"You and Cassius are fated."

I stared at my mother like she had a dog's face with a pigs nose.

"How are we mates and I didn't even know about it!?" I could hear Pansy's snickering and I glared at her.

"No no no, sweetheart you're not mates. You're just, fated. Look I didn't recognize him at first but at the pack, your father had a best friend and his sons name was Cassius. They were gambling buddies but when Cassius's father got in to deep he left immediately. When you two were younger you were inseparable until they moved. He was five years old when you were born and when he held you for the first time we knew you were fated when small glow formed when he touched you."

She fiddled with her hands as she spoke. If Cassius had known me when we were younger then could he have recognized me? Is that the reason why he acted so strangely towards me or was it just his normal charisma.

"Why would his father try to kill him if I might ask. He sounds like a nice person, even if he has flaws." I looked at Pansy and saw her eating a bag of chips like this whole scene was just another movie for her to watch. In another sense I was glad that my father hadn't turned out like his since they were in the same positions at one time.

"My father died shortly after we left the pack and my mother had to remarry if we wanted to be protected. My stepfather is a wolf with anger issues and the fact that he never liked me didn't help my case. How he got hold of a hellhound I'm still not sure of but I'm pretty sure that one day I'll find out right before I kill him with my bare hands."

When I heard Cassius talking I looked at him. He struggled at first to sit upright but when he did it was even clearer that his breathing was slightly labored. He talked with the utmost disgust for the man he was forced to replace his father with. My mother on the other hand looked like she didn't even know his father had passed. It was probably because they weren't in direct contact for many years.

She walked up to Cassius and gave him a soft hug careful not to injure him in any way possible. He hugged her back like a son would hug his mother.

They haven't seen each other in so long. He probably still remembered the day I was born. The day we became fated.

"I'm so sorry things happened the way they did Cassius. My condolences on your father I can't even imagine what your mother must feel like. All that matters now is that you're save and we can help you."

I look at my mother with a deep crease forming between my eyes. "Mom what does it even mean being fated to someone, besides the whole I pass out when he does thing?"

I heard a chuckle and saw Cassius staring into my eyes. At least he found this situation amusing. "We're practically linked in shorter terms, but the only reason why you could feel my pain was because it was an intense feeling. Other than that not more is known about fated werewolves."

I can't believe this is happening. I mean it would explain some things that happened in the past. Sometimes I would just burst out into angry fits or have a sudden urge to cry without having a reason whatsoever. It made sense now that those emotions weren't my own.

My eyes went wide as I realized that this connection probably went both ways. I knew that the only time in the last five years when I felt almost any intense feeling was when we moved here after Zeno's pack was burned down.

That one week afterwards when the curse took its course had me drained of everything I had. I didn't have just one feeling running through my mind at the time. Imagine the worst feeling you have ever felt and mix it around with every other bad feeling there is.

The immense pain and in every part of your body, the feeling of going crazy from being sleep deprived, the anger that you can't control your own body or mind. I was still staring into his eyes when thinking all of this and the curious look he had on his face changed to one of knowing.

He knew exactly what I was thinking and his faced dropped. It was like he was remembering it all over again. I gulped and looked away instantly. I needed some fresh air and I needed it now.

"Mom I'm going to walk home I just need to process some things. I'll meet you both at ho-"

In all earnest I wasn't sure if Cassius was going to stay if not but I just walked out of the room and into the cold night air.

The breeze swept over my skin like a cold blanket. I loved the feeling the cold air brought because it made me feel calm. When I was younger I would sleep with the window open and breathe in the cold night air to calm me to sleep.

I still love the smell especially after it rained. I was just walking and took a couple of turns without realizing where I was going because I was so in thought when I saw a park with a tree and a swing set and decided to go sit on the swing.

I felt like I needed time to just sit and process and that was what happened when I felt like I was in a safe space. A swing set in the middle of a park wasn't my best idea but it gave me the feeling I could let loose if I needed to.

My whole life was normal and then it wasn't and then once again changed and it was even less normal. How many people do you know that would keep such a big secret from their children. Every time that I would have an outburst and they knew what caused it and would still say nothing or even blame me for it.

Life was messed up as it was being myself and, being what I am in these situations made everything worse. Imagine having a girl yell at her mother because of a dress she wears and intensity that feeling because you both were born as beings that naturally had anger issues.

The situations I get myself into.

I rolled my eyes at the thought. The stars were starting to shine and I quickly realized that I had to get home but I was so tired that I just wanted to close my eyes and that's unfortunately exactly what I did.

...

The forest floor was damp as I walked around looking at the tall tress that surrounded me. There were blood red leaves everywhere around me yet not a single one on any of the trees.

They don't make a sound when I step on them and don't move when I move between them. It felt like I was moving through a mirage and I was imagining them but I didn't care and kept walking

The forest around me quickly turned into a dirt road leading down towards a dark lake. I wanted to turn around and go back but I kept moving towards the lake.

I started to get worried when I got closer and saw that the water was pitch black and unmoving. I got a cold chill that ran through my entire body.

My hands tried reaching behind me towards anything I could reach but my lower body wasn't listening to my requests and kept moving until I felt the icy water touching my bare feet sending thousands of small needles of ice through my body.

I was crying at this point as the needles moved slowly but painfully through my every nerve and puncturing every blood cell along the way while I kept moving forward.

I was almost fully submerged when I saw the dark figure not even 50 feet from me diving beneath the water moving in my direction. My head went under and I didn't even care about the pain and I just wanted to get out of there. No. I needed to get out of there.

I could move my limbs again, but when I tried to swim upwards I wouldn't move. The only light under the water was that if the moon shining above. I knew something was watching me and I turned around and saw it disappear within seconds.

I kept looking around and saw the same shadow swimming around moving closer. The water was noisy with its movements but for a few seconds it was completely silent. The darkness was swallowing me whole and the light from the moon was getting dimmer.

Even when I moved there wasn't any sound what so ever. I was almost out of breath but my body didn't move towards the surface and then I heard it. The steady breathing right beside me. It had a slow rhythm and was so loud in my ears it started to hurt. I knew what was going to happen yet I tried closing my eyes not trying to think of what kind of death was lying ahead.

"You tried so hard yet you still failed my little red spot. Don't keep resisting this otherwise you will be the reason every person you hold dear will suffer the deaths you you suffered in your dreams."

"Jasmiiine!" The echo of a voice further into the water rumbled and caused the water to move again. I opened my eyes to see the hooded figure in front of me. I looked away to see where the other voice was coming from but I couldn't pin point it.

"Don't try to do anything to stop it. With the curse it's inevitable and you will become powerful little spot. You will be more powerful than any other werewolf that ever existed, you won't feel so weak anymore. You won't have to fear everything and everyone, you just have to let it happen."

"Jasmiine!" The voice was much clearer now and I saw another figure enter the water and was swimming towards us. When it closer the hooded figure looked me one last time with a knowing look. A look that said I had to head its warnings and then disappeared in nothing.

My vision blackened and I knew my oxygen was practically down to zero as I tried with the last of my breath to reach the surface but with all my strength lost I wasn't moving at all. In fact I kept sinking.

Further into the oblivion of dark nothingness and cold. The place where I always go when I die.

The place I always die alone.

...

"Jasmine wake up!" I felt the hands on my shoulder shaking me violently and the warmth they gave made me want to stay there until I was shook until I got a headache and my eyes started to open. I saw the black hair and irritating face of no one other than Cassius.

I was so tired and didn't want anyone to disturb me so when I fully opened my eyes I gave him a death stare and he backed away very quickly. I was surprised it actually worked and started to sit up and saw the terrified look on his face and then noticed my mother was also there.

My father for some reason wasn't at work and was currently standing above me and held my hands and gave me a warm hug. I didn't realize I started to shiver until I felt so cold in his embrace.

I looked at both my parents and a frightened Cassius and finally saw where we were. My blood ran cold causing me to shiver even more than before.

It was the lake from my dream. The lake where I practically drowned and saw the hooded figure again. The necromancer. My eyes went wide at the thought when I remembered something very important. I looked at my father and he had a knowing look on his face and so did my mother but Cassius wasn't staring at me like they were.

He was looking at me like I was a different person. Not even a person, he looked at me like I was a monster. I thought the reason was because I was sleep walking and almost died and maybe he saw what I saw but no. It was something exceedingly worse.

"Your eyes. Wh-what the hell is wrong with your eyes?"