I Scored Myself A Mate

Mark's eyes fluttered like the wings of a butterfly as he tried to shook off the sleepiness. He couldn't listen anymore; he was tired of hearing this woman scream in his ears. He had pretended to be asleep for a while. The moment he saw everyone, slowly drifting off to sleep he had looked around surprised not fully aware what was happening. He nudged Allias who was sitting next to him many time but he had gotten no response as the man was groaning in his dream. So he pretended to fall asleep too, not knowing why he hadn't been affected by that weird spell. 

He waited until he heard the woman wake the blond wolf up. The began talking so he never found the chance to interfere at the same time not knowing how to do it. He definitely had to get in the way, since he heard her loud and clear screaming that she was indeed intending to kill him. Mikael's voice was reaching his ears almost as if he had been whispering but the moment he heard him plead for his life he just couldn't stand still. It was now or never, because his soon to be boyfriend, based on Mark's observations, would die soon. After he assessed the situation, noticing that the woman's back was turned towards him he stood up as silently as he could and while her arm was in the air, ready to take Mikael's life he lunged towards her, making them both fall to the ground. 

He sat on her back restraining her and slapped the knife away from her, surprised with himself that he hadn't messed everything up. Mikael was looking at him with his mouth agape, silent as tears stains decorated his face. Mark looked at him with a proud smile and winked, while the woman moved around like a fish out of water, trying to get free. 

"Please don't do this. You don't know the whole story. Yes, he did it but it wasn't him who wanted to kill your sister. It was someone else." Mark told her. 

"Don't try to protect him by lying human boy, get off of me" she shouted but mark pinned her arms on the wooden floor, restraining her movement even more. 

"I don't have a reason to lie. Can't you see if I am telling the truth or not? Look inside my soul, or whatever the hell you did to Mikael. I will let you do it. If you promise not to hurt him. At least not yet. If you promise that, if you still want to kill him after knowing the truth I will let you do anything you want." He explained. Amelia remained quiet for a while, probably thinking her options. 

Mark relaxed a bit thinking it was a good sin, since she wasn't struggling any more only to see her arm, now free pointing towards the knife and pulling it towards her with some unknown force. He gasped and tried to stop it but it was too late. He wasn't used to fighting, he was also too honest and straightforward to simple think that the witch would pull something like that. In a way he had it coming, finding himself with the roles reversed, now beneath her as she held the knife to his throat. He made a mental note that if he lived through this to never relax during a fight. Her hand was shaking as she looked at him filled with rage. 

"Don't get in my way."

"Listen to me. Don't you want to know who really ordered your sister's death? Will you be satisfied by killing just a pawn and not the mastermind?" he asked her. "Will that give peace to your sister's soul? I doubt that. You say you want to get revenge but being half assed about it like that is nothing really." He provoked her and she bit her bottom lip, perplexed about what she should do. Before this little human jumped in she was sure that killing Mikael would give her the catharsis she so much wanted. At least avenge her sister's death since she couldn't get her back but now, if she didn't know she would always wonder. 

"Speak. But don't you dare lie." She threatened him, pressing the cold silver deeper into his neck. A small cut was starting to form and blood pricked from the edge. A big beam that slowly formed a very red trail down his neck until his sweater, leaving a very noticeable stain. 

"Don't hurt him!" Mikael shouted hearing the small hiss coming from Mark's lips. His energy seemed to be restored as he stared at the young man on the ground. He didn't have the will to speak before, turn things around and honestly he had almost given up on his life even if he really didn't want to die. It was a different case when mark was being threatened though. There is no way he would let him get hurt. He desperately tried to free his body from whatever spell had gotten on him, making him unable to move but the more he struggled the more tired he felt. Only the witch could release it, as it seemed. 

"Shut up, you pretentious idiot." Amelia hissed at him before she turned her eyes back to him. "Tell me."

"The reason why Mikael killed your sister was to protect me." He revealed and the woman stared at him dumbfounded. "Allias, the elf king and I used to live in White Fangs' compound, after a series of events we realized we needed to run away and we went to your sister for help, the only person who seemed to have the information we needed. The problem was that she contacted the pack, a girl who was in love with Luke, Allias'…boyfriend at the time. She not wanting our location to be revealed, so Luke wouldn't find us told Mikael to kill your sister in case she tried to contact him. He forced Mikael to do it by telling her that she would kill me if she didn't. She was the only one other than your sister who knew our location, it was her fault. She gave the order and forced Mikael to do it. So please, I am begging you don't hurt him." Mark explained everything and waited for her to say something, at least make a facial expression but she stood there frozen. 

"So you mean to tell me that my sister died because of a love triangle?" She shouted, seeming ready to explode any time. "Are other people's lives so unimportant to you that you would kill her so easily just for that? Who is it? Who was the one that ordered to kill her! Tell me!" She commanded and Mark coughed, as his heart trembled underneath the impact of the sharp knife. It was obvious that her mental state had become fragile. Her eyes had a glimpse that terrified the disarmed human and he almost regretted telling her the truth. Maybe the best option would be for them to simply knock her out and run away, but that didn't feel right either. Amelia just wanted to avenge her sister and no one could promise them that she wouldn't contact the hunter's later and ruin their plans. They had told her too much. They hadn't planned well and now they were in this situation. They believed things would come easily but they were mistaken. No matter how powerful the elves and wolves were it didn't mean they couldn't get tricked. They had fallen right into her trap. 

"I will tell you only if you swear to keep Mikael alive and help us. Only then" Mark said. "And if you try to get the info out of me with one of your witchy things I will just kill myself with that knife." He threatened hoping to finally have some leverage on her. "What is it going to be?" he asked her, impatiently waiting for an answer as he raised his head, for his neck to touch the knife. He needed to show her she was serious. 

"Mark no!" Mikael shouted, believing that his plan was utterly stupid. How could he trust her?

"Okay then. Tell me. I promise." She agreed. 

"Her name, the girl's name is…" Mark began talking when a loud thud was heard and soon the woman fell on top of him unconscious. He hadn't managed to reveal her name yet and when Amelia's silhouette stopped being in front of him, hiding the view he noticed Allias holding a now broken teapot. 

"She won't die." He said as he removed her heavy body over Mark and tended his arm to help him get up. Mark accepted it and finally after a while he stood on his feet. "I am disappointed in you." He said staring at his best friend. "How could you agree to give her name out like that? Yes, none of us likes her, she is a bitch but still you would be sentencing her on a death sentence." He scolded him and Mark's head fell. 

"You shouldn't return back to your world too. Those kind of things are not for you." Theseus stated as he stood up, slightly hazy and Mark scoffed. 

"You run around killing without a care in the world and when I do it to save Mikael you tell me I shouldn't. Did you forget you killed a council member?" Mark said in front of the wolves and Allias looked at him in shock. He shouldn't be telling that to anyone. The red haired man once he realized what he did wanted to cut and swallow his tongue. Stupid, he was so stupid, he thought. 

"We will talk about this later. Now get everyone who is still asleep and get back to the car. Before she wakes up. Mikael can you move?" Allias asked him and the wolf nodded, slowly getting control of his own body. Once Amelia started to lose her composure the spell seemed to weaken and those mentally stronger became able to break free from the torturous dream land. Soon Luke woke up too and the younger boys were taken to the car by the others, still sleeping but now with calm expressions on their faces. 

Once they entered their cars and Allias turned the key to start the engine, he let out a sigh and punched the wheel, trying to contain his anger as he got to the road. This time they had failed. 

Now they were at a dead end.