[IC] Wolf Children(Lady and Heart)

[AHeartlessNobody]

Anna thought she was done for. That she would die out there in the snow freezing and alone. But as she layed there, she heard footsteps and was picked up by someone. The person was very warm and she couldn't help but snuggle up to him. When the person spoke in a voice that was rusty yet sounded comforting to her, putting a jacket around her, she looked up into golden looking eyes, but didn't look at anything else before the wind began blowing harder, forcing her to bury her face against his neck again and I was there that she fell asleep, still weak from the cold.
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When Anna woke again, it was a few hours later and in the middle of the night. She was so confused as to where she was and sat up, sitting on the edge of the bed, still a little too weak to stand up. She looked about worriedly, trying to see if who had brought her there was there now.

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"Visiting their graves?" He asked, a frown upon his face as he looked over at her, pausing in his sketching for now, setting his pencil down before continuing to speak,"I...I'm sorry to hear about that. I lost my older sister a few years ago. I know how hard it is to move on from such a huge loss like that." Shaking his head he looked back at her, giving her a gentle smile, "I'm sure it will be okay though. It's good to have closure like that."

[ladyonyx04]

Sitting in a chair of the house that Annabelle was currently in, sat a young woman perhaps mid-twenties and she smiles at the human who had been brought here. "Thank goodness you're awake. You really could have died of hypothermia. Are you okay? Feeling any more cold?" The human asked her eyes only slightly yellow around her pupils, the rest of her eyes a pretty purple. "I'm Savannah. I'm sure you have questions. I can answer as many as you need." The door opened to show Toga his hair the same brown hair as the wolf looking at the human having the same pure gold sunshine eyes that the alpha wolf and the kid had. "You are alright. Good. Welcome to our home outsider." He said kindly enough looking down at the human.

"It's the reason I had to go away sixteen years ago. I had to go and move with my grandparents. But I thank you. I haven't been there and I need to at least say hello for the first time in forever." She said shaking her head. "They were murdered not simply an accident but no one wants to believe it happened and to the public it pretty much never did since it was just a freak accident and whatnot." She said a bit bitter that they would think that but had put it behind her a few years ago.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Annabella looked at the woman, a little confused and was even more confused as a man walked in. There was something very familiar about the man, especially his gold eyes and the color of his hair. It really reminded her of the wolf she had seen before the little girl had been laying on. But, she really didn't know what to think about that. After all, she was still coming to terms with the fact the little girl had wolf ears on her head. For a human to turn into a wolf and vise versa was...well it was far from strange. It was near impossible. And yet, right now that impossibility was indeed seeming very possible. She blinked in confusion, wrapping the blanket she had tighter around her, "T-thank you." She said when he welcomed her, then with an unsure look on her face, spoke up, "W....whats going on here? I don't understand. I feel like I'm going crazy. That child....the little girl. She had wolf ears...and you...." She said looking over at the alpha, "You were a wolf. Weren't you?" She didn't need him to answer, because she seemed to already know it was true, "How is that possible? How can a human turn into a wolf?"

Conner looked down for a moment, then back up at her, "A freak accident?" He thought for a moment. He had been here all of his life and was so sure he knew everything that had happened. And when she said that, he seemed to recall what she was talking about, "The....the Silver family. You were the daughter, weren't you? The one who survived. I heard about that, but never really heard the full story. People said it was an accident, so I never really asked about it." He shook his head, "If it was a murder then you would think the police would look more into it." He whispered, before looking back to her, "Well, screw what those people say. I believe you. It you say it wasn't an accident, then it wasn't."

[ladyonyx04]

Toga sat down on the edge of the bed nodding to her question although it had been rhetorical. "Yes I was and am the alpha male of this pack. It is a long and difficult story. But shortened it makes a little more sense. You've heard of lycanthropy have you not? It's all thought to be legends and stories to tell the children when they misbehave to get them to fall into line. We're not that at all, as you can see. Lycanthropy is passed from a parent to child or by the infamous bite during the true night of the full moon out of the three that occur, but we can change at any time, as you see, otherwise I wouldn't be human right now, but still in lupine form. And little Rin is our daughter." He said motioning to Savannah who was his mate that he and his wolf chose. "The human mates all felt as you do thinking they've gone crazy, but we've been secret for hundreds of years for a reason. Because we can't be found by any human or they'd want to experiment on us. Like they had with that incident that occurred sixteen years ago with the Silver family's slaughter for all but the offspring that somehow survived the rouge attack." He said softly staring off into the distance. It was essential that they keep secret for humans were no where near the point of accepting werewolves as existing.

"Yeah. I was the daughter, and somehow, I survived. With this mark as proof." Natalie said pulling up the right leg of her jeans revealing the ugly scar on her leg that marked where the wolf had bitten her as she did her best to fight it off, it scraping the skin off. She could remember the attack clear as day because of the wolf that mixed in with the bite, which happened to occur the true night of a full moon by some wolves that went nuts for some reason or another. She looked at him surprised that he would believe her. No one else would even think twice about it had she told anyone else and a small true smile, one that caused the yellow in her eyes to recede if only a bit and said eyes to soften, bloomed on her lips. "You're the first one to do so, that lived in this town their entire life." She said a bit awed that he would take her word over that of what everyone in the town would say was heresy.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Annabella listened closely, and it all did indeed seem to make since. It explained why the the little girl had wolf ears and why the alpha wolf had been so protective over her. She frowned for a moment through and then looked up at the man and woman before her, "I understand. Most of it makes since. But....there is one thing that confuses me. If...if you all have been trying so hard to keep yourselves hidden from humans...then why allow me to come here? Wouldn't it have been smarter and safer to either kill me when you saw me, or just let me die in the snow instead of bringing me here?" She asked, looking at the alpha and his human mate, wondering slightly how these 'human mates' had even found the wolves. Had most of them just happened to come across them in the forests as she had, or had the wolves gone to the town in their human forms? Though, she supposed she could ask about that later. Right now, she just wanted to know why she was still alive is she could very well be a threat to them, especially with her attending the college that had, as she was told, killed some of their kind.

Conner smiled back when he saw that smile on her face and the look in her eyes, and chuckled, "Well that's a damn shame, isn't it? You would think more people would believe you. After all, you were there when it happened." He looked down at the scare and tilted his head to the side frowning, "That looks like a dog bite. Did the killers have a dog with them or something?" He asked, looking back to her, a confused look on his face. It wasn't much normal for murders to have dogs with him, though he supposed if they were attack dogs, then it might make sense.

[ladyonyx04]

"No." Natalie said and took a breath. "This is where people would stop believing me. It was wolves. They did it. I can remember their colder than a winter sun yellow eyes with red undertones as they slaughtered my parents before me. I don't really remember much after seeing my mother's blood spilling over the kitchen floor like macabre rose petals spewing and falling down." Not even her crystal clear memory could recall what happened after that, beyond waking up in a hospital her leg bandaged and feeling as if she had been dragged through two levels of hell then back up again.

"Neither of us rescued you." Toga said. "You would have risked your life trying to get a cure for my daughter. My beta went after you, carrying you up here, you cuddled into him like a small child as we produce warmth that easily beats this snowy weather. No ordinary human would do that, especially in a big storm as you had. So, we're trusting you, much like we all have to trust our human mates to not tell where we are." He said as the door opens Alexei walking in with a bowl of soup. He looked around a bit awkwardly and placed the tray on the table by the bed.
"Here. You must be hungry by now and it will help chase away the cold." He said softly his soft yellow eyes looking at the human female pulling a hand through his hair feeling a little strange by the human not knowing what to do with himself after he had saved her life her cuddling up to him as she had while unconscious made the wolf inside pace it's cage finding he wanted to be by her surprisingly.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Anna looked at him confused when he stated that they didn't save her, but his beta had. She somewhat recalled it. That warmth of him holding her close. Those soft golden eyes and rough yet sweet voice. Other than that and smuggling against him, she had no idea who this beta was. That is, until he walked in with a bowl of soup.

She blinked is disbelief, raising an eyebrow, "You? You're the one who saved me?" She wasn't sure how she felt about that. After all, he had been the one to try and stop her from searching for the wolves. The one who had acted as though she was there to do harm. The one who's yellow eyes had looked at her so menacingly when they first met. It was hard for her to believe those same eyes had looked at her so softly when saving her. Just like they were now. His eyes and voice were soft as he looked at her.

She gingerly picked up the bowel of soup, eyeing him both suspiciously and curiously, "So...you are the beta Lexi little Rin had came up to? The wolf that lead me to the pack? But I thought you didn't want me to find the wolves? After all, you told me they were dangerous." She said, taking a sip of the soup as she looked at him.

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"Wolves?" Connor asked, looking at her in confusion, now unsure if it was true or not. After all, evolves chant been seen in Carson in over a hundred years. He figured maybe she was mistaken. She had been young at the time, a mere child. Maybe the murders had some sort of dogs with them. Maybe huskies, considering those dogs looked like wolves. He did believe her when she said they were killed. But by wolves? He was sure she was mistaken, though he didn't state it. He just nodded, "It must have been terrifying."

[ladyonyx04]

"I didn't want you to find the pack. We don't trust humans right away. Toga's the one to tell me to bring you here through our mental connection in wolf form. You had after all lay down in the snow showing your belly to me." Alexei said and looks at her. "Only Rin get's away with calling me that feminine nickname. My full name is Alexei, but I can't expect a young child to get it right. And we very well can be if we perceive a threat to our pack's safety. Are you a threat to our safety?" He asked raising an eyebrow.

Natalie sighs knowing it had been a long shot. "Yes, I didn't stutter. Wolves." She said clearly and stiffens in her seat as the door opens revealing a man perhaps twenty-five in the door way, his shaggy black hair in disarray. He had sky blue eyes, but also had the yellow swirling around looking straight at her. She had smelled the guy long before he opened the door. He smelt just like a wolf. He looks at her a bit in surprise.
"How is this?" He seemed to talk to himself his voice a little rough as he stared at her recognizing the smell of a werewolf but seeing a girl that wasn't attached to a pack. Normally those that didn't have a pack went stark crazy with the wolf inside and should have been found out by now. He took a step inside, more like stalking in with a stride of a predator, causing Natalie to shoot from her seat a small snarl escaping her throat a warning to get away. He smirks his teeth a bit more sharper than normal. "Well well well. How interesting." He said as he choose a seat staring straight at Natalie the yellow in his eyes a bit more pronounced not letting his prey get out of his sight. He had a bag in his hands, one that had obviously gotten from the convenience store not far from the college, but he didn't seem to be wearing much despite it snowing outside. He was wearing a shirt that seemed made for his broad shoulders and black pants with some boots, the snow having melted in his hair.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Anna glared at him when he finished speaking. There he went again with that attitude the made her feel like he thought she was inferior to him. She scoffed at his tone and looked at him with an annoyed expression on her face, the look in her bright blue eyes showing she was not pleased with the tone he took even speaking to her, "Well, Lexi , I don't know. Do I look like a threat to you. Because if you think so you might as well go ahead and rip my throat out, right?" She knew calling him that and smarting off to him like that wasnt the best thing to do, but it felt almost like he was threatening her and she couldn't help but at least try not to seem like some weak girl when in reality she was.

Connor watched what was going on between Natalie and the man who had come through the door, confused and slightly nervous. Especially when he heard the inhuman growl come from Natalie. He stood up now, noticing the way the man looked at her and rounded the other side of the table to stand in front of her, glaring at the man, not liking how uncomfortable he was making her, "Can I help you? Because if you're not a student here at tar university then you nerd to leave. Now."

[ladyonyx04]

Alexei looks at her a bit confused realizing that perhaps he said something wrong. He then shook his head. "I was talking about Rin's inability to get my name right. Not you since you only just learned my name and all." He said going to the door not at all used to talking to people. "I would have never lead you here even with Toga's suggestion for me to do so if I thought you a threat woman who refuses to tell me her own name." He said with a small smile. He quite enjoyed her sparky temper. He supposed it had something to do with the wolf inside that enjoyed a challenge. "Perhaps you'll tell me when next we see each other, hm?" He asked.

Kouga stood up and turns his head to the human the yellow spreading at the thought of a challenge. He enjoyed those for not very many would willingly take him on, besides from Toga and Alexei. He respected those two like older siblings. "Oh? How amusing. You think you can make me. Silly human." He said with a shake of his head and looked at Natalie. "When you wish to learn to place the animal in a cage, up on the hill where the College's wildlife preserve is, you'll find those that will teach you. Until then, it was very interesting to meet you." He said with a small wave to the two of them a chuckle leaving his mouth. Natalie blinks surprised. He had known that she had a wolf in her, much like she could tell just by smelling him. And it seemed as if he were in more control of it, then it of him. Were there others like her that could teach her to have better control? If so, she'd go there before the moon cycle started again, like tonight or something. She shook her head.
"That was odd to say in the least." She said pulling a hand through her hair sighing.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Annabella rolled her eyes when he thought she misunderstood what he had said to her. She had understood what he meant by saying only Rin could call him that. The only reason she had called him that was to annoy him just as much as he had annoyed her. But it didn't seem to work. In fact, he had smiled at her, which caused her to have butterflies in her stomach. She sat up straight, watching as he walked toward the door, a small smirk and a challenge in her eyes, "We'll see. Ill have to decide if you deserve to know or not."

Conner watched s the man left and sighed, turning to look at Natalie, a concerned look on his face, "Nat. What is going on here. And what was that man talking about?" He asked, confused. He found it strange the man had spoke about Natalie like she was an animals and had called him 'human'. Of course he was a human, but so was that man. What was the point in saying that? He looked at her, waiting for answers.

[ladyonyx04]

"Well then." Alexei said stalking close to her his long legs approaching her side in very little time since the room hadn't been all that big to begin with. "Is that how you treat others that saved your life? Or am I just special?" He asked a wolfish grin on his face the animal side to him coming out a bit in him a bit of red highlighting his eyes but it was faint. Both he and the animal had enjoyed the challenge she had just put out there choosing within that moment who he would enjoy being at his side for the rest of his natural life time.

"I do not think it's for me to say. I have a feeling that he's in some sort of club or another and found me worthy enough to join. I don't really know though." Natalie said for once telling a lie. If he wouldn't believe that you were attacked by wolves, how could he hope to understand that you become one every month or when you get angry enough? No, tell him a lie. A small one. The wolf said softly in her head.
You can talk?
I've always been able to. I'm that gut feeling that tells you what you should do. You just haven't noticed I used words before now.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Annabella watched Alexei approach her and raised an eyebrow at what he said, the smirk not leaving her face. She stood up now and after getting the feeling in her legs again, put her hands on her hips, standing close in front of him, looking up at him as if trying to show him up or start a fight with him, though he was quite a bit taller than him, "It's just you I'm afraid, Lexi." She said putting the emphasis on the name she knew he hated being called by, then went on to tease him more, "Aww what's the matter? Did I make the big bad wolf angery?"

Connor frowned at her explanation and sighed as he crossed his arms, moving around the table to sit back where he had been sitting. He knew she was lying to him, but decided to not say anything. He had just met her and it wasn't exactly his place to say anything. But still, he couldn't get the inhuman growl she had given out of his head. He sat down and looked up at her, "Okay...well...just be careful, alright? I don't trust that man."

[ladyonyx04]

Alexei smiles at her chuckling softly. "Oh not at all. Red doesn't always mean anger do you know? Red can sometimes mean passion as well little one." He said stepping into her space. He wanted to see what she would do now.

Natalie smiles and places a hand on his shoulder. "Thank you for worrying about me I highly appreciate it." She said honestly looking at him with a look that said not to worry too much about it.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Annabella blinked in surprise when he stated red could mean passion as well. She adjusted her glasses and looked up at him up, her hands going to his chest nervously when he stepped even closer to her, meant to stop him from putting his body against hers but instead made her blush even more, feeling his warmth under her fingertips, "If you we're smart you'd back down. I'm a hell of a scandal. No man so far has been able to put up with me."

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Connor frowned as he looked down at her and nodded with a sigh before giving her one of his signature bright grins, "No problem. Hey how about we skip class. I know a great pizza place down the street. We could have some lunch. My treat."

[ladyonyx04]

"I love pizza. Are you sure that's wise? It was snowing really hard. Not that I don't want pizza. When its cold its the breakfast of champions." She said loving pizza. What American didn't?

A rumble escaped Alexie's chest as her hand went up to stop him but wound up blushing. "Wolves are never smart when they choose their mates. We enjoy a challenge." He said staring down at her not caring about any scandle. They can say anything they wanted about him. But against the one he chose? Hell no they would find themselves unable to walk.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Annabella couldn't help but blush more when he basically called her his mate. She looked up at him, and carefully ran her hands up his chest, letting them find their way to his shaggy hair, .hr arms around his neck and her face so close to his she could feel the warmth of his breath on her lips, "So you want a challenge?" A smirk came to her face and she moved in, acting as though she were about to kiss him and when he fell for it about to close the distance, she smirked, ducking out of his grasp last second and going under his arm, slyly walking back to sit on the edge of the bed, "Wish granted. You'll have to try harder than that if you want me as a mate Wolf Boy." She smirked at him from where she sat, "Oh, and the name is Annabella."

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Connor thought about it, looking out the window, then looked back at her, he shrugged, thinking nothing of the cold weather outside. All he could think about was getting pizza with the pretty girl beside him, "I don't mind the storm if you don't."

[ladyonyx04]

"I don't mind the cold." Natalie said honestly. Since she could produce heat, she didn't really mind the cold. And during the summer she learned to tune down the massive heat that she had to get her to enjoy the warmer weather. "Lets get some pizza!" She said excitedly acting like a child for the first time in forever.

Toga and Savannah left the two of them alone smiles on both their faces as Alexei found someone with spirit finding Kouga in the door carrying the medicine. He also smelled different, like...another wolf that was packless? "Show me what the one holding the wolf inside looks like." Toga said staring into space as he was granted access to Kouga's memories as Savannah took the medicine and went to give her daughter some immediately. He would recognize the child anywhere despite the fact that sixteen years have passed, knowing her scent. "Natalie Silver. She had been bitten those many years ago. You were right in telling her where we are. She had only herself to teach how to keep the wolf inside. And she's barely doing that well enough. I will take her as one of the pack. She will need us to understand what she's going through." Toga said worried that somehow Natalie would spill the secret, even by accident. Alexei noticed how she got him to be fooled with her actions and smiles a bit committing the name to memory. "Annabella. What a pretty name." He said stalking towards where she went to the edge of the bed watching her for any sudden movements and then trapping her against the wall, and himself with the bed under them as a cushion, using his superior strength to keep her there the red mixing in with the gold to look like a sunset at summer, the red being a soft rose-like pink. He growls softly enjoying being this close to her. "So you want me to try harder then? I do so enjoy games." He said leaning forward his lips brushing against hers with every word he said being close enough to feel her breath on his skin and to see how her eyes darkened a bit letting him know that she did in fact enjoy his closeness as well.

[AHeartlessNobody]

Conner chuckled a bit as Natalie's excitement and nodded, leading her out of the classroom and out into the hallways of the university before stepping outside into the cool winter air. He zipped up his jacket and smiled at her, linking arms with her as he pulled her along down the street, "You're adorable, you know that? I'm really surprised no guy has snatched you up yet." And with that comment he shrugged to himself, "Oh well, their loss." He grinned at her again, "That is, it's their loss if we say this is kind of a mini date." He stated, though it was really more of a question to her, asking silently if she thought this was a date.

Annabella's breath caught in her throat when Alexei got so close to her, pinning her there against the wall with his knees on either side of her, his lips brushing against hers as he spoke. She looked up at at his golden and red eyes with her own blue eyes before moving slightly to pull off her glasses, tossing them aside carefully out of the way before her hands began moving up his chest again. Only this time, her nails lightly scratched at his skin before she kissed his lips finally, her body pressing closely to his as she spoke against his lips, her hands moving to his shoulders now, nails digging somewhat into his skin, "I don't know which is better, that soft look you gave me when you recused me, or this...this wolf side." Her breath was swallow as she spoke this before her lips kissed his with more hunger, as if testing the waters to answer her question, before looking back to him, answering her own question, "Definitely the wolf side." She said with a nod after the kiss.

[ladyonyx04]

Natalie's eyes widened at the complement and tugs on her snow white hair looking at him shyly. "I pushed people away and once people found out that I have anger management issues, they don't really wish to really get to know me anyway, beyond from my three girl friends who I adore." She said blushing a bit as his wanting this to be a sort of mini-date. "I never had a mini-date, or any date at all...so I would like to call this a mini-date." She said honestly, only wearing what she had been in, inside the classroom. A blouse like t-shirt, jeans, and a cute pair of boots that she felt like Santa Clause in every time she wore them. Beyond the paint smell she now found that Conner's scent was a bit intoxicating out here in the cold her eyes rimming with red, not that she could tell.

Alexei growls softly as he felt Annabella's nails scrape against his chest and kissed her back when she kissed him and then began to wonder which she liked better, that tender look he gave or the wolfish side to him before kissing him hungrily which he equaled in fervor smiling when she said she enjoyed the wolfish side of him a bit better. "Good, because we are a part of the other, and I can't get rid of him. And he did choose you as our mate. For which I will be thankful for." He said moving his head to scrape his teeth against her skin tasting her finding she was as sweetly tart as he thought she might.