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This story is about a young man who discovers himself and love as well as a few supernatural surprises along the way. There is death, love, hate, friendship, and bigotry.
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Chapter 14:
The next week passed quickly and without any major incidents. John's father was continuing to harass us, though we couldn't specifically pin it on him with hard evidence, no one else out of the very few who knew, had made any objections to our being together. We woke up almost every morning to dead animals on the porch, their throats slit and laid out on the porch completely spread out so that their blood stained the porch boards.
The harassment was beginning to gnaw at me but John kept asking me to hold onto my emotions until the pack meeting, once I was initiated into the pack officially, we could lodge a complaint and have the backing of the pack if he did it again after my initiation. I understood his reasoning but it still didn't sit well with me. My wolf was restless to get out and run freely, but no one would allow me to do such until I was a fully made pack member. Despite this, every day we were out running as wolves, with John, Simon and William taking turns remaining human to do the speaking and teaching me everything I needed to know, how to protect myself, how to fight, how to scavenge and hunt for food, how to access my wolf instincts for survival, and anything else they could think of, as well as the typical roughhousing and running that was purely for fun.
The night of the pack meeting had arrived and we were all gathered in one of our trucks, the women and William up front, the rest of us in the bed of the truck, to travel the mile or so to Alpha Rich's farm. The pack meetings were held in a building he had built on the edge of his property explicitly for this purpose. It was a large building with colosseum like seating and a large enough designated parking area to fit the entire pack. We arrived with about half the pack before us and half still to arrive. Since we were due to be standing up at several points this meeting, we were directed to sit in one of the lower level seats so that we could stand and reach the stage area easily without having to disrupt the entire audience.
We had arrived about 15 minutes before the start time and by time the meeting was to officially start everyone had arrived. We surreptitiously looked around for John's parents, feigning to be looking at other pack members, just so that we'd know where they were in relation to us. We spotted them up towards the back of the building, John's mother looked embarrassed and disgusted, his father was obviously drunk and saying stuff, though with all the noise from the crowd it was impossible to pick out what was being said. At exactly the scheduled start time of the meeting the doors were flung closed and Alpha Rich stepped up onto the stage, commanding all to silence in only seconds without ever saying a word.
Alpha Rich went through the standard greetings, reminders, and announcements of birthdays, group outings and planned parties. He announced that he had received a phone call recently from another Alpha in the state that had initiated the envoys the previous year, informing him that all the data had been collated and the packs' contribution to the histories and unofficial census were very much appreciated. Then it was on to new business.
"Ladies, wolves and children. I have a couple of big announcements that concern the pack. One, we have a newly discovered werewolf among us who has asked for acceptance into the pack. He has at least 10 strong supporters in current pack members which include myself and Beta Duke, all of whom support his bid for pack acceptance. You all know the routine. I will bring him up here, introduce him, there will be several minutes available for questions and then a three quarters required vote."
I hadn't noticed before but the stadium seating was broken up into 4 distinct sections, allowing for easy grouping of people and easier counting for times like this where voting is needed.
Alpha Rich continued, "at this time, I'll call up my Beta, Duke, and the other two vote counters."
John leaned over and whispered into my ear, "the two vote counters are people who are decided upon when a current vote counter relinquishes their position or passes away. The Alpha entertains nominations for a new counter, this person must have at least graduated high school and been in the pack for at least 10 years since that time. The pack then votes on accepting that person as a counter." I nodded, indicating that I understood, by time he finished both were standing in front of the stage one at each end of the stadium seating. My guess was that between the two counters, the Alpha and the Beta, they would each count a section and then combine their results.
"Jake, come on up here." He paused as I stood and walked up to the stage, standing next to him. "Jake here recently discovered that he is in fact a werewolf. His mother's mother, whom some of my generation and those of you older, may remember, arrived and was initiated through marriage and then passed away unexpectedly within two weeks time, must have been from a were-mother line wherever she was from and not known, or not been willing to share it. Thus it was passed on mother to daughter to Jake's mother, without any of the pack being in the know. I have expressed my thoughts in the past to several of you that I harbored suspicions that their family may carry the gene, it is sad to say though, that Jake's mother could not give birth to a second child. Jake has completed the shift and for the past week has been receiving training from established and proven werewolves bringing him up to speed on everything he needs to know. I'm informed that he is a quick learner, a fast wolf with lots of energy and an adequate fighter. Also, that he is ready to join the ranks of patrol upon induction. As our ranks grow, so does our time available with our individual families. I have already stated that I give my approval of his acceptance. I now open the floor to any questions or further voices of public support."
There were quiet murmurs for a few seconds but no outright questions or voices of approval. Just as it seemed Alpha Rich was getting ready to announce time for voting, a voice could be heard, "I heard he was a faggot." This, stunned everyone into silence.
Alpha Rich was about to speak up when someone else in the audience did it for him, immediately standing up and saying, "whether that is true or not has no bearing on his acceptance into the pack. If he is, he will not be the first and certainly not the only, nor will he be the last."
Alpha Rich nodded at him and continued, "that is correct. His real or perceived sexual preference has no relevance on this vote. One last chance for questions?"
This time someone spoke up, "may we know who else is supporting his bid for acceptance?"
Alpha Rich nodded, "all who are supporting him have agreed that their names may be listed if asked, they include, myself and my wife, my Beta - Duke - and his wife, my brother Billy, Simon and his mate Henrietta, William, and brother and sister, John and Celena." This was followed by a general murmur that sounded positive, my apprehension was reaching fever pitch by this point. Alpha Rich continued, "I am now moving the acceptance of Jake into the pack to a vote, all in favor please raise your hands and keep them up until all votes are counted."
I watched in awe as a sea of hands raised. I couldn't tell if anyone wasn't raising their hands in any section, but I wasn't used to looking at a crowd like this and counting like this, with a little bit closer look, I was able to discern a couple who did not raise their hands, but there was way more than a three quarter majority raised in acceptance.
After the four counters had combined their numbers, Alpha Rich spoke up again, "all those opposed?" Only a small handful of hands were raised and the four were able to quickly count this time. Finally, "all abstaining?" More this time than for the opposed but still nowhere near enough to sway it into non-acceptance. Once the numbers were once again collected, the totals were known by all four counters, Alpha Rich silenced everyone and commanded each counter to announce the results one by one, and one by one each said out loud, including him, "accepted by at least three quarter majority!"
There was a mild amount of cheering and congratulating which the Alpha allowed for a little while before silencing everyone, "ok, Jake, I, Alpha Richard Davies officially welcome you into my pack, you are now bestowed with the rights and protections of any other pack member from this second forward. We will speak Monday morning about your position within the patrol roster. Welcome to the pack, now please return to your seat."
He announced several other new members, however, these were teenagers who had graduated from high school this summer and were now ready for full acceptance into the patrol ranks for full fledged independent pack rights instead of rights through birth. There wasn't a single one with any negative or opposition votes.
Finally the time approached for mating announcements. There was one other mating to announce and congratulate, this time Alpha Rich decided they should go first, it was one that apparently most had seen coming and there was the appropriate responses and congratulations, as well as the announcement from them of their hosting a party that all pack members were invited to in celebration of the mating and joining of two very old werewolf lines within the pack. Finally it was our turn, I was holding John's hand and both of our palms were getting sweaty with anticipation. He had informed me before we got here about the previous announcements of same-sex matings, the pack could not reject them officially, especially since ours was a true-mating, and now that we were both officially pack members we could not be removed from the pack either, but there were some who would openly shout degradations and look disapprovingly on us.
Alpha Rich spoke up, "my final order of business this evening, is to announce one final mating that has taken place since our previous pack meeting. The mating that has taken place was between John and Jake." There were a few outbursts at this point, "fucking faggots", "disgusting heathens", "tut tut tut", "god damned queers", and others that were either spoken too low or simply overshadowed by a more emphatically spoken epithet. Alpha Rich glared at everyone until the silence returned. "They are not having a celebration, however, they would appreciate everyone treating them the same as any other mated pair, as I would appreciate as well. They are both pack members and deserve the full acceptance as any other mated couple would. If you have personal objections to their mating, you are certainly entitled to your private opinions, however, physical or emotional abuse or harassment of either one of them will be met by pack justice being meted out, same as it would for doing the same to any other mates. They inform me that theirs is a true mate bond, this at the very least should be congratulated, we are all aware how rare and great that is for them to find their true soulmates. I now call this pack meeting to an end, you may all return to your homes and jobs, the next pack meeting will be once again on the 7th night after the full moon."
Our group decided to leave during the middle of the throng so that we couldn't be pulled aside or caught off guard. It was slow going but we were finally all in the truck and pulling out into traffic with everyone else. We had received a few congratulatory comments and a number of acceptance nods, and no open hostility which was about all we could ask for.
It was too late to shift and run around tonight, so we all made our ways to our beds, the weekend was here and we had plans to go and help Simon and Henrietta clear out a section of land to build their new home on. William had officially moved into one of the spare bedrooms and Simon and Henrietta were back to their own apartment but were anxious about getting their new place up.
The previous week we had went to the town offices and settled the sale of a patch of land across the road and down the road slightly from my house. William had laid claim to the land directly next to my house on the same side of the road, we'd leave a small thin strip of trees between us, it would require more work to make ready but it was something he was going to do over time since he had time before he was going to be building. I had also set everything up with my family lawyers help to ensure that everything was in both my and John's names. Making John officially partial owner of the house, land, bank account, and vehicles, and my gaining partial ownership of his vehicle and bank account, which was all he had to his personal name. We had also established living wills which provided each other with everything of ours in the event of either of us passing, in the event that both of us passed, everything would pass onto Celena and then ultimately into the pack's possession should she not be around or not accept any of the assets, these wills were made official in the eyes of the state and the pack. Finally, we had also placed into Celena's name a small patch of land adjacent to Simon and Henrietta's, directly across the road from our house so that once she mated if they wanted they could build there.
The weekend went smoothly, with us four werewolves and a small group of other pack members, the clearing of the land went relatively quickly, the women keeping us supplied with plenty of lemonade, water, and food, until the evening when we all sat around a fire pit in the yard and had some drinks. The fire pit was in the position that they had wanted a fire pit put anyway, so it was being established early. By the end of the day Sunday, the entire patch of land that they wanted cleared to build their home had been cleared, all of the trees had been salvaged as much as possible and shipped to a place not too far away which had been contracted to turn them into as many full sized pieces of lumber suitable for building a house as possible. Whatever was gotten out of the trees would help to offset the cost of building the new house.
Sunday evening we got back to the house at a decent enough time to take a long hot shower and to sit down and relax our muscles after a long weekend of hard work. I was feeling the itch for John's cock so I stretched on the couch and laid myself out, resting my head on his lap. With William and Celena in the room I couldn't do anything blatant. Trying to be as normal as usual, I stretched my arms and placed them behind my head, which was still resting in John's lap, this put my fingers in contact with his groin. Just this contact alone, I could feel, was causing him to stiffen slightly. I shifted my arms slightly so that my fingers weren't entwined anymore but both hands remained behind my head, looking like they were still linked,supporting my head. When in reality, one of them was now lightly rubbing and tickling his sack through his shorts, after the first contact his head snapped down to stare me in the eyes, shock showing clearly on them. I gave him my best attempt at conveying with my eyes my desire. Apparently, it worked because his shocked eyes quickly turned to a lust and desire filled look of his own. He pulled my hands out and closed his eyes, seemingly trying to will his now almost fully erect cock back to at least semi-softness so that he could get up.
Once he was capable of standing up without announcing his arousal blatantly, though William could very clearly smell it from the look on his face and his shifting a pillow over his own crotch to hide his own arousal, which we could both smell, at this point, the only one we were fooling was Celena, though one look at her face and I could tell none of us were fooling her at all, but she was enjoying the pretense. Finally John stood up pulling me up next to him, "I, um, think we're gonna call it an early night... long weekend, really tired, gotta get up early to work." I snuck a glance at William whose face was showing obvious signs of jealousy, knowing him now as well as I did, I knew it wasn't that he was jealous of one of us, but rather of both of us having someone to be with.
Celena raised an eyebrow as we walked by, we were nearly out of the living room when she spoke up, "really? And here I thought you were going to fuck each other into unconsciousness. Damn, just sleeping, is that what I have to look forward to with mated life?" There was plenty of laughter in her voice to show that she was both joking around and not oblivious.
John's face paled, I didn't have a sister, but equated it to my mother making the same statement and shuddered at the thought, but being that this was his sister and not my mother, I decided to fuel the fire and turned around to say, "oh he was just too embarrassed to say it but yes, that's what we're going to do, you may want to use your ear plugs tonight."
Celena practically cackled at this, William practically jumped up from the couch and said, "crap where'd I put my ear plugs?" while pretending to look around and grinning. All the while John's face which was a pale almost white color before I started talking, was now looking more like a tomato. He grabbed my hand and grumbled, "don't encourage them," while pulling me to the bedroom. Just as I was turning back around to follow John, I saw an intent look of determination on William's face as well as an obvious ear twitch, that I knew from personal experience was him focusing his senses on his hearing. I gave a small wink to him as we disappeared around the corner.
**** Sorry everyone for the delay. Real-life, etc. I don't know how regularly I'll be posting, but the series isn't over yet. I'll be getting to the emails as soon as I can. I don't get a lot of time to work on my hobbies between work and other life things so please be patient and thank you very much for all of the support!