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Forfeit

07 – Interlude 1 – Of Mates and Destiny and Human Love

Scott's standing in front of Allison defending her from Derek who's wolfed out and doing his 'I am The Alpha' thing. While Allison's standing in front of Scott defending him from Chris who's barely clinging to the code.

Turns out they're dating again.

It's news to me and I collapse onto a handy boulder as Peter and Isaac wander up and join me. None of us can be bothered to get involved, we're a bit wiped from the Harpy that attacked, I'm not sure what we're supposed to do with the giant carcass of a half bird half woman creature of pure evil.

Maybe the doc needs something harvested and I can go home and not wade through bird woman guts.

Derek and Chris have now taken to tag teaming the love birds and are using words like 'irresponsible', 'just teenagers', and my favourite one is 'you'll understand when you're older'.

Sighing Peter gets to his feet and strolls over there, "Actually, the annoying loved up teens might have a point…" and the Alpha and Hunter swing around to him. "If Scott and Allison are a true mated pair, there's nothing either of you can do to part them that won't end up causing them an extreme amount of pain."

"They're underage," Chris is using his gun to point, mostly at Scott.

"True," Peter rocks on his heels, "But technically Allison is older than Scott…" This fact does not go down well with Chris.

"Well Scott's still only sixteen," Derek is fuming, "He's too young to understand, and true mates are incredibly rare."

"Also true," Peter nods, "But there is a simple test, since both teens are already physically intimate, all we need to know is if Scott gets a knot when he climaxes."

Silence.

Wow Peter knows how to slay an audience, and I carefully don't look at anyone because I know Scott gets a knot, having had a very painfully embarrassing conversation with Scott and Allison at one point, so going to have to go for therapy over all this.

A male wolf will only gain a knot with his chosen destined mate, the one, the only, his half of his soul and all that stuff. Female wolves have different signs but they're no less obvious.

The two teens in question are flushing and looking like they really just want the ground to swallow them up. Derek's jaw has dropped and he's gaping like a fish, I may or may not snap a quick picture of it, and Chris looks like Peter personally stabbed all the cute kitties in the world in front of him, apparently he didn't know his innocent little baby girl had done the deed with Scott.

It goes from horribly awkward to so far off the scale of awkward there is no measure and Peter manages to extract both Isaac and I from it leaving the two teens to their fate.

I'm so glad that's not me back there.

Bolting away in my jeep I drop them both off at the secret lair and then go home to log online, five seconds later AzureWolf joins me and I relax as he makes me laugh with his comments and we rip through our opposition collecting loot as we go, he's a damn good strategist making the most of our skills and abilities but he's really focused on us setting up a house and doing it up, he also doesn't want us to mingle too much out with the other players, if this thing wasn't so anonymous I'd worry a bit about him and stalking.

As it is I don't have to and instead I have a blast.

Later that night I get a text from Scott, they're both alive and dating again, so I guess that means I'll have way more time on my hands now because he'll be with Allison so much.

Oh well, more time to mess about with AzureWolf, at least he likes me, and I impulsively agree to buy a house with him, online, we can only afford a small little one bed place, but it's ours and he has a few tapestries he's made, mostly red, and some carpets, red again, and other decorations, also red.

Hmm, that's interesting, he calls himself Azure, which is blue, but seems to love red, and he has his settings on bloodletting so when he kills an opponent there's some serious blood splattering going on.

He proposes a few skill upgrades and sells off some of his lesser decorative works, still red, and we trade up so we can go off and kill things together. I wish all my friends were this easy to get along with.


A/N: Sorry for any and all mistakes, I've tried to catch those I could, but I'm only human.