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Chapter 7 – Pain

The kiss was short lived as they both hear little feet walking in their direction with a yell for. "Mommy." Sarah was searching for her. "Mommy." she calls again. Instead of using her wolf senses she searches the old fashioned way, only because the little girl sometimes forgets that she is a wolf.

Alexa has to smile at her baby's antics as she breaks their kiss and looks at Derek, her mate, her guardian. With the decision to give this a chance her heart opened up for him. A smile was mirrored on his face, just like her, he finds it funny that Sarah doesn't use her senses. Before they can comment on it, the little wolf opens the door to the bathroom.

For a moment she was perplex to see them like that in each other's arms, before a big smile starts on her face, like she wanted this to happen and knew it would from the beginning. The bond between her and Derek as a father was the best evidence for it. She probably knew before them that they were mates and just acted accordingly. Never underestimate the intuition of children.

"What is it baby?" Alexa asks Sarah after she just stood there for a moment smiling like a loon.

"Can we go outside?" she asks me. Of course, she should have known, Sarah loves to be outside. Nature is the normal environment for werewolves after all. But they are in a new town, where they never have been before and that makes Alexa a little wary.

Derek sees her anxiety on her face and says. "I take her and Dave to the preserve. There we have space to run around without problems." It also gives her a moment to think about everything that happened in the last 10 minutes. He can see that she still struggles with it, even if she has accepted it. But that is so her, because she needs time to work it out on her own.

That startled Alexa a little bit. "Ahh, ok." she says after a moment.

"Don't worry I won't let anything happen to them." he tells her sincerely and she hears that he means it. He turns to Sarah says. "Go to Dave and get ready." This way he can hold his beautiful mate for a moment longer.

"Ok." she says with a big smile as she turns around and leaves.

Before Derek can say anything Alexa starts to rumble and she doesn't do that often only in matters of Sarah and David. "Ok you have to keep a watchful eye on them, they can be very sneaky, if they want to be and will try to explore the woods without your supervision. And don't underestimate Sarah she will be the leader, David always does what she says." Derek smiles at her. She is cute in her role as a scared mother, who lets her cubs out of her side for the first time. "Please keep them save." she almost pleads with him.

"Hey, hey." he tries to get her attention as she looks at him he continues. "Don't worry they will be save with me. I will not let anything happen to them. Just like I will not let anything happen to you."

He was sincere and she knows it, but that doesn't stop her from worrying. She only trusted her parents with taking care of the kids and nobody else. This is a whole new territory for her. "But …"

Instead of saying something he kisses her for a moment. It feels so good to kiss her and have her in his arms. It also is a good way to shut her up for a moment and take away her momentum to stop her in her tracks. He has to remember that for later.

After he feels her calm again, he breaks the kiss and says with a big smile at her thoroughly kissed lips. "No buts, Baby. You are not alone anymore and since Sarah has adopted me as her Dad, which I want to be, you have to share the responsibility a bit and let me help, the same goes for David. Ok?" Considering he doesn't want them to be his only children. That thought hit him like a sledgehammer, because until he met this beautiful little girl, he never thought about children and now he already thinks about more. But the thought of Alexa being pregnant with his pubs makes his heart beat faster, so that it almost explodes.

Instead of answering she nods and embraces him to scent mark him. He does the same to her. For a moment longer they stay in each other's arms until they hear. "Daddy come on let's go."

Her voice traveled up to them from the living room and both smile. Together the get up and hand in hand they walk down the stairs. Before they reach the living room, Derek turns around and kisses her again for a moment. "We will be back and bring back something to eat, so no cooking. Use the time to call Deaton like you planed and work everything out in your own mind." he tells her after.

"I will do that." with one final peak at his check they walk to the living room and see the kids already at the door. Derek walks to them with a smile as Alexa calls him back. "Keep them save." she tells him in a whisper, which she knows he can hear.

With a smile and nod he says. "You can count on me … always." with that he turns to the kids and leads them out of the door. She needs time to think and this is the best moment for it. It is good to have a mate, who understands her and the way she works. Meaning that being alone to think is her character.

So as soon as the three of them were out of the door, she takes her phone and her laptop with her to the couch to take a seat. Before she can comprehend what had happened between her and Derek and what possible will happen in the future, she needs to know, what happened to her parents. It always is a good idea to start at the beginning. So she calls Deaton, because he hinted that he has an idea.

She called Deaton's number and after the fourth ring he picked up. "Animal Clinic, what can I do for you?"

"Deaton, it's me Alexa." she makes a break to give him a moment to adjust, because they both know that the following conversation will be a heavy one. "I want to talk about what happened to my parents?" she adds after a moment.

For a moment there was silence until she heard him answer. "I don't really know what happened, only that your parents were murdered. It looks like hunters to me."

That really doesn't surprise her, she almost expected it, but what she doesn't understand is, how they were found. Her parents were established professors for Myths and Legends on the University, but they tried to hide that they have a supernatural family out of this myths to keep them save. That is why they moved twice a year from one place to the next. "Any idea, how we were found?" she asks him after a moment.

"I think you know the answer to that?" Deaton answers in his druid voice and that means for her he is teaching her a lesson. She knows the answers, because she only has to think about it. In her training it was always her mind that they wanted to enhance, because that is what she needs the most in a crisis. Fighting is natural to her as it is to most werewolves. But keeping a clear head and let the mind find a solution without violence has to be learned.

So with a deep sigh she closes her eyes and starts to sort her mind. It didn't take long until her mind worked out, how they were found. "The only ones with our address was the Circle, meaning they attacked the Chapter House in Vienna." Her voice was panicked; they people of the chapter house were her teachers, her friends, parts of her family. "Tell me someone survived?" she pleads with him in a whisper. She wasn't sure if she wants to hear the answer to it.

The sigh on the other end of the line was confirmation enough, but Deaton knows that she needs to hear the words. "I am sorry to say that, but the only one to survive was Daniel Elis, he was on a trip to Russia according to the Chapter House in Berlin."

Tears were running freely down her cheek. She lost many friends. All because hunters wanted her, hunted her just, because she is supernatural. They are so bigot; instead of trying to understand and work together they try to wipe them out. But what Alexa worries the most is that she isn't sure if she is strong enough to bring the peace, like it is expected of her.

Self-doubt doesn't help anyone at the moment and she can't grieve them until she knows how far the damage is with the loss of the Chapter House in Vienna. "Do you know what was taken from the building?"

"I am not sure, because the Chapter House in Berlin told me that after they were alert that the House in Vienna was infiltrated they wiped the data from the disc and alerted the police. That still gives the hunters enough time to take some of the folders in the filing cabinets." was Deaton answer. So not good.

The filing cabinets contain the supernatural activities for the area around the Chapter House. In this case every supernatural being in Vienna is in danger and the hunters have over 48 hours head start. But Alexa still needs to warn them and keep them save. She puts her laptop on her lap and opens her mail-account to send all her contacts a prewritten mail for such a case. It only took her two minutes to send it, but it felt like an eternity and she doesn't have an idea if would make a difference or not. "I send all my contacts an email that they should leave a.s.a.p."

"Good. You should be save here for now." Deaton points out and wants to say more, but she interrupts him.

"I can't leave, even if I try to, Derek wouldn't let me go and I have to think of the kids as well." she tells him.

"What has Derek to do with this?" But Deaton was smart and figured it out in only moments. Not to forget he was Talia Hales Emissary a long time ago. The mentioning of Derek triggered a memory of Talia telling her about Derek and Alexa being mated, but she has taken away their memories. But if he understands Alexa correctly, than they remember that now and that means only one thing. "He is the guardian." It wasn't a question; it wasn't a statement, it was a fact.

"Yes." was Alexa short answer.

"He will keep you save." Deaton tells her.

Without thinking or doubting it, she answers. "I know he will." She believes that with all her heart and knows that her trust in him will not be misplaced.

"What will you do?" he asks her after a moment.

"I think it is time that I embrace, who I am and fulfill my destiny." she answers. That declaration makes her nervous and anxious; because she isn't sure she can do it. To distract herself she checks her mails and after she discarded the spam she found an email from an unknown sender. Even if she knows that she shouldn't open a mail from someone she doesn't know, she is compelled to do it, like it is important. Who knows what she downloading with it, but that is a matter for later? So she opens it. The mail only contains a video file, a message.

With a double-click she opens the video and moment later a screen appears with a black woman in his center. "Hi Alexa." she greets her like they were old friends. "My name is Tamora Monroe and I am hunter. But you know that already or? Than you might also know that I am the reason that you are an orphan now." That woman killed my parents, was the only thought running through her mind. "But I didn't want that, they only had to give you up, because we can't have that you succeed and bring the supernatural peace, because they all, you, included deserve to die. So I killed them." She makes a dramatic pause, before she says like she is talking about the weather. "I will kill everyone you love, everyone you ever met, everyone you helped, before I finally will kill you. You don't deserve the right to live." with that the screen becomes black.

Alexa doesn't know why, but her inner wolf tells her to destroy the laptop and so she just did that, because her wolf never stirred her wrong. The phone with the open call to Deaton got destroyed in the process. After the thing was in ruins, an unholy, loud growl escapes her, it was her pure hatred for this bigot people, the sorrow for the people she lost and the anger and fear for the people she still can lose. She brings her knees to her chin as she starts crying and weeping on the couch.

Unknown to her the sound of that growl carried through Beacon Hills and reaches every supernatural being in a 50 mile radius. They all feel her anguish and need for help. In the preserve three wolfs were playing hide and seek as they hear her growl. "Mommy." Sarah screams as she jumps from her hiding spot onto Derek. He catches her easily.

Just like him she has wolfed out because of the growl. "Dave come out." Before the last words leave his mouth the boy was at his side. Derek turns with his back to him and says. "Jump on, I am the fastest and I don't want that either of you fall back, Lexi needs us." Without a word David jumps on his back and Derek starts running as soon as he felt the young one in position.

It took him more than five minutes to bring the three of them back to his loft. Without the extra weight he would have been faster, but he can't let the kids behind, they need him as much as Lexi needs him. The whole time he was running his heart was beating fast and his panic mind was running through every scenario about what could have happen to her. His mind was very creative and that isn't a good thing in this case.

At the door to his loft he puts the two kids on the floor and takes a deep breath, to calm himself a bit. It wouldn't do Alexa any good if he hadn't his emotions in check. Before he enters he turns to the kids, touches their shoulders with one of his hands to calm them. Fear was written on their faces. "I will enter first, you two stay behind me and watch each other's back." He doesn't know what he will find behind those doors; even if he only can hear one heartbeat and sobs doesn't that mean much, not here, not in Beacon Hills. As well he wants to spear the kids a distraught Alexa, they doesn't need to see her this way. That is why; he will try to keep her out of sight as soon as he enters.

But first he needs their compliance. "Can you do that for me?" It wasn't an order per se, but both wolves can here the male Alpha of their pack and know that he wants that they comply to his wishes, so they nod in answer and submit to him. They know he will keep them save. "Good." he says and with a deep breath he opens the door. He was a little scared at what he will find too.

As soon as the door is completely open, he sees his beautiful mate on the couch in tears fully broken down. On instinct he was at her side in only a moment and gathers her in his arms to keep her save and calm her down at the same time. With her in his arms he hears that his kids closed the doors, but his senses tell him that they will stay away from them for now. Good this way he can calm her down without interference.

It takes some time until he feels her sobbing stop and the tears drying. A good moment as any to ask her what happened. "What is it, Baby?"

She looks into his eyes and tells him without words that she can't tell him now, not in front to the kids and he understands her. But instead something else happened. Something never before happened with her, she pulls him into her mind as she gazed into his eyes and shows him this way, what she learnt while they were for a run.

It only took seconds before it was over and he sighs. "Damn." Not that he condemns cursing in front of children, but sometimes you can't help yourself, because everything involving that woman screams a catastrophe of epical propulsions.

But for now he needs to focus on his mate and not on a plan to act. Instead of saying anything else, he stands up with his mate in his arms and carries her to their bedroom. The footsteps behind him tell him that the kids follow them. He puts her on the bed and says to her. "Please take a nap to calm down, you look exhausted, Baby."

Without any resistance she accepts and curls into a ball on the bed. A moment later Sarah looks at Derek as if she wants ask, if she is allowed to stay with her Mom. He ruffles her hair and says. "Go on cub and keep Mommy company." Werewolves and wolfs need their young and other pack members to keep calm so it is a good idea to have Sarah at Alexa's side.

As soon as Sarah is on the bed into Alexa's side and Alexa opens her arms to embrace daughter. Derek puts the sheet over them and gives a kiss to the forehead of each of his girls as he says. "I will watch over you." He knows she needs to hear that he will take over for the moment and that she can try to get her bearings together, Derek will have her back. Always.

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