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Here goes chapter threee..

"I am ashamed of both of you." Scarlett hung her head. Why did Gabriel have to tell her father? Caleb sat beside her, his eyes on his lap. Victor Maddock paced back and forth, shaking his head. He had curly brown hair that he kept cropped short. He wore a cotton jacket over a plain white t-shirt and jeans. He had on his old, white, Nike sneakers that he wore constantly. He looked at his children with angry blue eyes. He had a small mustache that Scarlett's mother had convinced him to keep. Scarlett was happy that her parents had stayed together after all the arguments they seemed to get into. It's all because of him. He's the reason our family is torn apart. She suppressed the growl rising in her throat. She didn't know his name, but there was a man that was chasing her father for revenge. Victor wouldn't reveal any more on the subject, so Scarlett just called the man him or he. She was about to ask about her father about him for the hundredth time, but her mother entered the room.

"Hello, Victor, I – " She paused and looked from Scarlett to Caleb to their father. "What's going on?" Scarlett's mother's name was Hope. Hope looked far younger than she was. Scarlett's father had once mentioned to his daughter that her mother had always been beautiful, and would always be beautiful. Scarlett had to agree. Hope Maddock was short for a woman, and she was very thin. She had beautiful red hair that fell neatly to her shoulders. Here eyes were large and blue, almost like Scarlett's own. Today, she wore a pair of black slacks and a white sweater.

"These two," he growled, "were running in the daytime without the pack. In their skins!" He pointed an accusing finger at his children. Scarlett knew her mother would be angry, but she wouldn't yell like her father. If there was one thing Scarlett hated most, it was being yelled at.

"Were they seen?" she asked in a controlled voice. Hope always looked very fragile, Scarlett had noticed, but she knew her mother was strong.

"By none other than Gabriel." When Hope didn't reply, Victor began lecturing. "You know that you cannot get into trouble with this pack. We will stay with them and cause no trouble so that we can stay here comfortably until it is time to move on. We – "

"Move on?" Caleb exclaimed, "I thought we were staying with this pack!" His expression was pained and Scarlett knew he wanted to stay with the Five. She didn't want to leave, either. Victor sighed.

"You don't understand," he said, suddenly tired, "it's a very complicated issue that your mother and I are dealing with – "

"What don't we understand?" challenged Caleb.

"He is relentless." Scarlett froze as her father's voice dropped low and urgent. She shrunk under his piercing gaze. "He will stop at nothing to get revenge on this family. Never forget that."

"What have we done – " Scarlett began, but was interrupted.

"But with the pack we could fight him!" Caleb said, his voice matching his father's. Victor shook his head, and his wife placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"No, we can't," he said firmly. Scarlett was bursting to ask why not, but she didn't want to anger her father. She nodded quietly.

"We're sorry, Papa," she said and kissed his cheek. She shot Caleb a hard stare, daring him to say more. He kept his mouth shut and followed her out the door.

"How could you just sit there?" he cried when they were out of their parents' earshot. Scarlett gave him a knowing look.

"We can't do anything to stress them out," she said, "we have to keep everything as calm as possible so that we can stay."

"And?" he demanded.

"And…we ask Isabella."

"What?" Scarlett sighed. She and her brother almost never talked to their sister. Before they had moved, she had been the main attraction of all the males in their old pack from San Francisco. Scarlett especially had resented their sister for always being away from home, and staying over night at guys houses. Moon only knows what she was doing there, Scarlett thought bitterly.

"She'll know about him." She shuddered, thinking about the man who was chasing her family: the one that kept her father awake at night, the reason why they moved from pack to pack. Caleb stared at her warily.

"Isabella wouldn't tell us about – " But he didn't finish what he was saying. Scarlett was about to retort, when she felt a pair of strong arms encircle her waist. Finn's head appeared on her shoulder.

"Tell us about what?" Scarlett's face turned red with pleasure, not knowing what to say.

"About her baby," supplied Caleb and Scarlett shot him a grateful look. She relaxed and leaned back into Finn. This is right, she though, enjoying the feel of him around her, protecting her.

"What do you guys wanna do?" Gregory asked. The Five looked at one another, shrugging.

"I have an idea." They all turned to see Gabriel walking down the hallway. They looked uncomfortably at each other. Gabriel took a step to the side. Behind him was the girl that Scarlett had seen earlier in the parking lot.

"I'd like you to show Joslyn around the inn. She'll be staying here." It took all of Scarlett's control not to attack the girl standing before her. From far away, she was pretty. From close up she was…

"Hott," whispered Gregory. She had the Five – even Willem – drooling. Remind me to claw their ears off, Scarlett thought to herself. Joslyn's eyes were a beautiful shade of green, but Scarlett knew that the Five were attracted to her figure. She looked at Gabriel, but he was serious about this girl.

"Alright," she said loudly, hoping to pull the Five out of their trance. It worked for all but Willem. This filled Scarlett with rage and it was all she could do to stay in her human form. Her knees popped as the wolf inside of her told her to attack this outsider. She turned on her heel and began walking down the corridor.

"What would you like to see?"

"Um, I don't know…what is there to see?" Gabriel, seeing that things were under control turned and began to walk away. Scarlett caught up with him.

"Is she loup garou?" she asked. She wanted to ask him why he had told her father, but she knew better than to speak that way to the alpha male.

"Why, of course," he replied. Scarlett's jaw dropped. A million thoughts raced through her mind, none of them good. She turned to see Willem still staring at Joslyn. The look on Finn's face was alarmingly similar. This was too much for her to handle.

"Come on guys," she called, not bthering to keep the annoyance out of her voice. They followed, Willem falling into step beside Joslyn. Can this be happening? Scarlett panicked. She slowed her pace so that Finn could catch up. He did and she walked as close as she could to him without knocking him over. She looked over her shoulder. Even Caleb was under her spell. She's not that pretty, is she? Scarlett thought helplessly. She was comforted when Finn put his arm around her. She turned to glare at Joslyn. Finn is with me, she told her silently. She hoped this intruder got the message.

The seven of them walked up and down the hallways of the inn. They went outside and wandered around. Joslyn didn't say much. She just nodded when they spoke to her. All the while Willem was close at her heels. She would be enough to make Vivan jealous, Scarlett realized. Then another thought crossed her mind, And I wouldn't? She sighed, knowing that she wouldn't want to be used like that. Besides, Vivian wouldn't get jealous. She has Gabriel.

"Where does your pack hunt?" Joslyn asked, interrupting Scarlett's thoughts.

"In the forest," Willem said before Ulf or Gregory could.

"You don't hunt…meat?" Scarlett frowned, not understanding her question.

"We hunt rabbits and such," Finn offered. Joslyn's frown deepened.

"You mean you don't hunt humans?" Scarlett's jaw dropped.

"They're strictly off-limits, especially the ones that stay at the inn!" She looked at Willem, but he didn't seem to be bothered by Joslyn's choice of food. She decided that she would tell Gabriel about this. Then maybe she could have the Five back to herself again. She had liked it when they wanted her and they chased her and they got all goggle-eyed over her. Finn had disappeared from her side. She looked around her and saw him talking to Joslyn. They were all discussing the morality in eating humans. The thought of eating a human made Scarlett gag. She stalked over to stand beside Finn.

"Well, you can't eat any here. You'll jeapordize the pack!" Joslyn merely shrugged.

"Do your parents hunt...like you?"

"No. Just me and my friends." Scarlett's thoughts drifted to the stories she had heard about Rafe and Astrid. She shuddered.

Scarlett looked from Finn to Joslyn to Willem. Finn and Willem could not take their eyes of this new girl, and Joslyn had turned her gaze to Finn. Without thinking, Scarlett went up to Finn and kissed him, her arms sliding behind his neck. She knew she had caught him off guard, because she felt him stumble backwards. To her delight, he returned the kiss. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Joslyn look away which helped her to relax. Finn was hers.

"I'll see you later," she told him, and she left to find Gabriel. Just wait until he hears about Joslyn. She'll be out of this pack for sure.

Kind of a weak chapter, sorry. R&R pleaseee!!