Disclaimer: None of Glee belongs to me; I've just got a lot of imagination and free time (and ADD).
AN: None of this is Betaed; I'm the only one who's edited it so sorry for any mistakes.
Being a Werewolf in Lima Ohio
Because of a fling with a stranger, a hot stranger, Puck didn't go to juvie. He went to 'How to be a Werewolf' boot camp, juvie is just one of their cover stories. Now that he's back in Lima he has to face the difficulties of dealing with his secret.
Entry 2: Lima's Vampires
There's more of them than I thought. I'm talking about Vampires; I'm the only Werewolf in Lima aside from Rachel's Gay Dads who I sniffed out right away. Rachel isn't a Werewolf and I don't think she knows about her dads either. But Tina Cohen-Chang and both her parents are Vampires and from what I can smell she knows about it (this totally explains her obsession with black and how she scared Principal Figgins last year). Kurt Hummel is also a Vampire but his dad isn't so unless his mother was one too he probably has no clue, he smells like he's barely got enough blood so I don't think he knows. Some Vampire parents don't tell their kids until they're older so his mom might not have ever gotten around to telling him before she died. From what I can tell there're three other Vamps in Lima and all of them know what they are (this means there are seven Vampires and three Werewolves total in Lima). I think we've just got an abnormally large population of Vampires because they're not that common, one of my teachers said that only one in five hundred people was a Vampire. Wolves are usually more common because we're contagious.
This was my first week back in school since being turned. Everyone seems to hate me for, supposedly, getting sent to juvie. But none of them even tried to visit me; I'd have had to visit a real juvie center to act like an inmate if they had. My Glee club, New Directions, often claims to be like a family and aside from Ma and my sister they feel like my pack even though none of them are really my friends we've been through a lot together. Artie, one of the kids in the club, has been in a wheelchair for years. It sucks that I know he could walk again if I turned him into a Wolf too, but I can't even explain it to see if he'd be willing to live with that (and that's totally not allowed, if we went around fixing people like that there'd be a hell of a lot more Wolves out there than there are and some seriously hard to explain medical miracles). I've been trying to befriend him and make sure he's okay, protecting the weakest member of the pack and all, but it's hard to get over all the past between everyone and me. I was a real douche to everyone before I was turned; I bullied and/or humiliated everyone I didn't sleep with including my best friend. Now it's not funny at all when a nerd pees his pants if I look angry in his direction. It reeks.
Another thing with being back in Lima is that everything smells. I know when a girl is on her period. Santana, the girl I used to hook-up with all the time, smells like sex and at least two other guys, or girls, all the time so I can barely stand sitting near her. Seriously, keep your sex lives to yourselves punks! Although I can tell who's cheating with who and who wants to be (I can smell things like arousal and it's really gross being in a high school full of horny teenagers). It's hard trying to act like myself but having all these different urges. I know one of the guys on the football team is messing with Kurt because I can smell Kurt's fear around him and I can smell when he's touched Kurt and stuff but since I have to act like a normal person I can't let on that I know any of it. Also I would recommend not getting a reputation for sleeping with whoever offers because when you don't want to and you can't explain why you're suddenly not doing anything with anyone it sucks.
On the note of looking out for my extended family of the Vampire type I've decided to approach Tina and ask if she knows if there's a Vampire community to introduce Kurt to or something. I'd offer to be a blood bank but I think he'd try to kill me after all the crap I've given him over the years. If I even thought of talking to him by myself I think he'd flip, he'd probably think I was trying to pull a prank on him. When we approach him Tina will have to be the one to tell him that he's a Vamp because I don't think there's any way he'd ever believe me unless I master shifting into my wolf form first. I can see it now: 'Hey Hummel, guess what you're a Vampire and I'm a Werewolf.' 'Get away from me Puck! You're insane.' 'No, seriously, watch.' I shift into a wolf and he runs away screaming, possibly cutting himself and bleeding to death or something just as dramatic in the process.
Tomorrow's Saturday and I've decided to go over to Tina's house and talk to her and her parents. Tina's in Glee and she's a real freak like me so she might understand how weird this is and help me with the Hummel situation.
Saturday morning the Cohen-Chang doorbell rang and when Mr. Cohen-Chang answered the door he was surprised to see a jock with a mohawk standing on his porch.
"I think you've made a mistake," he offered.
"Nope, I'm in the right place," Puck grinned, "I can tell. This is Tina's house."
"Yes, but I didn't think my daughter knew anyone like, well," he trailed off.
"Yeah," the teen shrugged, he wouldn't have thought he would be visiting Tina either a few weeks ago. "I'm in Glee with her and I kinda needed to talk to her."
"Oh, okay," Tina's father smiled at Puck and stepped aside, motioning him into the house. "Come on in. She's up in her room."
"Thanks Mr. Cohen-Chang." He waved on his way up the stairs, using his newly improved sense of smell to find his way to his teammate's room Puck didn't ask for directions. Knocking on her door, he didn't want to catch her changing or something before having the "Vampire/Werewolf we're all realz!" conversation, he waited for her to say he could come in.
"Yeah?" He figured that was as good as he was going to get because she wouldn't really let him in if she knew who he was so Puck opened her door carefully and stepped into her room. It was surprisingly not covered in black, the walls were a peach color and it was actually a nice bright room.
"Hey, Tina. We need to talk," awkward but then he'd never had this talk before.
"Oh my God, Puck! What are you doing in my room? How'd you get in my house?" Tina shrieked at him, she was lounging on her bed with her computer in sweats and a large blue t-shirt.
"Your dad let me in, I said I was in Glee with you. You're low on blood, did you cut yourself since yesterday or something?"
"What? No!" She looked nervously around like something in her room was giving her away.
"Dude, I can smell it. You Vampires aren't very good at hiding it from us," he didn't realize that he'd forgotten to tell her about his new Werewolf status.
"That's so superficial, just because I wear black and dress differently you assume I think I'm a Vampire like Figgins," Tina huffed as she crossed her arms and glared at Puck.
"No, wait, I'm not explaining it right. I know you're a Vampire because I'm a Werewolf and I can tell that you and your parents are all Vampires, I've got a good sense of smell now," he explained.
"Since when?"
"Well since this chick, Stacy, bit me when she was drunk a few months ago and turned me into one. I had to go to this place, it's a town and a bunch of fields and woods all fenced in where new Wolves are taken, to learn how to deal with it. That's where I was when they said I was in juvie; even I wouldn't be stupid enough to try to steal an ATM like that. They've got cameras in them, if I was gonna steal one I'd at least cover my face or something," whined Puck, he still didn't like the excuse they'd used for him. Seeing her skeptical look he pulled a few pictures out of his wallet. "Here, this is me in my wolf form, and this is me with one of the teachers when she transformed. I thought you'd already know about this stuff."
"Why, because I seem so into it at school," she mocked as she examined the two pictures. One was a light tan-ish wolf-like creature standing next to a smirking Puck; her head was almost level with his chest. The second picture was a nighttime shot of a darker brown Wolf that looked stockier, but still a bit larger, than the first with a fluffy ruff of fur running down its head and along the back of its neck.
"The 'hawk looks kinda lame when I'm transformed, but I can't decide if I should get rid of it or not," he explained at her smirk. "I'm serious, I thought since your parents were Vamps too you'd know all about Wolves and stuff."
"As it happens I don't so why don't you explain it to me."
"Hey, if you don't believe me you can blow a dog whistle or something when I've got my eyes closed, I haven't really mastered changing whenever I want yet." She looked a bit worried at that. "Wolves are always in control, we're not bloodthirsty monsters like the movies. It's like Vamps, most of that stuff's fake. Um, but a lot of Vampires use Werewolves as their blood source because we heal so fast you can take more blood than you can from someone else. I thought, since you're a whole family, you'd know about that and maybe you'd know a Vampire community or something because I can tell Hummel's a Vampire but I think he doesn't know it. He smells like he's barely standing with what he's got in him."
"Well, let's say I believe you and, hypothetically, if my family were Vampires we wouldn't know any other Vampires because if we were real we'd be really secretive," she hedged, clearly still not really believing his story.
"Okay, wait, I can usually get some fur and some bone shifting. Let me try changing." Puck took off his shirt and closed his eyes frowning in concentration, because he really didn't want to rip one of his favorite shirts if he did manage to shift. Fur a dark brown color rippled over his body and he hunched over as a few grinding noises could be heard.
"Okay, stop! I believe you," Tina called out loudly.
"No, I think-," his voice came out roughly, lower than usual with an edge of a growl to it. Suddenly his form twisted into a new shape; his arms lengthened, some of his joints reversed, and his face stretched into that of the Wolf from the picture he'd claimed was of him. Standing before the Vampire was a fully transformed Werewolf.
"Eep," she squeaked backing herself against the wall. She stood tense as the giant animal twisted to look at itself and sniffed the air. Then it, Puck, gave her a doggie grin and his tail started wagging so quickly it was a blur. "Wow, you're actually nicer as a giant dog."
"Grruf." He stuck his tongue out at her in a clearly human message and stepped out of his torn pants.
"Okay, you're a giant wolf, happy." She giggled at his over the top nodding of his head then, noticing his discarded shirt and torn pants, she groaned. "Crap, you're going to be naked when you turn back aren't you?" His doggie smirk said it all.
"Right, well, just warn me or something." She said as she hopped back on her bed and he sat down on the floor where he stood. "So I believe you and I guess you already know but yeah we're Vampires and it's not that big. We don't die in the sun or from garlic or holy water or anything we just need to drink blood because we can't make our own or something. It sucks when you get your period or a cut because you've got to replenish more often but I guess it's not as noticeable as you. I don't have any special powers or anything but,… you said you could smell that I was low on blood earlier. I guess you've got super smelling when you're a human?"
He nodded yes and then looked around and mimed putting his paws over his eyes; he figured he didn't need to offend her before she helped him with the Hummel problem. Tina quickly covered her eyes and there were a few minutes of creaking and grinding as his body rearranged itself. Pulling on his shirt again he held up the remains of his pants, not nearly enough to walk home in but he could cover the essentials for the moment.
"Uh, do you have a sewing machine or an extra pair of sweats? My pants are ripped mostly along the seams so I think they're save-able," Puck told her. "We had to learn how to fix our clothes at the camp. Apparently it's hard to explain when you need someone else to fix them for you all the time. I've never been able to go all the way before when it wasn't a full moon."
"Mom! Puck needs some new pants, his broke," Tina yelled out the door carefully avoiding looking at the Werewolf. Both her parents came running and after some explaining, and a bit of another demonstration that only went so far as fur racing across his body, they agreed to lend Puck a towel while Mrs. Cohen-Chang took his pants to sew them back together.
"Hey, now you can say you've had me naked in your room," he joked.
"Ugh, no thanks."
"So, now that you know I'm for real can you tell me about the Vampire community here in Lima?" He sat carefully on the edge of her desk chair, making sure the towel covered him completely.
"We get blood from Lima General, mom works at the blood bank there. I really don't know if there are any other Vampires in Lima. I guess you'd be able to tell," she shrugged.
"There's a girl in middle school, she and her dad are Vampires and one of the waitresses at Breadstixs too. I've counted seven in Lima including Kurt and your family. Mr. Hummel isn't a Vampire," Puck explained.
"Wow, I didn't know we were that common," Tina exclaimed.
"It's supposed to be about one Vampire in every five hundred regular humans, not counting Werewolves. Wolves are a lot more common because we're contagious." Tina stiffened again and Puck hurried to reassure her. "Vampires are immune, you can only become a Werewolf from Werewolf spit getting into your blood but Vamps can't become Wolves. But there's about one Wolf in every two hundred normal, non-Vamp, humans but that number is slowly getting bigger."
"So how many Wolves are there in Lima?" Tina asked, curious again now that she knew she was safe.
"Both Rachel's dads are Wolves and me, that's it, Rachel isn't a Wolf and I don't think she knows about her dads. I think it's because Lima is a really closed community or something. Stacy, the Wolf who turned me, was just passing through when she accidentally bit me," he sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck. "It's really put me off having sex with the strangers I meet in bars." Tina laughed awkwardly with him.
"So, tell me what you can do. Are Werewolves super fast and stuff like the movies or do you just turn into big wolves?"
"You don't get a big strength boost but we heal super fast, that's why most Vampires know about Wolves; they use them as a blood bank. If you bit me and drank my blood you could take like twice as much as you could from a normal human and I would be making tons more right away, and the bite marks close-up right away too." She looked intrigued by this information. "Also, I've got a really good sense of smell in both forms and my hearing's much better than before. Most perfumes make me gag now because they smell so much stronger. I can tell who's having sex with who and who's on their period. Slushies smell really gross, they're all fake and fruity. We're pack animals and Glee is like my pack so I feel like ripping Karofsky to shreds all the time for threatening Kurt. And it really sucks to not be able to tell anyone." Tina was giggling again at his whining at having such a good sense of smell.
"Dude," he protested, "I can smell fear and lust and anger and hormones, and it's really creepy. It sucks knowing so much about everyone; I can tell you how long it's been since everyone's showered and what kind of soap they used when they did!"
"Okay, TMI Puck," Tina smirked at his grossed out expression when he though about everything he'd learned in the week he'd been back. "You were right, I cut myself last night, and I was planning on filling up later. I, we're very careful about not letting people know we're Vampires so I've never, do you think I could..?"
"You wanna drink my blood, Cohen-Chang?" Puck waggled his eyebrows in an overly flirtatious manner. At her frown he relaxed his expression and rolled his eyes. "I was teasing. Sure, but I'd really like it if you drunk out of my arm where they draw blood, or my wrist, or something. Some of the Vamps at the camp told us horror stories about accidentally biting the jugular and blood spurting everywhere when they tried to go all 'traditional' when they fed."
Tina looked green and Puck had to offer her his arm and then wait a minute for her to gather enough courage to bite down. He watched closely as her fangs came down and punctured his forearm halfway between his elbow and wrist. As she sucked his blood out and it pumped into her veins he could feel the pulse in her thumb against his arm as it matched his. When she finally pulled away she watched in fascination as the bite mark faded before her eyes.
"That's really different from getting it from a bag," she murmured.
"All the Vamps I've talked to said they like drinking from someone better, the bagged stuff feels sort of cold running through their veins or something," he agreed. "I'm totally willing to let you have my blood whenever you need it but you've got to help me with Hummel sometime soon-ish. I know it'll be awhile before he trusts me but Wolves are supposed to help the Vamps who don't know what they are, because we can smell them and give them blood and all."
"I think being bitten has turned you into a much better person," Tina said as she watched him closely.
"Not better, just more responsible, I guess. I really don't want to bite someone on accident like what happened to me; there were tons of kids at that camp whose parents wouldn't take them back when they found out what their kids were. There was a guy who was twenty-one and his parents kicked him out onto the street when he was eight because their neighbor's visiting cousin accidentally nicked him one night. An eight-year-old kid can't go home because she still can't control her instincts even after two years of being a Wolf. I could ruin people's lives for real if I'm not careful," Puck admitted to her seriously.
"Wow, I'm glad Vampirism isn't contagious, I only have to worry about myself," Tina responded. Luckily Puck didn't have to reply as her mother came back into the room with his repaired pants and he thankfully took them to the bathroom down the hall to change into (no one mentioned the ripped up boxers he hadn't given Mrs. Cohen-Chang that he stuffed into a pocket when he came back).
"So, thanks for coming over and telling me all that stuff, and letting me drink from you." Tina walked him out and they stood on her front porch.
"Sure, I guess I'll see you Monday." Puck turned to go.
"Wait, are we friends now?" Still facing away from her he shrugged.
"What ever you want Dracula, you might not want to be seen talking to me in public though, I'm really unpopular with everyone right now."
"Then I guess I'll see you around, um, Jacob." At her comment he turned around and walked down the sidewalk backwards.
"Seriously? Twilight? Only if you're Eddie," grinning at her shock that he knew what she was referencing he spun around and jogged off.
AN: This is not a Puck/Tina romance. It is a Puck/Tina friendship only. Tina is still with Mike; in fact all of season two is perfectly accurate (which is why I mentioned one of the waitresses at Breadstixs being a Vampire, because otherwise this more responsible version of Puck wouldn't have made-out with her like he did in the Valentine's Day episode).
Kurt will eventually show up, not in person until chapter five but he's mentioned in pretty much every chapter and will eventually get together with Puck, in the end.
Read and Review because I've got all my stories on my computer already, I don't need to post them. But if someone likes one of my stories then I will post the rest of it for them. I was thinking of posting one chapter a week but hey, it's Christmas and I got a ride into town.
