Hi guys! Thank you so much for your reviews, it makes me really happy that you're loving this. Now, like it was mentioned in the last paragraph of the previous chapter, years went by, and, this chapter will start some years after the previous one.
NOTE: In parenthesis, it's to describe the scene, to locate us in the place. Also, please take note that in this story: the beast = Alison = white wolf = wolf...
I hope it's clear, and, I'll put some notes at the end of the chapter for some clarifications if it's necessary. Thank you if you've the time to leave a review, see u soon!
In love with the Beast - 2
(In Alison's mansion)
Alison is in her room, she looks at her hands, and, even if she's a human right now, she groans angrily when she sees that her nails look more like claws, everyday, she's less and less human. The blonde shreds a big portrait she had... she can't look at how she looked in the past, it just makes her angry, frustrated...
Spencer yells from downstairs. - "Ali, we're here! If you don't show yourself, we will go upstairs!"
The blonde groans angrily, no one is allowed to put a foot in her room, no since her 15th birthday, but, she knows Spencer too well, if she doesn't face the girls, they will climb the stairs and look for her, so, despite her bad mood, she goes downstairs to where it was the living room, and, faces her friends...
Alison groans. - "I hate this!"
Hanna. - "You're not the only one... I've never worked out so much in my life, and, yet, I'm still fat... geez, I don't know why I bother to don't eat carbohydrates..." (She stares at her friends and says) "Look at me, I think I could eat my entire life just salad, and, I would still look fat... or what do you think...?"
Spencer says with a bitter voice. - "Well, I don't know, Hann, I can't really see you..." (She grips hard on her stick) "Maybe you can't look like a super model, but, at least you can look at yourself in the mirror..."
Aria & Hanna look down, feeling sorry for Spencer. And, even if Spencer can't see them, she can feel it, and, she hates, it, she hates when people feel sorry for her, she hates to be so pitiful, so, she snaps against the worse person she could choose...
Spencer snaps. - "And, you, Alison! What are you doing to remedy our situation...?"
Alison. - "What?!"
Spencer says angrily. - "We've been settling you blind dates with all the boys in Rosewood, and, what do you do...?! You just don't show up! How the hell do you plan to fall in love if you don't socialize with other people?!"
Alison. - "All the boys in this town are stupid morons! I could never fall for one of them!"
Hanna. - "So, what?! We have to stay with this curse forever?!"
Alison rolls her eyes, everyone stays in silence till one of the girls speaks...
Aria. - "Well, my mom told me the other day that when we start our senior year, there will be new students..."
Hanna. - "Really...?"
Aria nods. - "Yeah..."
Spencer snort. - "Maybe, we can make one of them fall for you... maybe one of the new students can be the one to break the spell... but, in any case, you've to give them a try..."
Aria nods. - "Yeah, Ali... you need to try and..."
Hanna. - "And, fall in love with one of the newbies, you know how to put people at your feet, it shouldn't be so hard to make someone to love you..."
Alison mumbles. - "Oh, it's not that easy..."
And, the blonde was right, love has been a word she has never been able to really understand. Her parents never thought her the meaning of that word. And, no matter how many romantic movies she had seen, Alison really don't understand what love really is... and, she sadly thinks that she will never understand that feeling at all...
Aria. - "Your 18th birthday is in a few months, Ali... we don't have lots of time..."
Alison sighs sadly, she knows they're right, the rose has already begun to wilt...
Spencer. - "Anyway, me and the girls, we will try to settle you with the newbies, and, this time, you better appear on the blind date, Alison! We really need to exploit the nights you can look like a normal human being, so, get ready to charm them when we tell you to meet them..."
Hanna looks at her watch. - "It's late, we should go home..."
The girls nod, and, before leaving the Queen Bee says...
Alison. - "Spence..."
Spencer turns her head towards the source of the voice and says. - "Yes...?"
Alison looks at her blind cousin and mumbles. - "I'm sorry that you're blind because of me..."
The blonde really meant it, and, Spencer smiles thinking that maybe Alison is capable of having feelings after all...
Spencer. - "Tomorrow is full moon, stay in the mansion. The rumors of wolves in the forest have increased, and, now, there's a bunch of hunters trying to kill them..." (She gulps) "I really don't want you to be hunted and killed like that..."
Alison smirks. - "After all, I've put you trough, you still care about me...?"
Spencer smirks. - "I need you alive to break the spell, so, yeah... I care..."
Alison smirks, maybe her parents left her behind, but, at least she still has her cousin, maybe the only familiar who really cares about her. The girls leave, they go back to their home, and, Alison stays alone in her big mansion. The mansion is no longer glamorous, everything is torn apart, now, it looks like a haunted mansion, and, Alison couldn't care less because days became years, and, right now, Alison has lost all hope to find love... for who could ever learn to love a beast like her...?
(The next day)
A car was driving towards Rosewood, a family was inside...
Pam. - "We're close...?"
Wayne. - "Almost..." (He looks through the rear mirror and asks) "How are you doing kids...? Excited to see our new home...?"
Noel rolls his eyes. - "We're no longer kids, Dad..." (He sighs) "And, I'm not really excited, we moved out just in the middle of the season..."
Pam. - "C'mon honey, I'm sure, there's also a soccer team here..."
Emily smirks. - "Yeah... and, maybe, here, you'll not suck so much..."
Noel whines. - "Hey! I don't suck!"
Emily laughs, and, both brothers playfully fight on the back seat of the car...
Wayne. - "Hey! Calm down! You're distracting me while I drive!"
Noel and Emily stay stiff and mumbles a 'sorry'. They finally arrive at their new house, and, Emily smiles, she really likes the house. As soon as they arrived, they unpack everything, and, everything was going great till Emily finds something in one of the boxes...
Emily mumbles while she opens a letter. - "What is this...?" (She reads it and her eyes get bigger of shock) "WHAT?!" (She yells) "NO!"
Everyone in the family heard the loudly brunette, her parents and her brother approach...
Noel asks. - "What is wrong...?"
Pam sees the letter and mumbles. - "Oh, boy..." (She looks at her husband and says while she pats Wayne's arm) "I told you to tell them sooner..."
Wayne sighs deeply. - "I know..."
Noel frowns. - "Tell us what...?"
Wayne was going to say something, but, his daughter talks on his behalf...
Emily says angrily. - "Tell us that he's going to another tour in the army!"
Noel. - "What?!" (He looks at Wayne and says) "But, I thought that... you said that the previous tour was your last, you said that..." (He says with frustration) "We accepted to move in this fucking town, just because you promised us that you were going to have an office job here, in the Rosewood..."
Wayne takes the letter of the army from Emily's hands and says. - "I know what I said, but, it looks that..."
Emily says with a bitter voice. - "That you're a liar..."
Pam scolds. - "Emily! Don't talk to your Dad like that...!"
Wayne didn't want to go, he has promised to his family to be here for them, that this time, everything would be different, that this time he will always be present in their lives, but, when duty comes... there's no way to say no. He hopes that his kids could understand that, and, deeply inside they do, but, Emily, oh, Emily is the one who worries more about Wayne. Always having nightmares of his Dad in a war, always wondering if he will be back or not, and, the brunette thought that she was done with those worries, but, it looks like that's not true, so, she's pissed, really pissed...
Wayne tries to touch Emily's shoulder when he says. - "Emy, let me explain, I..."
Emily doesn't want to hear any excuse, she doesn't want to hear anything, she just wants to run away her anger and frustration, so, she steps outside the house, without turning back...
Pam. - "Emy!"
Noel. - "Should I go after her...?"
Wayne. - "No, let her run... let her cool down; maybe after a long run, she will feel better, and, we will be able to really talk about it..."
And, yes, the running has always helped Emily to clear her mind. She runs and runs, she runs so much that she even gets into the forest. While she runs, people tell her not to get too deep into the forest because of the wolves, Emily doesn't want to ignore the warnings, but, in the forest, she gets lost, and, trying to find her way back, she just gets deeper and deeper into the dense forest till very late...
Emily rubs her arms and looks up at the sky when she says.- "It's already dark..." (She sighs) "And, it's starting to snow, just great..."
The brunette hears noises... animals? beast? a psycho in the middle of nowhere like in the horror movies she loves...? Emily doesn't want to stay there to figure out, so, she just keeps running, not really sure of what is her destination till...
Emily mumbles. - "It's that a house...? Oh... it looks more like a mansion..."
The brunette sees the mansion... abandoned... probably haunted... Emily hesitates on walking in, but, then, she thinks that maybe being inside was better than staying out in the bitter cold...
Emily opens the door. - "Hello... is there someone here...?" (She looks around and mumbles) "What is this place...?" (She hears noises upstairs and says) "Is there someone there...?"
The brunette walks towards the West Wing of the mansion, leading to Alison's lair. It's forbidden to put a foot in it, but, Emily doesn't know that. Her curiosity overtakes her, her excitement begins to dwindle, though, when she enters into a room... Alison's room. Emily stops to look in a mirror that has been shattered into several pieces, each one reflecting her concerned look. Emily begins to explore. She is truly shocked by everything she sees. She wanders around, looking, and knocks over a table, but she catches it before it crashes to the floor...
Emily. - "Ufff, that was close..."
The brunette then turns her head and sees a shredded picture on the wall. It is the same portrait that Alison shredded one day before...
Emily mumbles. - "What is this... who...?"
Enthralled by the blue eyes of the girl in the picture, Emily reaches out and lifts the shreds of the picture to reveal what once was Alison DiLaurentis...
Emily whispers. - "She's beautiful..."
It was the portrait of an arrogant blonde, even her facial expression showed how unkind and arrogant Alison was at that time. But, into Emily's eyes, those blue eyes showed something else... something deep...
Emily. - "How can she look so overpowering and sad at the same time...?"
The brunette has never seen someone like Alison, however, no matter how enthralled she's with the picture, when she turns her head for a second and sees the rose under the bell jar. She walks over to it, her eyes transfixed. She reaches out, then lifts off the jar, leaving the enchanted rose unprotected. She reaches up, brushes back the strand of hair that has been repeatedly falling on her forehead, then reaches out to touch the rose. But, as she nears it, a shadow falls over her. A beast has been on the balcony, and sees her...
In its current form, as a big white wolf, Alison jumps back into the room, growing angry, showing her large fangs...
Emily steps back and mumbles with fear. - "Oh, god..."
Alison groans rabid and the brunette gulps hard, this is the 1st time she sees a wolf so close, and, it's very scary...
Emily tries to tranquilize the animal. - "I'm sorry... I... I didn't mean any harm..."
The brunette slowly steps back, she thinks about running away as fast as she can, but, when she stares at the eyes of the big wolf... when the brown eyes of the brunette meet with the blue eyes of the wolf, something inside the brunette makes her think about the same girl in the portrait...
Emily mumbles. - "You've her eyes..." (She turns her head towards the shredded picture of Alison and says) "You've the same overpowering sad look..."
The brunette shouldn't have said that, she just increased Alison's fury. Alison, as the beast she's right now, she begins to thrash at the furniture, especially the remains of her portrait...
Emily pleads. - "No! Don't do that!"
Who she thinks she's?! How she dares to get into my room?! To touch my rose?! To see the sadness of my look for my loneliness...?! Alison asks herself those questions, and, she just gets angrier and angrier with each question. Very scared of what this big wolf could do to her, Emily turns and flees the room, and, the furious wolf follows her...
Emily mumbles while she runs. - "Oh, God!"
The brunette reaches the stairway, she rushes down the stairs, bursting past the principal hallway and slamming the door behind her. Alison groans angrily, she turns around and gets out the mansion through an open window...
(In the middle of the forest)
It's hard to run in the snow, but, Emiliy does her best effort to keep running, non-stop...
Emily. - "I think I lost it..."
Alison wasn't the only wolf in the forest, and, Emily was going to find it out very soon...
(Wolf howls)
Emily gulps scared. - "What was that...?!"
Shaking because of the cold and the fear, Emily trips, and, when she looks up, the brunette's eyes get bigger of fear when Emily sees the WOLVES...
Emily gasps. - "Oh GOD!"
The brunette quickly stands up, and begins to flee from the pack of wolves. She runs from side to side, making the WOLVES hit the trees. But, the wolves don't stop chasing her, they're hungry, they want a piece of Emily, and, they will not stop till they have it. Without looking, Emily runs out on a frozen pond, but her weight collapses the ice...
Emily. - "Fuck! It's really cold!"
The cold water felt like tiny stabs, Emily was in pain, but, she keeps going, she's decided to survive. And, the brunette swims into the cold waters like the great swimmer she's. The WOLVES chase her into the water. Some begin to drown, and, Emily is able to get out of the water before she could get any severe hypothermia. Out of the water, Emily runs into a clearing, and, when she thinks that she has lost the wolves, that she's safe, she becomes surrounded by the pack of wolves, once again...
Emily gasps. - "Fuck!"
The temperature of her body suddenly drops, it's the consequence of the swimming in cold waters, and, she knows that she can't run out of this, just one option is possible: fight to survive... So, Emily looks around her, and, she grabs the 1st thing she finds to use it as a weapon: a wooden stick...
Emily waves the wooden stick, challenging the wolves to get closer, and says. - "C'mon! You want a piece of me! Come and get it if you dare!"
The wolves begin their attack, and, at 1st, Emily beats them away with the stick she found. But, one wolf grabs the stick in its mouth and breaks half of it off, leaving Emily defenseless, once again...
Emily prays. - "God, help me... please..."
A wolf leaps at her, grabbing the corner of her pants and dragging her to the ground. Buried in the snow, the brunette looks up and sees a WOLF about to jump on top of her, and, Emily just closes her eyes, waiting for the worst, but, when the wolf leaps, it is caught in midair by the big white wolf... Alison is there...
Emily opens her eyes and she can't believe what she sees, the white terrifying wolf she met in the mansion, it's now trying to save her?! She can't believe what she sees, and, even Alison can't understand why she stepped in to save her, but, what is done it's done, and, there's no turning back...
Alison has been living in the forest, as a wolf, for years, but, this is the 1st time she dares confront the wolves of the forest. She throws the WOLF, that tried to bite Emily, away, then stands behind them and Emily. Alison and the pack of wolves, they lunge at each other. One rips a hole in Alison's shoulder, and the others focus their attack on that spot.
Emily screams with fear when she sees the white wolf in pain and in danger. - "No!"
Alison gazes towards the brunette who's laying down in the snow, she sees the worried look of Emily, and, she can't believe that the brunette is looking so concerned for her well-being...
Emily pleads with tears in her eyes - "Don't let them kill you... please..."
The pleading of Emily, it brings something in Alison, and, finally, she finds the strength she never thought she had. Alison throws a wolf against a tree, knocking it out. She nails her fangs in another wolf, the one that was the alpha of the pack, and, she breaks its neck. When the wolves see their leader defeated... dead. The wolves turn and run in fear, leaving alone Emily and the white wolf that was Alison...
Emily smiles. - "They're gone..."
The white wolf turns back to Emily, looks at her despairingly, and, when Alison sees that the brunette is unharmed and safe, then Alison collapses in the snow. Emily, grateful to
be alive, stands up and begins to get on, to walk away from the forest as soon as possible, but, her conscience takes over...
Emily looks at the white wolf. - "I can't leave it here... like that... it saved my life..."
The brunette walks over to the fallen beast. Alison faded, but, even then, she can feel the warmth of Emily's embrace when the brunette holds her...
Emily softly caresses Alison's ear and says. - "You'll be okay, buddy... I promise..."
And, just like that, Emily walks back to her home, with the beast on her arms...
(Back in Emily's house)
Pam was praying in the kitchen. Wayne and Noel were out, looking for Emily, it was very late and all the neighbors told them about the incidents that have passed with the wolves. They didn't know about the issue with the wolves before moving in Rosewood, and, now, Pam wonders if moving into this town was a good idea after all...
Emily slams the door open and says with despair. - "I NEED HELP!"
Pam hears the voice of her child, she rushes to her encounter and says. - "Emy! You're back! We were worried, we..." (She sees Emily with stains of blood and says with fear) "Emily! Are you hurt...?! What happened...?! Wh-...?!" (She looks at the white wolf Emily has in her arms and gulps hard) "It's that a w..."
Emily. - "This wolf saved my life, mom..." (She begs) "Please, help me to save its life! It's dying...! We need to do something!"
Wolves are savage beasts, and, with all the rumors that people have been saying about the wolves, Pam hesitates about doing something for this beast. But, when Pam looks at Emily, when she sees how important this is for her daughter, there's no other thing to do besides...
Pam holds the wolf and says. - "Give it to me..." (She walks toward the kitchen) "Bring me the first aid kit of the bathroom..."
Emily nods and rushes for the medical kit. They use the kitchen table as an operating table...
Pam asks while she soaks a rag in medicine. - "What happened, Emy...?"
Emily stammers. - "I was running, I got in the forest... I... I didn't know how to get out of the forest... it got dark, and, I just..." (sighs) "I don't know... I just found myself in a really bad situation, and, this wolf... he..."
Pam corrects her. - "She..."
Emily. - "Huh...?"
Pam looks at the wolf. - "It's not a 'he'... it's a she..."
Emily. - "Oh... well, SHE saved me from a pack of wolves..."
When Pam puts pressure on Alison's wound with a rag. The wolf regains consciousness, and, Alison roars in pain...
Pam. - "Emy, I will need you to just hold it still..."
That hurts! That's what Alison thinks, and, it was really painful, but...
Emily caresses Alison's furry cheeks and pleads. - "Please, you need to stay still... please, do it for me..."
They stare at each other in the eyes, Alison sees through Emily's eyes, and, the beast remains still, somehow, the pain is now tolerable because Alison has never seen such tenderness in any other human being... Pam keeps treating the wounds of the wolf, and, the brunette says...
Emily chuckles. - "Good thing that you're a doctor..."
Pam chuckles. - "I'm a nurse... for humans, not a vet..."
Emily chuckles, she knows that her mother has never dealt with animals before, but, she knows that Pam is an excellent nurse, and, there's no way that her mother will leave this creature to die without a fight...
Pam. - "It will need some stitches, so, I'll need you to distract her... it will hurt..."
Emily nods, and, decides to talk with the wolf, she doesn't know if the beast can understand her, but...
Emily says to the white wolf. - "Stay still..."
Alison groans when she feels the needle, she tries to move, but, Emily doesn't allow her to do it...
Emily. - "Please! Stay still!" (She exclaims) "You know, this wouldn't happen if you hadn't frightened me in the mansion!"
Pam frowns. - "What?!"
Emily looks at her mom and says. - "Don't put attention to my words, mom, this is a talk between me and this wolf..."
Pam shakes her head, and, decides to just focus on healing the wolf. The brunette turns her look towards the wolf, and, of course Alison understands Emily's words...
Alison's self-talk in her mind. - "My fault?! MY FAULT?! If you hadn't run into my mansion, brunette! This wouldn't have happened!"
Emily can't understand Alison's groans, but, the brunette has a clear idea of what the wolf is thinking...
Emily. - "Oh, you're thinking that it's my fault for getting into your lair without permission, right...?"
Alison frowns and thinks. - "How does she know what I'm thinking...?"
Emily holds it tight while her mother is doing the stitches and says. - "Well, yes, I shouldn't have got inside, just like that..."
The wolf nods...
Alison's self-talk in her mind. - "Of course, you shouldn't!" (A big smirk in within her thoughts) "I'm always right..."
Emily. - "But, if you hadn't frightened me, I wouldn't have run away from you..."
The wolf opens its mouth to respond, but has to stop and think of a good line... but, nothing, the wolf just closes its mouth again...
Alison's self-talk in her mind. - "Fuck, she's right!"
The wolf groans... Alison is groaning because Emily is right... and, Alison doesn't like it when someone else besides her, it's right...
Emily pats the wolf and says. - "You should learn to control your temper, buddy..."
Alison's self-talk in her mind. - "What?! Control my temper?! How you dare to...?!" (groans of pain) "Fuck! it hurts too much!"
The white wolf gives a surprised grunt, then grits its teeth as Pam applies antiseptic in the wound. A tear drops from the blue eyes of the wolf, and, it breaks Emily's heart. The brunette wants to do something to ease Alison's pain, so, she hugs the head of the wolf...
Pam says worried - "Emily, NO! It can hurt you!"
Her mother is scared, but, Emily is no longer scared of the wolf who saved her life...
Emily hugs Alison's head with affection and says with tenderness - "This may sting a little, but, please, just hold on..." (She cries with a wrenching voice) "Please, I don't want you to die..."
No one has ever shed a tear for her before, no one has ever hugged with such tenderness, no one has showed so much affection... And, Alison feels something slowly blossoming deep down in her heart... something that she has never felt before...
Pam. - "Okay, I'm done..."
Emily looks at her mom and sobs. - "Really?! Is she going to be okay...?"
Pam. - "This wolf lost lots of blood, but..." (She touches the wolf and says) "It looks like she's strong... I really believe she will make it..."
Emily clears her tears and smiles, she caresses Alison's furry face and says. - "You heard that?! You'll be okay...!"
The brunette is smiling, and, somehow, the wolf smiles too...
Emily leans her head over the furry head of the wolf and speaks tenderly. - "By the way, thank you, for saving my life..."
The beast slowly closes its eyes, feeling tired, in pain, but, happy...
Alison thinks, also very tenderly. - "You're welcome..."
Author's note: So, that was the 2nd chapter of this mini story, what do you think? So, if you noticed it, yes, in this story, Noel & Emiliy are siblings. Alison takes the shape of a white wolf, and, now, she met Emily...
There are wolves in Rosewood, but, they are just normal wolves, they are not like Alison.