves tried to scatter and regroup. Carrie heard Peter's remark and grinned when the vampire hissed in anger. His body was a series of cuts and bleeding profusely from them. A few more and he would need a feed. Carrie could take him out. Her eye glowed lavender as he took deep breaths and stationed himself to attack.

"Mummy!" Gemma cried out as her intelligent eyes took in the scene she could peak out from.

"Heeeyyy pumpkin. It's OK, We will just stay inside the car, and we will be safe" She lied as she turned her daughters face away from the fight and looked down into her eyes.

"You know what I said about the magical necklace?"

"Uh HU" Gemma sniffed.

"I need you to tuck it into your collar and not let anyone ever see it OK baby?" Lily said urgently as she gathered Gemma into her arms "And one day when you are big and strong and you need mummy, you can talk to me with it"

Gemma's eyes widened as she looked into her mother's eyes. She tucked in the necklace inside her My Little Pony purple dress where the necklace was hidden and zipped her jacket back up.

"Oh baby!" Lily whispered in a teary breath "Mummy needs you to be a brave girl now. Mummy loves you pumpkin, and I am so sorry you are seeing all this"

"Don't cry mummy. Daddy and uncle alpha will protect us" she says in her childlike innocence as she caresses her mother's face. Lily sighs in sadness as she hugs her daughter tightly while the attack raged on outside.

Liam and Owen had finally taken care of enough wolves on their side that they could leave the other five warriors and went to help the others. Owen jumped in front of peter to help him with the wolves on his side while Liam jumped to help the alpha.

Carrie continued attacking the vampire as he fought back, his power and energy dwindling. Suddenly he gripped his side and c****d his head to the left before smiling evilly, his blood flowing from various cuts and his mouth. Carrie paused for a moment as she felt the protector inside trying to nudge her. She ignored it and pointed the wicked knife at him.

"Glad to see your smile since it will be your last"

"Oh it's not me who is dying, at least not today" He laughed.

"Oh really? Well considering you are all out numbered you won’t win" Carrie said happily.

"We didn't want to win.....we just needed a chance" He replied, his voice soft due to his heavy breathing.

Carrie frowned, her wolf pushing within her that something was seriously wrong. Carrie scanned the fighting while keeping her eyes on the bleeding, smiling vampire. She lifted the blades higher as she walked closer; her wolf on high alert. All at once her senses went haywire, and she shifted into the second wolf, the blades falling unheeded to the ground with a clang.

Carrie realized what the vampire was talking about. The fighting, the half-hearted attack...it was a diversion!! She mind-linked this to the pack just as she got near the car. Her only goal to get to Lily and Gemma, to protect them as she wan meant to. As she had promised too.

But just as her wolf was but a few steps away, something hit through the left side window and suddenly the car burst into flames and Carrie was thrown backwards . She could hear shouting and further screams but her concussed state meant her brain started going fuzzy.

"NOOOOOO" Carrie screamed out as she tried to get up, only to fall back down. Blurry people were running towards the car and trying to help pick her up but it was too much. Carrie couldn't stand. Her wolf protector was being ripped apart at what was happening. She tried to get a sense of where Lily and Gemma were but it required too much of her strength to do that.

Her body giving out, Carrie finally collapsed. Her last vision of the car up in angry high flames with the bodies of her best friend and daughter inside the burning inferno.