Temper, Temper: Chapter Twenty: I'm Not Menopausal
Despite Sam being away apparently his house was still the base for all wolf situations, so having all the pack there didn't bother Alex. What did bother her though was when Quil and Embry naturally assumed her temper had vanished now she was all loved up with Paul.
Naturally they found out their mistake when they tried to wake her up; creeping into her room upstairs and shouting blue murder. Paul, who was sat on the sofa downstairs held up three fingers at Jared and consecutively put them down while mouthing,
"Three, two, one"
As his last finger fell, Jared winced,
"GET OUT!" Alex's voice bellowed out, followed by two sets of footsteps launching down the stairs loudly. Both of them stopped when they got to the bottom, panting deeply with wide eyes,
"Your girlfriend is scary" Embry directed at Paul before stalking over to the kitchen and raiding the cupboards, Quil followed him.
Paul laughed and threw the orange he was attempting to juggle at them before furrowing his brow with thought. Could they be considered a couple now? They hadn't really said it in words, but actions always spoke louder than words and Alex had just moved countries, changed her whole life for him. A smile came over Paul's face when he decided that yes, they definitely could be considered a couple now.
His smile grew when he spotted Alex puffy haired, a tired expression on her face as she sleepily made her way downstairs wrapped up in her duvet like a cocoon. Marching over to the sofa, she collapsed next to Paul with a sigh.
"Doesn't anybody like sleep around here? The hell is wrong with you all?" Alex brought the duvet up over her face and nestled into Paul's shoulder, he stretched his arm out and brought her closer to him.
"You're on patrol today Socks" Jared said cautiously watching her head as it popped out from under the blanket and stared at him with her head cocked to the side. Jared and Paul had taken up shared responsibility of the alpha role while Sam was on honeymoon, but it definitely wasn't Alex's turn for patrol today. She would have remembered…probably.
"Me and Paul are snowed under at work, Embry can't, Quil can't, Seth is on his college trip and Jacob has to help his father today" Jared explained when she asked why.
"So it's just me on patrol?" she asked with a yawn, when Jared didn't answer her, Alex looked at Paul who was avoiding her gaze to look at the telly which had just flickered on. When sleep left her brain, making her more alert, Alex suddenly realized who else was on patrol.
The duvet fell to the floor as Alex jumped up, "Oh no! No, no, no, no – It's not happening"
Jared held his hands up in surrender to her tirade, but there was no getting out of it, one wolf could patrol on their own, that would be dangerous. No, it had to be two.
Alex put her hand to her head as she tried to calm down, Sam had known it was a bad idea to put them on patrol together, and luckily the situation where they had to patrol together had never come up.
Just their luck for it to happen without Sam here as alpha to order them not to maim or seriously injure each other.
"I'm not exactly thrilled about it either Stray" Leah walked into the house and leaned on the door with a taunting smirk as she watched Alex's face get angrier when she heard the nickname she hated being used.
"Just for you two to know" Alex made her finger point at Jared and Paul in turn, "This can only end badly, and when she comes back tonight missing an arm or a leg, I'm gonna tell Sam exactly who put us on shift together"
Leah snorted at Alex's remark, but watched her with wary eyes when she made to put up her thick hair and walk past her. "Don't count on me being the one to come back with an injury Princess"
Paul and Jared leaned forward ready to intervene as Alex drew level with Leah, and raised her chin challengingly "Don't forget what happened last time you tried to injure me Petal, this time there's no other wolves to stop me"
Alex's voice was dangerously low and threatening, but it had the desired effect when Leah pushed herself off the door frame and phased to go on the patrol shift. Nodding, Alex walked back into the living room smiling,
"Well I'm off to spend my day with Satan reincarnated, good day to you" said Alex with false enthusiasm, giving Paul a quick kiss and throwing the remote at Embry and Quil when they wolf whistled at them childishly.
Jared pointed at the door when Alex had left, "That is going to end so bad" he said with an exasperated sigh,
'Come back Sam all is forgiven' Paul thought. Who knew they needed the alpha so badly? Paul pushed it out of mind and went off to get ready for work, he hoped and prayed nothing too bad would happen though.
'I'm hungry' Alex thought as she patrolled aimlessly around the border, the smell from one of the fast food places caressed her nose and ignited growls from her empty stomach. Only an hour till the shift finished though, so far the two female wolves managed to avoid each other. Patrolling separate areas of La Push they had miraculously made it six hours with only snide comments, and petty bickering.
'Yes well isn't that a change' Leah commented snidely as she watched Alex from a few yards ahead on higher ground.
'I am in no mood to deal with you and your stupid black cloud of an attitude'
'Another ground-breaking change for the books' Leah spat back sarcastically as she hopped off the small stone platform and trotted around, sniffing the air for any vampire scents.
'This is the wrong time of the month to be getting on my nerves kid' Alex growled out, trying to get Leah, the annoying creature as she was to take the hint and back off before Alex took a chunk out of her.
Unease ran through Alex as the wolf in front of her froze and looked up at her shocked, the shackles on Alex's neck rose up subconsciously,
'What?' Alex asked her, searching for the reason Leah would react so weirdly to her statement. Suddenly, without asking, Leah sprang forward and launched herself at Alex.
'That meant to be a joke Princess' she snarled out, Leah's own shackles were raised and the two were now circling each other waiting for the other to make the first attacking move.
'What did your precious new imprint tell you?' Leah searched desperately. Being a wolf, you had no privacy whatsoever, maybe Leah's worried thoughts had slipped when she was patrolling with one of the boys accidentally. Why else would Alex make a comment like that?
'I think you have completely lost your mind Leah' Alex said, raising her lip over her dangerous teeth with a lowly growl as she continued to circle Leah, snapping her jaws every once in a while.
That's when the fabric of Leah's temper frayed and instantly Alex had to counter Leah's heavy clawed paw as it came down on her face. Alex used her weight to her advantage and pushed Leah off her while snapping at her neck viciously. Once again Alex was fighting to control the red haze that seeped into her pores and was moving her muscles for her.
A small tree snapped in two like a tooth pick as the wrestling pair crashed into it, Leah once again finding herself in a losing battle when Alex's jaws closed around her neck.
In such a vulnerable position, Leah's thoughts slipped out from her guard.
Alex watched the memories as she saw Leah worriedly pacing in her bathroom, a calendar on the wall with a little red cross on one date and an unopened box of tampons in her right hand which hung lazily at her side. The other hand was in her mouth, its nails being ravaged by Leah's teeth as she chewed them mercilessly. As the Leah in the memory angrily punched the wall, wolf Leah realised Alex's grip had released slightly. Her opponent distracted, Leah pushed her off and raked a paw out, catching Alex straight on the chest and slicing the surface of skin hidden under her coat.
With that, an embarrassed Leah took off, jumping over the boundary and away from the person who had intruded on such a personal memory.
'Holy shit' That two word sentence summed up how Alex felt, quickly she phased back and jogged back to Sam's house where Paul would undoubtedly be waiting now that he had finished work. Alex pulled on the vest she stashed in the trees and looked at the nasty laceration which ran from her collar bone right to her chest.
Wolf genes really were something though; the cut was slowly starting to stop bleeding as badly as it did when it first happened.
Paul rushed over to her when his eyes spotted the blood on her chest, Alex shooed away the fuss he was making and put her hands on her hips thoughtfully. She was trying to make sense of the situation.
"Did you know that Leah doesn't have periods anymore" Alex asked Paul, ignoring his 'Are you alright?' and 'What happened?' inquisition.
"Oh come on, don't get all shy now" she added when Paul's cheeks turned a delicate shade of pink at the question.
"Um…Sam might have told us it could happen" He explained, rubbing the back of his head uncomfortably.
'Fantastic' Alex thought with a sigh. How on Earth was she supposed to know that? 'Nobody tell me then, I'll just deal with the angry, psycho wolf when I talk about my own womanly needs!' she yelled internally.
"So…does this mean you still hav-?"
"Paul, I'm a werewolf not menopausal"