The Omega’s Secret

Chapter 3 - The Council are Coming

* * * Amy's POV * * *

“Attention everybody” commands Alpha James, “I have called you here this morning to inform you that we will be hosting an inter-pack meeting for the council. N……” Alpha James stops due to the excited whispers within the crowd.

“SILENCE” he orders, using his Alpha command. The noise instantly dies down; all the wolves are forced to submit to his command. It’s strange, I’ve no such feeling to submit. I force myself to lower my head, as the others have.

“No more interruptions or there will be punishments. Now, as I was saying, we will be playing host to an inter-pack meeting for the council. I received a call this morning informing me that the meeting is urgent, and our guests will be arriving on Saturday, two days from now. They will be here for three days. As you can appreciate, this is short notice, so there will be extra jobs to be completed. Nobody will be spared additional duties, our reputation is on the line”, Alpha James explains and takes a brief pause to look around the room.

“Alice, what measures have you taken to replace our cooks?” he asks.

“I, erm, I, well, it was first on my to-do list today to come up with a solution, Sir” Alice flusters.

“It is a priority; we must serve our guests well. Do any of your omegas have cooking experience?”

“We... well n.n…n..no, but w…with a bit of t..t..tra…training Sir” Alice stammers.

This is it; be ready to volunteer, we have to be around when the council are here and make ourselves known. .

“A BIT OF TRAINING, did you not hear me? They will arrive in two days” Alpha James barks.

“Yes sir, yes I heard, I understand.”

I raise my hand, waiting patiently to get the Alpha’s attention. Alice spots me first and shakes her head to order me to put my hand down. I wave my arm slightly, and that gets the Alpha’s attention.

“Do you wish to say something?” he asks.

“Sir, yes Sir. I was the one to prepare breakfast this morning and I think it was a success Sir. Can I propose that I cook for the rest of the day as a trial? I know I can do this, Sir.”

“Very well. The breakfast was very well done at such short notice. You will be on kitchen duties for today as the cook. This is a trial only, Amy.”

“She can’t. She has other duties”, Alice informs the Alpha.

“Are you the Alpha here Alice?” Alpha James gives her a questioning look. Alice bows her head in submission. “I thought not.”

“Sir. My duties are dusk and dawn. If I start at dawn earlier, I should be able to do both”. I provide a solution. Damn, I’m going to be tired.

“Your dawn duties will go to Alice if your trial is successful. You will work in the kitchen and complete your dusk duties. As we normally have two cooks, especially when hosting. We will need another replacement. Is there an omega you can work with?” Alpha James asks me.

“Sir. I would like to have Amber help me if she is willing”, I half state, half request.

“Who is Amber?”

“No, absolutely not. She is a new omega. She is new to the pack. Very incompetent, her abilities are still being assessed”, Alice interrupts.

“ALICE, IF YOU INTERRUPT ME ONE MORE TIME, SOMEBODY ELSE WILL BE MADE HEAD OMEGA AND YOU WILL RECEIVE LASHES.” Alpha James roars, using his Alpha tone.

“Amber?”

Amber stands timidly, her face flush with nerves and embarrassment at being addressed in front of the pack. “There you are, would you like to work in the kitchen today with Amy as a trial?”

“Yes Sir, very much so, if it would please you. I was training to be a cook, before I was made a rogue,” Amber answers timidly.

“That is now our food situation sorted. I will let you both know the outcome today based on your performance. Now all omegas, regardless of working days, will spend the next two days cleaning and preparing our guest wing. Remember, these are council members, Alpha’s and their Beta’s and Gamma’s. It shouldn’t need to be said, but I expect perfection. Also, your clothes are beyond worn. You will print your name and size before leaving here and you will receive a new uniform. I only expect them to be worn on Saturday. No ruining it before then. Alice, you will devise a new schedule and bring it to me by 10:00 for approval. This is to be in place until our guests leave”

“Now Beta Scott and my warriors. We must increase our patrols; I want three training sessions a day. We must appear strong and organised. Remind them we are a pack to be respected, even feared”

“Yes Sir. I still have the roster from when we hosted the Harvest Moon. With a few tweaks, I can have it in place by 10:00 sharp. There won’t be any issues from our strength perspective”

“I knew there was a reason you were my Beta”, Alpha James expresses. He appears impressed that Beta Scott had the foresight to keep old rosters.

“On top of that, there will be additional training sessions. All warriors must attend at least one session a day if you are rota’d for patrol. If you are not on patrol that day, you must attend two. The mid-day session will be for non-warriors. We want our pack to appear strong, we want every wolf and she-wolf able to defend our land. If this is successful, it will become a permanent fixture.”

“Walt, I will need you to go through our finances. We will need to buy uniforms for the omegas, as well as a large food order. We will have to feed them three meals a day while we have guests. I would like a finance report taking that into consideration by 12:00.”

“Yes Alpha, Sir.”

I can’t help but observe Walt and Dotty appearing to be mind-linking. Walt taps Dotty’s leg in a reassuring way.

We need to follow them and find out what is happening. Keera instructs me.

“Amy, if today’s trial is successful, I want you and Amber to plan the meals for the weekend. No expense spared. You will plan the menu and bring it to me so that I can arrange the food order”, Alpha James instructs.

“Yes Sir.”

“Meeting over, you know your jobs. So, get to it. If I find anything unsatisfactory, there will be punishments.”

I make myself appear busy gathering pots and plates when Alice approaches me. “I hope you are happy with yourself. How dare you undermine me in that way. I am head omega. It was my right to inform and discuss plans with the Alpha”, she scoffs at me. When Alice is angry, she has a pulsating vein in her left temple.

Before I can speak, Alpha James barks “Alice, you need to arrange your omegas, not question my decisions. Now go”. This makes Alice dart away, while her eyes are still shooting daggers at me.

The wolves filter from the dining hall to attend to their tasks and put Alpha James’s orders in place. I continue stacking plates on the hot serving trolley. Purposely moving slowly, after all, I have no wolf in their eyes. Amongst the last to leave are Walt and Dotty. I walk to Amber, “Hey Amber. I hope you don’t mind me volunteering for you. I thought we could both use a break”, I say, as a way to make a little conversation.

“Not at all. I like cooking if I am honest. Thank you”

“That’s great, really great. I need to use the bathroom really quickly as I don’t want to handle food after cleaning toilets from my dawn duties. Would you mind starting the pots and wiping them down for breakfast? When I come back, we can make a start on lunch. Have a look at the ingredients we have in it and think about what we can make. We need to impress to change our fortunes”. I give her a wink.

Amber smiles at me and simply says “of course”

Keera, if we are to follow Walt and Dotty, you are going to have to come forward and help me move silently. Please. I speak directly to Keera, where I can feel her resting in my mind.

On it Amy. We also have the ability to hide our scent, so we won’t get caught by scent.

Do we also have the ability to be invisible? I tease.

No, that is not within our skill set. Now move. We need to listen and then get back to the kitchen.

I allow Keera to come forward and track Walt and Dotty’s scent, moving silently in the empty corridors. They’ve gone to the gamma wing of the pack house. It’s not as large or luxurious as the Alpha and Beta wings. This is more of a corridor from the main sleeping quarters with double doors to separate them. I nudge the door forwards, thanking my lucky stars that it doesn’t creak.

I edge forwards, following the mumbling Keera can hear. We stop outside of their bedroom.

“Dotty, why are you packing? What is going on? You said you would tell me.”

“The Alpha, I think he suspects me. Not of the truth but that I am up to something. Why do you think you were promoted to Gamma? He certainly didn’t need or want a Gamma Walt”

“Remember 10 years ago when Alpha James thought he had found what he was looking for and he went to the Silver Lake Pack. The war that unfolded”.

“Yes, you were on your way home from visiting your sister and came across the ground and saved me,” Walt recalled the night clearly. “We had been sent to save an abducted child, the fated Alpha Queen. Only the pack had hidden the child and denied the abduction.”

“That’s not true. The child was from Mystic Moon and was with her Mother at the Silver Lake pack. That child is my Niece. The prophecy is about our Niece Walt. There was no abduction, Alpha James lied. He wanted the power that would come from possessing the child. He lied and slaughtered the Silver Lake Pack. We found the child. The child is here as an omega. I have been in touch with the council to inform them of all of this, I have kept proof.”

“Dotty, this cannot be, our Niece was lost to us. She would have her wolf by now and Alpha James had met all the wolves in the pack. How would I not recognise our Niece?”

“That is my doing. I am so deeply sorry, Walt. I have mixed heritage and certain gifts. One of my gifts is memory charms. I could not risk the Alpha learning of what was done via mind link if your thoughts wandered, Walt.”

“What are you saying, Dotty?”

“Here. Let me remove the block. It won’t hurt now, the time for action and justice is here”, Dotty told Walt. We can hear her moving about and gathering objects.

“Please Walt, trust me, trust our mate bond and drink this, while I light the candle”, Dotty instructs.

“The bond is telling me to trust you, so I will” he says.

“Now stand across from me and join hands around the candle”, Dotty instructs. There’s a silence, that I assume is Dotty waiting for Walt to get into position.

“Now this may feel a little strange, but I promise I won’t hurt you” she says and begins to chant.

“Bless your mind, bless your spirit and bless your heart.

Those memories once sent to depart.

I call to the moon, I call to my ancestors,

Grant me the power oh great sisters.

Memories once lost to thee

Restore the memories, hear my plea.”

I can feel a breeze through the underneath of the door, the sound of wind swirls around the room on the other side of the door.

Dotty again chants:

“Bless your mind, bless your spirit and bless your heart.

Those memories once sent to depart.

I call to the moon, I call to my ancestors,

Grant me the power oh great sisters.

Memories once lost to thee

Restore the memories, hear my plea.”

I drop to the floor and peak through the keyhole, trying to see what is going on. Walt drops to his knees.

Walt gasps, tears in his eyes as he looks up to Dotty. “My love. You did it. You hold more power than you know. You have been so strong, to do this for so long. I am so proud of you, my dear. And Amethyst, our beloved Amy. She is so beautiful. You saved her,” he expresses in awe.

“You’re not mad at me?” Dotty frets.

“Not at all, my enchantress. I am more in love with you than I ever thought would be possible”, Walt says gently, pulling Dotty into an embrace.

“So, how and when do we restore Amy’s memories?” he asks.

“Did you not notice her watching us at the meeting? Silly me, of course not. You would not watch her like I have with the spell,” Dotty exclaimed, flicking her wrist to open the door, “You may as well come in dear and quickly. Keera, don’t you worry, I couldn’t hear nor smell you. You did very well. It is just that Amy is her Mother’s Daughter through and through and far too inquisitive for her own good,” Dotty jokes.

I enter the room and shut the door, speechless at what I’ve heard. Dotty, my Dotty, my Nurse who is my Aunt, is a half witch?

“Now dear, you clearly heard us and know of my mixed heritage. I am asking permission to unblock your memories. It won’t work like Walt’s as your block was more intense. Keera will hold the memories returning off until you sleep tonight, my child. May I?”

“Keera says you may.”

“Wonderful, now drink this and stand opposite me at the other side of the table and hold my hands around the candle,” Dotty instructs, and gives me a vial, and prepares to chant again.

“Bless your mind, bless your spirit and bless your heart.

Those memories and your past life once sent to depart.

I call to the moon, I call to my ancestors,

Grant me the power oh great sisters.

Memories once lost to thee

Restore the memories and who she is meant to be. Hear my plea”

A breeze enters the room and the candle flickers. I feel my skin tingle, and an itch within m mind. Don’t worry, I will hold them back until tonight.

Dotty again chants:

“Bless your mind, bless your spirit and bless your heart.

Those memories and your past life once sent to depart.

I call to the moon, I call to my ancestors,

Grant me the power oh great sisters.

Memories once lost to thee

Restore the memories and who she is meant to be. Hear my plea”

Dotty sighs “I think it is done.”

“It is, Keera has explained that she will hold them back until tonight, and that I will be able to access them freely.”

“It is for the best child. Now keep your head down until the Alphas meeting dear. Just a few days to go. You had best get to the kitchen and prepare. You are on trial after all.”