In the Moon's Light

Chapter 24:This Week Just Keeps Getting Better

Kat's POV:

The briars and branches scratch my legs and my paws. I hear howling up ahead meaning someone has cornered the prey and is claiming it as theirs. I hear paw prints closing in behind me, as well as the thunder that echos through the forest. I hear the harsh piercing howl meaning that it is almost over. I have to get there and stop them. I will kill them if I have too in order to save him.

This is all my fault. I hear his shouts up ahead, followed by a sharp yelp. He must have stopped one of them. I hope there wasn't more than two or three surrounding him. I get to the river and I see that he made it to the other side. He is supposed to be safe there but Raul is still after him. Cheater. I growl loudly before charging the river and jumping smoothly over it.

He is badly hurt, I smell his blood in the air, I have to protect him. I turn towards Raul just as Raul turns towards me. This will be the day he dies, I swear it. He growls back at me just as we both lunge for each other. I will kill Raul and then I will save him. Our fight begins with biting and a slashing of paws. I finally get ahold of his neck and cut off his airway. He stops fighting and I realize I want him to live with his miserable life. I wait until he is unconscious and throw his body into the river to be washed downstream. If he drowns it will be his own wolf's fault.

I turn towards him then. Michael, my link, my love, my life. His wounds are still bleeding heavily I can smell the blood as it seeps into the dirt. His shirt is covered with blood and it's dripping onto the forest floor.  I have to get him out of here. I shift quickly in front of him. From wolf to girl in a matter of seconds, he just stares at me with a blank expression. It's to be expected, I wouldn't know what to think either at this point.

"Michael love, come with me. We have to get you out of here. You're hurt."

I walk towards him and offer him my hand as he reaches out. I bend down next to him to help him up but just before he takes my hand he lunges toward me. I feel something go into my side and I feel burning. I look down and see the handle of a knife....a silver knife in my side. I pull it out burning my hand in the process as I fall to the forest floor, pain radiating throughout my body now.

"Michael.....wh--why?"

"I could never love something that wasn't even a mutant, let alone not human. You disgust me. You aren't natural. I hate you."

He picks up the knife from the ground and plunges it straight into my heart. I scream out in pain as he twists the blade. I watch his eyes fill with hate as he laughs a cruel harsh sounding laugh towards me as I fall back onto the forest floor. I continue to scream out in pain, unsure of whether it is his words  or the knife in my heart that is the source of my pain. I feel myself start to shake as I fade away, with the look of hatred on his face etched in my mind.

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Michael's POV:

I woke up with her shaking next to me on the bed. She's crying again and silently screaming in her sleep. Her face is contorted in pain, just like it was almost all of yesterday. No, not another nightmare for my angel, no! I have to wake her up before she gets trapped again. I start calling her name, gently shaking her, and rubbing her back trying to wake her up.

"Kat, Katherine! Wake up love! It's just a dream, it's not real. You're safe, I'm safe. Just wake up please love!"

She opens her eyes wide before she looks at me and recognizes me. Then I see it in her eyes, from confusion to fear. She's afraid of me, but why? Before I can even ask what's wrong she has hopped out of my arms and has slid down into the other corner of the room. She is silently crying and has her legs pulled in close to her chest as she stares at me with fear in her eyes.