Ifreann

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  "They killed 2000 of MY PEOPLE! MY FUCKING PEOPLE"
 
  My body started to tremble and shake and another ferocious growl tore through my body, I lunged forward and landed in the middle of the pack. They moved, pulling kids away watching me. Another growl ripped through me and spine splitting pain ripped through my back and I screamed on the insides but this being wasn't going to look weak in front of its people. It was carrying me and keeping me up straight as my front fell forward but when my arms hit the ground they weren't hands they were paws. Paws of fire. The fire burned through my body and the pain slowed down as my body transitioned into not just a wolf but an alpha wolf.
 
  ifreann
  Sit back little one, I'm right here with you and I'm never leaving your side
 
  Me
  Holy hell I'm a wolf
 
  ifreann
  More like holy ifreann little one
 
  She howls into the air, and fire sprouts from her mouth.
 
  Me/ifreann - Oneil pack
  I am your alpha now! I might have disappointed you in the past but never again. We all lost too much tonight, including our homes. If there is any pack left back home we are coming for you. If you get out, come straight to alpha deacon. He will house us until we rise up and come home. Don't lose faith in us. They killed my parents! Your alphas, your BETAS! The king himself will rain down hell on anyone that goes against us! You stand with us or you stand against us and they fucked with the wrong pack because I am going home and I'm bringing back a much bigger monster then what dwells there now. I'm bringing back me! I am ifreann. I am hell and I'm coming for them all!"
 
  A man from our pack repeats everything she just said. She growls again and the crowd around me cheer and scream! I on the other hand am in fucking shock. She turns and walks towards the house where deacon is standing wide eyed and proud. She struts towards him and her fire extinguishes
 
  ifreann
  Fated Mate
 
  She licks his face, his eyes are glassy and I can see pride in them.
 
  "ifreann you are so beautiful. What does that even mean"
 
  He asks us
 
  "Hell son. It means hell"
 
  Mike says taking a step beside him and petting my fur, she licks his hand then walks past him to isla and she licks her face. She hugs her tightly. I open a link to her
 
  Me
  Can you ask if our people have a place to sleep and food to eat for tonight?
 
  She looks to Mike and deacon and asks them
 
  "Yes everyone was assigned a house for tonight and tomorrow we will get better accommodations. Everyone has food to"
 
  I nod to him
 
  Me-pack
  Get some sleep tonight and tomorrow training begins at 7am sharp anyone able to fight I ask that you do.
 
  They all start to disappear and I turn and lick deacon again, he just pats me, I need clothes and he's not getting it. I pull Isla by the shirt and shake her a little.
 
  "Ohh clothes, yes sorry come in?"
 
  I look at the door and back at him, he scoffs
 
  "Your not getting naked out here your not that big you can fit"
 
  Oh for fuck sake, I growl and roll my eyes he bites his lip and points to the door. Ifreann is annoyed and snaps at his fingers as she passes by and Mike takes into a fit of laughter. I pushed through the door and he was right. I could fit, he runs upstairs so we follow him and it feels really weird. He opens his bedroom door and I walk in and sniff the air. Ifreann growls and runs to the bed.
 
  Ifreann
  He had other girls in here
 
  Me
  He's a lot older than us
 
  Ifreann
  We are not just any girl we are his girl
 
  I roll my eyes too tired to care, she shifts and I land to the floor, he comes to me with a T-shirt and he pulls it over my head.
 
  "She's pissed because it smells like a girl in here"
 
  His eyes widen and he frowns then he looks to his bed and his eyes glaze over. He starts to heave and he nearly gets sick
 
  "Eweeeeee my dad had a girl in my bed I'm a virgin"
 
  Ok that is funny and I snort and laugh loudly, I turn and pull the sheets off the bed
 
  "I am not sleeping in here that is gross, come on we can sleep somewhere else"
 
  "Why does your dad not bring girls to his own room"
 
  "Well for a start I had no idea that was happening, and I think because he still sleeps in the same room as where he lived with mum"
 
  I understand that, I look at the bed and it looks really comfortable.
 
  "Are you sure we can't just sleep in here it looks comfortable"
 
  "Nope not gonna happen"
 
  I groan
 
  "Fine but I need a joint and isla"
 
  He grabs sweatpants from his closet and pulls off his jeans and I don't even hide the fact that I'm checking him out. He blushes but I don't care, he has seen me naked before and I feel ifreann surge forward to watch the show and he laughs pulling up his bottoms.
 
  I look down at my bare legs and back at his comfortable bottoms and I walk past him into his closet and pull a pair with a string down and hold them against myself. I walk back out and grab the bottom of the legs and rip them apart, they will be baggy but at least they will be the right Length.
 
  "Ehh help yourself sure"
 
  I smile and shrug, pulling them on.
 
  "You know ifreann said something when I was in wolf form. She called you our 'fated mate'"
 
  His eyes widen and he grins, he grabs me and throws me into the air
 
  "I knew it! your mine and I don't have to share!"
 
  He pulls me down and kisses me softly. I smile and he puts me back on my feet.
 
  "Feel free to rip any of my clothes anytime"
 
  "And if I was just your mate I wouldn't be allowed to do that?"
 
  I walk past him again and find socks and pull them on and I tuck the bottoms into them then I pull out a hoodie and pull it over my head.
 
  "Are you cold?"
 
  "Yeah, I think it's just shock. Can we go smoke?"
 
  He takes my hand and leads me out of the room.
 
  "For the record I have a balcony so I normally smoke there but if you want to see isla we will smoke with her"
 
  "Who's Jake to you?"
 
  He smiles
 
  "My cousin"
 
  "Shut up?"
 
  Ofcourse he is. I hope isla likes him Cause that would be super awkward. We walk down and back outside where Isla looks me over and then looks at herself and shivers.
 
  "Can isla borrow some of your clothes to deacon?"
 
  "She can have mine. Come I'll bring you back after"
 
  She smiles and nods and follows Jake into the house, deacon takes a seat and i spot a bottle of whiskey
 
  "Have you got anything stronger?"
 
  I say to Mike, he grins
 
  "What kind of bootlegger would I be if all I had was whisky, any particular flavour?"
 
  "Anything with a kick"
 
  He nods and walks into the house, I grab a joint out of the bag on the table and light it. Gran growls at me.
 
  "What?"
 
  "You're smoking weed? Really Ailm"
 
  "I've smoked weed for years mum and dad new"
 
  She mutters something and Baylee growls at her
 
  "Mum don't, she is not that same girl anymore, luca and aspen have helped them change"
 
  Deacon growls at them all
 
  "Stop fucking doing that! She was a teenager give her a fucking break and if any of you other then Luca and aspen paid any fucking attention to her atol you would know that both girls are not just smart they are fucking geniuses. Leave her alone she is in my house on my land and she is my mate if she wants to get stoned and drunk she fucking can"
 
  Aspen, me and Luca all go goggly eyed at each other as deacon pulls me into his chest.
 
  "Yep what he said"
 
  Baylee points to him then pulls a joint out and lights it up and sits down beside me. I pull my hoodie up to hide the smile but I choke on smoke and end up pissing myself laughing. Deacon, Baylee, aspen, luca and caden all break out in laughter and gran rolls her eyes and sighs. Granda smirks.
 
  I smoke my joint and Mike comes out with jars, I lift one ignoring the glasses and open it up and drink from it and it hits me right in the throat
 
  "Damn that's what I call a drink"
 
  I put the lid on it then throw it to aspen
 
  "Taste that bitch, we need it in Arthur's"
 
  She takes some and moans then passes it to Luca, Mike looks from the jar to the tray of glasses. Luca puts the lid back on and throws it back to me and I down over half of the jar.
 
  "Here's me thinking the royals would be all prime and proper and you don't even know how to drink from a glass. Savages all of you"
 
  I snort and laugh with everyone else. But the memory of mum drinking the tequila and grandpa calling her a savage comes back to the forefront of my mind and what started as a laugh ended in a sob as I looked at grandpa and he had tears run down his cheek making me cry harder. Grandpa kneels in front of me.
 
  "I know, baby. But we won't ever stop saying it. It's how we will keep her memory alive. You drink from the jar and I'll say it everytime ok?"
 
  I pull him into a hug and I sob into his shoulder. I lost 2 parents but they lost 4 kids and I'm not sure how they are still standing right now. I pull back
 
  "I'm sorry I'm being selfish and crying. I lost 2 parents but you lost 4 kids. You should be the one falling apart not me"
 
  Gran kneels beside him shaking her head
 
  "No you don't think like that. You are not selfish. You're allowed to fall apart, we all are but please never think you're selfish for missing them."
 
  I break down, I fall apart and I cry my heart out. I roar and I cry and I can't even breathe. It hurts so much. I scream. It's like acid is being poured over my chest and it just won't stop.
 
  "Please take it away Gran please take the pain away I can't do this"
 
  Deacon holds me as I cry, I can't even breathe the pain cripples me as it is overwhelming. All of the 2000 people that we lost. It all hits me and I don't know what to do. I scream as it infects every fibre in my body and spreads everywhere.
 
  Gran grabs my head and screams and let's go. She gasps for air and cries with me.
  ————
  Deacons POV
 
  I hold her in my arms as she falls apart and I can feel only a margin of her pain but it's real raw emotions of everyone that died. And everyone that is still alive and the pain that they are going through only somehow has lessened their burden and added more pain to herself. She screams in my arms and I hold her and I cry with her unable to take any of the burden from her.
 
  Isla comes out and falls apart watching her. She grabs her but nothing or no one will distract her from the pain, everything she pushed out, everything she was in too much shock to handle all hits her at once. One after the other and everyone, even my dad falls apart at the sight of her tears.
 
  Her gran is finally able to take a breath and she looks at us all.
 
  "She's going to die if we don't take it. But I can't take it all. I need the wolves or something like Baylee. She's feeling all 2000 deaths. It's like they are sitting in her souls and eating it away. I don't know what to do but I need sophie and the girls. And I need them right now. And the wolves get me as many as you can get"
 
  Everyone takes off in a flurry of activity not noticing the crowd that has gathered around her. All of her pack and some of mine all watching this heart broken girl feel everything.
 
  "Lilly I will take some of her pain"
 
  "Me to"
 
  "Me aswell"
 
  One after the other my pack and hers stand up and offer to take her pain. Lilly nods
 
  "Form a line"
 
  The first woman comes forward and Lilly braces herself then touches Ailm and then the girl. The girl shivers and cries out and Lilly lets her go and she runs and pukes on the ground.
 
  "Are you ok?"
 
  "Yes just the shock"
 
  "But can you handle it?"
 
  "Yes I can take that"
 
  The next one comes up and then the next one and after around 30 Lilly's nose starts to bleed. She wipes it and it hasn't even made a dent in the pain.
 
  "If you did me but passed it on to my pack, link the pain to me would that work?"
 
  She shakes her head
 
  "She needs to mark you for that"
 
  —————-
  Ailms POV
 
  I was completely crippled on the spot. I couldn't hear or see anything. Deacon's face appears in my line of vision and he starts to say something but I can't hear anything. All I can hear are screams. So many screams. Then I saw isla. I watch as her hand comes down and hits me in the face. The pain distracting me enough to concentrate
 
  "Ailm you need to mark him it will ease the pain"
 
  She says to me, I feel like I'm drunk floating in my own brain but I understand what she says so I turn to him, he shoves his T-shirt out of the way and I feel ifreann surge forward and take control. I feel as my teeth slice through his skin hitting bone. She pulls our mouth away and licks the skin and suddenly my body starts to shake and I lose all control. I think I'm having a fit but I'm powerless against it.
 
  Then it stops and I take a breath of air and suddenly it doesn't hurt anymore and I can breathe freely.
 
  Then it hits me, I just marked him. I look at him and pull the fabric from his neck and I jump back and fall to the floor
 
  "Why? I'm so sorry, why did I do it? Why did no one stop me? I'm so sorry deacon. Please don't leave me too"
 
  I was so confused, I pull my knees to my face and I hold my hands in my hair and I try to remember what the fuck just happened.
 
  "Ailm look at me"
 
  Deacon says and the guilt I feel is overwhelming, I look up at him and he smiles at me. Why the fuck is he smiling I just marked him?
 
  "I wanted you to mark me. I asked you too, it was the only way to stop your pain. I wanted this"
 
  He did that for me? He would take my pain.
 
  "Why would you do that for me?"
 
  He sighs and shakes his head
 
  "Because your MY AILM"
 
  He opens his arms and I dive into them and I hug him as tight as I possibly can. He runs his hands up and down my back and I feel him lift me onto his knee then I look at the crowd around me.
 
  "Why is everyone staring at me?"
 
  "You don't remember any of that do you?"
 
  Isla says to me, I look at her and shake my head
 
  "No"
 
  "The pain hit you and it was going to kill you so the pack took a little each but it wasn't working so you had to mark deacon and his entire pack could take some pain"
 
  "Why would they do that for me?"
 
  I look at her because I honestly know she won't fuck around, she will tell me the truth.
 
  "Because your their Luna"
 
  I look at Deacon and his answer blows my mind. Gran sits forward and I see how tired she is.
 
  "It's not permanent. The pain will come back because it's not gone yet but I need the wolves and Keagen and Sophie to help and you need to let deacon mark you back. It will keep it at bay until everyone gets here"
 
  I nod and grab the drink with shaky hands. But I drop it and thankfully isla catches it. My body starts to quiver again. Isla brings a joint to my lips and I smoke it. I take it from her and my shaking settles slightly.
 
  "Keep smoking this, Aspen and Luca have gone to get us some stuff and our weed. No offence deacon but this shit is weak"
 
  I chuckle and Mike stands up offended
 
  "Well excuse me but I grow that myself!"
 
  "You have so much to learn old man, but don't worry I will teach ya"
 
  A woman around Mike age comes out of the kitchen with sandwiches, I snort and laugh when I smell her scent and deacon frowns at me. I whisper in his ear
 
  "Just a familiar scent"
 
  His eyes widen and his jaw goes slack and he looks between his father and the woman.
  Isla roars and laughs
 
  "Omged are they fucking?"
 
  She says out loud and I snort and laugh with Isla as Mike goes bright red and the woman looks away awkwardly.
 
  "So not funny"
 
  Deacon groans and I laugh at him harder
 
  "Oh come on he's allowed to have a girlfriend"
 
  "Would you both stop talking about my private life please"
 
  Mike snaps, Grandpa and caden snorts and laughs
 
  "Oh you have no idea what you have gotten yourself into"
 
  Mike points to us
 
  "Them 2? nah I've seen scarier things in a petting zoo"
 
  This time deacon laughs
 
  "You should see them in a damn car. Nearly gave me a heart attack"
 
  "Raining champions for 6months arnt we A?"
 
  "Yep"
 
  I reply to isla as Granda pulls out his phone and starts to show Mike videos, deacon lifts a sandwich and hands it to me. Just the thought made me want to barf. Jake sits with Mike and they are both wide eyed watching our YouTube videos. We smoke for another while and then we both yawn.
 
  "Are you ready for bed?"
 
  Deacon asks me softly
 
  "Can we sleep outside?"
 
  We both look to deacon. He smiles
 
  "How about you fall asleep outside on the balcony and I'll carry you both to bed when you have fallen asleep?"
 
  I look to isla and she smiles, grabbing the bag off joints and we leave the men outside. Deacon and Jake follow us upstairs and I go to the balcony and open the doors. I look at the TV and then to the ground.
 
  "Wanna watch a movie first I?"
 
  "Sure"
 
  She answers, I go to the bed and crawl on deacon. He smiles but says nothing, he just holds me tight and kisses my head.
 
  "What do you both want to watch?"
 
  "The walking dead"
  "The walking dead"
 
  "Oh great"
 
  Jake grumbles
 
  "What? You chicken jakey?"
 
  Isla stands on her knees and does a little chicken dance. He yanks her towards him.
 
  "Maybe if you sleep on my knee I won't get scared"
 
  I smile and she rolls into a ball and lays on him and he smiles as deacon presses play pulling the covers over us. I listen to his heart and relax and somehow for the first time ever I fall asleep without the stars.
  ———-
 
  I woke up shaking, unable to control my body, everything vibrated making me nauseous. I sit up and force myself to my feet and I go to the window and lay on the floor looking to the sky.
 
  I pull out a joint and light it looking up at the stars, they are bright tonight. I think back to dad's last words, that he would be looking down on me. Tears slowly start to stream down my face as I think of him bringing the joint back to my lips.
 
  So many emotions and feelings swam through my body like a tidal wave, the weirdest of all was shame. Shame that I let everyone down so badly, if I hadn't have gotten kidnapped there would be no distraction and maybe they wouldn't have killed my parents
 
  Ifreann
  If it wasn't us it would have been Someone else, there would always have been a distraction. They would have always died, only those that got kidnapped would have died too. They wouldn't handle it the way you and isla did.
 
  Me
  Then why do I feel like shit
 
  Ifreann
  Because you loved them. You loved them so much that it hurts, you need to blame someone and it's easier to blame yourself but this wasn't your fault.
 
  Me
  What am I going to do without them, I wanted so badly for them to be there while I took over the pack.
 
  Ifreann
  They are you just can't see them.
 
  Me
  But I need them to teach me how
 
  Ifreann
  You are a royal, you are probably the only full bred hellhound left in the world, you have deacon and me and that alone puts you ahead of the pack. We got this
 
  I take another drag then slowly my body begins to relax. I think of a plan. First I need to figure out what the fuck happened and how this all came about, I want to know how they killed my parents. Have they the ability to kill me to?
 
  Ifreann
  Nope, you can't be killed, you are born of 2 hellhounds. You are indestructible
 
  Me
  Can they inject me?
 
  Ifreann
  Yes?
 
  Me
  Then they can kill me. They can blow up my heart