Sorry for the long wait for this chapter I have quite a lot going on in my life right now and just have not had the time to write or edit very much. I hope you enjoy this chapter it focuses mainly on Dean and Roxy at least at the beginning.

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Natural Selection

Part One

The Pack

Chapter nine Wolf Pile

When Dean nosed Roxy outside and into the moon light, it would be safe to say he was in a bit of a state of shock. He had been attracted to Roxy pretty much from the start, even if he had tried to chase her away by his words and actions when they first met. He had never in his wildest dreams though, considered that she might be one of them; all he really knew was that she pushed the desire for any other woman right out of his head. When Roman had opened the door and he had seen a frightened but determined Genna and two wolves lying behind her he had been really shocked. He knew from all the reading he had done just how rare a female were was, and how precious, a pack with a female in would protect her above all else, she would be loved and cherished by the whole pack, but none more so than by her mate.

Realising how scared she was when he got close to her, he guessed this was her first change, her body had probably been trying for it since she hit puberty, but she'd obviously had no clue what she was and her brain had stopped the transformation from happening. Here with the pack around her, she had probably got that final little push that allowed her to transform into her wolf.

Genna though, god he had to love her, terrified by everything that was going on, and he could smell her fear coming off her in waves, she had faced down the six of them with a table leg of all things in her hand. Determined to protect the woman that she saw as her sister and a young girl she had befriended. There was no hunter in her apart from her surname, she had not been raised to fear and despise them, and when she looked into Roman's eyes knew who he was her trust and desire for him had reaffirmed themselves. He was so glad his brother had seen sense then and claimed her as his own; it knew it would have destroyed him to see her hurt by the pack.

He nosed at Roxy again inviting her to get to know her new body and world, he remembered what it was like still, becoming a wolf for the first time all the new scents and sounds learning to adjust to what you were. Though he had claimed her as his, he knew they would not mate tonight not while her first change had locked her into her wolf form. Tonight was for play, for exploring the wood together; the morning when he taught her how to become human again and how to access her were form was time enough to claim her as his own.

She lifted her head sniffing the air and looked at him again; she was beautiful both as a human and a wolf, the rare red colour of her fur complimented the dirty brown of his own. He licked her muzzle and was rewarded by her licking him back. The poor woman had probably been scared by what was happening to her, but at the same time it must have been a form of relief to have it finally happen, she must have lived in pain for years from the change trying to happen.

Nosing her again he sprang away from her frolicking around her like a pup inviting her to play with him. He had never wanted a woman as much as he wanted her, but he had read up on wolf lore, and knew the taboo on mating in this form and the reason for it; he really needed to speak to Roman about that.

Roxy could not believe how heightened her senses were, she had known there was something different about what was happening to her this month. She and Genna had laughed and joked about her being a wolf, and there had been the dreams she had, had, dreams of running on four swift paws in the light of the full moon. Her eyes were keen and she could make out details a human never would, her sense of smell was what most keenly assaulted her though, everything seemed to have a scent to it. She had smelled Genna's fear, Roman's confusion, even Dean's desire, all of the information had entered her brain via her nose. Looking at the male who was now bouncing around as if he were hyperactive, she gave an internal smile; he obviously wanted something from her.

Her first few tentative steps into the wood were met by an approving growl as she began to learn to coordinate her new form, she quickly found that just letting her instincts take over instead of thinking about it was the best way, and soon she and Dean were running off into the woods together.

They had found her favourite glade and she was nosing around the stream when Roman's howl split the night air. The sound was at once triumphant and possessive, proud and a little bit humble, she would sort it out in her mind later when she did not feel so over loaded by her senses.

Dean could not help smiling to himself when Roman's howl split the night, the alpha had claimed his mate; there was no regret or self recrimination in that sound, he was happy. Throwing his own head back he answered with a howl of his own that Roxy joined in with, if for no other reason than it felt right. He heard the answering howls come from all around them, the pack affirming what had happened for their alpha. Genna was part of the pack now, the alpha's mate, some of them might not like it, but pack law was pack law and she was almost as much one of them as if she too were a wolf. He could not help thinking that there must be Hunters spinning in their graves as the last of them accepted a were, and not just any were but the pack leader, as her mate.

He saw Jimmy leading Melanie to some of his favourite spots, his twin Jey not too far away from them, they would both spend the night introducing her to her new world. Melanie was having more fun that he and Roxy were right now as the three of them played together. He hoped she would stay close to home and if she found a mate in another pack bring him to join theirs rather than leave to be with him. Still he reflected that would be years away yet, she was still a pup with a lot of growing to do before she took that step. Unless he died, a female were would have only one mate all her life, the wolf in her making her as unable to cheat on her mate as he would be to cheat on her.

That thought brought him back to watching Roxy exploring the glade again, would she accept him as her mate he wondered? She had been raised and thought of herself as human till tonight, had she ever mated before, he felt his hackles rise at the thought of her with another male, and fought that feeling down, who would he be to judge her for that, when he had been with so many women he lost count of them.

Walking over to her he frolicked around her inviting her to run with him, this time he was rewarded with a lick and a soft growl, and then together they were running easily through the trees pouncing on one another as they played together.

Through the course of the night as they played or rested lying close together, he felt as if her were getting closer to her, spiritually as well as physically, like there was a deep bond forming between them. They saw the others playing, and Dean gave a contented growl when he saw Genna playing with Roman. The alpha was practically quivering in anticipation as he stalked his mate, before pouncing on her the pair of them playing together for a few minutes, before he ran off wanting her to chase him instead.

Dawn was a time for the pack to come together, to lie and sleep for a while resting from the night of fun before they headed home to their beds and slept the morning away. Dean scented the air searching out his brother, the pack all gravitated to where the alpha was for their dog pile. With Roxy following closely behind him, he headed in Roman's direction, however when he saw the pair of them he stopped, they were still playing Roman gently knocking Genna over.

That's when it happened, the woman rolled to her hands and knees to get up, with the wolf that close to her and her in that position his instincts just took over. Dean watched in shock unable to look away as his brother mounted the woman sinking into her; the movements told him what was happening. It was over fast, the dawn allowing him to regain his human form even as he finished inside of her. Dean's heart ached for his best friend, his brother, from where he stood he could see the shame and horror in his posture as he pulled out of her and away from her.

What happened next made Dean even more sure that Roman had made the right choice tonight, instead of freaking out and attacking him, Genna spoke to him her voice gentle as she reached out to touch him. He saw Roman flinch expecting a blow from her, probably tears and screaming, to anyone looking in from the outside the woman had just been violated by a wild animal. Instead she comforted him, accepted the wolf as a part of him, and gently welcomed his loving of her, told him it didn't matter because no matter what form he wore he was still him. Her request for a kiss seemed to shock Roman even more, and as the alpha gently pulled his mate to him kissing her tenderly, an almost awe struck look on his face, Dean knew they needed to give the mates a while longer alone before everyone joined them. He nosed his mate away, Roxy looked at him and he could see the questions in her eyes, maybe as much as Roman and Genna were going to need to talk, he and Roxy did too.

Roxy cast a slightly concerned look at Genna over her shoulder before allowing Dean to guide her a decent distance away from the two lovers. Dean looked at the sun before making the change from wolf to human. Looking over at Roxy he smiled before sitting down next to her and wrapping an arm around the red wolf, she leaned into him making him smile.

"We need to talk right beautiful?" He asked softly smiling as she nodded her head and licked his jaw. "First thing let's get you back to human okay?" Once again there was the nod of her head. "Okay it's pretty simple really, all you need to do is picture your human form in your head can you do that?" She nodded again and he smiled. "Okay now I want you to picture going from a wolf to human." He watched as her body began to change. "Take it easy and don't panic baby." He murmured softly as her breathing hitched slightly. "Do it right and it just feels like a full body sneeze, don't fight it just let it happen." He smiled to himself as she got it and now his arm was around the red head he thought so much of.

Roxy leaned into the man who had his arm around her, she was trying to understand everything that had happened, while she had been a wolf things had seemed much simpler now she needed to understand exactly what had happened and what was going on.

"There are really werewolves?" She asked. "Is that what we are?"

"Yeah." Dean pulled her closer to him. "As you now know, I'm the blond wolf that has been visiting you; Roman bit me when we were teenagers." She rested her head on his shoulder on his bare shoulder as he spoke. "I was lucky I survived, and gained what I always wanted a family, it's incredibly rare to survive the bite, but you're even more rare Roxy."

"Genna found some books." He could hear the fear in her voice. "What's going to happen to me Dean?"

He let her go before moving to kneel in front of her and look into her eyes before cupping her face in his hands, he could feel her trembling. "It's going to be okay Roxy; I promise nothing bad is going to happen to you." He stood up drawing her with him and wrapping her in his arms. "Before I realised you were one of us, I kind of claimed you as mine, if you'll let me be your lover, your mate, no one else will touch you, if you don't want me." He swallowed hard, it would kill him if she rejected him, no woman had ever made him feel the way she did. "Who you mate will be your choice; no one will ever make you do what you don't want to."

Roxy looked into the eyes of the man she already knew she loved. "Is it really my choice?" She asked and saw the way his jaw worked as he swallowed.

Dean looked down at her, he wanted nothing more than to kiss her lips, he swallowed again praying she would not reject him. "When Roman found out who Genna was, who her family were he was distraught." He told her softly drawing her closer to him on instinct. "All he could see was her name not the woman he was coming to know, the woman he was falling in love with." He let a smile grace his lips as she snuggled into him listening to his words.

"Roman was going to let the pack have Genna and you." He felt her stiffen at his words. "I tried to talk him out of it, I knew he was falling in love with Genna but he was too stubborn to admit it, once he told the pack his plans, I claimed you as my future mate, and he approved it."

"You tried to save me?" She asked softly as she buried her head in his chest.

"I, I." He swallowed again over the unfamiliar words, the feeling in his chest. "I'm falling in love with you Roxy; you make me feel what no other woman has." His heart was hammering in his chest as he held her against him.

"Everything that's happening finding out what I am." She sighed softly. "I'm so confused Dean, I mean last night I was a wolf and now I'm here with you human and fully dressed."

He laughed softly at her words quickly stopping when he realised she thought he was laughing at her. "I forget there's so much you don't know, when we change from human to wolf our clothes change with us, it's the change into were form that can wreck your clothes hence the fact I'm only wearing jeans, they seem to hold up best under the stress."

She relaxed against him again before tilting her head and looking up at him. "I feel the same way you do Dean." She told him softly making his heart soar. "I never met a man who made me feel the way you do."

He wanted to say to her, it was because they were the same, that she was his mate, that he would kill any man who looked twice at her, but he held his tongue and kept his peace waiting for her to speak.

"I want to be with you." She said softly.

"My mate?" He asked her. "Mine, only ever mine Roxy?"

"Yours." She affirmed and he bent his head and kissed her tenderly.

He pulled away after what seemed like forever and looked down into her eyes. "I want you so much." He murmured to her. "When we get back to the house will you mate with me?"

"No." She told him softly her hand reaching up to cup his jaw in her hand watching as he frowned at her. "But I will make love with you."

He kissed her again tenderly his hands caressing her body as he did, holding her close to him. Roxy kissed him back he was so gentle with her and so sweet, and she knew she would never, could never feel about anyone else the way she felt about him. Her inner wolf knew she had found her mate and the woman knew she had found the man she wanted to be with.

"Back at the house." He said softly as he lifted his head and looked deep into her eyes. The wolf wanted to claim his mate but the man wanted this to be special.

Dean knew Roman had, had no choice but to claim Genna the way he had, she wasn't one of them, worse to the rest of the pack she was a hunter, Roman claiming her as his mate kept her safe from all of them. Roxy on the other hand no one would dream of trying to force, she was too special, too rare, too precious, and she was his, he would kill to protect her and they all knew that too.

"What would have happened to us if you and Roman hadn't?" Roxy broke off unable to ask her question but Dean knew what she was going to say.

"You would have been safe Roxy, yeah the guys would have wanted you but a female were always has the right to reject any male, at the end of the day the female chooses." He looked down into her eyes. "You have to understand though, Roman's family have been at war with the Hunters as long as anyone can really remember."

She shivered in his arms. "Genna found books." She told him softly. "We were both sickened by what they said, what the people who wrote them said they did to wolves and people they thought were, were's they really did that didn't they?"

He nodded his head looking down at her wanting her to understand. "Genna's family tortured his, I won't say mine because I wasn't born a wolf like you, though they feel like my family and I would kill to protect them." She nodded her head at his words. "When Hunters were captured by the pack the men were ripped apart, the women were raped, even though they were killers, the pack couldn't bring themselves to kill women, so they did the worst thing they could think of to them they mated with them." It was hard to explain everything he had read over the last two weeks quickly to her but he needed to give her the gist of it now. "To be mated by men they thought of as animals was the worst for them, if they survived the nights of the full moon; they normally found a way to kill themselves after." She nodded it sounded brutal but she remembered the horror she and her sister had felt at the words they read in those books. "Of course over the nights of the full moon they would have been taken by the pack in were form."

"They would have felt like they were being raped by animals?" Roxy asked him softly her arms wrapped around him as they held each other.

"Yeah." Dean confirmed. "As alpha Roman would have taken Genna first then turned her over to the pack, and I think that would have killed him a bit inside."

Roxy reached up kissing his lips softly before speaking. "It would have killed her too; she's already half in love with him, would everyone?" She broke off, not sure how to carry on.

"I wouldn't have touched her." Dean said softly. "I already made it clear to everyone that I was interested in you, and only you, I don't think the twins would have either, Melanie loves you and Genna and Jimmy would not want to hurt his daughter." He bent his head kissing her again gently his hands roaming over her back, as she kissed him back pressing into him. "Probably John and Daniel would have, you have to understand they're not bad men, it's just the packs hate hunters and Genna's family especially." He stole another kiss from her before going on. "But Genna, Genna's like no other Hunter I ever heard about, she welcomed us a wolves and she willingly mated with Roman in his were form, the howl he gave last night told me that." Figuring that he had given the pair enough time to talk he began to lead Roxy back.

"They were together with him as a wolf?" Roxy asked softly as they walked slowly back stopping to trade kisses.

"Yeah." Dean ran a hand over his head. "That's what says the most about Genna, she didn't freak out about it, mating in that form is kind of a taboo for us, maybe because female were's or women who will accept us for what we are, are so rare." He smiled down at her as they reached the glade and saw Roman and Genna standing wrapped in each other's arms kissing.

As they watched three black wolves ran into the glade knocking into the kissing couple and almost bowling them over. Dean smiled as the twins frisked to Roman, while Melanie greeted Genna who at once dropped to her knees wrapping her arms around the young wolf and hugging her. He pulled Roxy over to the others as the twins sniffed at Genna who with a laugh pushed their inquisitive noses away.

"Hey bro." Dean greeted his alpha pulling him into a hug.

Roman looked into his brothers eyes. "I did something bad." He whispered as they hugged before pulling Dean away from the others.

John and Daniel were still in their wolf forms when the dawn broke in the sky, and they sat together watching the sun rise, the pair of them had been seeing a pair of twins in a nearby town, meaning they had grown closer. They effected their change to human, and looked at each other; both of them were naked having removed any clothes prior to going to run under the full moon.

"What do you think?" John asked quietly.

"That no good is going to come of this." Daniel replied. "She's a Hunter and nothing good ever came from one of us being with one of them."

"You think she plans on betraying him, killing him?" John questioned trying to get comfortable, normally they would spend the night running and playing, then pile together in a tangle of limbs and bodies warming each other till they headed for home.

"I think she is going to end up hurting him." The bearded man replied. "You know our history, Dean may be okay with it, but he wasn't born one of us, Hunters are bad news, they kill us, we kill them."

John nodded his head before replying, sure there had been no hunter activity since they were cubs but everyone knew about the humans who hunted were's and the lengths they would go to. "Roman's mated with her though." He pointed out. "She let him touch here in his were form."

"Yeah but think about it, it was either mate him in were form willingly or the whole pack." Daniel pointed out. "I bet you there won't be any wolf pile tonight either he'll want to be human and talk to her." The sneer was evident on his face.

"Let's go and find the others at least if Roman doesn't want to curl up with the rest of us the others probably still will." John suggested.

The two men walked towards the clearing where they hoped to find the others their noses still sensitive this soon after changing, they were shocked by what they saw. The twins were still in their wolf forms as was Melanie who was being cuddled by both Roxy and Genna; it was probable she had not been told how to change back yet. While Roman and Dean stood a little way away from the others talking quietly. The two brown haired men looked at each other before shifting back to their wolf forms and creeping closer to hear what the alpha and beta were saying to each other.

Roman ran a hand over and through his long dark hair looking at the man he considered his brother casting a glance over at the others who were cuddling up together. As yet there was no sign of the brown wolves and he knew he was going to have to tell them all what he had done when they arrived, he had broken one of the oldest taboos of the pack, he had taken his mate in wolf form.

"I screwed up." He confessed wanting Dean to know first.

"No you didn't." Dean told him confidently. "I saw what happened bro; you really need to read the histories more."

The question and the confusion showed on Roman's face. "It's taboo to mate in wolf form; I took her as an animal." Roman was still beating himself up over what happened even if Genna had been so sweet to him.

"She's your mate bro." Dean reached out to touch his friend resting a hand on his shoulder. "The taboo, it was initiated to stop people questioning about us, figuring out what we are, a wolf mating with a woman, people would ask questions, for the most part we need women to carry on our race but we don't want them to know about us." Dean tightened his grip as Roman tried to pull away. "Genna knows what you are, accepts what you are, she didn't freak out on you or hate you, she loves the man and loves the wolf." He felt Roman relax slightly. "It would be the same as me and Roxy mating as wolves' bro, we know each other, we belong together, and you and Genna belong together."

Looking at his beta, his brother Roman had to smile. "She wanted to see me when we mated, I thought she would hate that I was stuck in my were form, but she wanted to look into my face while we mated, while we made love."

John and Daniel looked at each other is shock as they heard what Roman was admitting to, no one mated in wolf form, like Dean said it was too dangerous, the human's might figure out what they were if they did that, everyone for the most part stayed clear of women on the nights of the full moon. Harder still to grasp was the fact that a hunter would not only allow a werewolf to mate with her as a wolf but reassure him after it had happened, maybe this Hunter, the last Hunter was not typical of her kind.

"You can both come on out you know." Dean said softly knowing they would hear him and feeling no need to raise his voice.

Roman looked shocked as the two brown wolves sheepishly showed themselves, being so caught up in his own sense of guilt that he had not realised they were there. The two changed back looking at the alpha and beta, wondering what would happen now, they shouldn't have been listening and spying on the other two men.

"You don't say a word about this." Dean growled at them both.

"She let you?" Daniel asked.

"She didn't let me she just didn't freak out on me after; I didn't do it on purpose." Roman looked at Dean. "And I have no intention of ever doing it again; it was a mistake my instincts took over."

Dean shrugged slightly a smirk playing on his lips. "That woman loves you bro." He said quietly his eyes sweeping over Daniel and John as they both growled softly as if disagreeing. "You two don't have to like it but she is Roman's mate and he is your alpha."

The two men he was growling at looked at each other and sighed softly, neither of them trusted Genna, to them she was just another hunter, and hunters wanted to destroy them, they would watch her closely, even if they had to tolerate her for Roman.

"So?" John made the word a question.

"Wolf pile." Roman replied softly his eyes travelling to his mate who was cuddling Melanie still and smiling at her sister.

Dean pumped his fist in the air in a yes gesture and transformed running to his mate and nosing her before sniffing at Genna. Roman saw what his brother and beta just did and changed too running at Dean and knocking him away before worming his way between Genna and Roxy and cuddling up to his mate who at once wrapped an arm around him.

Genna smiled as Roman licked her face before lying down beside her and whimpering. Getting the idea Genna released Melanie and lay against her mate burying her hands in his warm fur. Dean's attempt to lay at Genna's back was greeted by a rumbling warning growl from the Alpha and in the end it was Roxy who turned wolf and lay at her sisters back, leaving Dean to snuggle up to his own soon to be mate. The twins, along with Melanie, after a few growls from Roman ended up in a tangle against the Alpha's back, while John and Daniel eventually shifted too and slunk up to lay by the twins and Roman's feet while keeping a distance from Roman. The tall Alpha was not sure why, but he felt possessive of Genna and did not want any male members of the pack touching her. Soon however everyone relax and warmed by the rising sun and each other's bodies they all, Genna included fell asleep.


Okay so there you have it Dean's thoughts on why Roxy never changed before and he has been doing a lot of reading so he's probably right. The pack seems to have accepted Genna, well maybe not John and Daniel but the rest of them seem to be pretty accepting.

I do hope you enjoyed this and as always if you would be so kind as to leave me a review it would be appreciated.