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Cutting a Deal

Snarls filled the dark as a battle of fangs and claws continued. Miles huffed as he stood beside Sam. "Okay. This is getting really annoying man." "The fighting or knocking Hector out of the way so we can actually fight."

"Both." Miles lunged forward and snapped at Ronnie when the reddish brown wolf got too close to the two of them. Sam himself stood panting eyes locked on Ashley and only half-paying attention to Hector.

"Look at it this way Miles, Kale will call them off soon enough. He wants to kill me himself."

Miles huffed as he rammed into Hector sending the young wolf tumbling to the ground. "Okay so Kale gets you. Then who the hell is out to get me?" Sam shrugged and lunged forward sinking his teeth into Ashley's left shoulder.

"I'm sure Eddie or Ronnie would love to do it. Are you annoyed yet? And I mean really annoyed or just kinda annoyed." Miles tilted his head back and forth for a moment thinking before ramming into Ronnie and snapping his fangs close to the red brown wolfs ear.

"I'm passed kinda annoyed and moving on to fairly annoyed I think. Why you wanna end this?" "Ya. We gotta go save Will from Sarah cause I'm sure she's about ready to kill him for not explaining things before they left." Miles let out a bark like laugh as he moved away from Ronnie.

"Then lets finish it. So who are we tag teaming first?" Sam took a moment to think about this knocking Hector away from him while doing so. "How about the psycho bitch queen herself?"

"Can do boss man."

"Hey Miles. Is it a bad thing that we're not more worried about this fight turning bad?" Sam asked as he charged at Ashley.

"Considering all the weird ass crap we go through on a daily bases no." Miles answered as he took the silver wolf from the opposite direction. Moving as one the two of them had Ashley pinned down in a matter of seconds. Even though they were out numbered there were quite a few advantages to having a pack of only two wolves. Like that after five years of hunting together there was no longer a need to actually coordinate an attack because by now they both knew the other so well that they knew how the other would move.

Ashley thrashed beneath the two of them howls, whimpers, and growls leaving her muzzle in a both terrified and angry sounding way. Her words rang loud and clear in every mind. "Let me up you fucking bastards! Let me go so I can rip your throats out with my own fangs!" Sam snorted and looked at Miles.

"Such unladylike like language Miles. What would my grandmother say if she could hear Kale's mate speaking in such a way." Miles snickered in amusement. "Not sure Sam but I do know she wouldn't be happy."

Ashley's furious growl drowned out Sam's reply. Her attention wasn't on the two that had her pinned anymore but on the two male wolves that were supposed to fighting with her. For both Ronnie and Hector had yet to move from the spots they had stopped on when Ashley had been caught.

"Help me you idiots! What the hell are you two doing just standing around?" Ronnie and Hector looked at each other for the briefest of seconds. Neither one was willing to attack either Sam or Miles while they had Ashley pinned for fear of hurting her in the scuffle. Hurting the alpha's mate, even accidentally, was a serious enough offense to ward a banishing or even death and neither one was willing to risk their hides.

"We can't risk it Ashley. Kale would kill us if we hurt you." Ashley huffed and eyed her captives. At the moment she was trapped with no way out and Ronnie was right Kale would kill the two of them if they hurt her. He'd told them that himself many times. For the time being she was stuck and her two pack mates couldn't help her. So now she had to try and get herself out of this mess. She knew Sam wouldn't kill her. He was far too soft hearted to do that but that didn't mean that the big creature Eddie had told them about wouldn't and she didn't think she'd be able to fight one of them alone and come out on top. So it looked like she was going to have to bargain.

"Let me up Sam and let's make a deal." Sam tilted his head to the side and looked up at Miles.

"How about we make the deal like this." It wasn't a question but an order. Ashley growled low. "How dare you order me around mongrel!" Miles snorted.

"That's no way to get what you want. Why don't you try being a good little bitch and listen." Ashley growled again before forcing herself to calm down. "Fine we'll bargain like this. Let me up and let us go and we'll leave you two alone for the rest of the night. We won't attack once you let me up and we won't fallow you back to where ever your keeping those humans we were hunting earlier." The offer she knew was a good one and the best she could do with the limited power that came with being the alpha female of her mates pack. Sam considered it for a moment. He knew he wouldn't get a better offer.

"All right Ashley. We'll let you up and the three of you can run back to Kale with your tails between your legs. If you so much as go back on your word for a tenth of a second we'll leave you so scared not even Kale will want you." With that said Sam and Miles proceeded to back away from the downed wolf. Ashley bolted as soon as she was free Ronnie on her heals. Only Hector lingered and even that moment was brief. Looking at one another before turning in the direction of the base Sam and Miles made their way back.

Sarah Lennox took a deep and calming breath as she eyed her husband. Much to Will's credit he had explained the situation to the best of his ability but there were still many holes that Sam or Miles needed to fill for them. Now all they had to do was wait for the two of them to get back. It was funny how time seemed to be screwing with all of them both human and Transformer.

It couldn't have been more than fifteen minutes since they'd gotten back to the base but it felt like it had been an hour at least. They were all worried by this new twist in their lives and by the new danger that threatened them. It was moments like this that caused them to wonder if their lives could get any weirder. Probably not. Large metallic heads turned toward the opened door.

"What is it?" Will asked as he looked at Ironhide and the other Autobots as he tried to see into the darkness that existed past the patch of light created by the open door. It was Prowl who answered his question.

" It's Miles and Sam or at least I believe that the wolf following him is Sam." As if on cue two shaggy forms made their way into the light provided by the open door. Eyes and optics fallowed the two shaggy form's as they made their way toward the open door.

"Is it just me or do they seen really smug about something?" Will asked as he watched the straw and black brown wolves enter the open door. An almost nervous silence filled the air as they entered. Sam and Miles looked at each other a silent conversation passing between the two. Miles nodded and turned to look at the others in the large room.

"So do we get the rest of the story now?" Prowl dared to ask as he looked down at his charge. A shrugging motion was his answer. "What do you mean you don't know? How can you not know?" Miles turned and gave Ratchet a flat look before he began trotting toward one of the human hallways.

"Hey where are yo... Oh cloths never mind." Sarah turned and gave her husband a questioning look. "What are you talking about?" Will scratched the side of his face and blushed a bit. Why did he have to explain this. "Well when they do the human to wolf thing their cloths don't go with them." Sarah 'oohed' as a blush appeared on her cheeks.

"Okay so the straw colored one was Miles right?" "Yes." Sarah nodded. "So that makes the other one Sam right?" As if realizing that the other wolf hadn't trotted past them with Miles several heads turned at the same time. Bumblebee knew that if his human had been well human he would have blushed at all of the sudden attention.

This however wasn't the case as the black brown animal wasn't even looking in their direction but out the still open door instead. He looked like he was listening for something. What that something was they had no idea. "Sam is something wrong?" Greenish brown eyes turned to look up at the Autobot leader. Sam's ears swiveled around as he turned his attention back towards the open doorway. A moment passed in silence before Sam moved a low growl escaping his throat. The silence was one of those where just about the smallest noise would make just about anyone jump.

And jump just about everyone did when Miles reentered the room with a loud "Dude why's everyone so tense?". "Miles do us all a favor please?" "Sure what can I do for ya Doc?" "Be quiet. For the moment at least." Miles snorted but nodded anyways as he walked up to the large beast that was his beat friend. Eyes locked and it seemed as if they had another unheard conversation before Sam bolted out of the open door. Miles turned and looked at the group of people and transformers watching him.

"Sam'll be back in just a minute. We had someone follow us back and Sam went to get him." Sarah exchanged a nervous glance with her husband who in turn shared one with Ironhide. "That was very unwise of you two Miles allowing someone to follow you back here." Prowl stated as he looked at his young charge. Miles laughed as if Prowl had siad something amusing. "Trust me Hectors not all that dangerous."

"Isn't Hector that little kid who looks scared out of his wits half the time?" Bumblebee asked as he took a step closer to the blond human. Miles grinned and nodded in return a smile crossing his features. "Yup that's Hector. We were actually surprised it took him so long to get up the nerve to turn traitor on Kale and run."

"So is that a good thing?" Will asked as he glanced from Miles to the door. "Kinda it means we can get some info about why exactly Kale doing what he's doing but Hector isn't much of a fighter." "So your pretty much saying that even with this boy joining us you two might still be fragged."

"Yup. Sucks doesn't it?"

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Oh my freaking Gods. I hate this chapter so freaking much. But I feel bad because I wasn't able to update before I left for the summer. Sorry for the wait guys but we didn't have internet acess at my house in Arkansas even though we were supposed to get it. So I wasn't able to update. That and I've been trying to figure out how to work the plot I want. So now I'm pretty much done with plot working and all I have to do is get the chapters out. With any luck chapter nine will be along soon. I'm thinking about four or five chapters before this story is done so long as I don't get writers block. Which with my luck I probably will.