Alone H.S.

Chapter 43: Bad Dreams and the Unknown

Harry -

"Well I certainly don't see how you guys can think he's capable of running this pack anymore. Look at him! He's used up already at such a young age, every time that boy turns around he's getting attacked so bad he can't even help himself. Much less protect his family."

"Stop it!" The room is dark. The air is cold. Too cold.

"Harry? What's wrong?" My eyes adjust to the darkness of the room and I look over to see Lily staring at me with her big blue eyes.

I've done it again.

"Bad dream again?" Her voice calms down the relentless pace of my heart that's otherwise bruising my chest from the inside with how fast It races after such a dream, that is sadly no longer a rare occurrence.

I hang my head and run my hands over my face, only to feel the cold sweat I've broken into. My hair sticking to my face, aggravating me to no ends.

Small, soft hands rub my bare back and pull me close against the small (to me) body that holds my life together.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asks, her hands now running through my hair.

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"You're doing it again, Harry. You're shutting me out." She says with a small sad sigh. I pull away, and let out a shaky breath trying to calm myself down further.

"Sorry."

"I just wish you'd talk to me about these things." Is all she says before laying back down and falling back to sleep.

She knows that at times like this, I need to be alone.

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"What's the reason we're out here then?" Louis whines, from where he's standing on the other side of the punch bag.

"I said I just wanted to train! What's so hard to understand about that?!" I snap before laying into another punching combination, being careful of my arm which is still healing.

"More dreams last night?" He asks, sighing.

"That's none of your business." I growl and walk away, leaving him to shut up. If only that would actually happen...

"You still keeping it all to yourself too, I see." The smart arse...

"Butt out!" The walls seem to shake with how loud I shout at my Beta who only rolls his eyes at my obvious anger.

"Take the frustration out on the punch bag, okay? Not me."

"Sorry." I mutter before plopping my butt on the bench, grabbing a water bottle and drinking half of it before Louis sits beside me.

Go away, maybe?

"It's one thing to shut me out, Harry. But Lily...she needs you to open up to her. You shut her out over and over again, and one day you'll find that you're the one locked out. I don't want that to happen." He says calmly and quietly.

I let his words sink in before responding, not wanting to say something else stupid, like I usually do.

"I don't want that to happen, either."

"Don't let it. I think I already know what your dreams are about, but you need to talk to Lily about them." How would he know what I've been dreaming?

"Louis, if I tell her what I've been dreaming about then she's going to ask why have I been dreaming great kind of thing."

"You don't want her to know that you're scared." It's not even a question, coming from him. The blue-eyed Beta.

"If I tell her that I don't even think I can protect her and take care of her the way I'm supposed to...she'll leave me."

All I get from Louis? A laugh.

"Harry, how can you be so blind that you can't see how much that girl loves you? She wouldn't leave you for the world. And you're sitting here, every emotion bottled up inside to the point that you're hardly sleeping and eating because you don't want to loose her. Listen to me...you're not going to. You've got fears, so does she. And from what Eleanor tells me, her biggest fear is of loosing you." My head turns and my wolf whines.

Lily afraid? Of loosing me?

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Unknown POV -

Just when things start to go right, everything goes wrong.

The plan was coming along perfectly until that bitch Shiloh had to go and leave. The whole plan revolved around her and dumb girl went and did what she thought would work instead of listening to me.

She skipped her damn suppressants to try and lure in that young Alpha. Didn't work out so well, either. He still rejected her and she drove half the guys mad with want.

Now she's up and run without a word to anyone and she's taken that unborn baby with her. She couldn't hide her scent that told the obvious tale.

So damn her.

Now we're left having to come up with a new plan without her knowledge of what makes that young Alpha tick.

But maybe we already know what we need. He came after us all alone when we took his bitch away, so...if it worked once, it could work again.

Maybe the problem was that we were never aggressive enough in our tactics.

We won't make that mistake twice.
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