Chapter 4: Somethings You Just Cann't Hide
Those eyes. I know those eyes. Ginny thought as the wolf turned and ran into the woods.
Ginny slowly raised herself from the ground where she was sitting. Her eyes were locked on the spot where the massive wolf was just standing before it dissappeared into the forest. Ginny forgot that Hermione was with her until she heard the girl call our her name.
"Ginny? GINNY? What were you starting to say before you stopped?" Hermione asked her after the younger girl acknowledged her after a few minutes. "You didnt what?"
"I started to say I don't think we had anything to worry about and that I thought it was harmless." Ginny said as she continued to stare at the forest.
"ALEX! GET YOUR BLOODY ARSE BACK HERE NOW! I KNOW IT WAS JUST YOU! SHOW YOUR SELF NOW!" Ginny screamed towards the woodline.
"Ginny have you lost your mind?" Hermione asked questionably. "Alex wasn't just here, he is up in the common room. Why do.."
"No Hermione, THAT was Alex. I have spent many hours looking into his eyes. THOSE eyes belonged to Alex. I just know it." Ginny said. "I want full answers from him. His secrets are no more. ALEX, GET YOUR ARSE OVER HERE NOW!"
From behind her and Hermione, Ginny heard another twig snap. She spun around, drawing her wand as she turned and fired off a stunning spell in the process, hitting the greyish-blonde wolf dead center of its chest. The wolf let out a yelp and fell to the ground where it stood.
"Shit!" Ginny exclaimed as she walked over to the wolf. As she got nearer to it, the wolf slowly stood up and shook itself off. The wolf pulled itself together and walked over to Ginny and took her wand from her hand. The wolf dropped the wand at its feet and shook its head at Ginny.
She calls me out and then she attacks me. What gives? Alex thought as he stood in front of her and Hermione in his wolf form.
Alex started to sit down when a movement behind Ginny in the woods caught his eye. As he watched, his Pack brother Nick stepped from the forest still in his wolf form as well. Nick's black fur glistened in the setting sun as he stepped into the opening. Nick slowly inched his way towards Ginny with his nose in the air sniffing her scent out. Before Nick could react, Alex pounced on him, sinking his teeth into the back of his neck. Nick let out a yelp and began to try and dislodge Alex from his back.
The next thing Alex knew, he felt two hands grab ahold of him and was yanked off of Nick. As soon as he felt his paws touch the ground, he spun around and tried to bite the person trying to hold him down. Alex snapped his jaw shut, and grazed the side of Jason's hand just enough to draw blood. Without thinking, Jason reacted by making a fist and punched the young werewolf in the muzzle, making him drop to the ground.
Holy shit! Alex thought to himself as he saw stars moving around his eyes. I seriously need to watch who I am snapping at. Damn, that really hurts Jay.
"Whoa! Easy Jason. I think you might had hurt the kid with that punch." Tony said as he came running to Alex's aide. " I really don't think he meant to snap at you like that. You kinda startled him and he only reacted." Tony knelt beside the young wolf and was trying to check how bad he had been punched. Werewolves have a much stronger strength than that of a normal person. Sometimes, they forget how strong they are.
"Ummm, Jason. You might want to come look at him. If I didn't know better, I'd say you broke his muzzle, well his jaw anyway." Tony said as Alex let out a loud yelp when Tony tried to check his muzzle. Alex laid there on the ground twitching as if he was having a seizure. Jason walked over and knelt beside him.
"Awww kid, I didn't mean it really. Come on, let's get you up to the hospital wing and have you looked over." Jason said as he very carefully picked him up. "Easy kid, try not to move as much as possible. Tony, go ahead and let Albus know what's going on. Have him to meet us in the hospital wing."
Jason walked as gently as he could without causing the young wolf even more pain. It was bad enough that every few steps Alex would yelp out in pain as he would try and lick his muzzle. Jason carried the injured wolf up to the castle and up to the hospital wing. He was greeted by the Headmaster and the school's nurse at the hospital wing.
"Headmaster, I would suggest that no one be allowed in while he is here please." Jason said as he entered the wing. "We had a minor mishap out by the lake. We both miss reacted and he got injured because of it. I believe Madam Pomfrey, he has a broken nose, er muzzle as it is right now."
Jason carefully laid Alex on his side on the bed and covered the young wolf up with a sheet. "Let him get relaxed and changed back before you try to treat him. I don't know how well your medicines will work for a changed werewolf. He heals quick so I don't think there will be a need for him to be here for very long, overnight at the best."
Alex awoke from a groggy sleep, laying in a bed in the hospital wing. He slowly raised himself to a half sitting position and looked around. He could pick up someone's scent but with the headache that he was sporting, he couldn't tell whose scent it was. He slowly looked around and saw fresh clothes on the night stand next to his bed. He slowly pulled the sheets back and reached for his clothes.
As Alex stood up to pull on his boxer briefs, Ginny let out a low gasp. Even growing up with six older brothers, Ginny had never seen the naked back-side of a guy before. After "borrowing" Harry's invisibility cloak, Ginny snuck up to the hospital wing to see Alex. She followed the nurse through the door when nurse returned from breakfast and was hiding off in one of the corners catty-corner from Alex's bed.
Alex finished dressing, knowing that he was being watched and proceded to leave the wing. As he got closer to where Ginny was hidden, it occured to him whose scent he had picked up when he awoke.
So, Ginny snuck in here under Harry's invisibility cloak trying to find out my secrets. Now I know where she stands and I know now that she does have an interest in me. Let's see how she likes this little move. Alex thought to himself as he slowly approached where Ginny was hidden under the cloak.
Accio invisibility cloak. Alex thought.
Just as quick as the cloak landed in Alex's hand, Alex had himself fully covered under the cloak. He slowly crept around where Ginny was in a crouched position, terrified to move now that the cloak was pulled off of her. With Ginny's back to him, Alex wrapped both him and Ginny in the cloak.
"You know, it not very polite to spy on someone." Alex whispered into her ear, causing her to jump. Alex had his arms wrapped around Ginny's waist to keep her from jumping too hard and making too much noise. "I thought it was you but I wasn't fully for sure."
"I..I..I." Ginny stuttered, knowing that she had been caught spying on him. "I wanted to make sure you were OK after you got punched in the nose."
"Yeah, I'm ok but that still doesn't give the right to be in here after the headmaster warned everyone out. That was a dangerous move, ballsy, but dangerous." He said quietly with a grin on his face. "I like it. Come on, very quietly, follow me out under Harry's cloak. The last thing we need is for you to be caught."
Alex carefully slid out from under the cloak, leaving Ginny still covered. "Stay right with me." Alex told her as he stood. "And as close as you can."
As Alex approached the doors, the doors to the hospital wing opened up and Jason walked in, followed by the members of the pack.
"Alex! How you feeling this morning kid?" Jason asked as walked over to Alex.
"Good, now that my jaw's not hurting. Easy on the downward punches would ya." Alex said with a laugh. "And yes, I will try and watch who I am snapping at next time. Don't want to snap and bite the wrong person."
"No. That would not be a good idea." Jason said as he looked glanced around, trying to find where the other scent was coming from. He knew someone else was in the room but he could not see them. He gave Alex a questioning look and the look he got back from Alex told him all he neeed to know, there was someone else in the room but hidden. Jason stepped to the side to allow Alex and who ever was there to pass by without having attention drawn to them.
As Alex passed through the doors, he slowly turned to face the others. "Thanks guys but I am pretty sure I can get up to the Common Room on my own. I'll talk to you all later."
Jason and the Pack stood there and watched as Alex walked away.
"What's he up too, Jay?" Dalton asked. "He has never dismissed us like that for nothing. What got into him now?"
"Was it me, or did anyone else pick up another scent but could not see where it was coming from?" Teri asked. "I am usually good at picking scents up and following them, but they are kinda hard to track so close when you don't see them and they that close."
"No Teri, you weren't mistaken. There was someone else but they were hidden. I think that is the reason why we were so dismissed so abruptly by Alex. I think the kid has found him a possible mate now and if that is the case, I want everyone to steer clear of Alex for awhile. Dalton, Nick, that means the two of you. Leave him be and let him deal with this on his own. DON'T try and interfer with his relationship with whoever it is.
"Alright, it all clear and you can come out now." Alex told Ginny once they were up in the Common Room. Alex had already did a search of the Gryffindor tower and no one was there. Everyone was appearently down at breakfast. Ginny slowly pulled the cloak off slowly to reveal herself to Alex. "It's ok really. Everyone down at breakfast, someplace we should be as well. Honestly though, I don't feel up to eating in front of the entire school right now. What about you?"
Ginny slowly shook her head no and looked up at Alex. "So what now. What are you going to do now about me knowing?" She said in a slightly shaking voice.
Alex threw his head back and laughed, "Relax, I not going to hurt you if that what you are talking about. I really am harmless. I wouldn't harm a fly unless I am provoked or cornered. I would never hurt you." Alex said as he took a step closer to Ginny.
Alex raised his left hand and slowly touched Ginny's right cheek. Her skin was so soft to his touch that he found that he couldn't pull his hand away, he needed more. As he cupped her face with both his hands, Ginny placed both her hands on Alex's chest for support. She lifted her eyes to meet his and immediately found herself lost in his gaze. She took a deep breath and moved closer to the werewolf before her. They stood like that for a few moments before something inside of Alex really began to stir. Everything in him came alive at the feeling of her touch. Something about her was calling to him and hard as he may try, he just couldn't find it in him to walk away from her. And whatever it was about her, he found himself getting slightly aroused by her touch.
"What is it about you that I find myself so drawn to you? There something about you that calls out to me and I am finding it really really hard to let you go or to walk away from you." He whispered to her.
"You felt it too then. Here I thought it was just me that day at Kings Cross." Ginny answered him quietly, never taking her eyes off of him. "I don't want to lose this or you."
"You won't lose me, that I promise you." Alex told her. "A Pack wolf never breaks a promise once they make it. It's a Pack rule that once we make a promise, we do everything in our power to make sure we keep it. Either that or we die trying."
"So you are a werewolf then?" Ginny said more as a statement than a question. Alex slowly nodded his head knowing that he already had let it slip and that she now knew what he was.
"Ginny please, no one here is to know. If word was to get out that I am a werewolf, I will be hunted down along with my pack and killed. Not to mention you, just knowing is dangerous enough. Not all of us are bad. Some of us are good and we do good. Promise me that you will tell no one, that means you cann't tell your brothers, Hermione or Harry. Especially not Harry. He can not know who and what I am." Alex said to her, still holding her gaze with his eyes.
"Why cann't Harry know who you are?" Ginny asked questionally.
"Umm, well. That, uh, is another story in itself. One that I cann't tell you just yet." Alex said, now rubbing the back of his neck. "A few people here could be in serious trouble if it were to get out about my past. All I can tell you is that I have a past that no one would want or wish on their worst enemy, or at least from my point of view I wouldn't wish it on my enemy."
"At least that is something. I can accept that. Would you tell me though?" Ginny said with a smile.
"Maybe when the time is right I will, but not right now. There are just some things you don't need to know all at once. I'm actually surprised you figured it out so soon. I was hoping for a little bit more time before one of my secrets got out." Alex said as he lead Ginny over to the couch in front of the fireplace. "But since you do know what I am, I will let you ask any question or questions that you want to know about that part of me."
Alex sat down on one of the side of the couch and turned sideways so he had his right arm propped up on the back of the couch and so he could see Ginny who sat mirrored to him. He had his right leg bent at the knee and his left leg draped over it at the ankle.
"You might want to hurry though. We won't have any time to talk once the rest of the house gets back here. I don't want to risk the chance of someone over hearing us talk." Alex said as he turned his head towards the entrance way.
"How long have you been like this. Does it have anything to do with your scars on your left side?" Ginny asked first off.
"I've been like this since I was 2 1/2 years old. It was a werewolf attack on my family that I nearly died from. Yes, my scars are indeed from that." Alex responded.
"Do you know who the werewolf was or is? Are they still alive?"
"Yes, I found out later when I was about 10 who was responible for me being the way that I am. Unfortantly, yes he is still at large, roaming around killing and turning others."
"How was it that you got to be apart of the pack?"
"Remus was good friends with my mom and my step dad before they died. When they died, I was sent to America to live. Remus took me there when I about 2 years old. He kept intouch with my new guardians who turned out to be good friends of my parents. Six months to the day of getting to my new home, the protection wards that had been set up, crashed hard and fast. Fenrir Greyback and his followers crashed through with such force, no one could stop them. Not even two of America's top Aurors. The fight happened so fast that it was over before it even started. Greyback found me hiding in a pantry and proceded to attack me. He had me by my left arm, flinging me around like a rag doll, trying to rip my arm out of the socket when Remus came running in. If Remus hadn't have came in when he did, I would have been dead by the time he got there. He fought off Greyback and caused him to turn tail and run. He then wrapped me up the best he could and took off to New York where the Pack lives and owns territory. Jason had just taken over as the new Aplha for the Pack when I came to live there. Jason did his best to nurse me back to health the best he could. There for the longest time, my survival was up in the air. There were times that Jason's best efforts were not working. But, by the powers of Merlin, I did manage to survive."
"Wow" was all Ginny could say, raising her hand to wipe the tear that was threating to fall, only to have Alex wipe her eyes for her. The touch of his hand cause her to move closer and lean into his right shoulder. Ginny rested her head on his shoulder, with her shoulder just under his. Alex rested his right cheek on the top of Ginny's head, taking in her scent the whole time.
"Are you afraid of me Ginny? Most people who do know what I am run from me."
"No. Like you said, you're harmless." She said solftly as she rested her right hand on his chest, splaying her fingers out across, feeling the raise and fall of his chest.
Alex cupped the right side of Ginny's face with his left hand and tilted her face towards him as he slowly leaned in for a kiss. He pressed his lips sofltly against her's until she allowed him to kiss her more. Ginny parted her lips and granted him permission when he ran his tongue across her bottom lip, seeking admittance into her mouth. Ginny snaked her arms around his neck and pulled him closer as he moved his left hand to the back of neck and his right hand found its way to the small of her back. Ginny pressed herself up against Alex as close as she could, feeling the body heat coming off of him in one huge massive wave.
As they kissed, Alex felt himself getting that arousal feeling again. He felt his jeans begin to tighten and knew that at any moment Ginny was going to feel his arousal too. Just as he completed the thought, Ginny did feel the bulge coming from Alex's jeans and slowly pulled away from him.
"Umm, Ginny. I think we really need to stop now. As much as I would love to continue on with our current activities, I won't be able to control myself if we keep going." Alex said panting, laying his head on the back of the couch trying to desperately catch his breath.
"You're right, we do need to stop." Ginny said panting as well. "The last thing I or we need is for my three older brothers come in in the middle of an amazing snogging session with you. I would really hate to lose three brothers at once, seeing as you would be taking them out."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence there Weasley. I only fight when I have to or if my life was in danger." Alex said smirking and cutting his gaze towards Ginny.
"You love me and you know. I could say anything to you and it would not phase you at all, would it?" Ginny sais laughingly as she sat up on the couch.
"I would do anything for you, just to see you happy and safe. And yes, I do. Everything in me loves everything about you. I would move heaven and hell just to be with you. You could say whatever you wanted to about me and I would still want to be with you." Alex replied back to her.
"Ginny" Alex said as he turned his head to face her. "Will you go out with me?"
Before Ginny could answer, the portait hole opened up and Ron, Harry and Hermione all came into the common room, noting the pair sitting on the couch close together.
"What the bloody hell is going on in here?" Ron asked as he raised his wand and pointed at Alex.