The Familiar's Mate

Beep Beep Beep I slam my hand into my alarm clock, groaning and dreading the day. As I get out of bed I go to my laundry basket and fish out a comfy hoodie and a pair of sweat pants and then go take my shower and brush my hair. Checking the time I realized I'm about to be late for school, f**k a duck! I throw my hearing aids on and grab my bag and dart out to my motorcycle and drive out to school. My family lives in the woods, kind of like social outcasts but my older brother Dean had easy luck getting popular, if only I wasn't so awkward. Thanks to my dad being a cat familiar and me taking after him the most I hiss at people I severely dislike. The ride to town is always my favorite because of all the amazing views the woods and country has to offer. My school is different. Its not an ordinary high school. Its a high school for the "gifted", but most of us call it supernatural high, there's the normal vampire, werewolves, witches, familiars, ghosts, you name it. Most people think familiars have to be bonded with a witch or wizard but that's not really how it goes, familiars are already around and take their own forms, we're more powerful teamed up with a witch just like they are with us. Brrrriiiing Brrrrrring I show up just in time for the school bell to ring and dash off to my first class of the day. I sit in the very back of the room so I don't draw attention to myself can stay in the shadows. As the day goes by I get more and more anxious, I'm passing all my classes but the girls are basically bitches and I'm usually the prey especially since Dean graduated 3 years ago and moved away for college to the school of witchcraft and wizardry, total Harry Potter thing, I know. Dean and Damien randomly check in on me since my parents are always off doing something and usually don't have time to always check on me. I'm not only severely hard of hearing but I'm also physically disabled, I had a huge issue with my powers and got my vocal cordes burnt up. I don't talk much because of it, I sign and if I absolutely have to ill talk but quietly because it hurts so much to use my voice at all, my family won't make me laugh because they know how badly it hurts to laugh. As school gets over I start to head to my locker so I can leave for the weekend and take everything home. I got most of the way there before Veronica and her minions pushed me over. "Out of my way, dumb b***h. Can't you see we're walking here?!" Veronica hollers at me. Stupid wolves always think they have right away and are the dominant species here, if Damien and Dean were here they'd have her crying for forgiveness on the ground. "Hey, dumbass, I said move! And apologize while you're at it! These are new swade shoes I'm wearing!" I quietly and quickly move out of her way and dart to my locker and then leave. I rode all the way back home and saw a familiar car in the driveway, it was Dean's! He's home! I ran inside and jumped on my brother who was sitting on the couch watching discovery channel. "Hey Devy, I'm going to take the guess of you never want to go back to school because of V and her crew? Ya know you can still move in with me and Damien, we have a spare room for you and you can enroll in the human high school there, it wouldn't bug us at all and we could keep a closer eye on you." I wipe my tear filled eyes and sign 'You know I'd love to do that but someone needs to be here for mom and dad, they're always gone and the house would be in shambles if I left." Dean just looks at me with a frown and tells me the worst news I could ever get. "Dev, mom and dad are dead, they died fighting against the vampires in Alaska." And with that knowledge I broke down completely and cried with blood filling my mouth from my charred up vocal cords. I couldn't look at my brother I couldn't move, only thing I could do was cry and cry some more. I didn't realize Damien had cane into the house and said my stuff was all packed away in the truck. I didn't even know he was in town. My brother carried me to his car and then we drove all the way from Enumclaw Washington to Redrock Texas. I hardly ate, I didn't sleep, I just sat there in that seat till we got to a farm house that my brother said we would be living at. I helped unload the uhaul trailer and unboxed all my stuff and put it away into their new homes in my new home. Damien said I could do online school if I wanted to but would need to go with them to classes if I did which sounds better than going to a human high school and getting bullied there. Damien brought me my dinner, brought me my meds for my throat, anxiety and depression. I guess my brother had to go to work so he wasn't there to give me my meds and make sure I take them, back home in Washington the neighbor lady, Mrs. Cass always made sure I had taken my meds and went to my appointments. Knock Knock I open the door using magic and let Damien in. "Hey baby girl, I'm going to go to bed, I know this place is new but I think you're going to like it here. My room is right next to yours so don't be a stranger and if you can't sleep then let me know and I'll get ice cream and we can watch free willy or something. I love you sweetheart." and with that he kisses my forehead which ignites a bunch of sparks makes me go into a state of confusion. Why would his kiss leave sparks flowing through me just a few days after turning 18? Maybe its a wolf thing? But he's done this for years, always giving me a kiss on the forehead and telling me good night. Damien pov I just kissed my best friend's little sister on the forehead and there were the mating sparks, s**t. He's going to kill me when I tell him after he gets home from work. Hopefully he doesn't react too bad because at least its me and not a vampire or someone untrustworthy with baby doll's heart. I don't ever want to see Devlynn with a broken heart. A little after midnight there was a knock on my door, thinking it was Dean I holler to for him to come in, when the door doesn't open I knew it was Dev, I open the door for her and there's tears rolling down her face and she looks just like she had a nightmare, her beautiful natural galaxy colored hair is a mess, her usually green eyes were a deep blue and it breaks my heart so much. I invite her in and hand her the TV remote. I stomp on the floor to get her attention since she can't really hear that well. 'What happened Devvy? Did you have a bad dream?' She stared at me for a minute and then signed 'I saw my parents death, it wasn't the vampires, it was Mr. Blane my science teacher in Enumclaw. I know why he took a few days off now. It was to give the vampires and rogues information. I wish I had known sooner and could've stopped it but I didn't. My powers didn't alert me soon enough. I failed." I saw tears running down her rosy red cheeks and there was nothing I could do to make it better, she saw her parents gorey death, probably through their eyes. Its awful, she's always been the one to see death of people, the death of my adopted parents, the death of the village leader, even people she never met before and it always came in the form of nightmares. I curled up with her because that's the only thing I could do to help her. We laid there with her curled up on my chest, Dev is the size of a 10 year old and has a modified motorcycle that Dean and I built for her since its easier for her to ride that than to try to find a car she can drive and fix. Next thing I knew the sun was up and Devlynn was still laying on my chest. I didn't want to wake her so I laid there with her on my chest and texted Dean to come to my room so I could tell him what I found out last night about Devlynn being my mate. "Hey man, what did you need to tell me that was so important? Is Devvy okay?" Deancasks as soon as he walks into the door and sees Devlynn laying in my bed. "Man I got news and you gotta promise not to freak out on me, for Dev's sake." Dean nods at me as to go on. I take a deep breath "Devlynn Annabella Singer is my mate, I found out last night when I tucked her in. Also, Mr. Blane killed your parents, Devvy told me last night." I swear his eyes flashed from brown to blue and back. "At least I know you won't hurt my baby girl. Make sure you tell her as soon as you can, but make sure she's fully awake first so she doesn't go into shock." Dean strokes Devlynn's hair while I rub her back. Hopefully she will wake up soon. She's been through a lot the last 4 1/2 years and I'd hate to see her decline in health again.