Wolfblood

Familiar faces

"Mom" I whisper under my breath

Kenny: "Do you recognize this person?"

I jump at his voice everyone just looks at me. I don't know what to say. Then Jonathan breaks the silence.

"Where and how did you get this?" He ask Kenny with me not paying attention.

" I was out exploring." He replied sarcastically.

"What do you think I was doing!? I was out patrolling and doing my job." He snaps.

"Wait you were patrolling?" Cindy asks

"Since when do you have that job?" She says but you can tell she's on the verge of laughter.

"Since forever." Kenny replies sternly

Then Cindy loses it and Jonathan joins in.

"Its true!" Kenny snaps at them.

" You.... Patrol!" Cindy says gasping for air in the middle.

"You don't even like stepping in mud with old shoes!" She says and starts laughing again.

Kenny gives her a death glare while I stand there in silence. I haven't really been able to laugh for a while. We stood there for a few seconds with Jonathan and Cindy laughing until I got annoyed we have bigger things to deal with then laugh at others!

"Silence!" I yell and they freeze.

"We have loads to deal with an your here just laughing! Those wild ' wolves' are out there and we need a plan." I scream.

Both of them whimper and stand  heads bowed in shame.

"Sorry my alpha we were just trying to lighten the mood. I mean with all this stress plus have you seen the picture of that she- wolf in the picture it's hilarious..." Jonathan replies until I cut him off

" That she-wolf is my mother!" I say coldly, eyes changing color and veins crawling up my arms.

Cindy gulps and Kenny backs away with Jonathan staring confusingly at me. Then he says....

" What? No it can't be your mothers at the den. That can't be her."

"That's  not my mother she's my step mother. My real mother was caught in a fire." I say

"Well then that can't be her if she was in the fire." Cindy says

"Come sit." I tell them with Kenny walking away slowly

"You too Kenny." I say then he turns and sits with us.

I start my story.

"I was only 6 at the time you guys hadn't arrived yet from Florida after your 'incident'. We were getting ready for dinner. My mom was cooking while I set up the table. Then we got a call saying that one of the Cubs were ill and they were dying. My father wasn't home yet he was still at work. So my mother decided I'd stay and she would go sort it out. So I did as I was told. I was just watching tv until I heard a faint cry in the distance. So I went out to see what it was I didn't have to walk deep into the forest until I found a cub. He was alone and seemed to be hungry and cold. Their was no scent I guessed they abandoned him since he seemed runt sized. So I took him in laid him on the bed upstairs and went back down to the kitchen to look for some food for him. I found a bottle and I looked through the pack healers book to find some sort of baby milk formula and sure enough their was. Once I finished it I took it up but I heard something in the kitchen thinking maybe a glass cup slipped from the sink and moved making the dishes collide but I was wrong. It came from the living room. A candle fell on the sofa and caught in on fire. I was young so I had the sense of smell of a human still, I didn't smell the burning until it got strong. I went down stairs to find a huge fire but I had to put it out. I went to the kitchen but when I took a step forward my path was blocked with flames that rose up to my face. I backed up looking around to find my self trapped in a corner. I growled at the fire with it being a wolfblood instinct. I didn't stay to long until my mother burst through the door! She looked petrified and ran upstairs probably looking for me but came down with the baby. She kept searching until she saw me. She had set the baby down and ran, jumping, dodging. She never hesitated she just kept trying to get to me. Once she did she picked me up and carried me we only got halfway across the room until a beam I guess fell down. She looked down at me and said "I love you." Then she threw me over it. I ran thinking she would jump over too until I reached the outside and picked up the cub. I turned and she wasn't there until I saw her trapped inside still. I yelled "Come on mom please don't leave me!" She just shook her head no. I kept telling her to come until my father got home which wasn't too long. I didn't notice the house was gonna come down until my dad pulled me out and and ran back to the house but he was too late. The house collapsed. With my mom in it."

I looked up at everyone as they stared at me. I didn't notice I was crying that's was probably one of the reasons they were surprised. I never cried after that incident I never felt sorrow. I never had any feeling for anyone after that. I tolerated my family now as just other pack members not as family. My father was jut alpha my sisters just other pair of Cubs. I think I only have a little feeling to Bleidd but not to much, but I did treat him as family. I then lifted my hand pulled my hair back a little from my face so they could see the scar going from the top of my forehead to the top of my ear. While I said ...

"That's how I got this."

I was starting to get up when Jonathan spoke....

"Is that why you never cared for any celebration we ever had, why you just treat us like the others when we're your true we're family." He said with a disappointed tone.

"Why you never cared for who you told us was your mother?" Cindy added

"Yes that is why I have no deep feeling for anyone." I say to them

"Why?" Cindy asks

"Feelings are just more weaknesses. Knowing who they are to you what makes it great to have them in your life can give you strength." I reply

"But-" Jonathan begins but I cut him off.

"I've endured the worst times of life alone. I don't need anyone. If your in my life it's because I value you and want you there." I say peacefully and walk home.