"Em..." I shake her deadly still body. "Em..." I say again this time more urgent. I see her eyelids begin to flutter open and I smile knowing she's okay.

"Where are we?"

"I'm not sure, I haven't exactly looked around." I say sheepishly and she laughs.

"Oh, no...not again!" Em says sounding desperate.

"What?"

She points over to the bars in the corner of the cell. I lift my hand to my mouth and begin to cry. Has he gotten to us already? "Let's not freak out. It may not be him." My voice shakes. She nods and I move to her.

"Wha-what if it's him?" She cries as I hold her. I try to keep strong but the memories that flood into my head break my facade, I begin to weep. We hold each other in a tight embrace trying to fight off the nightmares.

"Help!!!" Em screams and I see her clutching her head in her hands. "Noo!"

"Em calm down. We aren't there. Em! Come back to me!" I scream to her but she doesn't listen. "Anyone, anyone at all. Please!" My voice wavering. I hear a commotion and then a bang.

"Is anyone there?" I call out and then hear the cell door move and creak.

"Noo! I swear..."

"Em. Your ok. He's not here. We're not there. Come back to me..." I cry. "Help!" I heard footsteps approach but don't look back keeping my arms around Em.

"What's going on? Is she ok?" I head a masculine voice call out. I shake my head with tear brimming my eyes.

"Let us out...please" I whimper not bothering to look up to see who it was this time.

"Alright, just uh...hold on. Let me go get Aaron or Simon." Emerald? Hazelnut? Why is are they here?

"What's going on?" I hear a softer voice ring out. I shake my head and tighten my hold around Emma's thrashing body. I whisper comforting things into her ear which seems to calm her a little bit.

"We just need to get out of..."I pause and look around. "Here."  I motion to the cell. He nods and a look of confusion and concentration passes over his features. He had jet black hair and the eyes like the Caribbean. I think I might call him Smurf.

"Blake..." Emerald calls out, his voice echos in the small cell they have us in. "What's going on? Tyler said there was an emergency or some crap...uh?" His voice trailed off as he saw Emma's figure in my arms. He cautiously crouched down next to us and peered over my shoulder to see Em's tear stained face. "What's going on?" This time his question is directed to me and his tone softened.

"Please...let us go. We won't tell anyone what you are! We've kept knowing about your kind long enough..." I look at him this time and let a few tears fall. "Please..." 

"I-I-I don't know...I can't just-"

"I know. You have an alpha or leader or whatever. Just please, not a cell-" My voice cracks.

"Noooo! Please, no. I won't...STOP!" Em starts thrashing again and I struggle to hold her to me. She suddenly goes lack in my arms.

"Em..." I say gently. "It's time to open your eyes. It's over, your ok. We're not there and he's not here. Emerald and hazelnut are with us. Your ok. Come back to me..."

Her eyelids fluttered open with confusion written all over her face. "Wha-what happened?" Her voice cracked.

"Uh..." I paused my eyes darting to Emerald and now Smurf who entered the tiny cell. "Can one of get a glass of water for her please." I ask but it comes out more of a demand.

"Yeah, I'll be right back." Emerald tells us. I nod and look to Smurf.

"He might need help carrying it."

I was politely trying to tell him to get out but he simply says, "I'm sure that Simon can handle a whole glass of water by himself. Now instead of trying to get me to leave. Please explain what just happened." I hang my head in defeat.

"Did it happen again?" Em's hoarse voice breaks out against the silence. I look away not able to answer. I hear her sniffle and look up to see her tears begin to fall. "They're getting worse. A-" I crawl to her and pull her into my embrace. She whimpers. "What do I do? He won't leave me alone." I don't answer but simply rub her back. "What triggered it this time?" I let go of her and look around the cramped space. I made eye contact with Smurf and see him looking at us curiously.

She look up and around the room. I notice her breath hitch then become faster. "Em," she looks at me wide eyed. "We aren't there. Breathe." I notice Smurf tense up but when he moves to come closer I hold him off. "Look," she looks where I had pointed and sees Smurf. "He's not the one here. We are with Smurf and Emerald...breath-in and out." After a little while her breathing regulates.

"Thanks." She takes a deep breath and looks at me then Smurf. "Emerald? Smurf?" She smirks and I laugh.

"Don't think I didn't hear that by the way..." Smurf adds. I look at him and notice the small smile dancing his lips.

"Well...your eyes. They are blue and smurfs are blue. So my brain was like Smurf. Same thing with Emerald. In my defense you never actually introduced yourselves. I had to make up names. And by the time you told us them my brain already had wrapped around the names Emerald and Smurf. So hi, my names Angelica, nice to meet you Smu...I mean uh-?" It dawned on me that I didn't actually remember his name.

"Right," Smurf laughs along with Em. "Hi Angelica. My names Blake. It's been a pleasure to meet you. Since you wanted alone time. I'm going to go see what's taking Simon for the water."

"Wait-where's Hazlenut?"

"Huh?" The corners of Em's mouth twitch up into a smile.

"She means, umm...Aaron I think his name was. I'm not sure. He was at the mall with Emerald. I mean uh...Simon."

"Oh...yeah I'll go check on Tyler. He was supposed to get both of them but it's Tyler so he probably had to make a pit stop at the kitchen for some Oreos or something." He says laughing.

"Ohh...if you want you could bring us back some Oreos as well. Or just pass the message along to Tyler if you want." She tells him with a wink. I burst out laughing like a dyeing cow.

"So...what's shakin' bacon?" Em looks at me and tells me I need sleep. "I don't yo-you meanie!"

"Wow. Original one there A. What'd it take you to come up with that one?"

"A solid five minutes." I respond straight faced. We look at each other and burst out laughing. I tend to agree with her though between the nightmares I don't get much sleep. And when I get slap happy I get crazy, like mental, as in absolutely bonkers. Like mad hatter crazy. There was this one time I was asked if I was high and I of course was all stupid and didn't exactly deny it so they called somebody. Luckily Em was there but otherwise I think I would have been shipped to the looney bin or a rehab center!

I hear a throat being cleared and turn around to see a tall fella with a box of Oreos in his hands. "You must be Tyler, right?" He nods so I continue. "Right well, my name is Angelica May Smith. Pleasure to meet you captain." I salute him. "This here," I gesture to Em, "is Emma McMann. She's a..."

Em cut me off by placing her hand over my rambling mouth. "Forgive blabber mouth over here. She is extremely slap hap...hey you twat!" Ooopsies...I licked her hand. She let go of my mouth but not before making me promise to not talk. I laughed like a maniac for a solid thirty seconds before choking on oxygen and almost dying. It's fine though I'm alive. Anyway, in order to eat some of the delicious Oreos Tyler brought we have to make some pact.

"Em," She looks at me after I poked her in the cheek. "Are we joining a cult?" I whisper not wanting Tyler to hear but apparently I wasn't very quiet because he burst out laughing.

"No dear, do you want the delicious Oreos?" I nod and wipe imaginary drool from my chin. She laughs and tells me to do what she does.

*Damiens POV*
Alpha? Was that Tyler?

"Yes?" Alec and I are on our way back now. We are about an hour out and man it's been a long trip. Alec insisted we go rent a car and I said to go in in our wolf form. Of course I listened to my genius beta. Well our car ran out of gas Twice! As if that wasn't bad enough there was a little squirrel family that decided to nest in the back seat and when we got the car there were only three tires, two of which were flat!! Alec booked the car online, I begrudgingly agreed to go with the car but it was ridiculous. I swear don't ever go online to rent things! They mix them up and lie...they lie I tell you!

"The girls are screaming for help. I don't know what to do alpha! I think one of them is having a panic attack."

"Alright Blake take Tyler with you and go into the room. See what's going on and keep me informed."

I can't wait to meet our new "neighbors". They say they already know about our kind. Yeah, right? This just means more work for me. Between what happened with my family, school, and being alpha I'm tired. At least I have Alec. Between what happened last summer and the rogue problem now I'm not sure what else my pack can handle.

"Well I sent Tyler to go get Simon and Aaron. The one is having some sort of nightmare? I'm not sure. They both are shaken up but the ones holding up better she's trying to help the other one."

"Alright. Anything else I should know?"

"Well. They want out of the cell. They know about you alpha." Are they telling the truth, do they know? "Umm..I'm not sure what to do. Simon just showed up."

"Ok. Keep me updated." I cut off the link.

"Alec," I nudge his head.

"Hmm?"

"Get up you big oaf!"

He huffs and puts his hand over his heart, "How could you say such a thing? I thought we were friends."

"Yeah, yeah. Wipe those imaginary tears away." He sniffles and laughs.

"What's up?"

"The girls attacked yesterday woke up. One of them was screaming and having a panic attack? I'm not really sure. They want out of the cells. I'm going to tell them to move them up to the guest room but to lock the doors and don't let them escape but I wanted to let you know. Oh and the know about our kind."

He chokes on the coke he was drinking. "What?!"

"Dude, I don't know either. I'll open the link with Aaron, Simon, Blake, Cole, and Tyler."

"Okay, So I've been updated on the situation with the girls. They seem to have a problem with the cells, so I want you to move them to a guest room. Keep us updated on the situation."

"Alright alpha. We'll move them soon. Tyler is performing the ceremony again so who knows how long it will take." Blake tells us.

"Classic Tyler..." Alec says with a grin.

"Alpha, I'm not sure what happened to them but, they know about us and they don't like cells. Yesterday when I saved them the one was petrified with fear. I'm not sure what happened to them but I don't like it." Simon added and I heard Aaron agree.

"Move them once Tyler's done. If they still want to. Don't force them to do anything."

"Thanks alpha. How far out are you guys?"

"About half hour," Alec responds. Really it's been a half hour. Ugh! Today's Sunday. We have school tomorrow, with the alpha meeting ending early and all.

"Alrighty. See you all soon. And alpha Jessica's asking about you." Cole says and I groan. Jessica is a wanna be slut. She throws herself at me.

"Haha dude...at least Amand..."

"Oh, Alec Amanda's here for you as well. They just want "to spend some quality time with you." Whatever that means." I laughed at his face. He pouted and it looked like a duck.

"I guess we're both going to be miserable for a while. We can at least send them away for now because we have to deal with the human problem."

He nods still looking disappointed. "Man, what don't they understand. NO! no means no. Like do I have to spell it out for them!!" Jessica and Amanda are the "queen" bees and slurs in the pack as well as school. They have convinced themselves they're our mates.

"Ugh! Whatever. I can't wait to end them away and sleep!"

I nod but remember that we have school. "Yeah, but dude. We have school tomorrow and an essay to write for Peterson's class." He groans.

"What was it about again?"

"Something about early literature and how it influenced culture. I don't know but he said it was like 30 percent of our grade so..." I trail off and he nods.

"Well...imma take a nap," he yawns and leans his head on the window.