Chapter 3

Aria paced the length of the room back and forth, running her hands through her hair, over and over again while Anna sat on the king sized bed in the room and watched her sister vent.

After Caleb had made is little declaration that he believed that they were werewolves the room had gone into not only awkward, but completely shocked silence as the leader of the Sons was given incredulous looks by almost everyone other than the two wolves there. After calming down Caleb had promised to explain, but not before he had offered the two sisters rooms upstairs which they had declined, stating that they would only share one.

Aria would have rather declined both and made a run for it but now they were already in far to deep to do anything about it, even if bolting out of here seemed like the best idea so far she knew that she had to suck it up, and besides,unless she was going to jump out of a three story window then they had no chance of going out anywhere other than where they came in which was impossible with the witch boys downstairs having a little discussion that Aria just knew was about them.

"Shit, Anna this is just so...so...so screwed up!" Aria's words had gotten louder and louder until she was yelling the last part. Aria looked at the door as she lowered her voice."Look we really shouldn't be here,they can't help us." Aria said kneeling in front of her younger sister and looking at her face."They really can't help us."

"But they can!" Annabelle mumbled stubbornly."You don't get how I mean this do you?" Aria said lowly, looking down at their now clasped hands. Anna being the ever so stubborn thirteen year old she was, wasn't going to give up."No I don't get how you mean this, what I do get is that they can help us take down Kane. They can help us get rid of him."

Aria finally glanced up at her younger sister, her eyes hard, but very knowing."Yeah, sure they can help us Anna, but at what price?"Anna swallowed and watched her sister warily."Anna, if they help us then they will have to use their powers, which could take away some of their life span or if they use to much it could probably kill them and I can't do that to them.I can't barge in here and ask them to risk their lives for us, two strangers."

Anna looked down at her hands, starting to understand why her sister was so unhappy to be here, so unhappy to be asking for the help of the Sons. Anna also knew that that wasn't the only reason her sister was unhappy to be here. Aria didn't like strangers, people who weren't part of the pack, not werewolves and not family and Aria sure as hell didn't like strangers knowing about their pack.

"But if they asked for your-well our help then we would do it-we would help them." Anna said but Aria was already shaking her head from side to side half way through. "No we wouldn't help them Anna,I wouldn't let you guys help them and I know that that's a very selfish thing to do but I would do anything to protect you guys and if they have any sense then they will send us away because the truth is that I'm the one who will have to deal with Kane in the end, not them, not you-Me."

Anna felt the tears roll down her cheeks and felt a sob rise in her throat but she wouldn't let it out, she had to be strong. She was old enough to know that none of this was a game anymore, and she knew that this was very real and that there was a good chance that someone she cared deeply about-someone she loved would get hurt-and maybe possibly die. She couldn't hold in the next sob that came, or the one after that and soon enough she was sobbing in her sisters arms.

Downstairs it wasn't quite as emotional and heartfelt as it was in the sisters room but it wasn't calm down there either. Everybody was still shocked about Caleb's decision to believe the werewolf story and let them stay, everybody was shocked that he would even consider something as stupid as werewolves existing, but then again, none of them had seen what Caleb had.

"What the hell man, you can't honestly tell me that your gonna let them stay here." Pogue said still skeptic that his best friend since childhood had decided to let the two strange girls-who claimed to be werewolves-stay.

"Yeah it's like you touch the damn tattoo and now they have you brainwashed or something." Reid said. Tyler looked deep in thought before speaking up."When you touched it you looked like you were seeing something that we weren't." Tyler said and Caleb sighed, rubbing his hand over his face. "That's because I was." He told them.

There was silence for a few minutes before Sarah put a comforting hand on his arm."Like what." She asked and he shook his head, by the look Aria had given him earlier it seemed that she didn't want him to share what he had seen with everyone, and he wasn't surprised either.A lot of it had been gruesome and painful and he was sure that it was her past, but how else could he explain it to everyone without telling them?

"I think that they were her memories...It was almost like I was having some kind of vision or something, like I was going and seeing everything in her past about five or six years back."

"And you saw her as a..." Reid didn't have to finish his sentence for them to know what he was asking."Yes." Caleb answered and even though everyone was still skeptic,Reid thought back to what Aria had said earlier about how they were male witches and then couldn't believe in werewolves, then to what Caleb had said about what he saw and he felt more then a little curious now, along with excited.

"Well it looks like things just got a little interesting."

Neither Aria or Annabelle came out of their room until the next morning. Everybody had decided to just stay the night at the Danver's mansion so that they would all be there to talk-and hopefully get more information-from the two sisters when they awoke.

It was now nine o'clock and they had all been up waiting for at least an hour and were getting slightly jumpy, especially Reid. He was getting angry too. He had been up til late last night thinking about the older sister, Aria. It seemed that he couldn't-and wouldn't-stop thinking about her and he wasn't sure why that was.

She was gorgeous, sure, even a blind man could see that but Reid didn't see what the big deal was. He had met lots of girls that were gorgeous. Hell , he had slept with girls that were gorgeous before but he wasn't sure what was different about Aria, he had barely spoken ten words with her and she kinda seemed like a bitch.

"Somebody just wake them up already." Reid said annoyed.

"No, let them sleep." Sarah said.

"They've slept enough."

"How are we gonna wake them up anyway." Kate said and Reid looked over at her with a incredulous face. "Go into the room, shake her shoulder and she's awake, does that sound easy enough." Reid said, speaking to her as if she was five. Pogue was about to retort back to Reid about talking to his girlfriend like that but a voice from the doorway stopped everyone.

"You do know if you touched me in my sleep-even if just to wake me up- that you would get a good punch in the face right?" Aria asked with her eyebrows raised. She still wore the same clothes as she had on yesterday, only she no longer had on the leather jacket.

Most of them had the decency to look a little sheepish for being caught talking about them but not Reid, no he even had the nerve to run his big mouth off. "Finally, Thought you were dead or something but then again I bet that you werewolves need your beauty sleep." He said sarcastically. Aria felt angry at the comment but wasn't about to let it show that it bugged her. He was after all just a kid, no older then eighteen at the most and she knew that it was probably just his personality to be rude, arrogant and a asshole from what she had seen so far.

Though she acted calm and collected , Aria still felt the need to make a comment back at the smart ass. "No actually, us werewolves don't need beauty sleep but from the way you're acting princess, it sure as hell looks like you do and today I can see that you didn't get it." Aria added extra emphasize on werewolves and princess, smirking when Reid's mouth dropped open in shock at her rebuttal while almost everybody in the room tried to hide their smiles and laughter.

Their laughter quieted down though when they saw the smirk fall off Aria's face and a serious expression take it's place. "I have a feeling that you guys want answers, and now, that is, if you believe me." She said and they each glanced at each other before Tyler decided to speak up. "Caleb believes you because he said he saw some kind of slide show of something when he touched your tattoo and if he believes you then we do to." Aria nodded and went pulling up a stool and sitting on it to face them all.

They could still see though that even though she was sitting down she was tense and alert, ready to either strike or flee at any minute if it was necessary. She raised her eyebrows. "So what do you want to know."

"Well first how about why you're telling us all this stuff in the first place and if what you do tell us isn't just a lie." Reid asked her before anyone could so much as open their mouths. Aria looked him in the eye, her own showing no sign of lies. "I'm telling you because we're already here and I know that I'm not getting out of this no matter how hard I try, as for you knowing that I'm not lying, well, you don't know whether I'm lying or not but honestly why would I lie. It won't help me any if I lie so I might as well just tell you the truth."

"Caleb said that he saw something like a slide show. He said they looked like your past or something, was it that or something else." Aria looked over at Pogue who had spoken and nodded. "What he saw was my past, or more of my memories really, my memories from when I turned twelve all the way up to the very moment he touched the tattoo."

"Why age twelve?" Reid asked. "Are you like blocking him out from seeing anything from before you were that age."

"No," Aria shook her head. "It's more that I didn't get the tattoo before my twelfth birthday, which means that it didn't record any memories from before I had it and before you ask I got the tattoo when I had my first transformation as a werewolf. Every wolf transforms on the full moon after their twelfth birthday and gets one, once you have a tattoo it stores all of your memories and anyone who so much as brushes against it even by accident will see my every memory from that age which is why us wolves have to bee careful of who we touch. Just think if some random person would accidentally touch it and see everything I have in the past nine years of my life, he would not only see and feel everything that I have but he would also learn about magic and werewolves and we would most likely end up as lab experiments."

"That must be offal." Sarah gasped and Aria shrugged."We all learn to deal with it, besides lets say if one of us has a lover it won't be like if he touches the tattoo he'll see everything over and over again. Once a person touches the tattoo once if the the same person touches it again he won't be able to see it unless the wolf wants him or her too."

"Wait you said nine years. So you've been a werewolf for that long?" Tyler asked her and she nodded. "So you're twenty-one." Pogue asked and Aria nodded, amused. "Yes and my birthday is on September the twenty-fifth, would you like to know my social security number too?" She asked them sarcastically and Reid cracked up laughing while Sarah, Kate and Caleb smiled as Pogue and Tyler both stuttered.

"So is there a reason you're a werewolf or is it just that you exist and nothing more?" Tyler asked getting back to serious questions. "Well," Aria started. "It's not that we're here just for the sake of being here but then again we don't do much either. You could say that us werewolves are more of guardians or protectors than anything else. We come in packs, usually small ones that are scattered all over the place -all over the world- and we basically live near society and are apart of it, we just keep our secrets-well just that, secrets, but no matter how close we live to society we live closer to the nature, usually surrounded by trees and forests because we are tied to the earth

We don't know how our people came to be or why we do the things we do but all we know is that our people have been here for as long as man kind has. Werewolves are originally sent to earth to protect the land and people. Every full moon the pack do runs of the land that they protect which is a lot but honestly their are enough wolves to cover it and when us wolves transform we can run faster than anybody would ever believe. But anyway that's pretty much all that we do. We watch the order of nature."

"Cool." Kate muttered blushing as Aria grinned at her, clearly amused. "Well , can't say that I've thought it was cool but that's only probably because I've known about it my whole life growing up."

"You have?"

"Yes, once a wolf is born they are automatically going to be apart of the pack. Even if the wolf has one human parent and one werewolf parent or whether the wolf has both werewolf parents as long as he or she has the blood they will be part of the pack once they turn twelve and there for grow up learning about pack life."

"Wait a minute" Caleb said. "One human parent, is that even aloud? You know having humans there or do you just bite them and change them?" He asked Aria, obviously starting to wonder if she really could be a threat. Aria answered him easing some of his doubts. "No, we don't bite people, well not unless you ask us to." She joked. "But as I said, no and even if we did it can't change a human who isn't born with the blood. As for the human parents comment, well- we grow up going to regular schools and there for with regular people. We even date regular people and if a wolf is truly in love with that person and trusts them they tell them the secret of werewolves and they eventually become mates. No matter what pack it is if a werewolf loves a human then they can go through the special mating ceremony. Werewolves take love and mates very seriously and we do not forbid it. Ever ."

"Mates?" Reid asked the same time as Caleb asked "You trust so easily that you'd tell you're secret?" and Pogue said "Pack law." while Tyler said "What kind of ceremony?" Aria laughed lightly. "Well aren't all of you in sync. Anyway Reid, Tyler to answer you're questions first a mate is basically the person the werewolf wants to stay with for the rest of their lives and the ceremony is what ties them together whether it is two wolves or a wolf and a human. It is a serious matter-a mating ceremony-kind of like a wedding just much more important with no way of divorce until death. Of course we also have a real wedding just to not cause suspicion."

"As for Caleb, don't you think that you're being a little hypocritical." She looked over at Sarah and Kate making the great golden boy Caleb blush slightly. Aria knew that it probably didn't happen often for him when she saw the other Sons expressions but she wasn't surprised that he had blushed. She knew she could be intimidating when she wanted to which happened very often-it was one of the perks of being Alpha. It could cause both her knowing pack and clueless-or not clueless- humans to cower in her presence on many occasions.

"Anyway no Caleb, we don't tell our secrets easily but once a wolf is with a person long enough to know that he or she is the one, his or her true love or soul mate as many call it, then they are allowed to tell the secret for we know that even if the human does not take it well we have no risk of being exposed. That's because like the wolf the human the wolf loves also develops that strong bond with the wolf which leads to the human not wanting to tell the secret knowing that the wolf he or she is in love with is likely to be harmed. And the wolf will not tell the human unless he is sure that the person is really the one. It usually works out on most occasions."

" A human falling in love with a werewolf happens often?" Sarah asked and Aria nodded. "Yes, I've seen it." and experienced it Aria added in her head not willing to say it aloud but it looked like she would have to when Reid spoke up. "Wait you said usually, that means it hasn't always worked out?" He asked leaning in. "No." Aria said. "But there were reasons that it didn't."

"You're talking as if you were there when all this went down." He told her and Aria narrowed her eyes at him. "I was."

"So these were friends of yours then?"

"No." She said through clenched teeth. "It was me and my..." She thought of the words to explain it. My true love who I no longer have. The man who once loved me but our love was lost. My almost mate. Those were all to dramatic."...ex" Aria finished lamely making Reid let out a laugh only for Kate to whack the back of his head."You sound as if you're still not over the guy. He must 'ave dumped your ass badly."

"It isn't how you would think it is." Aria told him. Reid leaned back and looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Then explain it to me." Reid said making Sarah and Kate, along with Tyler all give him looks that said not to pry into the personal life when they obviously didn't need to know anything about it but still, even they looked curious to hear about it, probably waiting for a big romantic story starting with love at first sight, going to the big dramatic parts ending with the guy ending up to be an asshole and cheating on her or something all the way up to her being the overbearing bitch ending with the big break up over some stupid reason. Aria didn't know these people and she sure as hell wasn't gonna give them the story of her and Erik.

"It just didn't work out." They did look a little disappointed not to have been able to hear the big break up sob story. Aria knew that they probably went to a big rich school which meant that they probably went to school with the type of rich and bitchy girls who blabbed and bragged and gossiped about every little to big thing including their break up. Aria wasn't like that, she had never been, not even in her younger years which is why she didn't tell them anything. It was her life and really none of their business and she wouldn't tell them anything unless she really and truly trusted them, even then she might not.

"So any more questions about werewolves or my pack."

"You're pack?" Reid asked her incredulous. "You make it sound like they belong to you."

"They don't." Aria said smirking a little knowing that the next things she told them were likely to surprise them. After all, they were talking about werewolves here and from their knowledge-which wasn't a lot- Aria had no doubt that they thought Alpha's were some big and ugly and terribly scary creatures. "The reason I said my pack was because I'm Alpha."

Okay so here is the next chapter. It will give you a little bit more on everything. It will catch you up on some werewolf history. The rest of that history will be in the next chapter.

Other then the history it gave you some more stuff on the sons of Ipswich, Anna and most importantly Aria, our main character who I hope from what you have heard of her so far you guys all like her.

I want to make her character a smart ass, a bit of a bitch and with a bit of an attitude. Basically a female version of Reid-minus the whole player part- Aria is no longer a serious relationship kind of girl but she used to be once unlike Reid who was a player since his younger teen years.

The reason I made Aria to be a character like this is because I want her to be someone who can stand up to Reid and outsmart him-give him a taste of his own medicine if you know what I mean and I think Aria will be perfect for that but I also have to make her a likable character so please I want to know what all of you think so please review

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