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Then, a voice that wasn't my own carried through my mind into the pack mind.
"By right of blood, I am alpha here. Submit to me Samuel Uley."
Right of blood? Alpha? Was that coming from me? Me? What does this mean? What the hell is going on?
A wave of shock ran right through the pack and straight to my heart. Sam kept struggling against my wolf. He got this look of crazed desperation in his eyes.
"Submit to me Sam, or die. I will be alpha here either way" I whimpered. I felt helpless. I wanted the rightful leader to step up and take alpha but I never thought that was me and I never wanted to kill Sam!
Finally, Sam gave in.
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He managed to wriggle himself around so he was on his back and showed me his belly.
"I submit" his voice barely rang through the pack mind "please Embry" he whimpered.
I released my grip on his flesh and stood back, fur bristled, my mind wrestling to comprehend what had just happened.
Sam managed to crawl over to my feet and took up a submissive posture, making sure I knew he had truly given up control over the pack. My wolf was ecstatic. I was just plain confused.
Then came the sudden onset of voices flooding my head through the pack mind.
"Is he okay?"
"Jared go check on Sam" Jared ran over to Sam and started sniffing him over, checking for any major damage I may have caused. He seemed to be allright.
"He's okay guys"
"What the fuck just happened?"
"What's going on?"
"He almost tore Sam's throat out!" I whimpered at that. I hadn't meant to.
"Wait! Was that you Em?"
"Yeah"
"I can hear Embry again guys!" They hadn't been able to hear me?
Everyone else's confusion was mixing with my own and beginning to give me a headache.
"Everyone shutup!" I yelled in my mind. And then there was silence.
Holy shit. I ordered them to stop and they did? I was seriously alpha now? I took a second to mull that over in my head before I called out to the pack mind "sorry guys. I didn't mean to do that. Uh… You can all think again now?"
I felt nothing but relief when my pack brothers' voices entered my mind again. Brother…. Oh my god. This must mean… Jake?
I frantically looked around for him. I needed to know if he was ok with all of this. Finally, my eyes zeroed in on his russet wolf form. He let out a wolfy grin in my direction but I could feel his pain surging through the pack mind. I knew it because it was the same thing I had carried with me every day since I was old enough to understand what it really meant to have no father.
I needed to talk to Jake but not with everyone around so I called out to my pack "hey uh.. Could everyone just give us a minute?"
I didn't want to order them around, but even to me that came across as weak. I was hoping the pack would look past my horrible attempts at leadership while we sorted this whole situation out. Luckily, they all understood that Jake and I needed to have this conversation in private so; one by one they phased out, Jared and Paul first. In the midst of all the confusion I hadn't noticed that Sam had already phased back. The guys helped carry his weak body inside where I heard Emily scream. She panicked for a bit but the boys coaxed her into relaxing a little and she got onto fixing him up.
I turned back to Jake "you wanna do this wolf or human?"
"Might aswell stay wolf. You shredded your clothes earlier and I really don't wanna do this with your junk just hanging out. Besides, there's nothing going through my mind that I wouldn't tell you anyway."
"So…. Are you ok with this man?" I asked him with a grimace. I was sure he would detest me for being the living proof that his parents' relationship wasn't as picture perfect as he had always remembered it to be.
"Are you fucking kidding Em?"
Uh-oh. He was going to flip his shit on me right now. I braced myself for him to attack.
"You've always been my brother dude! Now it's just in blood too." I looked down at him and he was (amazingly) still grinning. I felt the smile spread across my face. The pain was still floating through the pack mind but he was still smiling. That was a good sign.
"You're not mad at me?"
"I can't be mad at you bro. It's not your fault my dad, our dad now I guess, banged your mum like 20 years ago" I groaned.
"Dude! You just talked about someone banging my mum. Not cool bro."
He let out a wolfy chuckle. "Sorry man. But seriously, I'm not mad at you Em. Billy on the other hand…" he trailed off and I felt the rage start to build up inside him.
I needed to calm him down, quick.
"Listen dude, let's not worry about Billy right now. We have pack shit to deal with." Suddenly a thought popped into my brain.
"You're not mad about the alpha thing?" I asked him "I know it was meant to be your gig and all. If you want it back I'm sure there's some way to exchange it or something?"
He emphatically shook his head. "Hell no man! I never wanted it! And you can't make me take it now! You're totally stuck with it dude!" he chuckled as he turned to walk towards the house, "come on Em, let's go see how Sam's doing."
We raced back to the house together and he ran inside to grab me a pair of shorts. I chucked them on and strolled through the back door to check on Sam. As I walked in, I heard the guys laughing and mucking around and felt a small amount of relief wipe away some of the guilt that had found its way into my body. If the guys were laughing then Sam can't be in too bad a condition.
I walked through the house and found the pack sitting at the kitchen table eating the food Emily had prepared earlier. They all looked up at me as I entered the room. Quill walked over to me and punched me on the arm.
"Dude! You got bigger!"
I grabbed him around the neck and gave him a noogie.
"Yeah! I'll be able to hold my own against you now huh?"
Just then, Emily's voice came from the bedroom "Don't even think about wrestling in my dining room or so help me god!"
I quickly sobered and turned to face my pack.
"I'll be back soon and we'll talk" I said with an air of confidence that I didn't really feel.
They all nodded and continued eating except for Leah. She just stared at me with a mixture of concern and awe. I smiled at her in what I hoped was a reassuring manner and mouthed out that we would talk later. She beamed back at me and my heart missed a beat.
I walked through the house, each step I took echoing in my ears. When I came to the bedroom door I stopped and took a breath and steeled myself against what I was sure I was about to see in there then I stepped inside the room.
The first thing I saw was Sam's body on the bed, he looked like he was healing well and in human form that chunk I took out of his neck didn't look nearly as bad as it had out in the forest. Then I saw Emily next to the bed with her head in her hands and tears streaming silently down her face.
I walked over to her and pulled her into my arms. I might not like her a hell of a lot and the way she treated Leah grated on my nerves but she was pack and she was mine now. I let her cry on my chest for a second before I asked how he was doing.
"He's ok. He'll be healed up in a day or 2"
I felt bad that I'd put my pack brother in this position, even if he had deserved it for being such a dickwad.
"I'm sorry Emily. I tried to stop but the wolf wouldn't have it. He wouldn't let me stop and Sam wouldn't give in. I couldn't do anything."
She looked up at me then, her eyes dilated in terror.
"You did this?! You did this to him?!" she squealed at me.
Oh shit. She didn't know. How didn't she know? Fuck.
I backed away from her slowly, not wanting her to get more frightened.
She stepped into the corner near Sam and I watched as the pieces started to come together in her mind.
She looked up at me with a chilling stare "you fought Sam…. You! And you overcame him….." her eyes flashed as it clicked in her mind "you're alpha."
The words left her mouth in a sob-like exclamation. Then a rage came over her. She threw herself towards me and started throwing her fists at my chest while she screamed at me.
"What have you done?!" she wailed.
I heard footsteps coming towards us.
"Jesus Emily, stop!" I said as I tried to hold her off me. She wasn't hurting me but I knew if she didn't stop soon she was going to end up hurting herself and then I'd feel even worse than I did right now! So I picked her up and wrapped my arms around her so she couldn't punch me anymore and she kept up her screams in my ear.
I was aware of the pack crowded in the hallway but I tried to focus on just calming Emily down as quickly as possible.
She was so hysterical that I couldn't even understand most of what she was trying to say. I picked out a few words here and there that sounded a lot like "power" and "ruin it all" but I kept holding on tight until she calmed down enough for me to put her back down.
When she felt the carpet beneath her feet, she quickly backed herself away from me and deteriorated into sobs on the floor again.
She looked straight at me and said "Get out of here! You're no longer welcome in this house! None of you are! Just leave!"
The pack let out a collective groan in the hallway but we all stayed put. I looked back at Emily in saddened disbelief and she almost broke but then she hardened her jaw.
"Leave now Embry. You aren't alpha here. All you are is the scumbag bastard son of a whore. Now get out of here!"
I felt the anger and pain take over and my body started to vibrate uncontrollably. Before I knew it there were hands pulling me away and pushing me out the back door of the house. I shredded my second pair of shorts for the night and took off into the forest, a mournful howl escaping my muzzle as I went.
I replayed her words over and over in my mind as I ran, pain overriding every other emotion at the truth of her insult.
"No Em, it's not like that. Come back. We have to sort out some pack stuff before the night is over." Jake's voice sounded in my mind. I felt the murmur of general agreement throughout the entire pack and I realised nobody had been running patrol since I arrived at Sam's earlier in the evening.
"Seth can you run patrol? You can listen in and give your piece while you run." he barked and started running for the border.
I turned around to return to my pack. It was time for me to hold my first pack meeting.
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