Lost but Always Found (OUAT fanfiction)

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     I all I remember is standing at the edge of the forest. Watching. Observing. There was no meaning to it, just existing. Occasionally I would see the people walking through the streets of the town that lay far from my hiding place. Only once I had grown curious of someone, but it was enough.
     A boy, about 10 years old, sitting outside the back of his small home, crying. I tilted my head with curiosity as the wind blew my fur into my eyes. Slowly I walked towards him, and he quickly spotted me. There was no sign of fear in his eyes, but tears continued to fall down his face.
     I felt the need to speak. To be heard. right as I opened my mouth, something felt different. "A-Are you alright?" I asked him slowly. He jumped at the sound of my voice. "who are you!?" He shouted as I took a few steps back. "I tried to search my mind for the answer, but found nothing. "I-I was -Just asking if you were okay. You were crying," I said, fighting to reach out and wipe the tears off his cheek.
     Wether it was seeing the honesty on my face or just giving up, I do not know, but he quickly relaxed and rested his head in his hand. I reached up to touch his damp cheek, but he flinched so I quickly pulled my arm away and sat facing him. We both pulled our knees to our chest as I looked into his sad eyes. "What's wrong?" I asked quietly, the boy picking his head up to look at me. "Why do you care?," He said loudly, sounding offended my my question, "you're just some monster who claims to care."
     Something told me he was talking about someone else. "Some one hurt you, didn't they?" I said with concern. I moved to sit on my knees but this time he didn't move away when I tested my hand on his shoulder. "What's you name?" I asked quietly. He said it so quietly, but my wolf like senses picked up his childish whisper.
     "B-Baelfire," he stuttered. We SAT there together for a few hours as he told me of his father, who was known as a coward, and his mother, who loved him so dearly. We were stopped only by the sound of his father's voice calling him inside with worry. "I have to go now, you should get out of here before he sees you," he said as he rushed to get inside. "I'll come back tomorrow, I mean, if you want," I said with a smile." He smiled back and nodded as I ran off into the forest beyond the small home and returned to my original state. Somehow, I was more aware of everything around me in this form than I had been the years before.
     I visited him again the next day, and many days after. It seemed this would last forever. But alas, soon it would all end and I would be ripped away from what little I had seen of the world.