Chapter 4

It was silent for a few moments. Aria noticed that everybody in the room seemed to be surprised by her statement of being the Alpha. Kate broke the silence. "You're Alpha. Wow, that's amazing." Aria wasn't sure whether to be flattered at how highly Kate thought of her being Alpha was or to be or angry at her-and everybody elses-obvious surprise at her being the leader of a werewolf pack.

"Are girls seriously aloud to be leaders." Reid asked and Aria was more than a little offended, starting to answer, but her sisters voice coming from across the room cut her off. "Yes, actually, they can." Anna looked tired, and worn out and scared, her hair a mess of tangles and her feet bare, showing the large cuts and scratches that she had inquired while coming to find the Sons.

"Hey, how're you feeling." Aria asked her younger sister as she made her way over towards her, wrapping her arm around Anna's shoulders. Anna closed her eyes for a few seconds before opening them and looking up into her sisters matching chocolate gaze. "I'm okay, I guess." It wasn't exactly a clear and thorough answer but Aria would take it given the circumstances that they were in. Aria watched her sisters gaze travel around the room to take in everybody's expressions, her own wary, yet surprised. "Did you tell them?"

Aria sighed, "Yes Anna, I told them, at least most of what they needed to know."

"So will they help with Kane?" The question confused the Sons and their girlfriends and made Aria cast her eyes up at the ceiling as if looking up there would somehow help her, either to get answers or to disappear. Unfortunately, neither happened. "I haven't gotten to that part yet." She told her sister, a look of exasperation on her face.

"Who's Kane and why would you need our help?" Caleb asked automatically, his eyes focused on the older sister as he leaned forward waiting for her answer. Aria led Anna over and sat her down, due to the fact that she still didn't look her best, before she answered the eldest Sons question, meeting his gaze full on. "Kane is the reason that we're here, though I'm not gonna lie and say that I'm glad to be here as you probably know and I don't expect anything from you guys."

Many faces in the room registered in shock at her answer and bluntness, but Caleb's stayed carefully blank. "Tell us who he is first and why you need our help in the first place before we decide whether or not to help you, and don't make assumpions about whether we will or won't help ." Aria couldn't help be surprised at the Caleb's tone of voice, along with his reasoning, reasoning that only a good and true leader could have. She knew that she respected him for that, just by him saying that sentence. She was just surprised that he had that instinct at his age, which was no more than eighteen since Anna had told her they were still in high school.

That made Aria's reluctance to tell them about their problems ease slightly, but just by a small amount. She was still wary to reveal the truth, whatever there was left to reveal. "Well, it technically started years and years ago, and it was Kane's father, Tom Reave, who started it. You see Tom, his wife Natasha and his son Kane were once apart of our pack.

Though I personally didn't know Tom very well growing up, my parents and my aunt did. But I still only know what they told me so I can't really talk personally about him. But he was twenty when he married Natasha, who was also a wolf. They had Kane sometime after that. The thing about Tom was that he hated humans, he loathed them actually. He thought that since we could change into wolves every full moon we shouldn't guard and protect the land but use our strength to kill the weak humans, the ones who deserved it.

He was also dead set against allowing humans to become our mates. He thought that we were above them. At first it was nothing and nobody thought much about his dislike for humans, but after a while it became more of an obsession, a goal of his to try and make the pack do what he wanted, hunt humans, not allow them to know about our pack and then to rid of all humans who already knew of us."

"My dad was the new Alpha of the pack and he wouldn't allow any talk of killing humans and such, it was not only against pack law but also against his own standards. My dad's repeated refusals made Tom angry, especially when his own wife didn't agree with them either, so for a few years he argued and then Kane was born and he thought that he could raise his son to be just like him with a dislike for humans, and than years later his son could help him take over the pack.

I was born four years after Kane and that's when Tom got this sick idea that maybe, just maybe, he could get me and Kane together, as mates somehow and then when my parents retired he would get rid of my older brother Jared so that would make me and whoever my mate was to become the next Alpha male and female of the pack.

Those plans changed quickly though when my father made it clear that I would choose whoever I wanted my mate to be, even if it wasn't Kane. So Tom's anger grew and he decided to take matters into his own hands and, well, he did. My brother Jared and Kane were thirteen, I was nine and Anna here was only one when Tom made his move.

It was a huge surprise to everyone. Tom had left for a few months every year or so for the last few years but nobody had thought much of it, they thought they were random trips to get away, when in truth he had been going secretly from pack to pack, befriending those few who had the same thoughts of humans as he did. Nobody knew until it was to late and they attacked,

They killed two wolves in our pack, along with their mates and then by his own hand, Tom killed my father and mother, escaping into the unkown. It left everybody in a frenzy, filled with grief and anger towards him. There was no Alpha left to defend our pack and since my grandparents who were once the Alpha had already retired and stopped shifting nobody knew what to do.

Some packs offered to let us blend in with theirs while other were to afraid of Tom and his pack of rogues to do anything but hide and watch from the sidelines. In the end it was my mom's sister, our Aunt Pam, who took over with her human mate, our Uncle Roy. She hadn't came from Alpha bloodlines but it was good enough until my brother was eighteen and could take over as Alpha."

"So she did her best and Uncle Roy, who was only human did an amzing job helping her. They were also the ones who raised us after our parents died. Aunt Pam was also the one who let the thirteen year old Kane and Tom's mate Natasha, stay since they clearly didn't know about Tom's deciet. Well, at least Natasha didn't, Kane on the other hand...

Well it was three years after my parents deaths and only a month before my twelfth birthday-a month before I would have my first transformation- when Kane revealed that he was working with his father. He was only sixteen but lethal enough to surprise us and manage to kill not only my Uncle Roy, but also mine and Anna's brother making me the next heir to become Alpha.

The years after that were hard on the pack, all of us dealing with grief, my Aunt trying to cope with everything while still being the packs Alpha. I tried to help with anything I could, so did everybody else in our pack, but the few adults we had left had started to stop shifting at an early age and soon it was only my Aunt, me, Anna and three other members of our pack left, making us one of the smallest known packs ever.I was eighteen when Aunt Pam stopped shifting and I took over the pack. It was hard, especially without a mate but I manged it somehow. We're all still looking for Kane though, along with his father and their pack of rogues, however many of them there are.

The main reason we have to worry though is because though at first Tom-and now Kane-wanted to kill humans, but after all of the packs refusal to help with that they had turned against us, their very own kind and though they have been quiet over the last few years it's only because they've been recruiting other rogues, other wolves.

They swore that once they were strong enough they would come after our race and kill all of us, since we are the main reason stopping them from killing humans and once we're gone they can go and try to complete their goal, and there is no way that we're willing to let that happen, which means that it's likely a war will break out-and soon."

Aria jaw was tensed, her teeth mashing together as her hand clutched the back of Anna's chair painfully. It was only when her sisters hand decended on her own when she loosened her hand. She was to tense to speak, she couldn't believe how much she had just revealed to these strangers, she couldn't believe that she actually told them so much.

"Do you have any more questions, it's okay to ask them if you do." Anna's soft voice snapped Aria's attention to the humans and warlocks that stood in the room. They all held expressions of surprise and shock, the girls also have compassion and sadness in their eyes. It was the pity that she saw in almost all of their eyes that made her snap. "Yes, please, are they're any more questions or can we leave yet so you can get on with your pretty little lives?"

Caleb, who was usually the calmest of them all, felt his anger rise. "Stop assuming things that you don't know." He told Aria in a angry, yet somewhat serious voice. "our lives aren't as pretty as you might think they are." Added Reid hotly, his blue eyes flashing. Aria knew her own anger was flaring up and it seems that Anna did to as she squeezed her hand tightly whispering to Aria, yet loud enough for everyone in the room to hear. "Stop, Aria, please. You want Kane as badly as anyone might, maybe more than anyone else might want him and you know that they can help us, so can you please, just this once, try to let someone help you instead of trying to automatically assume you have to do everything yourself."

This chapter may be short but it has a lot of important deatails of the story in it. Please review with what you all think of it, along with any other constructive critism that you may have.

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