Alex could hear leaves and twigs crumbling underneath Luke's tremendous paws. He was running letting himself and Alex be whipped by the merciless night wind. He was gripping the wolf's fur tightly not wanting to fall off but at some point his fists had turned white from the strength and he was afraid he was hurting him but he seemed unfazed and kept running.
"We left Mark, my friend behind" Alex screamed pushing some leaves that were being thrown in his face by some low twigs.
"He will be fine Mikael will take care of him" he said not really relieving him from his worries. He had dragged Mark into this he would be responsible if something had happened to him. In addition, the ginger would be freaking out by now seeing him disappear in the back of a beast into the forest.
They didn't make it that far. Luke was really fast but at the same time injured heavily so he couldn't unlock his true potential and help them get away. A brown wolf jumped from their right knocking Alex down and away from Luke's back and into a thorny bush. He felt the thorns trying to get through the first layer of his skin and immediately turned into a statue. From the little gaps in between the dark brown leaves and vines he watched the fight unveil.
Luke had the wolf pinned down for a while biting him lightly. He didn't want to injure him since he was a member of his pack. They were supposed to be a family. The tables turned soon though as the brown one pushed his muzzle forward and hit him. Soon after Luke was beneath him with his fangs fully exposed trying to grab a bite out of him but he was pinned down helpless. His enemy was aggressive. He wasn't being careful of injuring Luke heavily as he bit into his flesh and stained his sharp teeth with his blood. At this rate he is going to die. Alex thought and tried to move as silently as he could. Through his pain, while telling himself that this was nothing in comparison to what Luke was going through, he managed to crawl away from the bush and grab a big, heavy rock with pointy ends. Luke was howling loudly masking his every step and his cried felt like a poison spreading through Alex's body. He had to do it. He was planning on killing Luke it was obvious.
He had lost a lot of blood and he knew that the brown wolf would want to finish it soon. He didn't seem to care and Alex wondered if he was someone who didn't like the alpha's son that much. It didn't matter though, all he wanted was to keep Luke safe so he ran towards the two beast that were still fighting and smashed the rock into the brown wolf's head. He let out a haunting cry and fell to the ground. Soon he was unconscious and his form began to change. He took the shape of a young man no more than twenty-five years old that had a huge crack in his skull.
Looking at him like that, now that he was completely human Alex's green eyes widened in shock. There was so much blood oozing out from his head. The ground around the wound turned muddy as the earth swallowed the scarlet liquid. The rock fell from his hands making an empty sound and he took a few steps back petrified. He had killed him.
"I killed him" Alex mumbled and looked at his hands. With these hands he had taken someone's life. He didn't know this man. He had never seen it before in his life but just in a few seconds he had become his doom and end bringer. They were complete strangers but he took his life in his hands and crashed it.
"Alex." The wolf growl. Luke was barely standing and his moon colored eyes were glued on the shaking boy. His eyes had turned red and tears threatened to stream down his pale face. "We need to leave."
"I killed him. I murdered someone." He said again. He wasn't able to move. He had been rooted in this place, impotent to look somewhere else. His eyes were glued at the dead body which in a few days would rot and get eaten by wolves.
"We need to…" Luke tried to say again, hoping to wake him up from his nightmare but his ears twitched and his head turned at a new sound. Footsteps. Two pairs of feet were approaching fast and Luke knew that in his current condition he would not be able to defeat them. "Let's go"
"Alex!" Someone shouted and they realized that Mikael with his keen sense of smell had managed to caught up to them. With him was a red haired boy who Luke assumed that he was Alex's friend that he talked about.
"Ooh that looks like a nasty wound" Mikael commented once they reached the others and saw the dead body. He looked at it unfazed for a few second before he said. "I never liked jack anyways. So judging from your look Alex you ended him?"
He asked and Alex nodded like he was choking. Mark's kind eyes widened but he didn't say anything. His friend seemed like he was about to throw up, his hands shaking so he had no intention to make things worse.
"Good job boy that was very clean one hit and over" Mikael said and Alex couldn't keep it in anymore.
He ran further away from them behind a tree and vomited everything that he had in his stomach. It wasn't that much because he hadn't had the time to eat a proper meal but still he felt like he couldn't stop.
"Shut up Mikael"
"Well, I guess humans are not that used to things like that as we are but anyways. What's the plan?" Mikael asked Mark who was the only one that seemed well enough to explain.
"We will take Luke and hide him in a cottage his family owns. No one visits there and since they don't know about it we think you will be safe until we find a way to help" Mark told him. Luke still in his wolf form that was actually allowing him to recover faster he had sat down on the ground and resting. He knew they weren't going to send any more people. They believed that jack would be good enough to finish the job since he was injured and they were probably waiting for him but they hadn't thought that Alex would save him.
He looked at him standing behind that tree. He was terrified, disgusted at his own self and he seemed like he wanted to rip his skin off. Luke didn't know what to say to him. Ever since he was a child, occurrences like these were normal to him. Beatings, tortures and murders were common in the struggle for power and secrecy. He desperately wanted to say something that would make him feel better but he didn't know which were their right words that would manage to soothe his scarred by guilt heart.
"Let's go." He simply ended up saying and urged everyone to get on their feet. Mark was a bit resistant. He stood still for a while and turned around him.
"Don't you guys hear something?" he asked
"Believe me if something was here we would hear it first" Mikael bragged and Mark scoffed. Their meeting had been quite eventful and he was ready to tell Alex everything once he was feeling ready. He started pacing towards him wanting to say something to help him but Luke actually beat him to it. He slowly changed into his human form, his clothes ripped in many places but somehow everyone ignored that at the moment, and stood next to him. He placed his palm on his shoulder making him focus on him.
"Try to calm down" he said his voice low and soothing.
"I can't…I can't…I…I actually murdered someone." He stuttered and hugged himself. He suddenly felt really cold.
"No listen to me. Look at me." He said and moved in front of him, cupping his delicate face with his bloody palms, raising his head so they were looking into each other's eyes.
Alex froze for a second and he felt Luke's eyes turning him numb. He loved his eyes. So rare, so cold but when he was looking at him he felt like a fire was being lit up between them, slowly licking his skin and warming him up, making his blood flow again.
"I can't. I'm sorry I just wanted to you to live. I didn't want to hurt him but I don't know what I would do if you died Luke. I'm sorry." Alex cried and the taller boy took his tears away with his thumbs. The salty drops wetting his fingertips, electricity pulsed through the wolf's body. His heart sped up and his senses were heightened. He felt like Alex had managed to tear down all of his walls, one by one without even trying. Just by looking at him, touching him he had turned into a vulnerable boy who was hurting by watching him cry.
"You didn't just kill him. You saved me. I am alive because of you. You saved my life" Luke repeated trying to make him understand. "You are not a murdered." He whispered and moved closer. "you are my savior" he told him and did something that Alex could only had dreamed of a few hours ago.
He kissed him. He brought his lips closer, letting him shiver and then he crashed their bodies bringing Alex into his embrace and kissed him with so much passion like he wanted to devour him, become one with him and never let go.
Alex trembled by the force of his feelings, his knees buckled and he almost lost himself thinking he never wanted this to end. He wrapped his arms around Luke's strong abdomen and let him lead both of them into pleasure. The world around disappeared and for a moment Alex felt fine.
"You saved me." He said and Alex could only nod.
The green eyed boy ran to his friend in a hurry as he awakened from his bliss and noticed how Mikael was approaching them. He stormed off a few meters away with Mark unable to hear what the other two were saying while being left behind.
"So what was that?" Mikael asked.
"I wanted to calm him down"
"That's how you calm people down?"
"It was obvious that he liked me so…"
"And you don't like him?" Mikael asked with a suspicious look.
"There are so many reasons why I shouldn't like him.
"But you do"
"No, I don't. I won't" Luke said with a decisive look and let his friend behind wonder how could someone be so stupid.
He had managed to calm down Alex for now but he was more worried about the storm that was about to come.