(MxM)Tales Of A Shifter (P2) - The Clan Celebration

Chapter 4 - Sensitive Secrets

Chapter 4

"Whoa! Ummm, Brandon...?" Nate suddenly interjected as the heavy silence persisted after his hastily blurted question. The wolf smirked and shook his head pointing a thumb at his elder brother. "Bad move. Walter NEVER talks about his abilities. Like NEVER! And the less you know about them the better!"

"O...oh..." Brandon muttered somewhat deflated and confused.

But...to everyone's surprise Walter did start talking at that exact moment.

"Calm down Nate. He did not know." Walter cut in, his voice like cold honey dripping slow measured and cool to the ear.

The larger brother frowned, his brown eyes glancing over to Brandon making the man sit up straighter in attention as if his gaze demanded such a thing from Brandon.

"I will answer you. Truly It is not my favorite subject to speak on, but since everyone else is being so....open...." Walter rumbled, silencing Nate who started to object and receiving surprised glances from both Lander and Ezekiel as the statuesque brother spoke to all of them for the first time that morning.

With an unhurried air Walter looked at them all then back at Brandon and continued.

"In the interest of hospitality I'll quickly tell you what everyone else knows, Brandon." A small thrill went through Brandon as the elder brother used his name and centered his enigmatic gaze on him.

"Basically, I tell other people what to do and they obey me, without hesitation or free will. Thats my ablity."

The words were so simple and delivered with such an impassive air Brandon felt they could have been speaking about the weather.

"Okay?.....So let me try to simplify this. Um...basically you hypnotize people or something to that effect, right?" Brandon asked.

He tried to supply the answers to the gaps that Walters's short sentences left in his understanding. But instantly finding his imagination lacing, Brandon thought to ask the brother to "Show"....if he didn't want to "Tell"

"Um....Walter, will you show me what you can do maybe?" He asked. "Can you do a demonstration, like what Nate kinda did?"

He wasn't too surprised when all Walter did was laugh him off. The sound dead and short. Zero mirth or joy.

"No, Brandon. I would never use my power if I can help it." Walter let out a soft dead hiss. His dark brown eyes seeming as still as a frozen pound.

He shifted in his seat, his large body making wood groan.

"Be content with this....I don't hypnotize people....I break them and they stay broken." He softly replied, no emotion in his face or voice. His words making Brandon's skin crawl with disquiet. "Do you understand? Good. Because that's all you need to know."

In the silence that followed, Walter calmly stood up, grabbed his plate and took it over to the sink. Nothing about his movement was hurried or self-conscious. He could have been alone in the room for all that he paid them anymore attention. As the splash of water cut through the silence, Brandon sighed and looked towards the last of the brothers.

To his surprise Lander seemed to be waiting on him, because the moment Landers eyes connected with his, the Guardian smirked and said. "Go on. Ask me."

With his invitation, Brandon thought for a moment then he leaned his elbows up on the counter and said. "So Nate can't use his power when he's Shifted.....Do you have the same limitations on your mind reading abilities?" Brandon asked him.

"Nope...." Lander shrugged in reply. A cock smirk on his handsome face as he brushed a hand across his blond scalp.

"See, out of everyone here, excluding Walter..." He began to say. "I have one of the strongest abilities. With no inherent weaknesses to it." Lander bragged sending Nate a small smile, before he finished. Crossing his thick arms over his chest Lander stood up off the countertop. "Basically I read minds...and I can even feel people's emotions and unlike the rest of these pussies I can control my Ablity to read minds at all times even when I'm shifted."