Becoming the Luna

"I'm not too keen on meeting him either." Hayden shrugs, dissolving the tense atmosphere as everyone waited to see how he would react to his statement.

Actually Hayden would like to give a couple things to his father, he might actually start working out just to meet him.

Or he could ask Dream to hook him up with a proper metal bat, his friend was good with things like that.

Not because of his dad didn't want him, he couldn't care less about that, his mom had always been enough but because he abandoned his mom who was way too young to singularly deal with the burden of a child, good thing her family were wonderful people.

"Besides I don't think he would hang around, I haven't seen him in over two decades." Renee shrugs carelessly. "For all intents, he might be even dead."

Virgil hums at this. "There's still time for that, we can always discuss him later, it wouldn't hurt to find him out though." He would like to give the asshole of a Werewolf a little piece of his mind, just a little.

"I can give you what you need, I doubt it would come in helpful though." Renee accepts.

Hayden beams up at her, getting to his feet. "Now, I'm going to spend more time with little Pixie, I'll have to go soon now, care to join me Yani?" He invites.

"Sure." Yanis accepts, walking out with Hayden.

Renee sighs heavily when the door clicks shut. "I kinda knew this day would come, didn't expect it to be because my son is half Werewolf though."

"Does that bother you?" Virgil asks nervously, they had no way of knowing that Hayden was part wolf before the mating bite or he would have asked, not taken the choice right out of his hand.

"What?" Renee blinks in surprise. "Of course not! I don't think I've ever been excited about something like this since I helped Andy give birth."

Candy makes a face at this. "Ren… that was just yesterday…"

"What's his full name, Renee?" Virgil asks.

"Alex Reese, I think, it's been a while." She responds after a moment's thought.

Virgil mentally notes that. "He went to the same high school as you?"

Renee looks down at her hands, fiddling with them. "You could say that, he was a transfer student, he didn't hang around after graduation."

"Oh." Virgil mutters.

"Yeah." Renee says awkwardly, getting up. "I… I should go supervise lunch." She suddenly excuses, walking out the opposite door.

The two Werewolves watch her go, Candy inviting Virgil over to sit beside her.

"Why do I feel like Renee is hiding something?" Virgil asks distractedly, unable to place his finger on what exactly felt wrong.

"Ignore that, I've known she was hiding something for over two decades, I thought it would be that she knew Alex was a Werewolf but apparently it's not that." Candy says causing his eyes to widen.

Virgil sniffs the air. "You're mad? Why?"

Candy's soft brown eyes shift to a subtle silver, a flower shaped pillow held in her arms. "I'm not, yet, what you tell me will decide that."

Virgil goes on high alert at this, Renee for all her activeness was actually the sweet sibling, if he fucked up he knew Candy was going to beat his ass.

"Good." Candy nods solemnly when she smells the Alpha's anxiety. "Be uncomfortable, now tell me why my nephew doesn't seem to know that he has the ability to birth a child now?" She asks in a dark voice, eyes sharp.

Because she knows that if Hayden knew that, it would be one of the very first things he would blurt out.

Virgil pushes a hand through his hair, dark blue shirt shifting. "He does, he just doesn't remember."

Candy clamps her mouth shut, Hayden knew a lot about Werewolves so she isn't surprised by this reply. "And you're not telling him, if I would predict the situation correctly I'd say you were deliberately keeping it from him…"

Virgil looks up at the point and Candy's words dry up, the raw pain glistening behind icy blue orbs was enough to make her forget to be angry.

"V?" She calls in a soft voice, eyes sad.

"I know what a shitty mate I'm being." Virgil whispers, dropping his head in his hand. "I can't help it anymore than loving Hayden."

Candy takes a deep breath and stares into the distance, she could easily guess why Virgil would do that.

"What are you going to do when he finds out?"

Virgil glances sharply up at her, surprise etched on his face. "You're not going to tell him?"

She sighs again, visibly torn. "I want to but it's not my place to so tell me, what will you do when he finds out?"

Virgil drops his head in his hands again, voice bleak. "I don't know."

She reaches over to pat his hair. "Cross that bridge when you get to it… he really wants a baby." She adds quietly, almost as an afterthought.

Virgil knows this, he sees it clearly in the way Hayden looks down at his baby cousin, how he constantly talks about adopting a child.

They sit in companionable silence for a while, thoughts occupied.

"What do you think Renee is hiding?" Virgil blurts out after a while, curiousity lacing his tone.

Candy shrugs, reaching up above her head to redo her loose ponytail, honey blonde hair slipping between her fingers.

"You know why I want to find him right?"

"Because he has to be an Alpha? I know part wolves never almost get to be Omegas, even female Omegas, a male one would be basically impossible."

"Pretty much."

"Well, we've never put in any effort to find him before, Renee said she didn't want us to and we didn't push, it shouldn't be too hard to find him." Candy explains. "You know what? I'll help you look into her school records."

"That might just work, thanks Auntie." Virgil blurts out without thinking.

Candy grins at this. "Sure thing, now go check up on your mate, you look antsy."

Virgil breaks out into a gummy smile, keeping a lot of things from Hayden was making his tummy sour but Candy choosing to support him anyway was like a mother's kiss on a boo-boo.