© Claimed By Him ~ Elektra Orfanos

*|Luna|*

Sick.

I feel sick.

I stood up a little too fast for my body to handle so I swayed a little as I walked. When did I become so weak? The heat, the vision now weakening body? "Wow there Luna." Curtis reached out to get me but I ducked away trying to take calming breaths.

"Don't treat me like a horse." I said opening the door. I touched my face finding my mask missing. "Where's my mask?" I turned and watched Sam holding the mask in his hand. He is glaring at my face, at the wound on my cheek and I instinctively reached up to hide it. I mentally groaned annoyed that out of all the people in the world to see me cut and pathetic it had to be these two. Anyone else will take in my lies as truths but definitely not these two insufferable men. They're not dense enough to fall for it also one of them cares too much about my health and that one is most definitely not the bad wolf glowering at me.

He noticed my unhappy stare. His brow perked. "Luna...?"

"Not the time Sam." Monster. If the dream is true, he is a monster. I quickly grabbed the mask and started speed walking down the corridor tying it back up.

Sam caught up with me in big easy strides. A shiver crawled up my spine at the idea of him being so epically fast. "What is going on?"

"Go away." I whispered.

"No. I heard you." He grabbed my wrist and the heat of his skin burn mine.

I ripped my wrist away stunned. "Heard me what?"

"You said," he paused and glared at Curtis. He had followed us with a hand behind his back. Sam didn't seem to notice but I could practically sense the threat. "Do you mind?"

"Luna are you alright?" Curtis ignored him. He means: am I safe? Am I safe with the possible psycho killer?

'You said Alpha.' Sam continued with lips not moving but glaring intently in my eyes.

"I didn't say anything and step back Mr Night."

"Stop calling me that." He grabbed my wrist again losing a bit of his control.

"Let go of me."

"What's wrong with you?"

"Mr Night unhand her!" Curtis flew forward but I shook my head at him.

"Both of you just leave me alone." I stomped my heel on Sam's foot and he cried out loosening his grip. I lifted my skirt and started running down the corridor.

"Luna wait!" I don't know which one of them yelled out and I didn't turn around to find out which one or if both followed me. I hope neither but that's never going to happen. I have to find the spot of where they were killed.

I crossed a crowded living room and some old woman called out to me. "Play for us lady Mystique."

"Pardon?" I replied and stared wearily at the man at the piano. I don't have time for this.

"Oh please I'd recognise that awkward manly walk anywhere." The old woman cackled and her unfriendly followers laughed with her.

"Oh." I bit my tongue and continued jogging outside pushing past dancers.

Marilyn bumped into me and stared surprised. "Luna why are you panting like a dog?"

"Uh..." I turned my head to see if Sam had followed. I'm correct, there he is standing like a God on the top of the stairs. His eyes spotted me and soon Curtis was next to him saying something to him that Sam must be ignoring. "Hold them back for a moment for me would you?"

"What but I..."

"Please." I kept running.

~*~*~

I recognised the hedges and followed them around the house finding the part where the moonlight didn't reach. Every nerve is telling me to run back but I have to be see this. There's a side of me desperate to find out if the vision was true. Then I'll have a brand new mystery on my hands since I seem to be making connections with the victims and looking at their deaths through their eyes. Maybe I've just gone mad.

I paced closer to the shadows wondering how much time had passed since I fainted. Long enough for Sam to kill and find me with Curtis? Or short enough that maybe it wasn't Sam at all and Alpha is in fact stalking me.

On the outside I probably look calm but my chest is unable to hold my heart back. It's beating so fast, it's as if it wants to run away from me knowing that this is a very stupid idea.

Then I found them.

The sight of blood and gore everywhere made me think of the nightmare. The image of Michael's insides pulled out like threads from fabric threw me back into an emotional hell. I turned to the cold brick wall placing my hand on it to steady myself and vomited.

"Shit." I heard someone mutter. Then felt part of my wig get pulled back and someone rubbed my back soothingly with their hand. The sparks and familiar earthy smell made me think it was Sam.

I tried shaking him off. "I'm fine it's just-" I began crying and hating myself for showing emotion like this. He refused to let me go and circled his arms around my waist to hold me steady. Or keep me from running away.

"I'm sorry," he whispered. "Are they people you know?"

"No I-I that's..." Exactly how they found my brother. I violently tried to shake him off whilst wiping my mouth of my own vile. "Let me go!"

"Stay calm."

"I am." I whimpered tears still pouring down my face. "You lied to me. We lied to all those people!" To that whole crowd worried about werewolves living in the city. The rumour the bearded creeper was trying to spread... "How could you kill these people?"

"I promise you Luna it was not me."

"Then who could it... Him?" I lifted my head trying to see his expression unfortunately my neck isn't that flexible.

"I wouldn't be surprised." He said darkly. How can he not be horrified? I covered my mouth with my hand. What I saw truly happened... "Who did that to your face?" He asked pointing to my cheek, I moved out of his hold and faced him.

"I fell." He read through the lie and I'm not surprised. I didn't have my heart in it anyway.

"Luna did he do it?"

"I haven't seen Alpha." I replied angrily.

"No your father." How did he know? When I didn't reply he had his answer. "What kind of man hurts his daughter?"

"Let's get back to the situation at hand Sam, there are after all dead bodies present."

"Alright... How did you know to find them?"

"Sorry?"

"You knew exactly where you were going."

"I did, I was looking through her eyes somehow and..." An ear piercing scream stopped us and suddenly everyone was screaming and a loud howl erupted close by. "He's still here."

"Finally..." Sam had an eager evil expression that terrified me. "After all this time..." He whispered to himself.

"Sam how do you know Alpha?"

He gazed over as if he just realised I was there. "Go hide with your family." He sensed that I was about to argue and he surprised me by gently grabbing my arms. "Go find your family, get as far away from here as possible and if you hear anything don't listen. Ignore him, ignore what he says just go home." My heart warmed up until...

"I want you out of my way."

~*~*~

*|Marilyn|*

When the first howl started I broke out of his embrace feeling the inner lioness claw her way out. Recognising the demon's call. "Charles... Was that your wolf friend?" I asked him suspiciously.

"I-I-ya I don't... Um... What do you mean? I didn't hear anything." His, and probably my lips are still swollen from our little passionate moment of kissing. Honestly it felt like I had been dying of thirst and only he could have quenched it. I was that aroused and he was that good.

"Charlie..."

"Mari my love please just bear with me a minute here I'm sure there is a logical explanation," he was interrupted by people, party guest running rampant to get to their carriages and escape. Their screams harmed my sensitive ears. "They probably saw a mouse."

"Don't be ridiculous. What is going on?"

Before he even sighed as I find he usually does before he has to say something he'd rather ignore my question was answered. "The Loup-Garou!! It's here!" Someone shouted.

"Holy Hades... What have you done?

"I have not done anything."

"Where is your wolf friend Charlie?"

"He was just... Ah! Here he is see in his human form."

"So the other psychotic killer is out here running rampant. Oh good to know." I said sarcastically.

Despite the circumstances the wolf here looks surprisingly cheerful. Skipping in his steps towards us as if nothing unusual is going around us now. When he stood with us he looked at Charles with a wry grin. "I'm going after him. I'll meet you back at the house with his head."

"I just bought new carpets." Charles complained but his face sickly paled.

"Where's Luna?" I questioned the mutt.

"I made sure she left with her family." He said dismissively.

"Did you watch her get into the carriage?"

"I saw her walk with her family."

I scowled. "But did she actually go the whole way into the carriage and leave? She could have bolted to him when you turned away!"

"She wouldn't be that foolish. Why in God's name would she want to run to the beast?" Charles asked. Oh but she is that foolish and the mutt's grim expression explained to me everything.

"Wolfie? You didn't watch her at all did you?"

Again fate seemed to be answering my questions for me because there she rode on a black stallion faraway into the opaque forest.

"Luna!" I shouted.