Thanks for your reviews Kelly & EC Brenway!

Kelly - I really like writing the Bea/Chloe friendship, wish the show would give them a story together

EC - I love the 'regardless of her husband's opinion' part of that idea! Keep hoping!

The Chemistry In Darkness

Chapter Fifty

Sunday 15th December 2024 – The Night Of The Full Moon

Twenty minutes after Pierce had wandered back inside their house to go to bed and read reports before falling asleep, Chloe was still standing outside by the balcony. Staring off at the dog sitting on the corner of Ramsay Street, staring back at her.

Chloe gently tapped the bowl of water with her foot that she'd sat out on the edge of the top of the stairs, not knowing why she felt like she wanted the dog to come and join her.

Chloe smiled as the dog gently yet somewhat reluctantly stood up and padded across the street to #24, "There you go."

WolfElly walked over to the driveway of #24, unsure what she was doing getting closer to Chloe, expecting Chloe to freak out about her once she got closer.

WolfElly sat back down at the bottom of the stairs that led up to the house, fearing any moment Chloe would run inside the house away from her. But instead, she was pleasantly surprised when Chloe crouched down and pushed the water bowl closer to her.

WolfElly stumbled her way up the stairs, finding the stairs harder to manage with four paws instead of two legs. But she managed to reach the top, still waiting for Chloe to scream in terror once she got closer, not even knowing why she was getting close to Chloe in her wolf formation.

WolfElly was shocked when Chloe reached out her hand to push the water bowl to her, bowing down in front of it to sip the water from it.

Well, this is embarrassing. How's Chloe gonna feel about me when she knows one day that this is me…lapping up the water in the bowl with my wolf tongue like a freaking…ugh werewolf that I am…? Oh, flips' sake, Chlo, why you go and put your leftover dinner in the other bowl? I hate my whole life right now…Chloe's never gonna look at me the same way when she knows it's really me.

"There you go, good doggy," Chloe encouraged.

WolfElly looked up at Chloe as she was about to dig into the bowl of food.

Doggy? Is that why Chlo isn't afraid of me…? She thinks I'm a bloody dog! I love this woman and I'll bloody well tell her this one day but she can be quite adorably daft as a…wait a minute… Okay either I'm imaging this because I don't want Chloe to be as adorably daft as she's being right now but…didn't Abby say something about sometimes human mates when they see their werewolf, they see them as a dog instead? Like they are blinded by love that they see us as harmful dogs…? I really hope that's it.

WolfElly was even more surprised when Chloe reached out her hand, this time to stroke it against her face, "You're not so scary. Don't know what Pierce was going on about."

Not so scary 'til you learn who and what I truly am, Chlo.

Giving into the affection Chloe was giving her, WolfElly found herself purring gently at the feeling of Chloe running her hand against her left ear.

Before she knew it, WolfElly had ignored the food on offer and shuffled herself forwards until she had curled herself around Chloe's feet as she stood back to the balcony once more.

"Why is it that you feel so familiar? Those eyes of yours…they remind me of someone but I just can't pick it," Chloe muttered out to the animal.

Elly, they remind me of Elly's eyes.

Okay, should I be more offended that Chloe doesn't know what my eyes look like considering I want to spend the rest of my life with the two of us staring into one another's eyes at every chance we get…or glad that Chloe isn't gonna figure out my dark secret?

WolfElly didn't get a chance to find out if Chloe was working out the truth when out of nowhere, rain started drizzling on them.

Chloe stared up at the night sky, "Are you kidding me? It's peak of summer in Aus, we had a 35 degrees day today. Why is it now raining?"

WolfElly pouted with a shy howl, leading Chloe to stare down at her, "Do you have a home to go to and stay out of the rain?"

Being able to understand Chloe clearly, instead of being an animal that didn't, WolfElly glanced up at Chloe and shook her head.

"C'mon, then, can't leave you out here all night if it's raining," Chloe decided, before walking over to the front door and opening it, "C'mon now, you can sleep next to my bed tonight."

Next to or in…? Oh, who cares, Chloe's inviting me into her bedroom…okay fine, she's inviting 'Dog' me into her bedroom…I think I'd prefer this if I wasn't a wolf… Cripes what is Chloe gonna think of me when she does learn the truth and that it was me about to eat her leftover dinner from a dog bowl, curling up to her feet and wanting to curl up in her bed with her…? She's gonna think this is as weird as it is.

Before Chloe could say anything about needing to check with Pierce first, WolfElly dashed inside the house quickly. Chloe soon picked up the bowls and shuffled inside the house where she placed the bowls back down by the entrance, glad to see the dog watching her do so and made her feel like she understood where the water and food would be for her.

Without leading the way, Chloe grimaced as WolfElly dashed off down the hallway towards her bedroom, not even realizing the animal should not even know which room was her bedroom. Although the open door probably gave it away had Chloe thought about it.

When Chloe reached her bedroom door, she found WolfElly standing in the doorway, baring her teeth at Pierce. Of course, because Chloe wasn't seeing WolfElly as she appeared, she didn't see that WolfElly was baring her fangs at her husband.

Pierce was sitting up in their bed, having managed to get his legs out from the bed sheets so he was sitting on top of the doona, not wanting to jump off the bed but was able to if he needed to as the wolf growled at him, "Chloe, what are you doing? Letting this thing in our house!"

Chloe walked over to WolfElly, finding herself patting the animal on the head, stroking her ears, "It's raining outside, she doesn't have a collar on, I don't know if she's got a home to go to. It's just for one night, I promise. I left her food and water bowls by the front door. She can sleep on the floor by the bed on my side."

I'm not sleeping on the floor when the option is there to sleep in your bed… Ugh this is far too weird to comprehend…Chloe is gonna be aghast when she realizes it was me, the wolf, who wanted to sleep next to her on her bed…okay, not with Pierce in the bed too, I need to get rid of him.

Pierce threw the reports he'd been reading on his bedside table, "Chloe, what part of 'that's a wolf' are you not seeing? I'm calling animal control to collect this thin—her."

WolfElly growled harder at Pierce, showing him as many of her fangs as she possibly could, then feeling Chloe continue to tussle her hand against her head, purred loudly.

This is so embarrassing, wanting to scare Pierce out of his bed whilst also purring like I am a sappy little puppy dog when it comes to Chloe. I've got some explaining to do when Chloe one day learns the truth about me.

"No, you're not, Pierce. Look at her, she's harmless, it's just one night. We can take her to animal control in the morning," Chloe stated firmly.

WolfElly nodded her head up at Chloe, deciding she needed to play somewhat nice yet still wanted to get Pierce out of the bedroom.

Pierce eyed the wolf, swallowing hard at how much his wife was defiantly standing by the animal, realizing he was in a tough spot with Chloe, needing her to start listening again to his requests to start a family with him, "I swear to God if this wolf attacks us in the middle of the night…I'll beat the snout off that creature til it stops."

Not bloody likely.

WolfElly growled gently as Chloe left her side to go over to the bed, leaning over it to peck Pierce on the lips.

"It'll be fine, she'll sleep on the floor. She's not going to attack us so they'll be no you beating her…and if you do, then you'll be sleeping on the floor for a very long time," Chloe promised.

Pierce smiled, relaxing with his wife, pecking her on the lips again, "Then you'll just need to sleep on the floor with me, my love."

Excuse me while I try to stop vomiting over here…

WolfElly whined when she saw that Chloe pulled the doona sheet back and the couple were getting into bed together.

Not on my watch…

As Chloe and Pierce got under the sheets, WolfElly surprised them both by leaping up onto the bed, landing next to Chloe.

"Woah, friendly doggy, aren't you?" Chloe was surprised as she immediately reached out and stroked the animals' neck.

Pierce looked agitated again, "Chloe, stop with the 'doggy', it's a wolf! It might be friendlier than what you'd expect a wolf to be but we are not having that wolf in our bed."

WolfElly leaned over Chloe, growling at Pierce.

"I think she heard you," Chloe teased her husband.

As Pierce started to pull back the sheets again, determined to get out of bed and remove the wolf from the bed, WolfElly bared her fangs to him, snapping several times. Pierce shuffled himself backwards to get away from her but ended up shuffling too far and falling off the edge of the bed, landing on his ass.

That's more like it!

WolfElly continued growling at him as Pierce pulled himself off from the floor.

"I'm not sleeping in the bed with that thing!" Pierce insisted.

Chloe glanced between her husband and the animal, stroking its ears, listening to her revert back to purring at her, "Looks like you're sleeping on the couch, Pierce."

"You can't be serious," Pierce was shocked.

"She's very determined to sleep here and I trust her. Besides, I'm too tired to argue with you. Bed or couch, it's your call," Chloe decided.

WolfElly bared her fangs to Pierce once more, this time laying off growling at him, thinking it might even scare him more.

Pierce shook his head then grabbed his pillow, "If you get eaten by the wolf, your brothers are not going to believe it's your own fault for letting this thing in our bed."

"I'm not going to get eaten by a wolf," Chloe rolled her eyes.

Maybe when I'm in my human form you will and not that kind of eaten…I can't believe I just thought that…

Pierce swallowed hard, "Are you sure your safe?"

"Yes, Pierce, go sleep on the couch. I'll be fine, I'll see you in the morning. Getting some sleep is better for you than stressing all night long," Chloe told him.

"I'll be stressing all night long on the couch," Pierce replied to his wife with his concern for her.

"Good night, Pierce," Chloe waved him off.

"I'm still calling animal control first thing in the morning to find this thing a home…in a zoo or out in the wild," Pierce nodded at his wife, unable to stop glaring at the animal who'd essentially kicked him out of bed, before he left the room, leaving the door open, then stopping by the laundry to leave the back door ajar, hoping the animal would find its own way out of the house in the middle of the night.

Chloe rolled her eyes at him once more but relaxed as soon as he was out of sight, then smiling at the animal, "You want to sleep at my feet, girl?"

As Chloe slid down and laid her head on her pillow, getting herself comfy, she frowned heavily as the dog shifted upwards before digging herself under the bed sheets, "Woah, where you going?"

WolfElly purred as she found herself curling up against Chloe under the bed sheets, feeling her stroking her head once more.

"So much for sleeping by my feet. You are incredibly friendly for being a so called wolf. Just don't tell Pierce about this, if he comes in here and finds you under the bed sheets, he'll shoo you out of this house so fast you won't know what hit you," Chloe complained about her husband, before wrapping her arms around the dog, then lifted her head again, "Don't bite me, okay?"

WolfElly curled up to Chloe's body as much as she could, continuing to purr softly as she felt thrilled to be in Chloe's arms.

This is not how I imagined curling up in Chloe's arms…but as weird as this is…and as much explaining I'm gonna have to do one day far off into the future when I tell Chloe the truth about me…I'll take it.

"Sleep well, girl," Chloe wished before yawning then closing her eyes to begin falling asleep, resting her arm around the animal's torso next to her.

WolfElly closed her own eyes, knowing she was about to have the best sleep of her life in her mate's arms.

As weird as this is…being in my wolf formation here…it feels perfect being in Chloe's arms…at least for a few hours at least. I'll wake up before Chloe does and disappear into the night like I was never here…

Next time - So...who's going to wake up first the next day? Chloe or WolfElly? Or could Elly wake first? Also, someone finally figures out Elly's big secret - who is it?