02 Fat Cop better Run

Running through the dim lit dark alley, I looked back quickly.

The brown beast of fury was chasing me hard. Growling away in the darkness, it was out to get me. I whimpered and turned away concentrating on my escape. I didn't want to die tonight.

"Run Veera!" Leo shouted, but then suddenly I saw him get stolen in shadows by a pair of black gloves.

"LEO!!" I shouted and the Were behind me suddenly leapt over me.

Like a skilful predator it turned around showing me it's angry glowing eyes. My breath hitched in my throat as it started stalking towards me again. I took a step back, and it growled lowly sending wild chills down my spine. Even though it couldn't talk, it's eyes were making it quite clear for me to not move, or even daring me not to run.

I was dead meat anyway.

I looked around my surroundings and found absolutely nothing I could defend myself with. It knew I was defenceless and it was enjoying the sight of what I was going to do next.

I whimpered and cried and finally stared at it in all my frustration

"What do you want from me?!" I screamed at it angrily.

Time stood still, and suddenly the Were somehow spoke.

"You." His voice sounded like dark thunder, that wanted to swallow me up. My body shivered at it's one word.

Knowing it was crazy that it suddenly said that, I refused to acknowledge it. I turned on my heel to run away, but then a terrifying growl came and I was brought down by a huge weight from the back clawing at my back hard.

Screaming out of pain, I woke up with a cold sweat.

"V!" A red headed girl came in with her baseball bat and I ceased my yelling, but I couldn't stop the tears that were running down my face. She relaxed and put the baseball bat down seeing as no intruder was in the room.

She switched on the lights to my room and came over to me giving me a hug, and calming down.

"It's ok, it was just a bad dream. Go back to sleep Veera." She reassured and put the blankets on me. Emerald switched off the lights in the room and closed the door behind her.

I wiped my tears and somehow managed to go back to sleep.

I hadn't had that nightmare in a while.

It had been 5 long years, since I had seen those glowing eyes.

I didn't expect it to haunt me like this.

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The next few days, flew by as if nothing had happened.

I was now working as a wedding photographer with a team of five people and sharing rent with Emerald who worked with my aunt Rita at the fashion magazine.

Sipping on my hot chocolate at the local cafe I got a call on my phone, and smiled.

"Hey aunt Rita."

"Veera, how are you sweetheart?"

"I'm good and enjoying a nice cup of hot chocolate." I sipped loudly making her laugh.

"*Well you should still make time to come over. I miss having you around."

As much as I missed her, I still kind of hated going to her place since her perverted boyfriend was around. He was one of the main reasons, I decided to move out the minute I graduated from high-school.

"Me too, aunt Rita."

"*So are you busy with an up coming wedding?"

I checked my schedule quickly and spoke to her.

"Nope. My client's wedding is in two months time. I'll be flying to India then."

Since it was a big Indian wedding and they had a lot of ceremonies that lasted around a week before the actual marriage took place. The pay was good and I couldn't wait to go there.

Aunt Rita caught up with me about her work and how she and Emerald were going to be working together and she had an exciting offer for me.

"*How do you feel about photographing models that are promoting our new fragrance?"

"Models?" This was new.

"*Yeah! The pay is really good and you'll be shooting it on a beach?"

"Umm.."

"*C'mon, don't you want to fly out to Hawaii and escape from the city?"

Maybe this is was what I needed. An escape, from the nightmare too.

"Sure, sounds fun."

"*Great i'll inform the secretary to sort out your ticket, I'll message Emerald to give you the rest of the details, oh I can't wait to see you soon!" She chimed and laughed.

"Me too Aunt Rita."

We ended the call and later on I saw two people walk in the cafe in their cop uniforms.

"Hey Veera."

"Leo!" I got up happy to see him and gave him a hug. He smiled down at me I and looked at his friend who used to to be a drug dealer in high-school and Emerald's ex boyfriend. I was disappointed that Leo was still hanging out with this jerk he called best friend.

"Where's my hug?"

"You don't get one Jack." I sat down and so did they.

"Why not?" He sounded offended.

I glared at him

Because you tried to sell me the sweet mary jane and also planted one in my locker and also got me in to a load of trouble, with the principal and the police! Jack had apologised that he had done that, but in his defence he said 'I didn't have anywhere else to put it, plus he was a very high teenager back then and didn't really realise what he was doing.' Or so he claimed. But I didn't care.

Bottom line was that I didn't trust him since he almost sent me to jail.

Luckily for me Rita's perverted boyfriend Tristan, who also was a cop got me out trouble when I said it wasn't mine. The case was long. My name had been defamed thanks to Jack and people in school avoided me like I was some kind of bad plague.

Also thanks to Jack.

"I have my reasons Jack." I ended it there.

"Any-ways, moving on. Veera happy birthday." Leo said pulling out a small box.

"Thanks! What is it?"

"Open it."

I did and found a really cute silver bangle with a little blue turtle hanging from it.

"Aww..it's so cute!! Thanks, Leo." I hugged him again, making Jack roll his eyes at us.

Leo was a really good friend, he stuck with me through thick and thin and even beat up the boys who made fun of me. During one of rough fights one of the boys had smashed an empty beer bottle on his head and even stabbed his eye as he tried to protect me. The boy who injured him ran away, but I was there.

Leo's eyes was bleeding terribly and he was crying in agony. I just couldn't stand it any more, and grabbed his face putting my hand over it. I calmed him down and he gradually stopped crying out of pain. Moments later, his eye had healed. All the glass had come out and he opened up his injured eye looking at me shocked, like he suddenly had hd vision.

I ran away from him because I'd done it again. I used my powers that I was strictly not meant to use. But I couldn't help it. He was wounded, my inner nurse came out once more.

After I healed Leo, he knew that I wasn't normal. He claimed he had gone blind and that I had done something to him. He was puzzled and chased me around school over a week to get me to talk to him. But I wouldn't. I couldn't.

He wanted to know what I was, but I kept quiet.

He was disappointed in me that I wouldn't share my secret but he didn't care. He didn't want to loose me as a friend and never again asked me to tell him who I was.

I was glad he was in my life. Looking at his beautiful forest green eyes I suddenly remembered..

"Hey guess what I had a dream about you last night."

Leo looked surprised at me, and almost blushed. I wore his bracelet on my hand admiring it, with the cute turtle.

"Really?" He said with a little laugh, to which I nodded at him seriously.

"Was it a wet one?" Jack teased, making me glare at him. Leo laughed and I shook my head.

"What was it about?"

I was just about to tell him, but then I saw Jack and I suddenly didn't feel like sharing my dream details with him.

"It was nothing." I went back to sipping my hot chocolate.

"Doesn't sound like *nothing to me." Jack said putting emphasis on the word nothing, wiggling his eye brows at me. I put my cup down and scoffed at him.

"Is sex all you think about?"

"Pretty much."

"You disgusting.. Pig."

"You ugly dry.. Virgin."

Jack and I had a stare off and I smiled suddenly giving him a kick with my foot underneath the table for the V word.

He groaned in pain.

"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch what you said? Mind repeating that?" I taunted in victory.

"Btch" Jack scowled at me.

"Jack, why don't you get us some coffees to go?" Leo asked before I could get up and possibly pull his hair and engage in a fight in public.

"Whatever you say Romeo." Jack winked at me and walked away.

I turned my attention back to my good friend.

"Why are you friends with this asshole?"

"I have my reasons too." Leo sighed keeping me in the dark.

"So what was the sexy dream about?" Leo teased and laughed at me.

"Oh no, not you too?"

"I'm joking, seriously though. Why did you see me?"

So I told Leo about my nightmare, and then I started crying again remembering the Were. Leo hugged me and wiped my tears away and threatened me tease-fully.

"If you don't stop crying Veera, you'll leave me no choice but to kiss you."

As hot as he was, I promised myself that I would never fall for him, since he was my best friend for life. I stopped at once and pulled away from him.

"I'm good but thanks for the offer."

"Anytime." He pulled my cheeks and I did the same to him and we both started laughing. We were often mistaken as a couple, but in reality, Leo already had a girlfriend whom he met at the academy. Plus I was good friends with her. Leo said that she helped picked out the charm bracelet too.

"So now that I'm a cop I did some research on the Were you met five years ago."

"You said that the hooded man the attacker called him..Cascata?"

I could never forget that name, ever since that night.

"Yeah."

"Well, you met one hell of a Were that night Veera."

"Why is he bad news?"

Leo nodded, sending chills down my spine.

"He could have killed you and me that night, but surprisingly he didn't. Now why didn't he?" Leo asked me and sipped on my hot chocolate nervously.

"I don't know?"

"You did something to him that night didn't you?" Leo looked right through me. I gulped and took another sip of my hot drink.

"How do you know it's a him? It could have been a her?" I changed the subject quickly making him sigh at me.

"Wrong. The Cascata family consists of three brothers. All of them have mates and get this, they are billionaires that own a chain of hotels and restaurants. Plus, they are known to be killers and trust me when I say they have killed alot of people in the past Veera."

"Are you saying that the Were we met five years ago wasn't a rogue?"

Leo shook his head at me.

"Are they in town?" I nervously asked.

"One was, but he got away with a murder."

"Murder?" Chills ran down my spine.

"Don't worry about it, if he steps in this town again, he'll be caught."

Jack returned back with the drinks and Leo got up giving me quick peck on the cheek surprising me, out of my worried face.

"Next time you're dreaming about me, I hope you're screaming my name in pleasure V." Leo winked and escaped with Jack before I could punch him on his big arm.

I returned home, and met Emerald who told me all about the hot models and the place we were flying to.

She too got me a birthday present.

"A bikini?" It was a red one.

"Yeah, we're going to go swimming at the beach of course! Aren't you excited about Hawaii?" She said thinking about the hot models already and showing me her dark green bikini.

"Sure." I smiled wryly and did the dishes quickly.

"You don't look it?" She sounded sad.

"No, I do..it's just that..I'm just tired, that's all." I said and she understood, since I didn't get much sleep.

"Hey, don't think about that stupid dream ok? At the end it was just a dream." Emerald comforted me.

That night I closed my eyes, and I didn't dream of the Were chasing me. But instead I thought about what Leo said.

The Were I saved was one of the Cascata brothers. It didn't matter to me if they were rich and had mates. It bothered me that they were killers. Meaning, the night I had saved one of them, I had ended up saving a killer.

I tossed and turned in bed thinking about this fact. Why did I use my powers for good to save a bad guy?!

But it didn't matter any more. That was five years ago. It was probably destiny that I had to save him. Right?

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Veera slept in her canary pjs that night now thinking about her up coming trip. Perhaps the hot models would get her mind off the killer she saved five years ago.

A black car was parked outside her apartment.

"So you're going to Hawaii little bird?" Grinned a mysterious stranger looking at her through his phone while she slept peacefully.

He could see her through his phone, since he had planted a camera in her room just a year ago. He was very happy to see his sweet saviour sleeping calmly. He wanted to take her but it would be too risky just yet.

It wasn't his territory after all.

He could have sent his beta to finish the job, but this was a personal matter between him and his business rival who had shot him all those years ago. He was lucky not to have died thanks to Veera.

Now he easily shot him back with the same poisoned bullets, that he came to kill him with.

"Can't wait to make your acquittance soon sweet Veera." The mysterious stranger started his car and went on his way down the road.

A police car suddenly stopped and a cop came out of the car.

The mysterious stranger pulled over and looked at his driver mirror, seeing the cop now approaching his car.

The fat cop stopped by his window with a strict poker-face. He motioned him to lower his window.

The stranger pulled down his black tinted window.

"Any problem, officer?" Asked the stranger looking at the cop hiding his annoyance.

"Nice car."

"Thanks, what is it?"

"A Ferrari."

"Must have cost a fortune."

"Can I help you officer?" The stranger asked looking at the cop who was admiring his 300,000-dollar ride.

"I need your license and registration sir."

"Sure." Without a fuss the stranger gave it to him.

"Mr Ares Cascata, I need you to step out of the vehicle sir." The cop said in a threatful way.

"And if I don't?" Ares challenged.

The cop sighed and pulled out his weapon at him.

"Then we'll have a serious problem."

"How about a hundred dollars and we forget about the problem?" Ares asked not afraid of the gun pointed at his head.

"Make it a thousand, and I'll think about it?" The cop boasted. Clearly, he had no idea who he was talking to.

This town were filled with dirty cops. It wasn't hard to bribe them. In fact, Ares had bribed the guards earlier before he went for his rival in the early hours of the morning. He could have easily turned into his true self and finished them off. But Ares didn't feel the need to get his claws dirtied.

He entered the room loudly. There were two hoes sleeping besides him and they screamed in the top of their lungs when they saw Ares. Ares motioned them to get out and they quickly obeyed.

His rival/the person who tried to murder him (five years ago) was shocked to see him and simply asked 'How are you still alive?' Ares shot him right at his head and replied, 'That's what I'd like to know too.'

He walked out of the house calmly tipping the maid in the process, before she fainted out of fright.

He had planned to get out of town un-noticed, but he couldn't help but stalk his little bird when he saw her at the cafe.

He watched how she blew her hot cup and sipped her drink. She was so cute and pretty wearing the simplest of clothes. He had a strong desire to walk in and kiss her and taste her and he would have but then he saw that she had company. So Ares watched from afar, studying who they were.

One of the cops looked familiar. He was there that night to in the alleyway. Ares watched in jealousy when the cop gave her present. He also wondered why he was feeling jealous? He had a beautiful mate.

Yet his inner beast was excited when he saw Veera.

Then the fat cop snapped him out of his thoughts, bringing him back to the present situation.

Ares looked at the fat cop and got out of the car. He pulled out his money out and held it out to the cop.

Blinded by greed the cop grinned and went to take the money, but Ares snatched the gun swiftly out of his hands, and pointed the gun at him, making him put his hands up. Ares grinned at the fool.

"Hey, now. I was only kidding..." The cop said trying to cool the tension.

"Really? I find that hard to believe."

"Throw your radio and your tazzer away." Ares ordered.

The fat cop nervously did what he was told.

"Look, let’s just calm down. You don't want to do this." The cop started talking, and Ares smiled shooting the gun at his feet. The cop shirked and as he shot by his feet making him dance in fear. He made sure not to shoot the cop anywhere by his feet.

Ares stopped shooting and chuckled. His fun had just begun.

"We can forget about this. Here you can have your license back." The cop through it on the floor hoping it would distract him, so he could tackle him down and get his weapon back. But Ares ignored it and looked at him thinking of what to do with him.

Ares stomach suddenly growled in a hungry state of manner. He looked at the cop whose heart had picked up due to fear. He got his answer. He usually had deer or a juicy lamb to satisfy his wolf, but it had been a long time since he had last fed.

He looked at the fat cop with his mouth now watering. He took out all the bullets from the weapon and crushed the gun to bits with a smash from his foot. The cop was startled to see this.

"I know, I don't want to do this, but I can't help it. I'm a Were. Now Mr. Cop I want you to run." Ares stated glowing his eyes at him terrifically.

"Rrr..Run?" he stuttered, with a nervous sweat. All of a sudden, the cop wished that he didn't pull him over in the middle of an empty road. He only pulled him over since he saw that he was driving a very rich car. He just wanted to rob him and get away with it. But now the stranger had turned out to be a Were.

That was bad news for him alright.

Ares smirked and grabbed him by his hair fast and yelled in a low animalistic angry way, making the cop almost pee in his pants.

"RUN!" he roared making the Earth tremble beneath them.

He let him go and the cop turned on his heel fast and ran screaming in fear down the empty road.

Ares took of his jacket and ripped out of his clothes as he phased under the full moon. He gave chase and within seconds he pounced on the cop, killing him instantly with his claws. That night, his wolf fed and felt happier than ever seeing his little bird.

It was a miracle that his wolf had not killed Veera that night after she had saved him.

The thought puzzled him, but it did not matter.

He would have her soon and he couldn't wait to take her.