AN: two words- Final Exams. That is sadly the only excuse I can come up with to explain my delay in posting. (I had exams up to the 23rd of December) and then there was Christmas and yeah. Sorry…. Without further ado here is the next chapter! Enjoy!

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Fighting with Reason (Seth POV)

Billy finished up the legends. The warpers were amazed. Billy was a very good story teller; it was almost like the legends came to life in the fire.

"That was amazing!" Kat cheered. It was great to see the warpers so relaxed and happy. "Much better than Torry's version!" The rest of the warpers laughed. It was definitely going to take a while to get used to them.

"Kat's right, your legends are amazing." A voice from the shadows spoke. The warpers gasped and Jaxon walked out of the shadows. "I apologize for being so late; I got caught up in something." Jaxon rubbed the back of his head. I realized the white shirt he was wearing earlier had disappeared. Go figure.

Before any of us could get a word out Jen stood up. "Jaxon." She stated. Jen took a step and then warped. She appeared next to Jaxon and punched him.

Jaxon covered his face and exclaimed, "Um OW!" Jen glared at him and then took his shirt collar and brought it down to her face. And then she kissed him.

"Well, that takes care of a lot." Kat shrugged. "Now Jaxon enlighten us! Where the hell were you?"

Jaxon hugged Jen and looked at Kat. "I was fixing the two problems that they caused." He put stress on "they" meaning us wolfs.

"What do you mean two problems?" Paul asked. Jaxon and Jen rejoined us in our circle around the fire.

"Torry and Grace." He stated.

"Oh." Embry sighed. "Wait- was Torry all that mad?"

"Yes." Jaxon shrugged. "And you should thank me! I just saved your internet credibility. Torry was ready to ruin all of you and have the Fed's knocking on your door in the morning." He paused for a moment and bit his lip. "Although you might still be illegal in Madagascar. I don't know about that one."

"Meaning?" Sam choked.

"Don't go to Madagascar anytime soon." Jaxon smirked. The rest of the warpers grinned at this thought. "Take this as a warning-never piss off a nerd. Especially one who is good with a computer. I mean who knows what he could have done!"

"Note taken." Sam agreed. I made eye contact with Jacob who shrugged. I made a nervous grin and he laughed. Jaxon stepped forward and introduced himself to the elders. They seemed very taken back by his straight-forwardness.

Jaxon was a very honest and proud person. He definitely fit the form of an alpha. Everyone seemed afraid of him. Even Sam. It was clear-Jaxon was in charge.

Danker asked the question that was one my mind. "How's Grace?" All eyes flipped to Jaxon. His shoulders shrugged. He sighed and dropped his head.

"She's, okay." He stammered. He was choosing his words very carefully. "She's, hurt, and afraid." I dropped my head. I had made her feel that way. It was my fault. I was a terrible person.

Jaxon said something that surprised me. "I haven't seen her feel that way since before Mathew." My head snapped up.

"Does Mathew have something to do with what Grace is hiding?" I asked. I stood up and looked Jaxon in the eye. He glared at me.

"Ah, yes. Seth. I have to talk to you. Alone preferably." He spat through his teeth. He seemed ti truly hate me. I glared at him. Everyone was silent.

"Will you tell me about Grace?" I spat back.

"You won't know unless you come now will you?" He smirked back. I really hate him right now. He was an absolute jerk.

"Fine." I walked around the fire to where he was standing. I met Sam's eyes. They were full of understanding. "Where are we going?"

Jaxon led me from the fire and down the beach. Once we were well out of eye shot his shoulders sagged. "I want to hate you. I really do. But for some ungodly reason I can't." He met my eye and managed a weak smile. "Grace doesn't hate you either. She wants to but can't. She's afraid more than anything."

"Are you and Grace close?" I asked. I wanted answers. He nodded.

"We haven't been completely honest with you all." He stated. I looked at him with shock in my eyes. Oh god. Where the hell is this going? "Grace and I are in fact related. I am her brother. And theoretically there are two fleets. And I'm not supposed to be alpha of either of them. Grace was never supposed to be a warper. I think that's it."

"Wow." I stammered. He grinned weakly. I was amazed.

"It's a lot to take in isn't it?" He asked. Jaxon managed a nervous laugh. "I guess I should explain. Where should I start?" he asked. He fell to the sand and looked out to the ocean.

I took a seat next to him. "Start with Grace. A lot of things seem to lead back to her." His head whipped to mine and his blue eyes glared into mine.

"Before I do. Tell me this- how final is this imprinting?"

"What do you mean?"

"Are you going to leave her? Are you going to hurt her? What is she to you? I care a lot about her. I don't want to see her get hurt and with this whole imprinting thing. I don't know. It just seems like a very probable thing to happen."

"I would never intentionally hurt her Jaxon. She is my everything. We are meant to be together. Imprinting is like a huge push in the right direction. I've found my soul mate and I never want to let her go." I said it with so much love and affection. Every word of it was true. Surprisingly Jaxon laughed at me.

"That is creepy. Not going to lie. It's a little creepy." He saw the look on my face and instantly became serious again. "Right well. I'm going to hold you to that because well, Grace is terrified. She has to face the one thing she fears the most."

"True love?" I asked. He glared at me. "Sorry." And then I shut up.

"No. You represent two things- Commitment and Mathew." There was that blasted name again.

"Okay seriously? Who the hell is Mathew?" I yelled. Jaxon merely rolled his eyes. "What did he do? And why do I evidently remind her of him? Why is that a bad thing?" Jaxon's face grew darker with each word I said. He finally just cut me off.

"Mathew is a terrible man. At one point in time he was great. He was Grace's idol and-and my twin. He was funny and caring. He had a solution to everything and somehow made light of every situation. He would always look up and smile. He was brave and athletic. Nothing could stop him." Jaxon looked ready to cry.

"What did he do?" I prompted. Jaxon looked away.

"He turned his back on his community, tribe and fleet. He ruined our family. As if that wasn't enough he single-handedly crushed Gra's soul. He destroyed her faith in others and took away her childhood. He is a terrible person. I do not consider him a part of my family at all."

We sat in silence for a while. I absorbed the information. I wanted to kill Mathew. That bastard! He would pay for what he did to my Grace. "Why? You made him seem so great. Why did he let everyone down? How could he do it?"

"He couldn't handle it." Jaxon murmured. I nodded prompting him on. "What you have to understand is we know we were warpers since the day we were born. I knew I was going to be a warper. I started to prepare for it when I was incredibly young."

He sighed and continued. "Every move, every decision was made for me by our elders. It was the same with Jen, Kat, X, Tolad, Clyde and Josh. And Mathew." He added in a tiny voice.

"What about the others?" I asked.

"Shut-up. I'm getting to that. Anyway, we were going to be the 17th warp fleet. The 17th generation of warpers. We grew up together, learned together, and fought together. It was us. Us and only us. They didn't fully tell us though. We always knew we were special but we didn't know to what extent. And then Mathew's and I's 15th birthday rolled around. That's when they told us. They also told us that Mathew was going to be alpha and I was to be beta."

"Well that was a lot of pressure put on Mathew. He couldn't handle it. He turned to drugs and alcohol. Most importantly he turned to a gang. We were losing sight of our alpha. A year passed and we were getting ready to unlock the warp. Basically become what we are right now. But then, Mathew turned on us."

"The gang came after us. My family. And, the only thing I truly remember is when they went for Grace. The poor girl was so afraid. Mathew spoke to her and he said such hateful things, it ruined her. Then she did something that surprised me more than anything. She warped. "

I looked at Jaxon. "Why is Grace warping so bad?"

He turned to me with hate in his eyes. The hate wasn't directed for me though. "Because she was nine! She was nine Seth! She was never supposed to warp in the first place! And then the she warps distance, something I wasn't even doing and I was 16, and she was freaking nine!" Jaxon wiped one of his eyes.

I couldn't wrap my mind around it. I tried to picture phasing at nine but couldn't. And she was the first one to. It was hard to believe. "At least you could have helped her. Right Jaxon?"

He shook his head no. "That was the last I saw of her for three years." I gasped. "I don't know what she did for those three years. I do know she lived on the streets in some pretty tough cities. She learned a lot, especially about fighting. The cost was her innocence. It made her paranoid. She hates telling people about herself. She hates feeling used or worthless. She never trusts anyone with anything."

"The warp was locked for us, but not for Grace. She became the master of it, and then the alpha. You see, the true alpha is the person who was supposed to master and "understand" the warp the first. When Mathew failed us, the position went up for grabs. Grace grabbed it. She's been warping for seven years, and can do things I can't even imagine."

"We met up again when she was twelve. She wasn't alone though. The fact that she had warped caused Danker, Lou-B and Torry to become warpers. None of them knew what to do- or had the years of training that the rest of us had. We tried to train them as fast as possible but we couldn't let them be their own fleet. We became one huge fleet."

"Wow." I stated again. "But wait. If you are alpha but Grace is really?" I stammered, very confused.

"I became alpha because Grace was 12. And I was not going to let a 12 year old lead a fleet. I mean who in their right mind does that?" he exclaimed. "She had all this power but no idea how to use it, so I took over."

"No matter how much I offer Grace doesn't want the alpha position back. I don't blame her. The fact remains. She is the true alpha. She has power I don't. The other warpers only listen to me because they are afraid of me."

I started to cry. I was crying for Grace and her lost childhood. My poor girl. Jaxon stood up and offered me his hand. "We should get back." I looked up at him. His face held no emotion. I needed to do this. I needed to be strong for Grace.

I grabbed his hand and he pulled me up. "Thank you for telling Jaxon. It means a lot."

We began the trek back to the fire. "No problem. You have a right to know. For the record- I still want to kill you."

AN: YAY! Another chapter :D it didn't turn out how I wanted but I still think it was okay. Sorry is Seth was alittle OOC. Well let me know what you thought in a review! I will try to get better about posting.

Please ask questions. I wanted to clear up Grace's past but I understand there still might be loose ends to clear up! I will answer any questions!

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Hum… I believe that is it! Until next time my faithful readers :D

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