For the rest of the journey, all is quiet apart from Farkas's heavy breathing - there isn't a sound from within the car - Lucas knows better than to talk too loud and to wake Farkas up... He'd learned that lesson the hard way. Farkas wakes up just as the car is pulling up the long road towards the huge house-like castle that the top pack members live in, although Farkas is King of all werewolves, he had his pack which was the inner circle that he trusted above all else.
Farkas looks down beside him and can't help but let the smile tugging at his lips win, Ashina is sleeping soundly, curled up into a ball beside him. Even in her sleep, she looked completely adorable. Farkas could only think about how lucky he was to have her as his own, he would protect her and make her happy at all costs... at that thought, Mori makes a small meow as he stretches out his legs. Farkas stares at him with disgust written all over his face.
Noticing Farkas was awake, Lucas turns around his seat and notices the look on Farkas's face it was a good job Ashina was asleep so she didn't see it.
"Now do you understand?" Lucas smirks with an 'I told you' so look on his smug face. Farkas drags his eyes away from his sleeping mate to look at his best friend, making sure his hand never leaves Ashina's back where he was making comforting circles with his finger.
"I do" Farkas sighs happily, his smile faltering for a moment.
"What's a wrong buddy? The cat isn't that big of a problem" Lucas teases trying to put a smile back on Farkas's face, it was such a rare thing that Lucas wanted to savor it, it works but then as quickly as the repeat smile came, it disappeared again along with another sigh
"I don't know how, I never understood the mating pull but I already know I love her, and yet I also know she is keeping something from me, it's like an itch that I can't get to. I know it is something to do with that pack, I just know it is... Not to mention it scares the hell out of me that before I met her my full attention was on the pack and now I'm thinking to hell with the pack, I need to protect her" Farkas explains knowing that his trust in Lucas was a secure one, Farkas could tell Lucas anything in confidence and know it would never go further than the two of them.
"You just found her, you've never known what it was like to love something or someone with your whole body, I'm sure it's normal that while you're getting adjusted to this huge change things are going to feel strange and take some getting used too but soon enough your wolf will balance things out including your love for Ashina and your commitment to the pack" Lucas shrugs with an empathetic smile.
"When did you get so smart?" Farkas grins reaching over to punch Lucas softly on the arm.
"What was that?" Lucas laughs but stops when he sees the look on Farkas's face "Okay! Okay! It's just that I've been waiting to hear that leave your mouth for ages... we're talking years here pal"
The car finally comes to a stop and Farkas jumps out of his side of the car, eager to show Ashina around her new home he waits for his sinking feet to get adjusted to the pebble driveway before walking around to Ashina's side of the car. Farkas opens the door ready to catch her if she fell which she starts to do but he simply scoops her up in his arms, not even waking her up, despite it not waking Ashina up, the move startles Mori who jumps from Ashina's lap and runs off in the direction of the dark woods.
Farkas curses under his breath and he holds Ashina closer to his chest, he looks around to notice everyone waiting for his and his mate's arrival are standing around not doing anything with awkward looks on their face. Cats don't mean anything to werewolves so they don't think that Mori was important but he was important to Ashina meaning he was important to their Queen.
"Go after him, bring him back safely!" Farkas finally yells knowing they weren't going to do anything without direction from him.
All but one person scurries off towards the forest to go and look for Mori, Farkas notices one man from the lower end of the pack with his feet firmly placed on the floor with no plan to move. Farkas could almost feel the anger making his blood boil, how dare this nobody disrespect his orders?
"You knew that meant you too, go!" Farkas growls trying to control his anger so he stays quiet for a still-sleeping Ashina.
"I'm not going to chase a cat that doesn't matter to me" he smirks cockily not moving an inch even when Farkas squares up to him, if Farkas hadn't been holding Ashina he would've been in front of the man in an instant with one of his hands wrapped around this insolent fools throat.
"It matters to me, your Alpha and your future Luna so suggest you get running little boy" Farkas yells, in a quick second before anyone can even see what is happening, Farkas kicks his leg out powerfully against the man's knee sending him tumbling to the floor with a whimper.
"I suggest you go now," Farkas says in a scarily quiet voice, the man nods his now white, shaken face before limping off in search of Mori with the others.
Decided there were people on the job, Farkas doesn't wake Ashina to tell her about Mori, he simply carries her to his bedroom which would now be, of course, their joint bedroom. Farkas lays Ashina down, she instantly relaxes as she curls up into the soft duvet. Sitting down at the desk across the room Farkas starts to catch up on some work but not without regularly looking up to make sure Ashina was okay.
When Ashina stirs from her refreshing sleep, Farkas is almost instantly by her side smiling comfortingly but with a nervous look on his face which she picks up straight away. Despite not knowing what is wrong, Ashina finds herself looking around the room she has never been in before, it takes a couple of minutes but she quickly sees what is wrong with this picture she is finding herself in.
"Where is Mori?" Ashina asks, trying to sound calm but her voice wavering slightly. She jumps out of the bed and gets to her knees to look under the bed where he liked to sometimes hide at home but he isn't there which makes the ball of anxiety in Ashina's stomach grow even bigger.
"When I picked you up from the car when we got here he got scared and ran off" Farkas explains biting his lip which Ashina finds incredibly attractive but is so blind sighted with the fact that he lost Mori and didn't wake her to tell her the horrible news makes him momentarily look like the ugliest man in the world.
"Why didn't you wake me?" she yells scrunching up her fists angrily.
"You were so sound asleep and well I have a big team out looking for him, you or I couldn't do any better than what is already being done" he shrugs with a smug smile on his face, feeling proud of himself for even doing that. Ashina understood that he could not understand that this was Ashina's best friend and that she needed him but she still felt hurt, Farkas might not have known the extent of their friendship but he knew that Mori was incredibly important to Ashina.
"He won't come out for strangers," she says softening only slightly looking past Farkas's shoulder out of the large window that faces the forest and the now very dark sky "He'll be so scared".
Ashina heads towards the oak door of the bedroom but Farkas grabs a hold of her hand and pulls her back.
"Where are you going? I already told you there were people already out looking for him" he questions raising his eyebrows.
"To look for Mori," Ashina says like Farkas is stupid while she wriggles out of his grasp quite easily because Farkas was too scared to hurt her by holding tight.
"No, it is too dark!" he explains walking over to the curtains that he closed to show the dead of night even though she had already seen it.
"I don't care and don't follow me!" she yells going back to being angry at him again as she flings out the door to walk out of it hoping that her senses would kick in and lead her towards a door out of this maze-like place.
'Our first fight and it's about that stupid cat' Farkas thinks to himself with a sigh, Ashina didn't even have any shoes on so quickly he packs a backpack with shoes and a jacket for her then quickly runs downstairs to get food and hot drinks as it could be a long night searching. No matter what Ashina said about not following he was always going to.