Beginning of Truths

I had passed out on the couch, Sam being unable to keep me awake with his anticipation of getting answers from Howard. Sam at some point gave up on bugging me. Now I'm awake, sun has set and Howard has just arrived and wishes to speak to us all when mom gets home. So Howard was going to do this big reveal and it must be something pretty damned big as the man looks very nervous and uncertain about this.

" What's going on, Harold?" Mom comes in and notices how we are situated.

I was laying across the couch, chewing a cherry fruit roll up, Sam was standing just in front of me being all tense and worried about what was going on. There was tension in the room and mom picked up on it and Howard was looking obviously nervous.

" We need to talk, I don't want any secrets between us, but there's a lot you should know and certainly Sam, well especially Sam. Please sit." Howard looked to be having trouble on how to start this off. " I'm not sure how to explain this very easily, so Ill just come out and tell you." He waits till mom has seated in a chair and Sam had sat on the edge of the couch I was taking up. " I'm a werewolf."

I stopped chewing my fruit roll up to stare at the guy in disbelief, not that I knew what werewolves are supposed to be like. Now this was one big secret, but he actually seemed a nice guy and grandpa trusts him, but I didn't like this "I'm a werewolf" bit and the fact that he and grandpa was talking about Sam and something's just not right about that.

" A what?!" Sam yells. " You got to be kidding me, first some death breath, now a dog breath is going after my mom!?" Sam was very unhappy about this, but so was I.

Howard grimaced at the remark. " No it's not like that, I'd never "go after" her, I really do care for your mother and this isn't easy for me, knowing what you just been threw." His eyes are cast onto me, then back to Sam. " But I don't want any secrets between Lucy and me, now you and your brother."

I'm no longer staring, but I'm not hiding the fact that I didn't like this news. Mom didn't need something else coming up after her or worse the possible use of Sam to get her in his "family" like Max did, but at the Sam time, I felt this guy was sincere to. I got no bad feelings from him, herd no lie in his words, I just didn't like the situation. Why is it my family have to attract such freaks?

" A werewolf? Please tell me this is just a bad joke." Mom looked a little hurt and I could tell she was very upset to about this reveal.

" It isn't and I didn't know how to tell you, it's just not something you go around telling people and I didn't know how you would react, especially after what happened so recently. Your father told me about Max and Micheal."

" Wait, my dad knew this about you? And told you about Max?" Mom nearly storms off looking for Grandpa when Howard nods. Never seen mom this angry before.

Howard looks off in the direction mom went." Oh dear."

**** The Truth and Nothing But ****

Well mom came back with grandpa who looked reluctant. I kinda wanted to laugh, since grandpa had wanted to get out of being part of this little reveal, but now I'm wondering why he would be so intent on mom being with Howard, he had to known he was a werewolf.

" I'd like to know everything, dad, everything." Mom was scowling, she really was pissed pretty bad at grandpa.

" I didn't know how to tell you, but Howard is telling the truth, he is a werewolf and he is a good man." Grandpa wasn't going to give up information easily, he wasn't saying everything.

" Dad." Mom strained the word. " There is more isn't there? I need to know, don't be putting it off on Harold to tell us what you should have."

Grandpa took in a breath and let it out. " I'm a werewolf too."

This left us pretty much all speechless, I reach over and push Sams' jaw closed

" Your mother didn't want me to tell you, she wanted a normal life for you without having you to worry or fear others finding out what you are. It's something passed on and shows up during the teen years." Grandpa says looking at mom.

" But I'm not a werewolf." Mom looked confused, but so was me and Sam, none of us are werewolves.

" It skips a generation normally, sometimes it's hard to keep track when both parents are werewolves, unless both parents have inherited it. " Howard added.

" Both me and your mother had inherited it, so by that it would skip you and show up in your children." Grandpa says.

" But Sam and Micheal aren't werewolves." Mom looked at me and Sam and then back to grandpa questioningly.

" Micheal didn't inherit it." Grandpa looks right at Sam, causing mom to go wide eyed and look at him. Me; I was just a bit confused, but some things started to make sense.

" Why isn't Micheal if they're supposed to inherit it?" Mom's question mirrored my own thoughts.

" As Howard said, it normally skips, but it doesn't always and no grantee that with more than one child they all would inherit it. We can sense when someone's about to make their first change, but up till then, when they are of an age they start to make their first change, we have no idea if they inherited it. I'm sorry Lucy, I just couldn't tell you, I gave my word to your mother who wished for you not to be caught up in this, she hoped you could live a normal life and that being with a normal human, it would break the cycle." Grandpa had reached out and patted moms hand.

" Mom hated it so much? What will happen to Sam, will it hurt him? Will he... Hurt other people?" Mom was filled with worry for Sam and I think she was sad to hear that about grandma.

" No, no nothing like that, we're not bitten werewolves, we can change as we like, just we have to control our tempers so that we don't change in public. Sam might develop a taste for meat and may need to hunt out in the woods now and then." Grandpa smiled, mom smile worrying less now that she knows Sam will not be harmed threw this new twist on puberty.

" Your father called me saying you had been threw some rough time, he told me about it and asked for me to assist you both, to help Sam along with the change, my son Scott will be here in a day or two to help Sam adjust and help me fix up the house. It didn't skip Scott, so he inherited it and will be able to help Sam better than I since he's closer to your boys age. I understand if you no longer wish to try a relationship, but I hope that we can remain friends if you don't." Howard was still nervous and maybe worried my mom would tell him to go fuck himself.

" I'll have to think about this Harold, it's a lot to take in and so soon with the divorce and then Max. I will need to take this slow, Alright?" Mom was a very forgiving person, but Harold also was being honest with her. Sides we apparently are all a family of werewolves... Except me being a vampire, or almost vampire.

" It would be good for the family, you and Howard were meant to be with each other." Grandpa suddenly states, which was kinda creepy how he wanted them to get together, Me mom and Sam stared at him, mom was scowling again. " Our packs have died out in Santa Carla... I was going to be the last one." Grandpa glanced between Howard and mom. " I'm hoping you two can restore them, there's a chance now that Max no longer walks ." There was something more to this and grandpa must not have had grandmas sentiment if he wants to restore "the packs" as he said.

" Oh god... I'm going to turn into a dog." Sam mumbles, still in shock. " So I won't feel pain when I change?" Sam looked between grandpa and Howard, both shaking their heads no. Sam let out a huge sigh of relief.

I knew why Sam worried, he's aware of the pain I've gone threw so far in my own unwilling transformation. I didn't tell Sam about everything though, I didn't want him scared or worried for me. Sam knows about the physical pain of my changing state, just not the strange thoughts and feelings I've developed.

" Don't think of it that way. There are some perks to the change." Howard says to assure Sam, this got Sam's undivided attention.

" Perks? What perks?" Sam blurts out impatiently.

" You'll be stronger, faster than normal boys, improved vision, you'll be able to see in the dark, your hearing will be much better than others and your sense of smell will be greatly improved."

" And the drawbacks?" Sam was a smart kid and wasn't stupid enough to think there wouldn't be some down side.

" Allergy to silver and you'd have to keep control on your feelings, anger will make you change, but then you probably won't have to worry to much about that, I've not seen you having trouble with your temper. Your speed and strength only reveals itself when you've changed into the wolf, but your hearing, sight and smell will always be better than anyone else. You'll be more sensitive to high pitched noises and may smell unpleasant scents from time to time." Grandpa looked amused when he said unpleasant scents.

" I think I can handle this, it doesn't sound to bad." Sam says quietly, this was a lot for us to have to digest and more so for Sam.

I sigh. My family is a bunch of werewolves, this would be more of a shock if not for me being a vampire. It is a shock, just not in the same way as it would have been before. Sam has gotten lost in his own thoughts, thinking on what he has to look forward to, I can see the anticipation mixed with fear on his face. Mom still has worry on hers and is talking with Howard about what to expect and how to accommodate such things. Grandpa walks off, back to his animal mutilation room. I'm not sure what to think and soon Sam will be getting helped with this new life style he's about to come into.