Freefall-Book One

Chapter Nine-Danny

(A/N: So, this is Danny's pov,and just a warning, its a little bit off, but I was trying to figure out a way to show Danny beyond that paragraph in the earlier chapter.  I'm hoping that I did okay, since I've never done multiple pov's so any comments are greatly appreciated!  Enjoy!)

 Chapter Nine-Danny

                I can’t do this.  I can’t do this…I can’t think about anything but how nice Sofia was, and now she’s all small and fragile.  She’s just lying in Kristopher’s bed with her eyes closed and her hands limp at her sides.  I can’t do this anymore!  First, she just shows up, and she’s nice, and she doesn’t butt in and lets me talk.  She doesn’t tell me to shut the hell up like everybody else, but that’s a good thing!  And when she smiles, well, I can so understand why Kristopher claimed her.  Not that she wanted him to.  I just stood in the shadows and watched.  The howling got to me, because I wanted to have a mate to run and chase, too.  And now, she’s just limp.  Just dead, but Peter says that she’s not really dead, just sleeping, and when she’s ready, she’ll wake up.  I don’t know what I’d do if it was me and my mate.  Good thing I don’t have a mate.  But she’s the closest thing to a girl who’s a friend that I’ve had since Mama died.  Mama would have liked her.  She would have run from her first, and then liked her later.  And now Matty.  Matt’s all missing and stuff, and then they find out that Sofia’s old pack has him, and I don’t know what I’m supposed to think about it.  They wanted Sofia in a trade for him, but when she ran away all, “I’ll save the day!” they didn’t want her anymore.  Because she was mated, and I guess the said something about her being used goods and all that.  But that doesn’t mean that they don’t want something in return.  They told Kris they wanted his territory, but we’ve been here for over seven generations, and Kris doesn’t want to move, but that’s his little brother!  I mean, from what everyone says, he made a promise to his dying dad that he would protect Matt.  But you know, he did his best, and he’s only one person, you know?  But that’s still his little brother!  I don’t know if I’d have the strength to prepare the way he is if I had to think about my little brother all the time.  I don’t have a little brother, though, so it’s okay.  And I’m not Alpha, so I really don’t have to worry about anything.  I’m not really any rank in the pack because I’m so new, and I’m so…random.  God, there’s too much time to think right now.  I’m just sitting here in front of the meeting house, and Kris is pacing back and forth in front, and he just looks so angry!  I’m planning on not ever getting on his bad side, because if this is what he looks like when he’s threatened, nope.  Not doing it.  I don’t really want to move, but I kind of have to because people keep coming out and stopping that really annoying pacing that Kris is doing.  I guess what they have to say is important.  It should be!  They’re talking about the plans.  Kris isn’t backing down or giving up our territory.  He said that we’re planning now.  But I know that he wishes Sofia were here to tell him her old pack’s weaknesses and who they’ve got fighting.  Or if they’re even good fighters.  But I bet they are, since they followed Sofia from where ever they came from, and she’s been running for two years, Matt said.  He talks to her more than anyone else.  She kind-of kept to her room after we found her in the woods; well, Kris kept her to the room.  On a cot, and I thought that he was being pretty mean about it.  I mean, it’s not like she was going to run away.  Okay, take that back.  She ran away twice, and the second time was the worst.  The second time she ran away, nobody even knew she was gone.  I went by her room, and I thought that she was in there, because she’s really quiet in her room most of the time.  So I didn’t think anything of it until Kris came out of the room all growling and stuff.  And next thing I know, he’s running towards the room, and I’m standing next to Peter really confused.  Peter just sat back down on the porch and kicked his feet out, folding his arms over his chest as he watched.  That’s kind of all he does, you know?  Just watches and sits back, and then he usually gives us some really wise wisdom.  Always thinking.  I just brood over things, I guess.  And ramble, a lot.  I have no idea what I’m doing, and now, I just feel stuck.  I just feel so hurt, because I really like Sofia, and I love Matty.  And now, I’ve got nobody.  Except Kris, but he’s more like a father than anything else, even though he’s only about six years older than me.  So maybe he’s like a older brother?  Wouldn’t know, never had one of those, but I’m guessing that’s what he’s like.  God, Sofia, wake up!  Wake up and help us get Matt back!