Warning! I do not own Shiver or Linger!

Okay so I just finished Linger and I want to throw my book out the window. So instead of doing that I'm writing this. I have no idea where this is going I only just got this really weird idea whilst reading Linger. It's from the point of view from my OC character. Its starts right after the end of Linger.

Enjoy!

Human thoughts raced through my wolf mind. Human thoughts that shouldn't have been there. Thoughts that didn't haunt the others of my species. I felt my claws dig into the ground as I ran through the forest taking in everything as both human and animal. I wish a pack was running with me, but I was alone. I had only a destination and a name.

Geoffry Beck. That was what my mother had told me before she shifted leaving me alone forever. I shook my wolf head as if I could clear the memory. I pushed myself faster trying to lose myself, but I couldn't. It was impossible.

I could never lose myself in what I rightfully should have been able to. I couldn't because I wasn't supposed to be alive. I was an abomination.

I was both worlds in one.

I finally hit the woods I was told this pack lived in. I could barely pick up the scent of wolves, but it was masked heavily by the scent of humans. If the scent was this far in the woods that meant the wolves were being hunted. I tried to curse, but a strange wolf cough came out instead. I had momentarily forgotten which body I was in. I noticed one strange smell; it was that of human with the slight linger of wolf. Someone who had shifted had come through here. I picked out the scent and followed.

I ran for another ten or fifteen minutes before coming upon a shed. I looked at the door and sighed in my mind. I really hoped no one would be around. I told still as I listened to the dark forest around me, searching for life with my hearing. I heard nothing, but smelled everything in the melting forest around me. I felt the shaking as I easily felt my smooth skin replace my black fur and my bones move back to the spots they were meant to be.

I stood up on my two legs, I hadn't suffered from the effects of shifting in years. It was one of the benefits of what I was. I rubbed my freezing arms. Being this cold would make anyone else shift except me. I pulled open the door and stuck my head in making sure no one was in before I carefully and silently walked inside. I left the door open, letting the moonlight light most of the shed. I stalked towards a bow I saw marked with the name Shelby. I opened the bow hoping that Shelby was a girl. I was rewarded with a plain gray sweatshirt, a pair of jeans, a sports bra, and underwear. I pulled on the clothes with the luck of the clothing fitting me. No shoes, but I made sure that there was still some other clothes in the bow so in case Shelby would need them.

I left the shed, but made sure that I closed the door tight behind me. I walked on the following the trail that had had the scent on it when I was in my other form. I continued walking, feeling the cold leaves and moss beneath my fete the entire way. I was just glad that I was clothed, meeting someone stark naked for the first time wasn't always the best way. I was rewarded with a large house after a ten or so minutes walking.

I saw a guy standing in front of the back door, I couldn't make out his face since the lights behind him were too bright. I hide behind a large tree, making sure I couldn't be seen. I waited for him to move away from the door. He must have stood there just watching for almost a half an hour. I thought about just going and introducing myself, but I felt vulnerable in this body and didn't want to risk anything. Finally he walked away and I let out a sigh of relief. When I heard movement beside me. I looked to my left to find a dark gray wolf with brown eyes watching me. It was only a few feet from me, brave for a wolf. I bared my teeth, a challenge. It growled back in its throat before sniffing again, trying to figure out what I was.

"You won't figure it out," I told it, "I haven't so you won't either."

The wolf jumped at my voice. It looked at me again before darting back into the forest. I looked back toward the door and was met with a pair of yellow eye looking at me. I looked up at what must have been the guy in the door. He had long hair and was good-looking, but he had dark circles beneath his eye. They were filled with sadness that was being pushed away with suspicion. He was standing right in front of me, and I cursed myself inside my head for not hearing him coming.

"Who are you and what are you doing?" He asked with curiosity and strangely some anger in his voice. I would have felt my fur bristle at the tone, but my fur was gone.

"Monty," I said slightly flinching at my name. My mother had been a fan of Monty Python and made a pact to name her first child, no matter what gender, Monty.

"Again, what are you doing here?" He asked in the same tone.

"Looking for Beck," I said which sent anger and pain into his eyes so I asked quickly, "Cold?"

"Temporary cure," He said bluntly getting what I was asking, "You?"

"You might want to sit down for that."

I had managed to find out that the guy's name was Sam. His eyes were strange, but I didn't really have room to comment. I was sitting in a chair in the living room I had been escorted to with Sam sitting on a small couch and another guy named Cole sitting in another chair.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Cole suddenly asked. I had sat down waiting for a question so I could start my story. This seemed as good as any.

"An after effect," I said which caused both their eyebrows to rise. I sighed before beginning my story, "My mother caught whatever this wolf shifting disease is. In her first year as a wolf she got pregnant. By a normal average wolf. I'm not sure on the whole DNA biology part, but she shifted back and forth since she was still a new, unstable wolf during the pregnancy. She managed to carry it full term and had it as a human. I was that baby."

I let them take that in. I noticed Cole still staring at my eyes strangely so I dropped them to the carpet. My mother had had brown eyes. I had maroon eyes. Sometimes in the dark they could be mistaken for brown, but in the light they shined bright and seemed redder than they were.

"The cold doesn't affect me. I can control my shifts and I've been shifting back and forth since I was five, so for thirteen years. My pack was killed by a group of humans who were issued by the government to cut down on the wolf population a little. No one had shifted back to their human forms yet," I finished, but decided to add what I thought of myself, "I'm an abomination. Something that shouldn't exist. I'm stuck between worlds. I can't even loose myself in my wolf body because my human mind follows me there, smashing wolf and human me in one skull."

I waited in the chair with my arms gripping the sides and my eyes gripping the carpet. I felt the wolf inside me with ears perked waiting for their next move. It felt like an eternity before one of them finally did anything.

"Prove it," Cole said looking at me with disbelief written clearly on his face. I had to admit my story was a bit much, but it was the cold honest truth.

"Gladly," I said before standing and waiting for them to stand as well. "Do you have a bathtub or something?"

I watched as Cole eye's flicked to Sam's face with guilt in them before they went back to the guarded empty that had been there before.

"Yeah, follow me," He answered and walked toward the hall and I followed, noting how Sam didn't follow.

We walked into a small bath room and I walked over to the tub running my finger along the edge. Cole watched me form the doorway before speaking.

"I'll give you some privacy," He started but I turned to him the color in my eyes cutting him off. The color was good for that one thing.

"You wanted proof. Now just watch," I said simply before removing the sweatshirt and jeans.

I stood in the bra and underwear as the tub filled with icy cold water. When it was full I motioned for Cole. He came over and stuck his finger in the water. He nodded and pulled his finger back wiping it off quickly I noticed as well. I put the information in the back of my head to be examined later. I stepped into the water and winced before getting all the way in. I even put my head in, making sure very part of me was freezing. The wolf stayed still inside. I got out and then walked past Cole who just followed. I reached for the back door and Sam followed, but Cole stayed inside.

I stood out in the cold shivering with goose bumps covering my entire body and while the wolf was lifting its head inside, I was in control.

"Convinced?" I asked the silent and studying Sam.

"Shift," He said, "Prove that you're more than just a strange human girl who knows about wolves."

"Fine," I smirked and felt the wolf inside me growl in anticipation.

I felt my skin erupt as my body fell to the ground with new legs beneath me. I knew my coloring since I had been told before. Jet black, with white marks on my eyes. I looked at Sam and Cole who were both speechless and let out one of my weird wolf laughs. I trotted toward Sam and bumped against his leg before walking up onto the deck, my nails making noise as I walked up to the door. I pawed the glass and Cole opened it for me. I walked inside and lay on the couch Sam had sat earlier.

They both came in and looked at me. I had their attention and now I could hear their story. The only problem was I didn't want to to shift into a naked human again. I put my head on my paws and just stared at them. I loved the shock on their face since I could process it.

This was one of the few times I enjoyed not being able to lose myself.

Alright well reviews are welcomed and appreciated. I really have no idea where this is going so I don't know when I'll update next. Also Sam may have been a little out of character, but I was trying to see how a guy who had just lost the love of his life would act. Anyway-

Thanks!

-seb :]