I know that my character is a werewolf but I've based her more on Werewolves from the film Underworld starring Kate Beckinsale than I have on Twilight werewolves. I've also named my character after the main character in Underworld.

Anyway, I know people on alerts for me must be thinking I have no right to be starting a new story when I have two unfinished already and a sequel that needs starting but I've had this knocking around in my computer for ages just begging to be published. So here it is and I hope people enjoy this.

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My name is Selena, I am seventeen years old and I live with my sister and nephew. Me and my sister are of British origin but we moved to America about ten years ago as a family, my nephew is half British half American.

There is also something else you should know. My sister and I are only half siblings. Somehow, my father was what mortals would call a werewolf. Technically they are actually called Lycanthromorphic beings but werewolf is a much simpler name.

I am half mortal-half lycanthropic and I have been all my life but transforming only came at puberty. The moon doesn't make any different to my transformations; I can do it at will. I have hyper-sensitive senses of hearing and smell which makes public transport travelling near impossible. I can also communicate with most canine beings and any animal that happens to know any canine, the language, though, is very primitive and it's easy to make mistakes and misunderstand. I have never met my father nor do I have any interest in him.

But this is the story of how I came to meet the American Dragon so I'll get on with it.

I hated getting up, especially early and I especially hated getting up early on a Saturday. I groaned as my sister, Emily shook my arm to get me up, early, on Saturday.

'Come on honey. Time to get up' She said softly

I groaned and sat up, rubbing my hair from my face tiredly. My sister left the room but my nephew, Nicholas wandered in, clearly having been woken himself. I pulled the small child up onto my bed and he snuggled under the covers. His cold toes brushed against my leg and I fought the urge to shudder.

My dog, a large white Alsatian named Snowy (Don't blame me for the unimaginative name; Nicholas named her) laid next to the guinea pig cage which contained my sleeping male guinea pig Buck. I understood the basics of his language such as when he was greeting me, when he was happy and when he was un happy but that was as far as it stretched. I found it much harder to try and learn other animal's languages seeing as Canine came naturally.

Morning cuddles were a tradition now between the two year old and I. I was eighteen years old, my sister twenty four. Our mother had been absent from our lives for two years now due to a cancer diagnosis. It had been an aggressive liver cancer and it had taken her just six months so succumb to it. Emily had been devastated, she had hoped our mother would make it to see Nicholas born; she'd only been two months away from birth.

But Emily had her father, my mother had obviously had an unfortunate attraction to men with no commitment and they had split up when Emily was young but he'd been in her life and treated her as a father should with what he had which was more than I could say for my own father. When I had been young it had made me envious but as I'd gotten older he'd treated me as fairly as he could, included me where it had been appropriate and made me feel a little bit more adequate as a child.

I pushed the negative thoughts away and looked down at Nicky, dropping off to sleep again. I smoothed his light blonde hair and kissed the top of his head before getting out of bed and picking him up. I supported him on my hip and his head lolled against my shoulder.

I wandered into the kitchen and plonked him into his highchair. I fixed him some breakfast and watched while he messily fed himself. Snow wandered downstairs and I put food in her bowl. Emily came in, having freshened up and got dressed. She thanked me and I took Snow outside to let her do her morning business after she nosed me and showed me an image of the garden. I took her back upstairs and went off for a shower after I fed Buck who had woken up and started squeaking for food.

I stood under the hot spray for what felt like ages. I only relented and got out when the water began to run cold. I dressed quickly and threw my hair into a pony tail. I went back into the kitchen to find Emily putting some light makeup on and Nicky still feeding himself...messily. Snow was in the living area on her bed.

'It's not fair' Emily sighed 'You don't need a spot of makeup'

'That's because I don't wear it often Em' I replied

We spent the rest of the morning getting last minute things packed up, taking down Nicky's small cot, taking down our own beds and preparing for the moving van to arrive. Emily and Nicky had been living in a small apartment; I'd been living with our mother, only two streets away. We'd found a house in the city near a school for me to complete my last year of education. Emily had got a job in an office block pushing paper and we'd found a childminder to take care of Nicky for us.

A sharp knock at the door brought me back to attention. Emily opened the door to reveal two burly looking men.

'Moving?' one simply asked

'Yes, come in' Emily said

They both stared at her as they passed. Her obvious British accent had caught their attention but she was very pretty as well, tall with dark hair, crystalline blue eyes and curvy but in all the right places. Our mother had also had dark hair, blue eyes but a short frame with a small figure. I was nearly opposite to them being quite short with dark blonde hair, green eyes and more of a skinny figure. Both of us had a dusting of light freckles across our nose and cheekbones.

It didn't take long for them to load the large items in the van. Emily and I loaded Nicky, Buck and Snow into the car and led the van to the new house. It was a fifteen minute trip from the old apartment to the new house. Throughout the journey, Snow kept on sending me feelings of excitement and images of what she anticipated the house to look like.

Unfortunately she had been hoping for something beyond what we pulled up in and I bit back a chuckle at her image of jokey disappointment. I communicated happiness at just being together and she agreed. The house was pretty close the park and on a street lined with tall narrow houses.

Our new house was very pretty but it needed some work doing. We got the van unpacked and the boxes out of the car. As we unpacked I shoved Snow out into the small and quite overgrown back garden after checking it was secure and telling her she'd prefer that to being under everyone's feet and possibly getting her paws trodden on. She heartily agreed and went loping around the garden. I

selected my room and put Buck inside it and Snow's bed next to the cage. They always slept next to each other.

I noticed the house next door seemed to be teeming with activity. An old Asian Chinese man with a wrinkled dog came and went quite often, as well as a tall Asian Indian woman and a young Asian Chinese girl. A small but curvy Asian Chinese woman came and went too.

Strange scents wofted from the house when the doors opened and I kept onj picking up odd snippets of conversation but I quickly tuned it out. The smells however; I couldn't and I quickly became uncomfortable. It was like nothing I'd ever scented and it began to distract me as I tried to identify what I was getting.

The unfamiliar scents of a house that had been lived in by another family put me about a bit as it usually did but I knew this would get better the longer we lived there and laid down our own smells.

'Selena, I'm going back to the apartment to pick up the last of the boxes' Emily said, breaking me out of my thoughts 'Keep an eye on Nicky for me'

I simply nodded and took Nicky from her. She kissed him goodbye on the top of his head and got in the car. I went inside the house; let Snow back inside (she sent me a feeling of gratitude) and decided to try and tidy things up a bit but a small child soon made it impossible. I pulled all the shrink wrap off the sofa and sat him on it with a few of his toys.

The kitchen seemed to be in between the dining room and living room and was very small. I opened up all the cupboards and was pleasantly surprised to find them clean. I unpacked some of the kitchen stuff, putting glasses and mugs away in one cupboard, plates in another and putting our cutlery rack in one of the drawers.

The front door opening caught my attention and Emily announced her arrival.

'Honey, I'm back!'

'Mama' Nicky shouted happily

'We are officially moved in!' Emily said happily, picking up her son for a cuddle as he waddled to her.

'We're moved in when we unpack the boxes Em' I teased

'Well go and fetch them in then Selena, and then it'll make the process go quicker' Emily teased.

I picked a cushion off the sofa as I passed and threw it gently at her, seeing as she was holding Nicky.

I went out to the car to fetch a box. I was opening the boot and taking out a box when three teenagers caught my attention. One was a girl and two were boys. The girl walked in the middle and was holding hands with one of the boys. The one on the end caught my attention the most because he was openly staring at me. He was of Asian Chinese origin too so I figured he must be a new neighbour.

I picked up the box and shut the boot. I took my eyes off him and carried the box up the front path. I glanced back and I realised for some reason I'd caught the attention of all three of them. Discreetly, I took a deep inhale through my nose but found to my disappointment I was downwind and couldn't identify anything from that.

I turned my back to them and went up the front steps and opened the door and got inside but before I shut the door behind me I looked back at the three teenagers. They were still watching me.

I slammed the front door shut and went into the living room. I dumped the box down. Emily came in too.

'Goodness me Selena! Why on earth did you just slam the door like that?'

'Sorry, something just unnerved me a bit' I replied

Emily looked at me carefully but decided to drop the matter.

'Will you help me put Nicky's cot up? I think he'll need a nap soon' Emily asked

We put the cot up and managed to settle Nicky down for a nap. We put our beds up and our wardrobes. Snow wandered around and came in and out of my room. She either nosed me in the face or bumped her nose on Buck's cage and disturbed him, making him squeak shrilly.

We hadn't got much furniture to put up. Emily had never owned a dining room so she didn't have tables and chairs and we'd sold our mothers and most everything else she'd owned except for a few sentimental things.

A cabinet which had been filled with all her best dishes and silver had been kept and we put it all in the empty dining room. Emily had insisted on keeping her jewellery and I'd managed to get my hands on some of her ceramic, porcelain and glass figurines.

The figurines were of fairies, and dragons but there was one that particularly caught my attention and had always been my favourite. It was a wolf, sat with it's head lifted to bay at the moon (I liked to imagine that's what it was howling at anyway). It was made completely of crystal and when the sun shone on it the room was swathed in dazzling light.

I put them all on my windowsill carefully, situating the glass wolf in the centre. I made my bed and put all my clothes in the wardrobe. Our bathroom was small and cramped but the water ran clean and the best thing was that the boiler didn't run out of hot water.

Nicky woke up and we made a small meal. I fed Snow too, having to leave her bowl in the kitchen and try to ignore her displeasure of being made to eat separately to us. Emily and I ate off trays as usual and Nicky sat in his highchair.

'I'm going to go and pick up some proper food tomorrow' Emily said 'And go and visit the childminder. What are you going to do?'

'Explore a little bit. The park is nearby, I'd like to see that and I can take Snow for a walk' I replied

Emily nodded 'That's fine by me. Do you want me to leave you some money? There's a few attractions in Central Park'

'No, that's fine. I might go and see if there are any jobs going myself actually. I can't scrounge off you'

Emily sighed 'Honey, you know if I wouldn't have taken you in if I couldn't afford you'

'But there's Snow and Buck too now. That's three you took in!'

'I chose to. Besides it's not like it's just my money that pays. Pete pays a small sum into my account every month' Emily replied

I'd forgotten about Pete, Emily's marine boyfriend. The one who spent most of the year out of the country.

'Can't forget about good ol' Pete' I replied sarcastically

Emily put her tray down next to her and eyed me carefully but calmly.

'Do you really want to have an argument Selena?' she asked

Nicky made a whiny noise. He hated it when we argued.

I sighed 'No I don't'

'Good'

Emily soothed him and we spent the rest of the evening hooking up the tv and dvd player and entertaining Nicky.

When we finally went to bed I just collapsed and went to sleep.

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