Temper, Temper: Chapter Thirty: Animal Control
"We need to go to the Voltu-"
Alex interrupted Emmett's statement quickly, walking away from him and holding her hair in exasperation, "No, no, never, not in a million years"
"Felix came back, he deliberately broke Aro's orders – We can have him crumpled up and burned for that!" Emmett shouted back as he held out his hand and leant forward as if that would make Alex realise his point.
Whirling around Alex furrowed her brows together, "At the risk of what? I go to Italy because the swarm of vampires like me oh so much better than one of their own guards! No we'd be laughed out of there or worse I'd end up back there. So no"
Emmett collapsed onto the sofa with extreme force. This was the first day Alex had come by to see the Cullen's after the whole incident with Felix and leaving again, apparently Emmett didn't like to forget things.
"She has a point" Edward leant on the door frame, an easy smile on his lips at the young wolf so easily making a vampire lost for words.
"Even Eddy agrees with me so there! You are wrong, I am right"
Emmett grumbled into his chest with childlike actions before he murmured out a simple, "Well I still think he should get beat, at least"
Alex walked over to her friend and tugged his cheek playfully only to be swatted away with a large cold hand, "Of course you do…Now! I must love you and leave you as I am on patrol in exactly-" She glanced up at the vast, undoubtedly expensive wall clock that hung in the Cullen's living area. "Five minutes ago – gotta run!"
With that she kissed Emmett on the cheek, exaggeratedly waved her goodbye to Edward and Esme as she caught a view of the mother vamp exiting a car whilst she tried to beat time to the border.
'Who am I on patrol with today?' Alex thought with confusion as she finally skidded to a halt after volting over the barrier's cliff edge to her own territory. She could hear no one else's thoughts and by now she would have been at least ten minutes late. Plus no other wolf had her habit of tardiness.
On the rock with the most sunlight, Alex settled herself down for the first part of her shift before a timid voice trickled into her consciousness.
'Alex?' Hearing Seth's voice made Alex spring up from her comfortable position and pick through Seth's thoughts. All she could see was a very clean looking room and hear a lot of noise coming from some other dog. A bull terrier if Alex's assumption was right.
'Seth? Where the hell are you?'
Reluctantly Seth held together the conversation after a moment's pause, 'I'm at the pound' he thought with a barely audible mutter.
'What?' Alex cocked her head to the side as she tried to make sense out of what he just said and then she realised and burst out laughing, so much so that her wolfy alias collapsed to the floor weakly. 'Oh my God! You got dog knapped!' Her words disjointedly came out as she laughed, not bothering to pay heed to Seth who was angrily shouting a background noise.
'Okay, Okay'
Taking a deep breath Alex picked herself up and trotted in his direction. Animal Control just picked up a werewolf without even knowing it. 'Probably mistook you for a German shepherd at your size' She thought.
When she reached the animal shelter Alex briskly walked in and wrinkled her nose at her surroundings, everything was far too vibrantly white for her liking, like a hospital or insane asylum.
"Hi there I'm looking for my dog" She stated with a fake smile at the colourful receptionist whose expression completely antithesized her florescent clothing.
"Breed, Size, Name?" The frown never faltered on the woman's face but the fact Seth had ventured too close to town and been abducting had put Alex in a fantastic mood – even if this was the first time she and Seth were speaking since her brief absence.
"Urgh…he looks like some form of German Shepherd on steroids" Alex nodded as she spoke before adding, "and he hasn't got a collar on"
The woman looked aghast as if this were the most offending thing she had ever heard, but never the less Alex was frog marched down the hall way and pointed to one of the larger cages that held her supernatural buddy.
"Well hey there Fido! Where did you run off to?" She greeted in a baby voice before the receptionist practically ripped a lead from another member of staff's hands and wrestled with Seth until he was wearing a shiny blue collar with matching lead.
Alex was dragged from the place by Seth. He pulled against the hideous lead but as soon as they reached further in the forest, Alex unhooked the collar from his neck, laughing as she did, tossed it aside and plummeted into her own wolf.
For a while the link between them remained silent.
'I always wanted a puppy' Alex joked, but it ignited Seth's anger so he launched at her, talking Alex to the ground and making the roll down a hill noisily hitting a tree at the end. As they separated, both of them sat and simply looked at each other.
'You left' He stated nonchalantly, 'Not for the first time' Seth added before Alex could speak.
'I know, I'm really sorry Seth but like I said, people make mistakes…families make mistakes. I'm sorry I left but I'm back now'
'Yeah, for how long?'
'Well I was thinking maybe forever, but if that's not okay with you then I'm just going to go-" Alex had turned away half way through the sentence and was walking away when Seth chirped up,
'Wait!...Who else is gonna rescue me from animal control' He ended dramatically, catching Alex up and butting her shoulder playfully before settling into a steady jog at her side. 'Speaking of which…can we keep all that between us two?' Seth asked hopefully.
'I don't see why not kid, if I can keep mine and Paul's memories under wraps then I can certainly keep a little secret between us two'
Suddenly Alex let a rather PG-13 memory get away from her as she spoke and quickly garbled out 'Pretend you didn't see that…wouldn't want Leah thinking I'm corrupting you with my-" Alex cleared her throat and tried to impersonate Leah's nasal tone '-inappropriate, mindless, idiotic behaviour. How old are you anyway like twelve?'
'Sixteen!' Seth snapped at Alex's heels dispite the fact she was only messing with him,
'Ah that's alright then – not a complete toddler. Besides I'm sure you've seen more detailed memories from Jared, that boy needs to work on his mind control' Alex said shaking her head slightly to rid herself of that thought.