Title: Expectations and Revelations
Pairing/Characters: Adam/Sauli/Terrance, Sutan, Tommy
Rating (Word Count): PG-13 (7 X 100)
Warning(s): None
Author's notes: Part of my Werewolf Threesome 'verse. The world around the boys is slowly growing bigger. Many thanks to leela_cat  for the beta. Any remaining mistakes are mine.

Sauli’s been expecting it since the evening started.

He’s already met the members of Adam’s and Terrance’s… family, maybe, since pack doesn’t seem quite the right word to describe the bunch of mis-matched were who mean home to them.

There’s none of the formality or hierarchy Sauli associates with the word pack, either. And a lot of… anomalies that make it easier to understand why, from the beginning, both Adam and Terrance believed that it was possible for them to become this, the three of them, together. Even though the road to get where they are now wasn’t always easy.

***

Sauli’s met them all on different occasions, but those times can’t be compared to tonight. This is his formal introduction – as formal as things get with weres – and he can feel them all sizing him up. Eyeing the twin bites he’s proudly sporting, proof that he’s here to stay.

Earlier in the evening, Adam and Terrance kept hovering around Sauli until he practically had to chase them away. He gets that they both want to protect him, but tonight, that won’t help.

If he wants to be accepted by his lovers’ family, he has to go through this by himself.

***

He’s been waiting for this moment since he finally managed to make Adam and Terrance leave him on his own. But he was expecting it to be somebody else.

Maybe Sutan, since he’s another alpha – as if the idea of two in one pack isn’t enough of a mind fuck. He’s the only were who has enough experience that he could claim authority over both Adam and Terrance, but for some reason, never has and never will.

Or maybe one of the betas like him, Ashley or Brian, whose main purpose is to protect, serve, and assure their family’s safety.

***

Instead it’s Tommy who comes up to him. Small, shy Tommy, who’s even better than Sauli at hiding his scent, so good that Sauli assumes Tommy’s a beta too, although he can’t say for sure.

They stare at each other for a couple of seconds before Tommy offers his hand and a hint of a smile. “Ready to show your true colors?”

It’s not the ritual question, but by now Sauli understands that they don’t really care about hierarchy or formality. There’s something much bigger happening tonight than just them deciding if they’re ready to welcome him into their family.

***

Sauli chooses to go with honesty as he puts his hand in Tommy’s. “I hope I’m ready.”

He sees surprise in Tommy’s raised eyebrows, and a little more respect in his eyes, as he closes his fingers around Sauli’s and lets his hand transform half-way into a paw.

He feels the others stepping closer and finds himself connected to them through the points where Tommy’s claws dig into his skin.

That’s when he realizes that it goes both ways. While they’re looking inside him to decide if he’s trustworthy, he gets to do the same.

There’s something wrong with that.

***

Or at least, it’s unexpected. The way the ritual usually goes is that the newcomer has to be judged trustworthy before the other members of the pack let him in.

Instead, he gets to see and hear everything. Everything they haven’t told him and might have never told him.

Suddenly he knows all of their secrets. While some of them are simple things that don’t really matter, others are the life changing kind.

Like the fact that that Tommy’s so good at hiding his scent because he’s an unclaimed omega.

The immensity of that revelation sends Sauli to his knees.

***

When Sauli opens his eyes, Tommy’s taken a step back. Sauli’s wrist is already healing.

“Why?” Sauli asks. “You don’t even know me. Why would you give me that kind of truth?”

Slowly, Tommy looks over to where Adam and Terrance are standing. “Because they trust you.”

“And now,” Sutan adds, “it’s time for you to prove you’re worthy of that trust.”

As Sauli’s eyes move from one of them to the other, he understands they’re a tight-knit family where loyalty is the most important thing and that, starting now, their secrets are also his.

“I will be,” he promises.