Telepath Wolf
Healer
Keep in mind that I do not own Babylon 5 or its characters, so if you recognize any of them, THEY'RE NOT MINE. (Which means that I am not making money out of writing this, I'm only doing it for the pleasure of sharing a piece of my mind with you all)
Please remember that this story portrays a little different approach to Susan's and Talia's relationship, which means YES, as most of my stories, this is a FEMLASH, if this bothers you, you shouldn't be here, so leave now if you're not comfortable with this fact.
Also remember that Susan is a werewolf, kinda like the ones portrayed in the Underworld movies. You know, strong, virtually immortal, and able to control when they shift. She and her brother, and a few others that will come, were born werewolves, not turned. However there are and will be bitten ones here too.
And don't forget I altered the timeline to suite my needs for things to flow between them.
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Telepath Wolf
Chapter 12
Healer
Mr Garibaldi sure was a stubborn man, he would have made an excellent wolf. Even with everything going around the station, he had been pestering me for weeks to no end, until finally and without much options I agreed to speak to him regarding my incursion into space to retrieve the Azimov. At this point I didn't know who was more stubborn, Michael or Ms Winters.
We were in one of the adjacent offices I had bought for the 'Company' in Red Sector, the offices were not operational yet, but would be by tomorrow, that's why I had been summoned there, to make sure everything was all right; and most of the meetings I've had with the pack had been at the Zocalo, but seeing as Mr Garibaldi had came to corner me just as I was about to leave after a status report for the state of the office, I had asked him to step in.
"Are you smuggling people somewhere Lt. Commander?" he asked seriously
"What! No, no I'm not Mr Garibaldi"
"Then why were you so adamant in bringing the Azimov to base?" he asked suspiciously "And what's with all the secrecy when your cousin or 'friends' are around, hu?"
"Garibaldi, there's nothing illegal going on here" I assured him, thinking that the reason he was so adamant in knowing was part of his duty as Security Chief
"Then tell me what's this all about?" he gestured around.
"This is family business" I told him sincerely
"So this is about the pack your father sent you a couple of months ago?" he asked and I froze for a moment. I knew deep down he had heard my conversation with Papa, but when he didn't mention it, I assumed he would just not bring it up, ever.
"That was a private conversation Mr. Garibaldi" I said sharply
"Well, the gremlin was using a Gold Channel without authorization, of course I would have heard it when I finally tracked it" he said
I sighed, not wanting to get into an argument about that "My family has a multidisciplinary company, which is what my father meant" I told him "HQ was in the Russian Consortium, I am heir to it. Since I can't go back there because of my duties to Earthforce, we're moving HQ here" which was partly the truth.
"So you're bringing here everyone that works for this Company of yours?" he asked skeptically.
"And their families" I informed him as Maher walked in. Once the pack had arrived and I got into a meeting with all of them present, I brought Maher back into the pack and made him my Beta, so every wolf in the station knew that if I was unavailable due to station business, they could bring it up to him.
"Ah Susan!" he said approaching us. "Are you planning to deprive the station from their Security Chief and hire him for us instead?" he asked amused before sitting between Mr Garibaldi and myself
"Mr Garibaldi, meet Maher Padikkal"
"Best friend and personal assistant of hers. Nice to meet you" said Maher extending his arm for a handshake
"Yeah, you too" said Mr Garibaldi cautiously taking Maher's hand
"So, you didn't answer. You leaving B5 staff for us?" asked Maher amused "We've got nice payments and wicked benefits"
"No, but thanks for the offer" said Mr Garibaldi standing up "We'll continue this later" he said to me
"There's nothing else to discuss about Michael" I told him seriously
"We'll see" he said before leaving
"Thanks" I told Maher once Michael had left
"No problem"
"So, what do you need?" I asked him, now in a rush to leave, knowing somehow that Ms Winters was nearby
"Er… Dimitri wanted to thank you for putting in a nice word for him with Dr. Franklin."
"Not a problem, he's one of the finest doctors I've met and the station could do with him supporting Stephen" I told him dismissively "Besides, it never hurts to have someone who knows about our 'condition' in medlab"
"Yeah. So seeing as that worked out, I was thinking that it would be helpful if you were added as a reference by the rest of the pack when they applied for any positions. But I wanted to run this with you before actually telling the pack to do it"
"Go ahead." I said sighing "Maher, do we know yet if the Hunters have made any move at all since the attack on my father?" I asked him a few paces away from the door waiting for him to come too,
"No, not yet, but Scott's still back on Earth, he'll let us know if he hears anything" he said smirking.
"What?" I asked annoyed as the door opened. I didn't need to turn to know she was walking in. "I would make you clean the station bulk heads if I could" I muttered
"I'm sure you'll find something else for me to do" he said walking past me and leaving me alone with her.
"Can we talk like grownups now Susan? Or are you going to be facing to the wall?" she asked amused
I sighed and gestured for her to take a seat, taking a seat myself
"I've been busy"
"I know, but you've also been avoiding me" she said hurt
"I just have a lot in my mind, as you can see I no longer have only duties to Earthforce and the station" I said motioning around "But also to my family and our family business"
She nodded "Maher mentioned that. I'm sorry"
"Why?" I asked her confused
"The reason you have this on your shoulders now is the death of your father" she said calmly "I wish I knew that it was him you lost the day you suggested I stopped being a hero. I was trying to cheer you up, thought the one you lost that day was someone under your command" she said shyly.
I sighed "Doesn't matter. Not your fault anyway"
An awkward and uncomfortable silence fell upon us. I could see her fidgeting nervously looking at her gloved hands. I wanted to reach out and take her hands in mine, but I couldn't, no matter what I wanted, I had to protect the pack, therefore I couldn't get romantically involved with a telepath, it would expose us. It was bad enough having her around all of us, some of the younger wolves and the recently turned ones, had no control over their emotions yet, even I was having a hard time controlling them.
"Susan?" she called me hesitantly. "Where do we stand?" she asked in a whisper
"I… I don't know" I admitted
"We could actually date you know?" she said after a moment "See where that takes us"
I shook my head "I can't"
"Why?"
"I just can't" I told her standing to leave "Good night Ms Winters" I told her and left the office.
I walked to a local in Zocalo, where I was to have the last meeting with the members of the pack before taking said meetings to the office. Talia kept following closely until I took a seat on the table that I had reserved for these meetings.
"You better give me a damn good reason of why you can't Susan, or I swear to God that I'll take it off from your mind" she said angry. I snarled and stood to be eyelevel with her.
"That's it!" I told her coldly and angered myself "You're a telepath, I can't trust you to stay out of my mind" I said. When she looked down I took my seat again, as one of the youngest wolves approached our table.
His name was Vladimir, he was 18, and was a born werewolf, who like me, had born under the full moon. His record showed that he and his family were part of the small pack my father had merged with ours during his final battle.
The kid had a grin on his face and snarled down at me. I snarled back at him and stood once again "Sit down boy!" I ordered him
"I'm not a boy" he said angered, but sitting nevertheless
"What are your skills?" I asked him trying to calm myself down, aware that we were in a public place, that he was indeed a kid, and that Ms Winters was still there, looking down, and now probably trying to get a hold of her emotions as well as what was coming from both Vladimir and myself.
"I'm the best fighter in the pack" he said making me stare down at him with a low growl. Every wolf on the station knew I had ordered not to use the word 'pack' when they were in public areas. He was smirking, knowing he was disregarding my authority. "We'll see. For that, we'll schedule a sparring session for you with Maher" I told him "Now, what skills do you posses that might be useful to the station?"
"Look, why don't you and your blonde friend come to my quarters and I can show you my skills?" My blood boiled at his comment, causing me to growl at him at the same time I stood between him and Talia.
"You leave her out of this!" I ordered him
He paled at my ferocity but that didn't stop his next comment. "What claim do you have on her?"
"None" I told him
"Then let her decide if I should leave her out of this. It's my right to court anyone I deem worthy"
And even when I was angry and about to rip his head off, I knew he was right. Pack laws dictate that any wolf can court anyone they deem worthy as long as there's no previous claim made on the worthy party. The only way to bypass that, is in a fight for the right of mating. With the statement he just did, he was claiming Talia for himself. It now depended on Talia if she would accept his courting or not.
"Fine" I said stepping away but looking apologetically at Talia. I was tempted to reach with my mind and ask her, beg her, not to accept. But doing that would not only be dishonorable, it would expose me as a latent telepath to a member of the Psi Corps.
"What's your name babe?" he asked cockily to Talia, who only looked confused at him
"I would suggest you start thinking about something else kid, before I rip out your balls!" she said angry after a moment, probably having just gotten an image of what Vladimir had in mind. The thought of anyone touching her angered me even more, and I couldn't help but step between them again
"I think it's clear she's not interested in you courting her" I growled at him
"This is not over yet" he said starting to turn, but I stopped him.
"You will report to Maher Padikkal tomorrow at 0400, kid" I ordered him "And you better stop acting as a prat, or else…"
"What? You'll ban me? You'd be doing me a favor" He said and left.
I was shaking with rage, I tried to calm down, but I knew I wouldn't be able to bottle everything up, so still shaking and about to shift due to the raw emotion of the moment, I headed to the nearest turbolift, wanting to get to either the Yellow or Gray Sector where Maher and I usually went to run. However, a few paces before reaching the lift, Talia grabbed me by my wrist, as had become her habit, tugging at me to turn and face her. As I turned, I closed my eyes, once again trying to bottle everything I was feeling, in fear of hurting her.
"You're not going to hurt me" she said softly
"Get out of my head!" I snarled at her, with my eyes still close
"Your thoughts are pouring out of you Susan. Even with my blocks up, I can't help but pick at them" she said annoyed "Now calm down"
"Calm down! You want me to calm down?" I asked mockingly "Don't you get it? I can't!" I yelled at her.
"Susan!" I heard Louba from the other side. I sighed relieved, smelling her and Maher coming as fast as humanly possible, sure that I was doing a scene and that any moment now a station's security detail would come to assess the situation.
"Get her away" I told Louba motioning with my head to Talia. My eyes still closed. "Make sure she's safe" I whispered, hoping Talia hadn't heard me. I turned then to Maher. "This kid, Vladimir, is going to be trouble. He is to see you at 0400"
"Come on, you need to let the steam out" he said taking me to Gray Sector, where we shifted and viciously sparred until I passed out.
I woke up to the computer alarm in my quarters, and found a message from Maher stating that he had taken me back, that he would keep an eye on Vladimir and that Louba had taken Talia to her quarters. I sighed relieved, then I realized that Talia would be more adamant in us to have a chat, now not only about that damn kiss. So as was my routine now, I kept avoiding her.
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