The Sight (bxb)

Chapter 96 - Show Me Your Fur - Part 1

"Warlock? As in a witch?" Josh looked somewhere between confusion and disbelief.

"Yeah," Rory confirmed, and Evan decided to add, "There are werewolves, witches and vampires."

"Vampires?" Josh obviously couldn't believe his ears and his expression would be almost comical if his supernatural friends couldn't empathise with his situation.

"We're getting off-topic," Kieran interrupted his panic, waving his hand to draw attention to himself. "Not that I don't want to hear more, but first I want to know more about Rory's life." He shrugged his shoulders as if it were a matter of course.

"My life," Rory laughed briefly. "I can assure you, it's the most complicated thing you've heard in a long time."

"I should have taken the popcorn," Josh commented humorously, lifting his spirits at least a little.

"Lots of popcorn," Rory said, exaggerating to draw a laugh. He succeeded, but still, all the attention was on him and everyone was waiting to see what he would say next.

"OK, OK, no more stalling. Alex still hasn't told me that he's a witch or that we're soulmates," he began his explanation before quickly turning to Josh and Kieran to fill them in on all the information, "Ryan and Evan helped me find a way to verify it, as before we only had it as a potential theory, but now I know for sure that I'm Alexander's weave, which is actually the same thing as being a werewolf mate."

"What would you call a vampire soulmate?" Josh asked, going off topic again, but that was to be expected with all the information he was getting.

"A bound," Ryan answered him briefly. Josh nodded and remained silent, giving Rory a chance to continue.

"Alex still didn't tell me anything, so I started looking for more details on my own, and I honestly don't think any of my new friends are human. It's quite nerve-wracking, I won't lie. None of them have told me the truth, but at the same time, they are not very careful when they do something magical in front of me. Especially Alex. So you have no idea how much I was looking forward to getting out of there, at least for a while," he explained with a sigh at the end.

No one said anything for a while and just as Evan looked at Ryan, Josh looked at Kieran, knowing that if anyone was going to give an honest but still thoughtful answer, it would be the two of them.

"I still think you should confront him. What he's doing is stupid, and I honestly think he trusts you too much. You could easily expose his secret to the world or tell him he's crazy and thus destroy his chances of being with you, even though he obviously wants it," Ryan finally spoke and then quickly added, "Trust is probably too strong a word given the situation, but you get the picture."

"I think now is the time for Josh's questions," Kieran chimed in. "I honestly have no idea how a relationship between a supernatural being and a human is supposed to work, so I have no idea what to tell you," he admitted.

"I only know what Ryan and Evan have told me, so..." Rory trailed off and the eyes of the three humans shifted to the three werewolves present.

"It's complicated," Ryan said first. "In the case of wolves, relationships with humans are rare, in the case of vampires and witches, not so much. Most vampires drink the blood of their bounds, and I think witches also draw some kind of energy from their weaves, but I have no idea how exactly it works."

"I wasn't even sure that witches and vampires existed until Ryan confirmed it for me, so I'm not really able to answer your questions." Evan held up his hands defensively. If he admitted something like that to the wolves, they'd probably laugh at him for his lack of interest in the supernatural world. With his friends, however, that wasn't a threat, and not just because he still knew more than they did.