Belmont Falls

He was practically groomed to fill the role. He couldn't have that. He had a lot of things that he wanted to do with his life.

He learnt all he could until he was eighteen before he left the town.

He barely remembered much from the town. Even though it was where he had grown up, all of his memories had not exactly been pleasant ones. 

That was in the past now he told himself. He needed to make sure that Belmont stayed as his past. He missed Jenna more than he could express.

"Hi Jace." Jenna said, as soon as she got to his home. "It's been a minute." She said in that dreamy tone of hers.

He didn't see why they couldn't just enjoy being together. It would have been just like old times except they were no longer children and life was a lot more serious now. 

He was so far from home but she smelled like something he couldn't quite place his finger on.

She still styled her hair almost the same way, he noted. She was still very pretty, he concluded.

She smiled the same way. 

She was still the same Jenna he had left back home, he hoped.

He asked her to leave with him. She had been too scared to leave with him.

He didn't think he was to blame for how they fell apart and he frankly didn't blame her. It was a bold move to have left the only home he had ever known. He didn't think she betrayed him to not come with him. 

He did however think that she felt differently on the matter though. 

She had begged him not to go but he knew what his heart wanted.

He respected her decision to stay but his heart was set on leaving the town and that he did.

Well over ten years later and she was at his doorstep. She looked like a blast from the past that he had worked so hard to keep behind him but it was the good kind of blast.

"Hi Jen." Jace said, opening the door for her and showing her the way in. "I don't suppose I should ask you how you found me now should I?" He asked, tapping his nose.

He was implying that she still knew his scent and that was probably why the elders of the pack had sent her on this mission instead of someone that he barely knew. 

"No, you shouldn't." She said with a soft smile that warmed his heart. "It's so nice to see you." She added, with a little pull at her hair.

She had to be at least twenty five by now. He didn't think that she could have grown to be this beautiful. Actually, he never really thought about it. 

He had tried his best to put that past behind him but it became increasingly hard to stand by it.

The past had come knocking on his front door and it was calling him to his so-called destiny.

He didn't know how he was going to say no but he had to. He had devoted the last decade of his life to making his own money and he was successful. 

He didn't want to be tied down by his family's money. 

He was a tech genius as far as the world was concerned. 

He had made his billions and he didn't need any hand me down that his family wanted to offer him.

As far as everyone else was concerned, he was a billionaire playboy. His gossip was the talk of the tabloids. 

He liked for it to stay that way. That was as much accountability as he wanted to have. It didn't matter what anyone said, his life was perfect. He just needed to make sure that she left the same way that she had come. 

He was in no mood to complicate his life by adding whatever this looked like it was going to be.

"Would you like something to drink?" He asked as he gestured for her to sit. 

She seemed a bit hesitant at first, he noticed but she eventually listened to him and sat like he told her to. 

"Please relax." He told her. "It's just us." He said, not sure why he was assuring her.

He never felt free in Belmont. Even though she did not admit it, she had to feel a breath of fresh air that she didn't usually feel. 

Belmont Falls was a war front. It was a vampire haven and the home of a long line of purebred wolves.

While there was a truce, that did not stop petty fights from breaking out amongst other things.

He could recall the stories that his grandmother told him. Stories about their family coming from a long line of werewolves. 

He always remembered thinking that his gran was the best storyteller ever.

Life had a way of making nightmares come true, he thought to himself as he stared at the window. It was raining even if the moon was shining from a corner of the earth. 

It was a nasty phenomenon this one, he told himself. His Gran maybe have even a really great story teller but she had prepared him for all the horrors he didn't know existed. Until he came of age of course.

They had one natural enemy. Vampires, he hissed half to himself. The one and only danger to their kind.

Belmont falls was their stronghold. Far as he could tell, there were stories about them. Stories that even he could not stand to recount.

"I am relaxed." She finally said, staring at him from behind the curtain of those brown eyes.

He had always thought that they looked beautiful.

He could see it in her eyes. She was feeling particularly daunting.

He didn't want to be the one to stand in the way of that. If anything, he welcomed the bravery.

She had been so cooped up all her life that she deserved this one moment of respite. A moment where she felt like she could do anything in the whole world.