Fallen Angel (Return)

Fallen Angel Pt. 3 - Return
Feb 4, 2006
Blog Entry 4

With Mike's return, the pack was once more one big happy dysfunctional family. Everybody had previously wished to hurt Mike in different ways for various reasons. Not that they hated the guy, he was after all a packmate. But the old man was very arrogant and annoying. He always got himself in the worst of troubles and therefore found himself on Damien's hospital bed to get patched up. But, like all pack of wolves, every member had his place. In Mike's case it was rather unique. When it came to missions and serious work, he was the beta of the group and everyone had to listen to his words. But other then that, everyone saw him more as an Omega, the lowest rank in a pack.

Alice grew more and more annoyed at him though. His comments and rudeness... he's either really bad at trying to hit on her, or is even an asshole with really beautiful women. Miguel was constantly making fun of the old man but mostly in jest. Damien on the other hand grew annoyed at the lack of seriousness and shifted in Dalu, threatening everyone to remain quiet so Ryan could explain the ideas behind the plan.

The plan was not much, and even seemed ridiculous at best. Ardent, the New Hopes pack Ithaeur, had shown Ryan the basics of the First Tongue and the plan was to try to slaughter the dominant spirit inside the wounded area. They were still without a plan to defeat the 3 Shadow Prowlers that lurked within in its perimeter, most likely defending their sacred twisted tree of birth. The order was given... With or without any further knowledge on the issue, in 3 hours time the problem had to be taken care of
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The meeting was then adjourned and left everyone to decide on how to prepare for another suicidal attempt at keeping the peace. Mike asked around for a sparring partner, although everyone knew quite well he was just really pushing to get owned by Damien once again. Damien, on the other hand, refused. His temper towards Mike was at a high already, and he wanted to avoid, as much as possible, breaking one too many of his bones. Not that it would normally bother him that much, but 3 hours before a mission was not the best time to send a packmate in recovery.

It wasn't really a surprise that Mike did not ask Miguel for a battle with the way he was turned down last time. Last thing Miguel needed to do was to strike back at a packmate.. specially after the trouble that still haunted him with Killy. The wound in his flesh may be healed, but the one in his soul remained.

To everyone's surprise, Alice offered to battle with Mike. She would only need to have a word in private with Ryan first, and then go meet the old martial artist outside to practice. Miguel wondered if she had accepted his challenge in order to get revenge for all the insults that was thrown her way, or if perhaps she was actually trying to bury whatever bad blood ran between them. Although there was many more possibility that Miguel considered... he did not dare speak them out loud...

Ryan went upstairs, followed by Alice. He walked into his room and headed towards the bar behind his computer desk and began pouring drinks. His room was the biggest of them all, but it was mainly due to his leadership of the pack. He knew quite well that if ever he was challenged for his position and lost the battle, he would need to move out and leave the spoils to the victor. Alice walked over to his desk and began curiously inspecting it's content. Not being satisfied with the outside, she began peeking inside the top drawers as Ryan continued pouring his usual drink.

In this house, nothing remains a secret for very long, or certainly not to a scout who's very purpose was to uncover the truth. Miguel took the opportunity of the wide open door to quietly sneak into Ryan's room and settled himself on the right wall, just besides the dresser. He "Blended" in that spot and remained motionless, keeping his gaze on Alice.

The room was split in two section, divided by his large library of randomly selected books. Miguel had often wondered if there was importance to those book, or if they had just been bought in order to fill the holes in the shelves. On the left most part of the room, split by the library, was mainly used as an office. In the middle, was Ryan's main desk that held the general accessories. Phone, Pen containers, paper clips, random paperwork that still needed to be filed and his laptop. In front of his desk held two large comfy leather chairs for those that came to discuss business. And behind his desk was his miniature bar.

Alice sat down on Ryan's desk and crossed her legs as she carefully inspected a signed puck from Ryan's drawers. She questioned him on it's value, curious if it was worth anything. Ryan returned a gaze as he walked towards her and gave her the drink he had prepared. He then gently grabbed the puck from her hands and set it back in his desk as he informed her that he had not purchased it, but that he had gotten it signed himself. Although he mentioned that on ebay the price of such item could be worth a few thousands easily, to which grabbed Alice's attention and brought a smile to her lips.

Business between the two was really odd, Miguel noticed. He was in fact surprised that Ryan was letting Alice sit on his desk, it was completely unprofessional... except for a seductress like herself. She was mainly curious on the “how, when and what“ of the initiation, looking a bit forward to getting it over with and finally getting accepted amongst them before her other instincts took over and made her walk away.

Alice was informed that initiations would take place later, as for now more serious troubles worried them. And of course nothing was to suggest that she wasn't being tested during this mission either, so she could not really turn it down just in case. She left Ryan's room with that knowledge and closed the door behind her, and returned to the main floor in seek of Mike for that "friendly" dual.

Miguel unblended and walked gently towards Ryan as he spoke out his feelings towards this possible new member. He found that Ryan had too much of a soft spot for her but did not wish to mention anything about it, knowing quite well that even Ryan knew that it was a sin to look at her in any such way. Without a comment or reply, but a gentle nod from Ryan, that he heard what Miguel had to say, he turned around and left Ryan's room as well.

Miguel didn't trust her, she was hiding too many secrets... And he was going to find out what they were, one way or another.

End of Return