Full Circle (Book 8 in Arrow/Spn Crossover)

The Gift - End

I'd never seen so much food in my life, even with our new wolf inspired appetites I managed to stuff myself silly the first day of the cruise. The second day I dialed it back, mainly because it turns out I get mildly seasick in rougher waters. Not the most pleasurable experience but the third day the weather calmed back down again, which helped. We'd flown up to Alaska instead of driving, I had Cas knock me out before we even hit the runway. Best flight I'd ever been on, I didn't remember a damn thing about it.

It was about two months after the first full moon we'd had as wolves. That night had been a long one. Once Coyote and I had gotten back out to the main room the first thing we'd seen was Oliver.

He was dressed but just standing there staring at his hands. "I can use this...channel things into it...balance..." he muttered.

Roy joined us a few minutes later and he was just as bewildered but excited as Coyote had been, "That was amazing!"

When Sam came in it was obvious that he was relieved as I was that we weren't home to rabid monsters. We spent the rest of the night talking, explaining things to Cas, figuring out what it had all meant and in general feeling pretty fucking lucky that we'd made it through without losing ourselves. The next full moon I'd kept my pack promise and all of us went to a wilderness area where I knew deer hunters liked to go. Once we got there we shifted and took down a huge deer. There was this indefinable sense of freedom when we were hunting. When it was over the wolves, just like before, let us take control back and go back to living our lives. In between there Sam and I had decided to hang out with Oliver and Roy in Starling, just to make sure they'd be all right while Coyote went back home for a bit and tried to work things out with the tribe. Oliver's crew had taken this turn of events pretty well. Felicity and Thea just rolled right with it, so did Dig. Laurel, who really freaked me out when I first saw her even after Sam's warning, frigging carbon copy of Ruby, took some time to adjust but in the end she saw the advantages to it. After three weeks in Starling I felt pretty safe leaving Roy and Oliver on their own, Sam decided to stay though. I think he was still worried about being around hunters. I went back home and settled down again. Coyote had chosen not to take her old position back, she said it never really suited her anyway and Cougar was doing a much better job getting things done on the council than she ever had. He wasn't as polarizing of a person as she'd been. She still helped out, healed people, did what a shaman would as far as the spiritual side of things, she just wasn't in charge and she was fine with that.

All in all the hardest thing about the last two months was keeping her from finding out what I'd had made for her. My wolf really didn't like the idea of keeping secrets even though I'd explained over and over it was a good thing that she'd be happy in the end, he saw it as lying to the Alpha. He almost ruined it on the last hunt but thankfully got distracted by the deer and forgot about it. By the time he remembered I was already back in the driver's seat so I could keep him from spilling the beans. He pouted about that. Fortunately I'd had years of keeping secrets under my belt so I could keep my feelings about it buried enough that it didn't really show up in the bond, well that and I'd learned how to block things off from the rest of the pack. Coyote's and my wolves had been kind enough to explain that after the night of the first hunt when her and I decided to celebrate how well things had turned out.

-Pack doesn't need to know everything- Coyote's wolf had said, then promptly tweaked the bond so that the rest of them wouldn't feel what was going on. Thank God.

I hadn't been all that prepared for just how big a cruise ship was and all the things you could do on it. It was basically a floating city and had everything from a rock climbing gym to scrapbooking classes on it. Sam and I made a whole list of things we wanted to do, hell it was all included in the price so why not. Coyote had her own list, a lot of which was massages, spa days and all that. There's no real place to do all that on the Reservation and back when she was still living off it and in big city she'd gotten in the habit of spoiling herself every now and again. I think she'd decided to make up for the last few years of Reservation life during the seven days on the ship. Cas, well, he had no real idea what to do while we were planning. So Sam and I ended up dragging him along on the things we wanted to do, some of which got derailed for me when I got sick. However, my secret plan wasn't. Thankfully.