Instinct

[ wolvesafterdark contest entry ]

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in - stinct
n. an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to a certain stimuli
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Thea was born into a high-ranked family. Her father was the Beta for the last Alpha, and her mother was the daughter of a Beta from another Pack.

Thea knew what the consequences of denying her wolf meant; to deny her wolf is to deny her whole self, a consequence that she had chosen to embrace full-heartedly. She never had a choice.

Thea knew that she was losing herself, and that she couldn't do anything to stop it.

It killed her brother Rhys to see his baby sister like this. He knew that the only way to get her to reunite with her wolf would be to reunite her with the one who started this all, Alpha Alastair.
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It had killed Alastair when he found out that his mate was Thea. He fell in love with her when they were pups, constantly finding themselves in the most amusing troubles as they ran off together. But she had problems, problems that not even he could handle. She was cursed, everyone in the Pack knew it. The moon under her neck gave it away, and nobody knew what exactly it entailed, let alone how to cure it. Having a mate was not in the cards that the goddess had dealt him, so how could they possibly have been matched?

He had never said his rejection out loud, so their wolves were still connected. Alastair's wolf was slowly going insane. Forget about this goddess-damned curse. He felt like a caged animal, and when Rhys came to him with his plan to get Thea back Scott was overjoyed.

His wolf was hungry and only a certain she-wolf could sedate his carnal needs...

Her instinct told her to run, his instinct told him to chase.