Will I am

Kind Beasts // Rau & Will

Joe Cool had taken over Chewbarka's bed. It wasn't nice for the little one to make the big one sleep on the floor. It's why Joe Cool was back at the house with the rest of the zoo, and Chewie got to come with him to pick out a new toy. Will decided to take the shortcut through the park to let the big lug play around a bit too. He deserved all the good things. He was just about to call Chewie home when he heard the woman addressing him.

"That's more like it." She smiled softly, "You almost had me worried. I thought that someone had replaced my beloved if you weren't out there causing some kind of trouble." She'd almost called him husband again, ten years of a dream where they were still like this despite the end of the world.

Chaos might as well have been Will's middle name. The man always managed to get someone shouting his name in frustration. It was simply him just as it was her to tease him about it. He looked at her with a question in his eyes when there was the briefest pause. The silence of what she didn't say almost louder than what she had said.

"Okay..." Caleb nodded guiltily before laughing lightly when Will punched him.

That was his Pengwen. When the girl saw something she wanted, she went after it until she got it. He certainly could imagine her doing the same with Caleb's sweets. He was lucky that she wasn't after more. The obvious answer was to help Gwen power through her anger by helping her relax, but he couldn't ever see Caleb sharing an edible with his half-sister. "Alright, but remember to call me from time to time. We are still a pack, and I still have your back even when you do something stupid."

"We're both a prisoner to that," She brushed her lips against his again, her heart skipping a beat as it always had and likely would do until the very end. "Just socializing? Not causing your specific brand of chaos?"

"Maybe a bit of chaos." William wouldn't be Will were he not causing at least a few people to shout his name in exasperation. The man simply had a way of getting people's goat. He liked to call it part of his charm. Nothing he ever did was meanspirited or undeserved.

"You should've heard it from her first. I'm sorry, Will," Caleb said earnestly and sighed again.

He sighed, running a hand through his hair and thoroughly messing it up. He wanted to be the one that Faith shared news with first- whether it be good or bad. He loathed that she had been keeping secrets from him. He could understand the Auggie thing, but the fact that she was now Caleb's second was big news. "It's fine. Just a wrinkle in the relationship that we need to work out."

"Well maybe." She chuckled and leaned down kissing him softly, her nose just brushing on his. If she could she would bottle this feeling and keep it forever. Her fingers ran through his hair, "But now that I have you... what ever to do now that I have you?"

Will moaned softly, enjoying the way that Faith took charge. The kiss was something sweeter than the ices he'd been indulging in earlier and twice as addictive. God even the softest butterfly kisses had him melting. "Prisoner of love?"

"What?" Caleb's eyebrows shot up at Will's reaction. Had Faye not told Will yet?

"No, she didn't tell me." He could understand why it was that Faith failed to tell him about Auggie, but the fact that she was even thinking of becoming Caleb's second should have been a discussion. He never would question her decisions. She was more than qualified for the role, but it would have been nice to hear a "Hey, I'm going to be the pack's second." They would need to have a nice long talk later.

"Fuck you, you're gross," she retorted with childish humor as she wiped her nose and face, a fit of laughs escaping her lips as she continued cleaning her mess. She looked over to Will, grateful for moments like this where she could be her genuine self with someone who got it. There weren't many people in this world Gwen showed this side of herself, and it seemed the numbers were dwindling as of recently. "You and me both, man. I'm sure I have one coming the next time I see him. I've been sneaking onto the property to visit Auggie but i know my luck is bound to run out eventually..." she trailed off, the mention of her late cousin driving a cold stake through her heart.

"I'm sexy, thank you very much." He leaned forward, rolling a new blunt for the two of them. He missed this. He missed them. When he'd seen Gwen laying in that hospital bed, it felt like his own life was ending. She was his little buddy forever and a day. To think that she might not be around broke his heart in pieces, but now that part was starting to mend. Just being with her brought him the sort of joy that words could never express. "Everyone has one coming with him. Were you here when Jax left the pack? I gave him one of the stern talking to's right back. He deserved it. The whole pack needs therapy if we are being completely honest." He handed the clip to Gwen. He needed to change the subject and quickly before he spilled the beans about Auggie.

The furrow between Caleb's brows deepened as it tended to a lot these days. He appreciated others in his pack calling him out, but it did not make having to take it any easier.

Will paused, mouth dropping open. "Pardon?" Surely he must have heard Caleb wrong. Hell, Faye gave him the best of her right hook, yet somehow that made them close enough to have her as second-in-command. That's the sort of thing that she definitely would have told him, right? He understood the Auggie thing being a secret but not the big promotion. "When the fuck did that happen? Have I been under a rock?"

She chuckled as he lamented not being able to find her. There was a great advantage to her person and she was taking that as a simple opportunity. Faye would evade him for now but she knew she couldn't forever, he knew her better than anyone else. He'd gone with her all those nights of looking for answers, he knew the way she thought, the way she moved.

She was a wily one, his Faith. She was smart about how she was attacking even in play. Then again, this environment suited her as well as the river beds of summer suited him. They were opposites in almost everything, but the two had managed to bridge the differences and come together perfectly to make a fearsome pair. It was how he knew her. He knew that she was close. He knew that she would come out of hiding to claim her victory.

Caleb's lips thinned into a line, not wanting to answer Will's statement given his own position on said Council. It was not new to hear another's opinions of the Council and how they believed it was 'fucked up', but it was all the supernatural community had to keep each other in check.

"Don't you try that shit with me. I knew you back when you were nothing more than a cub." Caleb might be his alpha, but Will would always be his elder. He remembered the days when Caleb was still getting his teeth into everything. He might not be family by blood, but he'd been part of this pack for long enough to know that Caleb would be diplomatic rather than authentic.