I Am Me (Book One): Weakness

Chapter Eleven: Your Future

Isaiah's POV

I was shocked. I never forgot that moment. Honestly I am a little happy it happened for multiple selfish reasons. After I finished reciting my speech, something snaps inside Mark. I don't know what, but it is an emotional time bomb going off. His wolf in his head howls in my head. Not just mine, but every student and faculty in the school. Even some pack members outside passing by felt a faint anguish. I would've broke down and done the same if the next hung hadn't happened. 

"That idiot! That bloody, good for nothing little shithead!", he screams as he punches the locker next to him, making multiple dents in it. What the- "I told him not to. I said 'Don't do it, you goddamn fool, but no! He has to go off, resolves in ruining us!!!"

I'm speechless. His wolf has completely taken over and what little I do sense of the human part of Mark has checked out. Had Marks wolf not been talking, had I not sensed Mark somewhere inside, I would've figured he had gone feral. That would have broke me as well. Luckily, it seems that Mark has only checked out, possibly due to the emotional turmoil he just put himself through. I didn't want to do it, but my wolf convinced me that he has to make his own mistakes and that we don't know him well enough to step over the line of making decisions for his own good. There seem to be students looking at what's going on, particularly Carter, the only one who probably knows what's going on at all. I slowly walk up to Mark, making sure not to spook his wolf. You don't corner a frightened animal, ever! But this is no animal...well, not completely anyway.

"Mark?", I hesitantly call. Do I still call him Mark? We don't call our wolves by other names anymore as a species. The wolf looks at me with its blue eyes enveloping the suckers of his eyes, leaving only the pupil. Yup, human Mark has left the building and we are left with his canine counterpart.

"I'm sorry. He didn't mean it! He doesn't mean it!", his wolf in a state of panic explains, now on his knees. Ok, awkward. "I was there. He didn't mean any of it. Inside he was yelling to stop and I begged him and begged him-god that idiot!" He's clutching his head, but I don't sense Mark trying to fight for control, just his wolf being driven in madness. I gotta calm him somehow.

"Shhh, it's alright. Calm yourself", I say in a soft voice. He looks at me and grabs hold of my arms so that I don't move away from his pleading gaze.

"Please don't let us go. Please. He didn't mean it, I swear. He-he-he-", he stammers. My god he's a mess and it hurts to watch. I resolve to calm him and get him to Doctor Terrence. Maybe he can help us figure this all out. 

"It's okay. I only agreed for Mark. I didn't want any of this either", I say cupping his face as I am still crouched and held by his hands. Now on my sides though, but not quite my waist. "I didn't mean any of it".

"Okay, so...it doesn't count right? We still are mates?", he says with a hopeful expression.

"Genetically, Yeah, we are still mates. And I suppose since we reconciled that we didn't want this, we are still True Mates. Had we broken the bond by mating someone else or death, we would've been completely done".

"So, we can still mate? And have pups? An-and-" he tries to continue before I interrupt him. As much as I'd love to comfort him, we still have an audience here and I don't want Mark to come back to his secret coming out. Luckily, the wolf didn't specify who would carry the pups.

"Of course, but we need to figure out what happened to Mark..that is, your human self", I explain before he can correct me. He nods in understanding gets up, fully renewed energy and interest in his surroundings. Particularly in the wolves that worry for their human peer, who at the moment is faintly there, but not prominent enough to fight for control.