16 Catatonic Submissions (Title Subject to Change)

Prolog

A/N: This was actually my first story to take to pen. I had a lot already written up in notes and chapters and even an outline. Unfortunately, other stories were advised more interesting than this one so I put it all on the backburner. Now howerver, I feel I neeed to at least get what I already wrote out there. Like before... This is also just to weed out writer's block.

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Wayzata Eastern Pack: Council Headquarters

"Are you out of your freaking Mind?" Emily's fist meets the top of the Alpha Bob's solid oak desk with a resounding thud. "You're not seriously thinking about doing this are you?" Emily's voice is starting to rise above her Alpha's and the three eldest members of the council who were all in attendance to this private meeting took a step back. "If you think for one cockamamie minute I'm just going to allow you to do what you wish with my daughter, you have another thing coming, BOB...", she said it very condescending, intentionally leaving out his title. He had lost any respect she might have held for the guy.

Maybe shouting at him wasn't the best idea, but it was better then what she wanted to do. The urged to reach across the table and tear out each one of their own testicles through their throats was just too tempting to dismiss.

Shaking her head, Emily tried hard to comprehend all the current 'Plans' the counsel and alpha Bob had decided they had the right to do. When had they started thinking that they actually have any say so in this matter? For them to believe that they had a right to choose what future her daughter would be given, was so outrageous, so ridiculous that she couldn't wrapped her mind around it. Not only did this a matter affected her daughter's life, but it also affected the lives of three other people who currently wasn't present to give their own opinion on the matter. Not that Bob's son would really object to this, but what about his mate, Charlene? Did she not get a say in the matter? Or whoever her daughter's mate was, did he get a say in it? No, he didn't and he had the most to lose in this so called hair-brain idea.

"Now, now Emily" Bob interjected, "There is no reason you should be flying off the handle and damaging my furniture. Just calm down. No one here is saying that this is something that needs to be done right away. She's sixteen so we don't need to rush into this arrangement immediately. We can wait until she turns seventeen in six months. She'll just have to stay inside the pack's territory until then." Bob stated as it as if there was nothing wrong with the proposal he laid out for her daughter. They were all insane.

Clearly they were all on something, otherwise good common sense would have been obvious to recognize here. But she knew better than to try and argue that point to any of them. Lately, both her alpha and some of the council members had been overstepping their authority, especially in regards to her daughter Penn. The authority they claimed with their positions as Alpha and council members were going straight to their heads. It was obviously what they wanted, her daughter Penn. Total control over her, and her special gift.

Their presumed entitlement and dominance was now at suffocating levels.

"Honey, let's go home and give some time to think about what the Alpha and the council members are suggesting." Emily's head snapped towards her mate, her obvious disbelief washed over her features. John swallowed hard but continued ahead, "It's not something we should be getting upset over right now. How about for now, we go home and schedule something for next week to discuss this matter further. Give the idea some time to sink in. Find out what all the details will actually be. It might not be as bad as your imagining right now. Let's get Penn on this and see if this is something she might like to do. For all we know, she might even like the idea."

When the smile he held didn't result in the positive reaction he was hoping from his mate, he sighed. When his mate looked like she wasn't going to let the matter, he tugged on her arm. "Come on Ems. Let's just go."