Midnight Visitor

6. Let's get on the road!

“ARIEL! ARIEL!” 

I am waking up to my room with both my mom and Sebastian running after me. I am walking a little fast because I need to get my stuff together and I have already mindlinked everyone to come to my apartment. 

“COME BACK HERE!” 

I walk into my closet and I pick up my runaway bag and I start to put some more things into it. I throw it on the bed and pick up my briefcase putting my computer and chargers into it. 

“YOU ARE NOT LEAVING! YOU ARE NOT TAKING ON THIS MISSION! YOU ARE ALPHA OF THIS PACK!” Mom yells at me but I just ignore her.

“Don't you ignore me young lady!” she snaps again. 

I just keep on ignoring her but I look at Sebastian. 

“You should go and get your bags down in the car” 

He looks at me a little surprised but then he realized that I was telling him that he is coming with me so he ran out of the room. 

“You and your brother are not leaving this pack!” mom keeps yelling. 

FREDRICK MY APARTMENT RIGHT NOW! BRING YOUR MATE!

I mindlink him, he tries to argue with me but I just use my alpha tone on him and he is forced to apply. 

“Why will no one listen to me?!?” mom yells again.

She is standing in the middle of the room and pulling her hair out and pacing a little. I can see that she is worried but I have to do this, I will not let her do this mission. I will not stay here wondering every day if she is still alive or dead somewhere in an unmarked grave.

I take my bags and I walk back into the living room, I drop my bags down by the table and I take out my phone. While I am fiddling with my phone, people start to come into the apartment but I just ignore them. When I take my eyes off my phone, I see that people have filled up my apartment so I take a step up on a chair next to the table. 

“Hi everyone I would like to thank you for coming on such short notice but this is very important. I have been summoned on a mission, I have no idea how long the mission will be or if I will even come back but until then. Fredrick come here” 

He looks shocked but holding the hand of his mate, he makes his way up to me and looks up at me.

“I Ariel Alpha of the Blood howlers give you full command of my pack until I return. Do you Fredrick my brother take this responsibility as your own?” 

Gasps fill the room and people start to whisper.

“Yes. Alpha.” 

“You promise to uphold the rules and boundaries that I have set for this pack?” 

“Yes. Alpha.”

“You promise to protect this pack with your life?” 

He takes a deep breath.

“Yes. Alpha” 

I feel the power and the weight of the pack move on to him also and I feel a little free for the first time in a very long time.  I however knew that the next step I would be taking would not be a  easy one and I would need all the help that I can get from my little brother. I left all the people in my apartment and walk down to the garage where my little brother was sitting at the wheel. 

I stop for a minute thinking if I really can leave Fredrick in charge, I don't know his mate and he has been very submissive since dad died. Maybe I should have given the pack to mom? I mean she was their Luna for a very long time, she know what to do. I just shake those thought out of my head and I keep walking to the car. 

“Ariel honey you need to be here this is not your burden to bear I can do this on my own, your people need you here for this pack” my mother says with terror in her eyes.

I looked at my mum for a moment and just memorize her face, such a beautiful face. It used to have so much spunk in it  but now you just hold sadness after the loss of my father and now maybe of me.

“Mum don't worry I'll be back before you know it and I have to let Fredrick have a little bit of control if he ever plans to have his own pack one day, this will be a good training exercises for him”

Mom gave me a little nod and then a little smile but I couldn't help but notice the little spark that was in her eyes now maybe she figured something out. She walks around the car and gives Sebastian a little bit of a kiss on his cheeks in the in the driver's seat, she looks at me once more but I just jump into the car. We speed off into the night. 

“So we are just going to bring this kid back and then home again right?” Sebastian asks me. 

I look at him and I let out a huge sigh. 

“I mean that is the mission” 

Flashback.

Everyone is staring at me but I just keep staring at Rosalind.

“What information can you give me? Do you have any idea what pack has him?” 

She looks at my mother but she is in shock and is just staring at me open mouthed. 

“Yes, I have tracked him and he has been still for the last week at this place” 

She shows me on a map on her phone a little blue dot. I take the phone from her and zoom out a little, the blue dot is far away from here but it is smackdown in the middle of the Ice wolf pack. We are not in good conditions with that pack but I did have an okay relationship with the future alpha of the neighbourhood pack. I will call him tomorrow to ask him if we can hang out at his pack until we have a plan to sneak into their pack lines. He might even have some insight on how we can do this. Amir was a nice guy and even sometimes too nice to be an alpha for my taste but I can not worry myself about that. 

“I know where this is and I have a plan to make this happen so I will go tonight” 

Rosalind does not look impressed.

“It should not have to be said but I expect him to be unharmed when he is delivered to me” she says.

I could almost smell the suspicion from her and I did not appreciate it.

“Of course but I will not deliver him to you here, I will not bring any trouble to my pack so when I have him I will send you a message where to meet us” 

She just nods her head. I look at Sebastian and mom, they are both just quiet and listening to us like we are some crazy people planing a m*********r. 

End of flashback

“It will be a long drive, you should get some sleep and then we will switch driving in the morning” Sebastian says, bringing me out of my planning. 

I just nod at him, cross my arms and lean back in the car. I sleep rather uneasy and my dream wakes me up not so many hours later. I jerk awake and almost kicked the dashboard. I rub my face and sigh deeply. I thought I had been done with these stupid dreams. 

“Are you okay Ariel?” 

“Just pull over, I need to stretch out my legs and we can just switch driving now” 

We stop and I walk out of the car, I am shaking now a little and I want to punch something or get a drink. I hate these dreams. I shake my head and take a seat in the drivers seat starting the car. 

“I get those dreams too” 

I just look at my little brother and sadness fills my usual emotionless face. 

“How do you know it is the same dream?” I ask. 

“You were mumbling in your sleep and I was there too, I saw his body and I can’t get those images out of my dreams” 

The scene flashes before my eyes and I close them quickly and rub the steering wheel up and down. 

“Well my dreams are definitely different from yours” I say and drive on. 

I know he understood that this was the end of this conversation because how can I ever tell anyone what my dream is? I feel so horrible after it that sometimes I think that it really is a memory that I am suppressing. How can I tell my little brother that adores father and thinks about him like his hero and saviour that my dreams are about me killing him?

It all started the night after his death but I dream that I am ripping him apart. I am hearing my fathers screams begging me to stop but I just keep ripping into him. How can I live with this feeling that I am actually the one that killed him? I have not talked to anyone about this because how can anyone understand?