When Sam awoke a few hours later there was a smell of fried meat in the air, which gave her a voracious appetite, and she followed the scent, sniffing it, into the kitchen in the cave room where Tony was preparing lunch:
-Hmm! Smells good! - She praised her stomach rumbling with hunger.
Welcome to the living, Sam! - Tony commented in a good mood. - We tried to wake you, hours ago, but you did not show signs of life! I think, after all, it's always true, what is said about werewolves only being tempted with food!
Sam grinned at him and took the dish Lily offered her with a smile and turned to Tony, so that he served with meat:
-Well, now that we've tested my theory, we have to decide how we're going to do it! - Tony said, sitting down, also at the table, looking at everyone, and seeing their lack of enthusiasm.
-What do you mean by that? - Lily asked.
-Well, we have to choose where we go, our identities and our stories! So that there are no flaws or suspicions! And we can't go anywhere, and then there's no Hunter around, so it wouldn't make any sense to go on this mission!
-Hmm!- Sam started, swallowing a piece of meat, then continuing. - I'm not going to have to change my name, am I?"
-It was the ideal, but it's not entirely necessary! I think Lily and I, being the elders, should be your parents!
-Parents? - Asked the three at the same time.
-Ready, ready, since you did not like the idea, Lily and I are brothers who adopted you two - Tony proposed.
-And what social worker would deliver two children to a couple of siblings instead of a married couple? - Sam asked, pointing to the big flaw in Tony's plan.
-Good! You're right. But if Lily's husband had recently died, that would make things possible, would not it?
-Husband? Widow? And would you be the good brother who welcomes the widowed sister and her adopted children, orphans of a father for the second time? And what would my husband have died for? - Lilyasked incredulously.
- Well, yes, what would be the problem?
-The biggest problem I encounter in all this feat is that we do not know enough about each other and we can commit mistakes when questioned, mistakes that may seem unimportant but that can easily be delivered to us! - Sam said again, throwing Tony's plans to the ground.
-This is beyond you! Let's study ourselves thoroughly ...
-And those details we simply forget to tell? Details so minimal, but if put together reveal that we don't really are a family and blow up our cover? - Rob asked, attending the discussion for the first time.
-Invented itself! Or we simply say we do not know!
-As brothers or parents? - A little strange, you do not know a certain detail! But what about the documentation we need to be human? Driving Licences, Personal Identification Documents, Social Security numbers and so forth? - Sam asked, receiving admiring glances from the others.
-Well, I know someone who would be able to help us! - Lily said, looking disgusted. - He's been banned from the Covens for years, for reasons that do not matter, but he lives in the Human World, and he can help us with that, if I ask!
-OK! Where does he live? - Tony asked enthusiastically.
-Calm the horses, demon, we have not hit the rest yet! After all, what are we going to be? - Sam questioned.
-What about cousins? To live together, like rehab? - Rob thought.
-Now, we are addicts? - Sam asked indignantly.
-Not! That's not quite what I meant! - Rob explained, a little embarrassed.
-Rehabilitation not, but if it was because of studies and work, in a larger city, it was already acceptable!
-Studies?! - Sam asked, wide-eyed.
-Yes, studies, you know what it is, don't you? - Tony asked.
-I don't go to a school in about thirty years ago! Do I really have to go back there?
-Yes, you and Rob! You are the only ones who seem to be young enough to study! Obviously, Lily and I are going to have to work!
-On what? - Lily asked curiously.
-I still do not know, but something will come up! - Tony answered. - Now, what city shall we stay in?
-Caston! - Sam whispered.
-At where? - Lily asked.
-Caston! It's not too far from here. It's a middle town, but it has a large number of Hunters! - Sam explained.
-And how do you know that? - Rob asked.
-It doesn't matter how I know! Only that I know! - Sam growled aggressively.
-OK! Ready! I was just curious! - Rob said defensively, his arms in the air, surrendering.
Sam returned to her normal posture and declared:
-Now, either you trust my word or you don't!
-Yes! No matter how she knows it! To me, it seems to me that Caston is a good choice! - Tony declared. - That being said, when can we handle the documentation, Lily?
-When you want! My acquaintance can be reached at any time!
-Calm down the horses! Where do we will live? How am I going to get past the full moons? - Sam asked worriedly.
-Yes, Sam is right! I think we should go looking for a house that we can buy! - Tony reflected.
-Purchase? - Rob asked, stunned. - With which money?
-The money, no problem! The mountains come to me with their treasures, which we can exchange!
-OK! - Sam answered, looking at the demon in astonishment.
-Let's go to the living room, to see some houses on the Internet?
-Pass! - Sam and Rob said at the same time, staring at each other in amazement.
-Good! I'll check the perimeter! - Sam said, getting up.
-Isn't that dangerous? - Lily asked, worried.
-It is! But rest, I'll run fast! Besides, I hate being closed, I need to run!
-Go, but be careful! - Lily asked.
-Of course, I'm always careful! - Sam said with a grin.
-Can I help you? - Rob asked.
-I do not need leech babies on my heels! It's a risk I don't want to run! - Sam growled, turning away.
Rob was shaken, faint and this did not go unnoticed by Lily:
-She did not mean that, as a bad thing Rob! - Lily said, as soon as Tony left the room.
-I wish! She just does not realize the bond that binds us, now! Me and her!
-As well? - Asked the witch, worried.
-Generally, when we drink blood directly from a person, a part of it, stay with us ... how can I explain this?
Lily stared at the vampire with his head down, not knowing what to answer, but burning with curiosity:
-Well, I know what she's feeling, a little, like I'm feeling it myself! If she suffers, I suffer too! Be physically or emotionally! And I believe that if she dies, I die, we do not leave anyone alive, if we drink directly from the human, so we prefer the blood collected and kept!
-I was not expecting this! What is she feeling right now, you know?
-Yes I know! She's confused, wait ... She's transformed, now the feelings are very weird! Run, freedom and no worries! That's the main thing!
-Can you feel all this?
-Yes! And from behind, there is a sadness, a nostalgia ... I can not explain!
-Because? - Lily asked, more to herself than to Rob.
-I can only perceive the feelings, not the cause of them! - Rob explained.
-Hey! Do you come or not? - Tony asked from the other room.
-Let's go! - Lily said, getting up from her chair.
Rob mimicked her and went into the living room. They were debating, which house to buy, when Rob jumped off the couch in alarm:
-Sam's in danger!
-What? - Lily asked.
-How do you know? - Tony asked at the same time as the witch.
-Threatened, fear, thirst for blood and fight.
-Where? - Lily asked.
-How does he know that? - Tony asked Lily.
-He just knows! - Lily replied to Tony. - Do you know where she is?
-Not! If we were near, I would be attracted to her.
-Do you realize what kind of threat it is? - Lily asked.
-Wolfs! I think, it's not something she's never faced and she's not as scared as if they were Hunters and she's already turned to fight the threat!
-If they were Hunters she would run away! - Tony commented.
-I guess now all we can do is wait! - Lily said, a bit saddened, sitting on the couch.
Sam had come out of the cave with ideas more cluttered than when she had come in the night before. Caston was a dangerous place for Supernatural, and she knew it well. But it was an even more dangerous place for herself, but something was probably nostalgic there for being born and brought up in Caston because her life had been changed there when she was bitten by her alpha at the age of eighteen .
She had gone camping with some schoolmates to the edge of the forest, and the wolf who had bitten her had massacred the camp, she had been the only survivor, rescued by a team of first responders, driven by their parents. The first week after the rescue, she passed in the hospital, without any contact with the World, when she came out the adaptation and the guilt that she was the only one to survive was too much to bear, her mother was always behind her, with cares and pampering that Sam did not want or could not handle, got worse when the relatives of her friends looked at her with accusation and mourning in his eyes. By the fourth week, the headaches she felt were unbearable, she heard things she should not hear at distances that must have been impossible, smells in the distance, and she could sense emotions by smell, things she simply found impossible. When the full moon approached, strangers began to probe her neighborhood. On the night of the full moon, when she felt her body break and tear, three men in arms broke through her room, pointed at her, apologized and were ready to shoot, but from the window of her room, her alpha entered, who undid the three men and took her with him to join the pack, and explained to her who the men were and what her fate would have been if she had stayed. From the shadows she watched her funeral and her heart ached for her sister, who seemed in shock, through the copious tears of her mother and the air of deep sadness of her father, as he tried to console her mother.
Eliot, his alpha, had warned her that the city was infested with Hunters, and that she would never, but never return. And she did not want to do it, but she knew it was what they had to do, moreover, it was nobody left to recognize her, thirty years had passed and she still looked eighteen, so even if someone recognized her, they would think it was simply coincidence, nothing more.
On the other hand, she felt a connection with this group, as if, for lack of a better word or a better substitute, they had become her pack. In particular, Rob she felt as if he were a beta of her, she could feel it, in a corner of her mind, still very hidden, to get het to accede, like a werewolf, totally, formed, but knew that he was there and this, it was something, very strange.
She was thoughtful when she felt a strong scent of wolf, but not ordinary wolves, who would flee from her, scarcely smell her, a pack of werewolves, cursed herself for being so distracted that she had not caught the scent before, now , it was impossible to escape, only if the others were stupid, they would not have already caught her scent.
Unable to identify what kind of werewolves they were, she did not know what to tell them, and that made her afraid. But she had never been a coward, she had never escaped danger; indeed, she smiled before it and faced it head on, never lowering her head or giving wings to the instinct to flee, unless the danger were Hunters. She stopped, started the transformation, and stopped her in the middle.
Her hair was white, her eyes were purple, her claws and canines were out, her muscles were enlarged.
On her horizon, among the trees and the tall bush, three brown wolves, walking between a biped and four-legged step on the ground, Sam smiled to herself, brown wolves were no match for her.
She roared in warning and the werewolves had become humans, three men:
-Carver? Is that you? White Wolves's Alfa? - Asked one of the men with a surprised tone.
-Yes it's me! - She answered, her voice in a mixture of human and animal, giving a masculine tone to her normal voice.
-The Alfas demobilized all the packs, when you disappeared from the map! We have orders to take you and your pack to the Alfas County Council! - Said the one in the middle, causing the last part to sound the threat.
-I believe that task is an impossible one for you to do!
-Because? - Asked the one on the left.
-I'm the last one in my pack, and I'm only going with you dead!"
-So be it so!- Answered the man that had not yet spoken, thus giving the order to attack.
The three men began to transform themselves, yet they were halfway through, already Sam was advancing towards them, totally, transformed.
Claws and teeth ripped through skin, flesh, and muscle. Although they were brown wolves, which in their generality were no match for white wolves, the numerical superiority they had to their advantage almost made Sam lose her life.
But in the end, she managed to win, much at a cost, leaving them unconscious. She had several bites and scratches, blood dripping from its wounds when shr began her transformation back to human.
Her clothes were wrecked. With difficulty, walking and balancing, she managed to reach the cave, feeling weak and dizzy, attacking her own species was always more exhausting than usual, draining her from all the strength she had.
Unwilling to continue, she collapsed on the ground, and began to hear footsteps coming towards her, she was startled, but, hearing with her wolf's ears, she realized that they came from inside the cave, allowing herself to relax a little, were friends rather than enemies, she breathed a sigh of relief. A little later, she saw the figures of Lily and Rob running towards him, with Tony a little behind:
-Sam! Sam! What happened? - Lily asked as she approached her, brushed her hair back from her face and began to examine the wounds she had on her body.
-Nothing that I can't fix in a couple of hours! How did you know I was here? - Sam asked with difficulty.
-We'll talk about that later! Do you need help? - Rob asked.
Sam smiled at him and nodded. Rob got down and put her arm around his neck and his arm on the woman's back, making her moan in pain, Lily imitated him and they put the young wolf on her feet and took her to Tony's room he had for her and they let her rest then they went into the living room where Tony literally jumped with curiosity:
-How did you know what was happening to Sam?