All We Are

Chapter 7

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN TEEN WOLF. 

CHAPTER SEVEN

I was terrified of the giant man standing in our doorway, covered in blood. Before I could scream, my mother was at the door.

"Charlie, honey, why don't you go into the living room and see if you can find a movie for the two of us to watch." My mom said bending down so that she was eye-level with me.

I looked over to the big man who was still glaring at my mother, but she just placed her hand on my cheek directing my attention back to her.

"It's alright dear, this is my friend Ennis, and we're just going to have a little talk for a few minutes and then you and I will have our movie night okay?"

"Okay," I said giving the man one final glance before hiding near the entrance of the living room to better hear them.

"I thought I told you not to come to my house-" my mother hissed. "My family doesn't know about any of this and I'd like to keep it that way!"

"I wouldn't have to if that idiot brother-in-law and husband of yours didn't get in my way!" The man roared.

"Keep your voice down when you're in my house, you may be an alpha, but I am not one of your betas." My mother's voice was quiet, but there was a harshness to it I had never heard before. "Now why are you at my home, covered in blood and terrifying my eight-year-old?"

"Ken is dead, and the police won't release the body to me." The man said, his voice was much softer this time.

"Give me a little while to find a sitter and I'll meet you at our usual spot, see what I can do." My mother said.

I ran to the cabinet that held our movies and pretended to be looking for a title.

"Hey kiddo, my friend has an emergency and needs my help, I know we were supposed to have movie night do you mind hanging out with Scott, Stiles and Theo at Theo's house?" My mom asked me.

"Okay Mama"

I woke up and tried to shake the image of the man covered in blood. He had come only a year or so before my mom took off, and I had always wondered if she had left with him- or because of him. She had called him an alpha in the dream, and now I couldn't help but wonder if she had been involved in all of the supernatural going on. Maybe I was projecting, though, maybe she knew nothing about it and my mind had only thrown the words in to make sense of the fact that my mother left us with little more than a goodbye.

Dad knocked on my door, and I physically shook my head to get rid of any last remnants.

"You okay kid?" He asked seriously, he could read me like a book most of the time.

"Yeah, just a bad dream," I told him.

"Mom dream?" I nodded.

I never told him about the man, I'd never told anyone about him. But Dad had figured out Mom was involved somehow.

He leaned in and kissed my forehead. "We're gonna be okay Kid."

"I know."

"Better get ready, don't want to be late for school." He said walking out the door.

I got up and dressed in a hurry, making sure to smear something on my face, so Lydia didn't drag me to the bathroom again.

Stiles and Dad were already at the table, I grabbed half of the bagel off of Stiles plate and dug in.