Micah, Loki, Xavier, and Emery made it back to the pack house in record time, it had taken them around 5 hours to jog to the fence where Micah found his mate, though they made it back in 3 hours running at full speed. The boys shifted and changed into the shorts they kept at the tree line by the house, Emery huffed in annoyance at them, clearly not happy at being dragged home at full speed to find the place still standing with no dead bodies hanging from the trees. She would understand when Xavier filled her in properly later, but first Micah needed to tell them what was going on. He lead them into the house, sweaty and panting, fighting the mate bond and his wolf both were screaming that he was much too far from his mate right now and anything could happen to her. ‘We have to go get her! We have to protect her’ Zander was howling in his head, ‘we can’t get her on our own, idiot, now stop fucking howling at me and let me deal with this!’ Micah shot back.
Giving a single knock on the office door Micah pushed it open. Both his mother, Melody, a tall, svelte blonde with blue eyes, high cheekbones, the typical wolf perfect complexion, thin lips and a straight and central nose. Micah had always thought his mother to be the archetype of female beauty, until he laid eyes on his mate. Now she, and no other woman would ever compare again, and his father, an older man with salt and pepper hair, shining grey eyes, a well toned, fight ready body, he may be stepping down as alpha but he was ready to jump into any battle along side his sons and hold his own. Rowan ward had a face that you wouldn’t look twice at while walking down the street, and that had come in handy many times in the past, he also had the sharpest mind Micah had ever met, were in the office. Micah knew that they would understand the urgency and that between them, he, his beta and his family would be able to formulate a plan to get his mate on the right side of that god damned fence. His shoulders sagged at the realisation. He would soon have his mate and be able to explain everything to her.
“Father, mother” he said, nodding to his father in greeting and kissing his mothers cheek. “I need your help” Micah continued before anyone else in the room could give their own greetings. His brother moved silently around him to kiss their mothers cheek too while his beta bowed respectfully and settled in a seat in the corner. “I found my mate” and before Micah could continue any further, everyone had their own questions which, apparently needed immediate answers. Micah growled at them, his still growing alpha power startling them all into silence. It was good enough for now, “we went for a run, out into the forest on the path south, we ran for about 5 hours when I picked up her scent” Micahs eyes unfocused for a few moments as the memory of her scent took him over, giving a small shake of the head, he carried on as if he hadn’t stopped “so I followed it, as you would, but my path was blocked by a fence. I could smell humans around her too so I couldn’t shift. But she came to me. She looked to be about 15 or so, she’s not a wolf but she’s not human either, I don’t know what she is, Zander doesn’t either. We don’t know if she even knows shes not human. I don’t know, obviously how a mate bond will work for her, but I’m certain she could sense me somehow.” It’s unusual for an alpha to come across a creature his wolf can’t identify, usually their wolves are old, powerful ones, with lots of experience. “She’s called Ashlyn, at-least that what one of the humans inside the fence called her, I don’t know her surname. She’s the most beautiful red head I’ve ever laid eyes on. But she only saw my wolf. She wasn’t even that scared to begin with, until I tried to mind link her, I didn’t think she’d hear me, being so young and not a wolf but she did, dad she heard me. If I knew she could hear I wouldn’t have done it, I wouldn’t have risked it, but I just had to try and tell her I’d go back for her. She begged someone not to touch her as I left, but I couldn't exactly camp out there at the fence, the humans would ask questions. So we left and hot footed it back here, sorry for the smell by the way.” There was silence in the room for a long few minutes after Micah finished speaking, he eventually broke it with “well? Someone say something?! What do we do now?”
Melody had tears in her eyes, her face was pale, she shook her head as she set off for the door, no one was quite sure what had affected her so much but they figured that Rowan, her mate, would be able to figure it out later. Loki was grinning, he clapped his brother on the back as they embraced and he congratulated Micah. Loki was just about to turn 17 and would start the search himself very soon, he had seen his brother go through years of anguish as he searched fruitlessly, only to nearly give up all together. His happiness for his brother was as genuine as if he had found his own mate today. Xavier was grinning, waiting for his turn to congratulate his Alpha and best friend. Rowan had his head in his hands on the desk, he had been suspecting and dreading something like this. “Boys, you all need to go and shower, then we can make a plan. But son, you have to realise there are many in the pack who may not accept this girl, if we manage to get her, when we learn what she is. Your mother will not like it. She always wanted you both mated with good, strong, respectable wolves.” Loki and Micah both huffed but it was Micah who replied “Mother will come around, she knows that we don’t get to choose our mates, the goddess chooses the person who is perfect for us…. Ashlyn is my only hope of being able to run this pack properly, and if the goddess has chosen this girl for me, then I owe it to them both to do my best to make it work” he says with a shrug and smile. Before heading for the door. “So shall we say an hour to shower and eat?” But it was clear it was not open for discussion. The boys all left to their respective bathrooms while the wolves currently on duty in the kitchen began preparing to feed them, despite the fact that it was now nearly tea time. Micah could see no problems that couldn’t be overcome, just as soon as he had his mate with him. Their pups would still be wolves, they would be just as strong as if his mate was a wolf. And with his mark, she would get the longevity of a wolf if her species didn’t already have that trait.
Just over an hour later Micah was in the Alpha’s office which he was sharing with his father currently, though today he was behind the desk, he needed to feel like he was in control of this, to trick himself or he might loose what little composure he managed to hold onto. When he was joined by Xavier, Loki, and Rowan, they were all carrying plates of food, Rowan put the plate he was holding down in front of Micah, chicken sandwiches, crisps, a bit of cold pasta, and a chocolate biscuit, clearly just a collection of snacky food that is available in the kitchen for all pack members whenever, that the kitchen team have put together to keep them going until the meal is ready. It’s burger night tonight, one of Micah’s favourite meals, but he didn’t have much of an appetite right now, he didn’t think that he could even eat the food in front of him. “Eat it Micah.. you need to eat bro” Loki said kindly, correctly interpreting the look on Micah’s face. “We’ll solve this, we can rescue her” he squeezed Micah’s shoulder before taking a seat with Xavier on the couch, Rowan took a seat on the other side of the desk in one of the armchairs.
As the boys began to eat Rowan began to speak “Right, I have liaised with Rafe and we do have some preliminary facts, so the first thing I have to tell you is that the fence and the land it belongs to park view” Rowan gave Micah a significant look, expecting some kind of reaction from someone, the boys looked at each other and gave a shrug, no one seemed to get what Rowan wanted them too, he continued with a sigh “its a human psychiatric facility, where, from what we can tell, wealthy humans put their troubled or hurt teenagers. You are correct about her age, it is her 15th birthday next week. The next thing I must share with you is that the only Ashlyn we could find on the records at Park View right now is a ward of the state. She’s an orphan, according to the records we can find” again Rowan looked around his audience for a reaction, as was his habit. No one had anything to say, or they had the sense to keep it to themselves. Micah however was now internally questioning was wrong with his mate? Why was she in there? He looked up at his father with the question in his eyes, ready to voice it, when Xavier spoke “well, which is she? Does she need to be there or has she been dumped because the humans don’t understand?” Micah’s eyes opened wider, he hadn’t considered that, she wasn’t human, could it just be that the humans didn’t understand her and couldn’t deal with what she was? Perhaps there is nothing wrong with Ashlyn and something wrong with the people around her. Hope filled him once more as he turned back to his father. Rowan cleared his throat before speaking again “well, as of yet, we can’t see her medical records so we don’t actually know for sure why she is in there, but we do suspect that it is a case of she doesn’t fit in, in the human world where she has been raised. We know she has been in there since she was 12 years old, which is around the usual age for many species to start coming into their powers.” Rowan sighed once more and rubbed his face before continuing “I am hoping to have access to more of her records soon.” There was a knock at the door at that moment. “Foods on the table in 5” came a voice through the door, it sounded like Chris or Beth, everything about them was identical, right down to the way they wore their hair. Some identical twins go out of their way to look as as different as possible, but not Chris and Beth, its like their only identity is being twins. They were the latest recruit to the kitchens, for some reason Mrs Black, the kindly maternal wolf who ran the pack house and the orphans home with her husband, saw something in the twins that no one else seemed to and insisted on hiring them despite the fact that they had never worked a day in their lives and didn't seem to know one end of a ladle from the other, they couldn’t be trusted with anything sharper than a rusty spoon as of yet, many of the other staff in the kitchen feared they could do some serious damage to themselves with a butter knife. “Thank you” all 4 men called in unison, manners cost nothing. “Ok, I do have a rough plan, well the first stages of a plan at least, which I will explain to you once we have eaten.” Rowan finished hastily as Xavier and Loki were getting up. Micah’s head was spinning and he was fuming but with no idea who to be mad at, what was wrong with his mate or was she just misunderstood? Who the hell dumped his mate at the age of 12 years old? She has been in a psychiatric hospital for 3 years now, in what world is that fair? How were they going to get her out?
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