Coming Back.

Ch. 11 A pup.

(Dawn pov)
I woke up at three this morning and got dressed and ready. I left a note in Roger's room saying please watch the pups while I'm at this meeting and I left. I went to the kitchen and see Alpha Dominic working on paper work. He hears me come in and glanced at me. But I didn't pay him any attention. I just went to the cabinet and grabbed a bagel. I put it in my mouth as I grab a bottle tea. I take a bite. "You know that's note exactly the best breakfast." Alpha Dominic said. I swallow my bite. "And what do you care?" I ask. He seems shocked as I leave. Right as j was about to exit the door, he growls. "What? I thought you wanted an independent mate." I said. "Independent. Not disrespectful." He asked getting up. "Well Alpha, I have some where I need to be. Be happy I'm getting any breakfast." I growl and left. I teleport to Olympus and finish my bagel. I chug the tea and throw the bottle in a trash can when I got to the castle. I see the kids running around playing. Because not it's about eight in the morning. Around the time they wake up. I chuckle as they play. It always makes me feel good when I see them having such  a good time. I went to the meeting room and I see James having a fake meeting with a little boy. They're laughing. Then James sees me. "All right I now adjourn this meeting. Go have fun." He said and the little boy ran off. I chuckle and sat down. "Good to know you don't mind living with forty kids." I said. "What? They're all angles." He said. I chuckle. "Ok. Now let's begin." I said looking at king Draven. "Well Dalton did attack the orphanage. Two hours after you left all the kids here. He burned it down. Now my question is, do we want to build another orphanage some where more protective?" He asked. "No. Why waist building materials when we can just have the orphanage here. We have the rooms for it." I said. "That's what I thought you'd say." He said. "And besides if the kids are here then they have parental figures or the servants assigned to them. So then it's almost like a normal child hood." I add. "Ok. Now for the new topic. Dalton."

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After a few hours, we were done and I decide to stay a little bit. I went to the living room and find a lot of kids watching a moving. "Having a movie day are we?" I ask. They nod. "We hope you don't mind." One said. I chuckle. "I don't care. This is your home too. Well until you get adopted." I said. "I really hope some one takes me in!" One said and all the other agree. I chuckle. "Don't worry it will happen eventually. Good things come to those who wait. Is this all of you?" I ask. They nod and I start to count the kiddos. "37. 38. 39." I said counting the last kid. "Aren't there supposed to be forty. I could have promised we brought forty kids here." I said. "Oh the last one stages in his room all day. We have asked if he wants to come and play but he never answers." One said. I nod and understand who they're talking about. Then a maid came in holding a plate of food. "My queen may I talk to you about my pup?" She asked. "Of course." I said knowing she meant the one she's assigned too. "He won't sleep, he won't come out of his room. All he does is stair at the wall and never talks." She said. "You wouldn't happen to be assigned to Cody would you?" I ask. She nods. "I knew it. This is normal behavior for him. He was traumatized." I said and we walk right out side the room. I explain what happened to him and she gasps when I'm done. "Oh the poor thing." She said. "Actually I want to try to see if I can get him to talk. I won't force him. But maybe if I relate to him he might talk. Is this for him?" I ask pointing to the food. "Yes." She said. She hands me the food and I went to Cody's room. I find him on his bed looking out the window. I knock on the open door and he turns around. He blinks at me as if to ask what are you here? I smile a little. "Can I join you?" I ask. He nods a little still looking confused. I walk in and set the plate on his night stand. Then I sit beside him. "Remember me?" I ask softly. He nods and I pull him to me. "Look I don't want to sound like I'm accusing you or trying to be mean or saying that you're wrong." I start. He nods. "But I know what you're going through. I know how you feel and just let me tell you. You don't have to believe me. But it gets better it really does but only if you let it get better." I said softly as I run my hand through his hair. He looks down and bites his lip. Then he takes in a breath as if he's about to talk. He hesitates for a moment. "Does it really get better?" He asked. I'm shocked. But I quickly snap out of it to answer. "Yes it does. But like I said, only if you let it get better." I said. He nods. "But how do you know? No offence." He said. "Non taken. Besides you have a right to know." I said. "Well this was about three years before the attack. I was twelve at the time. My mother had gone on a run and never returned. So my step father sent a search party and they brought her back. But by the time they found her she was nearly dead. She died an hour later. I was broken. I spent the rest of my life focusing more on becoming a warrior. So I could protect my family and my people. But for that first year I was just like you. I wouldn't sleep, eat, leave my room. I just sat there on my window seat watching people go by." I said. "But eventually Roger dragged me out of my room and told me it would get better if I let it get better. So I decided to give it a try and here I am today queen of vampires. It's a lot of work." I said. He giggles. "Now you may not become King of vampires but you can do great things if you let it get better." I said. "So is it true that at wolf shifters are bad?" He asked. "No that's not true. There are some good wolf shifters. It's the same with us. There's the good, the bad and the ugly." I said. "Now do you want to watch a movie with me?" I ask. "Ok." He said. I got up and pick him up. I went to the living room and see all the kids left. "Looks like we have the theater to ourselves." I said as I sit down and set him in my lap. "Is this ok?" I ask. He nods. I turn on a movie and after a while we fell a sleep.

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I woke up to some one shaking me and I look up to see James. "Hey Roger called and he's worried about you." He said. "Ok. I'll head back then." I said. "As soon as I out him in bed." I said stroking Cody's hair. "He talked." I told James. "I know. A guard out side his door over heard and news travels fast. Every one is saying you're a miracle worker." James said. I chuckled and sat up. I stretch and then pick up Cody. I went to his room and found I find the maid assigned to him swapping the plates out. She looks at me. "My queen." She said as I set him in bed and cover him up. "Hey, so be gentle with him. He wants to try and let it get better so if you could help him with that." I said. "Of course. Any thing for the pup." She said. "Thanks and call me if any thing happens or if I'm needed." I said. She nods and I left. I went back to Alpha Peter's house and walk through the door. "I'm home." I call. "In the living room!" Alpha Peter called. I went in and my eyes land on Roger. "Roger you're never going to believe this." I said. "What?" He asked looking s time weird. "Cody talked." I said and he looks shocked. "Yu-you got him to talk?" He asked. I nod with a big ole on my face. "You are a miracle worker. What in the world?" He starts. "I told him what you to me." I cut him off. He's shocked beyond all life. "You really are a genius." I said and left. I went to the kitchen. I got a snack. "Dawn come here!" Roger called. "Coming!" I call back. I went back and sat down beside Roger. "Who is Cody?" Alpha Peter asked. "One of the pups that was involved in the rogue attack." I said. "That was ten years ago. What happened?" Alpha Peter asked. I sigh. "He watched his entire family be killed." I said. They look shocked. "And he was next. But then the troops got there and saved him.  But he was traumatized. For the first year, we could barely get him to eat, he refused to sleep, thinking they would come back for him. Because they attacked at night. He wouldn't play with the others nor would he leave his room. He would just sit there and look out the window with a dead look in his eyes and no emotion. But after a year we got him to eat, sleep more. But he would never leave his room and would just watch out the window but that dead look in his eyes never left." I said. "And we tried every thing. We would go to him personally and just talked to him. He seemed to like to listen to stories. So we try to go every so often and read him a book. But things have been crazy the last three years and he doesn't seem to like it any more. We tried every thing we can think of. Nothing worked." Roger said. "That poor pup." Josh said. "Well thankfully she didn't give up." Roger said. I feel the warmth in my cheeks. "So how did you do it?" Josh asked. "Well I told what you told me and then I refered to mom." I told Roger. "And then he asked that oh so famous question." I said and Roger cracks up. "What question?" Dustin asked. "Well this pup isn't a wolf shifter nor are any of the others. But they know about us. We are the only wolf shifters they have ever met and they hear a lot of people talk about the bad wolf shifters. So they think all wolf shifters are bad. So he asked so it's true all wolf shifters are bad." I said. They nod. "What are they if they aren't wolf shifter?" Alpha Dominic asked. "That's not important." I said. "I'm going to bed. Where are the pups?" I ask. "In your room a sleep." Alpha Peter said. I nod and went to my room. I find them a sleep. I lay down and cuddle with them. Then I fell a sleep.