HESITANCE

"Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true"- Patrick Swayze.

Adora's pov.

Everyone in the office headquarters seemed to be busier than normal today, whilst I on the other hand was sat on my desk, blankly staring at the empty chart in front of me.

Tony and I hadn't been able to talk ever since we came back from the blue moon pack, and I was ok with that, it had only been two days after all and I preferred it this way.

My eyes were teary from staring at the same place for too long, and my hands rested akimbo,

I let out the a hundredth sigh today due to how over whelmed I was beginning to feel from trying to connect the imaginary dots on our case.

"So..." I began talking to myself yet again, while trying to concentrate even harder if possible.

"Five rogues found dead in a pack and three of the pack members are found injured on the same day, with no memory whatsoever of what happened, and yet on the same day, a Luna who's a descendant disappears from her own pack, again without trace, and I happened to get a vision about my mate who I was and still am pretty sure doesn't want anything to do with me, and all this in a span of a week.?"

I knew Derek never wanted to see me, especially not to come and complain about my life and how happy I had become, he had never been that man, he of all people knew and understand my past, he knew of my toxic habit of locking people and things out in order to forget and as powerful as Derek might have been I was damn sure he didn't know mind tricks

"Was it all connected or was I slowly losing my damn mind?

I wished now more than ever that we had found atleast one body fresh enough to work with, or a fur, a clot of blood.... anything that would have proved useful in this case.

"There's nothing as hard as working on an almost non- existent case huh?"

Tony's deep voice spoke up and I almost leaped in surprise seeing as I hadn't heard him come in.

"Let us see what you have here hmm," he said as he let himself in as I silently watched him make himself comfortable, successfully stopping myself from growling at him for invading my space.

"Oh wow, mmmh, yeah this is good" He was referring to my blank chat......full of red pins, mocking me

"oooooh you're getting close....., I see........I see, oooh you are such a genius Adora" he continued with a raised pitch,as he cautiously touched all the red pins that I had thrown on the white chart board whenever I felt overwhelmed

" look at you, almost figuring it all out, well I must say that I hadn't quite perceived you as...."

I cut him off with a supposed to be soft slap on his back that landed with a hard 'thud'

His groans of pain sounded musical to my ears and I enjoyed them more than I had anything today, he turned to look at me, his left hand clutching his back and his face furrowed in obvious pain and like the good partner that I was, I rolled my eyes at his state and muttered ' drama queen' under my breath as I moved to sit on my chair.

"That was the hardest blow I have ever received, I think my spine is broken." he cried out, this time trying to stretch himself out and I winced slightly at the cracking sound his back made in the process, it surely wasn't that bad now was it?

"What did you want Tony?"

I asked, acting annoyed by his presence, "I thought you may have had a little more luck than I at this, but the only thing you seem to have that is better than I are those red pins on your chart."

He motioned at the pins with his mouth, and I smiled slightly at that.

"Are we still on the Luna's case?" I tried to sway the subject away from our obviously failing job,

" Not that I know of, Rico is not exactly on speaking terms with me after that little incident a few days ago, but Linda did mention something about a meeting with the heads the day after tomorrow, "

" Okay then, I won't even ask how you know about Rico, but I'm glad I helped put him in his place."

I said smirking a bit, I noticed that Tony's hands were now clasped behind his back, his face was etched with worry and lines due to tiredness and I immediately figured out the cause.

This was not the first case that we were handling from scratch, but we never had that many murders at once, the only thing that we were sure about was that it was a rogue clan, I did have a hunch of what clan they may have been from but then again I wasn't sure.

Being a lone rogue myself, I knew that we never killed any of our own, we were fierce protectors of each other, we all struggled to survive and to do that we had to be many in number, I didn't know much about trust, but I knew the most loyal of wolves were from rogue clans,.

But this was too smooth, we couldn't go on interrogating each and evet clan about the deaths and attacks because then, word would spread and both fear and arrogance would arise everywhere, and also that wasn't a part of our job.

"You know what this means right?"

"Yes of course Tony, this is among one of those few cases where we have to work closely together, you'll always be in my business and vice versa, no more privacy, too many phone calls and texts, way more....."

"Wow, you always have a way of making things sound much worse than they should be." he said with a playful smile on his face and I found myself smiling back,

"You're pushing me away Adora, you are my friend, and try as you might you won't really ever push me away, I choose to be here, and I choose to be your friend, because even as capable as you are...you still need someone to care for and listen to you and I am going to be that person until someone else comes along."