Chapter 1: Unknown

Kasey's POV

I don't remember anything. There was a big blank space in my head where my memory should be but all I found was nothing. My name, my identity, my family. Nothing. I just woke up surrounded by snow one day without any idea of how I could have gotten there. All that I had to guide me was pure instinct.

It was only my most basic instincts that guarded everything I did. I hunted, I ate, I slept. I have no recollection of ever learning how to take down large prey yet somehow I knew exactly how to do it. I knew how to find food, water, and shelter. I knew that I was different from all the other animals. For one I stood taller and larger than the other animals. Except for maybe the bears that I encountered here and there. I was certain that I knew exactly what I was. A wolf. Only when I did see other wolves I was at least three times their size.

Most of the time the wolves and other animals stayed clear of me. I hated the loneliness of my existence. My inability to remember what my life was like before. It all made for a solitary existence. Only I was not alone very long. Just like pure instinct had guided me to food, water, and shelter. It also guided me in another direction. I wasn't sure how long it had been since I had woken up with no memory. It could have been days or weeks later when I suddenly felt the urge to go build a den and hide away from the rest of the world. It was there that I gave birth to my babies one night. Seven puppies. As far as I knew I had never had babies before. Yet, like with everything else, instinct told me what to do. To clean them. To lick them and encourage them to breathe.

All together I had five boys and two girls. As they were suckling I noticed that six of them had the same reddish brown fur that I had. On the other hand the seventh pup had sandy colored fur. She was all the smallest and clearly the runt of the litter. She was having the most trouble so I picked her up gently and placed her by one of my teats. With some encouragement she was able to eat like her brothers and sister.

In that moment I was the happiest wolf in the whole world. Just me and my babies all snuggled up nice and warm in the den. In that moment I knew that I loved them and would do anything to make sure that they were safe. Then I started wondering what my old life was like again. The birth of my seven beautiful pups only made me more curious and more determined to remember what my life was like before. Certainly they have a father somewhere out there, right?

When they got a little bit bigger I realized that I could hear their thoughts. I could hear every single thing that entered their little minds. It was amazing and beautiful to know that I could communicate with them like this. Knowing that I would still be able to communicate with them from afar is what helped me feel more comfortable leaving the den a few weeks after their birth. It had been weeks since I'd eaten anything. My babies had been too small to leave on their own before so hunting had to wait. Now that they were a little older I knew that I could leave them on their own for a very short period of time. Being able to communicate with them also made me worry a little less.

I could smell deer in the distance. Maybe just a few miles away from the den. It didn't take me very long to track and find the lone deer. I ran straight for the animal and leaped toward it's neck when something knocked me over from the side.

"Kasey?" Ieapt at the sound of a human voice. I'd never encountered humans before. Yet, somehow I had a vague memory of them. A crrature I must have encountered before I lost my memory.

"Kasey is that you?" Kasey. Why did that sound so familiar to me?

I was weak from not eating and nursing my babies. Just charging at the deer had taken a lot of strength out of me. So I got up very slowly and looked in the direction the voice was coming from. I saw a woman with skin almost as white as the snow and golden eyes.

I growled when she took a step toward me. She stopped and looked at me in confusion. Then suddenly another woman appeared.

"Kate what's going on?"

"Look Tanya," the one called Kate pointed at me.

"Kasey?"

I growled and took a few steps back when they started walking toward me.

"Why is she growling at us? We've known her for years," Tanya asked.

"I don't know. It doesn't make sense. She goes missing for months, turns up here of all places, and acts like she doesn't know us," Kate said. Then she looked at me and said "Kasey come here,"

Just like that I was off running back to the den as fast as I could. Food all but forgotten. These people scared me and I wanted nothing more than to get back to my babies and keep them safe if need be.

In no time I was back at the den cuddling up with babies. My sandy colored fur daughter was still the smallest and most easily distinguishable of all my pups. Seeing her so small and vulnerable ou made me more fiercely protective of her and her brothers and sister.

I tensed when I heard someone outside the den. I sprang to my feet instantly. No one was going to hurt my babies!

"She went in there," I recognized the voice of one of the women I had encountered. I didn't care. I was going to let them get close to my babies!

I growled a fierce warning when I saw them.

"It's like she doesn't know who we are," Kate said

"Maybe she doesn't. What if she lost her memory?" Tanya added.

"It is a possibility. We just know that she suddenly disappeared without warning. The Cullens couldn't find her and neither could the other wolves. According to Carlisle Nessie and Jacob have been inconsolable since her disappearance months ago,"

"Whoa-what is that?" Kate asked.

"It looks like pu-"

I turned around when I heard my seven little ones emerging from the den.

"Is that what I think it is?"

"She must have been pregnant when she disappeared,"

"But wouldn't Carlisle have mentioned that she was pregnant when she weny missing?"

"Unless he didn't know," Kate said. "Carlisle would've told us if his great granddaughter was pregnant,"

I growled in warning again. I wanted them to leave. Now. I wanted them far away from my babies. If they didn't leave soon I was going to attack.

"We better go. We need to call the Cullens and tell them what's going on,"

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