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You've got her heart and my heart with none of the pain, you stole my future, I hate your name, now I'm tryin' to find all of my hearts remains
My take on "Break Even" by The Script (2:34 - 2:43)
The real lyrics are:
"You've got his heart and my heart with none of the pain, you took your suitcase, I took the blame, now I'm trying to make sense of what little remains"
I just re-wrote it to fit wats going on in my life right now *groan* men r so annoying xD tho i guess im not depressed enuf 2 take "Break Even" as my song haha i think its still "Double Vision" by 3oh!3 (my friends' choice not mine but they know me best)
STOP WITH THE AGREEING!
It had been a nice dream, before I woke up. This early morning's AC problem is what had caused it.
"Mmm, Ben?" I blinked the sleep from my eyes as he planted kissed over my shoulder and on my neck. "I don't appreciate being woken up."
"The dream was getting to me." He rumbled in my ear and I turned over to look at him. From my nose, I could tell it was half him half the wolf, his eyes gave nothing away. It was the same way last night as well, before we started talking about Barney.
"I'm sorry, I just can't figure this bond out-hello, walking stick-and it's never there when it's needed and then when it is there you've usually closed it off and then when you don't I'm at a loss because I can't figure anything out!"
He sighed.
"Did you talk to your mother about this?"
"Yes! And all she gave me was some shitty story about tinsel and rocks!" I said, exasperated.
His face was blank for a moment before he just broke into laughter. Gee, Ben, thanks loads! I love you too! Really!
I moved the stick out of the way, carefully picking it up from the bottom.
"Go follow my mom, she needs it more than I do." I told it as I dropped it off the bed. Ben looked amused.
"Maybe I should get you a few sheep for your birthday."
"NO!" I looked at him. "No, no, no! Last thing I need is a flock of sheep! Jeezus, can you hear yourself? They'd be all over the backyard! Then where would Bran's helicopter land? The freeway?"
"On top of them." He shrugged.
"Oh, that's a horrible thought!" I cried, hitting him gently with my pillow. "You're such a bad person! Killing innocent sheep!"
"If I remember correctly I do believe it was you who shredded a squirrel…" He grinned.
I paused for a moment.
"Yeah, but sheep? That's a coyote thing is it not?"
"Wolves kill tons of sheep!" He argued. "Where's your computer, I'll show you right now."
I nodded my head to my MacBook Pro where it sat, mostly unused, in it's sleeve. I hadn't bothered with it for some time, just a little research on the latest happenings in the world and checking e-mails. I didn't do much of the fancy stuff anymore that I used to, I probably had a gazillion updates waiting.
"Your a Mac person?" He looked amused.
"Yeah," I nodded, walking over to where he sat on the floor. "13.3 inch MacBook Pro complete with Final Cut editing program."
"Movies? Really?" He shook his head, "You always struck me more as a picture-taker."
"I like editing." I shrugged. "It's my thing not that you know anything about Final Cut. I used to have Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum and Sony Vegas Pro plus the regular creative suite and Vegas Movie Studio HD and Vegas Pro Production Assistant. Then, I got the Mac. I still have my Sony somewhere around here if you want it…" I looked around and spotted it under the desk.
"No need." He shook his head, "Why did you have so many movie makers?"
"I upgraded every time I got my hands on the money for it. Vegas Pro cost me $599.95 in itself." I rolled my eyes, "I spent months begging Dad for the money."
"I could've gotten it for free."
"Illegally." I nodded, "Which is pretty much how I obtain everything else. I just use the trials and constantly renew them, you just have to wait a bit for the next version to come out."
He chuckled and finally opened Safari, typing in Google and it's home page came up.
"Wait, what were we going to look up?" I asked.
"Whether wolves kill sheep."
"Oh, yeah! I could've sworn it was only the Chupacabra and coyotes." I told him.
"You never heard of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'?" He looked at me over his shoulder, I had my arms wrapped around his neck form behind and my chin was resting on the shoulder in question so I jerked back instinctively and he rolled his eyes, turning back to the computer on his lap. I rested my chin back on its original spot.
"Yeah, but it's fictional…right?"
"It's actually about a werewolf…" He trailed off.
"Oh…maybe it isn't fictional."
"I doubt it," He pointed at the screen and I slapped his hand away. "I didn't touch it! There, is says it on the first answer! 'What do wolves eat? … They will also kill and eat domestic livestock such as cattle and sheep!'"
"No need to rub it in." I frowned.
"What exactly is the Chupacabra?" Ben looked at me again. I pulled my head back a little.
"I thought it was supposed to look reptilian, personally, but now they say it looks like a werewolf with spikes." I laughed.
"But what does it do?"
"Sucks the blood out of livestock, really its a cross between a were' and a vampire these days. In the MonsterQuest episode it ended up being a coyote with mange." I laughed, "And the man still called his son home from school and asked him to go under the deck with a bit of rope to get it, but apparently it was 'ok' because the father had a riffle pointed at the back of the kid's head if anything went wrong."
"Smart."
"Yup."
"So…does it exist?" Ben asked.
"Yes, it exists." I let go of Ben and turned around to see my father standing in the doorway looking amused with our conversation on whether mythical beings were real. "Saw it once when I was in Los Alamos."
"What'd it look like?" I asked.
He wandered off.
"LIAR!" Though it didn't seem like he had been lying, I would've known… "What did he look like?"
"Like a werewolf with spikes down his back and a sunken face like he was already dead until he caught something. Back end looked like a kangaroo, and he doesn't bleed, hairless rat." He called after him.
"SWEET!" Ben laughed at my enthusiasm. "I wanna see it!"
"Maybe one day, Porsche." My dad sighed.
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"But my school has cameras! You're blowing this way outta proportion, Father Dearest!" I rolled my eyes. "This whole plan is ridiculous."
"Yeah, Adam, really." Mom looked at him like he was crazy. Jesse was laughing.
"I'm just glad I'm not in school anymore!" She explained.
"Fine, then you can continue to be home schooled."
"Fine with me, if it keeps you off my back, are you going to work anytime soon because I don't think the company will do well if you're missing much longer."
"I can work from home, actually, I can do whatever I want." He smiled, "I own the thing."
"Hey, can someone focus on what I need help with? School isn't my problem." I said as their discussion continued. Everyone immediately stopped and looked at me.
"What is your problem?"" Mom asked.
"Him." I pointed to Ben, "And the thing in my head."
"I told you about that."
"Yeah, with some fuc-dged up story about tinsel and rocks, okay? If anything, it confused me more." I rolled my eyes.
"Adam, explain it to her."
Dad looked startled.
"Er-why do I have to explain it to her? You're her mother." He looked at her with the "i am not discussing this" look. It's funny really, how he had no problem starting the weird conversation last time but this time he did.
"Her explanation is confusing!" I exclaimed. "I don't get it at all!"
"Well, what don't you get exactly?" He looked at me.
"How to get him out of my head! I had a dream about dying the other day because he had a nightmare! It wasn't fun! I was trying to figure out why the hell I was watching myself die! I mean really!" I made a face.
"Well…" He looked at a loss for words for once in his life. "I…don't really know how to explain it…it just comes naturally really…"
"Well, obviously it doesn't, he's the only one who knows what he's doing!" I snapped.
"I'll teach you sometime, not right now, we are discussing something important. Honey was targeted this morning at ShopRite." He let out a breath. If I knew Dad I knew it killed him when he couldn't protect everyone. It was really an alpha thing, though anyone with any inch of dominance got that way every once in a while, with certain others, usually those lower in the ranks. "We're just lucky she didn't get hurt worse."
"Werewolf hate group?" I suggested.
"If it is, it's just operating in the area, Emerald City Pack isn't having any trouble in Seattle." Dad sighed, "What have you and your mother been messing in?"
"Why do you assume we did something?" We asked together.
He chuckled humorlessly.
"Habit." He said simply. "I don't know what to do, I don't want to leave the pack like this, but I need to talk to Angus in person."
"Bring him here." Mom frowned, "Don't have much else in the world of options."
Ben's grip on my hand tightened almost painfully and Dad noticed, raising his eyebrow before Ben dropped my hand entirely and let his gaze settle on his shoes.
"Not many of our wolves would appreciate so many new wolves in the territory at once, first Samuel then Angus? It wouldn't do any good." Dad turned to her. "No offense meant to you, of course, Samuel."
Sam nodded.
"Let Samuel have a break." I spoke up, "He can go back to Aspen Creek, Angus can bring Alan Choo, their pack medic. He's not dominant."
"Dominance isn't so much the problem as their alpha bringing in strange outsiders."
"If it meant we solved this problem, Porsche's idea is best." Ben sighed.
"Stop agreeing with me!" I glared at him, "Make up your own idea!" Mom laughed.
"I was stating a fact." Ben smirked. "My suggestion would be to just wait like sitting ducks and hope to catch the culprit without involving Seattle, but we have to involve Seattle if we want this to work. They could be the ones causing this."
"Angus is seventh or eighth in the entire continent," I frowned, "He wouldn't try to take Dad on would he?"
"Emerald City Pack has grown a lot in the past year." Mom thought for a moment, "Do you think they're making new were's?"
"No, they aren't, they've been subject to quite a few transfers." Dad shook his head. "And they had a problem with rogues not too long back so they got of a few of those newbies."
"Maybe that's what we have a problem with." I leaned into Ben. "Rogues."
"Perhaps, I haven't caught anything though, have you guys?"
"No, we'll find out during the moon. though." Ben pointed out.
"That is true." Dad nodded.
"So are we involving Seattle or not?" Mom asked.
"I think we should. Let's see what they think." Dad sighed.
"I could ask Da to talk to Angus if you would like." Samuel suggested, I had almost forgotten he was here.
"That could work." Dad nodded. "It's worked out."
"Yeah." I sighed.
"Shouldn't you consult with Darryl and Warren?" Mom asked carefully.
"Not on this decision."
We all nodded, Jesse included. It was understood, this was much more serious than what we had first made it out to be.
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Edit: 8/19/10 - changed the chapter title because i meant 2 after using it in a different chapter!