Protected by the Last Kitsune

Lost and found

Harley's P.O.V

As soon as I entered the room, all eyes were on me, my queen and king looked at me with a smile, but no matter how much I missed them in my life, seeing my queen in this state was tearing me apart inside, I fought back the tears that threatened to spill out. There were monitors not only monitoring her, but her unborn baby as well. I walked over to her, trying to force a smile that didn’t want to come. It was at this point I forgot I didn’t ask how it was that I could help her. I look at the fetal monitor, seeing the heartbeat slow with every passing second. Panic hit me. I linked my new-found mate asking what to do, but it wasn’t Lita who answered, it was Zin-sue “Touch her tummy of course.” I ignored her duh tone and did as she said. I laid my hands atop her stomach but nothing happened. Tears rolled down my cheeks. Finally, I have a chance to repay them for the love they have given me in my time of need and now that it is my turn I am lost once again. I close my eyes as I fall to my knees, my hands never leaving her stomach. I found myself praying to the goddess to please help my queen. All I want in this world at this moment is to help my queen to take her pain away, to help the unborn child within to live and be loved by his/ or her family to have a life.

The next thing I knew, there were gasps coming from all around me. I can hear the fetal monitor and the heartbeat getting stronger. I am too scared to open my eyes to see what is happening, scared that if it is me as Zin-sue said, then whatever I am doing will stop too soon. The next thing I know, there is a large, strong hand resting on my shoulder. A soft voice that follows says “Open your eyes son, see what you have done for my family.” I opened my eyes and looked around. Everyone is now joyful, instead of tears of worry and soon loss is now replaced with tears of joy and relief. The twins followed by Mika each pat me on the back with their gratitude. My king wraps his arms around me, taking me into a huge bear hug. I could feel some of my bones breaking. “Oh, I am so sorry, I don’t know my own strength sometimes,” he says as he laughs. Everyone joins in. That's when the doctor came in, she looked at the monitors and took some blood from my queen. “Everything seemed great, just let me check the blood sample to be sure. If it comes out as I think it will, you will be able to go home,” she said with a smile as she walked out the door.

I stepped out of the room to give them time to themselves as a family. This is now their time as it should be. I sat in a chair in the hallway, I looked around, but I didn’t see Lita anywhere. Next thing I know, a pair of arms are thrown around my shoulder, taking me by surprise, “Thank you so much for what you have done for our mother”. I hear a soft female voice say and recognize it as Teala. I rub her back. “ You’re welcome, I am glad I could help your mum.” she pulls back and looks at me.

“She is your mum to Harley. Don’t think I don’t know who you are. I may not have been born yet, but I have seen photos of you with them. I saw the love in their eyes in those photos, so I asked mum. She told me you were a son to her even though you were not hers. Dad feels the same way, I felt a strange connection to you that night we met at Lita’s and now I know why. Their wolves and yours claim each other as a family, your wolf recognizes them as parents. The others know as well but were not sure till just now, you are - our brother Harley, it's time you come home to where you belong.” she said with pure love and pride.

I didn’t know what to say. I was at a loss for words. It had been so long since I felt as I do now, accepted, wanted,. These feelings were lost to me the day I left the palace. Since then, I have been wandering around trying to stay alive. I took up the hitman's life when a man found me on the streets. I was in rough shape that night. I had been stabbed and beaten. He helped me, took me in and cared for me, he brought me into his world of Assassins. He trained me in everything he knew. He passed away after 5 years of being with him. I have been doing this since, but then I had nothing else. Everything was taken from me or wasn’t mine to claim. I was lost. I started to lose all feeling, numb to love, anything to do with it really. If it wasn’t for finding Lita by chance that day.

I shiver at the thought of our first encounter of how I was so willing to kill her. How easily that thought came to my mind then. Now I thank god I didn’t try, seeing how she was earlier. I would be lying if I said that didn’t scare the s**t out of me. I have never seen anything like it before. It was like she enjoyed every minute of it, like nothing about that bothered her at all. Seeing her in action made me realize why she was called the Shadow and why she was the most sought out assassin. It was like she was a totally different person than the one I came to know and love so much. Now I don’t know, I still love her more than anything in this world, but I am not sure If I could be with her. How can you be with someone who scares the s**t out of you? Her power alone is terrifying, but seeing that side of her, not only seemed like she enjoyed it but loved it. I would always be on guard around her, not to mention the sleepless nights. I would be too scared to go to sleep if I ever pissed her off. But the more I think about it, the more I wonder what happened to her for her to be as she is. So - ruthless...

I looked around once again, but still, Lita was nowhere to be found, then I remember she said something about finding and talking to someone named Dimond. I think it was. But I don’t have time to think as I am brought back by someone clearing their throat. Turning my head to the left, I see Mika sitting on the seat next to me, arms crossed as he leans back into the chair, his feet stretched out and crossed at the ankles. As he continues to look forward, he says to me, “So, care to tell me where the hell you have been all these years? And why did you just leave without so much as a goodbye? I mean, dude, you just left one day. You were there playing with me. The next you were gone, as if my brother just vanished without a trace.” I looked away, ashamed of how I had left, but this family wasn’t mine. No matter how much I loved them, I felt as if I was more of a burden than anything, even though I was never once treated any differently than the others.

“ I don’t know, I just felt like I didn’t belong. Seeing you all with your mum and dad reminded me of mine, and the more I stayed I felt like they were fading. Plus, the twins were just born, so I figured it was time to go.” Mika looked over at me, hurt filled his eyes but anger was written all over his face,

“That’s bullshit Harley, and you know it! Never once were you treated like you didn’t belong. In fact, you were happy, we all were. You were my best friend and brother. After you left for the longest time, the house felt heavy from the loss. We always thought you would come back. Mum and dad even went looking for you. They thought you had been taken. After 4 years of still no trace they - we thought you were dead till that day. I met you again at Lita’s apartment and what in the hell is going on between you two anyway? And why are you now able to heal something no-one else could?”

looking down as I answered him, “Well, as it turns out Lita is my mate we found out later that night or should I say she found out.” as to why I can heal, I don’t understand it myself, but that is all I can say at the moment as the rest is for Lita to tell but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one.” I look over at him thinking I would still see the anger but instead it's replaced with a smile. “Congrats,” he says as he slaps my back “I must say I am jealous of you, to be honest, I was kind of getting a thing for her, I mean she is the total package man, I am happy for you.” I tried to smile, but even I could tell it was fake, I am sure he also picked up on it, but if he did, he didn’t say anything and for that I am grateful, how would I explain how I was feeling when I didn’t even know, the only thing I knew was that I was terrified of my mate.

At that moment I jumped as I hear Lita in my head “Can you please ask the king and Queen for an audience with me? I think it's time to inform them and move them.” then the link is cut. Mika looked at me concerned, “You ok man?” I nod my head standing up from my seat. “yeah, I just have to go talk to your parents.” we both walk back to the room side by side. As I enter I bow my head to show my respect “sorry to intrude, but would it be possible for Lita and I to get a meeting with you tonight? Or as soon as possible?” everyone looked at me with concern written all over their faces. “Is everything ok son?” My queen asked with worry, “I don’t want to concern you, for now, we will talk later, please my queen, get some rest, for now, I will be back later with Lita.” Just as I am about to walk out of the room the doctor steps in “Everything is great Nina, there are no traces of the poison the baby is doing great. You can all go home.” she says with a bright smile as she walks out. I follow behind her leaving them once more.

A newfound purpose flowing through me, I will finish this and once this is all over I promise to get my family's pack and territory back we will be the Guardians of the Royals once again better than ever. I call a cab and head home, I need time to think about what to do about my mate. She gave me a wonderful power, but that is no reason to stay with her not if I can't trust her and spend every waking moment scared she will kill me or worse. And yes, there is worse than death, I have seen it for my own eyes and she was just toying with her. I wipe my hand down my face, thought of leaving her caused me so much pain. But is this worth it?

Once I had gotten home, I go to the fridge and grab a beer, sitting in the dark as I drank it. What the hell am I going to do? It's one thing having a stronger mate, that I can handle, but this chick is twisted how do I know what side of her is the real Lita? One side is sweet, loving, funny, smart, and inviting the other dark, sick, twisted borderline cereal killer how can one person hold such aside? Once I get my pack back would she harm the pack? What about our children? Children... Thinking about that brought me to a new thought, a thought of offspring of my own, I could have a family to love and protect. I can't help but smile at that thought. Then I frown at the thought of not having a possibility of that future without my mate, I have never even looked at woman, nor had the urges of being with one till I met her and I didn’t even think I had one. But with her just looking at her puts thoughts into my head.

“You do know she will never hurt us or anyone she cares about right?” I hear my wolf finally pipe up “beside, we are stronger with her than without, I don’t mean physical I mean mentally she makes us better in every way, besides this is the only time we had ever seen this side of her, maybe she has to have some kind of enjoyment to be able to do what she does and still be able to love and care the way she does? I just think there is more than we know so don’t reject mate till you find out the whole truth about why she is the way she is.”

“Yeah, and how do we find that out? Everyone who has come in contact with her is dead dumb ass she killed them all there is no one to talk too, so how can we know the truth behind our mate? for all we know the love and kindness we have seen could just be a smokescreen, she is blowing up everyone's ass, how do we know one day she won't just lose her s**t and kill everyone? It's not like she can’t, you could feel that power oozing from her once her fox surfaced.”

“Just wait, stop being a little b***h for once. Jesus, it's like listening to a little girl scared some boys is going to pull her ponytail. Just man up, in all this time she has not once hurt nor tried to hurt you and here are crying because she might whoop your ass. Man, if she was going to kill you she would have by now. Have faith in the woman you love don’t f**k this up because of what if’s because if you do, you will spend a life being alone.” and with that, he cut off his link to me. I have to admit he is right, I have been an ass to her a few times and she has never once raised her voice to me or anything. I can't believe I let fear control me when I should have known better, but that is a normal reaction I think after seeing what I did, I mean, yeah, I am a killer but I have never tortured anyone I go in kill and get out. I have to say at least she has the balls to do what needs to be done and doesn’t shy away from blood or pain.

With the newfound view of my mate, thanks to my wolf Gunner, I now have a better appreciation for her, though I still want to find out somehow anything about her. And her past of what made her the way she is now.