Ready To Run

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After a long cold night the daybreak brought glimmers of warmth. The golden light softly caressed the land and ignited the birds into a chorus of melodies. Golden light dribbled through the curtains causing the cub wolf to stir around in the bed. The warm beams of light filtered through his thin eyelids awoke the cub with a bit of a starttel. Rays of brightness cast squares onto the glossy wooden floor, reflecting onto several objects in the room which decorated its otherwise simplicity. He blinked a few times, in an attempt to help his eyes adjust to the illumination directed right at his overly sensitive eyes. Rising on his front paws, the cub let out a small yawn before he used his back paw to scratch behind his ear. Once done the pup stood up on the floffy mattres sinking down everytime his little paws moved. Going to the edge of the bed, the pup looked down to the ground examining the distance from where he was now to the floor. Once he concluded that the jump was safe, the cub stepped back a bit before jumping and landing on his feet. His small little paws scampered there way over to the bigger wolf that was still sleeping under the window. Sniffing the bigger wolve's paw, the cub barked and nudged it with his nose. The cub barked again and climbed up on Zayn's back and started to lightly lite at the alpha's ear.

A few seconds passed, and Zayn had finally woken up from his slumber. Blinking his eyes open Zayn made a low growling sound at the feeling of someone biting his ear. Shaking his head to get whatever it was off of him, Zayn stared down at the pup who had fallen off of him on to the ground in front of him. The baby cub looked a bit puzzled and in a daze before barking again. Zayn made a small huffing sound before putting his head back down on the ground. Not even being able to close his eyes, Zayn was disturbed once again by the constant barking of the cub.

"Malik! If you don't hurry up and feed and entertain the damn cub we are gonna have a problem!" Louis shouted from the room across from Zayn's, resulting in Zayn rolling his eyes at moody brunette.

Even though he was reluctant to move, Zayn eventually did get up so he could make his way to the bathroom. He could hear small little padding sounds following after him. Shifting back to his human form once inside the bathroom, the alpha pulled on a pair of jogging pants so the cub wouldn't see him naked. Hearing a stumble and then a fall from behind, Zayn turned aroud quickly to see curls and green eyes staring up at him. Instead of the small pup, there was now a little boy there that looked to be around the ages of four and six. His eyes were the glimmering colour of emerald, sparkling in the light of the morning sun like a fresh sheen of morning dew. When he tilted his head to the side slightly, those big doe eyes caught the light and played tricks with anything and everything that screamed 'spring'. Grabbing a towel Zayn kneeled down in front of the boy and smiled kindly. Wrapping the towel around the boy's small frame, Zayn picked him up carrying him back out to his room.

The boy's hands start to play with Zayn's cheeks patting them softly every now and then. Neither of them said anything yet, and Zayns was starting to think that maybe the kid didn't know how to talk. Well that was until the green eyed lad said, "Pretty." as his small hands rubbed over Zayn's cheeks, giggling a bit when the stubble tickled his chubby little hands.

Zayn smiled a bit endured at how soft and peacful he lad's voice was. "Do you have a name buddy?" he asked as he went through his drawers to see if he stil had his little cousin's shirt in his closet. Pulling out the green, blue, and white stripped shirt Zayn smiled relived then started to search for a pair of shorts or something.

"Harry!" the lad said a bit too loud, but Zayns didn't really mind. Instead he nodded and grabbed a pair of basketbll shorts that looked like they beloged to his baby cousin's as well. Smiling Zayn looked into Harry's eyes and smiled warmly.

"Well Harry I'm Zayn, now lets get you cleaned up yeah?"

The emeraled eyed lad nodded and smiled as he let the taller lad carry him to the bathroom the get washed up and tooken care of. Once he was clean and dressed, Zayn smiled and had a fun time tyuing Harry's short curls up in a ponytail. "There you go bud. Ready to go eat now?" he asked as he reached down to grab Harry's hand. The younger nodded up at the alpha, and then they started making their way down the stairs to the kitchen. Soon the smell of pancakes, oatmeal, hash, turkey bacon, and eggs filled through both of their senses making both of their stomachs growl. Harry giggled at that, and Zayn couldn't help but to feel even more endured with the little cherub as the seconds went on.