Chapter 9 - chapter 9

My ears twitched again to the sound of howls in the distance, they were looking for me most likely by Quinn's commands. The vampire looked over his shoulder at the direction of the the howls then back at me "I will be back, child" before he disappeared leaving me alone in the woods, my wolf growled then let out a howl to let the pack know I was okay.

A few minutes later Quinn's large wolf runs into the clearing with a few pack guards he spots me, then making his way to me at a fast paste shifting before reaching me "Ashlee you made me worried sick" he said with a worried look on his face. I shift sitting on my knees "I'm sorry" I said keeping my words short. "Check the boarders" he said to a guard, who nodded and took off to the boarder of the pack lands "seriously quinn I'm fine" I lied through my teeth, knowing if I told him of the vampire he would freak out and track them down.

"Sure?" He said again, not letting me go from his grip, I forced a smile and nodded. He finally let's me go watching the area to make sure nobody that wasn't supposed to be here wasn't here. "Why were you scared?" Quinn pushed wanting to know what he felt from me in our mate bond. "Nothing, hanna is scared of bears" I lied and hanna huffed over the fact that I said she was scared of something.

"Its all clear alpha" the guard said giving him two pair of clothes for us, quinn excused them all back to their duties, he seemed to believe what I said to a minimum. I put the clothes on and quinn picks me up in his arms refusing to let me down. "Quinn" I squealed

"Ashlee" quinn mimicked my squeal making me laugh.

"Let's go home" he says smiling at me, I agree leaning against in chest letting him carry me back down the pathway to the house then sets me on the ground in the yard which was now empty from the night beforehand events, everything that is out for the day set up back in its place and children running around. "Luna! Play with us!" A little girl named wendy said gripping at my shorts looking up at me "what game sweet girl?" I asked bending down, my hands on my knees smiling down at her.

"We are playing tag!" Wendy cheered grabbing my hand and pulling me to the group of kids waiting to start the game.

"Luna! You playing with us?" A young boy said with a smile

"Of course, now who's the tagger?" I asked cheerfully, watching quinn watch us with a smile on his face from a distance. "Tag Luna, your it!" The boy said as all the children tag me and take off, I faked gasped and chase the young boy who squealed and ran as fast as he could. I slowed down a little to make it look like they are way faster than me, I go to touch Taylor's shoulder but he sqeals with excitement as I tagged him "tag" I say and he freezes but his laughter doesn't stop.

Playing with these children really makes my day, I chase the kids around the backyard in circles a big smile on my face as suddenly the tagger changed people, now Wendy was the tagger. "Wendy it!" Taylor yelled running away from her, the kids dispersed around the yard as wendy ran after them, I felt a hand on my leg and I look down to see wendy's hand on my leg "oh no! Wendy got me!" I gasped and she laughed "luna is my prisoner".

Wendy spots eren, a seven year old boy not paying attention and eases up to him quietly spooking him then managed to dodge her small hand "noooo eren!" Wendy said chasing him again as he took off around the yard. I stand in my spot as I feel another hand on me, this time it was Taylor tapped my thigh and ran, unfreezing me "thanks Taylor!" I called after him and ran the opposite way.

The game ended once Wendy tagged everyone "ice cream!" I said Loudly making the kids scream happily "ice cream!!!" Before grabbing me pulling me to the house "careful kids not to hurt the luna" quinn said following us into the house and going to his office, se went to where red was setting up 6 bowls on the counter "red, red! Ice cream please" Taylor said jumping up and down beside her, she nodded and got a big container of ice cream out that had three different flavors of ice cream in it; chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.

"Who wants chocolate?" Red asked as Regina and Nick raised their hands jumping up and down, red put two scoops of ice cream in their bowls with a little bit of whipped cream giving it to them. "Now who wants vanilla and strawberry?" She asked again. This time wendy and Taylor called out vanilla, Sasha and Diane called for strawberry ice cream, red repeated the process of putting whipped cream on their ice cream and gave them spoons before sending them off to the dining room to eat it "luna do you want some?" Red asked, I nodded

"A scoop of vanilla and strawberry please" I said

Red nodded and took out another bowl, putting the ice cream in it with whipped cream then gave it to me with a spoon "thanks red, your the bed" I say and go to the dining room where the kids were sitting. "Luna! How did you you get two flavors?" Diane asked looking at my bowl from across the table. I put my finger to my mouth "it's a secret" I say smiling.

We eat our ice cream and take our dishes to the kitchen putting them in the dishwasher then going to the living room "moving time!" Nick and sasha cheered. "What movie do you want to watch?" I asked sitting on the couch as wendy sits with me, making Taylor sit on the other side of me also wanting to sit with me.

"Frozen?" Diane piped in.

"We watched that last week" Regina said

"How about scooby-doo?" I said

"Yay!" The group cheered as I put on scooby-doo, they sing along to the theme song arguing who is the best character in the gang. A smile was plastered on my face as we watched the movie and laughed, only a few episodes in the kids start to fall asleep, I get up slowly putting blankets over them so the wouldn't get cold and turn down the tv. "You would make a amazing parent luna" red said making me jump and look at her where she was standing in the doorway of the kitchen. "You Really think so?" I asked almost hoping that I would.

"I know so" she said before turning back into the kitchen.