A Son of Wolves- The Last Kind

Chapter 10: Promises

Garth and Lily couldn't wait to see their daughters again; firstly they needed to find Eve, asking about how the girls were under her distant supervision. They were fine apparently, they organised hunts, border patrols and pack inquiries. They were the perfect leaders in her eyes. They worked extremely well together, she hardly she much of them. They were up during the day, being pack leaders and normal Omega's in-between and going to bed early at night to not be seen until the next day. So if she was correct, by the way they've been behaving, they'd be asleep or on the verge of it right now. It pleased them nothing more then to see their daughters ready to take responsibility over the pack, despite being Omegas. Maybe there was some Alpha flare in them somewhere deep down.

So, now it was a time to head home, to go to sleep and find out how their daughters had faired from their own mouths. Oh….big mistake. Inside the den were exactly what they didn't want to happen and the rule Garth set down strictly. Firstly, upon nearing the den, they started to hear laughter, then chants and celebrations. It caused then to speed up their pace. "Ok, spin it!" Inside the den, Grace and Collette weren't the only wolves inside. Three other wolves, all very close friends of theirs one Alpha she-wolf and two boys, one Alpha and the other Omega, played a game that just made their night brilliant. Spin the bone, the human game but for wolves. A game, stupidly, Ciara taught them. Spin the bone twice, whoever the spiked end points to on both occasions had to kiss, taking it to different levels each time the same two wolves were picked. Level one, a kiss on the cheek, level two, a kiss on the lips, level three, a five second kiss, level four, a full on ten second make-out! They were all friends, this was just a pass time and they all knew it would mean nothing. They were always like this, this just happened to be the first time they played this game.

"We're so screwed if we get caught." One of the boys laughed.

"Oh relax!" Collette giggled. "Mom and dad won't be back until tomorrow, we've got loads of time. Oh Grace, you're first" The bone pointed to her, so who would be the lucky guy? It was spun again, this was turning funny.

"Eeny meeny miney mo, which boy now will get a go." She teased. Garth's biggest rule to both of them, NO BOYS, whether that be friends or not.

"Jason!" They all shouted. "Level four!" These two have already been through the first, second and third, levels, after this they were out of the game. It's what they all wanted, but it was still fun if they were still in, so it was a mixture of emotions. Being sat beside one another, they both leaned in with no hesitation and Grace placed her paws either side of Jason's face to deepen the contact they made.

Outside, two very suspicious parents marched faster. "They had better not." Garth grumbled. Seven seconds into the kiss, it was the exact moment Garth and Lily came crashing into the den to find this site around them. A party, boys, Grace making out with no end with one of them, everything they said not to do!

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?" Lily practically screamed. All eyes set on the two furious Alpha Leaders and parents stood in the den entrance.

"We are so busted." Collette mumbled.

"Busted and GROUNDED!" Garth growled.

Sweet, sweet relief, nothing could describe it. So what if it was just a shower, but to finally be rid of that reeking smell that could fell the entire pack in one breath. It was a case of digging their nails as hard as they could bear into their skin; it was like trying to scrap off a layer of grease and grim that was the smell, it was hard to clean off and took several long minutes to be rid of it. Ciara was in their for longer then she hoped to be, bringing Leo and Rick to near torture the longer they had to wait for her. In the meantime however, they were able to pick out clothes from the boxes that Charlie had packed. Before he first began living here, this place was made for Leo, Rick and Ciara, Robinson wanting to make it homely enough for them by purchasing a variety of clothes he hoped would fit. This was over three years later now, most of them didn't anymore and nearly all of it didn't suit their "styles". So for that reason, Charlie agreed to lend clothes to his brother and Rick before convincing London to lend some to Ciara after she stepped out from the bathroom.

They were happy with the choices they made, finally something decent to wear and that fit. Charlie was beginning to understand now he wasn't going to see these clothes again, so he was sure to keep his best ones out of the eyes of the younger generation. Not only that, he seized an opportunity that he wasn't going to miss. Leo, being the last of the three to shower due to talking to his brother about what was to happen, upon emerging now dressed and clean was blinded by the flash of a camera. Come on, would you take this opportunity to get a picture of your brother? He didn't have one of Leo like this. As a wolf, yeah, he's got quite a few, but in this body, none at all. "Come on, really?" Leo grinned and shaking his head while swinging the tatty black trench coat around his body and sliding his arms through.

"What? I don't have any of you." Charlie chuckled. "Did you really think I'd let this moment pass? Besides, grandpa has been waiting to see a better picture of you."

"You still talk to them?" He then asked.

"Of course, they're our family Leo. Your blood family."

"Yeah I know, how are they?"

"They'll be better after seeing this." He laughed again while waving the camera teasingly. He then stopped for a moment and took in his brother's appearance. A young man, seventeen, black hair, happy…his brother. "You won't believe how good it is to see you like this again."

"It's only temporary." Ciara replied and coming out of the bedroom behind Leo. "I'll admit, it feels pretty good, but we aren't staying like this."

"So let me make the most of it then." Charlie responded.

"Make the most of it later." Rick added while coming up behind everyone as well. "We've got an early start tomorrow."

"This is going to be one awkward night." Ciara sighed.

Caleb, Nikita and Sahara knew that all too well, Sahara more then any of them. The wolf she married, her mate, the same wolf that got her pregnant and made her carry his pups, was now a human, the same human she watched grow from a baby and helped transform into a wolf. If only things weren't weird enough, now the father of her pups was a human, this was going to be one strange night. She was happy of course he was back, yet she was still that little bit irritated he had to do this to himself. She was due to give birth within the week, if Leo was still like this or not even here then everything she planned would be ruined. It had to go the way she planned, the way she dreamed, otherwise there'd be consequences.

She waited patiently for him to return, lying around the den or finding something to do not too far from it. The hour and a half he was gone felt more like three, so gradually she grew impatient. Two days he was gone, two minutes she saw him after he came back, she just wanted to see him again. Thankfully, it wasn't much longer until she heard movement outside. She brought her head up from her paws and her ears perked, a moment later, that same human she encountered just earlier stepped into the den mouth, a much cleaner smell following. "May I come in?"

"It's your home too silly." She smiled and crawling to her paws to stand. "You smell much better now."

"I feel much better." Just after he finished the sentence, he walked straight into a tree root sticking stupidly. "Until now anyway." He then seethed and rubbing his head, this only made her laugh.

"Come down here, let me look."

"It's fine, just a bump." He insisted and refusing to make it such a big deal.

"Come on human, get down here." This was only building to the awkwardness he knew was to come in a matter of minutes. He knelt down and sat back on his heels sliding his hand off his head while Sahara sat right in front of him, pushing his hair out the way and taking a closer look. A teeny tiny cut, a scarp even, it was nothing.

"I forgot how low things were in here." He said while looking into her eyes.

"It's a big change, you'll get used to it." She replied. No longer was she now focusing on that cut, more so the rest of his head and how different he looked to how she remembers. Her old human obsessed nature once again peaking, taking observations of the changes on him.

"Well this isn't awkward at all." He then chuckled lightly.

"It's not permanent remember." She snapped out of her focus and pulling her paws away. "I still love you Leo, you're the father of my pups, so no matter what you look like, as long as you're here in time, nothing will be awkward." She smiled at him. "Just don't kiss me, that will be." She then turned completely serious.

"I'll be saving it for when I get back." He smiled, continuing to look into her eyes.

"When will you be back?" She then asked, this time turning a little saddened and knowing how closing this could turn out. Premature pups still happen, she could give birth tomorrow!

"Things have change; we could be back anytime in three days." He reassured.

"But what if it happens while you're gone? I can't do this by myself." She was beginning to tear, this had to go right, nothing could go wrong.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine." He said while placing his hand on her cheek. "When have I ever lied to you?"

"Never." She couldn't help but laugh a little. "Not at all."

"Then look into my eyes." So she did and he took her paw in his hand. "I promise, I'll be back to take those insults you'll throw at me, in time for you to break my paw and to see my children for the first time. I've never broken a promise, and I won't start now."

Across the pack, wolves were only just beginning to awake when one family had already been for nearly an hour now. Leo, Ciara and Rick, with their mates Sahara, Caleb and Nikita, as well as the rest of the family, Skye, Dom, Jasper, Eve, Garth and Lily. This morning, they were saying their final goodbyes after discussing quick plans. It was straight forward, get to the park Kate and Humphrey are at, get them out and get back here, no fuss, no hanging around. There wasn't much to talk about. Of course, Rick, Leo and Ciara were going, but as of this morning, Jasper and Skye voted themselves to join them. Skye was fast, she was a trained Alpha so she was needed admittedly. Jasper, he wanted some time away from the pack, a little adventure of his own, something to inspire him. For now, all they could do was hang around and wait.

Being the caring brother that he was, Charlie had no problems of taking things to the next level. Giving Leo a car was taking things too far, but he volunteered to go with them to drive them to the park, wait as the get away vehicle and get back here once Kate and Humphrey were freed. They could be back in three days max. This was going to speed things up, and with London planning on seeing her parents today, she would be known the wiser. He had other rangers cover for his work today, this was more important to him.

Last night was awkward for many of them, sleeping beside their human mates; it wasn't exactly normal and something they would think would happen again. Not that it had already happened. They all knew about the three being humans, they've already seen them once before in that body, but to have it happen again…well, it was an embarrassing thought. So it was the reason they all slept more or less back to back in the night, just until all this is over. Leo and Sahara seemed to be the only ones who slept closer, only when she started shivering in the night and he rolled over so she was lying against his chest. It was funny, like sleeping with a dog. Not that he thought of her that way of course.

But that was then, this is now, the time to say goodbye. And time was running out, Charlie came to steady stop a little way from them. "Alright, let's get moving!" He rolled down the window to shout. "We've got to go now if we want to get their before dark!" Now was a time for last hugs and goodbye, Leo however needed something. He walked over the Charlie who handed him something, a few words being exchanged before he walked back over to the tearful Sahara.

"Three days, no longer." She said sternly, he can't be any longer then that.

"Three days." He nodded and smiled. "I'll be back then."

"But what if it happens before you get back? What if it happens tomorrow?" He looked down between then and she followed his gaze and he held out a standard cell-phone.

"Remember how to use one of these?" She remembers, she was there when Charlie taught Eve back when Leo was sick. It was vague but there. "I'll call you every morning and night. You just need to press this button to call me, if you go into labour while I'm gone, I'm coming right back."

"You'd better." She replied. "God, I sound so selfish."

"Don't." He chuckled again and placing the phone before her. "We'll do this together; mom and dad are safe where they are right now, so I don't think they'll mind another few days were they are."

"Leo! Come on, we've got to go!" Skye shouted from outside the car window after she jumped in and Rick shut her and Jasper inside. Sahara, just before he stood up, launched herself at him and wrapped her paws around his neck, resting her head on his shoulder.

"Hurry back."

"I promise." He smiled and rubbing her back a moment before she let him go. "Take care of her grandma." He then said to Eve standing just behind her.

"I will, now get going." She replied while coming to her side while he blew her one last kiss before walking away and getting into the middle seat of the car. She watched him walk away and then move away as Charlie took the car away towards the Jasper Field gates, tears stinging and welling in her eyes. Nothing could go wrong, nothing…

Over a thousand miles away, Kate walked once again by herself through the forest, weaving around the fenced off paths to avoid the humans little Tia actually now played with. This was day five now, or was it six? She didn't know, nobody did. She watched for a whole hour as that little she-pup ran back and forth along the steel fences with a young human girl on the others side, chasing one another in play. Sure, it was a funny thing to watch, even her father, Ace, thought it was sweet as well, but human were the reason she was here, captive once more, she couldn't look at them, she refused to.

She and Humphrey are continuing with their agreement, don't start any arguments or furious sparks and they'll get along fine. Ace and Danni however, things started to look a little more then friendship now, she can't keep her eyes off him for a starts and he had that look about him too. Adrian, that's the funny thing, he's hardly been around since the day after they were put in here. He disappears for the entire day, returning at night to sleep before being the first up again. Humphrey even tried to follow his scent, but he clearly knows a trick or two, even Kate kept losing it, it just ended in the middle of the enclosure. What's even stranger was how he returned last night with a limp and the faint smell of blood. He's up to something, but what?

"Psst!" She didn't even have a clue where she was when she was snapped out of her trance. To her right, Adrian peeked out of a hedge, an ecstatic glint in his eyes and all across his face. "Hermoso chica!" This was one of the many nicknames he had for her as of lately, but what they meant she didn't know.

"Where the hell have you been?" Kate laughed lightly after calming her down.

"Come quick, I have to show you something." Then as quick as he appeared, he disappeared behind the hedge. Whatever it was it seemed of great importance. Still, she followed, jumping over the hedge and a little ways before she found him again beside the fence that led out into a part of the forest here that wasn't fenced off. One centimetre away from freedom.

"What is it?" She then asked. "And what have you been doing all this time? You keep disappearing."

"Working on a way out of here." He answered while hooking his claws around the holes in the fence and pulling. Kate gasped as she watched him pull on the fence, revealing a giant hole in it, nearly big enough for a wolf to crawl through, but not quite, not unless you want the sharp points of the wire fence to scrap and scratch away against their bodies. It would hurt really.

"You've been doing this?" She looked to him, still in amazement that all this time he's been working in trying to get everyone out. He only grinned from ear to ear. "How did you do this?"

"Through the expenditure of claws." He laughed deeply and gently putting the fence back in its place. What did he mean by that? It was then she thought maybe why, and looking down at his paw she saw. She gasped again, taking it in hers' to have a closer look. The fur was glued together with dried blood, all due to two of his claws missing. His second and fourth claw, both still bleeding ever so slightly. "The fence can hurt me just as much it seems." He added with another slight laugh.

"You're an idiot." She replied. "You should have told us, we could've helped."

"I'd rather my claws then any of yours, angel." Another nickname he gave her, this one she was sure she new what it meant and why he was saying it. Only she didn't react this time, this was far too important. "We can leave now Kate." He continued. "It just needs one more cut, we can leave right now and run." Ok, now she was shocked. She dropped his paw.

"What? And leave everyone else?"

"They don't want to leave, you heard."

"Only Ace and Tia, but not Humphrey and Danni." She snapped disappointedly. "Humphrey is the father to my children, Adrian, I can't leave him here." He sighed with a light grumble, he just wanted to leave and get out right now. "Besides, if we leave now the humans will know, they always know what we're doing."

"So…"

"So, we'll wait until dark, that way we can let the others choose what they want to do and get out in darkness. The humans won't know a thing."

A way out. A flirtatious wolf. Plenty of promises. Since when is anything that simple? Not with me anyway. Many things happened in this one, I could go through it all but there's two reasons why I won't. One, I need to go out like...five minutes ago! Two, because I know that I'mjustlikeHumphrey will explain it in the reviews far better then I could. ;) Until next time!

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