Hollow's Creek Muses

Micah: Hardly sensitive, scrawny. I’m not saying I’ve been able to control it right away.. But I was also a half wolf for a long time, I’ve had time to adjust and accept it. 

Micah: want to keep reading to me from “The newly turned?” Handbook. I’m not stupid, I know this.

Micah: I’m not going to go to Aiden about this, because I do know what I’m doing. 

Micah: God, someone should tame you.  Would think getting married, would settle you down. But nope, still the same dumbass who has to contribute advice that no one asked for.  At this rate, the only person I want to hurt is you.  How about for once in your fucken life, you learn to shut up and process what you say to someone before you go flying of the handle like a lunatic. 

Micah: Have you thought about why there is reason, you don’t see me during full moons. Why my bar is always closed during those weeks.  Once again, I know what I am doing, I have it under control.  So really, thank you for the concern.  But at this point in time, it’s really not needed.

Micah: Just because you say no offence, doesn’t make it any less offensive. I’m hardly insane. Who says the wolf is wild and untamed?

Micah:  Aiden knows. But no, I’m not. Because surprise surprise, I can deal with this myself. 

Axel: 🙄 geez didn't know you were so sencitive. Sorry if I offended you. I do. There's no one in the history of werewolves that can say they got turned and learned to control right after. Axel: Even born wolves like me need guidance. Its the biggest change in our lives. Axel: Good. Aiden is the perfect preson to put sense in that fucking head.

Axel: No, you can't. Micah... This isnt just your life, man. Innocent people will get hurt because you act like a fucking Smart ass, and think you got this all figured out when you don't.

Axel: The last thing you want is to hurt someone because you're too fucked up to admit you need help. TRUST ME!

Micah: Hardly. 

Micah: I’m sure you can connect the dots yourself, surely you aren’t that stupid to figure out why a smell more wolf these days.

Micah: Right. If you say so. Micah: No, you are drawing it out. Rather than coming right out and say it.  Micah: Do you make it a habit of smelling people who aren’t your husband?

"Mmm, I think when we first got Avery, it's a little fucking embarassing to admit but, see, I never really wanted to be a dad, and then all the sudden I had to this little person to watch over, and he was... helpless, just a fucking baby, and I remember sitting there, watching him sleep and thinking I'm gonna have to do my best and if I thought I was doing good, being a better person, then I'd have to be even better, because this baby was here, and he was mine, a part of me, I'm gonna have to fucking protect him at all costs, and there was this feeling of just---pure fear and anxiety that I'm gonna fuck up, because... this is what I do, but I can't fuck up now, not for just little Ave, but for Nate too and the family we were building."

(Do you write a lot of letters)

(Last picture on your camara roll)

"I can't show you the last one, cause then you'll see a lot more than you fucking should! But! here's the one after that"

(Do you like Sports)

“With the risk of sounding ominous and ridiculous, I think it was my destiny to come here,” he sighed cause he wasn’t sure if it had been a good or a bad thing in the end. He couldn’t help to chuckle a little when Axel sniffed him trying to figure out what he was, “Not last time I checked… it’s been a few months but I’m now a Fae,” he said with a shrug, “I fell through the wrong portal I guess and it just happened… for the little I know about my kind I have always been this but the gene hadn’t activated until I crossed to the Fae realm,” it still sounded like a fantasy book to him to say it out loud. “Because you are a very likable person, Axel!” he chuckled, “I have a good feeling about you being a teacher, I think you have it in you,” he assured. “Yeah I am. Not as often as before but I’m still playing there, are you gonna be back playing at the club?”

“No, i get it, man, turst me, I left for a reason, a good fucking reason, and then, it didn’t matter where I looked, I could only find a job, doing what I wanted to do, here,” he explains, shaking his head a little, Axel never believed in destiny, not until he got here, at least, “So I decided to take a leap of faith, seems no matter how hard I try to run, I’ll always end up here,” he gestures around. “A fae?” Axel nods, it made sense the scent was strange to him, he didn’t think he had ever met one before, “I guess that’s why I was picking up and odd scent,” he nods again, “Huh, that sounds like a fucking adventure!” he chuckles, “Are you alright, though? last time we talked you knew nothing about the supernatural wolrd, and I know how fucked up it can be waking up to something like that,” it wasn’t his case, he was born into it, but he had contact with baby wolves before, humans that were turned, it was never easy, “Yeah, I get it, we don’t really have to crossover anywhere but sometimes the wolf gene does take a little longer for some born wolves, which makes me think of Ave,my son, I can’t even be sure he’s got the gene, since, you know, his mom is a human,” Axel pauses, “Hey, its nice to finally be able to talk to you about these things,” he chuckles, patting the other on the back. “Thanks, man, you’re fucking awesome yourself,” he pats Devon on the back again. “That’s the plan, yes, but I wanted to get everything sorted with the school first.”

Bettering ones self meant more than just the mental stuff. It was akin to a diet– if someone really wanted to lose weight, they couldn’t just watch carbs and curb how much they ate for a few months and they’d miraculously shed tens of pounds for good. It required a lifestyle change. That was the same concept here, for Aiden. The omega knew this would take more than Dante mentoring him through his wolf transformations– he had to better himself wholly, even outside of that. 

Aiden didn’t used to take any pride in… well, anything. He had that shitty old trailer he’d been content to fall apart around him. The inside of it had always been trashed out with boxes of TV dinners, empty bottles and beer cans, and clothes just strewn about. Nothing ever got fixed. Hell, a hole had formed in the bathroom floor years ago that he’d just tossed plywood over. Aiden hadn’t taken care of himself at all, not even when Jason and he got together. He had just taken to staying over at Jason’s place more and more often, letting the alpha essentially take care of him completely. It was, Aiden had come to see, a good part of why he had become so dependent and obsessive with the man. That he had somehow lost himself and his identity.

In the last year, though, Aiden had slowly and surely begun to make improvements. First he had cleaned the inside up– and kept it clean. Still wasn’t much for homecooked meals, TV dinners were just so convenient and he hadn’t quite gotten around to learning how to cook much of anything yet… But at least he didn’t just toss the boxes aside now. And two months’ work, he’d finally fixed the bathroom floor and the plywood was gone. In truth, the man was coming to find his gift wasn’t just in wood and furniture building. He rather liked these home DIY projects. They kept him busy and grounded, gave him a sense of purpose. Aiden liked to walk himself through projects. Point was, the man wasn’t spending his time in a drunken stupor, miserably wasting away in bed at all hours of the day. 

Today, Aiden was working around the back of his trailer. He wanted to, well, give it a bath. Clean it off? Car wash it? But there was so much rust and vegetation… He wasn’t having much luck to bring it back to its silver glory days. As soon as that familiar smell came up on him, Aiden was happy to abandon this endeavor. The omega grabbed for the window then the top rack, pulling himself up and over the top of the trailer in a fluid manner that only took him seconds– it was Axel, he knew it immediately, which was yet another small win because Aiden used to sometimes mix Axel and Jason up as they had similar smells. Now that he was more in tune with his wolf, his nose was so much better. And he was more active, too. Hence why he’d suddenly just decided to climb over his home rather than go around it like a normal person. Aiden came to the edge of the roof and squatted, staring down at the other wolf. “Y’know, I heard the rumors you were around again,” the omega commented, lightly resting a few fingers down against the warm steel as he balanced, “I thought you weren’t coming back here?” Aiden’s features gave no indication as to his thoughts or feelings yet– they mere masked as he observed Axel.

He really didn’t know what to expect when he decided to come here, he had heard Aiden was working on his wolf, and once again, he did had faith in the other, but it was nice to see things seemed to be picking up for the other wolf, maybe this time, their conversation wasn’t going to be a ride of emotions, not that Axel would mind, he would never mind a good talk, but mostly it would mean they had both found their way, because, yes, he could say life wasn’t as hard on him as it was on Aiden, not at the time they began their friendship, anyway, but he did had somethings to work on hismelf. He looks up as he hears the other on the roof, honestly surprised to see Aiden there, it wasn’t something one tended to do, “Hey, you fucking show off!” Axel jokes, chuckling as he looked up at the other. “Do you expect me to climb up there, or...?” he jokes once again.