Hello my lovelies! I'm back with yet another chapter! It might seem slightly filler-ish, and on top of that it's short, but I have little time on my hands atm. I'm feeling much better today and will probably spend the day cleaning up my dump of a flat and other practical things that come with living alone (yay, laundry..), but I will get back to writing soon, I have as far as chapter 13 written out (and SeekingIndividuality, I know you'll love it... He he, I'm such a tease :D), and I just need to figure out where to go from there, since it strays a bit off my original plot.
Anywho! Read, enjoy and feel free to review! Oh yeah, and Paul is a bit of a pottymouth. Just a warning in case you're squeamish when it comes to swearing. I, for one, am not, I wrote him like that for Pete's sake :D
DISCLAIMER: No money, don't own. My life sucks, I know.
"My kind as in the wolves. I'm a werewolf."
Silence hung in the air for a couple of seconds as the trio took in the information.
"You son of a-" Dean suddenly exclaimed, standing up.
"Dean! Relax" Cassie cut him off.
"Relax? How can you tell me to relax when there's an overgrown puppy sitting across the table from us?" Dean shouted.
"Dean, calm down!" Sam interjected.
"The hell I will, Sammy! Do you not remember all those werewolves we hunted down through time? Those were some sick bastards!" Dean shouted. Cassie was surprised the neighbours didn't come running.
"Dean, calm down and sit down. Now," Cassie said sternly, grabbing Dean's arm and glaring at him.
Dean huffed, then shook off her arm and sat back down with a serious scowl on his face.
Cassie turned back to Jacob.
"So, you said wolves, as in, in plural? There are more of your kind?" she asked.
"We're a whole pack," Jacob smirked. "Remember the guys who were here last time? That's them."
"So what, you turn into an overgrown lapdog every full moon? Have a little party ripping some hearts out?" Dean said sarcastically.
"What are you talking about? We're protectors," Jacob said looking very confused.
"Let me fill you in on basic werewolf lore, then," Dean continued. "Werewolf. A man that turns into a wolf every full moon. In his animal frenzy, he seeks out some poor virgin girl and rips out her heart, leaving the body to rot. Sound familiar?"
Cassie watched as Jacob's brows scrunched together in confusion.
"No, not at all!" he said sounding almost outraged at what he was being compared to. "We can phase whenever we like, we eat normal human food, no raw meat, and we are what we are in order to protect our people from the leeches!"
Dean let out a sarcastic chuckle.
"Boy, this place is a whole new level of weird," he murmured.
"Well, if you're not werewolves as we know them, then what are you?" Cassie asked, curious to know more about the entire thing.
"Well, we have heightened senses; sight, hearing, smell, you name it. We are also fast, faster than those bloodsuckers, which tend to come in handy when we hunt them down and kill them," he added with a slight chuckle before continuing. "We also run a temperature around hundred and two degrees and rarely ever get cold. We're a pack, like I said, so we have a hierarchy too, of course. I, myself, am the Beta male, although my heritance would put me in the position of Alpha. I gave up that position though, being only sixteen when I first phased. I wasn't ready for that kind of responsibility, so I let Sam Uley keep the role of Alpha, since he was the first of us to phase."
"Does your pack consist of only males?" Cassie asked. She was truly interested and intrigued by what she heard.
"No. We're mostly guys, but there is one girl, Leah. She can be a real pain to patrol with sometimes. We can hear each other's thoughts when we're in wolf form, which is highly practical, but Leah isn't exactly a ray of sunshine," he explained.
"What, she's constantly PMS'ing?" Dean butted in.
Jacob let out a laugh for the first time since they'd met. It sounded like a deep rumble from within his chest, and Cassie had to fight back the shivers.
"Yeah, something like that," he replied, looking at Dean with less hostility.
Just then, the door bust open.
"Jake, you dickwad, what have you done?" the guy Cassie briefly recognised as Paul stormed in and yelled.
"Paul, they needed to know!" Jacob replied, quickly moving to stand between Cassie and the Winchesters and the pack filing into the house at rapid speed.
"Jacob Black, you're in so deep shit you'll have a bad aftertaste in your next life!" Paul continued to yell as he started shaking violently.
"Paul, enough!" a voice boomed across the room.
Paul's shaking lessened, but didn't disappear completely. The giant man, the voice belonged to, made his way to stand between Paul and Jacob.
"I hope you know what you have done, Jacob," the older man seethed.
"Of course I know, Sam, but it had to be done! They deal with supernatural beings, they deserved to know what was lurking out in those woods!" Jacob retorted.
"What do you mean, deal?" the man who had to be Sam Uley asked.
"They hunt supernatural beings and kill them before they harm any more innocent people!" Jacob replied.
Cassie felt her stomach drop as she saw Sam Uley's face turn pale, which by the way was not an easy feat seeing as his skin was the same russet colour as the rest of the guys'.
"And you told them what we are? Damn it Jacob, do you realise what that could do to us? To the pack?" he almost yelled.
"I already told them we're not a threat to them; that we only hunt and kill bloodsuckers! That's why they're really here, to catch and kill the leeches behind these attacks!" Jacob snapped back.
"Do they even know about the kind of vampires that roam these woods?" Sam Uley asked.
"Of course they do, I told them!" Jacob shouted.
"Jacob, you idiot! What do you think they'll do to us when we have wiped out the leeches for them?" the older man asked, his face now red with anger.
"They won't harm us!" Jacob replied. He had now begun shaking.
"Actually, we never said that," Dean mumbled, much to Cassie's horror.
Sam of course heard it and turned his head to glare at Dean before turning his gaze back to Jacob.
"See? They will try to wipe out the pack once the leeches are gone!" Sam yelled.
"No, we won't! Dean's just a smartass who doesn't know when to shut up!" Cassie shouted, no longer able to fight the need to defend Jacob from the wrath of Sam.
Sam took a deep breath to calm himself down.
"No matter what, we will have to deal with these outsiders knowing our secret. If they refuse to keep their mouth shut, we might have to kill them," he said in a serious tone. Cassie watched in horror as this time, it was Jacob's turn to have his face drained of colour.
"You can't do that!" he yelled.
"Oh yeah? Why not? Jake, we cannot have these people running around telling others about us!" Sam replied, trying to talk some, in his opinion, sense into the younger boy's head.
"Because," Jacob said, now breathing deeply as he tried to calm down.
"Because I imprinted on her."
Leave it to Dean to put his foot into it...
Alright! I hope you enjoyed and that you'll take a moment to reiew!
Unicorns and butterflykisses.