Our Luna

t h r e e

I'm fidgeting on my seat while I wait for my shift at work. This is it, I'm finally on the edge of something better. I have made a plan, I have been working at the nursery for five years now, I know most parts of it and should be able to flee with a few of the babies through a delivery cart I'm meant to check at some point of my shift. 

I realize I forgot to ask that man's name, too stunned when it happened. I don't know which baby is his too so I can only hope the plan still happens tonight and that he's still coming. He's my only chance. 

At the nursery, I observe my fellow workers and the surrounding guards. They don't look very alert. Probably because the nursery is the least likely place to have a crime or anything happen. It's not like the babies can walk out. 

I've decided to choose which babies I'll save if or not they have the wolf gene. There's no point rescuing purely human babies as the outside world and packs think of them as slaves and they'll be bound to the same life they'll have here. Wolf babies have a chance. Of being accepted into a pack, of finding friends, of having actual lives. 

I make my way to the cribs. Arranging the children so all the wolf babies are in one row. I'm assuming Mr. from a light pack has a wolf daughter. There are twelve unguarded ones. 

I wait for the time and for him, eagerly; nervously. A quick yet silent opening of my office door alerts me.

"Are you ready?"

"Y-yes! I have prepared twelve wolf babies, I'm assuming your daughter is a wolf too?"

"Yes, very well!" I tell him the plan and he thinks there's no flaw from adding the other babies. He says he has a vehicle prepared just right outside of the boundary. 

The time comes and we carry out the plan. We make it to the car, carefully loading all the kids. I thank him, endlessly. He makes his way to the driver's seat as I settle the last kid in and then..

"RUNAWAY!! HALT!!" Everything happened too quickly and I am tackled towards the ground before I know it. 

I shout "My name is Ascher, 079531, please help me!" hoping he'd hear me and come back when he can. Or maybe, just maybe he might ask help from his alpha. He is from the light pack, their moral code is too strong to let him just forget about me. I believe in this and hope it's true. 

The guards drag me towards our alpha's office. "Alpha, this worker was caught stealing babies from the nursery. She was accompanied by a man not from here. The man is still being chased." one of the guards tell the alpha, I bow my head in guilt while hoping they lose track of the Mr. from the light pack. The guards leave the room.

"I'm sorry, Alpha." I almost whisper, not really feeling any remorse for what I have done but scared of a grave consequence. 

"You admit to your crime?" The alpha spits.

"Yes." I answer, nervous.

"Hmmm. You are to be sold to the highest bidder, tonight. You are pure and have the capability to nurse. Someone is meant to buy you immediately."

I am unable to respond when the guards return, forcefully taking me away to the showroom. I am stripped butt-naked then forced to wear skimpy little pieces of undergarments. We are to stand at more than an arm's length from each other in this dark room. I count fifteen girls, including myself. The others seem as if they have accepted that this is their life, as if they have been expecting this moment.

It has begun. Men enter the room and inspect our faces, bodies and scents yet not allowed to touch as a thick layer of glass separates us from them. A creepy man, in particular stood in front of me, disgustingly lusting over my body. Ugh, anyone but him. 

"What's your name, babygirl?"

As instructed, I answer any questions these men might have for me. "I am 079531."

"Mm." With that, he leaves. We all wait until about fifty men have finished inspecting us. When the room is empty, we were all called in to be "groomed and packaged" for our new owners. 

Everything feels surreal.