{Bane}

I sighed as I watched Angelina and Jake walk in. I knew this meeting wasn't going to be pleasant.

I leaned back in my seat and watched as they sat down across from me.

"Dad?" Jake asked.

I sighed and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Theres been some rogue activity around the mountains. Human attacks...werewolf attacks," I said.

"You want us to go take them out?" Jake asked.

I shook my head.

"No. These rogues...sightings count them way over the normal rogue pack size," I said.

Jake nodded, analyzing what I had just said.

"Youre thinking that the rogues are joining together?" Jake asked.

I nodded.

Jake leaned back in his chair.

I glanced at Angelina, but she was silent.

"Last reported sighting of the rogues was a few miles east of here. They attacked a camp site."

"Any survivors?" Jake asked.

"None whatsoever," I said.

"What does this have to do with us?" Angelina asked, finally speaking up. I sighed and glanced at my computer. This was the unpleasant part.

"If the rogues attack us, we have more than enough fighters to take them down. Especially with the expansion just around the corner..."

"And?" Angelina asked.

I sighed.

"The alpha of silver falls called the council and asked them for help. They asked me to lend him some of my best fighters," I said.

She tensed up, her eyes going red.

"Angelina-"

"You said no, right? You did say no didn't you?" She asked.

I looked down.

"I cant turn away a pack that's unable to defend itself-"

"Dammit! You know what they did to me!" She cried before she ran from the room. Jake looked at me for a second before he stood and took off after her.

"That was pleasant," Eli said, smiling from where he was sitting on the couch.

"I knew she would be mad. She'll calm down," I said, nodding my head. Eli sighed and leaned forward.

"Youre not thinking of really sending her over there are you?" Eli asked.

"As much as I dont want to, she's our best fighter. And the others aren't going to go without her," I said.

{Angelina}

I stormed out of his office, tears threatening to fall. How could he do this to me? He had promised I would never have to see them again.

I stormed into my room and slammed the door, running to my bed and jumping on it.

I buried my face in my pillow and let the sobs I was holding back take over.

"Go away!" I said when I heard a knock at the door. To my dismay, the door opened anyway and the next thing I knew, I was being held.

"Shhhh it's okay. It's okay," Jake said, holding me close to his chest. I should have objected, but I couldn't. The warmth radiating off of him was so comforting.

"I know you don't want to hear it but my dad is right by his decision," Jake said.

"Youre right. I don't want to hear it," I said, keeping my face buried in his chest. He sighed and pulled me away, looking into my eyes.

"Would you stand by and let an entire pack be slaughtered...knowing you could have stopped it?" Jake asked quietly. I stared into his eyes and sighed.

He was right. I couldn't hate alpha bane because he wanted to help them. I could blame the Rogues though. For interrupting my life.

Jake leaned forward until his lips were centimeters away from mine.

"I'm not going to let anyone hurt you," he said. The closeness was driving my wolf insane. How could he be that close and not be as affected as I am?

Just as he went to pull back, I leaned forward, capturing his lips with mine.

He pulled back after a moment, his eyes red.

"Did you just kiss me?" He asked, shock written all over his face.

I nodded, waiting for his reaction.

"Thank god," he said, crushing his lips to mine. His arms wrapped around my waist and mine around his neck as we rolled back onto the bed.

"I've been wanting to do this for so long," Jake groaned as he kissed his way down my neck. I laughed and shook my head, wrapping my legs around his waist.

I heard the click of a door and someone cleared their throat. Jake looked up and past me, his red eyes focused on something else.

"Dad," he said, and I felt my face heat up with embarrassment.

i couldnt see alpha banes face and i was glad that i couldnt, but i bet the look on his face would be priceless.

"be packed and ready to leave at the end of the week. I have somethings i have to finish...paper work to do. Then we leave,"he said before i heard the door close. jake chuckled and looked down at me. "well...that was embarassing," i said, pushing lighgtly at jake's chest. He rolled off of me and sat up on the edge of the bed.

"how so?" he asked as he turned to face me. I sighed and laid back, looking up atht ceiling. "your father saw you and me basically making out on my bed in his house," i said. jake shrugged as he stood up. "and he probably was thinking, my son has hated this girl since she moved here and theyre finally getting along. and then he's probably happy he didnt walk in on us naked," jake said as he walked over to my dresser, studying the objects that were on it. i sighed and rolled to face him.

"what are people going to think? the moment he shifts the entire pack is going to know," i groaned. jake laughed and walked back over to the bed, sitting down by my side. "well, mind-links dont exactly work like that, angelina. they're a bit more complicated and sometimes...even more easy than that. Havent you already been told about all of this? My father was your trainer and even if he didnt, you came from a pack before this," jake said as he studied my face.

When i stayed silent, he bent so his face was closer to mine. "tell me, angelina," he said. his eyes were so trusting, so open. So i opened my mouth, and i told him. I told him all about my old pack and about how i had met my mate and what my mate had done. I told him about clare and how sometimes i laid in bed at night after training and i wondered if she was okay. jakes listened and didnt interrupt once. By the time i was done talking, i was laying in his arms with my head on his chest and he was rubbing my back. Soothing me. Trying to comfort me. I had never imagined that i could feel this loved and this cared for, before i came here. People said that the red shadow pack was merciless.

They said they kiled without hesitation. We didnt kill without hesitation. We killed to protect our homes and family. We killed when we were left with no other option. Maybe i didnt like the way we expanded, knocking down peoples homes and taking over other packs, but we provided them with the care and the love they never had before and we gave them the possibility of survival. When we took over, we taught them to fight. We taught them to hunt and we taught them all the necessary skills that we ourself had been taught and it was the greatest thing ever, teaching someone how to properly defend for their selves. It never got old. looking into jake's eyes, i saw things there that i had never seen before.

"why now?" i asked quietly. Jake sighed and his hand stopped moving and paused right in the middle of my back, pulling me closer. "when i first saw you, i couldnt believe that you were coming here. I heard my father ask you to stay and you said yes, i couldnt get you out of my head and that was dangerous. I was the highest ranked fighter and the best at that. I was strong and powerful and the sight of you made me weak. It made me want to cradle you in my arms and never let you go," he said quietly.

"what about your mate?" i asked. Jake sighed again. "She died," jake said. I pulled away and looked up into his eyes. "Tell me?" i asked. He hesitated before he nodded. He told me about how he turned 16 and found out his mate was the daughter of his step-mother. She had just turned 18 and was already engaged but when she found out her mate was him, she had said she would go and tell her fiancee she wanted to break the engagement. He told me of how his step-mother went with her and they went to the man's house and she explained everything in the best way that she could. Then he told me about how she and her step mother left the house to get away because he was angry and to make things worse, he had been drunk when they approached him because, he too, had found his mate that very morning.

He told me about how he followed them in his pick up truck and demanded she pull over because he wanted to talk. He told me about how the man pulled up to the side of her and rammed his truck into her toyota off the road. He told me about how he found his step-mother laying on the side of the road and how he found his mate stuck inside of the car at the bottom of a hill. He said his father and him rushed her to the pack hospital and begged them to do something but there was nothing that could be done. She had lost too much blood and she died three hours after they took her to the hospital. His father had been devistated to lose his wife before even more devistated that his son had lost his mate the moment he found her.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed the spot where his neck and shoulder met. He made a purring sound and sighed happily. "i havent felt this way, since my mate died...but the moment i saw you, i felt the same way. I smelt you first, your delicious scent. I followed it, wondering what was going on. Then i saw you and it took everything in me not to jump you. And then i kissed you the day of your cerimony and i was so angry with myself. Because you looked so disgusted. I tried to put distance between us but it didnt work. I just couldnt stay away. I dont know why i feel this way, or why you respond to me when i kiss you back. I cant explain any of this, but im dont trying to act like there's nothing there. Please, angelina....will you go out with me?" jake asked.

i nodded and he pulled back so he could kiss me, and i smiled. I had never felt so happy in my life

***I couldn't think of anything to out with this chapter. So...another picture of Big old alpha bane.