Title: And They See You There as You Leave No Trace
Fandom: The 10th Kingdom
Rating: pg13
Char/Pair: Wolf
Prompt: 10 words from madmadunderscorestores2 on livejournaldotcom
W/C: 336
Warnings: Slight angst
A/N: Hm. It might be a bit AU, but, perhaps not, as we don't know much about Wolf before he begins working for the queen.
There are months scattered throughout his life that he can't remember. Screams and a howl echo-blend in his mind, and there's a smell caught in his nose, a smell he can taste in his throat everytime he takes a breath. It smells like death and pine, like ash and forest. It makes him sick.
He is a wolf, no one trusts him, no one cares because he scares them, they're frightened of him and he makes them run and hide behind locked doors like he couldn't bust them down if he tried. Splinters of wood are not a challenge for him, it wouldn't take but a huff and a puff and he could gobble them up. And is that what he did? Go from village to village and eat the little girls in the fields? Snack on the farmers as they make their way home from a long days work?
There is no alpha in his pack, it is just him, just Wolf. In the daylight he is human, but his eyes hold everything that he sees by the moon and there's nothing he can do to escape it. To escape the fear that he inflicts, the fear that he feels. He can't run from the terror that strikes him in his belly, like ice, like fire, once twightlight breaks.
There are months scattered throughout his life that he can't remember. Blood thick and mud-mixed beneath his fingernails. The very idea that he is something that he tried so desperately not to become, the very thing his parents were burned because of scares him more than anything can, more than anything ever could. He is not like that! He is not! He can't be.
He is human, he is wolf. He is nothing.