Lies

That night Fig, Jay and I all talked and joked until we all fell asleep early in the morning and was woken up by Jay's phone ringing. "What is it!? I'll kill it!" Fig said jumping up in confusion. He was almost completely round from his hair fluffing up. I laugh and pick him up saying "It's just a cell phone Fig. People here use it to call other people." His hair slowly lies down as I stroked him.

Jay doesn't answer the phone and rubs his face. "We have to tell them Syn." He says nervously. I sit up and bite my lip. "Okay, but we need to come up with a convincing story.. They can't know the truth. They will either lock me up or kill me." I say worried. I see what I said bothers Jay as he nods and says "I've got an idea." and gives me a reassuring smile. I nod and agree. He quickly gives me the run down and then starts making calls.

I turn to Fig and say "You can't let people here know you can talk okay?" He doesn't like it but says "Yeah, yeah I won't say anything." I rub his little head and put him in my lap as I nervously await. The first to show up was the police and they went straight into asking questions. "I was hit by the lightning and I guess it threw me several feet away and when I woke up I was confused. I didn't know who I was or anything... so I wandered around and went to a homeless shelter. I worked odd jobs for a little money and my memory slowly came back." I say awkwardly smiling.

The cops nods his head and says "So why do you look so different?" I panic because Jay and I didn't think about that. I search for something and nervously say "I guess the lightning changed me a little.." I smile at the cop and he just stares at me. "Right.." He says and writes in his book. He picks up his phone and sends a text. "Sit tight Ms. Michaels." he gets up and walks away. I nervously bite my lip as I "sit tight".

After waiting fifteen minutes or so a large man walked in and when we made eye contact I stiffened.

He wasn't human.. and the look on his face told me he knew I wasn't either. The man spoke with the other cop and they shook hands before the man walked over. He slowly sat down watching me and says "My name is detective Colson. So why don't we start over from the beginning and tell me everything that happened." He said making himself comfortable.

"I told the officer what happened," I said petting Fig. Fig kept his head down and eyes closed but I could tell he wasn't sleeping. "Right.." He says looking at the book the officer wrote in and sighed before saying "Look we both know this is a load of bullshit and I want the truth." he leaned forward and threw the book on the table between us. I look at it and back at him. "I haven't done anything wrong and I haven't hurt anyone. Why won't you let this go?" I ask nervously.

"That's what you claim anyway. You look nothing like the "old" Synthia... explain to me where you went and why you are now like this. I was there Syn. I searched everywhere for you and I know for a fact you weren't sent several feet away. You disappeared Syn and I want to know why and where." He said and leaned forward. I could see his muscles straining through his shirt as his amber eyes locked on me. So he knows.. knows more than I thought.

I look around to see that it was just us in the room and look back to his amber eyes. "What are you?" I ask quietly. He gives me a dark smile and says "Ladies first." I snort and say "Such manners.." and give him a sarcastic look. "Look.. we can both agree I'm no longer the same and it took everything I had to get back here. I'm not going to hurt anyone." I say being honest. I can see him breathing deeply and instantly knew he could smell things like Rune had.

He grunts but nods his head and says "Okay Michaels, here's the deal. I'm gonna let this slide for now and we will go with your lame story. If I catch you even looking the wrong way I will have your ass thrown in jail are we clear?" He growls and leans in. I swallow and nod my head "Crystal clear." I say and he gets up and says "Good girl. I'll be in touch." and walks out.

I let out a breath I didn't even know I was holding and slump into my chair. He was scary but he didn't have anything on Rune. I bite my lip as I come to the realization that there were others here. Were there always supernaturals here and I just didn't know? I started to get a little nervous. What did that mean.. "Fig.. do you know what he was?" I ask quietly. Without lifting his head he quietly says "A shapeshifter. Wolf by the smell of it." My hand trembles slightly as I continue petting Fig.