Celena showed up at the house 20 minutes after she had hung up the phone she knew it was going to be awkward between her and Alec. She wanted things to be better between them but he had asked of her the one thing she promised she would never do, she would never transform a human, whether willing or not. She stood on the foot path looking up at the house, she wanted to help Jessica but she didn’t want to face Alec. As she was procrastinating the front door opened and Alec stood in the doorway. He didn’t say anything just held the door open for her. Once inside Alec paused. He looked at Celena with his deep green eyes, they were sadder than she could ever remember seeing them, she wanted to hug him and tell him that everything was going to be okay, but the wolf inside her warned her that if she did she would only have to say goodbye again. And that is something she couldn’t bring herself to do twice.

“Can I please see her room,” Celena asked welcoming anything to break the silence between them.

“It’s still in the same place it’s always been,” he said but marched up the stairs a head of her. Celena pause only momentarily as she passed Alec’s room, she still remembered the time savannah had barged in and seen Celena and Alec kissing her reaction was priceless, a smile spread across her lips at the memory but she quickly shut it away. Alec slipped through the door way that was savannah’s bedroom and as Celena was about to follow as Jessica’s bedroom door opened.

“it only unlocks from the inside,” he explained as he allowed her into the room. Alec was right it was burned completely blacked the only things that had been left untouched were the ones that were within the closed door of her closet or weren’t touching her walls. The smell of ash and burnt plastic was overwhelming to Celena’s sensitive nose, but there was something else hidden under the putrid smells something Celena couldn’t quite place.

“Would you be able to track her,” Alec asked hopefully.

“I’m a wolf Alexander not a bloodhound,” she reminded him, “but that doesn’t mean I won’t be able to find out where she is.” Celena added after seeing his face fall.

The song hey brother by avicii had started to play as Celena was inspecting the damage, “new ringtone?” Alec asked before Celena realized her brother fane was indeed calling her cell phone.

“Yeah it’s for fane,” she sighed before answering the phone, “speak, or be hurt,” she greeted her brother in a way that was typical for the two alpha’s. 

“Lena, its fane,”

“I figured ever heard of caller ID?”

“Listen I need you to come back the pack is going mental,”

“so what your alpha you can deal with them,”

“yeah not when it is the dominants and besides its Romulus who is edging them on,” fane said through the phone, Romulus was fane’s second and the dominants were part of the pack who had a strong will and are willing to take one another out if anything provokes them. There are three levels within a wolf pack,  pure-bloods, dominants and submissive. The pure bloods are usually pack leaders the alpha’s and seconds and they have at least one pure blood parent and another parent with wolf blood, dominants are the wolves with dominant tendencies or dominant parents. Submissive are usually the wolves who are bitten by another, but sometimes dominant children are born submissive by nature and there for that is there classing. It is rare that 2 pure bloods will have a child together but in the case of Celena and Fane both of their parents were pureblood, meaning that they hold the highest rank with in the pack, and one of the highest ranks in the world of wolves.

“Fine I’ll be there in 10, try to keep them from killing each other,” she sighed and hung up the phone. “I’m sorry Alec. My idiot of a brother can’t control the pack for half an hour without a fight breaking out,”

“it’s okay Lena, you’re the alpha female,” he said walking down the stairs with her, “but take this maybe you can get something off of it something I missed,” he handed her Jessica’s phone, he hadn’t really gone through it, Alec felt it would be an invasion of his sisters privacy somehow.

Celena was half way down the front steps when Alec called to her again, “Celena, about before on the phone I wasn’t thinking straight it kind of just slipped out,”

“its okay Alec, if you don’t want me to think about it then consider it forgotten,”

“I don’t want you to forget it, I want you to remember how things were before,”

“I never forgot those days alec, you know exactly why we split and I still won’t go back on my word.” Celena turned to leave again but was once again stopped by Alec.

“You said something earlier, I said I still love you and you replied in another language, what did you say?”

“It is not of importance Alec, I have to go,” she turned away and refused to look back Alec would be upset by what she had just said to him but she couldn’t let herself fall for him again. The wolf inside her fought her mind she wanted to turn around and run to him apologize for everything she had ever done to hurt her but the wolf told her that she would only have to say goodbye again

Alec’s house was only a short walk from the apartment building that homed the wolf pack. For most people in New York this building was already full although it several empty apartments.  She strode into the lobby and was welcomed by a sight of two wolves wrestling on the ground. “What the hell is going on here!” she shouted in her alpha voice causing both wolves to look up startled.

Romulus strode around the corner noticing the fight had seceded. He froze in his tracks when he saw the expression on his alpha females face. “Lady Celena,” he lowered his head and bared his throat in a indication of his submission.

“Don’t start with me Romulus, I want to know why I can’t leave this building for longer than an hour without being called back because of a fight my brother can’t handle by himself,”  she spat, letting her teeth elongate, “and I also want to know why you did not help to secede the fight but rather provoked it.” She poked the man, Romulus, in the chest emphasizing her annoyance.

“forgive me my-lady it was a foolish act,” Romulus’ head lowered, “it will not happen again,”

“it better not,” she turned on the two wolves, “wait for me in the office I am not done talking with you.”   The wolves bowed and turned down the hall way to the office. She stormed off in the other direction followed closely by Romulus she reached the store room and asked, “Who are they,” she asked opening the cupboard that homed the men’s clothing, each member of the pack housed one set of clothing in the store room for moments like this is a wolf phases the clothes they were wearing tear to shreds and are no longer wearable,

“Ash Sorin and Sergei Renwick,” Romulus muttered feeling submissive which was unusual for a pure blood

“you may go, your presences is no longer of use ,” she grabbed the clothes for both men and walked into the office where both men stood trying to hide their private areas both from each other and their alpha female, she place the sets of clothing on the table and pushed them toward each of the men awkwardly they grabbed the clothes and slid into them. Thankful for the coverage the men seemed to relax slightly but only slightly. “Would someone please enlighten me into why you were trying to kill each other?”

“He insulted my mate,” snapped the man Celena knew to be Sergei Renwick

“there you go again, claiming my mate as your own,” Ash Sorin snapped glaring at Sergei,

“how in the history of the moons is she your mate,”

“well isn’t it obvious, you are far too submissive to even be considered by her, and I am a far better choice of mate.”

“I’m submissive, in  her eyes you have about as much dominance as a pup, if that!”

“How dare you make it as if I am less that you,”

“I’m only stating what is true,”

“how dare you,” the growl came deep within ash’s throat and his teeth began to lengthen. Any second now he would phase. Celena knew she had to act quickly or he would tear Sergei to pieces

“both of you shut up, there are 4 females in this pack one is only 6 years old 2 of them are already mated and the other is well otherwise preoccupied!” she yelled over the arguing men, “now unless you have a mate outside of this pack that both of you just happen to know, I don’t see what the dam problem is!

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Ever since his 16th birthday fane had been alpha that was three months ago  and  he felt as if everyone still thought of him as a pup or a child his sister told him he needed to assert his authority but he didn’t know how to do that

“Hey sis,” he greeted his sister as he strode into office, he nodded to the two men, “gentlemen,”

“impeccable timing brother, your presence as alpha is needed,” Celena said emphasizing her words a little too much

“what?” he was confused

“Your alpha, so it is by your hand that these two should be punished,” she explained

“umm okay,” fane murmured, “umm, seen so that this is your first offense I will let you off with a warning,” he knew what they had done he had been the one to call Celena but hadn’t been willing to face her when she got back

Fane looked to his sister for encouragement but she nodded and mouthed the words ‘keep going’

he gulped and continued, “but I must press upon you the…”

“Seriousness of your actions blah, blah, blah. We know the script, squirt,  but I have one why should we take orders from you, you’re little more than a pup,” ash Sorin rolled his eyes

fane lost it he had never taken lightly to the dominants thinking themselves more superior than himself the son of not one but two pureblood werewolves. “I am the son of Lowell and Artemisia Delunne I am I am more than the alpha of this pack, and if you have a problem with that than good luck with finding another pack,” fane rose himself higher and higher as he said it his voice harsh and strong to his surprise everyone in the room fell to their knees even Celena.

He had done it he had asserted his authority. Celena was the first to stand, there was something in her eyes, she was actually proud of him the four year gap between fane and his older sister had always made fane feel as if he had to fill the expectations not only of him but the expectations people had of his sister as well knowing that Celena was proud of him made him feel as if he had just burst through the final hurdle meaning he could no longer be considered a pup he looked the men straight in the eye and said calmly, “You may go.”