Nikki gasped and sat up. The others were there quickly beside her and her eyes went wide. "Get away from me!" She gasped. She struggled to get off the table. Lynne frowned and grabbed the girl's wrist pulling her back.
"You're not fully healed yet! Moving around to much will hurt you." She glared at Lynne who just stared at back. Nikki ripped her hand away.
"Who are you- She stopped as her eyes landed on William. She frowned at him and pursed her lips. She gripped the edges of the table looking between all of them. She glanced and frowned even deeper when she saw Lex.
"You too?" Lex nodded slowly as Nikki just gained more and more nervous. They were all surprised that her heart hadn't burst out of her but of course none of them said it. Nikki ran a hand through her hair.
"What the hell happened to me?" She asked in disbelief. She was trying to take hold of the situation. After all no one knew how much she had seen and now she was wakig up in an apartment that had two boys from school and three other people she didn't even know. Lynne sat down near her.
"First my name is Lynne. He's Magnus but you can call him Sly and that's James. We've called another friend of ours to come down here and make sure your okay." Nikki nodded in understatement but she seemed unsure. So far she had been handling it better than most of them expected. "Her name is Gwyn and she's probably better at explaining the whole situation than the rest of us are so we will wait for her to come here and explain it to you." Nikki bit her lip.
"Do remember anything?" Sly asked suddenly. Nikki jumped and Lynne frowned at her sudden motion.
"Do you have to be so loud?" She asked. Lynne smiled then and the nodded at Sly.
"Sorry." Sly said. He glanced over at Lynne. Nikki raised an eyebrow and took a deep breath.
"Honestly." She hesitated and glanced over at William. He nodded and she frowned. "No. Why didn't you take me to the hospital?" Lynne stared a her and Sly seemed unable to give her a good answer.
"Because we are dealing with that creature that attacked you and if we reported it the police would be involved. Lex and I went and made sure everything was cleaned up and then we came back here. Before you ask we texted your dad and told him you are staying the night at your friend Lauren's house." Nikki frowned. The others stared at James surprised he actually bothered to explain it.
"Your my favorite out of all you people. He actually explained something to me." Nikki said. "I don't have a friend named Lauren."
"You will by the time this day ends. Once your feeling a bit better we're taking you to my house." Nikki frowned again and sighed. She brought her knees up to her chest and hugged them. Lynne suddenly popped up and opened the door. Gwyn sighed and pulled some of her hair out of her face.
"Naturally." Lynne backed up an allowed the woman to talk in. She smiled at James and then looked down at Nikki. She took Lynne's seat. "I'm Gwyn...you're Nikki right."
"Seems like everyone knows my name now." Gwyn shrugged at the girl.
"Well at least they know something. I'm a science major. I work at a lab down town and they keep calling me in to look at things that I know little about." Nikki stared at the brunette and sighed.
"Well you know more than we do on it." Lex interrupted. Gwyn rolled her eyes and Nikki gave her a small smirk.
"So how are you feeling?" Gwyn asked. William raised an eyebrow and watched Nikki carefully.
"I'm tired of course and my ears hurt because he keeps talking too loud but other wise I feel okay." Gwyn smirked at Sly who sighed.
"What about your gut does it feel okay?"Nikki stared at her.
"It doesn't hurt but it feels strange." Gwyn nodded then stood up.
"Can you open your eyes as wide as you can." Nikki stared at her for a moment before doing what she was asking. Gwyn looked at her eyes and then smiled at her a moment later. "Nikki do you believe in werewolves?" Nikki rolled her eyes.
"Are you telling me that's what attacked me?" She asked in annoyance.
"No we have no idea what attacked you. So do you?" Nikki looked around the room. Everyone was silent waiting for her answer.
"Well of course not." Nikki said. Gwyn gave her a small laugh.
"Okay let me be blunt. Everyone in his room is a werewolf but me." Nikki stared at her. She opened her mouth to speak but closed it again.
"Including me?" Nikki said slowly. She didn't believe Gwyn and Gwyn knew it. Gwyn nodded.
"You can hear better and in fact you can hear all of our heart beats...you just don't want to admit it." Nikki pursed her lips. "You also know you were attacked by a creature and hurt. Now you're nearly healed." Nikki pursed her lips and didn't want to believe it.
"You are a werewolf because Sly saved your life by making you one. He can do this because he is an alpha. The are strongest werewolves. In order to become an alpha you have to kill have red eyes. Lynne is also an alpha." Lynne flashed her eyes red and Nikki stared at her.
"They are very hard to beat if you are a single beta. In order for an alpha to be at it's top performance it needs a pack which where you come in. You're a beta. Most werewolves are betas and there needs to be at least three in a pack for it to be at it top performance. They have yellows eyes unless they have killed an innocent person. Lex, James, and William are betas but of different packs. William belongs to Lynne's pack while James and Lex belong to Sly's pack." Nikki nodded as Gwyn paused.
"You are beta Nikki and you belong to Sly's pack because he made you a werewolf. We usually ask to make you one but you were dying." Nikki nodded and frowned. "There is also omegas. They are the weakest and have no pack and are virtually no threat towards any pack or hunter. There are very few of them and they don't usually survive in the werewolf world. However you need to stay with us because we need to help control your new abilities, and we don't want you to go on a killing spree on the full moon. After that you can leave and become an omega or whatever. Since you are a student and act like a normal human you could stay that way but other werewolves will come after you." Nikki glanced around the room.
"You mentioned Hunters. They want to kill s don't they?"
"You can pretty much get it from Hunters." Gwyn said. She pursed her lips. "They hunt us and try to kill us to rid werewolves from the world. I used to belong in a family who were hunters but I didn't really want t belong with them. Some are good and only kill bad werewolves others well, they just kill werewolves o matter if they are good or not."
"Great." Nikki said.
"That thing that attacked you also killed a werewolf who used to belong to Sly's pack Leila." James put a hand on Lex's shoulder. "However it was different. But strange animal attack like that aren't really animal attacks when you concern werewolves." Nikki nodded.
"I think I got it." Gwyn nodded and smiled.
"Good we better get going you'll want to meet the rest of Lynne's pack...I'm assuming you already know who they are but we need them to know you and for you to know where Lynne lives so if you need anything." Nikki nodded.
