My Feral Lady Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Better Ideas

“There is no way in hell that is a good idea!” Lena warned, dragging Kara along as she all but sprinted towards their car.

“Look, it can’t hurt to just keep her chained up for a little bit while we talk our options over.” Alex argued.

“Yes! It can! She could break out! You know like last time!? Only this time, if… No! When, when she does get loose! She could take Maxwell with her, use him as a peace offering to the vampires too! They could use him to learn to make us all feral.” 

“Here’s the thing, They already know how to do it. Gayle says it was the vampires that caused Maxwell to go feral.” 

“What! No! That isn't possible!” Kara yanked the phone away in shock, setting it to speaker. 

“It is.”

“No! She has to be bluffing! Is there any way she can prove that this is true?”

“She already has Kara.” Alex answered. 

“How! There isn't any possible way she could prove that the vampires did this!”

“Are you fucking kidding Kara?” Sam growled at the other alpha. “You demand proof, and then when we say we have some, you deny the sheer possibility of it?!” 

Lena lent Kara a ‘well she is right love’ look. 

Kara snarled angrily. “Fine! What is your proof!?” 

“She knew one of our wolves had already gone feral.” 

“So?! How is that so outrageous! She spied on us! obviously!” Lena rushed to answer. 

“You two are wolves, and in the presence of a threat like Max going feral. Do you really expect me to believe that neither of you would have caught the scent of a vampire if you two were being spied on?” Alex challenged.

Kara growled, unwilling to yield her stance. 

“Love… she does have a point, we would have smelled her. Especially cause all I could smell was Emma, Max, Blood, and your overly sweet scent.”

“No!” Kara growled. “She could have hidden herself!”

“Well, first off, I wasn't there. Second, If you don't believe me, then you are more than welcome to just wait till your whole pack is a lot of feral mongrels gnawing down on human femurs while the vampires feast and finish your whole pack off with ease.” 

Lena snarled, despising something of Gayle’s sarcastic tone, finding it beyond despicable that this unholy monster could share any similarity to the humor Jess paraded around spewing with all the love her little heart could hold.   

“Shut your damn mouth!” Sam snarled, emptily threatening to punch the vampire. 

“Mommy?” Ruby peeked her head down from the stairs where she had been hiding to listen in on what was going on. 

“Sweetheart! Go back upstairs!”

“Mom!” 

“Please sweetheart? Just give us some time. Cuddle your lion?” 

Ruby stood at her perch, halfway up the steps.

“Please Rube. We won't be much longer, just give us an hour ok? One hour and we’ll all do a big family dinner and maybe even a double feature! Not just Lion King, ok? We can watch anything, your choice.” 

“Be careful.” Ruby pouted, squeezing her plush lion. “I love you moms. So be careful… ok?” 

“Here.” Alex passed off the phone to her mate, silently deeply appreciative that Lena and her sister were patient enough to let them take care of Ruby without more yelling for a moment. 

“You sure?” 

“I got this one. She isn't exhausted with me mothering her yet.” 

“Well isn't that true.” Sam huffed. 

“You got the next one.” Alex offered, kissing her alpha’s cheek before scurrying up to meet Ruby who was still standing halfway up the stairs. “Hey there kiddo.” Alex smiled, picking the child up, and only moderately regretting the strain it put on her back. 

“Ahh! Put me down!” Ruby burst out into laughter. 

“Hmm? Nope!” Alex decided, hopping up the stairs.

Ruby laughed and squealed, gripping tighter to her lion.

“Really made out there, didn't ya kiddo?” Alex nudged the lion’s mane with her nose. 

“Maybe?” Ruby squeezed it, and nuzzled its face, enjoying the plush texture. 

“What's his name?”

“I don't know! But she is a she, not a he.” 

“Hmm? Fun fact, only the male lions grow manes like that.” Alex attempted to educate the pup. 

“A girl lion can grow a mane too. If she wants.” 

“Ya know what, your right.” Alex giggled to herself remembering that depending on the time of day her mate had a cock. “So? You gonna be good and stay up here this time?” she plopped the pup down on the couch. 

Ruby’s integritous eyes betrayed her intentions, swelling up with tears. 

“You are gonna have to work on your lying hun. Your eyes are a dead giveaway.” Alex wiped away the tears from the child’s face as they came. 

“Mommies are gonna be just fine. I’m really sorry we had to leave the zoo a skosh early, but, this is really gonna help mom and I. You might even get to see Jess again soon if all goes well.” 

Ruby looked away, crying harder. “I’m not stupid… I know she is dead! That the vampires killed her!” 

“What?” 

“You two think I don't hear things! Wolves talk!”

“Who told you that Jess was dead!” 

“I don't know, I overheard it from some wolves talking when I came home from school on Thursday.” If she was lying, this time she was doing a much better job of concealing it. 

Alex stumbled as she went to speak, wanting to comfort the pup, to reassure her that there was no way that that was the case. That Jess could not be dead. There was no way. But, then it hit her. She had been so caught up in retrieving their friend, they never stopped to think that she might just be dead and gone! “She isn't dead.” Alex forced a calm tone, lying to herself if that was what she needed. 

“Are you sure mama?” Ruby wiped away her tears with her forearm. 

“Yeah baby girl. I’m sure.” Alex hugged Ruby to hide her own painful tears, despising that she might be lying to the young girl. “And This might let us all see her real soon. Ok Rube?” Her voice hitched before she could make out the pup’s name. 

“Ok, Alex.” Ruby’s voice hitched just like her mother’s.

Neither of them were any damn good at lying. But neither of them needed speak up about that any more for tonight. 

“No matter what, everything is gonna be ok baby girl. Just please stay up here, and cuddle this girl ok? We’ll be up in a bit.” Alex held up the lion plushie. 

“Ok mama.” Ruby nodded. “I’ll be good.” 

“Good girl.” Alex kissed ruby’s forehead, earning a giggle. 

“Here watch something happy, we’ll be up with Kara and Lena before you know it.” Alex offered the remote to the room’s television. 

“Ok, ok fine. If you wanna try it.” Gayle drug out her words with a hesitant drawl. “There is a way that I can prove that the vampires have a way to make your puppy dogs go wild.” 

“Open your damn mouth one more time, and I’ll rip your fuckin throat out my self the moment I get there!” Kara roared. 

“Ohh! Scary puppy!” Gayle teased. 

“If you won't quit, and she wants to kill you, I won't stop her.” Sam warned. 

“Fine, fine.” Gayle rolled her eyes. “You wolves, simply no fun.” 

“Shut up Gayle!” Lena growled. 

“Aww, and how is it Ms. Tale of two species? Is the grass really greener when you have to piss outside, huh wolf girl?” 

Kara could be heard huffing and puffing herself up into a rage, ready to howl her hot head right off before the phone call was ended in a click.

“Well. I’m not upset that the call dropped. I don't know that my poor ears could take any more of the wolf’s whining.” 

“You know, I wonder if Eve would take a trade? The woman who actually killed her progeny for our friend? You think she would go for that? Cause, I’m pretty sure she would adore the chance to fillet you up herself.” 

“You wouldn’t.” Gayle slipped serious. 

“I’d rather her kill you than let Kara do it.” Sam shrugged.

“What happened to wolves having some damn honor in their kill?”

“Yeah! Well, that went out the window when your boss took one of ours!” Sam's eyes burned with a need for vengeance. 

Gayle calmed suddenly. 

“Huh, someone got quiet real fuckin fast huh?” Sam scoffed, checking her phone as it dinged. 

Lena Luthor 4:54

‘Sorry about that, I needed to calm Kara down. She is ok, just she is driving and I want her calm. Won't call back because we will be there in a minute. Good luck with Gayle.’ 

“Please.” Gayle's voice was so weak, devoid of her classic cuntiness that it didn't even sound like her anymore. 

“What?” Sam huffed. 

“Please don't.” 

“Course. You beg now.” 

“She won't just kill me, she won't just torture me. If she has me, it will never end.” Gayle continued devoid of her confidence and sarcasm. 

“You tortured my mate! Threatened Alex! You… you could threaten to kill my child!? And still, have the gall to beg mercy of me!?” For the first time, Sam actually considered slugging the helplessly tied down vampire. 

“Hey, I’m back. Ruby will be good.” Alex announced, making her way down the stairs. 

“Is she ok?” Sam took a breath to calm herself before she did something that she might feel some guilt over later. 

“Yeah, she is just worried about her mommies.” Alex smiled, still somewhat in shock that the pup had taken to her as a mother so quickly, even with their close history taken into account. 

Gayle sat uncharastically silent, the reality of her situation weighing her down. 

The moment she spotted it on her mate’s face she was directly at Alex’s side. “Love, you’ve been crying.” Sam whispered, wiping away what of the tears were left on Alex’s face. 

“I’m ok.” Alex smiled protective of her own emotions. 

“Al.” Sam’s sweet voice made it even harder to lie.

“We need to find Jess.” 

“We will.” 

Gayle coughed, attempting to draw attention to herself without angering the wolves. 

“Yes?” Sam turned to see the vampire, her face appropriately impatient. 

“Sorry, I just can't really raise my hand or anything right now.” Gayle shrugged, bringing her chained arms up to denote her point. 

“Yes.” Sam nodded, vaguely more patient this time around. 

“I did listen in. Not that I have much of a choice not to overhear… I… just I am not so sure you two would want to see Jess, even if you could.” 

“Is she still alive!” Alex burst out desperate. 

“What?” 

“Is she still alive!” Alex demanded. 

“Jess?” 

“Answer the question you fucking blood sucking monster! Is Jess still alive!” Alex screamed, launching towards the vampire, but being held back by Sam. “I need to know! I need to be able to tell my daughter she is alive!” 

“Yes, Yes, of course, Jess is alive!” Gayle answered the question with what seemed like the obvious answer to her. 

Alex softened significantly, breathing in and holding to Sam. 

“Hey, that is good. If she is alive, then we can bring her back. Everything is going to be ok love.” 

“She is alive, but I’m not sure you would want her back.” Gayle warned. 

“Why not?” Alex questioned, peeking her head over Sam's shoulder. 

“You don't know…” 

“Know what?”

“Know why Eve chose her. Eve could have taken any one of you, but she chose Jess for a reason!” Gayle warned. 

“And that reason would be?” Alex lead, still holding tight to Sam. 

“I’ll tell you if you promise not to sell me to Eve.” 

Alex pulled away, giving Sam a worried look questioning as to if they would really ever do that. 

“I might have threatened it, but only because your sister was talking about killing her.” 

“Is Kara ok? Why did she and Lena hang up?”

“Lena took a moment to calm her down. She just messaged to tell me that they would be here in a couple minutes.” Sam explained. 

“Fine then!” Alex released the hug, stepping out from behind Sam. “We won't sell you. Now! Tell me! Why did Eve choose Jess.” 

“Because, Jess is her only living progeny.” 

“What?!” Alex choked on air. 

“I honestly thought you all knew. She took Jess because she at least in part blames you for allowing me to kill Leslie.” 

Alex grimaced. 

“I know her well, and she would have gotten a kick out of it, figuring that it was something just or righteous.” Gayle explained away. 

“And where would Jess be being kept?” Alex followed up anxiously. 

“She wouldn't be being ‘kept’ anywhere” Gayle did her best to perform air quotes in her chains. “She will be at Eve’s side, wherever Eve is.” The thinnest hint of color returned to the vampire as her attitude glimmered in her eyes for just a moment. “You know, somewhat of a ‘right-hand woman’?” The vampire preformed finger guns with a thin smile melting away back to her tentative terror. “Please don't kill me.” Her strained laughter propelled the wolves’ confusion at the normally so cocky monster of a woman having been reduced to scared jokes and dread. 

Alex and Sam exchanged strained glances, attempting to come to any conclusion as for what to do with the vampire. 

“Where is she! I’ll rip her fuckin throat out!” Kara roared, barging into the room. 

“Kara! Calm down.” Lena followed close behind; clearly, her attempts to calm the alpha had failed, and terribly at that. 

“Kara.” Alex stepped between the alpha and their captive. 

“I’ll kill her!” Kara almost began to shift as she fought her sister, struggling to get to the vampire who was now cowering in her chains. “Open your mouth one more time about my mate and you won't get an opportunity to open it again!” Kara snarled, both omegas holding her back now.

“Back down!” Sam roared. 

Kara forfeited human form at the order she took as a challenge. 

“Kar!”

“Kara!” Lena and then Alex yelled as the alpha broke past them. Leaping at the wolf with teeth revealed. Just before the wolf was able to strike Sam intercepted her. It was easy for the older alpha to take Kara down in her blistering blinded rage. 

Sam held Kara down in her teeth, pinning the less than logical wolf to the floor by her neck. 

“Samantha!” Alex screamed at her mate, outraged that she would hurt her sister. 

Kara whimpered beaten on the floor, shifting back, still pinned down by Sam’s teeth. 

“Let go! Let go of my alpha!” Lena attempted to order, but it came out as a plea. 

Sam shifted back slowly, pinning Kara down at her shoulders. “Are you done? Or do I have to cage you up next to Maxwell?” 

Kara whined, her alpha spirit broken at the conclusive defeat. 

“I’ll tell you anything! Just let me go!” Gayle trembled, fighting her chains for freedom. 

“Gayle, stop.” Lena ran to the vampire’s side. “You are only going to hurt yourself worse in all this silver.” Even if she hated the bloodsucker, she still couldn't bear to witness someone in pain like that, yanking at the chains searing into their skin, all in an effort to stay alive. 

“Lena please, don't let them… Sam threatened to sell me to eve!”

“That is manipulative and taking me out of context!” Sam defended herself. 

“Is it not true?!” Gayle retorted.

“I think it is the perfect idea!” Kara agreed from under Sam.

“Lena please. I gave myself over to them when they found me because I’ve been hiding in a zoo, feeding on whatever I can just to avoid being found. If eve gets her hands on me-” Gayle might have been playing up the emotion of it, but that didn't make any of it even a mite less than true. She was terrified and at a complete loss for how to proceed. 

“C… Can we all just please calm down?” Alex requested of the room.

Lena was left reeling, unsure how to process the pleas from the monster of a vampire now appearing to be more of a lost puppy scared of an abusive owner. 

“Whatever you want, I’ll tell you! I’ll do it, just don't give me over to Eve, and keep Kara away from me. Get her out of here and promise me that! I’ll tell you everything!”

“Why?” Alex’s squinted eyes landed on the vampire, spotting a missing piece to what she was attempting to puzzle together. 

“I prefer not to be tortured and or dead?” Gayle answered. 

“No, why don't you want Kara here?” 

“I prefer not to be dead.” Gayle repeated. 

“I won't kill you.” Kara rolled her eyes. 

“After you hear what I have to say?” Gayle postured. “I’m not so sure; in fact, I’m confident you will kill me.” 

“Ok then, let's try another tactic? Start talking, or else I will kill you!” Kara fought Sam’s hold, nearly tossing her off completely. 

Lena’s face hit her palm, the ongoing issues of taming her mate beyond exhausting. 

“Kara! Please calm down!” 

“Calm the fuck down!” Sam slammed Kara’s shoulders back down into the ground, ending her physical protests. 

”Baby… maybe it is for the best you just give us a couple minutes to talk to Gayle?”

This time Kara threw Sam off completely, hopping to her feet and rushing to Lena. 

“Honney, I know.” Lena soothed her palm down an almost furry arm as Kara worked herself back up in anger. “Shh.” Lena whispered. “Shh, it’s ok. Emma is drinking alone up front. Maybe she could use some alpha guidance?” 

Kara’s growls slowed and softened. 

“That’s it breathe love.” Lena soothed in only the way someone’s love could. 

Kara nodded, breathing deeper. “O… Ok. Ok Lena. I.. I’ll go talk to Emma.”

“That's it.” Lena kissed at Kara’s cheek. “I love you so much baby.” 

Kara huffed and nuzzled her mate, nipping gently at Lena's neck as she held her omega closer. 

Lena stopped the scene just as she began to feel a little Kara poking her. “Come now love, go help Emma out. She needs an alpha.” 

“Ok.” Kara half snarled, one final nip at Lena's neck and then she set off towards the bar. 

“Uugh, Kara.” Sam attempted to garner the other alpha's attention.

“Kara.” Lena hushed a warning yelp. 

“Kar.” Alex grabbed her sister's hand just a half second before she opened the door out to the bar.

“What?” Kara huffed, one of them finally forcing her attention. 

“Clothes baby.” Lena sighed. 

“You need clothing sis.” 

“Oh? Right.” Kara looked down over her nude self. 

“Here, I keep an extra set of clothes right here ever since I turned.” Alex grabbed at a simple back up shirt and sweatpants she kept on a desk just adjacent to the door. 

“Thanks Al.” Kara took the clothing and threw it on.

“We will call you back in when it's done ok?” 

“Yeah yeah.” Kara huffed, pushing through the door into the busy bar. 

The last words she could hear as she exited were Sam opening impatient with a rough and demanding voice.“Now get talking.” The alpha attempted to pay no mind to the conversation she would not be privy to. Her attempts were futile, and she knew it even as she found Emma and sat herself down across the table from the wolf already grieving what she wasn't even sure she had lost yet. 

“What do you want Kara!” Emma huffed out, clearly deep into her third drink too many. 

“I wanted to see if you could use some support?” Kara looked over one of several empty glasses which littered the wolf's table along sticky shot glasses.

“From you?!” Emma scoffed. “No, I think I am good. Thanks.” She took another deep swig of her beer. 

“Wow, the service here really sucks when my sis isn't manning the bar huh?” 

“What do you want Kara!” 

“I told you.”

“You also told me you were going to kill my mate!” Emma barked over the table, jostling it enough to send several shot glasses to shatter as they hit the floor. 

“That’s it, you are done for the night.” Kara yanked the beer from Emma’s hand. “We are going for a walk, gonna grab some dinner for everybody.” Kara stood, taking the wolf by the arm. 

“I’m not going anywhere with you!” Emma fought her arm free only to have it taken by the alpha again. 

“You need to sober up, and I need to have a private conversation with you, which is not something we will ever get in this bar.” 

“I don't give a damn what you have to say to me! I trusted you! Do you know how many wolves did not want to accept you or Lena when you came back! You came back preaching about change and moving foreward! At least the rest of them can rest knowing that you are exactly what you promised not to be!" Emma fought Kara’s iron grip.

“Stop!” 

“No!” Emma raged and wailed. Her drunken stupor blinding her as to what a scene she was making. 

“Calm down!” Kara ordered through gritted teeth.

“Let me go!” Emma continued her tantrum. 

Kara growled, her patience not only running thin but evaporating entirely as she threw the wolf against the wall.

“What? Gonna beat me like Raymond did Cat when she didnt aquiess to his every whim?” 

“No!” Kara barked back, finding all of her restraint and even some that didnt even feel like it was hers as she tightened her grip just enough to keep Emma stationary, pinning her so that she could whisper as calmly as she could muster. “We have a way to find out what did this to him!” 

“W… What?” Emma stammered, sobering up with stunning speed.

“If we can find out how it happened… Maybe, just maybe.” 

“We can save him?” Emma whispered into the void Kara left for her. 

“Yes. Now walk with me to the Chinese takeout place down the street.” 

“I! I!” Emma stammered. 

“Come on.” Kara ushered. 

Emma was speechless, wishing and praying silently, needing for this to be real. 

“Emma, I won't be able to tell you about this all in here.” Kara’s eyes darted along the bar’s patrons. 

“Ok, ok.” 

“So they picked her up at the zoo of all places?” Emma questioned astounded. 

“Apparently she was hiding there.” Kara answered with a shrug, finding a seat now that the family’s order had been placed. 

“I mean, It makes sense? Doesn't it? The zoo would make for a decent hiding place. Hide her scent from us, keeps her in relatively sunny places with shade available, so any vampire looking for her won't be wanting to stick around there for any length of time, and all the animals… it isn't a perfect meal, but it is more than enough to keep her alive.” 

“Seems to be the consensus, yup.” Kara nodded, a waiter coming up and handing Kara the three egg rolls a la carte which she had ordered for while they wait. “Here. You get two. Nice and oily to help sober you up.” 

“Thanks.” Emma sighed, taking her two from the small package. 

“Apparently she wanted to make a trade. Her safety for what is doing this to our wolves.”

“And you think she is telling the truth? You think she is telling the truth?” Emma followed in between egg rolls.

“No! Maybe? Yes? I have to don’t I? I… At first, I thought all it could be was a lie… But… I, I just don't know. But I guess we have to follow through on it for Maxwell’s sake, for yours. I… Emma, I’m trying my best here. I’m trying to find a balance between the past and how to keep us safe.” 

Emma ate her second egg roll, silently trying to process as best her drunken mind could. 

“I didn't want to have to kill Maxwell. And I won't kill any feral wolf ever if this goes well, and we can find a way to reverse it from whatever Gayle says can cause it.”

“But when push comes to shove… you still would have done it if it weren't for Lena.” 

“Yes.” Kara admitted. 

“Then I think we should sit in silence until we have the food.” 

Kara growled frustrated before forfeiting on swaying the wolf to her perspective. “Fine then.” 

About thirty minutes later, Kara got the call telling her it was time to return, that they were ready to relay everything to her and make a more final decision as to what to do with the captive vampire. With strikingly few words, Kara and Emma agreed that Emma would wait for the food and bring it with her when it was ready. 

“So? Where is she?!” Kara announced impatiently the moment she entered the back room where they had been holding Gayle.

“She is chained up downstairs until we can prove her intel accurate or inaccurate.” Alex answered her sister.

“Hey, baby.” Lena moved to Kara’s side quickly, shaking as she held to Kara. “You feeling ok?” 

“Yeah, I’m fine love.” Kara kissed Lena’s forehead. “You?”

“It… was just a stressful meeting.” Lena lied.

“We have a big choice to make.” Sam introduced, taking a seat, the weight of the world clear on her shoulders. 

“What would that be?” Kara questioned, wrapping her arms around her still shaking mate, rubbing her hands up and down Lena’s back in an attempt to calm her. 

“She told us what made Maxwell go feral…” 

“And I hate to say it, but it makes a hell of a lot of sense.” Sam finished for her mate. 

“Well?! What is it!” Kara followed up eagerly. 

“Wolfsbane.” Sam answered, weighed down by what would follow. 

“Ok, well yeah, that makes sense, but… A ton of people, vampires and otherwise know that Maxwell takes wolfsbane from time to time.” 

“Yeah, they do.” Sam agreed with Kara. “That’s why we have to do something even I don't like.” 

“We don't have to do it! We have options!” Alex was still in denial. 

“Yes… we do.” Lena denied solemnly, clinging to her mate even tighter than before.

“What do we have to do?” Kara gave a confused look as she petted down the back of Lena’s worried little head. 

“We have to drug a wolf with wolfsbane.” 

“We what?”

“It’s the only way to prove that the wolfsbane is what did this to him. If we drug a wolf with wolfsbane and they go feral… then we know, and we know how to save the pack. Until then? We are all at risk.” Sam explained her heart heavy but knowing this was the only way to keep her family safe.

“All at risk of what?” Emma asked emerging into the room, enough Chinese food to smother an elephant hanging from her arms.

“We’ll fill you in on it later.” Sam stood from her seat. “For now, we are gonna relax and spend time with our family upstairs. You are welcome to join if you wish, you are a pack member after all. But if you join, then no shop talk. My daughter doesn't need to be any more stressed out than she already is.”

“I’d like to join.” Emma agreed, letting go quickly at the opportunity to feel like she had a family again; like her mate wasn't lost into a manless monster. 

“Good, we are watching Lion King.” Alex smiled, taking some of the Chinese off of Emma’s hands to help her get it upstairs. 

Dinner was delicious for the miniature pack, the six of them finally unwinding, even if the opportunity to relax was temporary; in fact, the knowledge that it was only a small reprieve made it somehow sweeter. 

End of Chapter 10