Protection Detail
"Why must you always lick the spoo-DON'T PUT IT BACK IN!" My mom whisked the bowl away from me and my thirty-something year old sister. "Get off the table!"
I ignored her and stayed on the table, trying to listen in to the conversation in the living room between Gabriel, Ben, Samuel, and my father. School started tomorrow and, believe it or not, my dad didn't want me going back! Not even a week after Ben and Peter had a building collapse on them, Darryl was shot and Warren was left for dead.
In not so many horrible accidents, someone was targeting my father's pack while remaining inconspicuous by attacking humans at the same time. It was terrible!
Of course, it didn't help that I wasn't getting enough sleep at night.
Oh! NO! NO! Not like that as in my wolf was so restless with the impending danger looming above us and the fact that while this danger dwelt among us Ben was alone it really freaked us both out.
"Stop eavesdropping." Mom smacked the back of my head with a wooden spoon.
"GAH!" I fell off the table and landed on my feet. "Mom!"
"Porsche!" She said in the perfect imitation of my voice that only she could manage while giving me an amused look.
Of course, with Jesse and Gabriel staying here for a bit like they were discussing and with Samuel already staying here incase something else happened (he had flown back to Montana after the building incident only to be needed again…twice) and my mom and my dad and then me, there was only one guest room left with the exception of the two bedrooms in the basement and the four safe-rooms and then the pack room.
"Porsche, come in here for a moment?" My father called after hours of the constant murmurs.
I walked in the room cautiously, looking for a place to sit where I'd still be in the conversation. Of course, there wasn't one. I hurried over to Ben with my eyes on the ground and sat on his lap before turning to my father.
"Yes?"
He tensed for a moment, watching me and Ben closely before Samuel spoke up.
"Your father tells me you haven't been sleeping well?" He asked, looking at me like he was assessing me.
"You're living in the same house." I answered.
"Why?" He continued.
What was I supposed to say to a house full of wolves and hybrids and walkers and two humans? That my bed was too cold? That I didn't like thinking of Ben all alone at his place? That I wanted to fall asleep with his scent in my nose? That I wanted to have a guy in my bed?
Yeah because that would work well if I was forty years old!
"I don't know." I snorted before remembering my Mom would catch that.
"Porsche, what's wrong?" She walked in, standing behind Dad.
I looked around at the faces in front of me because Jesse had walked in and officially everyone in this house was staring at me.
Great…
"Er…" I thought for a moment, "Nothing is terribly wrong."
"Not terribly."
"Of course not, not terribly." I nodded. "Um…can I just skip this question?"
I was met by concerned gazes, six of them, and I let out a sigh.
"Too much going on." I finally said, "It's messing with my head."
Samuel nodded.
"Well, I told you my opinion, Adam, and your daughter only proved it."
Dad rubbed his face with his hands.
"Porsche, are you telling the complete truth?"
"I'm telling the truth." I answered.
"He asked if you were telling the complete truth." My mother frowned.
What am I? Fae? Why couldn't I avoid one question?
I stammered.
"I-I-I-h-he-a-a-a-alone-dan-danger-damn it!" I spat. "I don't want to answer this question."
I felt Ben's breath on the back of my neck and I did this spazzy thing where I shivered and my fingers twitched, If you were there you'd agree that I looked insane. Ben laughed quietly, but I felt the rumbles in his chest when I leaned against him.
"He, he is my problem." I turned my upper body to glare at him and jab a finger in his chest before spinning back and crossing my arms.
Dad did this half-growl, half-"damn the doctor was right" thing with his throat and his expression and made a face.
"Fine, Samuel, fine. If you think it'll help her sleep." I knew he only wanted me to be more aware of everything so nothing happened to me. He wasn't just worried for his pack, that's why Jesse and Gabriel were staying here. "But there are limits."
"I didn't say there weren't." Samuel nodded in respect.
"Okay." He stared at me and Ben for a bit, "Fine. Porsche, he can stay. I don't want him in your room though, let alone on your bed."
I couldn't hold back the whine.
He frowned.
"Nothing will happen." I promised.
"I believe that as much as I believe your mother saying she'll stay out of trouble."
Everyone except Mom and I laughed.
"For your information, Adam, I have not gotten into anything since before Porsche was born. Things have found me a few times, but I haven't meddled in the slightest in eons."
Dad didn't comment.
I sighed.
"Fine, Dad, I'll meet your terms."
He nodded.
"Good."
Samuel was watching me again and I felt more than a little creeped out before I realized he was most likely curious as to why I had given in. I turned my attention back to my father.
"Will I be going to school tomorrow? I have my bag packed." I told him.
"N-Yes," He sighed, "Yes, you and Auriele will have school to attend tomorrow. If something happens, or if something feels…wrong, call me."
Yeah, sure, so you can take years to fix it again.
"If I am able to, I will." I smiled reassuringly.
"Well then, kiddo," Jesse came over and ruffled my hair. "Good night."
I smiled.
"'Night, Jesse, Gabriel, and Sam!" I nodded, getting up and off of Ben's lap. I kissed him softly, "Night, Ben."
I skipped to the hallway before turning around.
"Love you, Mom and Dad."
Mom smiled.
"Get to bed."
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It was ten o'clock, not very late. It was ten-thirty before everyone headed to bed and it was eleven by the time everyone's breathing was calm and heavy. Ben was in the pack room in the basement.
I snuck down the stairs extremely carefully and down the second staircase to the basement, the pack room case, and found his eyes staring at me from the darkness across the room.
"Porsche, you shouldn't be down here." He whispered when I walked over calmly and tried to push him over. "Porsche, get back upstairs, you accepted your father's terms."
"That you wouldn't stay in my room and you wouldn't be on my bed." I corrected, sitting on the edge of the cot thing. "This is none of the above."
I saw him smirk.
"I'm still going to get in trouble."
"Not if Samuel is staying here like he is." I smiled, finally laying next to him. I was facing him. "I don't like you being alone."
"And I don't like to think of you being in the same home with Samuel Cornick for very long without me, Porsche, we're going to have to get used to it."
I laughed softly.
"Sam? You feel threatened by Sam? Shouldn't my dad be the one worrying about him stealing Mom back?"
"He's a lot more dominant, he can really do whatever he wants to my part of the rank, yeah he intimidates me. Yeah, he makes me feel like he's going to take you from me." He looked upset.
"He's Sam!" I rolled my eyes, okay so yeah, Mei had kind of had a thing for him, Ben didn't need to hear that yet. "He's an insane old wolf who has fixed everyone I know up on more than one occasion!"
"Yeah, that's-"
I cut him off with a kiss, I had been too close to his face not to want to. It started small, but when I gasped for air I realized I was on top of him, straddling his waist. I took a shaky breath and slid back to my spot beside him.
"That wasn't a good idea." I murmured, turning away. He made a noise that sounded like an agreement.
"Not entirely." He mumbled as he fiddled with my hair gently. "The blue is starting to grow out you know."
"Yeah, I have to get it redone." I agreed. "Do you think I'll have to do much more math homework tomorrow?" I had gotten a sheet Ben had helped me with last week.
"Mmmmmm…"
I frowned.
"That wasn't an answer." My eyebrows knitted together. "Ben?"
"Hmm?" I felt him nuzzle my neck and then begin to lick. Damn, that wasn't good. He wasn't listening. I tensed for all of a moment before I closed my eyes.
I wasn't too bothered by it before I felt his teeth just barely graze my skin and I pushed him away, turning to face him.
"None of that!" I snapped quietly. "Get us in trouble, that's what that will do."
Wasn't he at the bottom of the chain? Was this control thing supposed to be a problem?
"Mine." His ice blue eyes stared at me. I sighed.
"Yes, yours, we've established this." I nodded, "Now is not the time to re-establish it unless you want Mom or Dad to kill you. I am yours and you are mine and we both are on a bed under my parent's roof under which they sleep!"
He looked frustrated.
"Is this because of school tomorrow?" I rolled my eyes, "I'm not going to leave you for the captain of the football team or something, Ben."
He pulled my face to his and kissed me roughly, I kissed him back before pulling away.
"I will not sleep with you to boost your ego, sorry." I snorted, "Especially not with my parents upstairs."
He growled.
"Growl all you want." I told him, getting off the bed before he pulled me back.
"Sorry." He mumbled and I smirked.
"I forgive you, but I'm tired and I want to sleep." I told him, curling into him and letting his scent comfort me as I drifted off to sleep.
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I woke up to my mother's laughter and opened my eyes to see she and Samuel were cracking up at my father's newest discovery that I had beaten him at his own game and found a way around his stupid rules. I think my mom was angry or upset or maybe a little of both, but the fact she was laughing at my father meant he was stunned.
"Morning." I yawned, sitting up and letting Ben's arm slide off me before I turned to shake him. "Wake up, I have school!"
He jumped up when I jabbed him in the side and I laughed.
"Morning, Lazy Bum, let's go!" He grumbled, still rubbing his eyes.
"Porsche, is that another hickey?" My mom suddenly frowned.
"Er…I suppose so…" I reached up to touch my neck. I turned to Ben. "I told you it would get us in trouble you crazy wolf."
"Porsche." Mom sighed. "What will we ever do with you?"
"Send me to Tasmania?"
"That, we could." She laughed.
I tugged on Ben's ear.
"WAKE UP!"
"I'm up!" He growled, glaring at me with one eye that wasn't covered by pillow.
"Well, come on then! I have to leave!" I rolled my eyes and ran past my parents and Sam and up the stairs. I…probably shouldn't have left him alone with my parents this early in the morning, but oh well.
I picked the edges off my poptart and ate the center before contemplating a shower. I figured that, since I had just had one last night I didn't need another and I just washed my face in the end, being sure to dab enough make-up that my neck looked sort of normal.
Only I would get a hickey the night before school began.
I grabbed a cup of coffee before sitting down next to Ben.
"Excited?" He asked, he looked kind of sullen.
"Yeah, it's a whole new school!" I smiled at him. He gently reached and brushed my hair from over my shoulder to reveal the make-up covered part of my neck. He rubbed it with his thumb. "Leave it!"
He looked kind of upset with my request.
"Ben, I'd rather not get kicked out of this school." I reminded.
He made a face.
"Oh, ignore him, Porsche." My mom came up the stairs, "It's part of the 'taken,' 'mine,' and 'don't you touch her' thing they do, just ignore it. He wants the boys at your school to know not to touch you."
"They'll know that anyways." I smirked.
"Don't bite anyone." Mom sighed.
"I don't bite that hard!" I whined, "But that wasn't my idea."
"And what was your idea?" She raised an eyebrow.
"If I need to use it, you'll see."
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