Tomorrow Never Dies (Moonlight 3)

Chapter 9-Connected

The four of us were relieved to find that the power was back on as the car pulled into Michael's front driveway. The car ride had been rather quiet. I guess after everything that had happened tonight there was a lot to think about. I was just glad that we weren't the wolves that had murdered those people in the petrol station. I still wondered just who had framed us. Mei and Mikayla had only just escaped, Finn was dead and while I didn't trust the hunters, I didn't think they'd have been capable of it either.

I wonder if it had been the same person who had set up the website? Yet who knew enough about werewolves to do that? How had someone been watching us to take that photo and not one of us had realised?

I sighed thinking of Mikayla and Mei it was entirely possible that they'd left that post it note after all. Maybe they were in on this whole thing as well.

I let out a sigh, this was just all too difficult.

The moment we made inside we'd wordlessly began setting up Michael's bedroom for the night, nothing had to be moved too far considering that it had just been the full moon and I was staying here anyway. His mum was still away so I knew we wouldn't be bothering anyone by staying up all night.

Michael had brought up a ton of food that was still left over from the full moon. I looked over the assortment of food, it ranged from lollies to potato chips. I gasped. The two of us had been eating some of it these past few days but it wasn't enough. I guess we hadn't had our usual full moon sleepover, so a lot of the food and drinks hadn't been eaten.

"Maybe I knew?" He joked as he laid all the food out between us.

Being here with everyone like this made it feel almost like a full moon anyway. Though I knew we still had a lot of important work to do tonight.

The four of us sat around in an almost circle on the mattresses Calum had brought out from the spare room. We started by catching Calum back up on what he'd missed. His eyes grew wide with fear as we explained to him about the fake hunters that attacked Ashton, the post it notes with the Shadow Wolf's mark and the incriminating website.

"I had no idea any of that was happening." Calum frowned, turning a sympathetic glance to Ashton when we were done, "I'm sorry I couldn't be there to help, like you guys were for me." He sucked in a deep breath, "You are alright though Ash?"

Ashton hesitated for a moment before he nodded, "A little shaken up still but I'm fine now." He looked to me, with a small smile, "I'm just really lucky Luke and his mother could help me."

I nodded, I was glad my mother had been able to help us too. Seeing Ashton like that tonight had honestly scared me. I couldn't bear to think about what might have happened if he hadn't have made it away okay.

"Alright so between Mei and Mikayla and hunters. We also have these fake hunters and some scarily accurate website to deal with too?" Calum sighed, "It seems we can't get a break, can we?"

"It seems not." I agreed, "It's hard to even know where we should start right now."

Michael and Calum both nodded in agreement.

"Well we're going to have to start by bringing down the site, right?" Ashton asked, "I don't know about you guys, but I don't particularly like wondering when the next set of twelve-year old's is going to decide I'm a werewolf from one of those stories."

I nodded as well, I knew my photo was up on that website as well. If anyone else was in danger from these armature hunters it was me.

"You know maybe that's not such a bad thing, girls used to get pretty hung up on that werewolf guy from Twilight, right?" Michael smirked.