Beyond Fate

Guilty

(Mitchell pov)

Fuck! f**k! f**k!

I punch the wall outside the nursery feeling frustrated, angry and f*****g stupid.

I stood resting my head against the wall frustratingly running my hands through my disheveled hair.

My pup hated me, I had told one of the omegas to bring her to her room so she was away from that awful woman but when I had gone to check on her she had screamed and cried telling me I was a bad daddy for sending her friend away.

It had crushed me to see my pup so brainwashed by that awful wolf, she should never have been able to get her claws into my daughter for as long as she did. Now my pup wouldn’t see me without screaming for me to leave.

I’d left the room digging into my secret stashed I’d stored in my suit pocket earlier just incase. I hadn’t planned on drinking it, for the first time in a long time I’d wanted to have a clear head but after the run in with that vial woman I hadn’t felt like having a clear head.

I’d been so low about Mina I’d done something utterly shameful and stupid now my head was clearing from the fog I was disgusted with myself.

I stormed into my room a few doors down deciding I couldn’t go back down to the party without having a shower to clear my head.

I thought coming home and taking the position of alpha and becoming a real father instead of just a sperm donor things would become clear, this pack had been my home my entire life if I was going to feel at home anywhere it would be here but if anything it felt alien to me the life that I had before didn’t exist and looking at my beautiful little girl only reminded me of why I’d left, it was like having her mother staring back at me every time.

My room was in complete darkness. I began undressing quickly wanting to wash the smell of the alcohol and female off me. It wasn’t the impression I wanted to give as my first night as Alpha. I wanted to avoid pack gossip, not ignite it.

I was down to my boxers before I sensed someone else in the room. I turned towards the window growling, then I heard clapping realising it was just Lucas and relaxed. He was sat against the window ledge, his blonde hair shining under the moonlight was the only indication he was there.

“ Well you really went above the idiocy scale tonight you asshole” he said in a mocking tone, still clapping, I growled at him.

“ When I get out you better be gone” I said bitterly, I was feeling shitty as it was I didn’t need him piling on.

“ No worries you’ll be in there at least an hour…SHAME DOESN’T WASH OFF SO EASILY!!” He shouted the last part as I walked away, slamming the door to the bathroom.

I turned the shower on not waiting for it to cool. I stepped straight into the scalding water, grunting, I deserved this. I hadn't been an Alpha for more than an hour and I already felt I was screwing up. I hated to admit it but Lucas was right I shouldn’t have created a scene like that even if I felt the omega deserved it. An Alpha had to be better than that.

The door to the bathroom burst open and Lucas came strolling in carrying something.

“ what the f**k are you doing?” I shouted seeing his silhouette heading towards the toilet, the asshole couldn’t be serious. He was actually taking a piss while I was in here. I wasn’t modest but come on this house had like twenty bathrooms.

“ I’ve told you before about drinking this s**t with your liquor, you didn’t fool me with your little show downstairs” he hollered pouring something into the toilet, fucker had found my flask in my suit jacket.

“ f**k you and your high horse” I spat beyond angry with him.

“ in your dreams sweetheart, you couldn’t handle me” he chuckled dryly strolling back out of the bathroom. I turned off the shower stomping out, grabbing my towel ready to kill my friend.

“ and don’t think all that scrubbing is going to take away the scent of s*x on you either” he shouted from the other room. Asshole.

“ Why are you still here?” I asked heading back into the bedroom, suddenly feeling exhausted, he was supposed to be here to see me through my ceremony. Now he’d done that I expected him to be gone. Lucas was a bit of an enigma; he was a man of power. He always seemed to be around at the moment you needed him but don’t be surprised if he suddenly vanished as quick as he appeared.

“ You need me, before you screw your life up anymore than you already have” he stated like it was a fact, he already saw me blowing this Alpha stuff.

“ I’m assuming you came here to chew my ear off about something?” I rolled my eyes board, I’d heard one too many of his pep talks of late. I grabbed a fresh suit from my wardrobe dressing quickly so I could get out of here before he could say too much.

“ How could you do that to her in front of the pack?” I frowned, was he talking about the omega. He couldn’t be serious whose side was he on.

“ Why do you care?” I said my tone slightly angrier than I meant it to be but Lucas didn’t even flinch. He was a tough son of a b***h, I could full on lose the plot and the guy would still sit there like it was the most normal thing in the world.

“ I had a feeling your judgment was clouded. You accepted this girl's guilt so easi….”

“ SHE IS f*****g GUILTY!!” I roared and that’s when Lucas came at me grabbing me by the neck shoving me into the wall.

“ You weren't there Mitchell, you've made assumptions based on one pathetic Beta’s word, you know the file he gave you was fake right? ” he let go of me but I was still raging.

“ Bulshit, every member of this pack says the same thing about her” considering the matter closed, I headed out of the room planning to dip into my fathers secret stash of liquor he thought none of us knew about, but Lucas followed me clearly not finished with the conversation.

“ Really? Because I’ve heard multiple versions of the story none of them the same, except one” he states and I groan fristarieted I knew exactly where he was going with this.

“ let me guess…HERS” of course he’d been talking to the omega, she had gotten in his head and he had the nerve to say my judgment was clouded.

“ no, the former Beta actually” he argued.

“ Clayton? He’s her father, of course he’d tell you she’s innocent, you know he was removed from duty because he was defrauding the file trying to make out she’d done nothing wrong” I shouted at him.

“ He was removed from duty because he was asking too many questions for your fathers liking, conventiant that the alpha wanted all of it to disappear as if he had something to hide” I slammed my fist down on the desk, how dare he insinuate that about my father he was a good Alpha and this pack respected him.

Then something hit me. Lucas was attracted to the omega, well if he wanted to screw her he could do it without corrupting my family’s good name.

“ ahh I get it you wanna play hero, swoop in and save the day, then hopefully she will give you a thank you f**k before you vanish again” I gloated knowing I’d caught him out. For some reason the thought of Lucas with the omega made my wolf growl in my head, it obviously wasn’t sitting well that my friend was being manipulated too.

“ You think your fooling anyone here, who do you think your talking to, your letting the fact this is your mates case cloud your judgement if you took one second to really look at this situation you’d realise that Alisha is as much a victim in all this as Rose was” oh so it was Alisha now. She was no victim.

“ Bullshit if she was innocent there’s no way my parents would have stood by and let the pack blame her, she’s clearly gotten into your head man don’t fall prey to her seductions” Lucas just smirked at me as if he’d caught me in a lie. I shoved my hands in my pockets pretending I wasn’t worried.

“ Oh I get it, this is your way of deflecting, otherwise you’d have to admit you were actually attracted to another woman for the first time since Rose” I didn’t say anything to him but my jaw clicked and he must have noticed because he silently chuckled to himself shaking his head. I’ll admit I’d been attracted to her when I first met her. There was something that had drawn me to her, I couldn’t even believe I’d almost kissed her but I thankfully I had soon snapped out of it realising I’d almost fallen prey to her manipulation like my unsuspecting friend had.

“NO!!!… she’s an evil manipulative mutt and she’s gonna get what she deserves” I roared angrily at him. He sighed looking down, shaking his head defeated.

“ Don’t do this Mitch, you're better than this” he urged, I was about to answer him when a voice boomed inside my head.

Alpha …..we’re under attack!! Rouges at the south border.

One of the pack warriors mindlinked me, without another thought I ran out the door ignoring Lucas’s shouts, moments later I felt him on my heels running out the pack doors along with several other warriors, as women and children screamed heading to the pack house bunkers for safety. Thank god most of them were already here.

Me and several other warriors including Lucas, Johnny and the former Betas, who all scowled at me but I didn’t have time to think about it as we all shifted into our wolves running at speed towards the border.

(Alisha pov)

I ran back to the border hearing howling and snarling a wolf whimpered close by and I came up just in time to see five rouges advancing on the two warriors I’d snuck past only minutes ago.

I paused for a moment taking in the scene in front of me. The rogues had already separated the two wolves, Two of the rogues had one cornered unable to get to his friend who was being savagely ripped at but the other three, they were toying with them forcing the one to watch his friend die slowly, they could obviously tell they were not trained warriors yet, they were like hyenas cackling and playing with their food before the final kill.

I charged into the thrones of battle my instincts taking over, jumping on to one of the rogues back taking him by surprise clamping my jaws down on his neck he thrashed around trying to get free of me, I was whipped around like a rag doll but I held on to his throat, unrelenting. I felt something slice across my leg feeling pain and something wet but I wouldn’t let go. I heard a distinctive snap, breaking the rouges neck.

I got up off the now dead rouge to see the one warrior was now free, fighting with the other rouge. I turned to see the other three had stopped their assault on the other warrior to see the comotion.

One rogue immediately ran at me but I jumped out of the way as he hit the tree behind me with a harsh thud. I didn’t have time to check if he was down though, the other rouge launched at me from where I was I didn’t have time to dodge him, he slammed into me knocking me to the ground but I got straight back up leaping at him wrapping my jaws around his throat and pulled hard, taking his jugular with me. Blood dripped from my fur as I jumped on the last rouge, he had gone back to mauling the warrior who was now in human form again. That only happened when the wolf was too injured to sustain their wolf form. This wasn’t good.

Before I could reach the rogue I felt jaws come around my waist and searing pain as razor sharp canes dug into my flesh. I was thrown through the air smacking into something hard, I assumed was a tree. Pain radiated through my body. I couldn't breath, I couldn't think, I was certain I was dying.

I stumbled around trying to gain some strength, my wolf whining in pain. I tried to stand on shaky legs when I was shoved back down to the ground, something hard on the back of my head, probably one of the rogues.

I felt a hot breath on the back of my ear followed by a menacing growl as I was shoved further to the dirt. From this vantage point I could see the one warrior now in human form unmoving on the ground his flesh had been torn apart. I doubted he was even still alive at this point.

To the left of him the three remaining rouges had the other warrior pinned down snarling and growling ready to attack. It was then I realised the wolf pinning me to the ground was a newcomer; they hadn’t been part of the original attack. I tried to get up again but he pushed me back down hard once again, digging his claws into my fur.

The warrior looked around frantically for help, his eyes met mine and he knew I couldn’t do anything for him. The look in his eyes said he knew he was going to die. With one last look of determination he leapt at one of the rogues, taking him enough by surprise to catch his throat with his claws before another rogue grabbed his neck in his jaws, breaking it. My wolf whimpered at the sight of the young wolf falling to the ground dead, his wolf shifting back into his human form.

The one rogue whimpered, rolling around on the ground, his throat sliced open enough that he was bleeding out, his fellow rogues could do nothing to help him. I let out a shaken breath as the weight was suddenly lifted off me I got a look at a huge dark wolf slowly stalking towards the dying rouge on the group from the way the others bowed their heads stepping back. I could see that he was their leader, he reached the rogue on the ground he stood their seeming to studying him for a moment then in a flash he bent down ripping the rest of the rogues throat out.

My eyes went wide in horror. He'd killed one of his own men without hesitation but when he looked back at me the dead red eyes that looked back filled me with such terror, I’d only felt that way once before. The day I had failed my friend, the one rogue that would strike fear into the heart of my entire pack. The rogue king.

In that moment I knew I was about to die, the rogues turned on me ready to attack when I heard an almighty howl closing in knowing that other warriors were coming, I looked to my left seeing a group of wolves storming towards us in attack formation at least ten of them with Johnny in the centre leading them, I’d recognise his dark sandy coloured wolf anywhere.

The rogue king growled and the other rogues launched into an attack. The rouge king's attention turned back to me. I knew from the look in his red eyes he was planning to kill me before anyone could get to me.

I tried to stand on shaky legs but my wolf was too weak. I could feel her losing her strength. I felt my body forcing itself to shift back into human form. I managed to get to my knees trying to crawl away. I couldn't feel too much pain right now all I could focus on was the red eyes staring back at me. I wouldn’t die on my knees. On trembling legs I pulled myself into a sort of standing position and my muscles screamed in protest.

Without warning the rogue king charged at full speed, this was it. I had no fight left in me but I was damn sure I wasn’t going to die how I’d lived, on my knees, weak and defenceless.

Just before the rogue could reach me an unfamiliar grey wolf flew into the side of him , slamming him with such force it made a loud crack. I fell back to my knees in shock, staring wide eyed at the two wolves snarling at one another. The rogue king was down but he still had fight in him. To the left of me the group of warriors had already dispatched the last of the rogues, Johnny nodded his head and the others ran off. Where were they going? I felt the end of a snout in my neck from the scent I knew it was Johnny, his wolf whined concerned.

“ I’m fine big bro, you need to go” I knew he would be needed elsewhere I could hear the call of other warriors. The rogues must be attacking in other areas of the pack. He needed to get to them; he was their leader.

I looked back to see only the grey wolf now, the rogue king was gone. I hadn't seen what happened. The grey wolf shifted to reveal Lucas. His large rippling chest heaved looking at my brother's wolf.

“ Go, I'll take care of her,” he said authoritatively to Johnny. Johnny hesitated but after I urged him to go. He eventually ran in the same direction the other warriors had gone.

I tried to stand again but I was too weak, I heard a choked cough close by. I looked at Lucas who was frowning. He looked equally puzzled then we both saw one of the trannies on the ground stirring. I gasped, the one that had been mauled was still alive with all the strength I had as I crawled towards his body.

The boy was coughing and choking on his own blood. He lay on his back now there was so much blood I didn’t even know where he was bleeding from it was as if his entire body was one giant wound. He winced, grabbing my hand, tears ran down his cheeks.

“ we..didn’t..I…couldn’t…Pete….where’s…Pete?” He said between coughs. I looked across towards the tree where his friend lay. I assumed that was who he was calling for.

“ I’m sorry, he’s gone” I whispered sadly, tears rolling down my face, I clutched his hand to my chest. The boy scrunched up his face in pain but it wasn’t from the wounds it was the loss of his friend.

He was beyond saving, that was already clear to us both,he would soon join his friend. There was nothing I could do but comfort him until he passed. I held his hand while he stared up at me, tears streaming down his face.

“ We always promised to bury the other if they were to die in battle” the boy sputtered coughing up blood for a few moments.

“ Kind of ironic we die side by side, hadn’t seen that coming” he coughed again, more blood coming up he squeezed my hand as he winced in pain looking towards his friend's lifeless body.

“ Guess I’ll just have to settle for being buried next to you man” he reached his hand out to his friend not quite reaching him, the boy suddenly went still his chest heaved one final time and then lay forever unmoving.

I knelt there for a moment, still holding onto his limp hand in mine as if clutching it would somehow change what had just happened.

I heard a twig snap in the distance I looked up to see a half naked Lucas in just a pair of shorts. We always kept clothes nearby for shifting, he must have gone to collect them while I was consoling the boy. Looking around I realised we were alone apart from a few dead rouges that lay close by.

“Where’s my dad?” I asked looking up at Lucas. There’s no way my parents wouldn’t have leapt into action during an attack.

“ Over the south side where most of the rogues entered, they must have been testing the border for weaknesses, looks like they found more than one” he said sadly looking down at the boys that lay dead on the ground.

“ Are there any more casualties?” I whispered, tears streaming down my face.

“ yea but these two seem to be the only fatalities, poor pups they never stood a chance” Lucas crouched down in front of me. I looked down at the bodies of the young wolves. They couldn’t have been older than nineteen, Johnny would be devastated, he’d blame himself for their deaths but it wasn’t his fault.

Not seeing Lucas move he suddenly scooped me up carrying me away from the awful scene.

“ What are you doing, put me down, we can't just leave. '' I tried moving out of his hold but he gripped me tighter, making me wince in pain from my injuries. I didn’t want to leave the boys bodies behind with the awful rogues and they could still attack this area.

“ Your brother has this section covered with his men now, your parents and the Alpha have the south covered. we need to get your wounds looked at”I stiffened at the mention of the new Alpha remembering the events of earlier tonight. It wasn’t important right now I was alive while those poor boys were still dead.

I was covered in blood and not just my own, my thigh was bleeding from the claw marks the one rouge had given me and I was pretty certain I had broken ribs from having my body slammed against the tree. My whole one side raidiated with pain and now the adrenaline was gone I was starting to feel tired from the blood loss. Lucas must have felt it because he loosened his grip on my body slightly, if I hadn’t been in so much pain I could have blushed from the fact he was carrying me in his arms completely naked against his own naked chest.

“ I’m impressed, I didn’t think Felix trained omegas?” Lucas said, trying to distract me from the pain.

“ He doesn't, my dad trained me” the words slipped out without me really thinking, I shouldn’t have said that if Lucas told Alpha Mitchell dad would get into trouble for going against the former Alphas orders.

“ Wow, trained by the great Beta Clayton, the Alpha king would kill for that honour” he chuckled but I felt myself slipping further into darkness. The last thing I remember was Lucas saying something about staying awake.

( Mitchell pov)

I watched, now in my human form as the men finished off the last of the rogues, they had done well, the attack hadn’t been as bad as we had thought and we’d escaped with minimum casualties, though I hadn’t missed my head warrior and so called friend sprint off during the fighting. I was pissed until I heard through the mindlink the rogues were attacking the north end of the pack.

They must have been circling the territory edge looking for an opening. I was disappointed they had found so many holes in our defences. I must remember to bring this up with my Beta Nathan, if I could find him.

I hadn’t seen Nathan during the fight their were plenty of warriors out here along with my high ranking wolves, the Clayton’s had leaped into action the second they heard the word rogues I had to admit I admired their loyalty to the pack.

From what I remember of my fathers days as Alpha his Beta had been by his side every fight, every meeting and business trip. They had even trained together every day for years, yet when the s**t had hit the fan my Beta was suddenly nowhere to be found.

It was clear Johnny had done well with the warriors they were well trained but I was surprised at how many had run from the pack house when the attack started, any longer and the rogues would have reached the town. I planned to go over this with Johnny and Nathan, there should never have been so few wolves stationed at the border tonight.

Colton handed me a pair of shorts, I slipped them on looking to the final rogue that was cornered by our warriors.

“ All dead but one alpha” Colton stated panting trying to stand up straight. Everyone was a little worse for where after the party. Why the hell hadn’t there been sufficient security on duty tonight. A topic for another time.

I strolled over to the warriors, raising my hand for them to halt. The rogue growled as I approached. She knew it was over but she wasn’t giving in.

“ Shift!” I commanded in my alpha tone. The rogue whimpered, having no choice but to shift.

Her bones cracked and her fur disappeared revealing a young woman in her mid thirties she stared me in the eyes defiantly.

“ Who sent you?” I said, kneeling in front of her.

“Screw you Alpha you’ll get nothing from me” she spat angrily trying to hold my gaze.

“ Why are you here?” I asked, ignoring her insult.

“ We heard the ‘coward Alpha’ that abandoned his pack finally grew some balls and returned home, thought we’d see if the rumours were true” she said smugly. Wasn’t the worst insult I’d had.

“ Tell me who your working for and I’ll make it quick” I growled, growing tired of her already she wasn’t a powerful wolf these rouges were clearly scouts they had obviously attacked because of the lack of patrols on the border, their leader probably wanted to see how far they could get.

“ DO IT!! I’m ready to face the moon goddess, you and your pack of weak mutts will be following me soon enough, your secrets are about to be exposed and none of you will be shown mercy for your crimes” she shouted defiantly but fear shone in her eyes, I reached out grabbing her throat quickly snapping her neck like a twig. Her body went limp and I let it fall lifelessly to the ground.

“ Alpha, you didn't want to interrogate the prisoner further?” A voice from one of the men came behind me, I didn’t look back to see who. There had been no need without meaning to the wolf had revealed more than she’d meant to.

These rogues were scouts they hadn’t been here to fight, there were too few, the fact that they had attacked showed me that their leader wasn’t far away, he had sent in his pawns to check our defences but he’d made the mistake of alerting me to them too now I would make sure they were fixed.

“ she knew nothing, she was of no use to us” I stated not looking at him. Rising to my feet I began walking away from the dead rouge. Colton and a few warriors flanked me awaiting orders.

“ let’s get the injured to the pack hospital and someone get these rogues bodies off my territory”

“ Yes Alpha” several men said, leaving me and Colton. I looked around, already seeing the men carrying the dead rouges away while others helped the wounded, former Beta Clayton was among the ones assisting the wounded; he and his mate were carrying a male towards the pack hospital. His leg looked like it had been in a fight with Freddy Kruger.

Clayton looked up meeting my eyes for a moment, his eyes showing nothing but hatred for me. I broke contact first remembering my outburst earlier tonight Something inside me felt ashamed for some strange reason.

“ Did we have any fatalities?” I turned to face Colton. Who had seen my exchange with Adam Clayton, an expression crossed his face for a moment but it changed too quickly for me to decipher what it was.

“ We are still waiting on word from head warrior Clayton on the north section alpha but nothing here” Colton stated looking down at my chest frowning. I looked down following his line of sight seeing blood. One of the rogues must have caught me during the fight. It wasn't deep and would be healed soon enough. I had more injured wolves to think about. I shrugged off the wound like it was nothing before Colton could say anything as we walked in silence towards the pack hospital.