The power was blinding. I could feel it scorching through my body. A fire burning through my chest. It dripped down my lips. The girls' blood in my mouth. I could hear, see, feel the venom making its way to her heart. It was pounding. A drum in the night air.
A howl in the night. Scott was near. He was always near even when he tried to stay away. He wanted to stay with the girl, Allison, but I knew it would not last. Argents. Silver. She will betray him.
The girl whimpered, but she smiled. I could feel her warming to my touch. Her heart beat slowed to a normal rhythm. She was not scared anymore. She was letting the fever take over her. Enjoying the freedom and power that would now be hers. The power that would now be mine. I released her from grip and let her fall silently to the bed.
"Erica. " I said her name. A low grumble at the back of my throat. Her eyes were closed but she smiled.
"Erica." I said again.
She looked at me. Her eyes burned. There was an anger and desire in her eyes. A burning need to run. Run as hard as she could into the night. Shed her skin and blaze through the silence, upsetting the piece of the world. I knew because I have seen that look in my own eyes. I've seen it in Scott's.
"You will stay here. I am your Alpha. I am your leader."
"Yes daddy." She said purring like a hungry kitten. It disgusted me because all I saw was the hunger that had haunted me all my life. She intertwined her fingers around my arm. Her nails dug into my skins. I pulled my hand away and turned toward the door.
"Isaac will be here soon. He will look after me. You are both to stay here till I return." I slammed the steel door shut. I made my way to the woods, into the darkness.
I had been running for a lifetime. The wind rushed through my fur and watered my eyes. Erica and Isaac where still in the safe house. I could sense it. So far, they listened to me. There would come a time when they would challenge my power and I would gladly push them back. I was stronger than ever. I ran faster, longer. I pushed against a tree, and it broke beneath me. There were no animals around. They could sense when werewolves were around. They could sense the danger that we travelled willingly with. There were no humans. Though most did not know of our existence, they seemed to have common sense to stay indoors on a full moon. Some ancient instinct that warned them of how frail they truly were. Erica's blood still sat at the back of my throat, so I made my way to the nearest stream.
Humans would say that it was a silent night, but I could hear all. The sounds that most overlook. The wind against leaves and the drips of water falling from branches into the hushed rapids of the tiny stream. The water was cool. And the metallic taste of blood was soon replaced by the cleanness of water.
The last time I had tasted blood felt like ages ago.
That was when I heard the crack. The splintering of a branch close to the stream. How did an animal that big get past me. That is when I recognized the slow beating of a human heart. I looked up. I bared my teeth. Ready to run.
There was a girl. A normal looking girl. In simple white pajamas. Her skin was pale in the moonlight, and her hair hung down long like chestnut tendrils. She was ordinary looking. If I had passed her on the street, I would not have thought twice, but here, in this place, as a wolf, she was the oddest human I had ever seen. Her eyes were the most startling part. They were calm. As if she was just watching television. They did not show fear like a normal human reaction and they did not shine with animalistic motive like a werewolf's. She frightened me. More than anything I had ever known because she knew what I was. She looked through me and knew everything, but she did not react. She didn't say anything. Just stared. Her hands at her side, and her dark eyes piercing the night. Her face conveyed no emotion, and in that moment, though I could sense I was older than her, her face had the knowledge and experience of a human with one hundred years behind them.
She frightened me. I bared my teeth. Kicked the dirt behind me and lowered myself to a defensive position. I growled, deep from within. Nothing. She just stared ahead. I looked behind me, expecting someone else.
I howled and ran. Ran for a lifetime. But that never would get me far enough away. I found my abandoned clothes. I slipped into them and drove far out of town. I would have to go back in the morning for Isaac and Erica. The girl wasn't a threat, not yet, but she rattled me to the core. I half expected her to show up in the night.
