JD: I know some of the characters are slightly OOC BUT it is a serious chapter so they kinda have to be! Sorry.
Like always: LOVE TO MY BETA/FUTURE GIRLFRIEND SUNNY! *is enjoying making her blush like a mad 'wo'Man* Enjoy!
Recap
Howling. You can hear it everywhere as three huge dogs, one wolf, and one half wolf all showed up and start circling us. He let go of me slightly freaking out. "They won't hurt you, watch." Rachael said and she walk towards me and act like she was going to hit me. Before she could Ren jump out from the circling creatures and land on Rachael biting her arm just hard enough to bleed but not to rip to much skin off her arm.
I start to walk off and look over my shoulder to the two full blood dogs, the eldest of them."Len, Muffy." I called them. The Husky, Len, ran over to me and put his head to my leg, Muffy, the mastiff did same on other side of me. I glance back again to the Momma wolf and the mix breed male companion. "Aragorn, Arwen." I called and they broke ranks going over to me. I then glared at Rachael who's still being pin by my baby. "Ren." I finally called the last one. She let go of the bitch and went to me whimpering but Arwen place her paw on either side of her puppy. I smile to the two. Arwen is a mother, willing to protect her young no matter what, like mine was.
My Pack
That Night
"Richard!" The bitch screeched as I curl up in the back room with my pack. Muffy's gray fur on my right side, so soft and warm. She's full blood mastiff and then on my left is Len, my papa-bear, he's full blood husky with beautiful blue eyes. On my legs from knees up and head resting on my chest is my baby, Ren. Crossing my feet is Aragorn and his fluffier version of a husky. The last one, my mama-wolf, Arwen is under my head. Her black fur so soft and warm it even put Muffy's softness to shame.
The supposed to be weapon is tied around my neck. I look at the silver special whistle, it was made by one of my grandfather's friends. Muffy and Len were train to be guard dogs by him. I learn how to train them and done some with their puppy and wolf pup that was found nearly dead one night. My dad was out hunting with Muffy, and Muffy found Arwen. Muffy and I took care of her till she was well enough to leave, she didn't. She became my friend and mom got permission to keep her. We had to fill out a lot of paper work but I got to keep her. Three years later mom died and Ren was born right before that. That was two years ago.
"Lee." I heard a gruff voice I knew right away tobe my father. I glance up to him the light from inside shining in behind him and I could only see his outlining from it.
"Ren was protecting me." I said holding Ren's head, softly rubbing circles behind her ears.
"That whistle isn't a toy." He said calmly coming in. None of my pack moved. "It can be dangerous."
"Only if I or they are threaten. She tried to hit me and he pull my hair when I tried to leave." I told him my side of the story. He knows I won't lie about my pack.
"Lee, we have to put her down." I could hear the sadness in his voice.
"Do that I'll pull all of my money out." I growl."If she leaves so do I." I snap.
"Lee, your sister-..." I cut him off real fast.
"She's not my sister." I stated coldly.
"Fine, Rachael had to get stitches. Ren is too dangerous." He said evenly and I want to cry but refuse to in front of people, not even my father has seen me cry.
"If she leaves so do I." I said again. "You are not putting my baby down." I am being cold I know but this is a simple fact that she means more to me than just about everything else.
"Be reasonable." he begged. I couldn't see his face or details, just outline. Light pour in from behind him in to the dark room.
"I am." I stated looking in to beautiful blue eyes. "She's my baby, I'm not losing her."
He sighs and starts to leave but stop. "What if she attacks Melissa or the baby?" he asked me simply.
"She won't attack the baby but as long as Melissa doesn't threaten her or make her feel threaten, even put me in danger at all, Ren will leave her alone." I lean up kissing Ren's nose softly.
"You still need to be punished." He informs me.
"I don't care just don't punish my pack, none of them." I slightly begged slowly getting up. All five of them moved to not hurt me.
"Ren has to stay outside with Arwen and Muffy, the two boys can stay in." I felt pain as I didn't look at him.
I went upstairs with Aragorn on my heels, Len lay at the foot of the steps, I walked pass Rachael's room and saw Jake had her in his lap kissing. I groan keep walking than slam my door shut. Flipping on the lights my dark blue walls were decorated with band posters that would scare the weak-minded: Insane Clown Posse; His Infernal Majesty; Black Veil Brides; and more, even One-Eyed Doll. I have covers that are black with white specks making it look like curtains are black and hold out the sun. My bed is beside the window and dresser and desk across it, beside my bed is a closet and another door. I walk to the second door and open it going up. It's a stairway to the attic. I got to the top and went straight to a single bed falling on it. I couldn't hold it back any more and cried.
"Mom, what should I do?" I whimper to the photo of my family. It brought back happy memories
FLASHBACK
I yawn looking up at the smiling old woman. She's in her eighties with worn down green eyes that pappy, my grandfather, compare to emeralds. I have her eyes. She smiles down to me helping me up to help her cook. "Mama, may I make the rice?" I ask and the woman nod going to finish the actual gumbo part.
I jump down running to where we keep the un-cooked rice and brought it to the rice cooker. After putting in the right amount of rice and water Mama walked over dropping some salt in to it putting the timer on smiling down to me.
"Mama, what are you teaching our, Belle Ange Sanglante?" (Beautiful Bloody Angel) I heard a woman ask and felt excited looking up to the woman who has an older version of my face. I smile as she came to us. She talked business for a few moments then help us cook.
"Mommy, one day I'll be just like you and Mama." I told the woman before me. She smiled so warmly. Right then puppy versions of Muffy and Len came running through the house with an old man in his eighties chasing them, cursing in French the whole time.
END FLASHBACK
I open my eyes and slightly smile. A year after that was when I lost pappy, mama died almost half of a year later. Everything was in my thirteen years old self's name. Everything was left to me. Their dogs had a set of puppies but couldn't get rid of Aragorn. I had just read Lord of the Rings with mom when Aragorn was born. We found Arwen not long later.
I got up cleaning my face then kissing the picture before leaving to go back down stairs to my room. I saw Aragorn on my bed with his ears back and wagging his tail. I pet him softly before changing. Once I was in my sleep clothes I crawl in to bed going to sleep.
I woke up next morning cleaning my room quickly then ate giving any left overs to the dogs, cheese to Ren. I heard the bitches whining about Ren and Arwen again. "Listen to me now." I growl out. "My pack, all of them, stays." I said with a strict voice. "Whatever punishment MY FATHER decides for me I'LL deal with but NOTHING will happen to MY PACK!" I snap again. "If anything does I'll leave with my money and companies, you can be homeless for all I care." I huff out walking out the front door. They were shock, dad smiling though hid it when his wife looked to him shock.
"Everything is in her name." he stated like it was out of his hands… which it kind of is.
I walk out of the door and went to school. I'm wearing black slacks with a black girl button up shirt. I got a light purple tie on along with uniform jacket. Other than that I have my ICP bag with my notebooks,tablet, MP3, and Laptop. Cell phone is in my jacket's pocket.
I took out my MP3 and headphones listening to Black Veil Brides not in a good mood today. Dad had always thought Jake and Rachael were dating so he's staying with us till his apartment is done being clean out. I just ignored him and the whore.
It hurts.
I got to the school no one mess with me as I went around the school. Home room started; no one mess with me still. I miss my Glee were always fun and something to do. I sigh placing my head on the desk in defeat.
I'm broken, again. It hurts so badly.
"Um, Lee-chan?" I didn't look up till I felt a small hand on my arm. I pull out both headphones ear pieces looking to who wanted my attention. It's the little boy. "Are you okay?" he asks sweetly.
"I will be." I huff out, no fight left.
"Where those your dog's yesterday?" He asks innocently.
"Pack; it was my pack." I correct him. "At least some of it..."
"They were all so pretty and big, but why did they attack like that?" he wonder. He seems so innocent.
"They were protecting what belongs to them." I answer him slightly surprise that he wants to know about them more so.
"What is that?" he asks curiously.
"Me." I'm slightly confused now. Why does he want to know about my pack?
I softly grip the whistle that's under my shirt. "Sit with Takashi and me at lunch please." he seems so sweet and innocent. I just nod my head. He smiles skipping over to the tall boy, who kept a close eye on us. Ta-ka-shi.
By lunch time I walk in to the area, whatever they call it, to get food. I saw the boy running over to me grabbing my hand and pull me to the group of boys and one girl. "Senpai, why do I have to be here?"the girl ask with no real emotion in her voice. She looks bored.
"Honey-senpai wants us all to meet someone." the glasses boy in my class answer pushing is glasses up.
"Everybody this is Lee-chan-..." I had to cut him off then.
"Lee, just Lee or I won't reply." I stated simply.
"Oh." the adorable blond said. He then went counter-clockwise on the table point them out as he named them. "That's Tono-chan, Suoh Tamaki, beside him is Ootori Kyoya, the Hitachiin twins Hikaru and Kaoru, Fujioka Haruhi, and Takashi but everyone calls him Mori." They all greet me their own way. I sat between the only other girl and Honey.
"Did you train those dogs?" ask the twins and I glance to Honey who was acting like a little kid not paying attention to us, eating a lot of cake.
"Pack." I correct.
"Huh?" The twins ask in confusion at the same time, creepy… yet, awesome!
"Not dogs, pack, and two of them I help train the others I did train by myself." I answer after correcting them.
"Oh?" They said at the same time again but can still hear the confusion in their voices.
I sigh taking out my tablet and quickly pulling up a picture of my pack as a whole, the humans and animals in it. I slid it across the table for them to see and saw most of them look at it curiously. "This is my whole pack." I said with a fond smile at the picture. "Pack is family and a completion of a group to form the impossible or unexpected." I explain my meaning of a pack. "The humans are the kids I grew up with; my mom raised all of us together. The animals are ones you saw yesterday."
"There isn't much on Mrs. Melissa-..." The one with glasses started but my growl made him stop mid-sentence.
"Melissa is NOT my mother." I told him glancing up to his confuse face.
"She is the only other female Noel I can find other than Barbra who I know is your grandmother." He said confuse then I think it hit him. "Your parents never married." He stated simply. "Why is it that it's not in your record?" he wonder as he pull out a notepad and start to write in it.
I laugh it had no emotion in it though. "My mother bares no last name." I told him simply. "She refused to own one." I then look down at the picture pointing to the center of the picture of the woman with dark tan skin and big blue eyes looking up at the camera."Her name was Algoma. It means Valley of flowers in Native American Indian. Though there are other translations for that same word that's the most common meaning. She was an orphan raised by a tribe of them. They say that she's not one of them but was accepted by them no less." I smile to the picture with fond memories again. "She never took my father's name because she belonged with and to no one but herself. She died two years ago and a half a year ago my dad got married to Melissa." I then look away. "She's nothing like my mother. My mother loved and care about everyone and thing. She's the opposite, if it will benefit her then its good if not then she doesn't give a damn about it or anything connecting to it."
"Why is it that everything is in your name? I wonder that since I notice it but I thought it was just an error that had to be correct yet no correction was ever made." the glasses boy, Kyoya asked.
"Because that's way my mother and grandparents wanted it. My mother knew she was dying yet didn't tell anyone, my grandparents were old and dying so they left their legacy to me knowing that one day I'll be able to up-stand it."
"Why did they skip over your father?" the girl finally asked curiously.
"It didn't. It went from my grandparents to my mother then me." I said blinking a few times. "Dad never really wanted it but he is willing to run the Hunting part of our business."
"Wait what all is your company?" she ask confused.
"Four companies are in my name. Noel Hunting, Noel Animal Training, Noel Animal Rescue, and the last one is Angeni Runaway shelters and Orphanage. There is also the homeless shelters too that's under Angeni." I answer like it's no big deal which to me it isn't.
"Hunting, training, animal rescue, then there's a bunch to help the poor and runaways?" ask the twins blinking a few times looking at me shock.
"Yep. That's all of them." I smile to them.
After I ate a few of my sticks I end up letting Honey try one and he loved it though he asked me if they come with Strawberry fillings too and I told him I had some that was at home I'll bring the next day. We went to our classes and I end up hanging out with the twins and Haruhi during my last class which got me glares from Rachael and a bunch of others that was looking our way. What are their problems? I wonder to myself but shrugged it off.
After class they had a club thing to go to but they were doing it outside. Honey and Mori decide to walk with me to the gates and I look down the road able to see my house from where we were. "I am going to-..."My words were cut off when I heard a gunshot in the direction of my home. My heart stop and my feet start to run. Before I know it I got to the house and jump the fence to the back and got around to where I saw an animal control man with a gun. He was about to shoot again and my body react before my mind could process what was going on. I threw myself over the animal there and start threw off my blazer, jacket, and then start to take off my button up shirt to stop the blood on the black fur animal before me. The creature I love so dearly. I heard the other four growling and barking. I put my black shirt against the wound and then when I heard another gunshot but this one I expect to hit me didn't. I turn just in time to see Mori standing there holding the man's arm to point the gun up. I then notice someone beside me trying to stop my trembling hands and help hold in the blood to the animal before us.
"Lee, you have to calm her down." the boy said and I glance over to the boy with the glasses and I nod doing the only thing I could think of to calm her, sing. It was a lullaby that my mother use to sing to me in the Native tongue she was taught. It wasn't long but it was long enough. It spoke of a legend of a wolf-goddess falling in love with a man and then having to kill him when he betrayed her.
I heard sirens and then the animal control man was arrested though he kept saying that he was hired to shoot the wolves that were terrorizing the neighborhood. I was crying with my head down as the Vet was looking over the animal, a bigger softer version of her lying beside me whimpering to herself. I laid my head down my arms cover in blood and my body sore and cold.
"What's going on here?" I heard a voice I want to rip to shreds. My grief changed in to anger and my anger in to fury. The group I met earlier look to the woman as I got off the ground next to my baby's mother. "Ashlee, why are you dress like that in front of these young men? Are you trying to get by as a tramp? What is that all over you? Is that more of your fake blood?"
"Get out of MY house!" I screamed at her in pure fury.
"What are you talking about?" She growl at me. I glare up at her my eyes I know are red and puffy from crying.
"You hired someone to shoot Ren! He said you hire him to shoot all three of my girls! You fucking whore get out of my house with your prostitute daughter and her pimp!" I screamed again. She walked outside.
The gang stayed as my father showed up not long later."Lee, what happen? What's wrong?" He asked running over to me.
"They are not allowed here while I'm here. I'll pack and you can stay at a hotel with them for a few days while I get my stuff taken out of the house." I told him coldly.
"Lee, what happen?" He asked me slowly.
"She hired someone to kill my girls." I growl."She hired someone to shoot my pack!" I scream at him as fresh tears fell and he even look startle.
"I told her to leave them be, I swear I did." He said calmly but his face expression spoke volumes. I'm scaring him.
"You can keep the house, I'll find somewhere else to stay with the dogs, and I'm taking your boys too." I told him coldly as I look to the four creatures of our affection, mostly mine.
"Ren is being taken care of. You can keep the hunting business but nothing else. If you need more money than that make the whore and prostitute get jobs." I growl. He nodded his head. He then went upstairs to pack up things for himself and his wife. He led Rachael upstairs to get her some clothes for the next few days while I move out of my own home.
"Lee?" I heard a soft small voice. I look down to the blond with pretty chocolate eyes as he looked up to me sadly. "She will be fine. Vet said she would be okay." he told me with a sad smile.
"I know but doesn't change fact that I'm pissed off at them." I said then look how I and the others look. "I'm sorry."I said with a frown. "After they leave I'm going to take a shower. Mori,put an ice pack on your hand to keep the swelling down, they should be in the freezer." I motion to the kitchen and he nodded his head. "Honey, I should have some clothes that will fit you so you can take a shower too."I told him and he nodded his head. I glance up to the boy who is also cover in blood like Honey and I. "Kyoya I don't think I have any that will fit you but-..."
The twins cut me off. "Don't worry we probably have something in our limo." they told me and I smile to them grateful.
"When the gunshots were heard our guests were spook and decided to not come today so we follow Honey and Mori when they were running to the direction it was heard. You were very risky earlier, dear daughter." The leader of their group told me like a scold.
"You know my father is just upstairs right?" I ask with a deadpan.
Finally I got to understand what their group is and what it's about. I took a shower and brought down some old clothes from my younger days, Mom saved everything, and Honey shower and changed. He came out in a black t-shirt and dark jeans with his regular socks on and shoes in his hands."You wore boy clothes even when you were younger?" The twins asked me at once.
"Yep. If I wore dresses or skirts while working it would only get in the way, pants and t-shirts were the best solution." I said with a shrug. Kyoya came downstairs from the upstairs bathroom in a spare uniform from the twins and smile to me but it held no feelings or nothing behind it. "Either smile with emotion of any kind or don't smile at me." I told him simply and he looked slightly shock but it went away. I start to cook and the others decide to stay longer.
"Do you need help packing?" Asked the twins as they walk over to me while I start the food. I already decide I was going to cook for them.
As the water start to boil I went to Mori and look at his hand happy it's just a slight burn from the barrel. I put some Aloe Vera oil on it after breaking a piece of the plant I've grown. I wrap it up loosely and then smile up to him with a true smile though it was slightly sad. "You should be okay in a day or two as long as you are careful with it and remember to put Aloe Vera oils on it if it starts to hurt." I told him before turning to the twins. "It's my stuff and if you really want to help you can but not much you will be able to do. Haruhi can because she's a girl so I wouldn't mind her messing with a lot of my stuff." they all look shock and start to try to tell me she's not a girl she's a guy and how manly she is.
I just roll my eyes. "She has boobs twits, she's a girl."
She smiled to me and shrug her shoulders. "Not like I care who knows I am or not." She told them.
"I won't tell anyone if she doesn't want me to, not like anyone other than you all talk to me anyway." I shrug myself. With that I went back to cooking and the others just look at me shock.
JD: Oh look-y someone else is like Haruhi and brave enough to not take the twins and Tamaki's crap! Please Review!
INTERESTING FACT: Angeni means spirit and is also common Native American Indian name for girls.