My One and Only Alpha

Chapter 27 - Return of Taran

"Harry!" Zayn shouted to the rapidly disappearing outline of the Pack Alpha. 

"Shit," he cursed under his breath, shifting to his wolf to stand a chance at stopping him. He caught up faster than he expected from his equal adrenaline and desperately called to him through their mental link. 

Harry! Harry, please think about this for a second, he begged, the Pack Alpha only growling in response. Harry was evidently too lost to his murderous instincts to think clearly, and Zayn knew he would regret this instantly, but he had to try. The Beta bravely dove to the side and sunk his teeth into the Alpha's shoulder, gripping with his jaws and snarling at him as loud as he could. Harry as you say have guessed, didn't take to this too kindly, and he jumped onto his back hind legs to try and shake the Beta off. 

The altercation quickly turned into a blur of snapping teeth, ripping fur, tearing skin, and vicious growls, and it didn't take long for Harry to completely overpower the fighting Beta. The Pack Alpha swiftly slammed Zayn's wolf onto his back on the ground and stood above him menacingly, roaring into his face, so Zayn decided to take a different approach before he lost his life over this. He shifted to his human under the hot and angry breath of his Alpha and grabbed ahold of his face, making sure to meet his eyes. 

"Harry, please. Come back. We have to do this carefully, we don't know where Louis is yet," he reasoned, Harry's mindless but worded reply ringing like a bell in his head, clear as day. Louis , the Pack Alpha whined, quickly moving to get off Zayn and go sprinting away again, but the Beta slapped him on the nose right before he could leave, getting his angry attention back.

 "Harry, your pups need you," Zayn stated clearly, shivering from the cold on his naked skin. There were several sharp rocks digging into his back, and large cuts on his shoulders and neck, rain was hitting his eyeballs, but he couldn't overtly feel anything besides anxiety as he tried to get Harry to see reason. 

"Pups, Harry. Your pups need their father. "Some small amount of recognition flashed in Harry's eyes and Zayn breathed a sigh of relief for finally getting through to him... At least somewhat. Pups , Harry repeated as if he were only slowly figuring out what it meant.

"Yes, Harry. Eyadon, Carmela, and Nordé. Don't leave them here right now. Not tonight. They need you now more than ever. They're already gonna have this night ingrained in their minds for their entire lives. Don't make it worse." Harry whined again, but slowly began to shift back to his human, belatedly understanding there was indeed nothing he could do at this very moment because he couldn't track Louis' location. The Alpha's form shrunk until he couldn't hold himself up anymore and he collapsed on Zayn's chest, both wolves' bodies painted with blood from their unfortunate scuffle. 

Zayn uttered sweet nothings of sympathy and support to the wailing Alpha, tightening his arms around the shivering skin. They had gotten far enough away from the village that nobody else was going to catch up to them any time soon, having the fastest speed in the tribe. As the rain pelted their bodies, they gripped onto each other's naked forms like their lives depended on it, and the Beta tried every soothing gesture in the book to get Harry to speaking status. 

"Harry, there are no words for the pain you are feeling right now, and we understand that. None of us can possibly understand what you're going through but I can feel a fraction of it through our connection, and I know it's impossible to describe. I know how badly your heart is breaking, but you have to think about this. At the very least, I'm not going to let you walk into some inescapable trap without us... to go down with you," Zayn professed, lifting Harry's face and crashing their lips together. 

Harry responded to the kiss with mirrored intensity, and after noticeably settling down enough, Zayn carefully rolled them over so that he was on top and looking down into the Alpha's eyes.