Forests And Wolves

Vulk

I was patrolling around the grounds when I smelled blood. Immediately I moved toward the smell and realized it was human blood. Normally we don't have a lot of humans in our entire district. I remember our government head officer is a human, but he knows about us, his family, a wife and three kids-two sons and a little girl- The hotel owner, and its tourists, but the head manager is one of us, so he keeps it quiet. A writer who usually visits here at his bungalow whenever he is suffering from a block. A junior surgeon in our hospital, but is going to leave very soon. And my dead brother's girlfriend, who knows about us. But then again, I just came back here last week after visiting, Russia, for a conference about Germany's recurring wolf population. Then I heard my brother died, in a rogue attack. I came here to investigate just to find out, that the rogues killed my brother after he declared the rogue who attacked a tourist, even though the tourist survived. My brother had developed a soft spot for humans ever since he fell in love with one, he said she was a tourist here who stayed back. But that doesn't give them a reason to kill our ALPHA. Without him, I have to become the alpha now, but I don't know, I have always believed in voting. He was the leader, I was the diplomat. I have never seen myself as the ALPHA. But the pack needs me right now, and till I don't find someone worthy enough to take his place, I will have to do the job. 

I was very close now to the blood, lots and lots of it. I stepped towards the road, to hear crying, I went closer to find a, little baby, crying, i sniffed it and it smelled like a hybrid, i have never seen a hybrid, he didn't smell like a human neither completely a wolf. I licked it to smell it better despite the blood, its scent smelled very very faint. But I couldn't catch on its smell. I looked up , and found two women, one of which was looking at me back, both smelled like humans, he woman who was looking at me was performing CPR to the lady who had delivered the baby. The woman lying was dead, I could feel it in my instincts. I growled at her now, trying to scare her off, but she stood up and picked up a hockey stick from the ground. Really? A hockey stick, and she just stood there screaming a little, I really wanted to scoff at her dumbness, and I left the sight. From the trees, i stood watching as she kept on with her CPR,again and again, she was sweating and panting but she didn't stop, as the ambulance arrived, she instructed the nurse and I realized that was the new surgeon. 

I left the sight. The next day, my mom told me that my brother's girlfriend was dead, that she was pregnant, with a human pup, I realized that the woman was my brother's girlfriend, and if I knew her I would have helped in every way possible, but again it was too late, I tried to inquire about the pup, but then gave up when I realized the surgeon had taken it to an orphanage in the city. My mother assured me that it was a human pup, and it didn't belong there. It would be better for it in the city, with more options for the human world. Also, my pack was having conflicts and the rogue attacks didn't help. I had to focus on more important things.

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Five Years Later

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"Alpha, Can I take you out for ice cream?"mindlinked an Alpha Woman of our pack. We were having our 4th round table pack meeting. A member from each family was present here. As the 7 elected members of the round table, sat discussing. My pack was now one of the very few wolf packs to have a semi-democratic administration. The conflicts have been solved, our quality of life has improved, everyone is heard and spoken for, omegas have been honored more than ever, and the rogues are now our biggest allies. I am the elected Alpha of my pack, and so I don't feel guilty about my position and privileges, if anything my pack wants me here and so I will be here. 

"Miss Annabeth, please can we focus on the meeting, before I throw you out? You can eat your ice cream there, with the wind of course." I mindlinked back. In these past five years, I have spent all my time for the pack, and now I feel the lack of my Luna. Though I dont show it, but I do feel the lack of a partner in my life. I have friends, but the comfort your mate can give you no one else, can they? I want to snuggle in her neck and give lots of forehead kisses, I  want to feed her to death, so she is always happy and healthy, I want to love her and protect her from the world, but I have no one. I have a lot of women in my pack, but I can't think of them as anything more than a member of my pack. I have never felt anything special, with them, and also never have they, all this attention that I getting right now is because I am the alpha now. Though there is nothing wrong in seeking luxury I cant help but feel that even the women in my pack just obey me because I am the Alpha. They are scared to disobey me, that's all. 

The meeting was finally over, and we have agreed on the strategic plan for the next year as a pack. I was walking towards my office in this big fort, that we use as our conference office, archives building, offices, and other legal stuff, when I smelled Warm Wood. It was very faint, being a Lupus ALpha myself, I can immediately recognize another Lupus. This was a Lupus Alpha. But its scent was very faint for some reason. Possibly a child? But Lupus pheromones are still very strong even during birth. I followed, to see a woman, with a toddler sitting on the table, reading a book, and she was searching for something very aggressively in the files of our archives. 

"Alpha we might have a problem" my beta Ryan, said running down the hall. 

"What problem?"

He looked towards the woman and said "She. She is the problem." His voice was low but may have echoed through the hall since the child looked towards us. He jumped down from the table and said "Ma, it's Dad" pointing towards me. The woman looked towards me and the child ran and hugged my knees. His eyes sparkled yellow as he imprinted on me. Or recognizes an imprint from before. I looked up at the woman, who came closer to me, and saw the same confusion as mine. My wolf was suddenly alert as if he had seen his mate, and wanted to howl at the cuteness of the child, as if it was his. The woman smelled definitely like a human, but the pup was a Lupus Alpha. She called to him "Felix, what are you doing?" She was pushed into the hug, by the child, and as soon as I touched her I heard, Mate. 

She suddenly fainted in my arms, her head resting on my chest, hands on my shoulders, as I quickly held her back and waist. Without thinking twice I picked her up, and ran towards the hospital, leaving a pup and a beta to follow.