I Scored Myself A Mate

"What did you just say kid?" The scary man asked him and he laughed awkwardly.

"Oh, I am sorry. I just…felt a bolt of pain" Alex tried to find a good excuse and not reveal that he knew him. He hoped that he wouldn't remember him from the bus. It would be pretty impossible their eyes had met for only a few second back the so it should be alright. He just had to pretend that he didn't know anything and as soon as he got better, at least good enough to walk he should leave this place and warn the others. 

"Oh, yeah to be honest it's a miracle that you came out safe. The building was burned to the ground. How did you get there anyways?" His father asked him while Joe was rummaging through the contents of the plastic bag and he took out an ointment for him and held in his hands, waiting for him to finish his conversation with his dad. 

"I…don't really know. I woke up and was locked in a room there, somehow." He said

"That's really strange. Maybe someone was trying to hurt ya?" 

"Dad. Can you take Alex out on the van once he feels better? Maybe he will remember anything"

"I don't know son. I have to leave in a bit. You know…work. The guys informed that they found a compound not so far away from here." 

"A compound?" Alex asked intensively and instantly regretted it.

"Yeah, do you remember something?" the man asked him, his eyes turning suspicious. 

"Oh, no. I wish I did" he said smiling. This was going to be harder than he thought. He had to hurry up and leave. 

"When will you go?" Joe asked.

"Tonight. But I have to leave now. The others need me" he said and disappeared for a moment coming back out with one of those huge guns he had been holding last time. He had it on his back and around his waist had a revolver. How could he walk around like that? No one would suspect him like this?

"Um, are you going hunting with that??" Alex asked.

"Yeah, you could say that" The man answered with a smile.

"That's nice. What are you hunting? Birds, rabbits?"

"No, my friend and I go for bigger preys, like wolves."

"Aren't' wolves an endangered species here?" he said with gritted teeth and the man laughed.

"It would be good if all of them ceased to exist. Once and for all. Well I am going now. Joe take care I will see you tomorrow." His dad told him and the young boy sighed as he watched him leave. 

Alex had to think of something. As Joe was uncapping the ointment and unwrapping the bandages on his arms to tend to his burns his mind was running with the speed of light. He only had a few hours to decide how he would get to the compound first to warn them, without the hunters finding him or getting there earlier than him. The fact that he was bedridden couldn't help, actually it wasn't helping at all so he already had to start with a literal handicap. 

His thoughts came to a halt when he felt the pain of the cold ointment touching his skin. It had a very distinctive smell that made his nose wrinkle when it invaded his nostrils and he heard Joe sigh again. It would be really rude to not ask him what was going on.

"Are you alright?" he asked and Joe looked at him with his sad eyes. It was like the emotions were magnified through his deer like eyes and Alex started feeling sad for him too. He seemed really concerned. 

"I've never told this to anyone but since you are a stranger I guess it's okay. I don't really like my dad's work. I hate it. He hurts…animals. He is filled with hate when he talks about them. He says it's the reason my mum left us but she just left because my dad was a jerk. I know that. It wasn't anyone's fault but his. He was immersed in his work that he forgot everything else." 

"So have you talked to your father about it? About him stopping?" 

"I have but he gets angry. It's what our family has been doing for centuries, I think the hate is inherited and it can't stop. He acts all crazy when it's about his job, he even forgets about me. He hurts others. I just want to live normally. Happy with my father."

Maybe this was the chance he needed. Joe, he hated the fact that his father was a hunter. Maybe he could help him get out of here, he had to make sure of this first. He shouldn't be reckless. What if this was just a plan to trick him into revealing what he knows? He was in no positions to fight at the moment, not that he ever was but now he couldn't even run or more like stand. 

He spared a glance at the wounds Joe was treating. It seemed that this ointment had some kind of numbing effect and had decreased significantly the pain even though it was still there, lingering with every small breath, every slight move. They were disgusting. He kept examining with his eyes and his stomach began turning. How would these atrocities heal on his body? Would he be like this forever? Filled with scars? He wondered and suddenly an image of Luke despising him for his appearance came to his mind. He would definitely do that. Alex was sure, he kept saying how he liked his appearance all the time, now he wouldn't even have that. It shouldn't matter though because him and Luke had ended, or more like they had never had a chance to begin with from the start. He was thinking of him, even know, even after he had made his final decision because he still remembered his thoughts at the burning hell. Even if they were not meant to be he didn't want hate to be an obstacle between them. He didn't want their relationship to end up being a bad memory in his mind so they needed to talk. Get it all out at least. Then there was that voice, the one from his past, that person that has been waiting for him. He is out there and he has to find him.

"So would you be happy if your father did not get to harm anyone tonight?" He asked him, while he was bandaging again the wounds and was moving towards the other hand.

"It would be a great start. I just wish he would understand one day that we don't always have to fight." He said and Alex remembered his dream. 

He didn't want to fight. He believed that always there was going to be another way to solve your problems but as it seemed not everyone shared that opinion. Actually very few did and that was what was forcing people who didn't want to fight and hurt others do it. 

"I understand so Joe will you listen to me? Maybe I can help you?" Alex said and swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat. It was no or never, only one chance and he had to grasp it or else it would be too late to think for other alternatives, as it seemed there weren't any and he had to hurry. He had to hurry up so he could warn them. 

"How could you help me?" Joe asked him and he stopped what he was doing. He was too intrigued by Alex's words to continue tend his wounds. In all honesty he didn't care about that at all. He just wanted to be right about him, right about how he had judged his personality for his plan to actually work

"I know what your dad does. I use to live in that werewolf compound he is going to attack."

"What? How? You are human…your wounds…"

"It's a long story but I have a mate. He is a werewolf and I lived there with him. Can you please help me to save them? I swear they will not hurt your family. I just want to warn them so they can run away" Alex begged him.

"I don't know. If my father finds out, we will be in trouble."

"Listen to me. Didn't you say you wanted your dad to not hurt people anymore? They are people too. They have lives, they have children they live like us. How can you condemn them to such a brutal death when they have done nothing to hurt you? Most of them are innocent."

"I am sorry, I…" 

"Please Joe. I am begging you. You saved me. If they die, if my mate dies I would be left with no one. My best friend is there too. He gave up everything to follow me. I can't just let them die. I will do anything" He begged him. This was going further than his plan. He was scared for them. Mark was there how could he let him die? He doubted that these people would discriminate during their massacre. "You cans top them. At least this one you can save hundreds of people."

"What if they come for my family?"

"They won't. I am giving you my word. My mate is the Alpha's son he will take care of it so just help me please. I promise no one will harm them. They wouldn't do that. I will convince them not to do that"

"And this will help people?"

"Yes. You will be saving them."

"Alright then. Tell me what do you want to do? We need to be fast."

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