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~ Chapter 27: Dad ~

DPOV

I ran like mad after the Alpha, I was scared about his temper as he flew me off my feet in the office trying to get out. He was very powerful, and with all that power he may take it out on someone he might not mean to, like I did... a long time ago.

My feet ploughed to a stop as something caught my eye, I turned and there stood Chloe, wide eyed and stiff as a board. (Probably from the oaths the Alpha uttered as he went) But I shook off the thought long enough to calm her down and plead with her to stay there. I didn't want her following me, I already had the whole group in the den to worry about, and I didn't need another innocent bystander there too.

I began again, tripping over my feet and fumbling awkwardly down the hall trying to propel myself the fastest I could to the den. I turned the corner and rushed in; the Alpha was almost to the front door, his body fuming with anger and everyone around me trying to get answers

Before he could burst into the street I lunged at him and grabbed him by the shoulders.

"Let me go!" he growled low and bitter, I swallowed back my fear of his threatening rumble that I knew even I couldn't produce and tightened my grip.

"No, I'm not going to let you go out and try to find and kill someone you don't even know. Do you even know who you are up against? Where to look? Are you just going to run around blindly looking for someone while your family is here worried about you?" He eased, and then jolted forward against me. I had to shove my elbows into the door frame along with the tips of my feet to hold him back.

"They took my family away; they took your father away. A real man would do something about this, what are you sitting around waiting for boy?!" I cringed back; he was calling me weak, saying I didn't care for my own father. I felt a growl seep up my throat but I cut it short as my human half returned me to logical thinking.

"I am looking for a right way to get my father back; I'm not going to charge stupidly into a trap and endanger those I care about." This is when he weakened, but still he pulled forward.

"Dad... stop this!"Sophie and I begged in unison, I blinked back in shock. Did I just call him dad?

CPOV

It must have been a shock to them both because Derek's arms fell to his sides and the Alpha eased and turned to him, his hands cupping Derek's shoulders. Their eyes held contact in an unblinking stare for what felt like forever, then it wavered and both of their faces fell away from each other.

I should not have seen this taking place, I was supposed to be down the hall but at the moment I decided against hiding in the house and was leaning around the corner into the den, my hands to my mouth in shock.

That was when Sophie got between them and starting scolding her father, Derek pulled away and the wife got into the jostle too. The rest of us held back, Derek coming up silently to my side as we all watched the Alpha being brought down by his wife and daughter.

"That was really something you just did there Derek." I said to him, but when I looked up his eyes were on the Alpha, his jaw set and Adams apple bobbing as he swallowed hard on his last said words. He never did respond, Andrew and Liam decided on an early leaving and we said our goodbyes in between the sounds of the family's quarrel.

~*~

When we got back Simon and Tori relayed what happened to the frat pack, but they were missing a member. Where was Aidan, and Derek for that matter? I rolled on my heels and took a gander around me looking for them. Then I huffed.

"That can't be too good..."

DPOV

As I got out of the pickup I caught the smell of Aidan, as the others made it to the house I held myself back from them looking around. I was not in the mood to be spied upon.

Finally a head popped from behind a tree nearby, I gave him a mean look but all he did was grin my way naturally. I didn't like conversing like this but I'd bite, this seemed interesting. But still I walked over cautiously.

"What are you doing behind a tree?" I growled without meaning to, but his look of seriousness that was on his face as I approached worried me.

Aidan if I remembered correctly was the middle werewolf; he was the same age as I was while the others were a year either below or above him. He came out slightly and sort of shuffled his feet, then Aidan lifted his chin for me to come in closer.

"I want to talk to you for a minute." I stopped in my path and could feel a brow rise.

"If it isn't important than don't waste my time." I said levelly, my features straightening as I held my stance. He snorted a laugh then came more out of the tree line, careful not to make any noise as he did so.

"If it wasn't something you found important then you would have just forgot about my scent and headed into the house." He was weaving his words like venom and I flinched."Obviously what I have to say is important enough to get your attention; you can tell it is, even though you don't know what it could possibly be yet." I growled and held my ground.

"Stop beating around the bush, what do you want?!" I commanded, he didn't seem afraid of me just like before when he stood up to me and told about how the house we are all staying in was theirs. I clenched my teeth, seeing how my appearance didn't faze him meant that he was or at least could be a threat.

"I want to know the truth," he said as he came up and faced me. "I want to know all of it." His brown eyes flashing me a look that could only be summarized into one word: Now.

CPOV

Derek and Aidan returned together from the yard, they came into the door quiet and Derek looking angry. I watched from the living room as Derek removed his shoes and fled upstairs, Aidan left there standing at the entrance, his hands in his pockets, looking lost.

That is when I gathered up my courage and came up to him.

"Hey, you guys have been gone for a while. What happened to you two?" He looked down at me with frightened eyes before he was able to hide it, then he forced a smile and said something about that it was nothing important. I was then to be left lost for he retreated to a room his buddies were in as I stood there completely hung out to dry.

~*~

It wasn't until supper time (which I must say came pretty late due to the fact we all ate breakfast at around 11) that everyone finally saw each other. Tori sat cooped up in her room doing whatever Tori does while being secluded to herself, Simon left working on the comic he said he was doing to record our "experience" on the run, and Derek... he pretty much disappeared into the unknown because no matter how much I bopped around I couldn't find him. The frat pack stuck together doing stuff, so that left me by myself until supper. Liam honestly gave them the perfect name though, the frat pack... a pack of their own, behaving just like the wolves they hid under their pale flesh.

As suppers go, this one was okay, we ordered pizza from the local corner store that also tripled as a gas station and grocery store for the community, and everyone had something to say about their day and smiles were free range. All except for Derek and Aidan, who sat as far away as they could from each other, their expressions sour and cross.

"Derek and Aidan, how were your days? You seem so quiet don't you have anything to add to the conversation?"I asked nervously. They looked at each other for a fraction of a second, then Derek spat a no and Aidan refused as well but slightly nicer. No one seemed to notice this but me; everyone just went on eating their food like it was going out of style. I need to know what was going on, it's driving me nuts!

~*~

Later on I tracked down Simon and asked him to talk to Derek for me, he did not argue or ask why, he simply agreed and went on his way. Well, that's one werewolf down.

DPOV

I laid in some bedroom(since I didn't have one of my own at the moment)and one sniff said it was Tori's, then that deep nameless something rose to my nostrils and I realised it was Chloe's too. I shot from the bed then and held my breath.

I let it out. Okay... I'm alright now.

I looked up and stared at the wall in front of me. I was trying to figure out why I called the Alpha my dad, I already had a dad after all_ Kit. The guy who raised me! I went and grabbed the knob of the door, the other hand busy trying to loosen the bunched muscles between my eye brows. I turned the handle, but I couldn't pull it open. I stared down at my hand, at how tense it was. I brought it up closer to me and studied my troubled palm, what is going on with me?

I lumbered into the hall, staring down the long corridor of empty rooms, trying to figure this whole thing out was becoming more difficult as time went on. And it didn't help that Aidan asked about how I knew the Alpha and about all his supernatural housemates. He still couldn't believe that the rest or my group were individuals found only in Hogwarts, but it didn't take me long to convince him when I played the "We turn into friggin' wolves for god's sake and you won't even believe that other things besides humans live on this earth?" card, and he quickly got my point. But at the same time he was still cross whenever he looked at me, I didn't exactly know why... but I could only think that it had something to do with being the Alpha's son.

As I wandered the hall, not tired enough to sleep on a couch probably being occupied by someone watching TV and too tired to go out for a walk, I wondered about Chloe. I wondered about the way she asked about my day at supper, that nervous angle of her brows, the full lipped smile that quickly made me snap no just so I didn't have to look at it no more in order to calm my heart. Was she worried about me because she thought there was something up between me and Aidan? I snorted. Nah, of course not!

Then I stopped in my tracks and looked up to see what my nose already told me, Simon.

~*~

Now I was lying on the couch, Simon was on the cot in the next room that the frat pack found in the attic earlier, it was late real late. The perfect time for a snack.

CPOV

I was sitting up in bed, Tori was by the wall sleeping like a log quietly snoring. I wished I could be that peaceful. I pulled my knees to my chin and looked out the window, staring at the bright full moon that shone in with its pale light. Somehow my eyelids got heavy; I lowered myself once again onto the mattress and breathed the warm air in the hem of the blanket clutched in my hand. I let the sandman visit me finally and everything went black.

DPOV

As I pulled a slice of left over pizza from the box, I lifted my ear to a sound coming from upstairs; it was a whimper, the whimper or crying. I lifted the piece to my mouth, but couldn't tempt myself to bite down. The crying came again, that was when I decided to see for myself what was going on. I made my way to the noise, but when I got there I realized it was Chloe's room... and the room was quiet once again.

I smelt her deep nameless scent that always made my heart race, my hand spread itself onto the face of her door, and then it curled into a loose fist and fell back to my side. I gathering up her scent again and let my senses race. Then I looked to her door, I heard that whimper again and I bit my lip. Should I do something?

I didn't even have enough time to answer myself before the door flew open and out came Chloe. She ran me over like a train; her smacking into me -and being unprepared my self -fell over.

I looked up and there she was, her blue eyes red from crying and nose sniffing back her sobs. She was just above me.

"Chloe..."

"Derek," she murmured the best she could. "Oh Derek, it was awful!" she cried, clamping her arms around my neck. At first I didn't know what to do, but then I swallowed my nerves and sat up, she came with me.

"What was it?" I said as calmly as I could, she was never this close before to me and all I could smell was the salt from her crying.

"Derek," she said looking into my eyes. I gulped hard."It was a message from my Aunt Lauran." I realised my shirt was wet and looked down to it, but when I raised it I realised how close she was, her baby blues seeming as though they were the size of sapphires.

"So you're saying she is_?"

"A ghost, yeah." I was going for dead but that works too. I felt her shaking and decided to try to comfort her. Hesitantly I put my arms around her, pulling her close enough to hear me whisper that it was going to be okay. My nose picking up her scent and going mad.

"What did she tell you?" I said trying to get her mind off of the fact her aunt was dead.

"This is the thing Derek," She mumbled into the collar of my shirt. Then she looked back to my eyes, her teeth shining in the twilight of the moon as she spoke. "She told me that... Kit is next."

Dad...

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