Jack and Aran arrived in Stoneybridge just before seven the next morning; Jack had planned to sneak in through the back door and pretend he had been in bed all night, but that plan was thwarted by Mrs Vaughan who was sitting behind the table waiting for him to come in.

"Where have you been?" she asked as he stepped through the door, Jack shrugged, she walked over to him, understandably she was concerned, Jack not only was new to the village, but was still in the same clothes he had hunted and run in, they were spotted with mud, blood and the bottoms soaked in water. "Jack. Tell me." She said worriedly. Jack walked over to the table and sat down as the rest of the house came down for breakfast, Mrs Vaughan said nothing as the other boys were eating, as usual Rhydian was late downstairs and grabbed a piece of toast on the way out of the door, "give this to Mr Jeffries please Rhydian." She asked him as she handed him a piece of paper. Mr Vaughan came downstairs not long after Rhydian had left and took the younger boys to school on his way to work, Mrs Vaughan sat down next to Jack at the table.

"I went home." He said quietly, "I went to the site, but no one was there." Technically this wasn't a lie, but Jack still felt bad lying to her. "Jack," She said softly, "This is your home now, if you have a problem you can talk to me you know" She smiled, "Go on, get showered and we'll get you to school." Jack stood up and went to hug her, but she pushed him away as he was covered in mud, reitterating her statement to get showered.

When you were late at St Hopes, you had to sign in at the office, which alerted the headmaster, like any other school, who then, if he wasn't busy, came out and gave you a lecture about punctuality, unfortunatley for Jack, this was the one day where Mr Flatley was busy and so he was given the lecture by Mrs King, and after twenty minutes of constant yelling, she escorted him to his history lesson."Nice of you to join us Mr Tomasz." Mr Jeffries excaimed as Jack sat down, he didn't speak for the entirety of the lesson, he just sat and copied the textbook, ignoring Mr Jeffries instructions not to, after the lesson he was keen to leave as soon as possible and so he pushed his way through the corridor to get to HQ, he was hoping that Frank was busy doing his job as a caretaker and that no one else was down there, but unfortunatley, Stella was.

"You still here?" Jack said as he got out of the lift,

"Is that anyway to talk to your superior?" She asked him, clearly taken aback by the bluntness, "what was Oscar doing with Little finger last night?"she asked him, Jack shrugged, "Just, be quiet, please." He retorted, Stell, clearly was unimpressed and walked over to him, but Jack wasn't in the mood for confrontation with Stella, but the wolf was, he started to growl at her, she laughed at him, "Are you growling at me?" suddenly his veins darken and his eyes changed and Jack realised there was nothing he could do, once the wolf starts in your veins, there is nothing you can do to stop it. Jack changes and jumped at Stella, knocking her over, realising what he had done, he retreated to the lift and once there he changed back, as he stepped out of the store cupboard he ran through the school and to the library, where he knew he wouldn't be found, he sat in the corner, pulled his knees to his chest and for the first time, began to cry, he didn't even cry when his parents died, but suddenly he was overcome by a wave of emotions. Stella, obviously was shaken by the ordeal and called Frank immediatly who went straight down to HQ to calm her down and explain that everything was ok. Frank had intended to find Jack before any member of staff did, but it took a lot longer to persude Stella not to throw Jack out or have him put down than the thought it would, and so it was Mr Jeffries that found him.

"Jack?" Mr Jeffries said as he sat down on a beanbag next to him, "What's wrong?" Jack wiped him face and looked at his form tutor, Jack wiped his face and stood up, he wanted to talk to Frank, he couldn't talk to Mr Jeffries about his problems, he couldn't even talk to Mrs Vaughan about them. Jack shook his head, "Nothing." He said as he ran away, he considered hiding in the dark room which was supposed to be out of bounds, but Maddy's crew was in there, the only other place was back down in HQ, he decided he was going to have to face Stella again eventually, why not now?

Jack closed his eyes as the lift doors opened, he took a deep breath as he stepped out and walked over to Stella and Frank, "I am so sorry" he said to Stella, "Did I hurt you?" she shook her head and turned to Frank, "I have to go." She walked past Jack and went into the lift without another word, Frank didn't attempt to stop her, he instead turned to Jack, "are you crying?" he then took him over to the computer chairs, "Talk." He said, "you can control the wolf, what did Stella say?" Jack shook his head,

"I want to go home Frank." Frank looked confused, "they tried to kill you, anyways you can't they exhiled you." Jack shook his head, "I can't stay here, I'm a danger Frank, all Stella did was ask what Oscar was doing with Littlefinger last night and I just..."

"Oscar was with Lord Baelish?" Frank interjected, Jack nodded, "Yeah we went. Why?" Frank muttered that it didn't matter. "I don't belong here, I belong out there, yesterday, yesterday felt so good, I was home, with Meinir and Jana and Alric and it didn't even bother me that he is leader again, I was all for Jana and Aran as alpha I guess because it meant me and Meinir were higher up the pecking order, but no, I can't do this I have to go back."

"Do what? You are great at human life now?" Frank argued as Jack stood up, but he promptly sat back down, "Frank" he said trying not to look the man in his eyes, "they sent me here, the pack, to experiance human life and I have to but a bad spin on it to tell to the cubs so that we can keep our heritage, stay wild, fight for our rights against Segolia, Rhydian says I should join but they want to take us away, make us tame or worse." Jack stood up to leave but Frank pulled him back down, "I thought you liked it here, at MI9."

"I do Frank, but its not home."