Admiring herself in the mirror, Kate made adjustments to clothes, being content with her handy work she went for the scissors, combing her hands through her thick luscious golden locks for the last time she begins the process of cutting it all off, with every
snip a bit of her golden hair flutters past her face reminding her of what she's doing, putting the scissors away and sweeping up the hair she exits the bathroom closing the door quietly, creeping down the hallway as silently as possible, she makes it to her
room, tip toing pass Lilly, she makes it to her side of the room and starts packing up as quickly as possible, grabbing all of the necessary items, toothbrush, clothes, toothpaste, strips of cloth, and so forth, zipping up the backpack she gives Lilly a kiss on the
cheek and heads out the door, reaching the door she hesitates, thoughts of staying home flood her mind, she quickly clears them and reaches out to grab the door handle, but something stops her, a creek, maybe her mother? After an excruciating minute of
standing still and not making a sound she finally gives the door handle a turn "Leaving so soon?" a voice purrs, giving a sigh Kate says "Mom, you're not going to stop me" in a swift movement eve is glides towards the door, noticing this Kate intercepts her
mother's path, Eve raising an eyebrow she comments "Kate, I see you got a new haircut, a much needed improvement" flashing her mother a dirty look she turns away and heads to the door "So that's it? Huh, you're just going to leave us? Kate!, what about
your sister! Did you ever think what it will do to her?" stopping in her tracks, Kate turns around and say "MOM! What about dad? I need to avenge his death!" suddenly her mom looks so old and frail, sitting down at the table eve sighs and buries her heads
into her arms "mom, I'm sorry" Looking straight at her she yells "Go away Kate, we don't even need you!" in a flash of rage Kate rips the door open and slamming it shut behind her she heads towards the nearest recruiting station, the whole trip she
continually replays the whole scene in her head, arriving to the marines recruiter she try out her man voice, after a few minutes she turns the corner into what seems like a mob of pissed of hippies protesting the warm, gritting her teeth she grudgingly push
through the mass of hairy unshaven men, and women to get to the recruiter, after a painstakingly trek through the hippies she makes to the counter "looking to join up?" asks the man, taking a quick look behind her she says "Uh, yes sir" giving her a sly
smile the man says "We'll make a soldier out of you yet" and hands over the papers and a pen, after a series of questions she hands the papers back to be graded, sitting down, she spots Garth, pushing his way through the crowd of protesters, quickly
looking away she hopes he doesn't see through her disguise "Uh, Son" comes a voice, Kate starts looking around trying to locate the owner "Hey, Goldilocks!" that snaps her to attention, she looks at the recruiter and he asks "Hey what's your name?"
hesitating for a moment she finally answers "Kade" the army recruiter shrugs and hands her the graded paper, her eyes glide towards the top,
We the marines are glad to say you have been accepted, report to the train station on This Friday at 5:00pm sharp, bring only what you need and these papers, HOOORAh.
Smiling she folds the papers in her pocket, Friday is tomorrow, heading out the door she brushes past Garth, giving him a smile she walks out the door into the mindless crowd.
Friday, 5:00pm
Looking at her watch, the big hand just strikes 5, good she's early, taking a seat on the train, she sits next to the other recruits not giving them much notice, until she sees this one wolf, He's light grey with dark shaggy looking hair and a bit of dark grey
stubble on his chin, and she's sitting across from him, but before she can start up a conversation with him the instructor walks in, the train goes silent "What the hell are you doing in her?" he screams "I asked from Men, not little boys gossiping!" he goes
stomping down the train spewing threats and insults at everyone who he sees deserves fit, stopping at Kate, holding her breath, she thinks "he's going to find me out for sure" glaring down at her he hollers "What the hell are you looking at Goldilocks? You
queer or something?" stunned from his outburst Kate quickly shakes her head, his face scrunching up he turns away, walking down the corridors, once he's out of earshot, the wolf in front of her whispers "what was that for?" shrugging her shoulders she
says "I have no idea" the clunking of boots stop and slowly both of the wolves look slowly up to the drill sergeant, giving a nervous smile Kate gets out of his way, giving her one last dirty look he marches past to the front of the train and says "LISTEN UP
MAGGOTS, YOU'RE MY PROBLEM NOW, AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF ONE OF YOU TRIES ANYTHING, YOU'RE IN MY WORLD NOW, WELCOME TO HELL!" he said the last part with a slight chuckle and exits the train, after a moment of silence the train stutters to life,
lurches forward and the train Is off, taking in her surroundings Kate notices the Garth is on the train, "great" she thinks, looking at the wolf in front of her she asks "Why'd you join?" The wolf just shrugs and says "I was an EMT and decided I was probably
needed more in the war than back home" content with the answer she replies "My pa died in this war, you probably read about him, Winston Winslow, He died flying out groups of wounded soldiers out of hot zones, his face is full of sympathy "I am so sorry
for your loss" he says "I lost my mom and dad when I was just a baby" it was Kate's turn to feel sympathetic "wow, that's horrible" nodding his head he says quietly "my only reminder of the is this locket" reaching into his shirt he pulls out a small heart
shaped necklace, that when you press a button it opens up revealing two pictures, one was his ma, and the other his pa "But, that was a long time ago" he says boldly brushing off the moment of temporary sadness "Hey, by the way I never got your name,
mines Humphrey" reaching out my hand I say "Well hi Humphrey, I'm Kade, it's nice to meet you" grasping my hand he shakes it and says "Well Kade, it seems like we're going to be friends"
SO the stiches were removed and I could finally type without my hand hurting, a lot, in that large expanse of time, it was mostly spent reading and watching tv, well I just finished a book series, The Leviathan series to be exact, and it was great, so
that book is what I got the idea to do this.