Penny released a relieved sigh as she drooped the last of her boxes in her new apartment. Moving them hadn't been hard, but it did get pretty boring to do so all by herself. She hadn't accepted her new friends offers of help. She hadn't wanted to risk them catching on to her secret. Not when she couldn't explain to anyone just why she could easily carry so much. Super strength was awesome like that.
All things considered, being a werewolf wasn't so bad.
At first, Penny had been really angry when her older junior boyfriend, Randall, had accidentally turned her. The idiot had forgotten all about the full moon and decided that making out in a corn field until sundown was totally acceptable. If the first thing he had bitten hadn't been her arm, Penny probably wouldn't have survived the night. Since Randall had proceeded to, for all intents and purposes, rip out her throat.
Fortunately for Penny, new wolves were turned quickly, and werewolves healed even faster. On the third night Penny woke up naked, in yet another cornfield, with vague memories of being furry, she had known exactly what she was. Werewolf lore wasn't exactly obscure. Any old school horror movie would give you enough clues. She'd just been fortunate that she'd had enough self control not to kill anybody.
No thanks to Randall, she had so dumped his dumb ass. He'd almost murdered her. She refused to even speak to him. She had, in fact ensured that he was trapped at the very bottom of the high school totem pole for turning her into a different species.
Penny hadn't even been introduced into the rest of the pack until nearly a year later, when Randall finally admitted that he'd fucked up to his grandmother, the Pack Elder. Who it turned out was also the woman who had turned Randall, since he had always been an idiot, and snuck into her basement one full moon when he had been expressly forbidden to do so.
Psht, it figured Penny had gotten herself turned by the dumbest werewolf ever.
Then she had to go through orientation, which sucked, because Penny apparently wasn't like most wolves. She actually seemed to be in control of herself most of the time. She could pass by a gutted deer without giving the slightest hint of the drooling beast inside her.
Not even the so called wise Elder could pull that one off, the woman drooled like a fountain. She also wasn't terribly wise, having gotten the title more out of being one of the oldest wolves turned and a pot smoking hippie. Yippe.
How was Penny was suppose to take her seriously when she explained how she had become a werewolf because wolf bites summoned a wolf spirit from the Great Beyond and imbued Penny with it's essence? Yeah, right.
Admittedly they had clued her into some things Penny would have loved to know before hand, especially during her pregnancy scare. A mommy Penny was never going to be. She could still get pregnant, it would just never carry to term. Miscarriage was a very ugly word. But Penny was young, that wouldn't bother her for a long, long time. Or at least it shouldn't. She had her plate full enough as it was.
The whole Pack was a freaking joke, to think Penny had to fight the Alpha for permission to leave Omaha. It had barely taken her ten minutes. Then she had skipped town with the very human boyfriend not even her normal family approved of. That had been the end of that.
It was easy enough to fool him about the full moon thing. Kurt wasn't someone anyone would call observant. What he was, was a total hottie, always great for an ego boost, and even better sex. Wolf Penny, really, really liked sex. Which was totally cool, seeing as human Penny did too. Maybe that was the difference between Penny's control over her wolf and the others, she and her wolf could bond.
Her wolf had seemed to like Kurt well enough, he was big, male, and had excellent stamina. He'd also stayed with her, and loyalty was very important to both sides of Penny. She had really thought they had something. Something real, and special. She had almost come out to Kurt twice in the time she was with him. But she was so glad she hadn't. Penny wouldn't have been able to deny crushing the handle of her saucepan in her bare hands otherwise, when she smelled that skank all over him. Their relationship had ended there and then.
Penny considered the fact that she hadn't broken his face in three places to be the biggest act of mercy she had ever managed. Her wolf wasn't terribly happy about that.
So yeah, being a wolf wasn't so bad. The smell thing could be really useful, even though Penny had gained a violent hatred of perfume, and colognes. Clorox physically hurt her nose. She had gotten around that though, using some vanilla lotion right under her nostrils helped clog the smell of everything else. Her hearing could easily get annoying as well, but it gave the really nosy part of her tingles. Penny could be a total gossip queen when she wanted to be, and she always had plenty of material. Although the super strength was easily the best part. Penny never had to worry about herself late at night, and if she ever did manage to get herself badly hurt, the super healing would easily take care of it.
In return for dealing with a screwy ball of animal instincts and becoming all furry three nights a month, it wasn't a terribly bad trade. Factoring in the womb thing Penny figured she broke even.
She could always adopt, after all.
Besides, the part of her that had been raised as a tomboy couldn't stop squealing about how cool being a werewolf was. Sparkly Vampires could suck it, Jacob eat your heart out.
Penny leaned against a stack of boxes in satisfaction, now if only her shower started working, she could call it a day. Penny perked up, hearing a couple of male voices coming up the stairs, her new neighbors? Who broke their clavicle? Penny opened the door, Picking up a book and turning in an attempt to seem casual.
And really, lasers? Penny bit back a smile. She hadn't even met the guy but she liked his voice, and surprisingly so did her wolf, was it actually purring? Penny shook of the thought, they had spotted her.
The old tenant had been a transvestite with a skin condition? Damn it! Now she had to seriously disinfect the whole place. Penny doubted she could get whatever it was, but like hell she was gonna risk being sorry with a skin condition. She decided to notice them then, she didn't want to miss her intro to the one with the deep voice.
He was a cutie, totally adorably shy, looking down like that. She watched in confusion as they kept repeating hi. Venturing her own, before deciding to ignore it and introduce herself.
That's when the smell hit her. She couldn't quite keep the quiver out of her voice. Every predatory instinct she had screamed. Penny didn't even understand what was so wonderful about the scent, if just smelled clean, with an underlying hint of paper and something so, so, Penny didn't even have words for it.
But it made her wolf howl, mineMiNEmINe.
Penny was frankly amazed she managed to function well enough not to appear brain dead, apparently those acting classes where worth her dough after all. What, with the way Penny was squirming inside this was the performance of a lifetime.
She couldn't get them out of her apartment fast enough, sinking to her knees with her back against the door, shaking in an effort to control the urge to tear right through the door and claim the owner of that wonderful scent.
Then she realized she didn't know who it belong to. And that just didn't fly. Short, shy and geeky, or taller, shier, and going by the t-shirt, geekier? One of them was going to be Penny's property sometime soon. They just didn't know it yet.
As soon as Penny figured out which one of them it was. She shot up, heading towards a box she vaguely remembered hurling wet wipes into... Probably, damn it she would need her nose for this.
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So I've hit what I can, Ironically, only call a road block with On the Road, so I started this, in an attempt to write myself out of writer's block, hey it works for my drawing dry spells. So why not? I can probably stretch it into a three shot, or maybe longer if you like, and you can blame/thank zoraya h for this. Her review of my story Look Before You Leap sparked a lot of ideas for shenny fics, this is just one of them. Hopefully you guys will review this and spark a few more right? Please, a thousand times please, with sugar on top? Plox? Can you tell I'm desperate for feedback yet?
