The Stars Protect the Moon

I walk out to the destroyed cabin and find another bag of clothes waiting on the bed. I’m happy to finally have some clean clothes but I wish they were my own. “Beggars can’t be choosers,” Star says. “Any other words of wisdom almighty wolf?” I ask her. “Yes as a matter of fact, little mind reader I do. But now I won’t share them with you.” She huffs. “What did you just call me?” She doesn’t answer. “Star!” I yell out loud. “You read their minds, I’m not sure how yet but I’ve been thinking on it. And it reminded me of what happened back in the cell, how we heard the pack members going over plans, exit routes, torture practices, all of it.” I wince at the reminder of the things I don’t ever want think about again. “Your eyes were swollen closed, and all you were thinking about was how to get out and what they were going to do next,” she continued. “Star please get to the point,” the memory was too painful to look back on.

“Why would they say those things out loud?” Is all she asks. I finished changing into a cropped T-shirt and leggings then sat on the bed contemplating this, “Well first it’s not like they thought I was ever going to get out,” I say stating the obvious, “So they probably didn’t find the need to speak through mind link and maybe it could have just been a scare tactic? I don’t know Star they were all psychopaths eager to kill and…” I didn’t want to finish that thought or go anywhere near it. “So you don’t think you could have been tapping into their mind link by reading their minds and overhearing their conversations?” She says still unsure herself. “You don’t think I could really have that much power Star do you? First shields, then emotions, and most recently a blinding light force or whatever the hell that was and now mind reading? Not to mention the differences Dr. Zane pointed out,” I couldn’t be that special could I? Even X-men only had one power each, but I seem to be Thanos right now collecting them like infinity stones.

“I’m not some super wolf just because I was turned and not born,” I conclude. “I guess we’re going to find out,” Star adds as Noah walks in. “Ready?” I turn around and see he’s in a track suit now with the hoodie unzipped. No. Fucking. Shirt. Underneath. “I think you’re forgetting something,” I tell him as I turn around and look at the floor for my hair brush. “And what would that be?” He teases. I just shake my head, I’m not taking the bait. I’m not flirting. I need to refocus on why I’m here and it’ll be easier now that I’m not in heat anymore.. right? I hear him zip up his sweater as I finally find my brush and turn around.

“Can you do me a favour?” I ask. He leans against the door frame and crosses his arms. “Depends.” He replies. “You know what, never mind, I want to have the contract signed before I say anything else.” I finished my hair and threw the brush on the bed. I walked up to him but had to stop because he didn’t move to leave. “Well,” I said motioning to leave, “Are you going to show me to your medical facility or not?” He stares down at me and does his one eye brow thing. I just wait, knowing he’ll eventually turn around to go. He lets a couple more moments pass just staring at me, now I feel like this is a game and I am not going to play. I walk around him into the cool, night air and look up at the stars. You can see so many from here, it’s amazing. It’s almost as if they’re twinkling just for me.

Noah walks out beside me and looks up to see what I’m looking at, “What is it?” He asks. “Beauty,” I say. He just looks at me. “Don’t they look so peaceful up there,” I turn to look at him, “the stars protect the moon you know,” I smile, “they’re the warriors of the sky.” He smiles, “You’re glowing little wolf,” he says and I look down at my self quickly inspecting and he starts to laugh, like really laugh. I punch his arm, “Stop that!” I glare at him and he just shakes his head and starts to walk away, “I can’t believe you thought you were actually glowing,” I run to catch up to him. “Well it happened in my dream,” I mumbled not realizing I was really saying anything out loud. He glances back, considering saying something but doesn’t and just keeps leading the way.