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Authors note: Thank you so much for all your reviews. They've made me very very happy. I'm not done with part two yet. So there should be lots more. I'm having trouble with a scene but I thought I'd post what I had to see if you like it.

~*~ Something Is Beginning ~*~

~*~ Changing…Part 2 ~*~

What had he done? His daughter was about to flip and the fear he saw in her eyes wasn't caused by the changes she was about to go through but by what she thought his reaction was going to be… Sophia should have felt safe enough to come to him with anything but she didn't…She had kept secrets from him because she was scared of what he would feel…of what he would say. In all of his life he had never felt so ashamed. He had made a promise to Marie. One he had no right to make…one he could never keep. It had been her right to choose all along. That is if one could call destiny a choice. How could he keep her safe from things around her? When he couldn't keep her safe from himself, from his fears and anger. Let alone change what she… …what they were.

His self-reproach was interrupted when he heard Luke's cry and he realized what it meant. Sophia had chose to come to him. To feel the pain her change would bring instead of letting Luke soothe her through it. He could see how much pain she was in…she was grabbing her stomach, rocking back and forth, humming to herself like when she was five… and he had told her about her mother's death. Emotional, Physical…it didn't matter…he couldn't handle seeing her in pain. Part of him wanted to rip the pup's head off for even thinking of his daughter in such a vulgar way. The other part wanted to run after him…make him ease her pain. … "Sweetie, Luke is out sideshould should I let him in"?

She was shaking her head no and moaning as she spoke… "Dad if you wanted to do that, you already…already would have, besides he needs to learn a lesson about how I deserve to be treatedDaddy I hurt so bad.

Matt crooned... "I knowI know"…to her softly. Then wrapped his arms around her and started singing. During the song she buried her face into his neck… breathed in his sent… let his words calm her. Later when he said… "I love you baby. I didn't notice the changes in you because I didn't want to. I was wrong. I'm so sorry. I'm so proud of you, it's going to be okay". She felt her fears leave taking most of the pain with them.

He held her close to him…was thinking that this may be the last time he would hold her when he heard Luke sulk into the woods. Matt knew the pup wouldn't have left if he thought she wasn't strong enough to make it. He felt some relief, some reassurance but manly guilt. To think a punk knew his daughter better then he did. That's when an entirely knew thought entered his mind and caused him a whole new set of worries. Sophia just didn't choose him over Luke; she had rejected Luke. Now Matt understood what meant by… 'besides he needs to learn a lesson about… how I deserve to be treated'…she was trying to teach him a lesson. Oh man…what had she done?


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att knew what alphas males were like and Luke was an alpha male. So he unfortunately knew how Luke would react to her rejection. Luke was never going to let her go now and no amount of force or reasoning would make him…he would have her as his at any cost. He would behave like Tyler did with Ruby…like he did with Marie.

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