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I awoke the next day and instantly panicked. I had to cook breakfast for the pack house! I had to clean all of the dishes! I had to Shower for school! As I shifted to get up I winced and yelped loudly, pain shooting from my back. Groaning softly I opened an eye slowly and looked around unsure where I was for a minute.

“Ah your awake," I heard and looked up to see Lacen standing by the bathroom door “Stay still, he is just getting the jell for you, Luce brought the shower version by accident." I gave a whimper and nodded slowly even though the movement pulled on my back, the previous days events returning to me as the skin pulled taught on my back with my nodding.

“Hurts." I simply grumbled sounding meek even though it was not my intention and Lacen nodded walking over sitting next to me.

“We guessed as much, he is bringing painkillers for you also." I nodded slowly and laid still, even wagging my tail was uncomfortable and I gave the occasional whimper when a shot of pain went through me.

“You know you talk in your sleep?" Lacen said after a few minutes of silence “Am I correct in assuming you did not have pleasurable dreams?" I sighed and nodded again.

“My nap when I was first brought In here was so good and in the Council room too," I said “No memories of that day... or the punishments by Alpha Smith... but last night they all came back again."

“That's not all though is it?" The white canine asked “You kept mentioning Simba Leo and his sisters, Care to explain?" I looked at him and shook my head.

“I...I Can't." I said with a slight sigh and tried to avert my eyes from him, focusing on the fireplace instead.

“Can't? Or won't?" he asked almost cryptically “They are two different things little Omega of ours, which one is it?"

“Both," I whimpered softly “I... I'm sorry Alpha Lacen... but as much as I respect you... I fear him." Lacen went to say something in response as the door opened.

“That's Fine but understand something Neil," Callen said as he walked in “Once we find out what is going on, we will do everything we can for you and don't expect me to hold back." I nodded ignoting the pain in my back as I did while he approached me slowly getting something out of his pocket. I watched him nerviously as I usually did with everyone while he simply held out a small brightly coloured cube in his hand for me.

“Here, take this, its painkillers designed for Weres, I'm sure your familiar with them," he smiled and waited for me to take it like a puppy taking a treat “I'll go get the bath filling with warm water for you, sadly we don't have anything more than this." I took the cube timidly, chewing a little then swallowed as was custom with them, earning a pet to the head before he walked off.

“Just wait here with me," Lacen said with a tail wag “It will take a few minutes for that to kick in." I sighed and laid my chin back down listening to the tub fill.

“I hate to break this to you," I called out to Callen “I don't think I'll be able to wait... I need the...ladies room." both Callen and Lacen started laughing loudly as Callen came out to get me and I growled softly at their laughing.

“Sorry, sorry, we just didn't expect you to say it that way." Callen defended himself as he lifted me with care.

“Remind me to gnaw on your ankles next chance I get." I said mid wince as he carried me to the bathroom and sat me on the toilet then turned away to tend to the still filling bath leaving me with some privacy to do my business.

“As long as its my ankles and not something else," He called back to me and turned off the tap as I finished up, pressing the conveniently placed leaver next to the bowl to flush “Ok, I'm guessing the painkiller still hasn't kicked in but we can't delay much sadly, I have some things to do around the town and I'm not going to let you sit in my room all day and brood." Lifting me gently he carried me over to the tub and started lowering me in.

“Bite on my arm if the pain gets too bad ok? I'll heal fast enough from it." he shifted his grip on me so his arm was within biting range for me. The water was pleasantly warm as it lapped up around me and I didnt panic despite the fact it was heated. However as soon as it made contact with my injured back I bit down on his arm, silencing a wail and wild thrashing that were trying to force itself out of me. Callen gave a cry of pained alarm but didn't drop me, giving a slight wince of discomfort as he continued with the slow lowering until I was standing on the bottom of the tub.

I didn't let go till a minute later when I realised I was tasting blood in my maw. Opening my eyes I gave a slight whimper and slowly pulled away from his arm, licking it a little and looking up at him to see if he was angry.

“Calm yourself," Callen said offering a warm smile and showed his arm. It was covered in his blood but the bite holes were rapidly closing, attesting the strength of a Weres normal healing abilities, something that I hadn't had in a while. My malnourishment meant I took slightly longer to heal from even a normal scratch “See? No harm done." I gave a slight whimper and nodded relaxing more into the tub.

“I'll bet the hot water stings a bit but it should numb after your body gets the message its not going to stop, luckily most of the wounds are closed enough that this little soak shouldn't cause any problems but the Betadine will help too." he said with a chuckle and turned away from me to wipe his arm and grab the jell off of the sink. At the same time, Lacen jumped into the bath too and Callen was a little shocked to see his wolf with eyes wide attempting a puppy dog face.

“Bathe me Human!" he demanded and I couldn't help but cough out a laugh. The contrast of his attempted cute face and sudden stern demand like he was an evil dictator was pulled off perfectly.

“Well this is a first," Callen said putting his hands on hips and regards his wolf half “You want a bath, normally I need to shift and force you into the bath and even that isn't until I've..." he was cut off by Lacen barking at him loudly.

Callen chuckled and poured the jell on me, frothing it up a few seconds later then added it to the water and mixed it in. Naturally wolves don't bark but Werewolves had evolved it in an attempt to pass off as large dogs to humans.

“There, now just let that soak in, I'll go get the room tidied up and your new bandages ready." he said with a smile and walked away leaving me in the tub with Lacen. I gave a soft murr of enjoyment at the warmth of the water once the pain had stopped then rolled onto my back slowly, making sure my nose was above the frothy water to get air. Lacen never left the tub, laying down next to me on his stomach probably to make sure I was alright.

I lost track of time while submerged but I would guess it was about five minutes later, once I was pleasantly numb from the painkillers and heavenly comfortable in the water, that I felt hands on my sides. They lifted me gently from the water holding me aloft over the water and then make me stand in the tub.

“Must say, I thought you had drowned at first," Callen said with a chuckle to his voice as he wiped my face free of water allowing me to look up at him. “Don't shake yet, once the water is gone." he pulled the plug to the bath and then pulled the curtain closed around the tub. I waited, watching the water disappear down the hole and feeling the odd sensation of my weight increasing like I was being pulled down on. Once it was all gone I got my chance and shook myself, forcing much of the water from my fur, probably causing some new bleeding and leaving me looking like a wet puff ball.

“Well lookin good there! So ladylike!" he said with a chuckle after pulling the curtain to one side and leaned in with a towel to pick me up “Now I wont use the blow dryer unless you want me to but this towel should do for now." I nodded and he started rubbing me down with it. Much to my embarrassment I started nuzzling and rubbing myself against it as he worked.

“Now," he said carrying me gently wrapped in the towel “I'm not going to carry you everywhere today, so don't get used to it. First things first though." he made me stand on the floor and then draped the towel out, making me stand on it next. I watched as he grabbed a bottle placed close by and opened it.

“Stay still." he said and then started dripping the bottles contents onto my wounds. I could smell that it was the much feared Betadine and gave a whimper as it dripped onto me, staining my fur and sanitising my wounds.

“At least it isn't my fur" Lacen commented and I rolled my eyes.

“Can be arranged," I said looking at him and he shook his head “Pansy, then again not everyone can pull off the Betadine look." I added playfully and Callen chuckled as he then applied clean bandages to the area.

“Ok you two play nice, breakfast first then we have a few things to do in town," Callen scolded before walking to the door “Stay close Lien, Dad may be locked up but there are still many wolves who may try to do you harm, Lacen will stay close to you if I can't so they know you are being protected." I nodded and trotted to his heals as he opened the door and walked out.

I trotted after him trying to keep up but didn't succeed too well. My gait was impeded by lack of back strength and inability to flex my body like I was used to while in this form. I took the stairs slowly and tried not to slip, Luce and Callen watching me from the bottom patiently. As we made our way into the dining room I was greeted with glares and looks of disgust.

Lacen and Callen had left me just before entering, something about needing to talk to Alpha Leo about his father and the days task roster. Some of the pack took one look at me and turned away, the rest watched me intently with looks I knew all too well.

“Murderers don't eat in here." One male finally said loudly.

“Back into the kitchen and stop faking the injury Runt!" Another called.

“It's all your fault we now need to do all this housework!" called a female.

“My nails are ruined because of you!" came another accusation, there was a shuffle to my left and I stopped mid step and looked up finally to see several had turned in their seat to face me.

“Kick the freak back into line!" A female called and I watched as a boot was raised close to me.

“THAT'S FAR ENOUGH!" I heard Alpha Leo's voice and turned sharply to see him standing at the door with Callen, Lacen was sitting to Callens side looking smug, Alpha Leo's lion, Sama sitting next to him looking regal as always except for the scowl on his face. It was surprising that no one had noticed the Alpha and Callen enter the room but they had probably been more focused on me.

“Is this really how you all act around an injured member of your own pack!?" Alpha Leo asked angrily “You lot all disgust me! You have all become so complacent! So lazy, self entitled, arrogant and pompous! I cant believe you have all sunk this low!"

“Neither can I," Callen said with a sigh “I knew it was bad but never this bad, I am verry disappointed. Lien! Come here please." I nodded and skulked my way over nervously and he kneeled down to pet me gently.

“Good job, you did perfectly," he said with a smile and wink showing the two had planned it “Come, you'll eat with us this morning." I nodded following him to the top of the table where he and Alpha Leo sat.

“It looks like I have much to change around here." Alpha Leo said as both he and Callen were offered a plate of food, one brought out for me a moment later. Bacon, toast, scrambled eggs and baked beans, I hadn't had a breakfast like this in years, not since the accident and I looked at it in awe.

“Everything ok?" Sama asked regarding me and I shook my head a little.

“I..I haven't had..." I felt the eyes of everyone in the room on me, some silently threatening me to keep my muzzle shut “I haven't had a meal like this since before the accident."

“Wait," Both Callen and Leo said at once but then stopped and they each made motion to let the other go first with a look of amusement at each other.

“You mean you cook all this food, a huge amount for every member of the pack house and all you get is..." Leo finally asked trailing off his face returning to the mild shock he had had before.

“Leftovers..." I finished his line with a nod “And its usually very little if anything at all, just some cold coffee and toast usually." there was a series of growls from around the room, all of them silenced by Lacen and Alpha Sama who returned their own.

“I thought you were just thin because you chose to walk to school every day and did so much work around the house?" Callen probed and I gave a sigh.

“I never chose too... Alpha Smith won't let me catch the bus or let me get a lift to school" I responded to him truthfully.

“A lot more to fix than I expected," the Alpha lion said with a sigh “Eat till your full little lady, you deserve it... more than some in this room do." he looked around at the rest and gave another growl.

“Change what you like Alpha," Callen said with a shrug “I hope you can get this pack back to the well oiled machine it should be and not the lot of untrained self aggrandised slobs and prissy princesses that they are now." there were some scoffs, that kind of spoiled brat noise you hear from rich celebrities, mostly from the female members in the room.

“Consider it done!" Sama said showing off all of his teeth in an odd grin. Which made many of the wolves look uncomfortable. Even if he was a lone lion in the middle of a pack of wolves, Alpha Sama was an imposing presence and threat if he wanted to be. The Leo family wasn't strong for numbers but simply because it's Alpha made it so. They controlled most of the banks in the pack and had considerable influence with the other prides and packs, in our and other Were communities. Underestimating Alpha Leo or his family, was usually a disastrous move to those who did it.

I ate most of my food, leaving a slice of bacon, some beans and egg on the plate and felt full for the second time in twenty four hours. Callen stood and I followed him out to the garage where he helped me into the front seat of a car and then got into the drivers seat himself.

“Ok, Time to do a little pack business, first stop, the medical centre seeing as we are going out, then the school and finally the shops and the bank." he smiled looking down at me just as the back door to the car opened. I looked back to see Anders and his wolf, Endars, get into the car behind us, Endars sitting with Lacen on the spare seat.

“Orders" He said, drawing out the 'r's in his usual impersonation of Lurch “From the Missus" he dragged this on too almost droning it on as if he was unhappy with what he was doing but the smile he had said otherwise.

“Be good to have you along," Callen said with a chuckle “Who else can keep the school kids at bay like you can?" Anders smiled and nodded with a rumbling groan of approval as Callen started the car, pulling out of the carport and down the drive to the street.

I curled up a bit on the seat not overly bothered about the scenery breezing past the windows. I had seen it all before, mainly by walking down the streets as I was rarely ever permitted in a vehicle. It didn't take us long to get to the clinic. Callen helped me out of the car and carried me inside going straight through to the doctors office.

“Well good morning to you too Callen," Shelly greeted us with a chuckle “Place her on the table." she waved towards the examination table while she gave Anders a kiss. I laid on the metal table and she wandered over after a moment pulling on gloves and started taking the bandages off once they were in place.

“Ok, we will take a more detailed peek and then take some blood," she smiled and pulled out a syringe “And I'll use the biggest, most painful, torturous needle I have to do so!" she gave an evil cackle like a witch and Anders face palmed, Callen chuckling.

“Now now, don't torture her, she had enough of that yesterday." He scolded and she chuckled while looking over my stitching with gentle tugs.

“Spoil Sport" she responded as she tugged lightly on one of my stitches to make sure they were secure still “Ok, looking good, you followed my instructions, Now lets play vampire!" she picked up the syringe and turned back towards me.

“Ok, Cough after three," she said after locating a vein “Three, Two.." she stabbed me just after two, and I then coughed.

“Oww! You said three... mean bitch." I growled looking up a her and she giggled.

“That I am!" she said with a grin “Especially that last part! Or Anders would be in for a surprise!" Anders rolled his eyes.

“Should see her drunk," Anders said “Last time she tried to get everyone's blood then put Elizabethan collars on us, while we were in human form."

“Was that before or after she hung her bra and panties from the flag pole?" Callen asked rubbing his temples.

“Oh would you let that go? I only did it once!" she protested taking the syringe out and putting the blood into a test tube and running the needed tests.

“Once?!" Callen laughed “When drunk your underwear has a zero percent chance of staying on!"

“ANYWAY," she said suddenly cutting them off “You, orange fluffy one, any allergies?"

“None I can think of although once every few months I have these cramps and I feel so..." I started knowing perfectly well what it was but was trying to add my own shock joke and she stopped me raising her hands.

“Woh, Woh, Woh! I know all about that but not in front of the children!" she thumbed over her shoulder to Anders and Callen “When is your next cycle?" I had to think about it, not remembering when my last heat was, often mistaking the pain of my heat with the pain of abuse.

“Soon I think... Possibly the end of the week." I said and she nodded.

“Ok, well you should be healed by then, so I'm going to prescribe some Metacam-Were" she said writing it down then walked over to a large medical cabinet and pulled out a slip of pills “It's an anti-inflammatory and a pain killer normally used on dogs but its been altered for werewolves. It should help with the swelling and also stop most of the pain. It's long acting, so one a day till its all healed."

“Anything else we should know?" Callen asked as he took it from her and she started putting new bandages on me.

“Yeah, It's possible she will go into heat before the end of the week," she said looking up to him “If she does, stop the medication immediately, what's mixed into it to make it effective on werewolves could sterilise her if she goes into heat and that's something we don't want to tempt. Especially seeing as she is still so young. After that just Aspirin, it's safe for her but only one an hour till she can shift." I gave a whimper about the topic but nodded understanding her concern.

“Doesn't the packaging say no more than eight in a day?" I ask looking up at her and she nods.

“Quite right, however Were's have a faster metabolism than it was designed for and it has less of an impact, positive or negative on us." she answers simply.

“Ok, I'll keep a nose out for the signs," Callen said with a smile and picked me up “Ok, Time to go to hell." he chuckled and gave me one of the pain killers before placing me on the floor.

“Hell?" Shelly asked as she cleaned up.

“School." Anders said, drawing out the 'oo' with a lurch drone.

“Ah I see, well play nice, don't gnaw on anyone."

“I only did that once, and you were asking for it!" Lacen protested as Callen opened the door and walked out to the car, with me in hot pursuit. Once back in the car, with Anders in the back once more. I gave a small huff and curled up on the seat again as we headed towards the school.

When we eventually arrived, much to my displeasure it was during the first class change over meaning all the students were out and about. The other thing that was a huge pain was that Simba and his siblings watched as we approached the office and they all happened to have a free period before lunch time.

“Well well If it isn't the Freak!" Simba called out, unaware or uncaring of Callen and Anders close by listening, they had me surrounded before either of them managed to step in “Looks like you got what was coming to you, good thing I told your Alpha you skipped school hu? You know the Laws though, out in public in feral form! How about we punish you for him this time hmm? Save him the effort." I whimpered and cowered down as he pulled his foot back to kick me. Before he had a chance to swing it, a hand clapped down heavily on his shoulder off balancing him and Lacen appeared standing over me.

“How about," Lacen said with a growl “You look to see who his company is." Simba looked back to see Anders with his hand on him and looming over him looking like he had a shadow covering his face, he gave a long deep growl that he somehow mixed the Lurch accent into. Simba didn't seem disturbed but the others all paled at the sight of the huge imposing male who was clearly displeased.

“I would hate to need to tell your father that you were attacking an injured, defenceless female," Callen said appearing between the two females opposite Simba, brushing them aside with the backs of his hands like they were curtains blocking a doorway “Your father is currently running the pack house so I could tell him with ease."

“So what?" Simba said with a sneer “You don't scare me."

“Oh but I should," Callen retorted with a chuckle “Lien here is under my care and by extension your fathers. Should I remind you what the punishment is for your current actions?"

“Pft why should I care what the punishment is?" he retorted still acting smug.

“Because the punishment would be at the discretion of the Community Alpha," Callen grinned and leaned in to be nose to nose with him “That's ME little boy and I would quite happily make it a public flogging, in front of the entire community." Simba gave a soft growl finally realising he was out of his league this time. Anders pulled Simba to one side then leaned in and picked me up gently.

“Drop the high and mighty attitude kid, or I will find someone more fitting to become the next Alpha of the Leo pride and Alpha Prime." Callen said as he casually walked through the middle of the group and into the school office with Anders and myself in tow.

“Callen?" The receptionist asked as we walked in “I thought we were over seeing you in here. How did you get sent to the principals office after you've graduated?"

“I'm here for Neil, I need to get his work for the next week so he doesn't fall behind, so I need his schedule printed please." She looked over the desk at me and sneered a little.

“Why are you wasting your time on that?" she asked and was cut off when he slammed his hand on the desk.

“Just give me his schedule," he growled “And don't try suck up, Just print it." She looked like a deer in the headlights of a car but quickly jumped into action handing the paper over a few seconds later hot off the printer. He huffed and took it then walked out, Anders putting me down and letting me walk after him as we headed to my classes.

We didn't hang around for long, Callen's temper was rising quickly with the reactions everyone had to me. Even the teachers seemed pleased that I wasn't in their classes at the moment and didn't want me back in any hurry.

“Well, that was torture," he muttered as he climbed into the car “Never knew it was this bad, I honestly wish you had told me Neil, I would have tried to step in."

“If you had, it would have just gotten worse," I said with a sigh “You may be able to control or influence the teachers but the students would have just continued, maybe even escalated it."

“How could it have gotten worse from what I saw today?" Anders asked from behind us and Lacen gave a chuckle.

“Yes, please do tell us." the wolf said and I gave a light whimper and shook my head remembering that Simba had a silver flick knife, Lacen sighed and shook his head realising he wasnt going to get me to admit anything just yet.

“Ok, next stop is the shops," Callen said “We need to get you new clothes to replace what was destroyed as well as school equipment." I nodded I reply and he started the car then headed towards the shopping centre. It was calm at least at the shops and we managed to get a parking spot with ease. We wandered inside and Callen decided he wanted a bubble tea and he even asked me if I wanted one.

I hadn't ever ordered one before but I eventually decided on something that sounded good. I sat to one side waiting, Anders had wandered off to look at jewellery as a gift for his mate and Callen was talking to workers at the store while they worked. The shop was run by a Wereotter family, and it was oddly cute watching the two otters play around the area close to the store. I wasn't aware that anyone had walked close until there was sharp pain. I felt the crunch in my tail of the sharp point of the high heal and yelped and yowled loudly only hearing a non apologetic 'oops'. I turned quickly to scratch at the offending leg on instinct before dashing and disappearing under the tables in dining area.

“Neil!?" Callen called out then turned on the female who had stepped on me, firmly with her high heal “RACHEL! GET BACK HERE NOW!" I sadly couldn't see anything from my position but could hear everything.

“Yes sir? What is it?" She responded and he gave a growl once she had walked back to him.

“You know damn well what!" he said angrily “Mind telling me why your here? I OKed the duty roster, You are on kitchen duty today."

“I... was... sent to get some vegetables for dinner and some fruit for tonight's desert!" came her eventual response, I felt a pair of hands grab me and I yelped and turned to bite but stopped when I saw it was Anders.

“Really now?" Anders asked, sitting me on his broad shoulders as he walked over not even bothered that I had nearly bitten him. The smile he had had when he picked me up turned cold when he looked to Rachel “That would explain these!" He grabbed her shopping bags, all of them to jewellers and fashion stores and the two of them went through them, even checking the receipts.

“I can't wait to taste these delicious diamonds, they for desert?" Callen questioned rhetorically eyeing over the contents of the bags before taking all of them “Ok, Leo will decide your punishment, you have five minutes to get back to the pack house before I make it worse!"

“Wh...What? But I have a hair appointment in eight minutes!" she retorted and he growled.

“Four minutes Thirty seconds and don't worry about your 'food shopping' I will return it so you don't lose any time returning to the pack house." He smiled and watched her seem to blow a gasket.

“But...but...but..." she stammered and Callen growled loudly.

“GO!" he boomed and she yelped and ran towards the exit, heals clicking as she went “Urgh... for fucks sake now we have MORE work to do!" he turned to take our drinks from the counter staff who looked shocked by the events and then place them on a table close by.

“Come sit her on the table I'll give her tail a quick look," Callen said sitting in one of the chairs and Anders placed me down before sitting himself and went back to looking through the bags “This may hurt a little." I nodded and he started feeling over my tail, I yelped a little as he rubbed over the spot she had stepped on and I tried not the bite him as he was a little rougher which lead to a painful click followed by the pain diminishing.

“Looks like your lucky, nothing got broken just dislocated." I nodded and he gave a sigh sliding my drink over after placing the straw in it. I murred softly as I took a drink from it thankful I had learned to use a straw while in this form. It was a nice fruity combination that had looked nice on the menu, mangos, banana, some vanilla and the small fruit 'pearls' that were flavoured with apple, orange and sweet passion fruit. We got up after a few minutes then started heading around the shops, returning all of the jewellery and clothing. Callen got more and more irritated finding out at each store that it was all purchased using the community funds account.

The whole were community paid a small amount into a special account that should only ever be accessible for maintenance of the town, upkeep of the Pack house, or for emergency situations. The pack house was set up to be like a diplomatic location for the neighbouring community leaders to visit or for the local packs to settle disputes diplomatically in a neutral location. The funds helped keep it looking good and everyone in it fed so all the groceries, from cleaning products to food were purchased with the community funds. However the spending was still supposed to be kept a close eye on by the community Alpha. It wasn't supposed or designed to be used for personal items like this.

Everyone who lived in the pack house was supposed to be given pay for the chores they did, even the Community Alpha family was paid in this manner. If they wanted to earn more, they needed to get a job out In the town to help the community more but normally they were paid near $35,000 a year which was generous as they didn't need to pay for food or for their living arrangements such as power, water, heating or the room they slept in.

“Lets go check the bank amounts," Callen said once he had returned the final item “You should have plenty in there."

“In where?" I asked looking up at him a little confused.

“In your bank account." he said looking to me and I blinked a little before it clicked that he didn't know.

“What account?" I responded simply and it was his turn to blink back at me as I admitted openly I didn't have even a dollar to my name.

“You don't have one?" Anders asked looking down at me and I shook my head.

“No... Alpha Smith never opened one for me..." I trailed off and he sighed.

“Urgh more to do... C'mon, lets go get one opened, and calculate some things." he said and headed inside the bank. He was instantly met by the manager and he demanded to see the balance for the community account and to open an account for me. She was a lion and they tended to run most of the banks and stores in the community while the bank had a bear as a security guard, said males imposing form visible by the door.

She was bitter about the idea of opening an account for me, clearly siding with Callen's father on the matter but she was silenced quickly when Callen eyed her irritably telling her silently it was not a good day or time. We went through the paperwork to open the account and Callen was finally happy when it was done.

“Ok now... quick bit of maths..." he said grabbing a calculator and punched some stuff into it “Ok, Transfer... $450,000 into Neil's account from the Community account" I blinked and was a bit stumped by the amount.

“Why so much?" I asked looking up at him and he smiled.

“That is for the last ten years worth of endless chores and tasks you have done," he responded petting my head “You earned it Neil, we will use it to get you some new clothes and school supplies and so on, as it should be, not you living on hand-me-downs."

“Th...thank you." I said my ears laying back in a form of embarrassment and nuzzled at his hand making him chuckle.

“Your welcome, now one last thing" he said turning to the bank manager “Terminate all cards for the Community account, I want you to issue a single new one, a new PIN with it and do NOT mail it out, I will come in and pick it up myself along with Neil's card and PIN. There is to be no withdraws from the Community account without my or Council authorisation, understand?" she nodded and he smiled watching as she issued the order on the system and he handed over the card he had for it to be destroyed.

“Ok that is all done, is that all for today?" She asked.

“Withdraw $1,000 from Neil's account please, in cash, we still have some shopping to do." he said and she nodded punching the details in then wandered off to get it, coming back with a wad of $100's.

“Thank you," he said taking it from her after she counted it out for him “Ok boys, lets go do some shopping. Anders can you take Neil to Target please? I need to call Leo to inform him of the changes to the Community account." Anders nodded and started to escort me to the shop.

We headed down to the clothing section and Anders helped me look at the clothes by taking a shirt off the rack for me to look at and get my 'yes' or 'no'. Callen came up with a cart a few minutes latter and he quickly grabbed four basic white polo shirts and placed them into the cart.

“For school" he said simply and smiled “Want some jeans or some cargo pants?"

“Jeans get uncomfortable for some reason," I said with a sigh “Cargo's it is." he chuckled and grabbed a few pairs and I took a belt down from the display, letting him take it from me. We continued around the store, getting some shoes, a backpack, some books and general school supplies.

Once we were finished we had lunch in the food court then headed home to the pack house. I was surprised to see Alpha Leo in the front yard looking angry at several of the female wolves . A glass pane truck had arrived to replace the broken windows in my 'room'. The females were cleaning up the mess made from the destroyed box and cleaning the gardens of weeds as well as pruning the hedges in a manor that I later found out Luce had requested. When they all saw me they didn't look happy that they were working for once in the last ten years and for some, their whole lives.

“AH! Callen! Good day was it?" Alpha Leo asked as we got out of the car and Callen nodded but waved his hand in a 'so-so' gesture “Excellent! I have told all of the wolves to be in the main hall in twenty minutes, I'm sure you will have an announcement concerning this, I found it in the mail that came in this morning." he handed over a piece of paper, and Callen looked it over and frowned more and more as he got to the bottom of the page. Alpha Leo leaned down to pet me gently, obviously happy that I was getting around better. The painkillers Shelly had given me was doing wonders as I couldn't feel anything from my back except the occasional pinch when I twisted the wrong way.

“Yes... Thank you, I'm not happy I need to do this, but I guess I will have no choice," he gave a sigh and handed it back “Also, I have some bad news for you."

“Oh?" the Alpha asked looking up to him.

“Yes, Neil was nearly assaulted by Simba and your girls," Callen said simply “We managed to intervene before anything happened."

“I see... He was the one who informed Skylar of Neil leaving school wasn't he?" Leo asked and Callen nodded “I see. Well then, aren't they going to be in for a surprise when I get home?" he grinned and Callen chuckled.

“Also, Rachel is being punished with a week of no pay for trying to skip working today" Leo added and straightened up to stand again. He turned to start walking with Callen inside and we headed towards the large announcement hall.

“Good," Callen said with a smile about the punishment idea “Anders, can you take care of Neil while I handle this?" he motioned to the paperwork.

“Yarp!" came the simple and happy response making the the Alpha's chuckle. Getting into the auditorium, we sat in the front row with me sitting on Anders lap and Shelly sitting next to him, her hand petting my head while we waited. The room filled up ten minutes latter, every member of the pack house arriving and filling up the seats, all except Alpha Smith who remained in lock-up as he had attempted to assault the wolf who brought him breakfast.

“Greetings Pack Smith," Alpha Leo said stepping out onto the stage and silenced the grumbling crowd “Now first, I know you are all confused about what is going on, I will be simple. Alpha Smith is taking some leave for a few days and I am taking over until his return. In the mean time, I will be correcting the problems that this pack has, as you are all aware, starting with the chores. For the second part, I will be handing off to your new Community head Alpha, Callen." Callen walked out and Alpha Leo took a few steps back.

“Thank you Alpha Leo," he said then turned to regard the rest of the pack “Now, to start with, I personally, am disgusted with the whole lot of you with only a small handful of exceptions! I have, as of five minutes ago, emptied every single bank account of everyone in this pack. The list of those who's account have not been touched is: Future Beta Anders and his mate Shelly, Head Gamma Jeb, Myself, Sigma Luce and Omega Neil." There was a sudden uproar from around us of anger and demands for why and Anders stiffened ready to protect me and Shelly till everyone was silenced by Alpha Leo's lion, Sama giving a loud roar.

“Thank you Alpha Sama, the reason behind this is every one of you, with exception of said list, has been continuing to accept payments from the community account but have not been doing any of the work you should be doing to be getting the payments. Also, I have recently received proof that you have all been using the community account to pay for anything you want! I have now locked down the community account, only the Council now has access to it and every single card has been deactivated. From now on, it will be as it should be, as it is for myself, For Omega Neil, For Beta to be Anders, Gamma Jeb and Sigma Luce. If you don't work, you don't get paid! Now I know for a fact that none of you have been doing any chores around the pack house, so that means, you should have never been paid, so it's all gone. On your way out, there are boxes by the door, place any cards that were for the community account in there. I will also be keeping an eye on the work scheduled, no payments will go out unless I KNOW you have been working. Thank you for your attention, I now return you to Alpha Leo." Callen retreated to the back on the stage letting Alpha Leo take over again.

“Alright, I will inform you of punishments for abandoning your work," Leo said with an almost sadistic smile “We will not tolerate any of it, you skip one shift without a medical reason, which we will confirm with vet Shelly, it's a week with no pay, two shifts? A month. More than that, consider your residency in the pack house terminated. We don't care about any objections you have, this has gone on long enough. This pack is supposed to be setting an example for the rest of the community and from what I've seen, the community is screwed! Now you all know your tasks and what your supposed to be doing right now, Dismissed!"

There was a large amount of grumbling and complaining as everyone streamed out, almost every female dropped a card off in the boxes on their way past and several males did also. Anders placed me on the stage and left with Shelly and soon the room was empty except for Callen, Alpha Leo and myself and the Alphas shifts of course. Callen had taken the boxes and emptied them, counting the cards.

“How many?" Alpha Leo asked curiously and Callen sighed.

“Too many," he muttered “Two hundred and fifty nine, that means that there was at least two hundred and sixty including my card but I'm sure there is more and they don't believe that I've shut them down."

“How much did you manage to get back into the account?" I asked curiously and Callen chuckled.

“Oh you wouldn't Believe how much!" he answered with a smile “Damn near tripled what was in there, were close to a billion now."

“Wait... A Billion Dollars?" Leo blurted “Seriously!?"

“Yep, don't worry though, there are plans in the works for it." Callen said with a smile “The renovations to Neils room is costing at least a hundred thousand and there are some repairs being done to the Pack House that it's desperate for that Luce has informed me of and we have some big plans in the works for the community, as well as road repairs."

“When will you tell the council about these plans?" Alpha Leo asked a little irritable.

“Sadly won't be till after I take over from my father for the bigger things, I don't yet have enough authority to put them into effect. For now, they are just plans."

“Well don't keep it secret for too long," Alpha Leo said and sniffed the air “Aaand lunch is burnt... I must be off to contain the inevitable the fire." the Alpha sighed and walked off.

“So glad we ate out," Callen said chuckling and rolling his eyes “C'mon, you can see what I do around here on a day to day basis. Actually you can help with one of the tasks!" he smiled and I tipped my head and followed him out the back doors. We headed towards the Training grounds where some of the war wolves were doing training.

“Greetings ladies!" Callen called out and they all snapped to attention. 'War wolf' was a basic term for any male or female who was to be put on guard duty, once they got pups, females were taken off this task and put onto house work. Training was basic and mandatory for all members of a pack, the only reason I was excluded was due to hatred from the Alpha. I was now too far behind to be able to catch up to anyone else in my weight or age group.

“Today we will be doing some agility and stamina training to start off with," Callen said casually “Neil here will be assisting, I don't want a single scratch on her, Understand?" he waited for them all to nod and I looked up at him in surprise at him including me in this.

“Excellent, now its quite simple for you," he looked down at me and smiled “Catch her, unharmed and return her to me. There is to be no hiding, and no rough grabbing of her tail and try to avoid her back, scruff her gently, I don't want to see any blood understand?" they all nodded again and I whimpered softly as they all eyed me like I was the replacement to lunch.

“Have no fear," he said with a smile as he knelt down next to me “Even with this injury, they won't catch you. You are rumoured to be the fastest member of this pack, even injured I'm sure you can outrun them, have some fun with them and don't worry about your injury, your well enough for this." I nodded and he stood back up again.

“Five second head start due to her being injured, starting..." he said loudly and I looked up at him “NOW!" I bolted, going between the lot of them, surprising most of them with my boldness of going in that direction. Five seconds later, I had about fifteen wolves running after me at top speed. I kept my pace at a speed that they could catch up on and when they were just about to catch me I stopped dead and dropped as low as I could making all of them go straight over me and crash into a heap when they tried to turn around.

I chuckled internally and bolted in the other direction back towards Callen, the wolves picking themselves up quickly and giving chase again. This time I let them get a few feet behind me before picking up my speed to keep them at that distance. I ducked and weaved around the trees and jumped over roots, the wolves tripping over them or running into trees with my quick, sharp turns.

It was about half an hour later that I turned a corner and ploughed into a white mass and was left a panting heap on the floor. I looked up seeing Callen in his wolf form looking down at me with a smile and his tail wagging.

“That's it, test is over," He said looking up to the wolves who were panting heavily, some of them having given up after only a few minutes “Looks like you all need to do some more endurance training and speed training, although maybe just some basic strategic thinking would have been helpful."

“How do you mean?" one asked between pants.

“There is Fifteen of you, only one of her and a limited amount of room in the training grounds," he started “If you had thought of it, you would have use tactics to corner her, or ambush her to slow her down."

“I was surprised they didn't do that," I said with a pant “Especially after I outsmarted them at the start."

“That was well done too and quite humorous," Callen said with a smirk “At the same time your reputation as being the fastest member of our pack is well founded. You guys all should have known that Werefoxes are faster than Werewolves are. They have the speed, we have the strength, even while injured she was going to outrun you with ease."

“And I had fun doing it!" I said wagging my tail.

“We noticed." came the bitter response and Callen chuckled.

“Ok, well next is a simple exercise, this is to test and help develop your tracking skills." he shifted to midform and pulled on a pair of pants before shifting the rest of the way. He pulled out a spray bottle and sprayed me down, the smell overpoweringly strong and I recoiled a little from it “This Spray masks her scent up to ninety percent, She is to go and hide somewhere in the training grounds, and you lot are to find her. Take your time, you have one hour to find her. Go on Neil, you have ten minutes to find a safe place, Anders and I will be patrolling the grounds, if something goes wrong find one of us or return to the house." I nodded and ran off into the trees.

I managed to find a tree with with a hole at the base amongst the roots. I did a little bit of digging and managed to fit into the small den hiding place I had made for myself. I curled up in the bottom of the hole after closing up the opening a little bit to make it smaller. I was there for a while, enjoying the peace and quiet, keeping my eyes and ears open for any noises or movement and would try to be as silent as possible when I heard something.

It was about half an hour later I heard a loud commotion, I sniffed carefully, able to tell it was someone I knew way to well.

“Shit!" Lien said inside of my mind “We need to run! If he catches us in here we're dead!" I nodded in agreement and slowly and carefully crawled my way towards the entrance to my hole. I looked around, spotting the lion standing not too far away and facing away from me I crawled out of the hole and tried to sneak away.

“THERE IT IS!" I heard behind me and I froze recognising the voice of one of Simba's sisters.

“GET BACK HERE YOU!" Simba called out making me give a whimper and started running, the lions in hot pursuit “GET BACK HERE! WE GOT PUNISHED BECAUSE OF YOU!" I whimpered again and continued to run, running towards the house as fast as I could. Half way there I tripped on a root I hadn't seen and was pounced on causing me to give a loud yelp.

“Time to DIE freak! Like you should have YEARS ago in front of that car!" Simba said from above me and I whimpered loudly as I felt his claws dig into my skin. A loud, deep and angry roar rumbled out from close by making everything stop. We looked up to see a large and angry male lion walking out of the trees. It didn't take long for Callen, Anders, and the fifteen war wolves to appear from the trees around us.

“Alpha Leo!" Callen said being in human form and looking towards the other large male who was approaching my position at a casual pace. He got close and gave a furious swipe at Simba with a snarl and then pulled me closer to him with that paw, pulling me under his large frame once Simba backed off.

“Simba," Alpha Leo said growling “I am very disappointed with you." I gave a whimper and slowly crawled over to Callen, Alpha Leo allowing me to go and Callen kneeled down to look me over before picking me up.

“Interrupting training in progress, Threatening a female who is no threat to you and forcing me to shift in order to stop you from killing her," he continued to growl lowly “Home! NOW!" the Lions all bolted, heading home as fast as they could, their tails between their legs.

“Thank you Alpha Leo, for saving me." I said shaking a little, he simply nodded and started padding back towards the pack house with an air of irritation about him.

“Well I guess that ends this exercise," Callen said with a sigh and I shook my head “Oh? You want to continue? Well then how about we start again?"

“Alpha Callen!" A voice called down from above and we looked up to see a raven swoop down.

“Oh hello, and you are?" Callen asked as it landed on the ground.

“My name is Derrick, Beta to Alpha Raven, I was drawn by Alpha Leo's roar," he said with a chirp “I wish to volunteer to assist you with the exercise, I will remain a safe distance from Omega Neil as to not give away her location but I will keep out a watchful eye over her for her safety."

“Thank you for the offer but we don't want to impede you on your duties." Callen answered.

“The safety others is more important and Flock leader Raven will understand when I give my report." he answered simply.

“I understand, if you would like to help go with Neil and we will return to the start." Callen said placing me down and heading with the wolves back towards the house. The raven flapped his wings and landed on my back, thankfully not near my bandages and I waited for the others to be out of sight then headed back to the hole I had made before, Derrick perching in the tree directly above my hole.

It took nearly the whole hour before they found me. Having found my hide away once but thought I wouldn't fit inside it and moved on. It wasn't until they were heading back past that one decided to push his head in the hole and found me.

“That was a good place to hide," Anders said with a smile as we walked back to the pack house “The others didn't think you would be able to fit in a hole that small as they couldn't and surprisingly they didn't smell the freshly dug earth."

“Ah, found her I see," Callen called out approaching us “It's time to head in to wash up for dinner, everyone head to the showers, Neil come with me, I will need to change your bandages, you have dirt all through them."

“Yes Alpha." I said trotting over to him and followed him inside.