GLIMMER.

Hope is the one thing that can help us get through the darkest of times.

Adora's pov.

"I'm sorry what?"

I uttered out in both pure disbelief and surprise, I certainly wasn't expecting 'that' question, I mean were we close enough now to start talking about our miserable lives, I knew I shouldn't have laughed earlier because Mr. dude was beginning to get some ideas now.

I was full on glaring at him, he had just called me miserable, bitter and all those awful words referring to single women who never smiled, or laughed, or interacted with others willingly, this jerk!!

" I think we are over exaggerating here, and he's not far from the truth y'know, we are kind of miserable." I rolled my eyes at what my subconscious deemed "wise" words while still keeping my eyes fixated on Tony who had now suddenly remembered to drive while facing the road, his heartbeats had increased by a few beats and I knew he could sense the tension and smell the anger radiating of off me, well time to have some little fun.

I growled lowly causing him to turn and face me and the look on his face almost left me howling with laughter. Mates were a sensitive topic to us weres, a topic we handled with respect especially if one's mate died or they were never fated with one, mates were our other halves, our completion our fated ones, having a mate was like finding the missing piece to your puzzle, the last one to make it whole, and if no one ever talked about theirs we never questioned because no one wanted to willingly open a pandora box, and that topic was one hell of a box.

Tony's face had gone white and I saw a drop of sweat hanging on his temple, he still managed to hide the look of panic in his eyes, but I had seen that too many times in different wolves and in myself that I could actually identify it with my eyes closed. He opened his mouth and closed it again, as if trying to find the right words to say, and I let him and before I knew it he had become a blabbering mess leaving me astonished as to just how many words he could speak in a minute.

"No Adora, you completely misunderstood me,... I mean.. no you didn't I just worded myself differently... Oh shacks what am I even saying? I didn't mean that your life was awful, it's in fact way better than mine If I would, I just meant y'know I've never seen you shift no one ever has from what I gathered, not that I was stalking you of course, I understand its hard for you since y'know you're mateless and....... fuck! I didn't mean it that way, I just.... you always seem lonely, and on edge always, you don't have the privilege to shift like most of us do and its not a bad thing, I'm just saying...please stop glaring, I promise you I really just..."

I don't know how or why I did it, but the next thing I knew was that I was clutching my tummy with my head leaned against the dashboard as I burst into fits of ugly laughter, I had never laughed that much since I could remember, and now that I was my body seemed to not want to stop, my tummy was aching a bit from all the laughing, and my hand from hitting the dashboard too many times whilst laughing, I didn't even know what was funnier, the expressions on his face or the fact that he had turned into Eminem in less than a minute, was he really that scared of me, or was he just embarrassed and ashamed for having asked me that question in the first place or was he just feeling sorry for me.

It didn't matter though, at least my snorts implied that, his heartbeat had gone back to normal now and there was no longer as much tension as it was earlier. I tried calming down as best as I could, but my body seemed to have a control of its own, my goddess, when had I become so pathetic, or maybe I had gone cuckoo, and I was sure as heck Tony was thinking the same thing, because what the heck was I even laughing and snorting at that hard, had it really been that long? was my mind finally giving in and allowing me to be a "special" case, after such a long while. When I had finally managed to calm down, almost twenty minutes later, I turned to look at Tony only to find him already staring at me, looking at me in what seemed to be surprise and a little bit of....pity? I groaned inwardly as I rolled my eyes in disdain, of course he effing thought I was insane, good going Adora, absolutely perfect.

"Are you ok?" he asked, still gazing at me, but I only stared at him blankly, my happy mood gone already, I too surprised at my sudden change of moods, maybe I was bipolar, I mean I was part human too, which pretty much qualified to open that possibility. He sighed as he turned to face the road, seemingly defeated and I slid further on my chair, I felt.....bad.. for him I guess, he had been nothing but nice to me ever since we met, and on this trip too, the most and least I could do was to try and hold a conversation with him, a purposeful one at least.

"Why did you ask me that?" I questioned a few minutes later,

He seemed startled for a bit before he replied, "What, If you were ok? I hate to burst your bubble princess but........"

"Not that you twit." I cut him off, rather politely if you ask me, "What made you think I was never fated." I asked again. He started tapping on the steering wheel rather uneasily and I rolled my eyes at that, gosh, he was so dramatic, "Do I really make you that uncomfortable or you're just a natural coward." He growled at the mention of him being a coward and I face palmed my self, wolves and their egos. "Can you really blame me for being uncomfortable with you.?" I ignored his question, assuming it was a rhetoric one, how did him being uncomfortable with me have anything to do with me, Men I tell you.

"I just never saw you with someone." Ok and..... I've never seen your mate either but I know you have one, so,,,,, I urged him to continue, "Or smelt any unfamiliar scents on you, or see you shift, plus I may have snooped on your records too and there wasn't any mention of you being mated with him, and you always come to work on full moons."

"Oh wow!, that's a loot of information to have on someone who makes you uncomfortable, snoop." I replied with a slight smirk on my face, goddess I was beginning to get weird.

"You're not mad at me for snooping on you?" He asked and I slightly laughed at the question, "Of course not, I would have been worried if I had a partner that had no idea with who they were working with,"

"Is that a polite way of saying you snooped on me too." He asked with a smug smile on his face while wiggling his eyebrows in a funny way and I couldn't help but smile at that. Of course he would be happy about having a stalker, but what he didn't know was that it wasn't just his files I'd gone through, matter of fact I'd only gone through his files to find if I had left anything out, but snooping is still snooping, there's no small or big snooping, which means he and I are the same.

"I'm sorry I overstepped." He said in a serious tone, and I could tell he was being sincere about it, I nodded understandingly as I forced out a dry laugh, "It's fine, you learn to live with it." and it was true, you learned to live with the pain, until it became a part of you and you slowly grow to numb to it, but he didn't need to know that, I was grateful they all thought I was never fated, It was better than rejection and they weren't far from the truth anyways.