~Chapter 16~

Alexavier set Lawrynce on the counter, then continued to get out the hot chocolate mix. Lawrynce hopped off the counter and went to the fridge in the corner of the kitchen and got out the milk, "Where's the pots?" He asked, wanting to help his friend out. It was his hot chocolate they were making after all.

"Uhm, bottom left." He pointed to the cabinets in front of Lawrynce as he started to walk over, then before Lawrynce could, he got the small pot out.

"Go start the stove, don't burn yourself, it's a gas burner." Alex informed sternly to the smaller boy.

Lawrynce nodded and brung the milk and pot to the stove, setting the small pot down and pouring enough milk for two. All-the-while Alexavier got out two mugs, a bear one, and a black wolf looking one with a Christmas hat on (that one was Lawrynce's).

Alexavier looked at the small boys slim, side profile, seeing how Lawrence was just barely fit, while he started the eye of the stove, a small smirk on his face before it diminished.

Alex brought the mugs beside Lawrynce on the counter then gave Lawrynce a small smile, watching the boy fix the milk with the hot chocolate mix.

"What's so interesting about my face that you keep staring?" Lawrynce asked, hiding his small smile with tinted cheeks.

Alexavier chuckled and hummed, "I don't know, I thought you would be more amazed at how I was the wolf you loved so very much this whole time. But it's like your whole demeanor flipped. What changed?" Alexavier questioned.

Lawrynce's cheeks lost their rosy color while he drew in a breath, "Well, totally not the fact everything was in front of my face the whole time." Lawrynce giggled then went to throw away the trash, Alex pointing out the black bin at the end of the bar for him, "Then there's the part where I literally looked everywhere for you for nights on end and I never saw you." He gave a sad smile, not meeting Alexaviers eyes.

Alex looked down to his feet and sighed quietly to himself, "I was caught up in something... We were moving the pack to where they are now. The animal's were starting to avoid the area..." He whispered, "So, I sent Finnian."

"That's understandable.." Lawrynce gave a faint smile while he stirred the hot chocolate as it warmed, "But I started to think I was crazy.. It was funny, really. Now that I think about it, I started to think it was all a hallucination or dream. I'm still not sure." Lawrynce said the last line almost silently, blinking away the sting in his eyes.

"Well," Alexavier said, grabbing Lawrynce's free hand with his and holding it to his firm chest, a heart beat was present under Lawrynce's hand, and he could feel the heat radiating off of Alex's body, "this is real.." Lawrynce's attention turned to the taller male beside him, his hand shaking under his grasp, showing his true emotions with the small trembles. Lawrynce quickly looked away and pulled his hand from Alexaviers.

"Yeah, I got that." He had a strained laugh, "I think the hot chocolates done." Lawrynce changed the subject.

Alex, not wanting to push Lawrynce in that moment, nodded, and grabbed the pot, pouring the hot chocolate into the two mugs for the smaller boys of their group. After, he put the dish in the sink to be washed later.

"There ya' go!" He said cheerfully, giving Lawrynce his mug while he brung Cardens to the living room with Lawrynce.

"Thank you!" Carden exclaimed, taking the cup of hot chocolate from Alexavier and leaning back into his mate Gannon's touch.

"Hey, where's mine?" Finnian asked, looking upset to Alex and Lawrynce.

Lawrynce stuttered in his step, "Oh,..I didn't know we were supposed to fix you..Uhm,.." Lawrynce bit his lip and looked down to his mug before he looked back up with a plastered on smile, "You can have mine!" He held the mug out to Finn.

Alexavier furrowed his eyebrows, the action seeming out of place to him.

Finn looked at Alex and shrugged before looking at Lawrynce's strained smile, "No, I was kidding. Go sit down and drink up. We've got a long day of talking to strangers." Finn whispered to Lawrynce then grinned in which the curly haired boy looked away.

I thought we weren't going to be stressed today...

Alex sat on the far end next to the Christmas tree while Lawrynce sat on the opposite end.

Lawrynce tended to squint a lot, not only because he had a throbbing headache in his temples, it was also because of the blurry vision he maintained. Considering his glasses burned in the fire..

He kept his eyes on his hot chocolate most the time, or watched his finger tap on the mug.

Alexavier continued to talk to Finnian and Gannon about what they were going to do when the two-or-three months were up. On the other hand, Lawrynce was spacing out again.

But woke up when he went to sip at his hot chocolate, soon slowly snatching it away from his mouth due to it still being too hot, and burning some of the boys taste buds.

When Lawrynce looked up, he saw Carden watching him with a small smile, so, he gave one back, then looked to Alexavier who was too deep in conversation with Gannon and Finnian to notice. The Christmas tree behind Alexavier was pretty, but when Lawrynce watched it for too long, it started to blur rapidly making his headache worse. The small boy looked back to his cup and blew on the top slowly, watching the steam as it arose.

Carden got up from sitting on the floor between Gannon's knees, and sat beside Lawrynce on the couch, still holding his hot chocolate.

"Did it burn your tongue, too?" Carden laughed quietly.

"Mm, mhm.." Lawrynce replied in a hum, not looking up from his mug, "Can we go somewhere else?....They are kinda noisy.." Lawrynce said in a hushed tone about Alexavier, Gannon, and Finnian who were still discussing something that would need to be ran by Leopold before anything.

"Uhm, sure. Let me tell Gann, go ahead on up." Carden said, then got up.

Lawrynce didn't spare anyone any looks, heading upstairs before he could be talked to.

Alexavier watched the boy the whole time, about to go with him before he saw Carden go up.

His eyebrows furrowed for a moment, then looked at Gannon, "He's got questions, probably." Finnian chimed in before they started to talk about their paused conversation.

Lawrynce walked back into his room, rubbing his eyes and groaning, his hands still shaking. He set down his hot chocolate on the nightstand, sighing deeply before he heard a soft knock while Carden walked in the room.

"Hey, are you okay?" Carden asked, not raising his voice above average. He set his hot chocolate next to Lawrynce's and sat on the bed with him.

"Yeah, yeah,..It's just a headache." Lawrynce gave a faint smile.

Carden nodded and chewed at his lip before asking, "Can I give you some medicine?" He asked, concern in his furrowed eyebrows.

"Uh, yeah.." Lawrynce whispered, "Please.." he added.

"Hm, so your alph-ahahahah, Guardian doesn't mind?" Carden laughed nervously, cutting off what he was going to say before.

Lawrynce furrowed his eyebrows, "Why would Finn mind?" He asked.

"No, not Finnian. I mean Alexavier." Carden had gotten up and went to Lawrynce's bathroom, "He's your real Guardian isn't he? Finnian is just a place holder for now." Carden said, then glanced back at Lawrynce.

I fidgeted with my hands and picked at the skin surrounding my nails, "Yeah, I guess, he is. I don't really know what's going on at all.... I just know that I'm not in the same world as I was in last week, and both groups of my parents are deceased.." Lawrynce muttered.

Carden gave a sorrowful look before he got out a white bottle of medication and two light red tablets.

"I never had to go through that... My parents thought I moved away with my husband Gannon and never had service...." Carden gave Lawrynce the tablets, "But, in reality, I was pulled into their world by one of our best warlocks here...only strong or older people can do spells to go through world gates or travel from world to world without any harm done." Carden said, the first part of his words made Lawrynce frown, feeling bad for the boy and his mother.

"Is that why they think I'm so special?" Lawrynce asked, "Because I can travel through worlds?"

"Not exactly only that.....You're very important to our pack...and to Alexavier, not because he's your Guardian, though.." Carden gulped and hummed to himself, "I can't tell you that section. Alexavier and you will have to have a serious conversation one day, just bring what I said up and he can explain." Lawrynce nodded and Cardens words, then grabbed his, now warm, hot chocolate, and took his medication with it.

After he set the mug back down, he kept his eyes at his hands, they were the only things he could really focus on. The way they were shaking was worse then when he used to get low blood sugar as a kid. He held his hands together to hide most of its trembling, but it didn't go unnoticed by Carden.

"What's going on? Are you cold?.." Carden asked, looking down at the boys hands.

"It's probably just my an-anxiety. It acts up when I....Uhm, never mind. The hot chocolate is warm. Let's finish it up." Lawrynce smiled at Carden, cutting himself off before he could admit he was stressed, taking back up his mug after he handed Carden the bear mug.

"Alright.." Carden said, but the clear look of him not buying what Lawrynce was saying was plastered on his face.

Lawrynce kept quiet before he started to ask, "What's a mate?" His eyes watching the small bubbles in his hot chocolate.

"I knew you would ask that sooner or later." Carden laughed softly, licking the chocolate off his lips. Carden moved a strand of hair from his eyes and tapped his pointer fingers on his mug in a slow short motion as he thought of a way to explain it.

"A mate is like marriage, yes. But,...there are fated mates, then just mates. Mates are based on a ranking system. Fated mates could be anyone in the world, how your world is called Earth, ours is called Viloce. Fated pairs are rare, and are only found on this earth, so we know. No one in our pack is a fated pair.. at least, they haven't ever found out or truly been paired yet. To be paired you have to be bitten in the back of your neck. All though, this does consist of if you are a werewolf, like we are, or not.... nothing was really different with me even though I was human.." Carden hummed and took a sip of his drink while Lawrynce spaced out as he listened and drunk his beverage at the same time.

"The ranking system is based on Omega, Beta, Alpha. Those are just the simple systems we have to go off of. They are also called our second genders. Omega's are the most rare of those three, and they could be set for labor. I'm an Omega, so it can be male or female along with Alpha's and Beta's, they can both be male or female too. Male's have more trouble having pups, due to the fact we have to have a c-section.... I'm scared of needles and knives, so, I don't want to have pups anytime soon." Carden laughed lightly, "But I have a alpha. That's Gannon, you haven't really met him, but you will.. he's protective and nice." Carden smiled, "I owe him a lot.." he added in a hushed tone.

"I have the mark to prove our mating." Carden pulled back his light blue, wool, jacket and slightly long hair, showing a red, scarred, bite mark at the back of his neck above his spinal cord.

"Woah.." Lawrynce whispered, "That looks pretty cool." He whispered with a small smile, Carden nodding in agreement, "I know, right!"

"So, beta's are the most common of the wolves. They make up most the population of werewolves, actually.. They have a hard time getting pregnant and don't have a smaller third form like an omega, more like an in between of omega and alpha, really." Carden said and took another sip of his hot chocolate.

"What's the third form look like?" Lawrynce asked, then looked to his hot chocolate, taking a sip or two.

"I was told not to tell you or show you, so I can't give you any information, but, you can bug Alexavier about it enough then get your answer." Carden smiled and licked his lips again, "Alphas! They are the coolest to me.... They are stronger then both beta, and the female looking omega's. They are usually the dominants of the pack. Elliott, Felix, Gannon, and Alexavier, they are all Alpha's! But,....Alexavier is a special type of Alpha." Carden looked away, one hand fidgeting at the skin on his knee while the other held his mug.

"What is he? Oh, and what's Finns second gender? Or does he not go by a system?" Lawrynce spewed questions.

"Well, Alexavier is a Super Alpha. Meaning, he's guaranteed to be Head Alpha of this pack one day. And if Super Alpha's have a fated mate, the mate is usually Guaranteed the Luna's spot. Super Alpha's also have a healing saliva thing, it's pretty neat and Alexaviers comes in handy sometimes. The mate of a Super Alpha can be injected with his blood and it would also heal them, but that's only the mate of one. There can never be two Super Alpha's as mates. It can only be a Super Omega. I don't know much about that type, but, Alexavier could tell you. He's been doing some studying on one for a year now.." Carden smiled, then thought back to the question on Finnian, "Uhm, I think Finnian is a beta actually... but beta's in his ranking system are stronger than you think. I don't know much about his ranking system, you're going to have to ask that one to his face." Carden laughed and finished off his hot chocolate before setting it on the nightstand.

"Oh, so, Alexavier is looking for his mate?" Lawrynce asked, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

Carden nervously laughed, "Uhm, not exactly. Anyways, there's the Omega's, Super Omega's, Beta's, Alpha's, Super Alpha's." Carden started, "To mate, you have to bite the top of your mates neck. It's an intimate thing and you can never go back out of it. It's serious. Alpha's can't have pups, beta's can barely have pups, omega's are most guaranteed pups. Oh, and we call kids pups in the pack, just so I don't continue to confuse you." Carden gave a small laugh then continued when Lawrynce nodded, "Anything else you want to know about?"

Lawrynce tapped his finger rapidly on his hot chocolate mug, his mind focusing on one specific question as he watched the ripples in his half empty mug, "What am I? I came from two human's that somehow lived here, and I have whatever the hell type of magic I have, but I'm considered human. What am I?..." Lawrynce frowned, still staring intently until he took another long sip.

"Well,..." Carden chewed his lip before he spoke, "You are human....but....I can't answer this one.." Carden fidgeted with his fingers, running his pointer finger over his thumb pads.

"That's another one you will have to ask Alexavier about." He said.

Lawrynce furrowed his eyebrows, "Why do you call him Alexavier? Why not Alex?" He asked, looking over at Carden.

"Well, he doesn't let anyone call him Alex but you, apparently.." He muttered and puckered his lips, making a fake upset face.

Lawrynce giggled and shook his head, "Thats what I first knew him as, besides Mr. Wolf." Lawrynce laughed.

"Mr. Wolf? Really? He let you call him that without nipping you in the butt?" Carden asked, Lawrynce's giggling became contagious and spread to Carden.

"I didn't know Alex was a human, dog, thing!" Lawrynce yelled, then Carden broke in, "Werewolf!" Carden laughed harder, "We are werewolves." Carden's face was getting a little red as he saw the realization cross Lawrynce's face, "Oh, yeah." Lawrynce giggled softly.

Alexavier was standing in the doorway, watching the two boys laugh, Gannon coming to watch after he heard their laughter. Finnian was nowhere to be seen. Both the boys were on the bed, facing away from the door.

"Well, I'm sorry, that I'm new to...that. This. Everything!" Lawrynce exclaimed, drinking his hot chocolate a little afterwards his giggles subsided. His shaking hands had calmed, his vision was ignoring the blur of his surroundings, the only thing really noticeable was the blurry mini Christmas tree in the corner.

"It's okay, you will get used to it. It's a lot to get used to, but I think you will have a blast! Oh! We have hot pools here! They are awesome for baths!" Carden said happily, "Really? We had those back on Earth too! Me and Stephen went not long ago, it was fun, Stephen kept rushing me." Lawrynce said, slight remorse washing over his face, he did miss his childhood friend..

"Carden." Gannon's slightly deep voice called from the doorway, "C'mon, come get in the shower. I have to go hunting with the pack in an hour." Carden looked back to his mate Gannon, then looked back to his new friend Lawrynce.

"I have to go. If you have anymore questions, just ask!" He said, smiling, then hugging Lawrynce, being aware of the mug in his hands so he wouldn't bump it, before he left the room past Alexavier with Gannon.

Lawrynce glanced at the mug on the nightstand, empty from its past hot chocolate Carden consumed.

Alex watched Lawrynce for a moment longer, the boys recent smile fading as he had a concentrated look written on his face.

Lawrynce quickly finished his hot chocolate and licked his lips. He grabbed Cardens mug and brung his own as he stood, about to take the mugs to the kitchen before he paused, noticing Alexavier standing in the doorway.

"Oh, hey.." Lawrynce whispered awkwardly, Alexavier smiling at his hesitation and change in demeanor.

"I'm just gonna go take these to the kitchen." Lawrynce continued as he was doing, walking past Alex with ease.

When Lawrynce started down the stairs, Alexavier started to follow, slowly, and secretly, keeping quiet.

Lawrynce kept his eyes focused on the ground, not wanting the throbbing of his headache to come back, the medication just barely starting to kick in.

Walking into the kitchen, he lifted his head to wash the dishes, his mind too focused on what he had been told earlier, the memories of his best friend, and the thought of what he may or may not be, to notice the sudden feeling of heat running over his body. This time no aura appeared, the only visible thing was his eyes turning a deep, glowing, purple. He sighed, lifting his head from the rag to wipe a drop of water that had hit under his eye.

When he opened his eyes again, a glaze ran over the top, shimmering in the kitchen lights. When Lawrynce could see again he saw two colorless eyes staring back at him.

He flinched, dropping the rag, and knocking himself into the cabinets a couple steps behind him. It was the red headed one from the night before, standing right behind the sink. Lawrynce's breathing hitched, his panic rising, staring into the woman's eyes with his wide purple orbs. The petrified look in his face would make someone think he was about to pass out, the loss of color may have something to do with it too. The sink still running, and Lawrynce too scared to move, the woman started walking around the counter. Lawrynce felt tears prick his eyes, when he tried to speak, words wouldn't come out as if she had muted his voice. This wasn't like last night, white faded in from his vision, and he was still active in the real world. This wasn't a vision. This was...

She stepped closer, Lawrynce finally realizing that he had to move or else.

Stepping back away and off the counter, he started walking backwards to the doors that opened to the living room. Lawrynce trembled with fear, his legs feeling almost like jelly, his throat dry. The woman stopped for a split second before she spoke, "I'll get you and I will devour every last drop of your soul." Her words sounded as if they were seeping into Lawrynce'a mind. Before he could blink, she started moving, but faster, and her feet were not touching the ground. She was floating. Lawrynce flinched and turned his back to her, if he ran backwards he would have been slower and wouldn't have been able to see where he was going. So that's what he did. He looked back to see the woman still there, then had a silent yelp when he ran into someone just outside the doorway. Two tears streamed separately down his face as he turned to the person he had ran into, afraid it was one of the other two that was in the three.

"Hey, hey, hey.." Alexavier said, grabbing Lawrynce's cheeks to make him focus his bright, glowing, purple eyes on him, but Lawrynce refused. As relieved as he was to see Alex, he was in full panic mode. His trembling hands gripping at Alexaviers shirt for the life of him when he looked back and still saw the woman coming, but slower.

She smiled, then Lawrynce spoke, "It's her! It-it, Help! Please! Make her stop!" He yelled, the commotion had called Gannon and Carden out of their rooms. Lawrynce was fine just a few seconds ago after all.

"Calvin!" Alexavier yelled, catching Lawrence's attention.

When Lawrynce looked back at Alexavier, he saw the same eyes he was wielding staring back at him. The glow of Alexaviers illuminated Lawrynces face.

"Listen to my voice." Alexavier spoke, Lawrynce's gaze unable to leave his, "They are not real. It's a hallucination." Alex said, a hand going to Lawrynce's cheek, seeing how the smaller boys lip still quivered in fear.

They were trying to traumatize him.... Make him so scared of them that when he saw them all he could do is run. And at this point, Lawrynce wouldn't get away.

Carden looked down at the two with concern, Gannon watching Alexavier lay out his playing cards and use the most useful one.

Lawrynce's breathing calmed, his hands still trembled and shook from traumatization and adrenaline.

Once the smallers eyes shifted back to their normal blue and green, Lawrynce was just then starting to get color back to his face.

Alexavier pulled the boy in a hug, Lawrynce returning it, but as soon as Lawrynce's eyes weren't connected with Alexavier's purple ones, his body fell limp. Almost as if their gaze was the only thing holding him up.

They were scaring him. Draining him so he couldn't train... And scouting out his location through him so they can find him faster.

It was more serious than Alex had thought..

Lawrynce hugged back for as long as he could before his arms felt too heavy to hold up.

I felt Alexavier pick me up, putting my head on his shoulder and whispering, "It's gonna be okay.." multiple times before I actually shut my eyes. I felt as if I hadn't slept in days. I got a random thought of where Finnian had gone to, he was here earlier wasn't he?...

Alexavier looked up at Gannon and Carden, his expression was furious. He was definitely angry. Once Gannon saw the look, he knew Alexavier was mad. And any Guardian would be. But alexavier isn't just a Guardian to Lawrynce, he was so,....so, much more..

Gannon sent Carden to their bedroom opposite of Lawrynce's after he request he turn off the sink water down stairs, and then afterwards told him to get a shower. All-the-while Gannon awaited for Alexavier to put Lawrynce in bed.

Alexavier laid Lawrynce in bed, covering him up with the silk blankets. He looked at the boy for a moment, wiping away the drying tears, then moving a stray curl from in front of Lawrynces eyes.

He pushed the hair on Lawrynce's forehead back and gave it a gentle kiss, then said, "I'll get there sooner next time... I didn't think they would try to come back so soon... Their magic must have.....Gotten stronger.." He whispered, biting his lip. A pain was tugging at Alex's heart. He would have never wished to see that look on Lawrynce's face, the only time he had seen anything even a little close to it was when Elliot bit his leg.. and that was because,..well,...Elliott had anger issues and didn't know Lawrynce was apart of their pack. So, Alexavier had to give Lawrynce a necklace for a warning to any near by werewolf in the future.

Alexavier had guilt written all over his face, telling himself he should have been there way sooner..

He heard a knock at the door before Gannon started to come in the room, Alexavier sitting on the bed next to Lawrynce now. This time, Alex put Lawrynce on his side of the bed instead of Lawrynce's.

"Is he okay?" Gannon asked, pointing to Lawrynce.

Alex looked up for a split moment, then back to Lawrynce, "Yeah, it wasn't a vision this time.." Alexavier muttered, "They actually came in a hallucination. Lawrynce is a strong minded kid, if he thought I was a hallucination at one point, he probably doesn't know what is real and what isn't....I'm just trying to figure out what I can do to make them stop...." Alex whispered, Gannon coming closer to crouch beside the bed. "Find out if Lawrynce can put a barrier around his mind. It should work...He might have to rest up a lot more than what he did last night since he just went through,....well, I guess, you can call that hell." Gannon shook his head.

Alexavier nodded, "That's a good idea, actually." He whispered and looked at Lawrynce's scrunched up sleeping face. He looked as if he was in pain. "Maybe, I should wake him up, he looks like he's in pain.."Alex whispered, but before he could do anything, Gannon grabbed his arm, "Don't.." Gannon watched Lawrynce's features shift to something between pain and sadness, "Watch his face.. I do it with Carden... Sometimes the facial features will show their emotions...." Gannon looked down to his hands, "Wake him up in a few minutes, just study his face for now." Gannon stood and began to walk out the room, "Oh, and....why don't you do your mind link. Channel into his dreams.... Carden didn't tell Lawrynce about that part of Super Alpha's." Gannon said before he shut the door and left the room to go check up on his mate.

"He always did have the big ears of the pack and Carden didn't tell Lawrynce a lot of things...." Alex muttered and looked down to Lawrynce.

"I don't like seeing you in pain.." Alex whispered to Lawrynce, "I swear, I'll make everything better for you.." He whispered, "I'm sorry this wasn't the relaxing day I promised you.....Finnian left because I told him he couldn't show you around because I was going to cater to your every whim...." Alexavier's face had a look of remorse, seeing Lawrynce's face when he yelled for help truly broke multiple strands holding Alex together.

He laid next to Lawrynce's trembling figure outside of the blankets, keeping at least the silk cloth between them, then he put his forehead to the back of Lawrynce's head, shutting his eyes to channel into the other boys dreams.

If Lawrynce was dreaming of the demons, then Alexavier could get a good glimpse of them and know exactly who they are and what they are capable of..

Alex let out a breath then channeled himself into Lawrynce's headspace, where he kept his dreams, and went to Lawrynce's current active dream. Everything happening in less than a minute, then they were both asleep, in the same dream, with Alexaviers arms wrapped around Lawrynce's small frame protectively.