Omega

Chapter 5

By the time Alpha Jasper returned, I had gotten myself under control. No more fanciful dreams. My face was frozen in place with a neutral expression plastered on. Alpha Jasper gave me a big smile and held out his arm, "shall we?" I offered him a tight smile before gently looping my arm with his and nodded. "I showed you the infirmary, office, and barber," Alpha Jasper started, "but I never showed you the city." I cocked my head to the side. But I had seen the city, I watched as it rushed by in the passenger's window. "Let's go window shopping and find some good food!" I smiled and nodded but I didn't understand what he meant.

When we arrived, Alpha Jasper gave me a warning. "Not everyone is a wolf. In my pack, we mix among the humans. You can't turn into your wolf here." My shoulders sagged and I rolled my eyes, as if I could turn into my wolf. My wolf had long abandoned me, just like my family. Alpha Jasper looked sympathetically down at me, "you haven't turned into your wolf since you got here, you must be getting restless. I'll tell you what, you can shift once we get back." I nodded absentmindedly, trying to pretend that I didn't care one way or another but I secretly hoped Alpha Jasper would forget about it.

"Look!" Alpha Jasper said and he pointed to a wanted fountain. Children were running through the spray water. I could feel my lips threatening to turn up into a smile and my heart rate increased. The Alpha gave my a pointed look but a smile twitched upon his lips. Our eyes locked and his hesitant smile turned into a grin. "You're welcome to join the children in the water park." I could feel the Alpha watching me carefully but I didn't back down to the challenge. Fine. I nodded before jogging off to the so called 'water park.'

Children squealed as they waddled through the spraying water with grins on their faces. The smell of matted hair was strong and it made my nose wrinkle. Resisting the urge to look back in the direction I left the Alpha, I took a tentative step forwards. Water hit me like the drizzling before a storm. The cool drops slid down my face and I tilted my head up with my eyes closed. I stood there for a few seconds, lost and floating in my own thoughts.

"Hey lady," a boy said his face puckering into a frown. As he spoke, I could tell he was missing a few teeth. He had a blue staining on his tongue and around his mouth, but it wasn't the type you got from getting hit. I cocked my head to the side. "Get out of the water, only the children are aloud to play!" I cocked my head to the side but obliged, leaning my head forwards to expose my neck as I backed away. When I left the water park, a wave of nausea hit me and I stumbled for a nearby tree. My eyes searched for Alpha Jasper, but he was nowhere in sight. My eyes scanned the park once more, and my chest tightened. There were too many people around.

"Do you need help Miss?" A woman with blond hair asked me but I waved her off. I needed to get out of here. I stumbled for the only place I could think of. The tall looming walls of two buildings created a safe shelter. There were garbage cans in the narrow street, so not many people were around to notice me. I slid to the floor, not caring that everything seemed like it was covered in a thick layer of dirt.

"Luna!" I heard Alpha Jasper call in the distance but I couldn't reply. I clutched my hand to my chest and curled up into a ball. Everything seemed to be hurt. I was suffocating. Even if I tried, I don't think I would have been able to uncurl my shoulders and stand up to wave the Alpha over with a smile plastered on my face.

"Well well well," a feminine voice hissed. "Who would have thought the mouse would come running to the cat— or rather the pup come to the wolf." A shiver went down my spine. I instantly looked up as the familiar sent wafted around my by a sudden gust of wind. It was faint, but I could smell the sent of my home pack. Molly stood with a smirk, her eyes glittering but behind them was emptiness. She read the surprise on my face and her grin widened. "What, you didn't expect me to join your little date? We could have had a threesome." My eyebrows furrowed and I sniffed again to make sure my nose wasn't fooling me. The smell was musty but it was definitely there. Noticing, Molly narrowed her eyes and laughed. "Don't worry little dog, I'm not going to tell your master that you are here. I left the shit bag long ago." At the mention of Alpha Greyson, my body shook. Molly's eyes seemed to glow in the dark, "We're merely here to play." Glowing eyes appeared beside Molly as four wolves stalked from behind some trash bins. I could feel my head pulsing and my eyes went dark as I tried to stumble to my feet. A figure appeared at the way back to the field and water park and my feet faltered.

Molly chuckled. "You have nowhere to hide little Luna." I heard the sound of bones twisting before a large grey wolf stood before me. My eyes narrowed, not out of feat but out of shock. Ten years ago, it was said my parents attacked the pack. But they didn't do it alone, a large grey wolf stood along side with my parents. It was said my parents had allied with the rogues who stalked at our boarders in the forest in attempt to overthrow the Alpha.

Molly let out a deep growl and leaped, her front paws outstretched to grab me and her teeth shining bright. Another growl caused me to scramble backwards as a dark brown wolf crashed headfirst into Molly. Their jaws snapped and their claws frantically scrabbled at each other. The four other wolves with Molly slowly started to circle around the messy bundle of two wolves, nipping here and there when they could.

My throat closed and my breath came in and out quickly but no one payed attention to me. My arms shook as I slowly backed away, my eyes trained on the flight. Just as I was about to turn and run, the emerald green eyes of the brown wolf caught mine. Something was familiar about that stormy gaze. I paused. Taking the chance of the brown wolf's lack of attention, the circling wolves attacked. The wolf yipped and wildly slashed down Molly's face before attacking the four other wolves. One offing each of the five wolves while keeping the others at bay was a taxing and the brown wolf was taking more wounds than I would have liked. With ever bite or slash the brown wolf took, my heart lurched for me to join the fight but my mind told me to run. I was like a squirrel caught in a car's headlights, unable to chose whether to go left or right. Somehow one wolf was able to pin the brown wolf down. Molly snickered, letting out a low wheezing laugh through her teeth and she pranced forwards. My body shook as my eyes narrowed and my vision became more clear. Deep in my throat rose a growl before claws extended from my hands. As if acting on instinct I charged to the group of wolves and knocked them off the brown wolf, sending them skidding into the dumpsters. Molly looked at me, then my claws, and then the wolf lying behind me before scampering off with her fellow wolves who whimpered quietly behind her.

The sound of laboring breaths caused my to look down once I became calm. Small scratches nicked the wolf who had saved me here and there and some patches of fur were missing. Nothing major was visibly wrong but I could tell the wolf was in pain. I started intently at the wolf who I had taken too long to recognize. What should I do? Tears welled up in my eyes as my fingers frantically searched the wolf's body for a source of pain, needing something to do to ease the wolf's pain, but I could find none. My mind was going haywire as I tried to carefully sculpt those words in my mouth. I took a deep breath and said, "Alpha." The first word in my ten year of silence was all because of you, Alpha Jasper.