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Group Text Sent:
Pack. Now.
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Me and Armie will be there A.S.A.P. Rose x
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On my way. P
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I’ll call Mitaka and ask for a lift. Be there in about 30. Xx
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I’ll go and pick Kay up; she will probably need a ride.
Ben looked down at his phone. Sighing sadly, he locked the screen and placed it back upon the table. He looked over at Poe who had been sat on the sofa for the past hour with his head in his hands.
“They are all on the way”
Ben noticed that Poe had looked at him for the first time in a long while and was grimacing. He saw him take a deep breath, steady himself and sit back. The tears in his eyes hadn’t fallen but Ben could tell he was close to losing his composure.
“How long will they be? We need to get out there, before Finn does something stupid!” Poe questioned harshly.
“You mean more stupid?” Ben bit out “You know there’s no coming back from this right? Fuck, I can’t keep him in the pack after this, there couldn’t possibly be a reason to explain why he’s done this” Ben tried to control his voice so as not to yell at Poe. This wasn’t his fault. Not directly anyway.
Poe curled in on himself again, his shoulders shaking with controlled sobs. Ben had known Poe since they were boys, they had been raised together, fought together and had left their old pack to create a new one together.
It was a strange occurrence for Alphas to create a pack where one of them became ‘The Alpha’ but Poe had taken it in his stride, Ben couldn’t thank him enough for that. They had become quite the team, where one was logical the other was creative, where one inspired strength the other kept the calm. It had helped them create the pack they had today. Poe had been the best ‘Alpha Beta’ Ben could have asked for but now all those years of friendship and loyalty had been strained to breaking point.
Bens body was shaking with adrenaline, he wanted to react and jump into action but as the Alpha he needed to include everyone in this. The problem was bigger than just him. It would directly affect the pack and he needed the backup, partly to assist with the search and partly to stop him from killing Finn on sight.
You see the problem was The Omega was gone, his Omega was gone and Finn was the one who had taken her.
Twenty minutes later there was a small knock at the door, the visitor didn’t wait to be let in. That wasn’t the pack way. Ben turned from the window, taking a deep controlled breath and running his hand through his hair.
“Ben?” Came a deceivingly soft voice.
“In here Rose” Ben called back. He knew she would find them in the study, most official Pack business was completed in there.
In less than a few seconds a small woman appeared in the doorway, her shadow and husband Armitage Hux stood behind her. Several years ago, when the Pack had been started Ben never would have put little Rose together with the Stoic Ginger. They had argued from the start, every idea Hux had Rose had shot down for a better option. It irritated poor Hux to no end, but in a surprising turn of events for every annoying interruption Rose made there was an equally secret and passionate apology.
After a few months, it became very clear to the pack Omega that the two of them were in love and their arguing had developed into some weird sort of foreplay. The rest of them were spared the full details when Hux admitted his love for his fiery beta and declared he would say no more on the subject. That was 3 years ago now and Ben couldn’t remember them ever not being the perfect match.
Pushing into the room, Hux bared his neck to his Alpha in respect then looked Ben in the eyes.
“What’s happening? Why have we been called in?” He asked not disrespectfully.
“We need to wait for the others, I…. We don’t have time to go over this more than once. Poe will fill everyone in and then we need a plan” Ben answered frustration evident in his body language and his tone.
He saw Rose look towards Poe who had remained on the sofa throughout the exchange, she gasped slightly at purpling bruise on his jaw. Ben was not sorry for that, or at least he wasn’t as sorry as he probably should have been. Rose glanced to Ben in question, her eyebrows almost joining together in a frown, he nodded. It had been his handiwork that put the bruise there, when news of The Omegas disappearance had come in the form of a pleading Poe Ben hadn’t been able to stop himself.