Becoming the Luna

He doesn't say anything about it though and I settle in my seat.

"What do y'all want?" Shana asks unhappily, Luke is a tense mess beside me and I furrow my brow in worry.

"Little sis!" Jaxon exclaims with childish excitement, ruffling her hair with a hand which she slaps away. "Heard you got yourself a girlfriend, this her?" He inclines his head at Mae who gives him a nervous smile.

"Fuck off." She bites out to him. "All of you."

"Calm down." Leon says smoothly, settling into the chair beside Mae, Jaxon perches on the edge of the table while Ian just stands by himself, engrossed in tapping and sliding on his pad.

"We were sent to babysit." He says bluntly, pushing a hand through his gold locks. "Dad and Alpha Ascott said to bring you two back, really I know I have my moments but walking out of a fucking important meeting, to come eat lunch?" He drawls in disbelief, pinning each of them a hard look.

Dale grimaces, having the courtesy to look guilty, while Virgil just bites into his sandwich and gives his brother dead eyes. "I was bored and got hungry." He shrugs and I note Shana, and Mae struggling to hold in their laughter.

"Got distracted." Dale offers up, already getting up from his spot on the table.

I just watch on intently, this is a really new scene for me, I'd barely ever seen Virgil interact with other people even his older brothers, he mostly ignored them.

"Aren't you coming?" Ian finally speaks up when Virgil still makes no move, I peek to the other side of the dining table and see that everyone's attention is on our table - just great.

"I'll pass." He says without batting an eyelid.

They all looked like they had expected this and the tension that settles over this part of the table is enough to make me mindlessly snatch up my glass of milk to take a sip.

I glance up and nearly choke on the creamy liquid, the three of them have their eyes on me like they expect me to do something.

"H-He's not going to get in trouble if he doesn't go right?" I don't know when the words leave my mouth.

"Hell n…" Shana starts to say.

"He will, the Alpha of the Pack from Cone is here as well not to mention the team investigating the virus." Jaxon says seriously and I bite my lip in worry, throwing a look at Virgil.

He looks back at me, hanging around a person for most of your life meant that you could understand them without needing words.

"Fine." I agree after a series of wordless looks while everyone else stares in wonder, if I wasn't so worried about him getting in major trouble I'd be disconcerted.

He gets up fluidly. "I'll go." He agrees, already moving.

"Bye, Hay." He waves to me and I wave back self-consciously.

Jaxon thanks me and Dale greets me good-bye animatedly.

"Virgil isn't going to get in trouble." Shana insists darkly when they're gone. "Jax just lied."

We're already done eating so we clear up and decide to move somewhere else, the people at the other end of the table are staring at us so hard that trying to eat anymore would just be dangerous.

"What did you agree to?" Shana asks curiously.

"I don't know yet." I shrug, the kitchen is deserted, most probably eating. "He said he'll tell me later."

"You guys are creepy." Shana shudders.

"Why?" I ask absently, preparing the dishes to go in the dishwasher. "You and Mae do it all the time."

They glance at each other at this, eyes wide in surprise. 

"No, we don't." They say simultaneously.

"And that too." I toss at them, turning around to Luke who looks traumatized. "Are you okay?"

"I think so." He finally speaks, staring at me in wonder. "It's just, that's the first time I've seen the Alpha's so… I mean Virgil string so many words together."

"Oh?" I blink in surprise. "Really?"

"Yeah, he doesn't talk much." He mumbles, eyes distant. "I think it's about time for my patrol shift, it was nice eating lunch with you guys." Luke excuses quickly, making his way out of the kitchens.

"What's his deal?" I ask when we make our way back to my apartment.

"Well, it's hard to convince Virgil to do what he doesn't want to so the fact that you effortlessly made him change his mind definitely blew his mind." Shana explains. "Hell, I see you do it every other day and it still shocks me."

I just blink, surprised to learn this new part of Virgil, well I know he's pretty determined and hard to shake but I had no idea it was this bad.

"Will he be okay?" I ask in worry, pushing open the door.

"I'm more worried about everyone else." Shana mumbles.

"Mom!" I exclaim happily when I see her walk out of the tiny kitchenette that's partitioned off by a wall, I hadn't seen her all day.

"Hi, baby." She greets in return, humoring me when I throw my arms around her. "What did you tell him?" She asks Shana and Mae suspiciously.

"That you jumped out your window." Shana teases.

I just pout at the implications of her words. "Can't I miss you anymore?"

"Sure you can!" She ruffles my hair. "I wanted to talk to you about something important, so it's a good thing you walked in before I forgot."

"What is it?" I ask curiously, settling on a couch and smiling when Apple hops up my leg like she had been waiting all day to do it.

"Alpha Everett suggested that we spend the rest of the year here because of how delicate a position our house is at." She says succinctly.

My eyes grow rounded at this, Mae and Shana squealing excitedly beside me, their arms wrapped around each other. "Oh, that's… um, n-nice of him?" I stutter slightly.

"I know right." My mom says, her voice warm. "So we'll make a trip to the house tomorrow to get more of our stuff."

"Sure." I agree absently, petting Apple's fur and basking in the low purring sounds she makes, living in the Pack House wasn't on my bucket list but it shouldn't turn out so bad.

Hopefully…