Bonded to the Bear

by Fay Walsh

  Chrys rolled her eyes and waved her off, leaving outside the door. Though her sister was the same, there were still moments that she would wake up in the night with panic attacks, and it worried Harmony.

  She’ll tell us when she’s ready. That’s all that matters.”

  Harmony moved some of the things around the hotel room, the furniture was placed back to its original position, and the hotel maids managed to get some of the smell of blood out of the room.

  When Harmony grabbed the pillow from one of the beds, something collided out of it and fell to the floor. When she looked down she saw that it was a large brown book.

  Harmony furrowed her brows and picked it up, the weight of the book in her hands was slightly heavy when she did, but she held it securely in her hands.

  “What is this?”

  Sticking out of the book was a piece of paper, Harmony curiously took the folded slip of paper from the binds of the notebook. She tucked the heavy book underneath her arm and unfolded the letter in her hands so she could read the unfamiliar scripted handwriting.

  Dear Harmony,

  It was certainly a pleasure to have met you and we are sorry to have left so soon. Our feelings on Shifters are still undecided, despite our willingness to help your Roan. You have definitely given us much to think about and we won’t forget what you have taught us, as much as we hope you or Chrys won’t forget what we have taught you.

  We have given you Mary and John Ashur’s journals, yes your parents. This is where they wrote personal letters to themselves, each other, notes about the supernatural, and things they had learned over the years. There are also a few passages written to their children – I suppose they wanted you two to one day see this, but they entrusted this book to us for safe keeping.

  Treasure this, for this is a Hunter’s greatest treasure and is their strength, helping them solve the mysteries that surround them. We hope, maybe, the next time that we meet it is under better circumstances. You have our numbers. Do not worry, Finn is taken care of and you won’t be seeing him.

  Take care, Harmony, and Chrysanthemum Ashur – Stay sharp and always use your instincts.

  - From your fellow Hunters,

  Helga and Klaus Wulfe

  Harmony grinned and folded the letter back to its original fold. She removed the book from underneath her arm and looked at it, in gold printed letters were her parent's initials. She smiled and rubbed her thumb over the soft leather, suddenly a warm feeling brushed over Harmony and it was as if her parents were with right then and there.

  A car beeped outside twice.

  Harmony held the book close to her hand and raced outside, down the steps to an impatient Chrys in the passenger seat.

  She furrowed her brows at the item in her sister’s hand.

  “What’s that?”

  Harmony grinned and handed it to her.

  “A little something from our parents,” she said as she started the car and drove away from the motel to their new life.

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  Chapter 1

  The late bell rang as Chrysanthemum rushed down the school hallways to make it to her class. It was already three weeks into the school year, and she had slept through her alarm six times. Her sister, Harmony, had even been worried about letting her stay home while she went on vacation with her fiancé, but Chrys told her that she could handle it.

  Harmony would be blowing a spigot, if she found out. Chrys thought to herself as she turned the corner, running past a row of lockers and to her classroom. Then, again she wouldn’t be too keen if she knew what I was doing either.

  For the past weeks, after discovering that she came from a line of Hunter’s; humans that hunted down Shifters and supernatural creatures, she was taking up the family business – except she wasn’t hunting or killing them but bringing rogues in for questioning.

  Harmony stood in front of her class room. Her breathing was erratic, and her chest heaved up and down as she stared into the room. Her classmates were already sitting down and listening to her teacher, Mrs. Webster, speak. She grabbed the door knob and turned its handle.

  Just like in the movies, as if she had just jumped out with a box of chickens, the entire classroom turned their attention to Chrys. Immediately heat began to rise off of her skin at being the center of attention.

  “Miss Ashur, late again, are we?”

  Chrys turned to Mrs. Webster, who pushed her wire-rimmed glasses on top of her straight nose. She had a librarian kind of look with her side bob haircut and her dark brown eyes that narrowed at her as if she could transmit ‘disapproving vibes’ to Chrys.

  “Er, sorry, about that Mrs. Webster,” Chrys mumbled. Some of the students chuckled. “I just slept through my alarm… Again.”

  Mrs. Webster made another notion of disapproval, this time by making a grunting sound.

  “Yes, again, may I remind you that you came in the middle of the semester. If you insist on being late I will have to put you in remedial English – Now please take your seat and try not to disturb the class more than you have already.”

  Chrys sulked to herself and walked through the rows of desk students sat at until she got to her seat near the back, where a girl with medium length orange hair sat near her seat. She sat next to her and plopped her bookbag in between her legs.

  “Well, that was just brutal,” the orange haired girl whispered. She looked out the corner of her eye, darting her thick lashes up at the teacher to make sure she didn’t hear them. “Why don’t you just get Kai to write you a slip to excuse you for being late?”

  Chrys sighed and took out her notebook and pen from her bookbag to take notes. “I don’t want to take advantage of Kai, Connie. This is on me, as my sister would say.”

  Connie snorted. “Yeah, dating the Beta, who is crazy in love with you, by the way. I don’t think he would take that as taking advantage.”

  Mrs. Webster turned around and peered into the back. Connie and Chrys pressed their lips together to stifle their laughter.

  “I just need to be more on top of things if I’m going to continue Hunting.”

  Chrys quickly wrote down notes as the teacher talked and wrote down quotes from Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and said that the book would be on the test.

  “Alright, Fine… So, that begs the question are me, you, and Jonas going out tonight, Hunting?”

  Again, Mrs. Webster turned around and she glared at the girls in the back.

  “Do not make me separate you two girls. This is important.”

  Once she turned around, Connie stretched out her leg, and gently tapped Chrys with her foot. Chrys looked at her and winked, indicating that they would be Hunting, again.

  ***

  The bell rang and indicated that the period class was over. Mrs. Webster shouted for e
veryone to brush up on their readings, but the students rushed past her, and left out the door. Connie and Chrys were the last to the leave out of the classmate.

  “I hope you won’t sleep through your alarm next time, Chrysanthemum,” Mrs. Webster snidely said as she sat at her desk.

  Chrys gave her a wide smile and said, “Course, not Mrs. Webster. It won’t happen again.”

  Mrs. Webster glared at Chrys sensing that she was being sarcastic, but Connie grabbed her friend by the arm and pulled out of her classroom.

  “Are you trying to get into detention?”

  But Connie was laughing as they walked through the throngs of students that were making their way to their lockers and their next period classes. Chrys had to squeeze in-between a couple making out and a group of jocks that gathered in a circle.

  “So, where’s the next group of rogues located?” Connie asked, bring her voice to a whisper as they rounded the corner.

  Ever since her sister mated with the Alpha of a Herd and finding an enemy in Roan’s brother; a newly named rogue, there have been more rogue attacks and interventions for a few weeks. Since Roan was indisposed at the time, the decision fell to his Beta, Kai.

  “I did overhear when Kai was speaking with some of the Herd that rogues have been gathering around Sydney; specifically a bar there, that could be where they mainly hang out.”

  “A bar, classy, definitely seems rogue-like.” They stop at their lockers and Chrys opens hers, switching a few books and notebooks, for the class that she needed for next period. “So, how do we apprehend them? Since it’s a bar, I could have Jonas play my boyfriend, who acts really douchey and they’ll come to “comfort me” but I’ll kick their ass when I get them cornered.”

  Chrys shrugged her shoulder and nodded in approval. “That’s an excellent idea, rogues always have some kind of inferiority complex, and have to feel like the big man.”

  Connie snorted. “Isn’t that why they went rogue anyway? They wanted dominance and power for themselves.”

  The girls closed their lockers and headed back the same way so they could head upstairs to their class.

  “Yeah, but the only thing I’m questioning about this is… Jonas might not, fit the role.”

  Both girls laugh at this, imagining their young friend, though he was training under Kai, he had a shy exterior about him that wouldn’t seem threatening.

  “They’ll probably think you started it,” Chrys said as they climbed the stairs.

  “You know we could always ask Kai? He’s went on one or two missions with us and he could definitely pull of that look we need.”

  “Hey!” Chrys laughed, hitting Connie playfully, who grinned like they a Cheshire cat. “… But he’s probably busy anyway, training the Younglings, but we probably couldn’t argue on cue like that anyway.”

  Connie wiggled her brows and casually spelled out love in a sing song way. Chrys blushed at the comment and the fiery feeling that grew in her chest when she thought or talked about Kai expanded throughout her body. Her attention was so preoccupied on her feeling, that she didn’t see someone coming up to her, where they intentionally bumped into her.

  “Hey, what the hell!” Connie shouted, catching Chrys before she could fall over. Chrys stands upright and looked at the person who bumped into her, she rolled her eyes when she saw who it was.

  “Really, Kathy? Bumping into me now? Don’t you think that’s some 90s sitcom crap.”

  Kathy, the school’s head cheerleader, and continuous homecoming queen. She had straight brown hair and her face was lightly painted with make-up. She carried herself like a primadonna and with all the baggage of a spoiled child. Her two cronies stood behind her with their arms crossed over their chest, with matching bandages on their noses, indicating they got plastic surgery like their leader.

  “Or maybe you should watch, Chrysanthemum. You need to take your high-end trashy self and know who really runs this place,” Kathy snapped at Chrys.

  “I really don’t think you want to run this game with me,” Connie said stepped toward Kathy, she growled under her throat, and the act made Kathy and her cronies eyes wide, backing up.

  “Not worth it, Connie.”

  Chrys, knowing full well, that she could turn if she wanted to, held her friend back with her arm; as much as she wanted to scare the piss out of Kathy, she couldn’t let the Herd be exposed this way.

  Kathy and her posse all started to laugh, seeing that Connie wasn’t going to attack them in anyway.

  “If you think you think sending out your body guard to fight your battles will get you into the cheer squad you have it coming for you.”

  Chrys smiled and winked at her, catching Kathy slightly off guard.

  “And I think I can still kick your ass, but knowing you, you’ll probably have daddy buy you a stunt double, so it doesn’t ruin your plastic surgery.” She turned to look at the brunette cronies behind their master. “Isn’t that right, Thing One and Two?”

  Connie brought up her middle finger and stuck out her tongue. Chrys hooked her arm through Connie’s and dragged her away, the last she could see of Kathy was her face turning red with anger and stomped away furiously with her two lackey’s running behind her.

  “Gosh, what a bitch,” Connie mumbled under her breath as they kept going. “I have no idea why you want to join a superficial group like the cheerleading squad.”

  Chrys chuckled and shrugged her shoulders. “I never got the chance before and now I really want to shove it in Kathy’s face.”

  “And I will be right there to take pictures and video everything.”

  Chrys’ phone vibrated in her pocket and she stopped moving to remove it. The text message was a picture of her sister and Roan at the beach, she had her arm around neck, and he kissed her as they both looked at the camera.

  Chrys grinned at the photo, glad that her sister was having fun, but there was pang in her chest; she missed her sister and after giving her such a hard time, after finding out the reason why she moved them around, made her want to be a better sister.

  “Who’s that?” Connie said, she craned her neck over Chrys’ shoulder. “Is that Harmony and the Alpha? They look good, they look like they’re having fun.”

  Chrys put her phone back in her pocket and looked up at the oak wood door of the classroom they stood in front.

  “Yeah, they do, but here’s your classroom – I’ll see you at lunch?”

  “Yup, I’ll save you a seat.”

  The two girls briefly hugged and Chrys headed down the hallway to her next classroom. Thankfully, the walkways were thinning out, and she wouldn’t have to be late.

  Chapter 2

  When she rounded the corner and headed for the first door on the right, she entered into her science class, and noticed that a guy with spiky brown hair sat at the rectangular desk where she normally sat. He was wearing a blue and yellow Letterman’s jacket, with his face into a book.

  Chrys slowly crept toward him and once she reached the desk, she reached out her knuckles to rap the top of it. It pulled his attention away from the book and the guy looked up at her with bright azure blue eyes.

  “Oh, hey, Chrys – fancy seeing you here… Wait, am I in your spot?”

  Chrys rolled her eyes and ushered with her hand so he could slide his chair. Not all of the students were in the classroom and so she grabbed a metal stool that was beside them.

  “I thought you’re the one that barely comes to class,” Chrys said and jutted her chin to him in a mocking way. “Doesn’t your dad, like, want you to quit school and work the family business?”

  Nathan was Chrys’ friend. The two had met one day in detention when Chrys had been late and Nathan hadn’t been in school for three months.

  Nathan waved the comment off and grinned. “I practically do what I want, anyway. My brother picks up my slack.” He closed his book and shifted it off to the side.

  “But Wuthering Heights, though? Impressive, I won’t lie, I can’t get past t
he first chapter… or the first page, really.”

  “We could have a book club, if you like, it would give me an excuse to hang out with you more, but… it looks like you pulled an all-nighter, what happened? Didn’t you get any sleep?”

  Chrys’ eyes widened and touched her eyes with her fingers. Damn it, I thought the tired lines weren’t noticeable. She dropped her hands and stretched her lips into a tight smile, quickly thinking of a lie.

  “Yeah… Me and my friends stayed out late, I just slept through my alarm; that’s all.”