39: seperation anxiety

I introduced Josh to Delilah and Jules who both bombarded him with questions. Delilah more than Jules. Jules was still shy to him but still had a few questions.

"Calm down. Give him time to answer." I say taking my seat I was going to sit next to daddy, but thought I should save Josh from sitting next to Delilah and Jules.

"You're Josh?" Delilah asks first actually giving him time to answer. The waiters brought out everyone's dish and served me chicken nuggets and pizza bites. They were normal nuggets and not dinos but that's fine. I loved it either way and daddy took my plate and cut my food into smaller peices know I was probably going to scoff them down.

"Yes I'm Josh." He answers he got a stake and salad sandwich, it looked okay but not as good as my food, I also got some orange juice in my Disney sippy cup that I have been very happy to use since I got back.

"You took Georgie away." Jules pouted, glaring at Josh like he was her sworn enemy. Josh rubbed the back of his neck and let out an awkward chuckle.

"I fought you saided you forgave him because I forgave him. Don be mean." I pout back at her untill daddy gave back my plate and I happily ate my food.

"Sorry about that." Josh apologised to tge girls specifically. "He'll never leave like that ever again, I promise." The girls were also digging into their meal already over ant anger they had towards Josh.

"Pinki promise?" Jules asked holding out her pinki, Delilah followed and Josh put his pinki out as well. They did a three way pinki promise, which looked a little harder than it seemed.

"Pinki promise."

"Good because we like George, and if you're Georges new friend we have to be friends with you too, and of you take Georgie away I don't know how we can be friends." Delilah explains her daddy wiping tomato sauce off her face. We all kept eating the girls and I chatting away about really nothing at all, it's almost like I haven't left, except Josh. He was talking with daddy. He seemed to be enjoying it here.

"After lunch it's nap time for George so if you want a sleep to or if you want to hang out with me in the office, I have just a few more papers to go over." Daddy asks Josh. Josh didn't respond with many words. I could tell he was going to be awkward without me, but I want him and daddy to be friends.

"You go wif daddy and become besties. Yous have to." I demand. Finishing up my plate. Daddy handed Josh a napkin and he wiped my face from all the sauce. I whine and try to push him away not liking the texture of the napkin. He finished up and I finally got to push him away, I yawn and that's when Daddy decided to put me to bed Josh following behind us, muttering something about not wanting to get lost.

"Song." I ask once I was tucked into the mattress, Josh was standing at the end of the bed awkwardly. I got up and pulled him down onto the bed so he wasn't as stiff. "No bein awkward." I order getting back under the blanket.

"I'll try not too, but it is difficult." He states. "Its so different here compared to the pack house." He took off his shoes and brought his feet onto the bed, getting into a much more comfortable position.

"How so?" I ask yawning. Daddy didn't stop my questions and was just playing with my hair

"Well one they are all vampires, the smell of blood was... strong. But the food selection is different, how people talk is different. You guys are very quiet up here, other than you and your friends. But the rest were all pretty much silent. Up at the pack house were all loud, and there's alot of physical fighting over something or the other. It doesn't take much to tick off a werewolf, I've seen wolves fight over breathing too loud or walking too slow. Especially the teenagers." He explains. The differences weren't that big to me bur it seemed to put Josh off guard

"I'll be louder. I can always be louder." I giggled they both knew it was a joke.

"I'm okay little pup, I just need to get used to it." I gave an acknowledging hum as I yawn and rub my eyes, attempting to stay awake.

"Do you wike it hew?" I ask. Daddy started softly humming allowing me to keep talking while he gets me to sleep.

"Its very nice here." He grabbed my hand and softly caressed it. "I'm glad you still want me in your life little pup."

"I'm happy you're in my life." I was struggling to stay awake. "Pease be fwends wif daddy." I say before I drifted off to sleep.

*WILLS POV*

Georgie finally fell asleep after saying some adorable things to Josh, making sure he was comfortable.

"So you're comfortable with being around me alone?" I asked him staying around for a little while, making sure George is sleeping.

"Of corse, George has chosen to put his complete and utter trust in youso you can be all that bad." He let out a small awkward laugh, implying it was a joke. "No but really, I'm okay, just getting used to being around such a quiet place, the area George was in was indeed quiet, but not really for long as he would scream. It would be painful sometimes because it wouldn't just be him screaming for you, it would ne him screaming in pain, I didn't know how to handle that." He ranted quietly not wanting to wake up George.

"Come with me." I whisper softly leaving the bed and taking Josh outside. "We have some things to talk about if you're going to stay in Georges life." I state as we walk into my office. He made a noce if acknowledgement as he follows. "George is a sensitive boy, I don't know the base roots of it but that painful scream is something I hear often. He doesn't realise how much I hear it, but I hear it. He has been getting better, or at least was untill you took him away. It's all relapsed, I want to know exactly what happened while he was over there. And I mean every little detail. He refuses to leave my side, he hates sleeping. I want to know if this is going to stop soon or if this will be a long term issue." I got straight into it. It wasn't an issue that George wants to be by me, but he knows I'm not going to let him go, he knows I'll always be back and yet today was only the begining of what happens when I leave.

"Nothing bad happend, he put him in one of out tent houses in the first village, he wad only supposed to be there for a little while but he refused to leave. At first all he did was scream and fight anyone that was near him, he wouldn't let anyone but me to go anywhere near him. Rihanna was ment to be his caregiver, since I'm in line to be alpha I wasn't ment to have any kind of emotional attachment to him. But since he would only let me in there there was an exception. For the first week and a bit it was just screaming anf starving, he refused to eat, sleep, slip. He refused to do anything. We thought he would eat eventually but he would keep kicking the food into the dirt. After we got him properly eating and he started actually sleeping, that's when the painful screaming started. I wanted him to leave the room sometimes, but he didn't want to. When we got him slipping the painful screaming decreased by a bunch bur it was still there. He refused to nap and wouldn't go to sleep untill midnight, he hated whenever I had to leave too so I ended up being around him alot more, he had around 2 tantrums while being there one of them ended in everything being flipped and he wouldn't stop screaming because I left him to cool down then he refused to let me leave once he stopped screaming, that wasn't too long ago. Some nights I would have to sleep with him as everytime I tried to leave he would grab my arm and not let me. Sorry if that makes you uncomfortable. But we never did anything to him that he didn't like, at least not on purpose." He explained, I wrote down notes.

"Are you willing to stay the night?" I ask looking up into his eyes. His face grew a small blush.

"U-uhm yeah sure I can, is there any reason?" He asked averting his eyes.

"I'm worried George might have the same attachment to you as he does to me. Two months with you, how manytimes did he not sleep with you?" I asked coming up with a slight experiment, the screaming has been quite consistent and he has been asking for Josh in his sleep, usually I wouldn't appreciate him calling for a different man to help him in his sleep, but I completely understand. I now just want to get to know Josh, if this is what George wants, if this is what will help him heal, I'm not going to stop him.

"Very few times. Well every night I would try to leave, but he would scream untill I would come and stay with him untill he slept and he would wake up throughout the night screaming. So I woulf end up just sleeping in there. Soo full nights he slept alone was the first three nights and maybe 2 or 3 nights after that throughout the two months." He describes.

"Two months if constantly sleeping around you." I mumbled to myself. "George had separation anxiety garenteed to me, bur he has had consistent nightmares where he calls for you in his sleep for you. He missed you, but I don't believe he really understands how much he missed you, I'm worried for when you have to leave. If you stay the night and he doesn't have a nightmare my suspicion will be correct. If when you leave he freaks out, my suspicion will be correct. Did you notice when he was panicing he didn't let anyone but you or I touch him? My suspicion is being proven correct.

George has an unhealthy attachment to both you and I and I don't want that and if it's just me that will be easy but if it's also you than I'm going to need your help to make it much healthier. I would send him to a counsellor, bur you know first hand how stubborn he is. I'm not a perfesional however if there is anything I can do to help take stress off of George I want that. Don't you." Josh was taking in all the information that I had just dumped on him.

"If your suspicion is correct and I am involved, I'll take time and help you. No matter what." I gave him a smile and explained I was going on with some work I needed to finish before having some casual conversations with Josh both of us getting to know eachother.