Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Orson?” Austin was looking at me warily. “What happened?”
“Th..the pentagon said that it’s all true. And that they have permission for this broadcast. It’s global. They aren’t human. And there are apparently more of them than there are of us.” I felt my heart nearly stop as I repeated the information. It was just so hard for me to process it all.
“Are you serious?” The entire office seemed to echo that to me at once.
“What is going to happen with our case?” Agent West asked in a tone of dread. And at that moment I heard the last voice that I wanted to hear at the moment.
“Your investigation is done. You are not to pursue this anymore at all.” I looked up into my superior’s eyes as he stood on the balcony over us all. His office was on the floor above that looked over the pen, that was what we called the area our desks were all gathered at.
“Sir, you can’t do this. Please, Director Glick, they aren’t human. They are monsters. We need to arrest them all.”
“Arrest half the country? Why? Have they committed crimes? Have they done anything wrong at all? Even the Grays, that you were so focused on, have they done anything wrong? Or did you just not like them stepping in to help with the investigation?”
“W..well, I assumed that there had to be corruption among that FBI office. I mean, why else let private citizens help them look for those murderers?”
“Well, now you know. They were looking for the monstrous humans that were hunting their people. They are innocent, and they are not to be investigated until they actually commit a crime. Do you understand me, Orson?”
“Yes sir, but I know that they have to be-.”
“DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME, ORSON?” He snapped at me loudly then.
“Yes, sir.” I nodded and felt myself deflating. This was the shittiest way to end my investigation. Everything that I had been working for, it was all gone. All of it. The world had been told about these nonhumans, and there were no charges that I could bring against them. Dammit! What was I supposed to do now, huh? Did they expect me to just accept these people and move on?
What the hell was wrong with everyone? Why were they so ready to just accept that they weren’t human and move on? How could they be OK with these monsters living among us?
“Well, I guess that’s the end of it.” Austin sighed as he started to gather his materials. They were files that we had been building for months.
“No, that isn’t the end of it.” I glared at the balcony where Director Glick had so recently been. “I am not letting this go. Those monsters aren’t going to get away with this. Not on my watch.”
I would make these people pay. I would see to it that the world was ours once again. I didn’t care if I had to do this without the support of my boss, I would free our society from those beasts. And I knew that I wasn’t going to be the only one that felt this way.
*** More scenes from other people as the reveal was happening. ***
****** London, England ****** (Third Person POV)
Whitney Moore was sitting in her favorite pub when a broadcast came over the telly. It was an American broadcast that was happening live at the moment. Where Whitney was, in London, it was after seven in the evening, but wherever it was on the broadcast was around midday. The patron of the pub had been watching a football match when the interruption had occurred.
“Oi, what is this?” A man across the pub yelled out when the broadcast started. Whitney ignored it, focusing on what was being said at the moment. She knew that this was going to happen today, but she hadn’t known exactly when it was going to happen.
鈥楾his is it.’ She thought to herself as she looked at the screen. 鈥楾his is what they warned us about.’
“Put the match back on!” Another patron shouted as the channel on the telly was changed again and again. It was then that the others noticed the same message coming through on their mobiles. They were not able to get away from this broadcast no matter what.
Listening to those around her and watching the telly at the same time, Whitney was getting nervous. She wasn’t the only werewolf in this pub at the moment, but there were a lot of humans here as well. All of them sat there nervously as Queen Riviana revealed their existence to the world. Whitney was just glad that they weren’t going to know what her name was, they weren’t exposing people individually so that they could all keep their anonymity.
“What is this? They tell us that half the blokes in the world are not human? Yeah, we know that already.” A patron called out. “I have know that since I was a wee lad. Me best bloke in primary was a werewolf. Why is this news? Put my match back on.”
“Yeah, I knows it too.” Another man with a thick Irish accent called out so that Whitney and the other wolves in the pub could hear him. “Half me village back home is not human. We all know about them.”
…..
“Is that so?” A young lad of about eighteen called out to the two men.
“You just leaning this now, boy?” The first man called out.
“Ai. I never knew there was werewolves in the world.”
“Get ya facts, boys. They been livin here for longer then we have.”
Whitney, as well as the others, felt a proud rush of relief. There were already so many people that knew about them here, and they accepted them too. It was easier for them to relax now, and to enjoy the drinks that they had ordered when they arrived. Now that they didn’t have to worry about the world turning on them that is.
****** New York City ****** (Third Person POV)
The two news anchors for the afternoon news were in the middle of a story about the local Christmas light displays and the best places to go with your family. At this time in the day, unless there was a breaking news story, they usually talked about the more mundane and often positive things in the world. At least that has been how it was for the last fifteen years or so. Ever since the fake news epidemic that hit the airwaves in the twenty tens and the twenty twenties.
The way things were now was definitely preferrable to how they used to be. That was something that Tinley Fraiser could fully attest to. She had supposedly been in her early twenties when things started to hit the fan back then, and she was just starting out in her journalism career. Thankfully, she still held her position at the station, though she was no longer a lowly intern that got more coffee than actual experience. Now, she was a news anchor that broadcast on a daily basis.
Sitting next to Tinley was her cohost, Ryan Decker. The two had been cohosting this segment of the news together for eight years now, they were staples of the show that everyone was familiar with and loved. They were actually quite popular when hosting together, and the viewer counter during their time hosting together had improved drastically over the years.
Those behind the camera were certain that it all had to do with Tinley’s ethereal beauty that just seemed to radiate through the camera and captivate men and women alike. No one had ever complained about her being on the show before, and they never expected that they would.
As the two were talking about the twinkling and festive lights around the city, an emergency broadcast took over the station. This sort of thing didn’t happen often, but when it did, the network knew just what to do. They allowed the broadcast to continue, but they were able to superimpose a small square into the corner of the screen. This was to allow the news anchors to continue broadcasting. Only now, they would be talking about what was happening on the screen rather than the festivities of the holidays.
They were almost stunned into silence as the images on the screen continued to unfold the story for them. There hadn’t really been much for Tinley and Ryan to say about it, they just murmured words every now and then that told the audience that this was as new to them as it was to the rest of the world.