Fallen Angel (Trust)

Fallen Angel Pt. 3 - Trust
Feb 4, 2006
Blog Entry 5

Alice was getting real sick and tired of Mike's attitude. She stood outside as she stared at Mike make a fool of her once again. He turned down the dual, which was pretty typical of him, but made her pretty annoyed. If she joined this pack, something had to be done about his attitude, otherwise their claws and teeth might eventually meet. But for now, she let it pass and walked over to an old battered tree. It looked in pretty bad shape at mid level, but she knew perfectly well. When she stepped outside, Mike was practicing sinking his fists into it. A form of ritual he did at least once per day. Part of her was hoping that some days a bunch of tree spirits would return the favor.

With those thoughts, Alice rested against the tree. It was another warm day in Denver and the shade of the tree. It was normally always like that around here. Normally warm during the day and cold at night, temperatures constantly changing between 20 and -12 degrees Celsius. There was a slight breeze and part of her could not help but feel as though someone, something was watching her. It was most likely in her mind though, as it wasn't the first time she felt like such, yet knowing completely well that nothing was around, or at least never brave enough to actually show itself. She did exactly what she always did in those moments, and began writing another letter to her mentor.

For the first few moments, she actually had peace and quiet as she wrote her honest opinion on the pack. It was then that Miguel interrupted her thoughts and made a slight comment on her letter. Alice looked up and noticed him above on a branch, giving her his usual neutral cold stare before leaping to the ground a few paces away. She returned a cold comment about privacy, which then lead to Miguel giving her a warning. He wanted to make sure she understood that at no moment, in their territory, would she go unwatched.

Before a reply could really be managed, Mike showed his face outside again. It was rather amazing that he ordered Miguel to back off. He did not appreciate being ordered to stop; scouting was after all what he does best. He confirmed the order and reluctantly walked away from Alice, but to his surprise, as he crossed Mike’s path, a whisper was given to keep an eye out on her. Miguel replied positively that both his eyes would be kept on her, that Mike had nothing to worry on that. Within a few moments, Miguel was gone.

Mike took a few steps towards Alice, who was trying to resume her moment of peace. But of course the moment he opened his mouth to speak, the conversation went to hell. It was amazing that they weren’t at each others throat. Most Uratha would have dealt with their differences in such ways until only one of the two remained standing. Granted it was never meant to lead to the death of one another, for such act is strongly against their own code of morale. Things didn’t turn to that luckily and Mike simple gave her a similar warning as Miguel had, and clearly showed his lack of trust, before departing himself indoors.

Alice was getting extremely confused and angered at this. She was doing exactly what Lucy and Nick had suggested, she was actually willing to give these guys a chance and yet they were being total pricks with her. Only Damien showed a slight interest of care in his tone.

Damien chose a good moment to return from his walk and noticed Alice in the yard alone and writing something. The big guy was never shy and joined Alice for the fresh afternoon air. He sat down besides her and began by confirming the beautiful weather. It was still unsure as to what had made him in such good news, but best guess was excitement as the battle that was to come.

Alice told him how everyone seemed to hate and mistrust her. He was actually quite surprised at that and questioned her on whom. It was no surprise to hear that Mike was being an ass… in fact if he heard otherwise he would have been seriously worried. But he was indeed surprised at how she viewed Miguel, considering him a wannabe Dark Hero. Damien pointed out that Alice herself, in fact, did not give trust away so easily. Trust isn’t something that can be easily given, but sometimes must be earned. Within a pack, you normally have no option but to trust the other with your very life… and it was perhaps why some of them were still skeptical about Alice.

To Alice’s surprise, Damien let her know that he actually trusted Miguel. Even if he did not agree completely with all he does. He even mentioned that he believes he may even have broken his arm when they both were kids. No grudge was held as the times are obviously different.

Alice trusted her mentor, Lucy, before. But unfortunately times are also different for her now. Her life was taken to some Vampires a few years ago, and since then she still wrote letters to her, even knowing how pointless they were as nobody would truly receive them. But it was still her way to cope with some of what happened and gave her motivation to stay strong.

She asked him exactly what happened with that previous kid, Killy Mathiews. Miguel had mentioned the name before, and it seemed to upset him. Damien told her of the Oath of the Moon and how breaking the laws could reduce ones soul to nothing but a monster of legends, an actual werewolf, better known to the People, as Zi’ir. The pack recently rescued what they thought was a Zi’ir. His name was Nathan, and Killy grew quite attached for some strange reason. And then one day both of them were gone.

Miguel had tasted Nathan’s blood during the capture and when he noticed his packmate was missing, he decided to go after him and recover him. Things were still unsure as to exactly what happened, but Miguel spoke that Killy betrayed him and left him for dead. Alice understood a bit better now why Miguel had such a hard time trusting just anyone. She greatly appreciated that Damien finally told her what was going on.

She inquired on Nick’s condition, and was glad to know he was slowly, but surely recovering. She asked Damien to keep this to himself, but swore to hunt down the ones who did this to him. Damien was quite happy that she was finally starting to trust people and with that, he parted ways and let her to complete her letter in peace and quiet…

End of Trust