Lacking Humanity|Half Crescent

Chapter Three

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AT THE DINER, FIVE MINUTES AFTER

"Beep-Beep." Rue said, and while the young pup was too preoccupied to understand the urgency. She was confused as to why her mom said it, and she was also curious as to why her mom hadn't returned. So the pup twisted over to where her mom had been, and a sharp cough escaped the pup, earning her the attention of her grandfather and brother.

She didn't need to be burped, but she enjoyed the height difference and attention she was getting from Roro, even if she had trouble saying the name.

"Mamama..." Hayes chuckled and nodded. "Yes, sweetheart, your mama is in the—Is she still in the bathroom?" He questioned and Blake nodded. "She was trying to contact Darius, I think it's too loud in here." A simple code to say that the scent of humans was what too loud, and of course, they laughed in agreement.

Though it was a foul odor.

"Beep-Beep." Rue repeated, her current interest now directed towards her stuffie. However, Liam's head darted off to what the pup had said, so much, so his fork clattered to the plate.
"W-what did Rue say?" He choked, and Hayes turned in confused to either the enforcer to his granddaughter.

"Sure she's trying to say Bellamy, or maybe it was Blake?... What are you saying, sweetheart?" The male had switched his tone flawlessly when he spoke with either wolf.

After a few babbles it hadn't come out, but that didn't stop her brother from repeating it. And Liam had felt his wolf at the surface, his eyes instantly going black. "Babe what—"
"Sage."

While Ally had been struck by confusion, Blake and Hayes had almost fallen out of their seat as they continued towards the bathroom and threw open the women's restroom door. The leftover scent of Sage surged their noses, as did blood and silver.

But the added mix of bounty hunters caused Hayes' fangs to elongate.

Sage is missing, I want the bill paid, and everyone in the R.V. Enzo meet Blake and I out in the back of the restaurant. DO IT NOW!

The order had been set in stone, Aurora paid the bill, and they hardly bothered to pack their unfinished meal.

Everyone hadn't dared take the risk of not be aware of their surroundings and checking behind their backs, but the vampire delivered very well as he was able to follow the trail—All bets had turned off, and Enzo wouldn't hesitate to take a taste of the bounty hunters.

Not when his thirst for blood rivaled that of Hayes and Blake.

They shifted and rushed through the thin tree line, heavily aware that it was against the moral code to shift so close to a human establishment. But there was hardly anyone to give a ticket or tattle to the council.

And it made the trail much easier to follow.

Blake did his best to listen for Hayes' orders while deciphering it through the rest of the pack, who was waiting in the R.V. They hardly had one evening of the piece before—

"The trail ends here," Enzo said, his accent almost unrecognizable as his predatory traits were making it difficult to talk through. Causing his brother-in-law to huff before sniffing the ground, surely there had to be something more?

"They must've been tailing us since the campgrounds—FUCK!" Hayes said, having come through a shift and stopped to where a car had been readily parked, or that's what was the obvious recreation.

Call Harlow, we need to get security cameras—Anything from that dinner. Call now!

Hayes didn't care who made the call, just as long as it would get done. And those in the R.V scrambled to get to a phone while also calming down a destressed Rue—Either Jackson and Aurora had been the ones on call, but even with their techies, it would take time to get everything sorted.