Thanks for your reviews Kelly & EC Brenway!
Kelly - Hope Chloe and Aster are ok too!
EC Brenway - Damn pierce and his evil schemes - I missed out, that would've made a great title of the story! Ooh Chloe becoming a vampire for a hybrid baby - stranger things have happened in this world! Let's see how Elly reacts - if she ever learns pierce was involved...
The Chemistry In Darkness
Chapter Twenty-Five
Tuesday 26th November 2024
Having taken her friends on a tour of the local Erinsborough haunts, even though knowing they had spent the past few years scoping out Elly's family and friends to check up on them, Elly stepped into the Waterhole with Lexa and Clarke behind her, "You wanta sit over there?"
"Nah, the couch over there looks cozy," Clarke decided, walking over to it and wrapping her arm around Lexa's waist as the couple sat down, with Elly joining them and sitting down on the chair opposite them, "So, I know we surprised you by stopping by this morning and you've taken us all over the sites of the town without saying much of anything the past hour, Elly, but you seem awfully keen to catch up. Everything going well back here at home?"
"Fresh Meat here needs our advice cause she met her mate and now she's in a pickle over what to do about it," Lexa sniggered at Elly.
"What? You did? Why didn't you call me to tell me? You told Lexa? Wait, why didn't you tell me, babe?" Clarke fired off her questions in one breath.
"I think I did," Elly admitted cautiously, "And I just didn't want to announce it to the world as I know nothing amongst the Pack stays secret for long, I wanted to be sure before I told you all."
"Look at that look on her face, she's so met her mate, there's no denying it," Lexa teased.
"Who is it?" Clarke asked keenly.
"Babe, how blind were you back on the street not to see the way our girl was eyeing up Chloe and the way Fresh Meat was so confident in the way Chloe was with Aster?" Lexa winked at her girlfriend.
"Chloe's your mate? Your ex-girlfriend? That's interesting…not unexpected but…wow! I can't wait to have a new loved-up couple for us to be around!" Clarke grinned.
"Ease up, there, Chloe and I will not be a loved-up couple around the pair of you or…around anyone anytime soon. This is so complicated if Chloe's my mate," Elly sighed.
"Oh, stop saying 'if'! You said it yourself the other day, your eyes changed colour after you met Chloe again and it felt like your whole life was swirling…classic mate signs," Lexa determined.
"Okay…Chloe's my mate," Elly hesitantly admitted, "What do I do about it?"
"Make a move, Chloe will feel the pull to you, she probably already does, she just doesn't know why it's so strong and why she can't fight it. Lexa remembers that feeling well to me, don't you, my love?" Clarke pointed out.
"You must've missed the ginormous rings on Chloe's ring finger," Elly sulked.
"Oh," Clarke sympathized, "It's not like it's never happened before that a werewolf's mate is previously married but the good news is you know deep down somehow someway…Chloe's marriage will end and you'll be together eventually."
After being distracted by a waiter coming over to take their order for drinks and food, Elly waited until he was out of earshot, "When am I expected to wait for that to happen? It's so painful being around Chloe knowing what she means to me but not being able to be with her yet or for who knows how long…I can't stand it. I just want to skip the part of Chloe's marriage ending especially when I don't want to be that person whom destroys a marriage…even though it's not my own this time. I want to get to the part where Chloe, Aster and I are together and a family…just the three of us."
"Would you listen to her? I didn't know you were so pathetically impatient, Fresh Meat, it's adorable," Lexa teased Elly.
"Oh, c'mon, now Lex, we both went through this. Elly's in love, she's found the person she knows she's gonna spend her life with except there's a few complications to getting to be with her mate," Clarke rolled her eyes at her girlfriend, before turning back to Elly, "Have you thought about telling Chloe the truth?"
"I don't want Chloe to ever know about me," Elly insisted.
"I think the blonde will notice when you never age," Lexa pointed out, "I take it she hasn't pointed out that you haven't aged since you went away."
Elly shook her head, "Nobody has but I suppose it will start to become apparent in a few years won't it? I'm so scared of Chloe rejecting me if she learns what I am. Has that ever happened before? A human mate rejecting their werewolf partner due to not wanting to be part of their supernatural world despite the pull with their mate connection?"
Clarke and Lexa stared at one another for a moment, before Clarke answered, "Yes, that's happened before. I know we go on about nothing in the world getting in the way of you and your mate being together or that anything in the world can be between you but you both still need to be together to be complete…truth is, though it is rare…the human still has their own say on if they want to be part of our world. We hate when the human rejects their mate…but we can't do anything about it. It's not like the mate connection is guaranteed to end up with a happy ending. It just means…"
"The werewolf spends the rest of their life alone, never able to have that relationship they crave and the human probably continues on and can at least survive in a non-all-consuming relationship," Elly finished sadly.
"Give Chloe a chance, she may surprise you," Lexa remained positive.
"I want to but I'm so scared of being rejected by Chloe…I mean leaving her husband is one thing, leaving him to be with me and knowing that being with me makes her all but an instant step-mum in Aster's life as it'd be the three of us. Throw in the supernatural world existing and that I'm a werewolf, any of that could be too much for Chloe," Elly said sadly.
"You just have to trust that your mate wants to be with you as much as you want to be with her and that you'll work through this together. All of it from the husband to you having Aster be the most important person to you so that makes her important to Chloe, then to the whole…we're werewolves' revelation. Trust…it's only been just over a week, Elly, it'll take time but I promise you that you'll make progress with Chloe. It's inevitable," Clarke declared.
How would Chloe feel if she found out she and I are inevitable?
"Did I forget to mention Chloe has a controlling husband whom has seemingly stripped her of her ability to have much of a life without him? I don't know just how deep his controlling nature goes. I promised Chloe's brother I'd look out for more signs that they've seen over the past few years and speak up to Chloe about it as she's seemingly ignored her brothers' concerns over it," Elly added.
"Well, if he gets too controlling and you just want him out of Chloe's life, all you have to do is…" Lexa swiped her fingers across her throat, then off Elly and Clarke's looks, "It was a joke."
Clarke ignored her girlfriend, "That's a complication, not a great one to deal with but maybe that's the challenge for you at the moment. To help Chloe be strong enough to take on her controlling husband and when she does, she'll realize the strength she had, came from you and you did it cause you love her."
"Maybe," Elly sulked, "I know I didn't believe the whole…mate concept when I was first turned…and I'm relieved I didn't have to wait decades upon decades to find mine…I just hoped it would have been simpler than it could be."
"Naw, Fresh Meat, did you think you'd bump into one another, the connection would flow through the both of you, you'd be kissing her within minutes once you met her and your life would be perfect from that moment forwards?" Lexa winked at Elly.
"Who 'her' are you kissing?" came a voice behind the friends.
Elly stared up at her rival, glaring at him for not only interrupting her conversation with her friends but that he could've overheard a very awkward conversation from his point of view about his wife and Elly wanting to be with her, "No one to concern yourself about, Pierce."
Just your wife…
Pierce lifted his face gently, unable to ignore the feeling that was unnerving him about Elly talking about kissing another woman when he had thought she had decided she only wanted to be with men after her brief dalliance with Chloe, "Right…oh…it's you two. Vying to get yourself kicked out of two establishments I have part-ownership in?"
Lexa smiled when Clarke wrapped her arm tighter around her waist, "Oh…it's you. Vying to kick us out of two establishments you're involved with and thus allowing us proof to brand you a homophobe and sue you for discrimination?"
"So, Chloe was wrong when she said she hoped it wasn't you whom had kicked my friends out of the hotel this morning. Bet she'll be thrilled to know it was you after all. Kicking out two women from the hotel, Chloe will be ashamed of you," Elly tutted at Pierce.
"I didn't kick them out because they're both women, we had genuine complaints about how loud they were being in bed together. I had no idea they were friends of yours, was beginning to think you didn't have any friends, Elly," Pierce scolded.
Elly looked over at the couple before Lexa smirked, "Yeah, he's probably right about getting complaints about us. You know me after I win a fight, need to celebrate with my girl here."
"Well, perhaps the three of you can celebrate elsewhere. You should take your friends on a drive around the neighbourhood," Pierce suggested.
"Yeah, we've already seen most of the neighbourhood, thanks for the advice," Clarke rolled her eyes at him.
As Pierce was about to quip back at the women, his phone rang, "Sorry, ladies, I would love to keep this up but I'm gonna assume this is important. Hello, Pierce Greyson."
Elly screwed up her face at Pierce's rudeness that he wanted to keep throwing shade at them but her face softened when she saw Pierce freeze up on the phone call.
"Yes, she is," Pierce answered whatever question had been thrown his way by the caller.
Elly focused on Pierce as he quietly turned away from them so she could overhear his phone call, her face falling as she overheard a woman telling Pierce his wife had been admitted to hospital following a car accident.
Chloe…and Aster! Was Aster in the car too? She had to be!
Elly unexpectedly growled as Pierce walked away from her across the room to exit the bar, listening to the final words she could overhear before he walked out the door and closed it behind him, with the hospital staff simply telling him that he needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible.
Chloe has to be okay…I can't lose my mate…I just found her all over again…but also Aster!
"Elly," Clarke finally regained her attention, making out like she'd been calling to Elly for ages, "What's wrong?"
"Chloe was in a car accident, she's in hospital," Elly answered quietly, "Chloe was taking Aster to the movies in my car…Aster must be with Chloe at the hospital…why hasn't anyone called me?"
"Wow, I didn't even think to listen in to his conversation," Lexa admitted.
"It's becoming habit to use my abilities around Pierce without him knowing," Elly explained then turned to them, "What if Aster's hurt? What if Chloe's hurt?"
"Run," Clarke whispered.
Elly raised her eyebrow at her friends.
Clarke tipped her head to the door of the Waterhole, "Get your butt to the hospital now to make sure your girls are perfectly fine…run! You know the way there. We'll ask for directions and catch up with you there. We'll only slow you down so…run!"
Elly nodded, jumping up out of her seat, rushing out of the Waterhole, then once she was outside the bar, Elly didn't hesitate to brush past the patrons, breaking into a run, headed to the hospital.
Please let my girls be safe and okay…'my girls'…just let me call Chloe and Aster that in front of Chloe one day…just let them be okay…I can't lose either of them…
Next time - Who gets to the hospital first? Pierce and his beamer or Elly and her super-powered legs? How does Pierce & Elly react to the news of the car accident?