Amethyst (10 page)

"That sounds like Zand, swearing every other
word when he gets mad, or figures he got used," Fire said. "Zand
does not rile easy, but when he gets angry watch out, all hell
breaks loose. Zand makes a great friend, he will do anything for
you, if you make an enemy out of him, and he makes a dangerous
one."

"Zanderland is working for us for free. He
will see what he can do about Hartman in Casper. And Fire, I gave
him your love, Rain said with a snicker."

Laughing she said "don't let Smitty hear you
say that" Walking into the kitchen at that moment Smitty said, hear
what?" Then walked over, and kissed his mate on the lips then took
her in his arms, and bent her back wards kissed her soundly on the
lips to make his point, she belonged to him. Then stood, and
smiled, "point made?"

Rain broke out laughing then everyone was
laughing. Smiling at Amethyst he spoke softly and lovingly,
"Amethyst are you sure you do not know this other man. Raw said he
was six foot dark hair with gray at the ears, and his smile was
side ways. Did you see him at your father's funeral, or at your
home? Maybe he was someone you father new?"

"No I do not remember anyone that even comes
close to that description. And some one with dark hair, and six
foot could be anyone. I am so sorry; but if I do remember something
I'll let you know right away."

"That is OK we will find out who it is. Raw
get on the phone, and call Wylie. Ask him if he know where this guy
is staying. And ask him to see what he can find out."

"Sure Rain I'll do it right now!

During breakfast teasing Smitty, and Fire
over, Zand brought laughter to the kitchen. Everyone was having a
great time. And Amethyst was even enjoying the comradely. The
feeling of belonging was one she thought she would never
experience. She could not remember ever laughing so much in her
life. She finally new what the word joy meant.

Rain and Amethyst finished breakfast, and he
had laid his hand on her thigh which made her feel more relaxed.
She found it so comforting. "Come Amethyst, I'll show you the rest
of the house. To the right of the kitchen was a large dinning room
that held two very long oak tables with chairs. Moving out to the
entry way to the west was an arch way leading into what appeared to
be an extremely large den with a TV. A book shelf ran on one entire
wall and it was full of books. Leaving the den they moved on to the
next room it was Rain's office, a fair size one with a large desk,
filing cabinets and several chairs.

Raw was just hanging up the phone, "Rain
Wylie says the guy is staying in Spring Water not in town. And no
name was given by him to Wylie. I'll make a call to Wayland in
Spring Water see if he knows anything."

"Sure that would be fine let me know what he
comes up with or has to say."

Moving to the next room they stepped down two
steps into a laundry room, two washers and two dryers with a
folding table, several ironing boards with irons sat off to one
side. The room was spotless. Leaving the laundry room he took her
down to the basement. The basement had been finished off over half
of it was a room with a pool table, play area and nothing else. The
rest of the basement was two bedrooms and a bathroom. Moving up the
steps to the entry way Rain took her by her hand and moved behind
the stair case opened a door inside was a pantry of sorts, more
like a storage room for canned goods. It was like a mini grocery
store. The shelves were packed. "In case we get snowed in and
cannot get into town we have plenty of food to do the entire pack
for a few months!" Rain smiled. There are four bathrooms up stairs
and two down stairs.

Moving up the stairs and straight across from
the stair case Rain opened a door in side was a room filled with
pillows, sheets, towels, toilet paper, shampoo's and cream rinses,
deodorants both for women and men, saving cream, razor sets. This
Rain said smiling, "our storage room for other necessary items."
Taking her by the hand he pointed down the hall way opposite
direction of their rooms and said behind the doors were bedrooms
except that Pend and Kelly had a set up much the same as they had.
Two doors went to bathrooms.

Rain pulled Amethyst into his arms smiled
down at her. "Come my love and lay down with me for a while."

Amethyst looked at Rain, "I am not tired
Rain, I do not want to rest."

"It is not rest I have on my mind sweetness."
Amethyst smiled as her mind opened to Rains, and realized he had
making love on his mind at the moment he picked her up smiling.

Just then Raw called up to Rain asked, "Do
you have a minute it is important?"

Setting Amethyst down on to her feet he
smiled warmly at her and said, "Later sweetness." To Raw he said.
"I got a minute."

Amethyst followed Rain down the steps, Rain
went to his office with Raw and Amethyst decided to head back to
the kitchen. Kelly was sitting at the table having a cup of coffee.
Grabbing a cup off the counter, and poring herself a cup she sat
down. "Kelly; do you do all the cooking here for everyone? I know
there is a house keeper to clean the house."

Kelly smiled, "no thank goodness today is
Willows day off she does the cleaning and the cooking, with one day
off a week. On her day off I make breakfast for boys, and lunch
will be an order of pizza from the diner, which Pend will pick up.
Dinner with the warm weather would normally be a barbeque, but
since you're not permitted out side we will do something special
for your first day in the house, and use the dining room."

"I will gladly help as much as I can, but
must admit I am worthless in a kitchen, except for making a
sandwich," Amethyst said with a smile. Some day maybe you can teach
me to cook?"

"Don't worry about a thing Fire is making a
potato dish, I am going to make desert, Willow will come for the
occasion she is roasting half a pig on a spit behind her home.
Markus is bringing Silver and she is bringing salads. And Sparks
mate Lilly, is bringing veggies. So it's all taken care of. Go up
stairs, and rest it will be a long night of celebrations. I'll call
you, or Rain can get you for lunch. Right now I am going to send
Pend a message to meet me up stairs" she laughed, and took off out
of the kitchen.

Finishing off her coffee, rinsing out her cup
Amethyst thought "it might be a good idea to rest after all." So up
the steps she went. When she entered the outer room to her bedroom
she looked at several books sitting on a small table and decided
against reading until she looked at the cover of the book on top of
the pile. The title of the book was "Lycan's." Walking into the
bedroom she propped her self up with the pillows, began to read. In
a few minutes she was sound a sleep.

She could hear someone calling her,
"Amethyst, Amethyst, come to me child." The voice made her feel
warm, and in a dazed state between sleep, and being awake, she
lifted herself from the bed. Still half a sleep the voice continued
to call. "Amethyst come to me child you know who I am come to me."
The voice made her feel like a little child again thinking
everything and everyone in the world was safe. Sliding off the bed
she moved towards the window looking out. She could see no one.
Suddenly a shiver ran up and down her body. Fear instilled it's
self in her mind. She could not help herself, she opened the
window. Amethyst thought she was dreaming, thinking, "what an odd
dream." She heard the voice again. "Rain I am so scared," she sent
him a message. Her subconscious reached out to her mate.

Rain looked at Raw from his desk and said,
"Well it's a good start lets see what else you can." Suddenly Rain
stopped in mid sentence, jumped from the desk, and ran out of the
room. Raw watched for a second then raced after Rain. Up the steps,
towards his rooms they ran. Rushing into his bedroom he saw
Amethyst opening the window, fear was rushing through her body. In
a few steps he grabbed her and pulled her away from the window.
Then a bullet flew through the glass, and struck the wall behind
Rain. Raw jumped from the sound, and hit the floor. Rain fall to
the floor pulling Amethyst with him, he covered her body with his
to protect her. Rains mind cried out his heart stopped beating,
"No, no you can't be hurt, please no." Not a sound came from
Amethyst; her eyes were wide open unblinking, and staring at the
ceiling. Raw crawled towards Amethyst, and Rain trying to avoid the
glass from the window then asked if they were OK.

For a moment Rain looked at Raw, and nodded
his head to let him know he was OK. Sliding off of Amethyst he
checked her for blood, and found none. His heart seemed to begin to
beat once more with the realization she was alright. He called her
name, and then her eyes blinked several times. Then she suddenly
broke into tears cried as Rain held her to him. Another shot rang
out then silence. Speaking to Raw he said," go see if you can catch
who ever fired that gun!" Pend, Kelly with robes on, and Mike came
running into the bedroom. Once they realized Rain, and Amethyst
were OK. Pend, and Kelly returned to their rooms.

Amethyst cried in Rains arms, he kissed her
lips, her forehead, and her cheeks. He whispered his love to her.
Her tears stopped, and she hung on to Rain thinking the world would
stop spinning, and she would fly off. Having Rain as an anchor to
the world felt so good; he was all she needed.

Raw jumped up ran for down stairs out the
front door with Mike, and to the side of the house. Just in time to
see Joe coming from the woods. He had blood on his clothes, and
looked at Raw, and said in a quivering voice, "I heard the shot I
came running. I saw a man rushing through the woods. I shifted into
wolf form, and chased after him. He shot at me so I attacked him,
and tore out his throat. I didn't mean to kill him I just wanted to
stop him."

Raw spoke softly, "its OK Rain will
understand. Your young you wanted to protect the pack. You did what
you thought was right at the time. And maybe if you had not killed
him, he would have killed you with that gun. Come in the house Joe,
we'll get you cleaned up, and then you can tell Rain what
happened." Matt walked in with Joe and Raw, with a feeling of this
can't be happening. Knowing he would have to keep a closer watch on
the house, and it's surrounding area.

An hour later the man's body was disposed of,
buried where no one would ever find him. Musk kegs were a perfect
place to get rid of a body. A few weights and he would sink deep
into the floating marsh. Some musk kegs were thirty to forty feet
down, some even deeper. They found a rifle, and a hand gun near his
body. There was also a tape recorder with a woman's voice on it
calling Amethyst to come to her.

When Rain had described the man to Amethyst
she said, "His name was Big Red. He works for Mark Hartman. I have
no idea what his last name is. But that he was big, mean, nasty
person, "I do not think he would bat at eye, at murder." She went
on to say "Big Red was here then so is Ray his buddy." Ray was a
small man about five feet eight inches has a nasty temper, acts
before thinking. The other two men she didn't know anything about
without a description of them that might be with Big Red and
Ray.

Pend, Raw, and Matt sitting in Rains office
discussing what to do next. Rain spoke up and said "there had been
four men at the cabin, and one in side. So we know that Zand wasn't
with them that means there are three more men plus Hartman. "We
will take them on one at a time. Starting with Ray, if he doesn't
think first then his temper will be his down fall. Pend you have
Fire, Lilly, Silver and Willow stay here in the main house tonight.
Raw, Matt, and I are heading into town to Wylie's bar tomorrow
night, and do some drinking. A little celebrating my matting won't
hurt any, but we won't over drink. No use in losing control in
town. That just would not be worth the fall out. See if we can
catch this guy that's staying in Spring Water."

A knock at the door caused Rains head to come
up. In walked Markus, "got the window all closed up with plywood
until I can get into town for some glass tomorrow." Then Markus
walked back out, and closed the door behind him. "Markus sure is a
man of few words." They smiled. The rest of the pack can keep watch
here, and keep Amethyst safe."

Another knock at the door and Kelly opened it
stuck her head in and said, "If you do not want to miss your own
party Rain then you better come out now." She said with a smile.
Turning to Pend she smiled winked at him."

Well we had better go to the party it's
getting later than I had thought it was," Rain laughed. As the men
filed into the dining room Rain said he was sorry that they were so
busy, and had for gotten about time. Rain taking his seat at the
head of the table, Pend stood and said, "A toast to the happy
couple, may your lives be filled with happiness and many cubs."
Markus stood and said, "And no more missed lunches." Everyone
laughed. That seemed to set the mood for the evening.

The party was fun after dinner everyone
headed to the basement. Markus was cuddling Silver in his arms, and
talking about their last date. Amethyst thought they made the
perfect couple. Markus's black hair, Silvers so blonde and fair
seem to go well together, him tall her short. Smitty sat with Fire
with his arm around her watching everyone else, and every once in a
while she would laugh. Smitty and she were talking in their minds
through the mind connection. Sparks and Lilly stood by a small bar
that had been erected for the occasion. Everyone once in a while he
would lean over her and kiss her. To Amethyst, Lilly could not get
enough of Spark's kisses. Joe and the rest of the guys were at the
pool table taking turns. Pend was mixing drinks for Rain, and Kelly
was putting ice into them. Once Rain had the drinks he headed over
to Amethyst. Pend and Kelly took drinks, and sat on the floor. Pend
had his back to the wall, and Kelly was between his legs with her
back against Pend's chest. Amethyst was surprised that they joined
in long enough to leave their bedroom. Then smiled to herself,
wondered what it was like to spend so much time making love. The
thought make her feel warm inside.