knowing you (process of editing)

Chapter eighteen~ The Mission

BAYLONS P.O.V.

I was in a pool of sadness and pity sitting in my room. It was so horrible telling my sisters and brother about my fathers death, but I had to go with my mother and try to explain it. They cried so hard, it almost destroyed me, everyone except my brother.... I took joey for a walk on the porch so we could talk outside and he seemed a bit confused by a lot of what was going on. I couldn't explain things to him like I wanted to because he was so young he couldn't understand not ever seeing our father again. "Joey, do you feel like your gonna miss daddy?" He replied, "Yes, but you are here bay till daddy comes home.".... Those words hit me like a freight train, till daddy comes home. I just sat there on the porch stunned by my reality and watched him climb the tree in front of our home. I cried and all that kept replaying in my mind seeing my father on that ground dead. I will be there for Joey whenever he needs me I thought to myself, he's fatherless and it was my fault. I could feel Kaylee trying to reach me, and as much I wanted to go to her, I couldn't. My life was all turned upside down,  and I needed to figure out what I needed to do for my family and for my pack, Kaylee needed to understand that.

I was taking my brother back into the house to get him a juice box and that's when I saw Kaylees father. He was sitting in the yard on a lawn chair towards the side of the house. I guided my brother towards the door, "Joey, go ask mom to give you your juice." He interrupted me with, "Bay, I want you too!!" "Joseph, go and ask mom." I told him sternly, then kissed his forehead. "Go." He was angry but he went in. I wanted to spend more time with him, but I knew that I needed to speak with Mr. Bresette about what was to happen next. I walked over to where he was sitting, he looked in deep thought. He looked surprised to see me, as if his thoughts were so deep that he didn't even realize that I had just came up to him. "Hello sir. I wanted to ask you what you had planned now." He just shook his head. "To be honest Baylon, I am not sure at this point. I should have already been gone to Wisconsin to get my pack back before someone else tries to take my place again as alpha. I had your fathers support and now that he.....Well I am not sure what I will do. Maybe I will contact the other surrounding packs for their support."

Why didn't he just ask me? I am the Alpha of this pack now, I will go and help him. "Alpha Bresette, I will go with you tonight. We will go, me and my pack members. We will go together and talk the other packs. We will get your pack back sir." He looked at me like I was joking. "I am going to have a meeting right now so we can organize what we will do." "Baylon, I cant ask you to do that, in the state that your pack is in, and I mean, your a new Alpha. Do you really feel that you can do this right now? Your father..." I stopped him right there, "Look, I am meant to be an alpha and that is what I am going to do, run my pack and fulfill what my father would want done. My life is now no longer mine, It belongs to this pack and I will keep the promises that my father has made to you and your pack. That is honor sir."

He looked at me and smiled, "Your father would be proud of you this night Baylon." I half smiled back. It was hard for me to feel like I could smile when there was so much sadness inside of me. I was right my life was now over, all of the plans that I had for myself was gone, How could I go to college, or see the world ? I couldn't ... Now I had to be there and run my pack and be satisfied, until one day someone killed me in a pack war. I died a little inside just then thinking about it.. "What's wrong Baylon?" Alpha Bresette asked. I snapped out of my thoughts. "Oh, nothing is wrong sir, lets get this started. We don't have a lot of time. We need to move fast." He nodded and we went for the house. I called everyone down to the great room so that we could strategize and all the men listened to me, and they all seemed to agree with what I proposed for us to do.

I said that we needed to follow what my father had planned with Alpha Bresette and go and take his pack back. But not with violence, but with common sense. We don't want anyone else to be hurt or killed trying to get his pack back, we need him to be trusted. he doesn't need anybody else trying to go against him, he wants a united pack. So we will go and show that he does have muscle and support behind him, but he will go in and try to explain to them his argument of they are his pack anyway and his fathers before him. He wants to lead them like he did before And I will take the younger pack members and leave my fathers Beta here to act as Alpha until I returned. I trusted him, Randys father. Then Mr. Bresette told them that he knew that the elders of his pack would take his side against anyone else who would try to take over as Alpha. Everyone agreed, but just then one pf the pack members in the back asked, "What about your fathers resting place and funeral?" It didn't even cross my mind.  I had to lay my father to rest. " Well, he does have a resting period of two weeks. The body needs to correct itself." Everyone nodded in agreement.  When wolves are alive, they heal from most wounds that they receive. We have rejuvenating cells in our bodies much stronger than regular humans. And although we have died those cells are still active until two have passed. So most ceremonial buriels have the body looking more youthful than in life. "I will have it all ready,  until i come home. When o get back we will do the ceremony." The way that Kaylees father looked at me with pride, made my father appear in my head. It was all so much, I needed to go to have a run because I needed the air. My wolf was begging to be free right now.