Chasing Death

Chapter 7 - Chasing Death

Favourite comment from last chapter: Naww *munches on popcorn and points* did u c dat?! Dey jus had a moment I mean dey so hav to be comin close to finding out der mates if he was all o my gosh ive never opened up to sum1 b4! Great chap! <3" - HugzandKisses 

As we were walking back to the pack house, Josh let out a loud sigh. "There is one other reason I asked to speak with you today Bobbie. You most likely aren't going to like me much after this, but I have to do this for the safety of my pack." He paused to look at my face and then began watching my reaction as I listening to his next words. "I need you to change into your wolf form and speak to your mate. We need to know if my pack are in danger and if they are, how to proceed."

My reaction wasn't what I would call pleasant. I slapped him. Hard. In the face. His quickly brought his right hand to cover the cheek that was now pink. On any other day, this would have probably made him go all alpha on me and build a rather frightening temper. Not today though, he knew why. "You cant make me!" I screamed at him. "You have no right! You should have just let me leave when I said I would yesterday! How selfish could you be?! I never have any intention of speaking to anyone from that pack again if I can prevent it! Not even my own mother! The one person in my life who i thought cared, watched someone she barely knew chase after me, pin me down and take the most protected part of me ever. In the space of ten minutes, I lost everything. I lost my life, I lost my mother, and I lost my home! Do you know how that feels?!" The tears were over flowing from my eyes but i realised that I had crossed the line.

I had implied that he didn't know what it felt like to lose a mother. Now I felt so stupid. So self-centred. So cruel! I turned away from him, ashamed that he had to witness my breakdown and listen to my unjustified rant., and ran. I ran as fast as I could but it didn't seem fast enough. Before I could anticipate what I was about to do,  I was in mid-air, changing into my wolf, wishing I knew how to change back.

Hello again, my wolf greeted me. It made me jump. I turned around on my new four legs to face Josh. His face looked shocked, but he knew that changing wasn't my choice. I had got too angry, thats what had caused this to happen. Since I was here, I decided that I might as well help Josh and his pack out, since they saved me. 

'Danny, are you there?'

I didn't really know if there was a distance limit on this whole 'speaking as wolves' thing, but it was worth a shot.

'Of course I am Bobbie, you didn't think id stay in my weakest form and just hope that you would come back did you? Ive been watching Bobbie, and as soon as you step foot out of your new friends territory, I'll be waiting; and believe me, you will step out of there.'

His voice in my head made me feel violated, but there was something I needed to make sure of before I begged Josh to help me turn back. 

'Why not here? Why not in this territory?'

I didn't want him in this territory, but I needed to make sure he wasn't coming here.

'Oh my, I picked quite a dumb young woman for a mate didn't I. Stepping onto their territory to attack would start a war! Our business is just with you. Wouldn't want to lose some of our men over an unnecessary fight now, would we? Besides, the only other way that their pack would fight for you would be if one of them was you re mate, but they aren't, I am. So why not save us all some time and hand yourself in? I promise we'll kill you quickly; you wont feel a thing.'

His laughter ran through my head making me feel sicker than Ive ever felt before. I pleaded to Josh with my eyes, hoping he would understand that I didn't know how, but I needed to change back. He walked over to me and placed his hands on either side of my head. "Relax Bobbie. Think of the time when you were happiest in your life. You need to be in that happy place, that is when your mind will understand your need to change back, only then will you change." 

The laughter in my head made it overly hard to concentrate but I shuffled through my memories of childhood trying to think of a time when  was happy.

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It was afternoon. I was in the garden with my mother, playing a game of football on my own. I was always the athletic child. "Mummy! Come play with me!" I giggled as i kicked the ball into an imaginary net. "Goal!" I shouted. 

I ran up to my mother and did a victory dance. "Mummy I won! I beat the other team!" 

"You always will my sweet, dear Bobbie. Remember, if you put your mind to it you can do anything!" She assured me.

The memory was close to bringing me out of my wolf form and back to a human.

"Whats going on our here Vanessa?! Is Bobbie wasting her time with that stupid game again?! Bobbie! What have I told you dear?! Playing that isn't going to make you stronger! If you want to be kept alive on your 16th birthday, you'll have to do a lot more than wishing that hes your true mate. If your strength towers over his, they may keep you and kill him!" Dad stood in the doorway. He spoke to me, his eight years old daughter, just like any other person. He drilled me about this everyday so casually as if it was a normal conversation to have with your child.

"Im sorry father, please forgive me. I'll go get the weights and begin training again." This had been the majority of my childhood after my seventh birthday. I was used him not caring as much as he used to, but it still hurt. I injured myself plenty with the amount of stress he put on my body to get stronger. I can always hear him laughing as a begged him for one day off.

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The sound of that laugh brought me back to the present, hearing Danny's laugh all over again merged with my fathers. I shook my head and repelled from Josh's hand. "Shh... Bobbie its okay. If you don't remember any from your old pack, remember your happiness here." I listened to his words and began to think of my short, but happy moments whilst I had been here.

Slowly, I began to turn back into my human form. Once I was fully back to my natural self, I looked over at Josh with a small smile and thanked him as I walked over to him.

"Now, lets go get you some clothes before anyone sees you all... natural." He gestured to my body with a smirk on his face. 

"What do you mean?" Those were my silly words before I looked down and realised. "Where are my clothes?!" That had Josh in stitches, laughing all the way back to the pack house before sneaking me back to my room and letting me put on some clothes.

[A/N] So Ive decided, since the character list has Taylor York as Josh, but it keeps saying watt pad doesn't have him down on the celeb listings, im gonna change him. I'm not changing Matt Lanter as Danny so if you have any ideas please let me know :) but i want original ideas!

Oh and Ive decided that I'm going to start dedicating chapters to people who's comments made me smile/laugh etc... from the last chapter :) the comment will be at the top of every new chapter :) This one is dedicated to HugzandKisses - her comment is at the top :)

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