Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:38:41 -0500
From: Kevin D <rekniv86@gmail.com>
Subject: Jakes Inner Wolf - Ch 18

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few supernatural surprises along the way. There is death, love, hate,
friendship, and bigotry.

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Chapter 18:

No one stopped eating but everyone looked at Alpha Black with curiosity on
their faces.

He began, "for those of you who aren't aware, the location I moved my pack
to many years ago, was basically uninhabited at the time. There were two or
three families there and the next closest town was 30 minutes drive away. I
took my pack of nearly 100 members at the time and we decided to settle
down there and form a town. It was a lot of hard work, but we managed to
get a town started. It's now a legitimate town, and about 75% of the town's
population is pack. Those who aren't, either know of our existence or have
been thoroughly explained that wolves are venerated by the majority of the
town so no harm should ever come to a wolf." He stopped at this point to
eat some more.

"This has its benefits and its drawbacks. We have enough families at this
point that in-breeding isn't a problem, despite that we're beginning to
draw lots of new blood in. One thing though is that we have not been having
a lot of female babies being born. We've been bringing in lots of outside
human men and werewolf men from other packs nearby that have an excess of
males, unfortunately though, there are few women available. The total
amount of pack is slowly lowering, we're aiming for around 50% of the town
ultimately, but the amount of women still remains rather low." He was
basically done eating at this point, only drinking occasionally due to the
amount of talking he was doing.

"Another thing we don't have, well, almost any of, and I don't mean this in
any negative way whatsoever, is homosexuals. I have nothing against them,
well, you," he smiled lightly looking at John, and I,  "however, we simply
don't have the population right now for a homosexual, werewolf or human, to
find a mate, male or female. These reasons are why I asked Luke and Matthew
to join me today."

He looked at Matthew with a question in his face, Matthew got a little red
but nodded. "Matthew here, is gay, he and I have talked and sadly came to
the conclusion, that if he is to find a mate, human or otherwise, he will
have to leave our pack and search elsewhere. His brother Luke, is straight.
However, they come from one of our original, and shall we say, most
prolific, families. There are very few families in the pack that they are
not directly related to within a single generation separation. His
prospects of finding a mate are also quite frankly not good unless he's
willing to mate a cousin. Richard, I know your pack is accepting of gay
members, obviously, and I know you're looking for some new blood as well. I
was hoping you'd be kind enough to accept the brothers into your pack.
They're both very strong wolves and intelligent young men."

Alpha Rich quietly eyed Luke and Matthew who both returned his gaze as he
looked at each of them in turn. Normally no wolf would dream of looking an
Alpha in the eyes for more than a glance, but this was an evaluation, he
needed to look into their eyes so they held his gaze. Everyone remained
silent. After some time he nodded, "if they wish, I will support their
entry into the pack. I believe one of the young people at the table here
can help them find a place to settle down whenever they're ready to move.
Our pack meetings for pack induction are the seventh day after the full
moon each month. I'm sure they have some stuff to tie up at home." They
both nodded, Alpha Rich looked at each of us from our pack, "you guys start
looking for an apartment or two for them and get it in the pack name for
them, and then they can either stay there until they mate or branch out on
their own." We all nodded in understanding. "Boys, I'd like to unofficially
welcome you to the pack. If you come with Alpha Black's blessing, you are
indeed good men and wolves."

The rest of dinner passed amicably and with good natured conversations, I
paid extra close attention to William and Celena, and as I had predicted
they were each all over the `new meat'. Once dinner was done, the women all
helped Mrs. Davies clean up the table and begin washing the dishes, Mr.
Davies went to the phone and began calling in the rest of his deputies and
enforcers of the pack, a decision needed to be reached about John's father
and action taken.

Jake, John and the rest of the younger people sat in the living room
quietly amongst themselves. Simon and Henrietta holding each other, each
capable of at least beginning to understand the pain John and Jake went
through. Jake and John simply holding each other and not moving or
separating, no words, just constant physical contact. The other four
however, though conscious of the others being quiet, were very excited
about getting to know each other.

Celena and Luke were flirting away while getting to know each other.

William and Matthew were a little less flagrant about their flirting but
they were certainly hitting it off while getting to know one another.

By time the enforcers and deputies had arrived Celena and Luke, and Matthew
and William had made arrangements for a double date for the first full day
after Luke and Matthew moved into a new apartment that Celena and William
were going to look for and make sure it was very close to their house.

Alpha Rich assembled everyone into the living room, which was now very
tightly packed with over 20 people in it, it was a large room but 20 people
most of whom were large and built weres made it a tight fit. Alpha Rich
glanced at Jake, eliciting a soft sigh from him, he was going to have to
tell his story again tonight. He knew he'd have to, but that didn't make it
any easier. Every time he retold it, he relived it.

For the next 10 minutes, Jake told his story for the new arrivals to hear,
even some of the ones who had heard it already couldn't hold back their
emotions hearing it a second time. Mary once again provided her
confirmation of Jake's story. Thankfully though, John was reacting a little
bit better this time, Jake could still feel the anger in him and some
shaking, but he was no longer boiling with rage, progress was progress.
After he finished retelling his story he looked around the room. All of the
new guys had the same look on their faces as John, Simon and William, one
of vengeance. Jake pointedly looked at Alpha Rich who returned his gaze and
nodded, cueing Jake to bow his head appropriately now that his message had
been conveyed.

Alpha Rich stood up and that was all it took to get everyone to not make a
sound and to look at him. He took great care to look at everyone in the
eyes for a brief moment, everyone catching his eyes for a second before
bowing their heads to him, everyone except Mary and Derrick who didn't
understand, and Alpha Black of course, who held his gaze before nodding to
Alpha Rich. Their history went back 40 years and they had been as good of
friends as two equals who lived over an hour's travelling distance apart
could be. They had a lot of respect for one another and Black knew that if
he were in Rich's position he would be struggling with what to do. He
couldn't have been more right.

Alpha Rich had been struggling all evening with what to do. John and
Celena's father had been a strong and loyal pack member for many many
years. He'd provided not only 2 strong sons to the pack but a daughter to
provide the pack with more pups. Granted he'd caused plenty of
embarrassment over the years as well with his open bigotry, chauvinism and
racism, however this was an egregious action. Kidnapping with the intent to
murder, and it wasn't a human, which, while bad, by pack law can be
forgiven by a minor punishment of community service. It was against a
fellow pack member. One who had powerful friends within the pack, including
himself, though he had to do his best to keep his personal beliefs at bay
so he could best serve his pack. There were few options within the pack
laws for dealing with this. All but one guaranteed his death, and even that
one Alpha Rich had a strong suspicion would result in the man's death.

After he had made sure everyone knew he was still in charge and nothing was
to be done without his say, he looked at John, "John, can you come with me
for a moment please, everyone else remain here, and begin calling an
emergency pack meeting for tonight. He eyed two of his enforcers, go and
personally make sure their father gets there on time, do not leave his
side, no harming him unless he resists, and only do the minimum needed to
subdue him, and please no shit talking to him, just tell him I sent you and
it's my orders that you escort him to the emergency pack meeting tonight,
don't even let him go piss without you being there." They nodded and left
immediately.

John followed his Alpha into his office, the office was designed to be
sound proof even to wolves unless they were sitting within inches of the
door. Alpha Rich looked over John carefully and with a practiced eye, he
came to the conclusion that John had grown up to be a very strong and
handsome young wolf. It was too bad he would likely never pass along his
genes to another generation. "John. I brought you in here to discuss
something very difficult. I hope you can appreciate the extremely difficult
situation I'm in. Your father is a long time member of this pack, he has a
lot of supporters and friends, many of whom disagree with his beliefs of
hate but like him regardless. The actions he's committed leave me very few
options, all but one of which will create a lot of dissent and unhappiness
in a large portion of the pack, emotions that could destroy the pack. Any
of the options of out-right ending his life will potentially cause an
uprising within the pack, creating even more problems for everyone
involved. Now, I'm prepared to make the decision if needed, however, there
is one option, which will not cause as many problems, however, it is
dangerous."

John nodded, he knew pack laws, he had hoped to be promoted to enforcer
soon and maybe even Beta or Alpha someday. The only option that would
retain pack loyalty and provide justice was if Jake challenged John's
father to a fight to the death at the pack meeting tonight. In front of the
entire pack, his father couldn't back down without losing all respect and
thus making Alpha Rich able to level punishment without resulting in a pack
coup. However, the pack laws also allowed for a mate to take the place of
the offended. The offender must be the one to fight, however, the one
offended may be substituted for by their mate. Jake couldn't fight and win
against his father, but John could, he was sure of it. It wouldn't be easy,
and he'd receive his fair share of wounds, but he was confident he could
win. He'd have to get Simon and William to restrain Jake though, Jake would
not simply sit back and watch the fight, he knew. He nodded to Alpha Rich,
"I understand, I need to talk with Simon and William."

"I'll send them in." He paused and looked at John for a moment, "John, this
won't be easy. You could even lose. I just want you to know that personally
I'm rooting for you, even though officially to the pack I cannot take a
side."

"Thank you Alpha, and I know I could potentially lose. But I also somehow
just know that I will win. It won't be easy, but I'm confident I'll win."

Alpha Rich nodded and left the room, soon afterward Simon and William
entered.

"Guys. I think you know what I have to do." He looked them both in the
eyes. They had both been learning pack law with him, so they both indeed
knew what he had to do in order to obtain justice and retain pack
stability.

They both nodded, Simon spoke up, "well hold back Jake."

John stepped forward and brought them both into a hug, his two best friends
in the world. They all knew that this was more than just holding Jake back
tonight preventing him from entering the fight, it was entrusting his mates
life to them should he fail. They held each other for a little while before
John nodded and they left the office, it was time to go to the pack
meeting. John grabbed Jake by the hand and walked with him out to their
truck, it was getting full with 8 of them now, in a truck built to carry
officially 4. Thankfully that far into the country riding in the cab wasn't
illegal and they were werewolves so they'd recover from most injuries.

The ride over was solemn. Luke and Matthew weren't high ranking members of
their pack but their father was so they knew pack laws and had a pretty
good idea what was about to happen.

By time they had arrived at the pack gathering building, almost the entire
pack was there. John's father and mother were seated up front with 4
enforcers close by making sure they didn't try to leave, their father paled
as soon as he saw Jake and John enter, followed closely by Mary and Derrick.

It was another 20 minutes before Alpha Rich was informed by his counters
that the entire pack was present. He stepped onto the stage and it took
only seconds for the entire room to become quiet enough to hear a pin drop.
Everyone could see the sadness on his face, and it made them uncomfortable.
Anything that made the Alpha sad was not good. There was some uncomfortable
shifting around in seats while Alpha Rich waited for the right moment to
begin speaking. "Ladies, wolves and children. I was forced to call this
meeting tonight under very sad pretenses. Charges have been levied and
third party confirmed against one of our pack members. These charges are
extremely serious." He let the words sink in for a moment before
continuing. "Michael Tillman has been accused by Jake Thorntree which has
been affirmed by Mary Huckerson and her son Derrick Huckerson to be true.
Mr. Tillman is accused of kidnapping with the intent to murder, Mr.
Thorntree."

There was an uproar within the room. Voices of incredulation and surprise
could be heard, a few of disbelief and some simply just shaking their heads
quietly. Alpha Rich let his pack members get the shock out of their systems
for a minute before beginning to request quietness simply by standing
there, the wolves could feel him and the women and children took their cues
from the wolves.

"As you are all aware, these are very serious charges. I am left with very
few options in the matter."

Alpha Rich didn't get to continue much further before John stood up and
announced loudly. "I, John Tillman, mate of Jake Thorntree the offended,
challenge Michael Tillman to a duel to the death as punishment for his
offense."

I could barely breathe. Instantly I felt hands holding me back as I tried
to jump up, gasps and whispering could be heard from the crowd. John was
challenging his father in a fight to the death. I didn't understand why he
was doing it. The pack must have laws to punish his father outright, why go
through this? I kept attempting to fight, but Simon and William were too
strong for me. Plus Luke and Matthew were both sitting in front of me and
looking at me like they'd help Simon and William if needed.

John had made his way to the stage as Alpha Rich nodded solemnly and then
looked at John's father. "Michael Tillman. John Tillman has challenged you
to a duel to the death as punishment for the charges against you. Do you
accept?"

To his credit, John's father did not look happy about the situation at
first, but quickly the look turned from whatever emotion it was he was
feeling to one of a creepy happiness. "I accept Alpha," he said very loudly
and then turned to sneer directly at me and the group holding me back.

Alpha Rich spoke above the crowd, "so it is set. The duel will take place
outside in 10 minutes time at the ring. All must be present. This is a duel
to the death, no one may interfere, NO ONE" at this point he stared
directly into my eyes but I refused to drop his gaze glaring back at him,
for his part he received the glare almost physically obviously, his eyes
showed their sadness quickly before turning back to the pack, "the fight
will continue until one of the participants ceases to live there can be no
other ending and no one can provide any assistance in any way to either
participant at stake of their own life. Men, guard the participants,
everyone else gather around the ring, it's time."*