Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
As we listened on, I learned that only one bomb had gone off, and only one super natural was injured. No humans had received a single injury during the attack. The attack had been thwarted by good Samaritan nonhumans that had wanted to guard the humans at the event.
The Colonel was not happy about that news. He started to destroy everything that was in his office. The computer, stacks of papers, everything that he could get his hands on were thrown around the room. Nothing was safe, but as of yet, he hadn’t attacked a single person.
The anger and tantrum went on for hours. The Colonel had gone to almost everyone, except for the women, and screamed at them about how this failure was their fault. The people that had failed were dead to him, and other things like that.
About three hours after the news came on the air, there was a commotion from near one of the entrances. A man came running into the room, saw the Colonel, and made a beeline for him.
“Sir! Those monsters knew we would be there. They were waiting for us.”
“YOU IDIOT!” The Colonel screamed at him as he charged toward him. “You insignificant little pissant! How dare you fail me like that.”
“B..b..but Colonel, it was a -.” Whatever the man was about to say was a mystery. Just as he started to stutter out the words, the Colonel drew his gun in a quick fluid motion and shot the man in the head.
“Do you all see that?” The Colonel turned in a slow circle eyeing almost every awestruck face in the room. “If anyone defies me, if anyone fails me, that is what will happen to you. I expect perfection from all of you, and I will have it. Is that understood?!” There was not a word spoken in response, but every head in the room nodded in agreement, even I nodded just to fit in with the crowd.
This was not a good turn of events. That man was losing touch with his sanity by the second. He might even step up his plans to attack the palace and head there much sooner rather than later. I had to warn Riviana, but I had to make sure that no one saw me staring off into space. I had to wait until I was alone to send the message. They had to know that the danger was getting closer.
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Riviana
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Just as I knew there would be, there were two different versions of the events being aired on the news and posted all over the internet. I was sure that even the newspapers tomorrow would be split. By that evening, when all the major news networks were airing, we had several TVs tuned in to different stations at the same time. They were all muted and the captions were on so that the sound didn’t drive us nuts.
On most of the stations, there was a story that was either the truth or close to it. Even the stations that were usually in the middle of the road, not taking one side or the other, were telling the truth about who it was that had saved the day, and who the real villains were. That was actually a good thing, so more people would hear the same story, the real story.
Still, there were always those that had their own agenda, or that just hated anything that wasn’t like them, just like the extremists. The station that was most affiliated with people like Fuller was telling a story where Joaquin and I were personally at the stadium, trying to eat people and blow them up with magic. The way that they told it, there were no bombs at all, just our explosive magic.
Some of the more conspiracy theorist sites online were using my pregnancy to sell things to the public. They claimed that in a fit of blood lust, I was trying to murder all the humans and sacrifice them to my baby so that it could be born healthy and strong. And that my baby, an abomination that was not natural to this world at all, was going to be the birth of the antichrist. They were siting a whole bunch of supposed disasters that had taken place since I had gotten pregnant, half of which happened before I was pregnant with Reeselynn, but the humans didn’t know how long a wolf pregnancy was, so that wasn’t their fault.
Honestly, if they knew that we were only pregnant for six months, those people would call the baby even more of an antichrist that was a sure sign that all the humans were doomed to die a blood death on the very day that I delivered the baby. Seriously, those people could get creative with their bullshit stories, but it was annoying that they were using the baby as their fuel now.
“So, they think that a baby born to you would be a devil baby?” Shane asked as he read the article that was projected on the wall next to one of the TVs. “Do they not realize that you have already given birth to seven children, and that this one is no different than the others?”
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“Well, you know, those kids of ours weren’t born, like the rest of us, they just appeared on the planet from outer space one day.” I rolled my eyes at another one of the conspiracy theories that people had about us.
“Right. And when was that supposed to be again? I forgot when and how we flew through the cosmos.” Shane laughed as he always did when these people’s imaginations showed the levels of depravity that they were willing to drop to.
“Yeah, I don’t remember it either. It must have been before we were all born. You know, back when the humans flew here in another mothership as well.”
“We’re all aliens! WHOO!” Shane jokingly cheered. “Anyway, at least things were settled easily enough earlier. It meant that there was not a lot of stress for you.”
“I wouldn’t say that.” Joaquin said as he stiffened next to me. “Had Riviana not barred me from joining her at the press release, I would have beaten that worthless asshole to a pulp.” He was currently grinding his left fist into his right palm, showing everyone just how he would pulverize him.
“And that is likely why she forbade you from going with her, my friend.” Dietrich clapped a hand to Joaquin’s shoulder and spoke in a soothing, if slightly amused, tone. “Riviana is trying to make sure that the humans see us as friends and allies, not people to be feared.”
“Yeah, well, I am sure that the majority of the human population would be happy if I ended Fuller, and others like him. They don’t deserve to live.”
“Joaquin.” I snapped at him and saw him look up at me sheepishly.
“Riviana, Little Bunny, he insulted you. He said such horrible things about you.”
“And I will live.” I told him flatly. “And, more importantly, it was all on film. Those that are our allies will air his tirade and show it in as negative a light as possible. I have faith in people like Lara Timmons, Elijah Dalton, and Harrington Lewis. They will tell the truth, and they will make sure that the majority of the humans in this country know that he is a monster. We just need to be patient, Joaquin. We can endure the insults. It’s much better to do that than to repair the damage from a violent outburst.”
“I know, Little Bunny, I really do. I just hate it when someone talks about you like that. And people like that,” he was pointing at the article about the impending demon baby, “they are already saying hurtful things about our baby.”
“Reeselynn won’t know anything about any of this. And when she is older, if she finds out that some morons thought that she was the antichrist, well then, we can dress her up as the devil for Halloween and all have a big laugh about it. We know the truth, Joaquin, we are the ones that can tell her what she needs to know. And I am not so weak spirited that the words of others will cut me and make me bleed. I know who and what I am, Joaquin, just like you do. And there are so many people in the world that agree with us as well.”
I saw the way that Joaquin was looking at me then. He was giving me a face that said he was defeated by my words, but that he was also proud of me. He knew that I had beaten him, and there was nothing else that he was able to say about it.
“Awe, look at how cute that is.” Shane joked as he looked at Joaquin’s face. “She can disarm him that easily. Should we try it too, guys?”
“Do it and die, sparkle fingers.”
“Hey, that is not a nice thing to say about my lightning magic.” Shane pretended to be hurt by his words. “I am offended by that, Joaquin.”
“Good.” The growled word was accompanied by Joaquin putting his arms around my waist. “I meant it to offend you, dumbass.”
“Rude.”
In the middle of their squabble, a message popped up on the computer that had been displayed on the wall next to the TV. It was a message from Mr. Doe, instructing us to log into a site with the credentials that he had given in the message.