Disclaimer: I don't own the characters from Wolves they belong to David Hayter. I do own Alexis Craft.

Trashed and Scattered

Part 1

My name is Alexis Craft, I was born Alexis Slaughter. When I was younger my older brother Connor Slaughter was in a forbidden relationship with my best-friend Lucinda. That relationship resulted in my nephew Cayden Richards being born. It was my job to protect him from Connor ever finding out about him, and I failed. I was the one that took Cayden from the Tollerman family home and escaped with him to the city that he was adopted into, I took up a job near by and moved into the house next door to keep an eye on him. But I wasn't there the night he first changed, the night he discovered what he was. I told his adoptive family that I needed to be a part of his life, I never said why. The night that his adoptive parents were killed, he ran - he thought he killed them, I knew better I could sense it. Cayden grew up calling me 'Aunt Lexi' that was what they had told him to call me. The following isn't told by me, but by an outsider, and observer if you will.

Late one night Alexis Craft received a phone call, all she could hear on the other end was scared heavy breathing before the person hung up. When she turned on the news the following morning she saw her nephew's face plastered all over the screen. Alexis went about her morning routine as normal before going and handing in a resignation letter that she had, had written for circumstances just like this. Alexis then made a phone call to John Tollerman, to let him know that Cayden had discovered what he was and that he was scared.

"John, it's Alexis. Cayden found out about what he is, I don't know how long it will be before he discovers Lupine Ridge," Alexis left a voice message on John's phone before packing up some of her belongings and piling them into her van. 'Come on Cayden, give me some clue as to where you are?' Alexis thought to herself before she shut the door on the van and locked it. She'd put on some running gear, so that she could go for a run through the woods that backed on to Cayden's house. Although the house was roped off with police tape she had been able to get a good scent of what had happened. Alexis ran through the woods smelling the air and everything around her in an attempt to get a fix on what direction Cayden had travelled in.

Alexis stopped running after an hour, when her phone rang with John returning her phone call. John told her that he'd keep an eye out for the young boy, even if he didn't know what he looked like. Alexis being Connor's sister also meant that she was a pure-bred wolf, that was her one advantage over some of the wolves in Lupine. After a couple of months Alexis made her way to Lupine Ridge where she headed straight for her family home that was hers after her brother had made the decision to live in the mountains.

"Hi Clara, is John home?" Alexis had called John's home again, and his wife Clara had answered. "It's Alexis,"

"He's out in the barn. You know he's safe," Clara answered as John and Cayden walked in for lunch. "John, it's for you," Clara handed the phone to John and motioned to Cayden causing the older man to walk onto the front porch.

"Alexis, he found his way here. Just like you thought he would," John told her, looking back inside as he spoke. Clara and Cayden were in the kitchen getting ready to have lunch. "Gave him a job as a farmhand, come around tonight have dinner with us,"

"John that's going to look just a little bit odd don't you think?" Alexis sighed, she knew that she couldn't turn up without it looking suspicious. So far she had managed to stay out of Angel's bar and out of sight of all the wolves that knew her.

"Tell him you grew up here, that's not a lie," John told her, he heard swearing on the other end of the phone, which had him let out a small laugh.

"Fine, I'll be there," Alexis sighed, resigned to the fact that she had to turn up at some stage. Alexis didn't like the idea of going to the Tollerman's but what else was she supposed to do?

A few hours later and Alexis found herself getting ready to go to the house that she and Lucinda spent hours playing in the corn fields. Before she knew it she was standing on the front porch knocking on the door. Inside she could hear Clara and John telling Cayden to answer the door. Alexis took a deep breath as she came face to face with her nephew.

"Aunt Lexi?" Cayden questioned, shocked to see her standing in front of him. "What are you doing here?"

"Hey Cayden, I never did tell you about where I grew up," Alexis smiled at him, pulling the young teenager into a hug.

"Aunt Lexi, what are you talking about?" Cayden questioned as Alexis followed him into the house. "John, Clara this is my Aunt Lexi,"

"Cayden, I've known you for your entire life. But I grew up here in Lupine Ridge," Alexis told him, as she briefly forced her facial features to change and then change back again. "I'm just like you, and I'm so sorry that I never told you," Alexis said as Cayden turned around to face her.

"Did you know what I was?" Cayden questioned, as Clara walked over to Alexis and gave the young woman a hug. Alexis nodded, what else could she do. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I made a promise to someone a long time ago that I wouldn't, that I would protect you," Alexis told him, she wasn't certain that he knew who is parents were just yet.

"He knows about Lucinda and Connor," John told her, but did he really know the truth like Alexis had known.

"Your mother was my best-friend," Alexis left it at that she didn't think that he needed to know that Connor was her older brother all in one day. "Luce was twenty-one, I was eighteen,"

Cayden looked between John, Clara, Angel and Alexis wondering what else weren't they telling him. Before anyone could do anything he took off towards the mountains. Alexis looked at Angel and John before she tore off after him. When she caught up with him she grabbed his arm spinning him towards her.

"Cayden, you can't tell Connor that I'm here. Promise me that you won't, I'll explain more later - I promise," Alexis begged with her nephew, she didn't want her brother knowing that she was home after being gone for so long. "It's a long story,"

"Aunt Lexi, if I can even call you that. Why did you lie to me?" Cayden questioned, they were standing in the middle of the woods staring at each other.

"I'll always be your Aunt Lexi. I did it to protect you, but looking back it feels like it did more harm than actual good," Alexis answered before getting ready to run back down to the Tollerman's. "Be careful Cayden, he's more dangerous than you know," with that Alexis took off back to the Tollerman's to wait for Cayden to return from seeing her brother.

Alexis made her way back to the Tollerman's before she heard sounds that she didn't like so headed back towards where she had left Cayden and stayed hidden behind the tree-line. Connor couldn't know that his sister was home, she was one of the only wolves aside from Cayden that could hurt him in some way. Alexis watched as Cayden ran and jumped over the cliff, or more like fell over the cliff with his multiple injuries that could kill him if he wasn't found. Alexis waited until Connor and his pack had gone before she ran to the edge of the cliff and looked down, she had climbed up and down this particular cliff since she was child. She walked over to the part of the cliff that contained the most shrubbery and slowly made her way down stopping before she got all the way to the bottom as she saw the one person that she didn't want to see standing over him.

As soon as she was certain he was gone Alexis made her way down to the bottom of the cliff and picked up Cayden and carried him back to the Tollerman's house before she went to confront her brother. Alexis sat with Cayden for as long as she could before Clara, Angel and John walked back into his room. She needed to see that Cayden was safe before she left him.

"He won't listen to me, Angel darling you have to make him change," Alexis looked behind her at the young girl before smiling at John and Clara. "I'm going for a run," Alexis stood up and then went outside, taking off her jacket and leaving it on the front porch.

"Cayden, you have to run. If you don't you will die," Angel told him, she had to some how make him listen to her. "I know it hurts,but you have to change,"

"Dear boy, run! You need to do it's how we heal," Alexis called through the window before she took off running.

In the woods Connor was standing in his camp ground making his pack run as he thought about what Cayden had told him. He didn't believe a word the teenager had said to him, and felt that something was missing from what he was being told. Alexis ran, as fast as she could straight to Connor's camp it hadn't changed at all since she had left.

"Cayden is yours Connor," Alexis said as she came to a halt in front of her big brother and knocked one of his pack to the ground. "I know that he told you and that, that's why you did what you did to him,"

"You're lying!" Connor growled at his baby sister, as he stayed standing where he was.

"I'm not, yes I hid the truth from you...Lucinda's father would have killed him if he found out that he was alive," Alexis told him, she had to think of a way to explain why she had left with Cayden. "Luce, she made me promise that I'd look after him no matter what,"

"Get out Alexis!" Connor growled at her, Alexis growled back and ran at him pinning him against the wall.

"Look me in the eyes Connor and then tell me that I'm lying," Alexis stared at her brother as she held him against the wall before Kino moved to pull her off him. "Come near me Kino and I rip your throat out," she growled sensing that he was behind her, Alexis was stronger than him like her brother.

"Kino, back down and run," Connor commanded as he stared his sister in the eyes to determine if what she was saying was the truth. After Kino had left them Alexis stepped away from Connor still staring him in the eyes.

"Not once have I lied to you. Skirted around the truth, yes. But lied never," Alexis told him, still not completely backing away from him. "Find me when you're ready for the full truth," with that Alexis left her brother and ran, she ran as fast as she could back to the Tollerman's.