Alpha Without a Pack...

Chapter 49

"Hey Puppet, you doing alright?" I was a bit startled when Sid showed up out of no where, but the look of concern on her face wasn't horrible. When I didn't answer right away she frowned and gently reached out to rub her thumb over my brow, the action had me frozen in place immediately. I could feel everyone watching us and some with irritation over the attention I was getting, meanwhile I was just trying to play it cool and not turn into a bouncing ball of fluff like my wolf wanted. "Well you'll have a bit of a bump for a little while but it doesn't seem like anything too serious." She nodded to herself as she drew her hand back and I let out a sigh I'd been holding back as she went to take a seat and invited me to sit beside her. 

"Yeah, just a little headache is all." I muttered lowly as I took a seat at her side, it wasn't like I'd been knocked out cold for ten minutes. I was surprised when they had the kids join us for lunch, Sidney kept a close eye on them despite the fact they were far across the table and surrounded by protectors. She seemed to get a sad look in her eyes when Wesley led them off somewhere, but it disappeared as quickly as it crossed her features, it made me wonder what she might be thinking.

                                             Beckett

After lunch we all faced a brutal training session with beta Denzel, Sidney however kept to the sidelines watching all of us train. She never interfered even when we got knocked over or injured, she just watched on in silence, I didn't know whether to be grateful or annoyed by that. On one hand it was nice that she was letting us fight our own battles but on the other it was kind of irritating that she didn't seem to care what they did to us. "Focus pup, if you lose your head in a fight then you're already dead." Denzel spoke right before he swiped my feet out from under me and caught my throat in his hand, squeezing off my air in warning before letting me drop to the dirt.

 "I told you I'm not a pup." I snapped back through my coughing. "Well you're not much of a warrior either, so if your not those what are you?" He raised back tauntingly, and I didn't have a good enough response. "The moves I'm teaching you today could keep you alive in a fight with someone like me or your she wolf friend, but my lesson won't be of any use if you don't pay attention." He growled out to all of us, the lower ranks cowered at his tone. "Maybe I can help with that." Sidney broke in as she stepped forward to face me, all of my focus was on her in that moment.

 "He's right you know, you keep daydreaming, getting lost in your thoughts and it could kill you." She muttered roughly, so she'd been watching my lack of focus. "I can't control my minds distractions!" I spat back in irritation. "Then that's just something else you'll have to learn, because when your in fights like this, nothing else can matter outside of the battle itself, not if you want to make it out alive." Her words were delivered with a frown as she steadied into a fighting stance, immediately my wolf readied to counter her attack. "Remember the moves he taught you, and choose the one most suitable for escape, I won't go easy on you." Her words were a whisper and suddenly she lunged forward.

 I dodged her initial attack but she had another following it as her leg kicked out, I couldn't avoid the kick she delivered to my ribs. The impact brought me to a knee as I sucked in air, she really wasn't holding back and she wasn't finished with me yet. When she moved to attack again I hit the dirt and rolled away to avoid the impact, focusing on the moves we'd been taught. The spar lasted for a while longer as I went on the defensive against Sid and her attacks, until she too got a grip on my throat but unlike Denzel she refused to let go. "Now think! I've got you weak and in my grasp, I could kill you in an instant and you know this, what do you do?! What are your options when you're running out of air?" She punctuated her question by squeezing tighter around my windpipe.