✔️Beauty and the Beast -L.H. + A.I. ✔️

Chapter 10

Luke's P.O.V

Ashton runs a hand through his curly hair and sighs. "You really want to know, don't you?" He asks almost to himself.

I honestly wanted to know more than anything in the world, but I didn't want to freak him out so I just shrug my shoulders.

Ashton takes a deep breath before speaking.

"I was born a wolf," is all he says.

I feel as though my brain just stops working; like the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn't actually been cued to stop.

A wolf? Like the not domesticated animal that is super cute but could easily rip your face off? Like the wolf that was in my backyard the same day Ashton showed up on my lawn naked at an ungodly hour?

I stick my face forward and look at Ashton skeptically. "Come again?" I ask.

Ashton sighs as if he was trying to control his temper. "I said-"

"No, Ashton, I heard what you said, but how is that possible? You can't just be a wolf one day and a human the next; that's not how life works!" I all but yell at him.

Ashton closes his eyes and clenches his jaw. "I told you that you wouldn't believe me," he replies in a voice that seemed to have no emotion what-so-ever.

"It's not that I don't believe you, I just don't understand how that could happen," I explain.

"I don't know either; I don't remember much after the Alpha gave me the choice," he says.

"The choice? What was your choice?" I ask, now confused.

"Do you remember we were in here and I tried to tell you about myself but I had nothing to tell?"

I furrow my eyebrows and think.

"Okay, then I'm Ashton, I don't know my last name, age, where I'm from, or what I like to do," he says.

I frown more. "If you don't know anything about yourself then how do you know your name is Ashton?" I ask curiously.

"That's what my family called me," he says in a grave voice.

"Where are they now?" I ask. "I mean, I know you said they weren't here anymore, but do you mean like they just left you somewhere, or are they-"

"They're dead. They died a long time ago," he says sternly.

"Oh, I'm sorry," I say with regret and not wanting to upset him.

Ashton sighs and looks down at his hands. "I'm sorry I don't have more for you. I'm new to all of this," he says as he gestures towards himself and the space around him.

"Well then just tell me what you can," I say softly. He looks at me skeptically but eventually nods.

"Okay, well as you know my name is Ashton. I had a mother and father, a younger sister named Lauren and an even younger brother named Harry. We were a small family compared to others, but that was okay with us; we were all we ever needed. Once I became old and responsible enough I was sent to go get," he pauses to find a word. "food to feed the family. My parents were busy caring for the younger so I was left to feed us all.

"One day while I was out, the 'family' I really grew up with attacked and killed my real family. I came back to the different and larger family and they thought the food I brought was a peace offering. They helped raise me until I was ready to lead this new family forward once the current leader passed.

"This new family didn't have many rules you see. There were only three rules we had to follow; No homosexuals, family always comes first, and stay away from... everyone else. I, being me, broke all three of those rules. My actions had to be punished which would've resulted in either my death or being kicked out. I didn't want to live on my own so I thought it would be best to just die. So I tried to kill myself; my plan obviously didn't work, so I was given a choice. I can't tell you what my choices were yet, but I choose and that eventually led me to your backyard because I thought you could help me," Ashton concludes quietly.

My eyes widen as everything starts to click into place. He lost his family when the rival pack challenged them for their land, he had to feed the young wolves since he was an outsider, he broke their most important rules because he was a gay wolf who liked to watch us humans.

Ashton wasn't lying; he truly was born a wolf. 

And that's when it clicked. He wasn't just any wolf either; he was the one in my backyard that day.

A/N: HEY GUYS! 

I know this is super short but I didn't really have any other ideas... 

BUT NEXT CHAPTER SHOULD BE EXCITING!

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GONNA HAPPEN? How is Luke going to treat Ashton now that he knows the truth??

I was going to have Luke's reaction like Dean did in the gif above, but then I saw Sam's and was like 'That one's probably more fitting...' (sorry if it's small, hard to see, and so slow btw, it was basically the only gif I could find XD)

QOTC: What's your dream job?

My Answer: Mines playing the drums with my band for hundreds of thousands of people and share our music with the world. (shout out to my band mates: Anna; AryaThePianoGal , Molly; Uriemarkable, Zowie; zowiewdw, and Tyler; 21__Pilots

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Write you later,

~Ashtyn xoxo

(I dedicate this chapter to mashton_loves_cake because she's a huge inspiration and it means the world that she's reading this <3)