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Time to Grow
SeoHyun looked out over the horses and the land that had been her home for years and sighed. She had received a full ride scholarship to a pastry school in San Francisco and, in spite of her trepidation, she was going to go. She had heard a lot of good things about the alpha of that particular pack. His name was Thomas but most just called him 'Tommy', he was a teacher at the local college and apparently had not been alpha long but had done wonders for the pack in that time. Many likened him to a younger version of her uncle, Samuel and she figured if he was anything like Samuel she would like him. Kara had also made it into a school in San Francisco, it just happened to be the one the alpha worked at so the fact that she was coming too made the idea of leaving a bit easier.
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Tommy sighed as he watched his daughter play she was growing up so quickly, it made him feel good to see her grow and learn. He was also proud of Kira; she was married to Trent, a fellow former ranger turned pack member. He had been shocked when he learned that Trent had been turned and even more so when he realized that Trent's wolf had chosen Kira as his mate, though some would have called him a 'bonehead' again and said it was completely obvious that Trent's wolf would chose Kira after all the feelings that floated between the two since they were teenagers.
He had been overwhelmed when she asked him to give her away, later even more so when she explained that the responsibility would include him taking the role of her father during the ceremony and in the traditional father-daughter dance. She had asked him to choose the song, thus giving him the freedom to use this as an expression of how he felt for her as she stepped into this future.. In the end he had found that he had only one choice "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts, he would never forget wiping the tears from her eyes and promising her that no matter what he'd be there for her after the song ended and it seemed the words of it hit home.
More recently she had announced to the pack that she was expecting her first child, this was exciting and frightening news for the pack who knew all too well that the odds of them having a healthy baby were not in their favor.
The door opened and the smell of sorrow and pain hit Tommy like a freight train along with Kira's unique scent that was mixed with Trent's due to their being mated.
"Tommy…" the crack in her voice broke his heart; he could tell she had been crying recently and would likely start crying again.
"Kira… what's wrong?" he asked standing to walk to her.
"It's gone…" she said
"What… Kira what's gone?" he asked doing his best to keep his wolf at bay.
"My baby!" she cried and broke into sobs again.
Tommy pulled her into his arms and eased her to the floor when it became clear her knees wouldn't hold her weight much longer.
"Kira… oh… Kira…" Tommy found himself at a loss for any words to say to make her feel better, there was no consoling this, no magic words for him to say to make her feel better about the situation and he felt his heart breaking for her. His wolf was in the back of his mind howling out it's grief at the knowledge that his foster daughter was mourning a baby that would never be born.
He rearranged her in his arms and began to gently rock her as she cried.
Hayley looked into the room and gasped in shock. One of the lower ranking pack members had come to take Samantha so Tommy could focus on Kira who needed him now more than ever.
"Tommy… what is going on?" Hayley asked kneeling with them and putting a hand on the small of Kira's back only to realize the younger woman had somehow managed to cry herself to sleep.
"She…" Tommy swallowed the lump in his throat. "She had a miscarriage."
"Does Trent know?"
"Do I know what?" Trent asked.
"I take that as a 'no'" Hayley replied.
"Trent, when did you get here?" Tommy asked
"Just a few minutes ago, Jason called me, he told me I needed to come immediately that something was wrong with Kira but he couldn't tell me what." Trent replied.
Tommy lifted Kira and they went into her bedroom. Tommy didn't want to wake her but she needed to tell Trent what had happened.
"Kira, what happened… what is wrong?" Trent asked once she was awake enough to answer questions.
"I… I don't know… all I know is… is our baby is gone… I miscarried this morning." Kira said a fresh wave of tears flowing down her cheeks.
"I… I went out with Piper for brunch to… to talk about some new songs I wanted to try at P3 when I… I felt this intense pain in my stomach… I thought it was nothing, I've been having cramps for the past week, but Piper insisted that I went to the hospital anyway and… that's when I learned that I miscarried." Kira replied, barely managing to keep the sobs at bay long enough to speak.
Trent hugged her, resisting the wolf's desire to howl in mourning for his unborn pup. They had been warned this was a possibility but no amount of warning could prepare them for how hard this was, especially on Kira who had really begun to bond with her unborn child.
Tommy had a good feeling he would be hearing Trent's mournful howling later that evening and might even join him with a howl or two of his own. This was his pup in pain from the miscarriage and he mourned the loss of her child right along with her.
Tommy left Trent to care for Kira even though he didn't want to, he knew this was now Trent's job as Kira's mate to take care of her in her time of pain, but the fact that she had come to him first still had an impact on him.
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The next day Tommy received word that they would be receiving two female wolves from Aspen Creek later that week; both were quite young and getting ready to start college. Kara Beckworth and SeoHyun Lee-Cornick were both accepted into schools in the San Francisco area and were going to petition to join his pack.
He had already decided he would accept both girls, he wasn't going to deny them an education especially when SeoHyun was coming on a full ride scholarship. He had rooms prepared for them in the pack house to let them settle in and find their feet. He would happily allow them to remain in his house as long as they were in school if it helped them focus on their educations not to have to worry about a job or maintaining a home of their own.
He knew Kara was rather dominant and wasn't worried about how leaving the Marrok pack would affect her; it was SeoHyun he was worried about. Bran had told him her story and given her history and the abuse she suffered at the hands of an alpha he wondered if it would take time to get her to warm to him or if she would take to his pack as she had the Marrok. He knew the banishment would be rough on the girls, especially SeoHyun so he would want to integrate both of them into his pack as quickly as he could so that his calm influence could ease them, especially SeoHyun. He figured he would integrate her first then Kara as, from what he gathered, Kara could stand independent better than SeoHyun could and wouldn't crumble from being left unattached for a day or so where he would never allow SeoHyun to drift that way for any longer than he absolutely had to. This meant she was looking at being a lone wolf for mere hours not a day or more as a lot of wolves did, it didn't leave a lot of room for her to recover from the magic used but it also didn't allow her to regress into the skittish wolf she had been, or so he hoped. He knew that should the worst occur he could always call Bran and he would take her back to Aspen Creek, this was his granddaughter after all, not just one of his wolves. Tommy knew he would do it for one of his wolves so who was to say he wouldn't show up personally to collect his granddaughter should she need to return to Aspen Creek.
Tommy went to work getting preparations in order for SeoHyun and Kara's arrival, he really wanted to focus on Kira but he knew as pack alpha he had to focus on getting ready for Kara and SeoHyun and leave tending to Kira's wounds to Trent, no matter how hard that was.
To Be Continued…