Always My Luna

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         After about an hour long drive, me constantly removing Damon's hand from my side of the truck, Becky singing to every single song completely out of tune and sometimes not knowing the words, the city giving way to familiar landscape, making my heart beat out of my chest in both excitement and fear, we pull up the Black Moon pack house.
   
    Damon turns off the truck and looks over at me, he has a strange, guilty look and I'm completely confused. "Levi, look..I may have..shit..I'm sorry..incoming"
   
         My door is pulled open and Damon has just enough time to undo my seatbelt before I'm yanked unceremoniously out of my seat but my feet don't touch the ground. "Damn Levi, it's good to see you again!"  The bone crushing hug belongs to Ryan. Then I'm moving, into another pair of trunk tree arms, "Levi!  Fuck!  Don't pull that shit again, you got that!"  And that's Dom, saying he missed me in his way. Later he'll hug me and cry when we're not being watched.
   
         "LEVI!!!!  Oh my Goddess!!!"  And I'm in another hug, but my feet are the ground this time. This hug belongs to my auntie. I melt a little more into her..realizing I missed her hugs, her smell, her voice, her smile, her love. "Hi auntie. I'm sorry". My voice cracking at the end. "I know huni. I know why you had to leave, but just know that Damon has been a wreck since you left. Your uncle still won't talk to him. He's forgiven him to an extent, but wants the boy to learn a lesson. One I think he's learned. If Damon wasn't moping around, asking to be let into your room or not so secretly taking one of your shirts when left, he was a royal jerk. Bossy, grumpy, growling at anyone who looked at him. Don't even get me started at what happened during training. He destroyed those boys. Sent some to the doctors even. I'm not asking you to forgive him right away, but just give him a chance."
   
         Suddenly we hear a female yelling and running footsteps on the gravel, "you BITCH!"  I'm then grabbed violently enough that I fall into the person grabbing me. "If you ever pull shit like that again, I'll hunt you down myself and you know you don't want that."
   
         I hear gasps and Becky swearing at the person holding me, "what the fuck is wrong with you?  Why would you grab her like that you psycho?"
   
        I chuckle and hug the assailant back, "it's ok Becky. Hey Scar. Love and missed you too". Scarlet let's me go and I notice her scowling at Becky and Becky doing the same. I clear my throat but they don't even blink. Not good. "Scarlet meet Becky from Howling Moon, Becky meet Scarlet, my best, and craziest, friend."  At the word craziest, Scarlet breaks the stare down and looks at me. "Becky is the daughter of the Beta of Howling Moon and she's a lot like you Scar, but in a nicer way."  I can't help but snicker at the last part.  Scarlet laughs and shakes Becky's hand, "Good, you can be the nice one and leave the bitchy to me.  I've pretty much perfected it."
   
    Becky moves to stand beside Scarlet and I and I see her eyes get big and she starts sniffing the air.  Scarlet and I look at each other, "No fucking way." Scarlet says as Dom growls and puffs out his already muscular chest and walks over to Becky.  He's got his signature panty dropping grin on his face as he looks down at Becky who's legs were trembling. 
   
    Dom gently moves some stray strands of hair out of her face to behind her ear.  "Mine.  You're all mine beautiful.  The Moon Goddess is truly kind and you are amazing."  Becky only has time to gasp as Dom wraps an arm around her waist and pulls her to him and crashes his lips to hers.  The moaning coming from Becky is telling us that Dom is a good kisser and he has her under his spell. 
   
    A clearing of my uncle's throat and Ryan tapping Dom on the shoulder brings his head up just a bit and he looks at Ryan under frowning eye brows all the while still holding Becky by her waste and the back of her head.  "I'm a tad busy here, brother.  I'm enjoying the deliciousness of my gorgeous mate."  He looks back at Becky and goes back to kissing her like she was his life force.  Which in a sense I guess she was as when we find our mates, it's like our life is changed, taken on a different path, and we truly start live a fantastic life. 
   
    That is, as long as our mates don't reject us.  Then it's a painful life, full of regret, sadness, emptiness, sorrow, pain, and heartache.  I find myself looking up at Damon as he is getting our shopping bags from his truck.  As if he can sense me looking at him, he suddenly looks up at me and smiles and winks.  What??  What fuck was that?  Does he think we are all good because I came back with him?  Or that now my new friends from what I thought would be my new beginning, have found their mates in my pack that I would be forced to stay?  I still my papa back at Howling Moon.  I could still go back.
   
    Speaking of papa, I look at my aunt and uncle and grab my aunts hand.  "I have things to tell you, about papa.  And gram."  My aunt looks sad suddenly and uncle puts his arm around her shoulder and pulls her into his side.  "Ok, sweetheart, let's go in and talk."
   
    We all go into the pack house and sit at the formal dining table since there were so many of us.  Of course Becky is pulled onto Dom's lap and Scar onto Ryan's.  Damon looks at me and walk to the other side of the table from him and sit in a chair.  I hear a deep sigh and realize it's coming from Damon as he runs his hand through his hair and leaving a mess that looks incredibly sexy.  I would love to run my hands through his thick hair.  It looks so soft and shiny and I know he smells amazing.  Wonder what he looks like first thing in the morning?  A throat clearing brings me back to reality and I notice people staring at me, some wide eyed and mouths open, Ryan and Dom have grins, my aunt and uncle are smiling and look over to find Damon in mid stroke of his hair, looking at me with nothing but pure lust as his eyes are black, telling me Jasper has come forward. "Anytime you want, little mate, you can find out.  I belong to you, which means you can see my bed head every morning and you can even help me mess it up every night."  His voice is extra and raspy and his chuckle make me have to clench my thighs together as I know I am so incredibly turned on right now.  I don't want anyone to smell my arousal.
   
    "Ummm, I guess I said that out load instead of the just in my head, huh."
   
    The deep chuckle across the table tells me what I said is true, "Oh yes you did little mate.  Don't worry, I can't wait for that same.  To have you writhing under me while I give you non stop pleasure every night, making you mess up your hair and me running my hands through it afterwards and watching you sleep knowing you are mine.  Always and forever my Luna."
   
    I turn my head towards Becky as she suddenly gasps.  "Oh my Goddess.  Levi, that was the most romantic thing I've ever heard.  Girl, you need to forgive him.  This guy is crazy about you.  I mean I just met him, literally, and I can tell he's nuts about you."
   
    "Levi, Damon was insane without you hear.  He drove us all crazy with his moping and then he turned into a complete jackass.  He doesn't know that we know, but he would go to your house and go up to your room and lay in your bed.  Oh, and if you're missing some pieces of clothing, they are probably here, in Damon's room."  Ryan looks over at Damon who's lightly growling at him.  "C'mon dude, you thought you were being so sneaky, but we could smell her on you and since she wasn't here, that leaves only one answer.  Plus we followed you one day, wondering where you would go everyday around the same time.  We wanted to make sure you weren't screwing things up by meeting up with some she-wolf."
   
    "Never.  I'll never be with anyone but Levi.  Even if she doesn't want me, I won't take anyone as it will be the punishment I deserve for treating her the way I did.  I can never love anyone the way I love Levi."  Damon looks right into my eyes as he says this.  I know he's being truthful and remorseful.  This breaks the walls around my heart a little more.  Damn him. 
   
    I shake my head to get myself out of the trans I was in.  "Give me time, Damon.  That's all I ask.  Is time and space, ok?"  He nods his head and reaches across and holds my hand in his, "As much as you need my love.  I will wait forever if you need."
   
    I pull my hand back and look over at my aunt and reach out to hold hers, "Papa was the doctor who helped me after they found me in the car after the crash.  I'm sorry about the car, I know you saved up forever for it.  I'm so sorry."  I let go of her hand and look down at my lap.  If only I had more control over my emotions that night, I would' have been more with it and could have just gone for a drive to clear my mind and make a sensible decision, but instead I ran off and crashed my car into a tree.
   
    "Sweetheart, we don't care about the car, we only care about you.  That you're ok.  A car can be replaced, but you, my sweet niece, can never be."  My aunt comes over and hugs me tight as we both have tears running down and wetting each other's shoulders.  I feel another set of arms around us and realize it's my uncle as he kisses the top of my head.  "But please, honey, don't do that to us again.  You damn near killed me when I heard they found your car full of your blood but couldn't find you.  Even my wolf howled for you.  The entire pack howled for you.  We didn't feel the bond break but we couldn't feel it as strong as before.  Now that we know you crossed into Howling Moon, that explains it."
   
    When a wolf crosses it's packlines and goes into another and spends a long enough time there, the bond of the of your home pack starts to weaken until you either come back, get accepted by the other pack or pass on to the meet the Moon Goddess.  Because I had spent so long at Howling Moon, by bond that binds me to Black Moon was weakening, causing the wolves of my pack to feel mournful as they didn't know where I was or how badly injured I was.
   
    "Don't worry uncle, I don't plan on leaving the pack.  I mean, how can I when my two new friends have found their mates here."
   
    No sooner I said that when the pack house door is crashing open with Justin and Emma walking in, both with huge grins and smelling like a brothel.  And bite marks!!  Holy shit, they mated and marked each other already!
   
    "Hey guys, sorry I'm late, but you know, I had important things to do, or a important thing to do."  He chuckles and Emma turns bright red and looks down.  "Everyone, this is my mate, Emma."
   
    Becky and I are laughing as she is rushed by everyone as we all kept wishing Justin would find his second chance mate and that she would be good to him.  I knew Emma was the one for him and she would be so good to him.  I already knew Justin would treat like a queen so there was no worry there.  She was a very lucky she-wolf.  The one I worried about was Dom, he was a wolf whore.  But I wasn't about the burst any bubbles, maybe now that he found his mate, he would settle down and stop his sleeping around.  I sure hope so, Becky is such a nice girl, even though I've known her a very short time, I like her and I think she's good for Dom.  She'll keep him in line but not tied down. 
   
    Everyone comes back to the table and sits down, now with Justin and Emma, on his lap of course, and things turn serious.  The atmosphere in the room instantly changes.  I start to feel a little uncomfortable as I have to tell my aunt about papa finding a new mate and grams passing away and suffering.  I know it's going to break my aunts heart. 
   
    I take my aunt's hand again and take a deep breath.  I know there will be questions, tears and hugs, but maybe there will also be a peace.  One can only hope.