The True Encounter IX
Dedicated to bean™️ for keeping me company while I was sick and had writers block x
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t's far to early for Harry's liking when he's woken up by the familiar ringtone of y/n's phone.
By the time he gets his puffy eyes open, she's twisted away from him and digging under the pillows for her phone.
"Whosit?" Harry slurs, removing his arm from around her waist to rub at his eyes.
"Hi mom." Y/n greets, phone pressed to her ear and voice sweet but sleepy. She falls back into his chest, snuggling her cheek over his heart.
Harry hears a indistinct answer, too tired to focus on the voice in attempt to hear y/n's mother answer. Hand falling back to her waist, Harry pulls her in tighter, eyes falling shut.
"I think that would work." Y/n replies, humming into Harry's skin when he softly squeezes her hip. "I just have to check with Harry."
Harry peaks an eyes open at her, watching her softly nod as her mother speaks through the phone. She's got her eyes shut, dark eyelashes resting on her pale cheekbones.
"I'll let you know by Wednesday." Y/n says around a yawn, her breath leaving Harry's chest feeling sticky. He slides his palm up her spine and over her shoulder, raking his fingers through her frizzy hair.
"Love you too." Y/n smiles, free hand cupping Harry's elbow as he continues to tame her wild locks. She hums another agreement and then she's hanging up, stuffing the phone back underneath the pillows.
"What did ya mum want?" Harry mumbles, scooping his fingers under her ear and behind her head, massaging her scalp.
"She wants us to go stay with her next weekend." Y/n offers, shyly smiling. She opens her eyes to gauge Harry's reaction, heart racing with excitement when she sees him smiling.
"Tha' sounds lovely."
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Harry's fingers are cold against the bridge of y/n's nose, his palms cupped over her eyes to prevent her from seeing where he's taking her.
He's pressed firm against her back, chin resting on her shoulder and chuckling into her ear when she stumbles on the sidewalk or in the elevator.
Y/n's already figured out that they're in the Pack House, it's the only building big enough for an elevator.
And she knows as soon as they step off the elevator that Harry's brought her to the hospital for some reason. She can smell the bleach and hand sanitizer and hear heart monitors.
"Why are we at the hospital?" Y/n questions. If it weren't for Harry's constant giggling, she'd be a bit worried about him dragging her to a hospital of all places.
"How'd you know we were here?" Harry scoffs, accidentally kicking the back of y/n's ankle. He kisses her cheek as an apology.
"It smells like one and I can hear heart monitors." Y/n laughs. Harry grumbles something and instructs her to hold out her arms. He guides her through pushing open an door and when they step into the new room everything is silent.
"Ready?" Harry grins, bouncing on the balls of his feet. She nods, laughing at how excited Harry is and then he's removing his hands, bright lights burning her eyes for a moment.
She squints into the lights, blinking until a window comes into view. On the other side is another room, workers bustling about in scrubs. But instead of working on patients or sitting at a receptionists desk, they're all taking care of children.
Some toddlers, running around on chubby legs in puffy diapers. Others babies, crawling around in onesies with drool stained chins. The cutest part of all are the babies that are running around as wolves.
Tiny pups, flopping around the floors, chasing tails or sleeping curled up in balls of fluff. To any outsider they would appear to just be little puppies, waiting to be adopted and loved but y/n knows that these are the kids of Harry's pack.
He's brought her to the daycare center.
"They're adorable." Y/n coos, cupping her mouth when one of the pups that's bouncing around trips on it's own paws.
"Yeah?" Harry ponders, hand smoothing over her hip and giving her a dimply smile. She nods, turning to look at Harry.
He's beaming at her with such endearment she could cry. She snakes her arms around his neck, tugging him down to press a sweet kiss to his lips.
"What'd ya bring me here for?"
"Are yeh complainin?" Harry teases, lips still stuck to hers.
"Never." Y/n replies instantly, turning away from him to look back through the window at all the kids. Her cheek falls against his shoulder, his hand caressing the back of her head as they gaze through the window.
"Gem told me yeh asked about wolf babies." Harry speaks up, his heart skipping a beat in his chest. Y/n's stomach twists with nerves at the tone of his voice. He doesn't sound upset or accusing but there's something different. He's using that innocent edge like he's trying to convince her of something.
Y/n clears her throat, keeping her voice casual. "I was just curious." She shrugs.
Harry hums, sounding a bit disappointed but still sponges his lips across her forehead. One of these days he won't have to ask her questions about the future, he'll be able to read it off her. When that day is, he's afraid he'll never know.
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"Yeh should have let me drive." Harry grumbles, changing the song on the radio yet again. He's got the passenger seat pushed as far back as possible, his long sweatpants covered legs stretched out and shoes tossed carelessly in the backseat.
Y/n rolls her eyes, glancing at his pouty lips and sleepy eyes. She reaches over, patting at his curls that have just been freed from the beanie he was wearing earlier.
"You don't know where you're driving to." She reasons, letting him grab ahold of her hand and bring it to his lap.
"S'why you give me instructions." Harry cradles her hand in his left one, stroking his right pointer finger up and down her palm.
"You can't even handle sitting there!" Y/n laughs, switching into the right lane of the highway. "How are you supposed to drive?"
"I can drive!" Harry huffs angrily, kicking his feet up onto the dash. Y/n notices he's wearing her socks and that he's completely stretched them out.
The furthest Harry has traveled, that he can remember, was a two hour trip to the coast so him and Gemma could see the beach when he was 9. He told y/n that he had fun, that he loved riding in the car.
But an hour into their trip he was fidgety, switching positions every five seconds and digging through y/n's bag for gum even though she told him she didn't have any.
When he couldn't find any, she was forced to stop at a gas station and let him get some, which he happily stuffed half the pack into his mouth. After fifteen minutes of chewing, he was passed out and woke up an hour later with it stuck in his hair
"If you were driving than that would mean I'd have to have gum stuck in my hair." Y/n reasons, knowing Harry would rather be suffering than her. He doesn't say anything but y/n can still see him pouting, reaching up to try and detangle his hair yet again.
The next exit comes into view making y/n sigh in relief. "Look love," She soothes, exiting off the highway and towards the gas station. "I'll get the gum out and get you a snack and then we've only got another hour on the road."
Harry perks up at that, releasing her hand so she can climb out of the car. "Be right back." She smiles, dashing inside. She returns five minutes later with a plastic bag and a small bag of ice.
Harry unlocks his door, letting her pull it open. She places the plastic bag at his feet and digs out a piece of ice. "Will you get the little brush out of my bag?" Y/n asks, reaching for the knot of hair that's stuck the gum.
Harry reaches into the backseat for her bag and pulls out the brush he had found earlier. Y/n holds the ice to his hair, softly rubbing at it to let the frozen pieces break away.
Despite his pouting and his loathing for riding in the car, he watches her take care of him, feeling his heart swell in his chest. She's so soft about brushing out his hair, careful not to pull on it too hard. And the whole time she's constantly giving him big doe eyes and a gentle smile, kissing the corner of his lips when she has to tug on his hair.
Once all the gum is out and Harry's got his bag of Cheetos in his lap he can't help but smile at her. She reaches over to stroke his cheek but frowns when she feels how warm they are.
"Are you feeling okay H?" She asks, pressing the back of her hand to his forehead. It's even warmer than his cheeks. Harry nods, frowning when she digs through her bag again.
"What's tha'?" Harry grumbles when she hands him two small pills.
"It'll take care of your fever, bub." Y/n explains, forcing them into his hands. Harry takes them, feeling anxious under her watchful eye. He wants to crawl over the center console and lay in her lap.
Y/n grabs him a blanket and pillow, letting him rest his head against the window and tucking him under her blanket that he loves. "You want Apples?" She questions, stroking his hair back lovingly. Harry feels so content he's thinking about changing his grass rolling spot to this exact seat of her car.
"Yes please." He sniffles. Y/n finds her stuffed black dog he's adopted (and named) and tucks it under the blanket with him.
Harry waits until their back on the highway, eyes and body heavy with sleep before telling her what's been on his mind all week.
"Yeh'd make an excellent mum pet."
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Harry wakes up to y/n tickling her fingertips over his jawline, car parked and shut off in front of a small two story house. As if out of a movie it's surrounded by a white picket fence and a yard of green grass and rose bushes. The porch attached to the front sports multiple bird feeders and wind chimes.
"You feeling okay?" Y/n asks him, still softly stroking his face. Her fingers falter when Harry nods but continue their soothing motions once he's stopped.
In all honesty his stomach is twisted with nausea and he's sweating enough to make his shirt feel sticky, something he doesn't usually do unless he's just had a hard work out.
Blaming these feelings as meeting-the-parents nerves Harry ignores it, unbuckling his seat belt. By the time he's got his shoes back on and y/n's blanket folded up, her parents have emerged from the house.
Y/n grins, waving at them through the windshield and climbing out of the car. Harry's stuffing as much stuff as possible into y/n's bag when the back door opens.
Harry hurries out, throwing her bag over his shoulder and rushing around the door to help her grab her other bag.
"I can get it Harry." Y/n giggles but Harry just shrugs, grabbing his duffle bag as well.
"Don't forget Apples, love." Harry murmurs in her ear, hoping her parents didn't hear him. He doesn't want them thinking he can't take care of her because he's some sissy that sleeps with a stuffie. His dad's would be rolling in his grave if he knew Harry had even named the stupid thing.
Y/n smiles bemusedly, gathering up their pillows and the blanket, double checking to make sure she grabbed Bana and Apples.
As soon as Harry comes face to face with y/n's mother she's lighting up, face splitting into an ear reaching grin.
"You must be Harry!" She exclaims, coming at Harry with open arms. Harry smiles, doing his best to hug her back with all the bags on his shoulders. "I'm y/n's mother, Christy!"
"Lovely to meet yeh." Harry says politely, squeezing her hands that have wrapped around his. She coos at him, hand reaching up to clutch at her heart.
"Such a sweetheart." She dotes, letting go of him and reaching behind her to tug y/n's father forward. "This is my husband George."
George gives him a closed lip smile, shaking Harry's hand. "Nice to meet you son." He says gruffly.
"You as well." Harry nods. Y/n laughs, shooing her parents up the porch steps, muttering about them letting Harry at least put the bags down first.
She leads Harry up the stairs in the living room, leaving her parents down there as they go to her childhood bedroom. Y/n throws the blankets and pillows onto the neatly made bed as Harry dumps the bags onto the floor.
"They're a bit overwhelming huh?" She cringes, stepping over a bag to press herself into his chest.
"They're nice." Harry assures, wrapping her up in his arms. "Ya mum is really excited, yeah?" He chuckles as she pouts.
"She just couldn't wait to meet you."
"Can yeh blame her?" Harry teases, smirking. "I'mma proper catch aren't I?"
"When you're not crying in the car you are." Y/n says innocently, pecking his nose with a chaste kiss.
Harry smiles, knowing she's teasing but it still makes his stomach twist and his heart thump hollowly.
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Harry's sitting a foot away from y/n at dinner when he realizes that he misses her. The ache in his chest to just pull her into his lap and lay kiss after kiss on her cheeks and chin and nose and forehead is almost unbearable.
He's listening to her mother tell a story of y/n taking care of one of her baby cousins, smiling at her as she shyly giggles, cheeks blushing pink.
He can't help himself, he leans over and kisses her cheek, squeezing her hand in his. It dulls the ache but as soon as he's pulling away, settling back into his seat it returns.
Something is definitely not right with Harry and his wolf.
~
It wasn't hard to notice that Harry was acting different. He's always enjoyed loving on her, no matter where they were. In fact he even seemed to do it more in public.
But tonight was different.
It was like he was longing for something from y/n. His puppy eyes watching her intently, a sweet smile on his lips but still sulky.
Y/n didn't want to say anything in front of her parents, not wanting Harry to feel embarrassed or picked on. So she just held his hand all night, letting him kiss her cheek whenever he felt like it and watch her with his sad eyes, deciding to talk about it with him later.
He's curled up in her bed, Apples tucked tight to his chest and watching her brush her hair when she finally brings it up.
Placing her brush on her dresser, she sits next to him, legs crossed under her bum. His eyes follow her, only moving once she's settled in and laying his head on her thigh.
"Are you alright Harry?" She says gently, combing her fingers through his hair. He stays silent, one of his arms reaching to wrap around her waist, his hand slipping under her shirt to rest on her back.
"Come on H." Y/n encourages, sadness stabbing painfully at her heart. She hates seeing him like this, seeing him uncertain and quiet. He's also so confident and brave, his head held high. "Know you can tell me anything, right? I'd never judge you, my sweet alpha."
His arm tightens around her, a pitiful whimper leaving his lips at the sound of her calling him alpha. Y/n grins, glad she got a reaction out of him with his title.
"Oh no," Harry mutters, muscles tensed and jaw clenched in frustration. Her grin falls, panic blossoming in her chest. She's never heard Harry speak with such fright before. "no, no, no, no!"
"What's the matter Harry?" She asks urgently, gently pulling on his curls to try and get him to look up. "Please tell me? Please?" He groans, scurrying onto all fours and scrambling away from y/n.
She jumps up, following him as he climbs to his feet, backing away from her with his hand clutching his lower stomach. His nose is scrunched in what y/n believes is either frustration or pain, huffing as he collapses against the wall.
"Harry?" Y/n begs, taking a tentative step towards him. His eyes snap to meet hers, frantic and longing but darker than usual. Almost as dark as they get when he's about to knot her...
"Can't love." He finally says, voice deep in a growl. Y/n notices his canines, the ones that he sunk into her abdomen not so long ago, are peaking out of his gums. What in the world?
"Can't what?" She steps closer, lightly bowing her head in hopes that it gives some sense of control over whatever this situation is.
"I have to go," Harry huffs, fingers tightening around his tee-shirt and grunting softly. "We have to go!"
"Tell me what's going on Harry." Y/n pleads, tears welling up in her eyes. Why is acting like this? Why does he look so afraid? Why won't he let her touch him?
At the sight of her watery eyes he frowns, stumbling forward to walk to her. "Don't cry, please don't cry my luna." He's watching her with his dark glossy eyes and panting, sweat glistening on his forehead.
"What's wrong?" She sniffles, reaching her hands out for him. He doesn't waste a second before he's grabbing them, bringing her hands up to grab his shoulders as he cups her face. He groans at her touch, brows furrowing.
He sighs, inhaling deeply to try and calm himself. He wipes at her cheeks, clearing away all the tears that have fallen.
His next words make y/n freeze.
"I'm starting my rut, pup."
I hope this was worth the wait x
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