Fed Up #7
“Has anyone noticed I never tell you my name? What am I saying? You’re Hackura…
of course you notice. You notice everything.
Obnoxiously so sometimes… it’s so complicated being your friend…
but you make me feel a little bit like home…
that’s probably selfish… but I do help you too…
so it’s not a total one sided thing… actually I help a lot… I’m helpful… that’s a thing that I am.”
I put my head in my hands. Drunk me continued, “You guys stop looking like that! I do help. I totally do… Laxenread has been helping you guys, right? I worked really hard on it.” I yelled, “STOP TALKING OTHER ME!”
Drunk me stared at me, before saying “Ummm rude. I just want to know because… I worked so hard on it. I bet Cayden would like the contacts I developed. Well, so would Micah. I tried to tell Levi about them when we met, but T made me go home.”
“Then… I didn’t get to talk about them… I bet Levi would like them if he didn’t hate me so much now… it shouldn’t hurt my feelings as bad as it does… but Levi was one of T’s best friends… and I actually got to meet him.”
I sighed, “Levi would like them, and Cayden already has them… so he does like them. Levi does not hate you. Please stop talking.” EJ said, “EXCUSE ME?! LADYBUG DEVELOPED LAXENREAD?!” Xander held her tighter.
Drunk me giggled, “Say… Xander… Can we just pretend you don’t hate and you’re mine for real? Just for my birthday? Please don’t reject me on my birthday… that’s super mean. You’re not mean… and I just want you to hold off for my birthday.”
Xander growled, “WHAT?!” Haley asked, “Eric, I’m not even going to attempt to say this calmly. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?” Eric was staring at me while I used my index fingers to rub my temples.
The other me sighed when no one answered. She stepped away from Alexander and grabbed her backpack. Drunk me pulled out the bottle of vodka she’d been working on. She started to chug it before anyone could stop her.
The other me started crying, “Go ahead then… reject me… maybe it will hurt less since I’m sauced. Will I lose my wolf? I just got her. She insists she is my wolf… she says that’s who is talking to me… along with the other electric version of me.”
Drunk me pouted, “Why am I not electric? That would be SO handy… but you don’t have to reject me since I have a wolf… maybe Beta Jason would take it all back…. That seems like an option… that me has a mark… so… some reality figured it all out. We could too.”
Xander growled, “I’m not rejecting you, you’re mine.” Drunk me argued, “But you promised Beta…” I interrupted, “He didn’t, it was all a lie. Besides, we had our loophole ready to go.” She tilted the bottle to me saying, “Truth.”
Cayden asked, “What goddamn loophole?” I answered, “Umm… the alias we have.” Xander yanked drunk me back into his arms, and she started smelling him again. Xander turned to me asking, “Who lied to her? What the motherfucking HELL is going on?”
Cayden said, “Great question, Alexander. SERIOUSLY, you have NO IDEA how good of a question that is. I’ve been waiting for that girl to slip up and admit she’s in the Resistance since I met her. Which she just did.”
The other me said, “In it? Gosh… that’s a way to put it. I mean… I….” I jumped in, “Please STOP talking… about that. Mention literally anything else.” She sighed. I told her, “You can keep smelling your Xander. You want to do that anyway.” Drunk me smiled and went back to doing that.
Cayden narrowed his gaze on me asking, “What was she going to say?” I raised an eyebrow, “Is that really on the list of questions we want to cover right now? GOSH DANG IT! How do I go back to my reality, and get out of here? I fixed our lives. You guys will go in and take out Black Path and get my friends out… everything is fixed. Why am I still here?”
Haley answered, “Because apparently, you have more to tell us.” Micah said, “Not to throw stones or anything, but I’d guess you have to tell us things along the lines of more of the things she’s developed. Like the contacts we have. That would be good to know.”
Haley said, “Or someone could tell me what the heck you would need contacts for.” I explained, “I developed contacts that don’t show eye color change… well here it was her, but I did it too… this is so weird.”
“Anyway… if you guys were on a mission and you got mad… it wouldn’t matter if you could control it or not your eyes could go gold without outing who you were. The contacts would keep others from seeing any color but the color you choose your eyes to be.
My contacts had helped Kingsley. Her eyes go purple, but with the colored contacts…
no one could see that. Cayden snorted “Yes, that does sound very helpful. Why is Melanie McAlister pretending to be Ashley Griffen?” The other me shouted, “Hey! I’m not pretending!
I had to pick a new name. Everyone hates me!
I picked a name so they would ALL know it was me… and no one gets it!”
I sighed, “They don’t hate you. It’s all a giant big fat Ring lie.
” The other me asked, “Xander… you’re not going to put me in the dungeons, are you?
I know I’m not supposed to be here… but I really don’t want to die.
I also can’t do small, enclosed spaces… I have panic attacks…
I don’t want to go back in the hole… please don’t make… please!”
Xander roared, “WHAT?! NO ONE is putting you in the dungeons or killing you. What is happening right now?” The other me sighed, “Is anyone else hot? Like not like… Xander’s body is like so hot…
seriously… I think I’m drooling… but I’m like a thousand degrees.
” She got out of Xander’s arms and took off her shirt.
My eyes widened as I shouted, “NO, DON’T!” Drunk me turned around and asked, “What?” Xander’s eyes blazed gold before he roared in anger and went to the ground. I cringed. The other me turned and put her hand on his back.
Drunk me asked, “What’s wrong with him?” Haley answered, “He’s getting his fucking wings.
” Seconds later Xander’s wings came out and he flew into the air.
I sighed, “Hey… other me…. unclasp your necklace that you think are our parents' wedding bands, and hand them to me gently.” She shrugged, “Sure.”
The other me slowly gave them to me then started laughing, “I’m seeing things like a movie reel. Weird.” I snorted, “The way to do this is definitely drunk. I’ll have to pass that along to other me’s.” Cayden hummed.
The other me asked, “Xander… can you fly me around? That’s really cool. I can’t fly. Now you can fly and the other me can electrocute people. Where are my cool powers?” Her Xander flew to the ground and picked her up.
EJ snapped her a t-shirt. Haley looked deathly pale now, and Elise was sobbing.
Xander flew her high up in the air while Drunk me squealed delightedly.
Cayden practically growled at me, “Do you have those scars too?” I answered, “Not anymore. Once Paige removed the magic on my back… Xander and Haley healed them.”
Elise sobbed, “What happened? She’s living her dream.
” I cringed, “Umm you need a Vampire to release Elise and Eric from their compulsions.” Eric was rubbing his head like it hurt him.
Haley popped away and came back with a vampire.
He quickly released Elise and Eric from said compulsions. Both were now crying.
Elise hugged me apologizing, “I’m so sorry.” I said, “It’s not your fault.” I heard Alpha Peter call, “Hey Elise, the Warriors pointed us over here when we asked where you were. Whose roar of anger shook my windows? What is going….?” He trailed off when he saw me.
Alpha Peter gasped, “Ladybug! You came home!” Xander came down from flying.
The other me said, “Yes, I did… but Xander said he wouldn’t put me in the dungeons.
You said he wasn’t mine… that he couldn't be a partial Hunter's mate… but he wants me, and I have a wolf now… So… doesn’t that change everything? I’m Drake McAlister’s biological daughter… . I have to be…”
The drunk me looked at me and sobbed, “Right? Alpha Peter is wrong… I have a wolf… Drake is my dad.” Alpha Peter asked, “Excuse me? What is happening? Of course Drake is your dad. That’s not really up for debate.”
I touched the other me’s shoulder assuring her, “Drake McAlister is our father. Your wolf was suppressed. Black Path lied to you… about… umm… everything. You were never talking to Alpha Peter or Jason. Mom, Dad, and Tristan aren’t dead either.”
The other me started laughing through her tears. She declared, “The other me is crazy. Or very wrong… though she was right about calling Xander… so… she’s just crazy. We should keep her though.” Alpha Peter stared at me.
Eventually my former Alpha yelled, “What the HELL is going on? Since when do you call your brothers by their given names?” He was released from his compulsion too.
Haley sighed, “Come on Sir Arthur. We need to go to Red Run and pop the McAlister’s back after you release them.
Then we get to come back for the shit show.
That SOMEONE will break down for me.” Everyone looked at me.
I sighed, “One day. Just one…. I want everyone to not look at me when something needs to be explained.” Cayden snorted, “Sadly, that day is not today. So now that I know you’re in the Resistance, I would very much like for you to get me in touch with your leader for a meeting.”
The other me cackled, “Granted.” I groaned, “Ugh….Seriously? Will you stop saying things… about that.” Drunk me laughed, “What would you like to talk to me about, Cayden?” I slapped my hand onto my own face. Elise gasped.
EJ shouted, “I’m sorry, what?!” Micah gasped, “You’re saying it’s you. YOU LEAD THE RESISTANCE?!” Drunk me tilted her head to the side and smiled and put her hand on her chin. I rolled my eyes.