Strange Angels Fanfiction

Code: Alpha

He had first shown up on the door step of the Main Schola for the second time in his life exactly one year and six months from the time he had left on his self imposed seclusion, the small leather bag he had left with hanging from his white knuckled grip over his left shoulder. His hopes and dreams were in that pack, his adams apple bobbing up and down as he swallowed convulsively in fear. He had no way of knowing if he was even still welcome here, but he had no where else to go so he had to at least had to try. First stop would have to be the meeting room for the council. That way he could announce his arrival and maybe find Dru, hopefully at the same time.

Twenty minutes later he had been shown into the council room and the members assembled at his request. All except Dru. Graves frowned.

Hiro stood and approached graves with a hand out to be shaken and a slight smile.

"Welcome home. It is good to see you friend. I assume by your presence that you have found what you were looking for?" Graves frowned even more, that had to be the longest sentence that hiro had ever spoken to him. Graves had almost been convinced that he was a mute.

"Where is Dru?is she still here?" he spoke softly, against his nature, mentally preparing himself to deal with what ever the outcome.

" She is here, sent to her rooms after some words with Christophe this evening. We will let you go, and will see to getting you a class schedule to start up again next week." Bruce spoke from his position by the door. Graves nodded and turned to go.

"you should know, before you go, that she is not the same as she was when you left." Hiro whispered.

Graves stopped and slowly turned his head to look over his shoulder at Bruce, a questioning look on his face. The man looked at him mournfully, " we think that she is internalizing her fears and stresses without an outlet, but her fighting recently has been particularly vicious, but mostly we wonder if her state of mind isn't troubled still with missing her mate." The pointed look on Bruce's face clued Graves in on who that mate was supposed to be. Nodding Graves made his way to Dru's room, finding it unlocked and empty.

The window was open so graves supposed that was the way she left and that she was bound to come back eventually, so he might as well wait for her.

Hours passed and Graves sat on her bed relaxing against the headboard, having rifled through the drawers in the room and put away his things around the room. He mused upon the thought of the changes in Dru that the council spoke of. And what was that talk about a mate? Dru was not wolfen, and Mate was a wolfen thing. However the hope that blossomed in his chest with the thoughts that Dru might feel exactly the same as him were not to be ignored.

It was as he was thinking over these things that Dru walked into the room silent as the night that was quickly slipping away, and began undressing against the door, looking both parts exhausted and anxious. The low growl that sounded from his throat as she went for her jeans caused her head to snap to his direction, and as their eyes met from across the room he saw worlds worth of pain and anger and worry in her small orbs.

"…guess it was bound to happen some time…hope for something hard enough, long enough and you cause yourself to see things that aren't there…" she mumbled under her breath as she continued to undress. The words caused Graves to hope and hate himself at the same time. She thought she was going crazy. But she had been thinking about him. A lot if her words were to be believed.

Dru pulled out a pack of cigarettes- Winstons- and lit up half hanging out the wondow, her eyes a thousand miles away. After that initial look across the room she didn't even look at him, just got ready to sleep and before long curled up into a small ball to sleep. He didn't think that she even knew that she cried in her sleep, whimpering most of the day as she slept, her dreams not allowing her any rest.

Curling around her small form he whispered in her ear, " ill wait for ever if that's what it takes for you to see me."