*******Isaac's POV*******

"I need your name," I told him as I put his injury and treatment into my tablet. "So that I can send the info for your care to the South Korean doctors."

"If it's all the same, I'd rather just come back to you," he groaned out. "They'll ask too many questions and you already know my embarrassing secret."

He groaned again and I looked up to see him sitting back on the cot and holding his head in his hands. "Are you..."

Let me out!

'I will not.'

You will! That is ou-

I absolutely will not be letting you out now or ever. How you got enough strength to even talk to me, I don't know. But if you don't shut up, I will kill you off completely.

But those are our ma-

Stop it! I don't want to hear it. I don't want it. I don't need it. I will go AWOL if I have to, just to avoid it. So do me a favor and just leave me alone.

You can't change it. It's not a choice. It's something that you're born with.  

'Namjoon," He told me, still holding his head in his hands. "My name is Kim Namjoon."

I nodded my head, ignoring my wolf, and added his name into his medical record, then sent it in an email to my South Korean counterparts.

"I sent your info to the South Korean doctors," I said, my voice tight. "You may see them to continue your care, should you need it. There will be no reason to come back and see me."

"Except for you to help me with my skills at reloading a gun?" His dark eyes flicked up to mine, but I quickly looked away.

"Not even for that. I see no need," told him, turning my back to him. "You'll figure it out."

"I..." I heard him stand up again and move towards the opening in the tent. "I am sorry that I bothered you."

I sighed and closed my eyes, taking a deep breath.

"You di-" I turned around to tell him that he wasn't bothering me, but I was too late. He was already gone.

I knew that I had been an ass to him at the end. I didn't mean to be. But I knew what my wolf was trying to tell me, and it was the last thing that I wanted. If this man was my mate, then the best thing I could do for him was to push him away. He deserved so much better than me.

*******Namjoon's POV*******

Once I was a ways away from the tent, I turned back to look at it. I crossed my arms as I stared, already forgetting about the stitches he just put in my arm. It hurt, and I winced, putting my arms back down at my side.

Osian insisted that this man was my mate, but if that were true, then why had he just shut himself away from me so completely? I still had my doubts about my mate being a man, but I at least wanted a chance to try and figure it out, and now I didn't know how to go about it.

He is your mate.

'You keep saying that, but he sure doesn't seem to think so.'

He knows so. That is why he pushed you away.

"I need more words than that.'

As he told you, he has his wolf, my mate, in a cage in his mind. He won't let him out. He admitted to that himself. I could feel him, but I was unable to communicate with him.

'Wish I knew how he did that...'

Don't be a dick.

'Why would he have his wolf caged, though? I mean, I can understand, to some extent, since mine never shuts up, but still, why would he do that? It doesn't make any sense. I have never heard of such a thing.'

I do not know. I wish I did. You need to convince him to let him, Delwyn, my mate, out of the cage. He has to be miserable being trapped in there.

'How am I supposed to do that, when he just kicked me out? He basically said that he hopes he never sees me again. I can't force him to do anything, Osian.'

I don't know what is going on with him, but clearly, he doesn't know what's best for him. Going through life without your mate is rough. On both your body and your mind. Especially once you've met them. It will only hurt him in the end, if he doesn't let us in. And honestly, it's going to hurt us, too.

'I understand that, but I still don't know what I can do about it.'

You could hurt yourself again, and go back to see him.

'I am not hurting myself on purpose.'

Who said that it had to be on purpose? Give it a day or two, I'm sure that you'll do it anyway.

'Now which one of us is being the dick?'

Eh. Still you.

I sighed and tried to shut Osian out. I needed time to think about my situation. The idea of seeing him again didn't disgust me like I thought it might. The fact that my mate is a man is still weird, but he is cute. I like the splattering of freckles across the bridge of his nose, and I've never seen eyes that color before.

I stopped walking and shook my head to clear it. What was I thinking?

I am not gay. 

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A/N: The conversations with their wolves in this this series, is inspired by the voices in my head. -------Kat