Thanks EC Brenway for your review! Hooray for Chelly kisses tiny miracles! Thought I'd make it a surprise! Anyone could find Elly out in the neighbourhood, let's hope it's not a cop or animal control!
The Chemistry In Darkness
Chapter Forty-Eight
Saturday 14th December 2024 – The Night Before The Full Moon
Chloe stood at the top of the stairs at the front of her house, just outside of the front door. It was after 10 pm. Pierce had stumbled home drunk ten minutes earlier and jumped in the shower. Even though he was in another room to her, Chloe could barely stand to be in the house with her husband. So, she stood outside the front door, leaning over the balcony, wishing she could be just about anywhere else.
Barely two hours ago, Chloe had been in the embrace of her best friend, Elly, kissing her passionately and hearing Elly's quiet words that she was in love with her. Then before she could barely get another word out about what they'd done, Elly had raced out of her house, outrunning Chloe at an extreme pace until Chloe had given up trying to catch up to Elly and returned to her home alone, confused over what happened between them.
Chloe couldn't even look at her husband, Pierce, when he arrived back home after a night on the town with their friend and personal chef, Rene.
Chloe had kissed another woman whilst still married to Pierce. Not the first time that had happened. Chloe didn't know if she regretted confessing to Elly that years earlier, she had had an affair on Pierce, with her friend, Nicolette.
But this time felt different.
Way different. Nicolette had been an escape from her problems that had been banking up in her marriage to Pierce and an excuse to take the easy way out and leave him without a word before realizing she couldn't do that without someone by her side.
Chloe had been in love with Elly for months, betrayed her own brother to be with Elly. Not to mention, the feelings Elly had invoked in her since her best friend had returned after years missing, feared dead.
Elly could be someone she would tell Pierce she was leaving him for. Or perhaps she could've been, if things had been a bit different.
Chloe refused to get drawn into another affair. No matter how much her heart was telling her how much her kiss with Elly meant to the pair of them.
Where are you, Elly? I could really use you here to have talked to you about our kiss and your declaration of love instead of you taking off like you did… Why did I kiss you back? I need to know if you really love me, Elly…cause I think I still love you… I can't have another affair; I can't let that kiss go any further whilst I'm with Pierce…and I can't leave him…
WolfElly sat on the corner of Ramsay Street, the one looking across from #24. WolfElly stared up at Chloe leaning against the balcony, wishing she could go and curl up at Chloe's feet and be there with her.
It had taken Elly nearly two years but when she shifted into her wolf formation during the light of the full moon cycle, she now had the memories of her human life. And when she awoke during the sunrise, she contained the memories of her time as a wolf. It was only when she transformed into her full werewolf beast out of anger, without the full moon cycle, that she no longer had her memories, like she had when she'd killed Finn and the previous night, trying to save Chloe from the drunken guy.
WolfElly panted gently at the thought of whether that would be her life, wanting to curl up at Chloe's feet. Would Chloe even want that? A werewolf for a girlfriend, who wanted to curl up at her feet whilst she was a wolf? Or just plain, why would Chloe want a werewolf for a partner?
Because Chloe's my mate and the bond between us means she'll look past my three-night a month problem…right?
WolfElly almost smiled to herself if that was possible, as she realized Chloe had seen her and was staring straight at her. WolfElly flinched as she locked eyes with Chloe, fearing her mate would either run away from her back inside the house at the sight of a wolf or chase after her to find out if there was indeed a wolf at the end of the street.
But instead, Chloe stood there by the balcony, staring at WolfElly from across the street curiously.
After a few moments of staring silently at one another, their connection was broken and WolfElly growled to herself as she sensed Pierce exiting the house to stand next to Chloe at the balcony.
Why does that pig get to be with Chloe? Chloe needs to leave him for me…me who's sitting here 50 meters away from Chloe panting like the wolf that I am and just wanting to curl up at Chloe's feet…sometimes I can see why choosing to be with a human would be an easier life for Chloe…I just can't understand how that human would end up been Pierce.
Chloe glanced away from the animal across the street, sitting on the corner. Pierce had stumbled out the front door and as he shifted to stand beside her, Chloe noticed he was wearing a white singlet and a pair of boxers, "Don't you want to get changed into actual clothes being out here in case someone spots you?"
Pierce shrugged, "Came out here to get you to come to bed with me."
Chloe shuddered at the smell of whiskey on Pierce's breath, "I'll come to bed in a moment, just standing out here, enjoying the fresh air."
"How was your night?" Pierce asked with a mumbled tone that suggested he didn't care.
Elly kissed me, I kissed her back…Elly said she loved me…I barely responded because I never thought Elly could feel that way about me…Elly ran away…I chased after her but couldn't catch her…and now I'm standing out here away from you, staring at a dog across the road because I can't tell you the truth…
"Nothing special," Chloe finally shrugged, "You should get to bed, you look trashed."
"I'm fine," Pierce lied before stepping behind his wife and wrapping his arms around her waist, "Let's go to bed together tonight, Chloe."
WolfElly continued sitting across the road, staring at her mate and growling quietly to herself as she saw Pierce wrap his arms around Chloe. She wanted to stop him, scare him away from Chloe but she knew she couldn't. She couldn't risk Chloe finding out her secret.
"Not tonight, Pierce, you're drunk, you're not good when you're drunk," Chloe dismissed, then before Pierce could pressure her more to sleep with him, Chloe pointed to the animal across the road on the corner, "Have you ever seen a dog like that one across the street?"
Pierce glanced at where Chloe was pointing, squinting his eyes at the animal, "Chloe, that's a wolf, not a dog! We need to get inside away from it!"
Chloe frowned up at her husband then back at the animal sitting peacefully on its own, "It's just a big dog, Pierce. Nothing to be scared of."
"That's a wolf, Chloe," Pierce repeated in agitation and fear, "We need to get back in the house."
"You can go to bed, I'm fine here. Even if it was a wolf, it's been sitting over there for a while now, hardly hunting me. The front door is right there, I'd beat it inside even if it did try to come after me. Seriously, go to bed, I'll be in soon," Chloe promised.
"Five minutes," Pierce ordered before leaning down and pressing his lips to Chloe's, "Whatever you do, Chloe, do not get it in your head that we should get a dog," then shaking his head as he stumbled back inside the house, "It's a bloody wolf, not a dog. I won't have a bloody wolf anywhere near us."
Once Pierce was back inside the house, Chloe audibly sighed, before finding herself smiling as she caught the eyesight of the gorgeous grey dog, "I can barely see you but I feel like I already know you…such a weird feeling."
WolfElly sat there staring at Chloe, glad to see Pierce had stumbled away from her, having wanted to howl at the moon watching him kissing the woman she loved. After several moments of simply enjoying watching the blonde staring at her, WolfElly purred as she saw Chloe nod at her then return back inside the house.
Growling quietly at her mate going back inside the house with the man who was controlling her, WolfElly still understood she couldn't do anything to stop Chloe that evening.
Unprepared for spending the night as a wolf around Erinsborough when she was meant to be roaming free with the Pack at their new home base, WolfElly wasn't quite sure what she was meant to do for the evening and it's not like she could get to them in her wolf form.
WolfElly soon decided she had hours to go until she returned to her human formation so went for a walk around the neighbourhood.
Hours later, WolfElly returned home to the Kennedy's, seeing as though it was home to her. Unable to go inside the house and curl up in her own bed because she was incapable of unlocking the doors and also didn't want her family to see her and know that there was a wolf around them.
WolfElly snuck around the backyard of the house, circling the backyard for a few minutes before finding a decent spot on the grass where she curled up and fell asleep for the rest of the night.
As the sun rose the following morning, WolfElly transformed back into her human form. It didn't take long for the woman to wake up with the sun rising in the sky and the breeze blowing lightly against her naked body.
As Elly flickered her eyes open, she groaned at knowing she was curled up lying naked in the backyard of her house. Alone. Instead of with the rest of the Pack like she'd planned out. But her unexpected conversation with Chloe that had made her lose track of time, let alone her unexpected kiss with Chloe, meant she'd spent the night roaming the streets of Erinsborough, keeping out of sight, before falling asleep in the backyard at the Kennedy's.
That kiss…damn that was a good kiss…
Elly smiled at the memory of the kiss, before sighing at her worry that Chloe would want answers about her feelings the next time that she saw her, let alone if she might reject her outright.
Elly groaned as she sat up, relieved to see Bea had failed to bring the laundry in the previous evening and it was still hanging on the line. Standing up, Elly grabbed a pair of undies, jeans and a t-shirt, quickly putting them on.
As Elly was pulling the t-shirt over her head, she flinched as she heard footsteps behind her.
"Elly?" came Bea's surprised voice.
Don't say you saw me getting changed, don't say you saw me getting changed.
"Morning, Bea," Elly said brightly as she adjusted the t-shirt then turned around to her sister.
"Did you just put your t-shirt on…straight from the clothes line out here?" Bea asked, then seeing the area of the grass WolfElly had curled up in to sleep, "Did you…sleep out here last night?"
Elly shrugged her shoulders, "Don't be ridiculous. What's for breakfast this morning? How'd Aster go being looked after by you and Yashvi last night?"
Bea continued looking at her sister with disbelief that she had dismissed her questions, "Weren't you meant to be spending three days…at some place you never actually told us with the other family that looked after you and Aster?"
Elly pursed her lips, "Plans changed. I'll have to call them as soon as I can as I never got around to letting them know I wasn't able to make it. Actually, I just need to duck out for a bit. Do you want to let Aster know I'm back if she's up and I'll sort breakfast for her when I get back?"
"O…kay…so you're not going to tell me where you were last night or where you slept?" Bea pushed.
"It's really not important, I slept fine. I'm more worried about Aster as well as my friends not knowing I didn't make it out to them," Elly answered, before walking away from Bea.
Bea frowned as she watched her sister skip off barefoot around to the front of the house, wondering what on earth had come over her.
A few moments later, Elly had wandered down the block from Ramsay Street, returning to the hedge that she'd thrown her handbag and Nicolette's jacket behind the previous evening before she'd transformed into a werewolf. Sneaking around it to collect the items, Elly was soon walking back home, waiting to check her messages on her phone when she got back there.
As Elly crossed the street in front of Chloe's house, she turned around to it. Elly was unable to shake the feeling that she needed to do everything possible to avoid Chloe for at least the next couple days. She was too fearful that Chloe wouldn't react well to their kiss, despite kissing her back, and would reject Elly's need for Chloe to leave Pierce to be with her…
Next time - Elly avoids Chloe fearing rejection but will Chloe track her down before the full moon rises?