Loving The Unloved (Original Story)

Chapter 24

There were three people blindfolded and gagged, sitting on uncomfortable chairs, bound by rope. One was beaten and covered in dry blood. His head was limp and didn't move when Charlie, Xena, Victor, and a few others enter the room. The person in the middle was a woman with her hair cut off, bruises littered her skin with a few cuts.

Her clothes were ripped, showing her white bra and a little left of what was once a navy blue pencil skirt. She lifted her head and shook with fear, mumbled noises coming from her gagged mouth. The last one was a half breed. He lifted his head and Charlie almost gagged.

His ears were cut and his tail was cut off. His mouth was blooding and Charlie can hear him crying. He was naked on the chair, bite marks, bruises, and scratches left open and untreated on his body. Charlie shook his head and looked at Victor, who's head was down in shame.

Victor really didn't want Charlie seeing this, but even he can't lie to the boy and say he never participated in one of these. He had blood on his hands and would tell anyone that. He hoped Charlie won't take this direction.

"You see, Charlie, these people harmed our kind, kill each of us off, and aided the enemy. They don't deserve to live and continue their lives when our blood still lays dead thanks to them.

One of your tests will show if you are capable to do what it takes for your pack. For your family." Xena said, walking toward the bound people. She took off their blindfolds, the woman and the halfbreed looking at him pleadingly while the man looked close to death already, not giving Charlie a glance.

Xena threw their blindfolds on the table and pick up a knife, giving the handle to Charlie. "Do Jasper know about this?" Charlie asked. Xena smiled. "Who you think gives orders? Where do you think we get our information from?" Xena said.

Charlie looked at Victor, who was still avoiding eye contact. Xena moved Charlie closer to the bound people. "Go on. If you want to be Jasper's omega, you better get your hands dirty." Xena said with a smile. Victor finally spoke up. "Charlie, you don't have to do it.

Come home with me instead. You'll never have to worry about this." Victor said pleadingly. Charlie knelt in front of the man, close to death. Charlie can probably help him than leave him alive. But first, he took the gag out of his mouth. The man finally looked at Charlie weakly with no emotion shown when his eyes saw a knife.

He was probably ready to go. "Why?" Charlie asked. Charlie really didn't want to kill anyone, but he wanted to know why. The man looked confused for a minute before sighing. "My wife left me for a full bred. She took everything I had and I was left with nothing.

Debt and low money were coming in, so I used that anger to work for the Anti-wolf kind. I just needed more money. I couldn't live on the street with your kind or they would've killed me. Now I know I should've gone that route. I still die by the hands of your kind." He said.

Charlie thought back to when he almost got attack by his own kind as well. He understood this man and if Charlie was him, he would've done the same thing. Charlie got up and move to the next one. The woman. She was crying, her eyes puffy and red. Charlie moved her gag from her mouth.

He heard someone groan in frustration behind him. Charlie wasn't a murderer. "Why?" Charlie asked. "Please let me go home. My children need me! I had to do it or my family would starve. They tried taking my kids away from me because I was an unfit mother. I was just trying to provide. Please let me go home!" She cried.

Charlie didn't know what kind of kids she gave birth to, but his time in the orphanage wasn't good. He understood and wanted the mother to go home and protect her kids. He wanted to promise her, but it would be a lie.

She cried softly when Charlie headed over to the half-breed. He removed the gag and almost cried. The half-breed's fangs and tongue were cut and pulled out of his mouth. "You talked too much, but you were trying to survive. Homeless by the looks of it and an Omega by the scent. Is that right?" Charlie asked.

The half-breed cried and nodded. Charlie couldn't kill them. He understood now though that the humans have it just as bad as his kind. Everyone was turning on each other and other people. There was no safe haven for them. No one to help them. Charlie wanted to but didn't know how to do it.

But he got up and placed the knife down. "I can't kill them. They were just trying to survive like we are. All of us are by doing crazy means to live. Just let them go." Charlie said. Xena growled. "They killed our kind without remorse, Pup," Xena growled out. "And doing it to them won't make it better.

Two wrongs don't make a right. All it's going to do is continue until one of us is dead and gone." Charlie said. "Traitor! Betraying your own kind because you pity these fools!" Xena grabbed the knife and pushed Charlie in front of the bound.

"An Omega," Xena slits the man's throat, "Does what it takes," The woman's throat, "To protect the pack!" The omega was last and Charlie was covered in blood spewing from their necks. Then Xena came for Charlie. "I, capable of being Jasper's omega, can't have it, no one will."

She swung at him with the knife, Charlie moving back. Victor attacks her, biting her neck from behind and redirecting the knife to herself. Xena screamed until Victor made the final blow. Charlie shook where he kneeled. Victor helped him up and hugged him tightly, trying to make Charlie feel safe.

Charlie cried. He didn't want things to end like this. He didn't want anyone dead nor did he want to kill anyone. Charlie cried into Victor's shoulder, finally knowing he can't pass. He can't be with Jasper. Taking a life was wrong. "You all, handle these bodies. Come on, Charlie." Victor said, walking them back.

Charlie needs to go home and be away from here. Victor picked a few guys to make sure Charlie gets back home and to have Nicole take care of him and be there until Jasper gets home. Before Charlie left, he hugged Victor and kissed his cheek.

"Thank you so much." Charlie said quietly. Victor smiled and kissed his forehead, ignoring the blood that got on his lips. "Go home and rest. I'll take care of things here." Victor told him. "Won't you get in trouble?" Charlie asked. Victor shook his head. "No, but let me handle it. Go home, Charlie. I hope you have a pleasant dream." Victor said.

Charlie nodded and left. Victor sighed. He was glad Charlie had a good heart and didn't have the drive to kill. In the world they live in, it's rare to see some innocence in people. When Jasper came back, Victor told him right away what happened so no one can fill Jasper's head with lies.

Jasper took in the news of his friend dying and left. Victor decided tomorrow, he was going to keep a close eye on them, just to make sure Jasper don't do anything stupid and to make sure Charlie was okay.

He hopes for the best for them, but if Jasper can't fit that role of being Charlie's Alpha, Victor was ready to take it. Jasper better watched what he do because Victor wasn't loyal to him. Only Charlie.