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A Dark Moon [Vampire07 & Eyesoffire]

"Sure." Joe said and got up, off the bench. He thanked the man and walked to where the carriage would be waiting. Within a couple of minutes a carriage pulled up, it was quite lavish, the horse was a large shire breed and the old man who was driving it gave them a very happy grin. "Get in, get in!" He said happily, waving at them. "No time like the present, eh?" He laughed and watched them seat themselves. He urged the horse to take off, for a while as they walked the old man laughed and joked about how this was the finest profession in town. Joe listened, smiling a little. "You two young lovers new to one another, or have you been seeing each other for some time?" He asked cheerfully.
 
Lillian sat with Joe with her curling up under his arm with the old man asking about them. "Been seeing eachother for awhile. My fiance decided to bring me up here for a special night out. So far he hasn't disappointed me." He really hadn't disappointed ehr aat all just back peple around them. Lillian was use to the pack life that she had a hard time adapting to new people around her. Closing her eyes as she kissed Joe's ear gently.
 
"Fiance?" Joe whispered back into her ear with a smile on his face. "I got promoted?" He joked.
The carriage moved around the streets and into a nearby park. It was clear that the park was a well funded and well tended one. The tress were healthy and the placed looked gorgeous. Under the moon the foliage had a blue-ish hue to it and pink flowers looked purple-ish as the gently rubbed against Lillian's cheek while the carriage moved by them. The ornate lamps were out, allowing for only moonlight and starlight to guide them, but the driver knew where he was going and moved quietly on, singing softly to himself.

"I love you so much." Joe whispered.
 
Lillian swatted his chest when he questioned he was promoted. "I love you too...What made you think you weren't my fiance?" She asked in a soft voice as she assumed they were labeled in the human world as such but they were commited to eachother. "I mean we're committed to eachother then why not take that title?" She asked softly to him with her cupping his cheek. The petals from the hanging branches fell about in her hair as if the driver knew which flowers were ready to fall. The soft pink orange flowers dotted her hair giving off a soft frangance.
 
"Because I haven't exactly proposed." Joe said, chuckling. "We're different though, we don't need marriage in our lives. You're my mate, my fiancée, whatever you want to call it, I'll love you all the same." He kissed her lips and took a petal off of her hair and placed it on her nose. "But seriously, I'm glad I got promoted." Joe grinned.

As time passed the driver began to take them to various places. Once they got through the park they moved to the waterfront where they could see the city lights reflect upon the water. The skyline was beautiful and Joe stared out across it all as he held Lillian close. "We should come back in the winter...go skating...make snowmen, have a snowball fight."
 
"The children will enjoy it." She said as she cuddled up against him while she looked over the water front. Though yawning as she curled up to him as tight as she could with the air getting chilly. "Sir, mind taking us back. Its getting late." She said seeing him nodding and made his way back to the restaurant. Once there one of the Vallets helped her down as the other rushed off to get Joe's car.

When the car was brought around Lillian kissed Joe. "This had been a wonderful night. Perhaps you and I can make this a weekend thing for us. To get away from the others and its just you and me...No worries."
 
"I'd love to do that." Joe said and started the car. The drive back home was calming, Joe was tired as well and he moved as quickly as he could.

Once back at the town he parked the car and noticed that Lillian was still curled up, trying to avoid the cold. He moved to her side, opened her door and picked her up, carrying her into the house and onto the bed. He took off her shoes and the necklace she wore and placed in back in the back. Joe changed as well and moved to be beside Lillian on the bed. "You going to get out of that dress, sleepyhead?"
 
Lillian giggled as he helped her out of her shoes. This brought memories of her mother helping her when she was a child. "Nah! I was going to sleep in it." Smiling as she got to her feet pulling the dress off then noticed the trail of flowers lead from the door to their bed. Tonight may have started out rough but it ended wonderfully. Hanging her dress up as she was left in her laced thong. Walking over she pulled him to bed with her pulling the blankets over them. "So tomorrow is the feast. Its going to be wild tomorrow." She said softly with her getting warm under the blankets with him.
 
"I assume so." Joe said, moving closer to Lillian and hugged her in her arms. He moved into the big spoon position and kissed the back of her neck. "But I think the wilder it gets the better it's going to be. I know Dustin and Malik are going to prefer it when it's wild, Tyson will just allow the pups to climb over is big body probably." Joe chuckled. "I wish we did this earlier...spending the night out like this. I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful thing than you tonight. You still smell of those flowers, babe."
 
With him spooning her she closed her eyes. "Well next time we can go in the day light and I can collect those flowers." She said with her yawning. She didn't bother to get a shirt on as she laid there with him topless and in her panties. Slowly she pulled his arms tight around her as if she didn't want him to let her go. Soon she was asleep.

When morning came she was still asleep with her hanging on to Joe but the sounds of music woke her up. The crash of a drum startled her to the point she was wide awake. Sitting up she looked around as the cool air hit her breasts making her nipples erect. "What the hell?!" She rubbed her eyes as she moved around Joe and pulled on one of his shirt and went down stairs. There she saw outside the bay window the children who had grown were chasing eachother, races, water ballon fights. For the adults there was football and frisbee. Lillian laughed softly but she noticed a repaired large stereo blaring music out for everyone to enjoy. From time to time she'd hear children's music being played. "They thought of everything."

Walking back up stairs with her stripping from his shirt she slipped a pair of fresh panties on followed by gym shorts and a tank top. Once dressed she slipped outside joining in on the frisbee game. Tyson was setting the long row of picnic tables up then when he was done he rushed to join the football game. Since the town was close to the river the women were out wrestling in the waters.
 
Joe was a deeper sleeper than Lillian and he took a while to get up, but eventually the music got to him and he awoke as well. He looked down to see that Lillian was gone, but heard the music and the laughing. He frowned and got up, pulled on a shirt and pants before moving outside. He looked to see the entire place busy with activity. The pack was enjoying themselves, playing games and running around chasing one another. He had a look of confusion on his face but he turned to see some of the members placing some snacks out.

Joe moved through the crowd to find Lillian and ask her if she'd planned any of this, but he couldn't see where she was, he hadn't checked the Frisbee game yet. He moved near the river and found Dana. "Dana! Who...who set all of this up?" Joe asked her, looking around, noticing everyone having fun. He smiled. "It's incredible, I honestly never expected anything like this." He said to her.
 
Dana was in her two piece suit as she was ono a beach blanket with drinks for the little ones who were learning to swim or splashing in the shallows. "Well you two planned this all. Don't you remember?" She asked with her sitting up to turn to look at him with confusion on her face. "When you told us of the feast we all came up with things to do. Some girls are playing football, some of the pack is here, another set is playing with the frisbees...Wasn't this all about the pack coming together?" She asked but heard a child crying. Looking over seeing a father or step father holding his daughter who didn't want to get into the water. Watching as the father slowly dipped her toes into the water and the crying slowly stopped then she was kicking the cold waters. "We figured to bring the kids out here to learn how to swim since its nearly fall."
 
"You've got a point." He said to her, looking around, trying to find Lillian. "She called me her fiancée..." He admitted to Dana. "I mean Lillian...I took her to the city, we went on a first date, turned out to be a moonlight carriage ride. She introduced me as her fiancée." He sat down beside Dana. "I never really expected Lillian to be thinking about a position like that...like she wants to get married." He smiled. "Werewolves don't get married. We've mated...that's enough to tell me that I'm her's. I don't need a fancy title like that." He looked at Dana. "I love her with all my heart, I'm actually happy she called me her fiancée...but I mean to ask you, because you're a female as well, does that mean she's different in any way, changing or something? I just don't want to be confused, I don't want you to think I don't like being called a fiancée, because I do."
 
Listening to him as she noticed he searched for Lillian. "Joe, Lillian knows how to blend in to the human world and if all go around throwing the word Mate in their world then it would alert them that WE'RE not like them. Its a defensive move to keep you both safe. IF she was different she'd tell you to get the hell out of her house and she'd find a different mate." She pointed out but she had noticed a change.

"You're not the only one whose noticed she's changed. Since our home went up in flames she doesn't seem like our Lillian. She's more beast than anything else. While you were gone she stayed in the forest and when we came across her kills they were bigger than avised for a single female wolf to take. I'm talking about mooses and she laid her scent very heavily on the bushes so we left the carcass alone." Dana sighed as she didn't want to tell him this but he needed to know. "She may not be exactly the same woman you became mates with its like part of her human side was killed so she could free you. Since then she didn't want to come near Fiona or any child like she couldn't bring herself to hold a child."
 
"She held Rosie in her arms quite often the day before yesterday." Joe said, looking at Diana. "We went into the basement to mate, I never got a chance to release." He frowned. "am I going to have to treat her like a beast? Be aggressive when we mate to show her that her mate can keep up with her wolf side?" He asked Dana. "Because when we went out last night she seemed like the old Lillian, pulling me into bed and curling up beside me as I held her in my arms."

"She doesn't need to get this out through sex," He locked eyes with Dana. "Does she?"
 
Dana shrugged. "I don't know whats going on. We all went through hell but I think she took the biggest hit like you did. Both of you know what you were hit with. We don't but as a pack we assume." She said softly as she grabbed his hand knowing he was searching for answers for how to handle his mate, her best friend, their alpha. Reaching up she cupped his cheek then kissed him softly.

"Not everything can be solved with sex." Smirking at her own comment. "I would suggest to go find her and talk to her but if you think she's the same old Lillian then drop it all."

The frisbees game ended for Lillian as she helped with getting the food out on the tables. The whole time she didn't touch a child or go running to them when they scaped their knees since their mothers were nearby. At this moment she felt like she was a stranger looking in on this world yet she was part of it. This was something she couldn't explain or even try to explain since she didn't know where to start. Sitting at the picnic table as pitchers of lemonade were brought out along with kool-aid with her looking at the children letting her thoughts wander off.
 
Lillian would suddenly feel two hands tug on her hips slightly and Joe come from behind her and gave her a hug. He didn't care if she was sweaty from a game of Frisbee. He kissed her cheek and nuzzled into her neck. "I was looking for you, I found Dana and she told me how everyone pitched in to set all of this up." He whispered. Joe moved to sit beside her and held her hand with one of his own, though the other hand was certainly holding something.

"Dana and I had a talk, Lillian. She told me you'd changed since the fire, grown more distant, like you were losing the old Lillian I fell in love with." He pressed his forehead against her own. "I can see that sometimes." He moved his closed hand over to her. "But last night, I saw a bit of the old Lillian when we went out." Joe smiled, "The way you felt when I touched you, how you smelt..." He tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear. "And this." He opened his hand to show her a petal from one of the flowers that had been caught in her hair and fallen on the floor. "When you looked at these I knew the old Lillian was still inside of you." He placed the flower in her hand and suddenly kissed her passionately, forcing her back so that she was laying down on the bench with Joe on top of her.

Joe pulled away and smiled. "I'm still so in love with you." He ran his finger over her lower lip, not caring about whether people were watching. "You know that, right?"
 
She was caught off guard but she smiled softly at him nuzzling then he went on saying Dana told him she wasn't herself. "Excuse me?" She asked in a cold voice but she listened to him talk of him seeing the old self here and there. Seeing the petal that had fallen from her hair then he suddenly kissed her which forced her back on the bench with him on top of her.

"I know you love me." She said with her pushing him off of her so she could sit up and talk to him. "I don't feel the same old Lillian you fell in love with." She looked down as it was time to tell him what she could. "After everything I felt like I was falling apart and I didn't want anyone to see that so I stayed in the forest. The person I could let my guard down was gone perhaps for good and I felt like I couldn't be a woman with the pack so I had to make a decision. Either give up on being human like with emotions and such or able human and lose even more." She said with her looking at him with sadden eyes. "So I became hard to help you and allow you to make your choice and return as a pack leader assuming you wouldn't return. Hell, I can't trust myself alone with a child after what I've done. Also don't get that confused with me ordering you to take the pups with you on your rabbit run. I couldn't keep a close on on those two plus the food."

She sat there looking down at the petal he had placed in her hand. "Thats only part of what I figured out whats going on with myself. Everything was happening so fast that I couldn't wrap my mind around it as it was happening so I'm still trying to wrap my mind around why I'm still defensive against you and children."
 
"I guess it would too easy an answer to just say 'don't be defensive.'" Joe said softly, looking at the petal as well, drawn to it from Lillian's eyeline. "But Lillian...isn't the choice you made about becoming hard to give me a choice part of who the old Lillian is? I mean it was the old Lillian that decided to make that choice because of circumstances and no one else. So, what I'm saying is that you've not abandoned old Lillian, you're still my Lillian, you've just adapted to new circumstances." Joe smiled at her. "I mean, the best we can do it remain positive in these situations, right? To keep on living like we were meant to and not look back. You're fine with pups, you're the one who tells me what to do with them, I mean come on, you're the female, you're naturally good with them." He cupped her cheek. "And so what if you're harder on the pack now, I don't think any less of you, babe."
 
"Joe..." She was ready to tell him she still felt like a villian for killing his child but how could she? He wouldn't understand or would he try to understand? Hell his child from another woman wouldn't be the next alpha, her child would. With her eyes falling to the table top as she went silent with her mind slowly unwrapping old ideas and getting hold of another one. "Its getting close to call everyone in to eat." She said as she smiled softly to him. Since the whole taking care of the children and getting the feast together she hadn't kept track if she's been taking the herb.

Shortly everyone was coming to the picnic tables and taking their seats with little ones sitting on a large blanket with soft foods in large bowls. Soon plates were passed around with cups to get their share of different foods.
 
Joe nodded, though he knew Lillian was going to say something. But she knew her priorities, they had a feast to dig into, and such a happy occasion wasn't going to get spoiled because Joe wanted a few questions answered. He smiled at Lillian and got up to get people to eat. Soon enough everyone was at the large picnic tables, sharing food, laughing and eating heartedly.

Joe sat by Lillian and he looked up from his food at her, then wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him. "Leave the past behind us." He whispered into her ear and kissed her.
 
Lillian cupped his cheek with her looking into his eyes. "Easier said than done, Joe." She said before he kissed her. "Though I'm trying to work past one event. It'll take time." She nuzzled against him with her plate already empty as she ate everything. Her stomach was full but she looked behind them seeing the children were eattign then suddenly one of them threw food at another child starting a baby food fight. Laughing at the site of this and mothers came in to put a stop to it but they were covered in baby food when they managed to get the pups to stop. "Messy things. Still want children?" Lillian asked with her looking at Joe.
 
"With you, yes." He responded and looked back at the mothers cleaning themselves and their pups up. "Though...maybe not for a while. I'd rather have them when everything is settled around her." He looked back at Lillian and pursed his lips. "And when you are completely happy."

Joe was about to say more when suddenly something came crashing through the trees. It was a werewolf in his wolf form, he was missing an arm, he had a bruised eye and several broken needles sticking out of his back and neck. He was breathing heavily and bleeding all over the grass. He gasped only two words; "Help! Torture!"

Then fell down, silent.
 
Lillian was leaning in to kiss his cheek when the werewolf came crashing through the trees. The women with children grabbed them up then ran. The rest moved transforming to form a line. Though Lillian wasn't among them when she heard the werewolf comment on torture. "Medic!" She yelled out as one of the women who transformed ran to the werewolf wrapping his arm tightly while the males grabbed chains. This one was bigger than Tyson and they weren't going to take a chance of this wild one to kill them in their sleep.

Lillian walked up to the out cold wolf seeing needles and watched as the nurse transformed into her human form to tend to the massive creature.
 
Joe transformed as well and helped the males carry the large werewolf into a house that doubled as a sick bay. He knew the nurse would do all she could he just wondered if it would be enough. Joe called for water and bandages to stop the bleeding from his arm. They patched him up as quickly as possible and waited until the werewolf came around.

It wasn't until 2 days later that he opened his eyes and grunted due to how stiff he was. He got up and growled, aching all over. Joe, Tyson, Malik, Dustin and Lillian were looking at him. He towered over them, even Tyson had to look up. The werewolf, which had brown fur, looked down at them and sighed. "Thank you." He said weakly, as the nurse brought him water. "You need to leave, now..." He whispered weakly and drank the water, much of it falling out of his jaws.
 
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