Little Red [ON HOLD]

Puck

Chapter 2:

I held her in my arms tightly, never wanting her to leave me again. After a few moments, I look down only to see her beautiful green eyes staring into mine. I smiled gently.

“I have missed you, Red.” I spoke quietly, knowing the danger we were both in now that we were together. She nodded, lowering her head.

“I have —" She stopped talking, and with wide eyes, looked down at my chest. I raised a brow in confusion and looked down as well. I hadn’t noticed that I was wounded after our fight. Her eyes filled with surprise and she became upset.

“Oh, I am so sorry! I didn’t realize….” She quickly moved away, and ran to one of the large trees surrounding the clearing, grabbing a few handfuls of moss. She continued to apologize loudly and I could tell she meant it.

I tried to tell her I was alright, but I couldn’t get a word in as she constantly spoke. So I decided that I would have to “force” her into silence. I put my face inches from hers, looking into her eyes. It was the same thing as pulling a switch, instant silence. I spoke quietly.

“Red, I am fine. Please don’t be sorry, I was behaving like a fool. And please be quiet, your father might hear us.”

She nodded and looked at my chest again, the bloodstain growing larger by the second. I knew that she wanted to help me so without objection, I took off my jacket and shirt, revealing a deep gash on my upper body.

She looked into my eyes once more, her eyes filled with apologizes she hadn’t said. I winced as she put the moss in my injury, and she concurred in empathy. As she healed my wound, she spoke to me.

“It has been a while since I have seen you. I have missed you, but you shouldn’t have come here.”

I frowned slightly and spoke, my voice serious.

“Aurelia,” I used her first name, which made her frown subtly. “I understand the danger of me coming here, and it didn’t matter to me. I missed you, and traveled from outside your territory, from the Rouge Forest.”

She opened her mouth to yell, but realized and instead spoke in a whisper. “Puck, you need to get out of here now. Tonight is the full moon and you could be hurt,” she looked at my chest and continued. “Even worse than this.”

I rolled my eyes slightly as she called me Puck, what she had named me when we were children. That name made me sound like a fairy from a Shakespeare play. I tried not to sound upset, and instead I sounded furious. “I can take care of myself, Aurelia. I am a shifter. I can fly and swim, enough to stay away from your father.”

She flinched from the venom in my voice, and dropped her eyes, obviously trying to hide her true emotions. I put my hand on top of hers. “I just wanted to see you. You are my best friend.”

She moved her hand away and stood up, her eyes still to the ground. I rose to my feet as well and she started to walk away quickly from the field. I stepped forward and grabbed her wrist gently.

“Red, please.” I said, not worrying about how loud I was being anymore. She tried to shake me off, but I was too strong and I wouldn’t let go. She kept her eyes away from me, which hurt me greatly, even more than her injuring me.

With a small tug, I pulled her closer to me, and I hugged her tightly. She stood up on tiptoe and nuzzled her head against mine, and dashed out of the clearing, not bothering to change into her wolf form. I watched her leave, her red cloak falling off behind her as she ran. When she was out of sight, grabbed the cape and climbed into a tree and sat on a sturdy branch, watching the sun set slightly.

Suddenly, I heard footsteps near my hideout, and I receded farther up the tree, concealing myself. My eyes widen as I saw Aurelia’s father and his two best hunters enter the clearing. I stood still, barely breathing.

He walked over to where I was with his daughter, and noticed my blood on a small yellow flower. He touched the head of the flower with a fingertip and smelled the blood on his hand. When he spoke, I felt like the tree was shaking.

“The Shifter is back. We will not let him near my daughter. That is an order that will be given tonight. If anyone sees the boy, he dies.”

I gasped inaudibly at the last sentence that escaped his lips. The hunters morphed into their wolves, one a blonde and another a gray pelted. I shivered, hunters were bigger that any werewolves besides the Alpha, and they could kill with one blow.

I quickly changed my shape into a screech owl and flew off to a higher tree. As I looked back, I saw the Alpha’s eyes on me, and I didn’t like the way his eyes bore into mine