Black Wolf
Prologue
"I've tried looking at you," Aisling sang quietly as she walked towards her friends' classroom. She rested against the wall and smiled as she remembered the song from Jacksfilms. "But it's so hard to do," Aisling sang. "I wanna whip out my mace," another voice said turning the corner, "so let's hide that butter-face." A young man walked towards Aisling, he had dark brown hair that was gelled up, and had brown eyes, and he looked to be about twenty-three and smiled as soon as he saw Aisling. "Hi Aisling," the young man said, "You don't by any chance know where I can find Mr. Moore do you?" "Yeah, he said he was going to be in the Sport's hall for the rest of the day, hiding from the transition years," Aisling answered smiling. The young man smiled at Aisling. "Remind Kathryn that four people have to die in the essay," the young man said. "But Mr. Smith you'll see her when you get home," Aisling said smiling at the crazy Irish teacher. "Yeah, but I don't want to help her with her homework," Mr. Smith said grinning and ran around the corner towards the Sports Hall. A bell rang and the classroom doors instantly opened, with students running out. Two students ran over to Aisling, they both had dark brown hair and all three of them were eighteen or nineteen. "Hi, by the way Kat, Colm said to remind you that at least four people have to die in the story," Aisling said to the shorter of the three. "Why didn't he just tell me himself?" Kathryn asked. "He said he didn't want to help you with your homework," Aisling answered. "Lovely, I love my big brother so much," Kathryn said sarcastically. "Right, we better go to the Sports Hall before William and Colm kill each other," the other girl said smiling. "Crap, you're right Áine!" Kathryn shouted and they began running to the Sports Hall.
Kathryn turned around the corner and stopped herself as she saw Mr. Byrne standing there. Aisling turned the corner next and stopped herself as well, Áine sprinted around and hit Aisling and Kathryn. As Kathryn stumbled towards Mr. Byrne, Aisling grabbed her arm and steadied her. "What do you three think you're doing, running around the corridors?" Mr. Byrne asked fighting the smile that was going to creep onto his face. "Colm and Will are in the Sports Hall," Aisling said smiling at the vice-principal. "Oh God, it's a miracle the school hasn't been burned down yet," Mr. Byrne said smiling and he joined them as they ran towards the Sports Hall. They turned right and then left, and they finally reached the Sports Hall. A young man about twenty-two with messy brown hair and green eyes ran through the doors of the Sports Hall. "Help!" he exclaimed and hid behind Aisling. Mr. Smith burst through the doors a few seconds afterwards but stopped when he saw the expressions on Mr. Byrne's face and Áine's face. "Right, Áine and Kathryn you two will take Colm to the car, Aisling and I will take William to the staffroom so he can get all of his things," Mr. Byrne said calmly. "Okay, see you guys at seven," Kathryn said and the two girls dragged Mr. Smith out of the school. "Right, come on you two, I want to actually get home today," Mr. Byrne said teasingly.
Aisling put the blue helmet on and pulled down the black visor as she hopped onto the motorbike behind William. "See you on Monday," William said to Mr. Byrne. "No, I'll see you on Sunday, for John's wedding," Mr. Byrne said. "Crap, the wedding!" William said, "Right, see you at the wedding." William started the engine and pulled his black visor of his jet black helmet down, and drove out of the school car-park. "You do know that he's messing with you, John's wedding isn't until next Saturday," Aisling said to William. "No, I did not know that, but thank you for telling me," William answered. "So, what movies are we watching tonight?" Aisling asked. "Zombieland, The A-team and Crocodile Dundee," William said. Aisling nodded and rested her head against William's back as she gently held onto his waist. They turned right as soon as they left the car-park, and headed for their house deep in the country-side.
"Ghost, where are you?" Aisling asked as soon as she opened the front door. A growl came from around the corner, and Aisling ran into the house and turned the corner to find her large black and white dog, which was more like a wolf, growling at the sitting room door. "Will, grab a hurl," Aisling whispered to William, who took off his shoes, and grabbed a hurl from beside the front door. Aisling grabbed a hurl that was resting against the wall and quietly turned the corner and went to the far side of the door; William slowly turned the corner and stayed on his side. One, two, three, William signalled and they both opened the door, to find a young man about twenty-two with short black hair and blue eyes stood in the sitting room, in front of a blue-box saying 'Police Public call box'. "I know this will sound really stupid, but what year is it?" the young man asked. "2012, how did you get here?" William asked hurl still raised. "Would you believe me if I told you in that blue-box that's behind me?" the young man asked grinning. "Right, one second," William said taking his phone out of his pocket. "Hi, Colm, you better come over here now, yes of course you should bring Kathryn and Áine," William said over the phone and waited for a few minutes, listening to whatever Colm was telling him. "I don't care, yes bring them as well," William said and hung up. Aisling looked around worriedly. "Will, where's Eric?" she asked. William looked around the sitting room. "Feck!" William shouted. "Did you see a young man here when you came, he would've been on the couch, and would have had a black eye and a split lip?" Aisling asked the young man. "Nope," the young man said smiling. "Right, Will you stay here with him, I'll go get Eric," Aisling said holding the hurl. Aisling then left the room, and few minutes later the front door closed. "You're just going to let her go out by herself to a pub?" the young man asked curiously. "Everyone knows better than to cross Aisling when she has a hurl and when she's gone to get Eric back," William said grimly and sat on the couch, waiting for Aisling to come back.
The door bell rang and William hopped up from the couch and ran to open the door. Kathryn, Áine and Mr. Smith stood there, along with a young man and a young woman. The young man was about twenty-one, he had wild brown hair that stood up at the front completely without the help of gel, and he had brown eyes, beside him was a girl who was also about twenty, she had blonde hair and brown eyes. "Where's Aisling?" William asked. "She's not here?" both Áine and Kathryn asked worriedly. "Right, let's go wait in the sitting room," Mr. Smith said, and everyone went into the sitting room, the two young men and the young woman hugged each other. Just then the door was kicked open and Aisling came into the sitting room supporting a young man. "Move please, Colm and Will," Aisling said the two of them jumped off the couch and Aisling helped the young man over to the couch and helped him sit down. "What happened?" Kathryn asked, as she saw a cut across Aisling's eyebrow. "Eric decided to stand up for me against a drunk Lawrence Dunne, I'll let you figure out how that turned out, anyway I walked in with my hurl, went in to take Eric away, Ross had a broken bottle went to hit my head, I blocked but was still cut, and then Jeff kicked him out of the pub and John hit him, instantly giving him a black eye," Aisling answered. "You need to have that stitched up," Colm/Mr. Smith said and walked into the kitchen, coming back with a needle and a bit of thread, along with a bowl of water. "No way are you stitching up my eyebrow Colm!" Aisling exclaimed sitting down on the couch. "I can stitch it up if you want, I've got a steady hand," the young man that had been in Aisling and Will's house said. "Yeah, as long as you're better than Colm, I'm happy," Aisling said. Ghost pushed past William and the young woman, and came over to rest his head on Aisling's lap. "Will, can you go get some things for Eric, Lawrence cut his stomach," Aisling said.
The young man with the short brown hair walked over to Aisling and hunkered down, he put the bowl of water on the table, grabbed a tissue, and wet it slightly before dabbing it at Aisling's eyebrow. "I know this will sound like another stupid question, but where are we?" the young man asked, looking at Aisling. "We're some where between Maynooth and Dundalk, is all I can tell you," Aisling said smiling. "Dundalk, as in County Louth in Ireland, and Maynooth, as in County Kildare in Ireland?" the young man asked. "Yup," Áine said. "Right," the young man said taking the needle and thread up next, "this might hurt a bit." To his surprise, Aisling didn't even wince, instead she stared at William. "So, this is turning out to be a good movie night," Áine said. Kathryn laughed, and Aisling joined in. "So, how did you get into our house?" William asked the young man. Colm gently lifted Eric's t-shirt up and began to clean the cut on his stomach. "You wouldn't believe us if we told you," the other young man said. Aisling met his eyes. "Try me," she said calmly. "Well, the blue-box is the TARDIS, Time and Relative Dimension in Space, we travelled here in it, even though we were supposed to end up in London, in 2005," the young man said as he finished stitching Aisling's eyebrow, "I don't know how or why we were separated when we were all in the TARDIS, and I want to find out how we ended up here." "We're the Doctors by the way, and this is Rose," the younger man said smiling. Colm immediately stopped cleaning Eric's wound and he and Eric grew pale, William sat down on the floor and Áine and Kathryn became fidgety. Aisling stayed perfectly calm, and looked up at the doctors. "I'm Aisling, this is William, and Eric," Aisling said introducing themselves, "And this is Kathryn, Colm and Áine." "And none of us are in no way aliens, all of us are humans, nice boring humans that only live until they're ninety or a hundred," Colm said. Aisling looked at Kathryn and they both smiled, Colm could get very nervous at times and go on rants. "I'm guessing you two are brothers," Aisling said to the two doctors. "Yes," the younger one said surprised. "Right, well Kathryn and Áine and Rose you're in Eric's room, Will and the two doctors are in William's room and myself, Colm and Eric will stay down here," Aisling said. William nodded to his little sister, herself and Colm didn't need to sleep a lot, and it would be best if they looked after Eric while he was injured. "Right, we better get some sleep," Kathryn said, and the six of them went up the stairs. Colm watched them go up the stairs and waited until no-one could hear them. "You do know that it's a full moon tonight, right?" Colm asked Aisling. "Why do you think I sent William and Áine and Kathryn upstairs, you're the only one that can restrain me," Aisling answered smiling at her best friend.
Aisling's brown and green eyes flashed blue. "Aisling?" Colm asked. "I think, I might be able to control it tonight, but I'm not sure," Aisling said and doubled over in pain, "Just keep talking Colm, it helps stop the change." Colm sighed and sat down on the free couch. "Do you remember that time, when Nicky and Matthew came into the school?" Colm asked Aisling. She smiled and sat down on the couch beside him, snuggling against him, for some reason she could control herself on full moons when Colm or William was with her, maybe the wolf recognized its own kind. "And Nicky walked into Woodwork, and threw you over his shoulder and walked out, while Mr. Kelly fell to the floor laughing at the look on your face, and then Matthew tackled Nicky as soon as you made it out of the Woodwork room, and I was walking down the corridor with Will, and then Matthew and Nicky tackled us as well, and you jumped on top of us," Colm said, they were both laughing at this point, "And then Mr. Byrne turned the corner with Mr. Dunne, and Mr. Dunne sent us to the office, and we had to explain to Mr. Walsh why we were sent to his office, while Mr. Byrne laughed the whole time." Ghost growled slightly in his sleep, which made the two laugh even harder. "Shush, we don't want to wake everyone else up," Colm whispered trying to hold back his laughter. "Colm it's half seven, of course they're still awake," Aisling said. "What do we do with the doctors, and their new companion?" Colm asked suddenly. "I guess we'll just continue on with our lives like normal, and try not to let them know about us," Aisling answered. "Aisling, Colm?" a voice asked from the top of the stairs. Colm frowned and walked out of the sitting room. "Will, what are you doing?" Colm whispered at him. "I'm cold, I gave them the bed and the blanket and now I have nothing to sleep on or under," William complained childishly. Aisling laughed, she could hear them from the sitting room, she was imagining Áine and Kathryn's reactions, they'd probably be biting their pillows to keep themselves from laughing. "Aisling, can I borrow your cuddly blanket?" William asked quietly, knowing that his little cousin could hear their conversation. Aisling sighed, got up from the couch and walked out to the stairs. "You two go in and watch Eric while I get the blanket," Aisling muttered, and William and Colm raced to the free couch. Aisling sighed and walked up the stairs, and went into her bedroom, she grabbed her Looney Tunes blanket, and folded it twice. As she was walking out of the room she smiled at the picture of herself, Áine, Kathryn, William, Colm and another young man standing together, William was in the process of falling into a lake, Colm was in the process of pushing Kathryn in, while Áine and Aisling were pushing the other young man in. Aisling sighed at the memory and left her room, closing the door behind her. She knocked on William's door, and when a voice said "Yeah?" she walked into the room, dumping the blanket on the ground, before leaving the room again.
"Will, the blanket is in the room," Aisling called down the stairs. Colm quietly walked out of the sitting room. "He's asleep," he whispered to Aisling, grinning. "Seriously?" Aisling asked. "Yup, I'll sleep in the room with the doctors, I think you'll be okay for this full moon," Colm answered, and began walking up the stairs. Aisling nodded, and walked down the stairs, passing Colm and walked into the sitting room. Colm was curled up on the couch fast asleep, his face was peaceful and Aisling smiled. Eric was asleep on the other couch, so she sat in the armchair brought her feet up and curled them underneath her, before falling asleep as well.
William woke up, to find the armchair empty. "She's probably asleep in her own room or something," William muttered to himself, and went to go check on Eric's wound. As soon as William rose out of the couch, Eric woke up. "Is the competition tomorrow?" Eric asked sleepily. "Yeah, are you coming?" William asked as he slowly lifted up Eric's t-shirt. "Wouldn't miss it for the world," Eric answered grinning. "No Colm!" a voice shouted, before Colm's laughter was heard, and someone ran down the stairs. "Save me!" Colm shouted and ran behind the couch. Kathryn walked into the sitting room drenched from head to toe. "COLM!" she shouted looking at him. Eric kept a straight face for five seconds, before bursting into laughter. William looked up at her and dissolved into fits of laughter. When they had recovered, Kathryn glared at them, which made them laugh again, but then Colm looked around the sitting room worriedly. "Where's Aisling?" he asked, and everyone stopped laughing. "What?" William asked, "I thought that she had gone up to her room to sleep." "No, she came down here and I didn't hear her come up again," Colm answered worriedly. "What's with the long faces?" Áine asked walking into the room in her pyjama's, she was followed by the two doctors and Rose. "Aisling's gone," Kathryn said. "Oh no," Áine said. "And it was a full moon last night," Colm said. Everyone except for the two doctors, Rose and Colm grew pale. "Where would she be?" William asked worriedly. Eric grinned as he looked out the window. "Guys, what day is it?" Eric asked. "Saturday," William answered. "And what time is it?" Eric asked, his grin getting wider. "Ten o' clock," Áine answered. "And what does Aisling do on a Saturday morning between half seven and half nine?" Eric asked. Everyone looked at him blankly. "She swims, but she finishes at half nine," Colm answered. "And how long does it take to get from Coolmine, to our house?" Eric asked. "Half an hour," Kathryn said. "Then let me ask you again, what time is it?" Eric asked grinning widely, as they finally realized what he was talking about. "God, how could we have forgotten that she goes swimming on a Saturday?" William asked. The front door opened, and a thump was heard. "Hello, Ghost," Aisling said rubbing her half-wolf, half-dog. "How was swimming?" Eric asked grinning, from the sitting room. "Well," Aisling said walking into the room, "it was wet." William looked at Aisling sheepishly. "We forgot that you had swimming today, and then Eric reminded us," William said. "Right," Aisling said grinning at them, "What are we having for breakfast?" "Pancakes!" the two doctors, Colm and Williams shouted. "I haven't had pancakes in ages," Rose said wishfully. "Pancakes it is," Aisling said and started heading towards the kitchen. "No!" both Áine and Kathryn exclaimed, "You'll end up burning the house down, we'll make pancakes." And with that, they made their way to the kitchen.
"So how long are you lot staying here for?" Eric asked the two doctors and Rose. "I want to find out what made us get separated," the younger doctor said. "Right, this is just going to get confusing if we call the two of you doctor all the time," Eric said. "Yeah," the older doctor said. "We could call you old, and you young," Colm said grinning. The older doctor glared at him, while the younger one smiled. "Colm, be nice!" William said elbowing him in the side. "How about The Doctor, and The Other Doctor?" William asked. "How about The Drawer, and The Other Drawer," Eric said grinning. "Shut up!" William said, while Aisling and Colm grinned. The doctors and Rose looked confused. "William, decided to write with permanent marker on his drawers in Woodwork, and he named one The Drawer, and he named the third drawer, The Other Drawer, and Eric's been teasing him ever since," Colm explained. "It was brilliant, because he was supposed to be teaching sixth years, and then he suddenly stood up and took out a permanent marker, and wrote on his drawers," Aisling said smiling widely. "Breakfast's ready!" Áine shouted from the kitchen. Aisling, Colm, Eric and the older doctor jumped out and sprinted out the door. As they sprinted around the corner Aisling and Eric pushed Colm out of the way, and Aisling jumped onto Eric's back. "Hurry up!" Aisling exclaimed. The older doctor was right on their heels, well Eric's heels. Eric burst into the kitchen and dumped Aisling on a chair, he sat in the chair next to her, the older doctor sat opposite Aisling, and Colm sat beside the older doctor. William, the younger doctor and Rose calmly walked in and sat down. Rose sat beside Eric, the younger doctor sat beside Kathryn, Kathryn sat beside the older doctor and Áine sat at the top of the table. They quickly ate all of the pancakes, and the older doctor grinned. "They were fantastic!" the older doctor exclaimed. "I've come up with a name for you," Aisling said grinning, but she was looking at Colm evilly. "Oh, what is it?" the doctors asked curiously. "I've only come up with a name for one of you I'm afraid, and a nickname for you as well, Spock, and your real name John Smith," Aisling answered and glanced at the older doctor before grinning evilly at Colm again, who was hitting his head off the kitchen table. "Seriously?" Rose asked grinning. The older doctor was also hitting his head off the kitchen table. "You see, when we were travelling we came across a young man an ex-time agent, and Rose told him that my brother was Doctor Spock," the younger doctor answered. "You know I really wish I hadn't come to you two that night," Colm whispered as he was hitting his head off the table again, and Eric was laughing so hard there was barely any sound coming out of his mouth. "When Colm was younger," Aisling managed to say through her laughter. "He wanted to be like Spock, he wanted to be different," Eric continued, "So one night, he dressed up as Spock, walked all the way from Maynooth to our house, and continued to quote Spock." Aisling dissolved into a fit of giggles, while Kathryn, William and Áine all looked at Colm in complete and utter shock. "Where were we when this happened?" Kathryn asked. "You guys were in Spain," Aisling said when she had recovered from her fit of laughter. "But that was only two years ago," Áine said in disbelief, which sent Aisling and Eric into fits of laughter again.
Somebody knocked at the door, and William jumped up from the kitchen table and walked through the hall to the door. He opened the door to show two young men and a young woman, one of the young men was a guard while the other looked annoyed and the young woman was afraid and confused. The garda had short brown hair and green eyes, he looked to be at six foot five, and was fairly muscular, his face was expressionless, although it seemed as if he was trying to control anger. "William, I better come in, and please try to restrain Colm and Eric as soon as we come in," the Garda said. The other young man had short blonde hair, his fringe flicked across his forehead in a sort of curl, he brown eyes, and wore a black t-shirt and jeans with green converse. The young woman had blonde hair that was wavy and had blue eyes, she wore a blue strap top and black jeans and black high heels. William's face grew hard, he understood what had happened, and walked into the kitchen, the Garda followed with the young man being dragged behind him, and the young woman following. Before anyone could react, William ran over to Colm and sat on his lap, making sure he couldn't move out of the chair, Áine and Kathryn understood what was going on, and rushed over to Eric, and pinned him into the seat. "What the hell is going on?" the doctor that Aisling had named 'John Smith' asked. "This is Jamie," William said gesturing to the Garda. The Garda smiled at John Smith and waved, the Garda then remembered why he was there, and his face grew slightly angry. "This is Lance, Aisling's boyfriend, and this is Kate, Kate is also Lance's girlfriend," Jamie said. "What?" Aisling exclaimed. It was then that the doctors and Rose realised why the girls and William had done what they had, as Eric tried to push up against the girls and tried to strangle Lance. Colm pushed William off the chair and lunged towards Lance, but Jamie stopped him. "No Colm!" Jamie shouted pushing him back into the chair. Colm looked up at him in-credulously, as did Eric. "He has had to make do with me trying to restrain myself, along with trying not to insult him enough," Jamie said. John Smith suddenly stood up, walked over to Jamie smiled at him, then punched Lance in the face so hard that he fell to the ground.