I'm a Rogue, Not a Damsel in Distress (ON HOLD!)

Time To Hunt

Aramis POV

I run through the woods in my wolf form, doing parkour off trees as I do to try and get in better shape. I need to be my best for what I am going to do. I need to be able to blow up a small country with my blue fire to do this.

I am strong enough.

I push myself as hard as I can. Running faster than I ever thought I could, jumping higher and farther than before, honing in my senses seeing further and in more detail, hearing more and clearer even picking up on the distance of heartbeats. I can scent other wolves from miles away. I can turn off my sense of physically feeling so I don't feel pain. Of course this has been over weeks. I haven't seen Ace in about 2 months. I think he is glad I rejected him, he better not cross me again, my blue fire might just work this time.

Ace's POV

I haven't been the same since Aramis left. She took my heart with her. I have completely withdrawn from the pack. I have been short and pissed off constantly. I snap at everyone for no reason. I have more holes in the walls than actual walls.

My wolf hasn't spoken to me since the day Aramis left. He has been getting weaker too. Everyone is avoiding me and I...

I NEED ARAMIS BACK!!!!

Today I am going out to track her and I won't return until I find her. I am leaving my beta in charge. Since my wolf is too weak without her I can't shift so I will have to track her in human form which will take more time which I hate!.

I have to track her paw prints since I don't know her scent. From the look of the prints in the dirt she was travelling very fast and it could take me a week or more to catch up. As I am following her trail I think about what she last said before she left ""You will be the last person to insult my mom and live. Now I am going to kill the man who was the beginning of the end for us. I don't intend on living but hey it's been an eventful few weeks.""

Who is the man she will kill and can she actually do it? I fear that if she kills this man that she will loose what humanity she has left, I need to pull her back from the edge.

Aramis' POV

I have found a cave in the side of a mountain to rest up and train till I am ready and that could take weeks. I won't just take down my father, I will take down the whole pack! They stood by and watched as he destroyed us. They are no less guilty then he is. By doing nothing they let him get away with everything, I don't care if he is their freaking alpha. They call themselves wolves but they are all fucking sheep!

I know my mom would probably hate to see me like this but she was everything to me. She was perfect. I know I can never be her or even close to what she was. She was taken from me before we had a chance to have a happy life.

I set up my little cave as best I can with the few things I managed to gather on my way here. I bought some stuff in a little shop a few towns over. I have much better control of my power so much that I can now control normal fire and heat. I am trying to train myself to absorb the heat from objects and maybe by the time I am ready to fight my father I will have learned to control water and ice. I know I can't rely solely on my powers, my father may be a dick and many other choice words but I know one thing is a certain as the sun: the bastard knows how to fight.

Ace's POV

I am getting closer. She has been in this area for a while. I picked up her scent at a small camp site and it led me to the base of a mountain. It has been nearly 3 months since I have seen her. My pack got so worried that I have been forced to travel home every night to take care of pack business but now that I am so close I know I will find her soon. The thing I haven't figured out is how to get her to talk to me once I see her. She rejected me and was very pissed off at me for insulting her mother before she left. I think the first thing I need to do when we meet again is to apologise. I have already forgiven her for pinning me to the wall. She was angry and frustrated with me. I love her too much to let something so insignificant effect our relationship.

I start to hike up the mountain and find myself getting colder the more I climb. I have never really been cold thanks to my wolf.

"Leave now"

I look up and see Aramis for the first time in months, her hair moving gracefully in the light artic cold breeze. She is wearing ripped black jeans, t-shirt with a grey flannel tied around her waist as if the weather doesn't bother her.

I refuse to move from my spot so I just stand in front of her clutching my jacket tighter around myself.

"Ok follow me before you become an ice pop that I don't want to lick."

She starts to walk further up the mountain and after five minutes or so she waits for me to catch up before dragging me into a cave with a lit fire. I quickly sit in front of the fire to warm up.

"I think it's time you know the truth, the reason why I want to be alone. It will give you clarity and closure which is all I can offer you.

The scars on my body are from my father. When I was born he got anger management issues. He wanted a son. He started beating me and my mom. She had a disease that made her bones easy to break. She could barely protect me as a kid and she got hurt so badly. I just wanted him to stop. So I started taking on the pain by myself. Both hers and my own. I was 3 at the time. When I was 4 my mom saved me from blacking out but she died from the hit. It cracked open her skull. The pack doctor and his wife took me in till my father could take care of me. When I was with them life was ok. Then my father took me back. Rape by multiple people. Abuse. I was locked in a cage. He loved to watch me suffer.

When I was 9 I started to develop what I call my blue fire. I wasn't strong enough then to escape. It took years and extensive planning to get out. I swore I'd never trust again. I got strong and I feel safer alone. No one can betray me. Having a mate is not something I can have. My capacity for feeling was stunted years ago and I don't want it back. I am exhausted and scared but I have one last thing to face before I can rest. If I can avenge my mother's death then I can stop. I can be at peace. Living through it is not a big deal for me. My father took my life and my mother from me. Now I will take what is left of his and burn his pack alive.

Meeting you was an accident.  I never wanted a mate. Probably one of the only wolves in the world who doesn't. And your wolf was wrong, my wolf spirit and my soul didn't combine. My wolf gave up her mind to let me keep her form and survive. It happened before I escaped. My father and some of his men pumped me full of wolf's bane and raped me while beating me with silver. Only me or my wolf could survive so she left me and let me keep the ability to shift in order to get through it. That's why I don't heal the same as regular wolves. I only have half of my soul. Half of my wolf.

I can't be what you need Ace, I can't be that girl. I don't have empathy or motherly instincts. I am a hard ass and a bitch.  I don't know how to change. This is all I have ever known. Funny thing is for a second I thought your pack was a good idea. Then I remembered who I am. What I am. I am almost as big a monster as he is. Isn't there a saying you have to become that which you seek to destroy. I am not going to wake up one day and be lovie dovie or pop out pups like it's a sport. This is what I am. I think it's who I am. You need to let go."

Aramis' POV

Then I do the kindest thing I can for him. I summon my fire and the chain that ties mates together. It was broken on my side when I rejected him but it seems to still be tied to him... So I burn it. My fire melts the last of the chains to him. It will be as if as we were strangers again.

He looks at me and there is no recognition in his eyes.  He can go back to his pack and I can go on with my death row walk... As if nothing ever happened...

6 Years later

Aramis' POV

It's been 6 years of hardcore training. 3 years ago I went to my old packs compound only they had reinforced the security and gotten more wolves, I was vastly out numbered and my mission is to kill my father but I wouldn't have even been able to get close enough to see where to aim.

Now though, it's different. My fire is different. I'm different. I will no longer be the hunted.

I have planned my assault for weeks. Planted IED's (Improvised Explosive Device) around their compound to box them in. Soon. Soon Mom