(A/n- Well hello out there.
My names Loonybin as you've probably seen. Ok here's the deal, I'm new on the
plane of writing BWOC fan-fics, so please be nice. Let's see I watch the show
religiously, and I've got a humongous crush on Danny Smith (but what girl
doesn't?). Um… I just discovered www.fanfiction.net
and haven't read any other BWOC fics yet but I plan to. It's just I don't want
any ideas but my own in my head, y'know? Oh yeah this takes place after the
syndicate episodes, not after Merton has been stoned (that made me cry, I
swear!). so anyway good bye. See you soon.)
Sometimes on full moons,
I'll stay in my room, or maybe got to down to Merton's lair. But a lot of full
moons I can't control the wolf's urge to be out in the open. This was one of
those nights. I had to be outside, so that's where I went.
I ran around in
Pleasantville for awhile, then left. I went out to the small highway that led
into town. It was pitch black. I sat down at an empty bus stop, and thought.
I'd been doing a lot more of that lately, ever since the incident with the
Werewolf Syndicate. I kept thinking about what would've happened if Merton
hadn't been a perfect shot with the dart. What if I ever bit someone again.
Other things bothered me too, like how much of me was the wolf? How much was
human? I didn't know anymore and it made me sick. Not things I wanted to think
about, but the thoughts kept creeping into my head., and they were almost
impossible to kick out.
~
"Excuse me?" A voice.
Someone was poking me in the back.
"Are you ok?" whoever it
was started shaking me.
My eyes flickered open
immediately. Wolf instinct took over. I reached for the closest thing I could
see, her hand on my shoulder.
'control' I was telling myself,
'control'. But the other half of me wasn't listening.
"Listen do you…" It was a
girl. She never had a chance to finish, because that's when I bit her hand. She
fell to the dirt ground.
I looked around. I was
still at the vacant buss stop on the highway. Then I looked down at the girl.
She looked about my age, maybe a little younger. Light brown skin, and brown
hair. She wore many bracelets, and necklaces. I looked for an ID. Nothing.
"Great Tommy." I muttered to myself. "Just great."
Bending down I checked her
pulse. It was still there, but faint. The watch on her wrist said 4:00 am. The
moon hadn't set yet so I was still wolfish.
"That's a plus." I said,
lifting up the girl in my arms.
I hurried down the highway towards Pleasantville.
~
Another werewolf sat in the
bushes watching this scene. He growled at the other werewolf picking up the
human girl.
"so it's Tommy." He
muttered
~
(A/n- 'kay, it's not great
but don't judge it yet…please! Just at least read the next part. Remember this
is my first fic. And trust me, I get enough criticism from my brother
who thinks the whole thing is stupid. I pushed him down the stairs after that…)
~
It was around five when I
brought the unconscious girl to Merton's lair. It took awhile to wake him up. a
few rattles of his spare chain mail fixed that.
"W-what is it?" he asked
groggily. "I waited for you all last night and you decide to come now?"
"I need your help." I said.
"What is it now?" he asked.
"Witches, Demons? Maybe a ghoul?"
"This." I pointed to the
girl who I'd put on his couch.
"Hmm, knocked out females.
Not exactly dangerous but…" he paused. "so what's the matter with her? Is she
possessed or something?"
I gently picked up the hand
I'd bitten. Merton raised his eyebrows. "Ok, now I forgive you for waking me
up."
"So?" I looked at him for
an answer.
"First we ought to let her
wake up." he suggested. "Any ID on her?"
I shook my head. "I
checked. The only thing she has with her are the things she wearing."
"Well I'll get out the
wolfsbane." Merton walked over to his cabinets, and began to rummage through
them.
Meanwhile I looked at the
girl on the couch. Talk about guilt, that's all I felt at the moment. Her life
could be ruined all because I couldn't control my self.
"Darn it." Came Merton's
voice from the corner. "Ok let's check E-bay."
"What's the matter?" I
joined him at his computer.
"Out of Wolfsbane." He
confessed.
"And you think you can find
it on E-bay?" I asked skeptically.
"You can find anything on
E-bay. The other day I found an original stretching rack from… never mind. My
point is I can probably get it from here. There's probably a kindly old lady
over in Europe who plants it in her garden, and is looking to sell some to make
a Pound or two." He hit enter on the key board.
"No leads for your search."
Said the computers mechanical voice.
"Or maybe not." Merton drew
in a breath.
I glanced over at the
sleeping girl. She moved slightly in her sleep, and then turned over completely
on the coach.
"Merton, I think she's
waking up." I said.
Merton got up and walked
over to the couch.
"Hey." He said quietly.
The girl didn't say any
thing at first, but then. "Um, who are you?"
I let out a sigh of relief,
glad that she was ok.
"My head's thumping like
mad." She rubbed her head.
"Don't worry, it'll go
away." I told her. "It's a normal symptom."
She looked at me with
shocked eyes. "It was you, I…"
"shhh," warned Merton.
"We'll wake everyone up."
"What happened to my hand?"
she looked at the large cut. "I don't remember that much."
"We can explain every
thing." Said Merton. "But we'll start with the simpler stuff first."
'Thank you' I mouthed.
"Simple?" she looked at the
two of us. "fine, where am I?"
"Pleasantville." I said.
"and you two are?" she said
glancing around.
"Merton Dingle and Tommy
Dawkins." I answered again.
she nodded slightly. "I'm
Cassandra Black. I'm from Pleasantville too. I was on a run this morning, and
you," She pointed at me. "I think were sitting at a bus stop. I don't think it
was you though because he looked well, really weird. And then I remember
tapping him on shoulder, after that it's really all a blur."
"One more question?" Merton
asked. "how old are you?"
"Sixteen." She sat up a
little on the couch. "So, now can you explain how I got here?
"Ok, this is gonna be a
little hard to believe." I said cautiously.
"It's ok. I'll believe
anything. It's a fault of mine." Her eyes dared me to challenge her.
"Do you believe in
werewolves?" I had the slightest feeling that Merton might be enjoying this.
"Since I was three." A
smile appeared on her face.
"So you probably know all
about the 'Pleasantville Werewolf'?" yeah Merton was enjoying this.
"Of course."
"Well that werewolf,
happens to be Tommy." Merton finished dramatically.
"I'm gullible, not stupid."
She said crossly. "To even consider that I'd… whoa!"
Cassandra caught view of me
in my transformed state. "Believe us now?" I asked.
She looked like she was
going to faint, but instead she just nodded with her jaw opened.
"So that was you on the
bench." She mused.
"Yeah."
"And…," she looked at her
hand, and then at me.
"Shock factor." Merton
whispered into my ear. "It'll take awhile for it to click."
"Oh shit." Cassandra
mumbled. "Oh shit."
"It clicked." Merton
informed me.
"I kinda got that." I said
looking at Cassandra.
"I don't know whether to
try and slap you with a law suit, or run up and thank you for giving my life a
whole new twist." She stared at us blankly.
"I'd suggest not going with
the law suit." Merton said. "Totaling my and Tommy's savings would probably
only give you about forty dollars."
She ignored Merton. "What
the hell does this mean for me?"
"Total weirdness." Merton
and I said together.
"Some monster fighting."
Added Merton. "And don't forget running from Tn'T every full moon."
"I already run from them every
day in school." Cassandra smiled. "I can smell them coming a mile away. So, do
you know when this will start affecting me?"
"Next full moon." Said
Merton. "But you'll see symptoms before then. Just try not to get to
emotionally aroused or anything like that."
Cassandra smiled and looked
blissful for a second. "Well I guess I'll see you in school. Guess I'll be
seeing a lot of you actually."
"What?" I almost choked on
the word school.
"It's 7:00." Merton pointed
out.
"Oh shoot." I said running
to the door. "I'll see you later."
~
"Hey." I came up behind
Lorie.
"Oh, hi Tommy." She seemed
to stare me down. "Merton said you had something to tell me."
I waited until she shut her
locker then pulled her through the crowd into the cafeteria. We sat down at an
empty table.
"Well?" she asked.
"I was out on the highway
last night and I accidentally fell asleep at a bus stop." I paused letting her
respond.
"Right, right, what else?"
was all she said. Amazingly there was no lecture on security or anything.
"So it's about five in the
morning and I felt someone tapping on my shoulder. She started shaking me, I
think she thought I was hurt, and then I sorta lost control." I shuddered.
"Meaning?" Lorie gave me
another long hard stare.
"I bit her."
"Excuse me?" she was
particularly calm but I still heard the tension in her voice.
"I bit her," I repeated,
bracing myself for the loud barge of yelling I expected.
"Oh that's all. So I guess
Merton's getting the wolfsbane ready?" she asked.
"well that was another
problem, we didn't have any. But Cassandra didn't seem to care." I explained.
"Is she good or evil?"
"From what we can see,
good."
"where's she live?" It
wasn't going to be a barge of yelling but a barge of questions.
"Here in town."
"So now there're going to
be two werewolves running around here, that's wonderful Tommy." She said
sarcastically.
~
There was a sub in last
period science and the teacher hadn't left us anything to do. I asked the sub
for a pass to the bathroom, and stupidly he gave me one.
I'd just been planning to
roam the halls until the last bell. But my plans were changed when I saw
Cassandra at the other end of the hall. It was the first time I'd ever seen her
in school before. She'd changed from the morning and was now wearing a long denim
skirt with a V-neck. I walked up the hall to talk to her, but when I got there
she really wasn't in the mood for small talk.
"Tommy look!" she said as
soon as I got there. Then she pointed to her teeth. There were four sharp
looking fangs were growing form her canine teeth. The rest of her teeth had
sharpened up already. She also pointed to here ears which were now longer and
pointer. The were also growing fur all over them.
"It started in the middle
of a test." She explained. "and according to my teacher my eyes were doing
weird things too. I don't know why it started, it jus did."
"You'll be fine. Once you
calm down it'll go away, you were probably nervous about the test or
something." I'm not sure if she really believed me or not, but she calmed down a
little. "Is your teacher expecting you back?"
"No. he's got this stupid
rule that says that if you leave during a test you can't go back in and take
it, so I'm screwed." She sighed. "I think I'm seeing a down side to all of
this."
~
Inside a certain classroom
a regular looking kid sat. he wasn't paying attention t the teacher at al, but
was looking through the door window at the two teens talking.
"Bingo." He said quietly.
~
Merton was happy as ever when he found out about Cassandra's first
symptoms. He had her in the Lair for hours performing tests.
"Y'know Merton." Said Lorie playing with a bunch of various
wooden stakes. "she might not want to be your lab rat. What're you doing
anyway?"
"Comparing her with Tommy."
He held up a chart.
"You're gonna hide that
right?" Cassandra asked nervously.
"sure." Merton stuffed into
his desk drawer.
"Yeah just like you hid the
Political Science book." I said. "when you're done with that thing, burn it."
The door leading to
upstairs opened and Becky (Merton's sister) appeared. Her hands were on her
hips, and she was scowling.
"Keep it down." She said
glaring. "some of us are trying to forget you live here."
Merton gave her a sarcastic
smile. "go play in the traffic."
"What…" she stopped
noticing Cassandra and I. "Cassandra, Tommy what are you doing here?"
"Just hanging." She said.
"Merton your nerdness is
contagious." Becky turned on Merton again. "Cassandra could've been popular,
now look what you've done!" She stormed out.
"Merton I know she's your
sister," said Lorie. "but there's something loose in that brain of hers."
Merton took out his chart
again, and started writing on it. Lorie, Cassandra and I turned to the TV. There was a knock on the door leading
outside. Merton got up and went to the door. He looked through the blinds, then
closed them quickly making a face.
"Lets go, now." He
suggested.
"who's at the door?" I
asked, not moving.
"Remember those evil
looking werewolf guys from the Syndicate?" Merton asked pitifully.
"Uh, yeah."
"One's out there." He
pointed his finger towards the door.
I jumped up from the couch
pulling the other two up with me.
"Maybe we should go." Said
Lorie moving towards the door.
"Who are those guys?" asked
Cassandra. She looked out the black shaded window reveling more werewolves.
"Guys you don't want to be
acquainted with." Merton said quickly. "Let's just say if you like the way
you're turning out now, you don't want to meet those guys."
Merton twisted the knob on
the door leading to main part of his house. It was locked.
"Becky must have friends
over." Merton concluded.
"That's not gonna help us."
I said right before the outside door fell through.
In the doorway stood one
werewolf, but we knew he probably had about fifty backups.
"Hello Tommy." He said.
"do I know you?" I asked.
"Doesn't matter. You're
coming with us. All of you, even you little one." Saying little one he looked
at Cassandra. She looked insulted, and started growling.
"Excuse her." said Merton
weakly. "Just a little pre-full moon jitters."
The speaker sent Merton a
glare. Merton shut up.
"It's not gonna be that
easy." I stepped forward.
"Fine then, if you need to
make this hard." He punched me across the face. Lorie kicked him in the
stomach.
"Merton go work on the
door." I growled.
He nodded and slunk back to
the other side of the Lair. Cassandra helped us in what ways she could.
When we finally had the
evil werewolf temporarily detained (on the floor in a choke hold) the other
wolves on the outside of Merton's house left.
"What's the deal? Why were
you here?" Lorie asked, squeezing his neck.
"we're back for Tommy, and
also the little one." It came out more as a squeak.
"Why would you want her?"
asked Merton who joined us.
"she was bitten by the
Alpha Male. If she were raised correctly she could be a powerful fighter." He
answered.
"How do you know Tommy bit
me?" Cassandra looked at him narrowly.
"we had watchers every
where on the full moon. We knew it was you Tommy, because after you bit her you
brought her back here. You cared for her." He said the lat part in disgust.
"Now let me go."
"we're not stupid." I said
bitterly.
"We can't keep him here."
Lorie looked at me. "we have to let him go."
I nodded, and she got up
off of him. He jumped up and faced us all.
"We'll be back. I don't
know when or with who, but we'll be coming back for you." After saying this he
ran out the door.
~
On the next full moon I met
Cassandra in Merton's Lair. Merton was sitting at his computer surfing the net,
and Cassandra was in a chair playing with Merton's small python.
"Hi." I said, walking in.
"Moon rises in 13 minutes."
Merton reported. He exited the internet and stood up happily. "I can't believe
this."
"Can't believe what?" asked
Cassandra.
"Never in my wildest
dreams, did I ever think I'd ever have two werewolves down here." He
said.
"It takes awhile to
convince him that he can't win the science-fair with you." I muttered to her.
"oh, I…" she stopped. At
that moment we both transformed. Merton let out sort of an insane laugh while
looking at the two of us. I eyed Cassandra. I'd never seen a female werewolf
except for Lorie, and she'd been evil. Cassandra defiantly looked different.
"Well?" Cassandra broke the
silence. I noticed how her fangs stuck out a little over her bottom lip.
"It's a good look for you."
Said Merton grinning. "How do you feel?"
"Stronger." She shrugged.
"I sort of feel like I shouldn't be indoors."
"Wolfs instinct, you can
control it though." I moved over to the couch and sat down.
"Ok, ok, that's normal."
Merton had a really weird smile on his face. "Anything else?"
"No, everything else feels
normal." She looked at her self in Merton's mirror. "This pretty cool."
I was looking at her too.
In a weird sort of way she was really cute as a werewolf. I didn't know which
side of me was thinking that though, my wolf side or human side.
"Time for tests." Said
Merton. He held up a notebook and a pencil.
I sighed. "This is gonna be
a long night."
~
We all came to school
tiered and cranky the next morning. If it hadn't been for Lorie I would've fallen
asleep while opening my locker.
"How'd it go?" she asked.
"What?" I turned to look at
her.
"Last night, how was it?"
she asked again, shaking me awake. She hadn't been able to be there because she
had a makeup report due.
"Oh, fine." I started
walking to home room she followed.
"So she's good?"
"Yeah Lorie." I went into
homeroom leaving her outside the door.
~
"Merton Dingle, please
report to the main office."
Merton looked sleepily up
from his lunch. "What'd they say?"
"They want you in the office."
Lorie jerked a finger towards the door.
"Oh." Merton got up and
walked out of the door.
"It looks like Becky's
trying to convince her friends that Merton isn't her brother." Cassandra
observed. Becky looked furious over the loudspeaker announcment.
Merton came back a few
minutes later. "we've got trouble." He pushed a piece of paper across the table
to us.
We opened it and read it.
Leader, meet me in the
park tonight. Bring the Alpha and the little one.
"That doesn't make any
sense." Said Lorie. "He's talking to Tommy obviously, but then he tell him to
bring himself?"
"Unless he's not talking to
Tommy." Cassandra bit her lip. "You said that Merton was the one to shoot the
dart with Wolfsbane. That means Merton would technically be the leader, not Tommy."
"So he wants Merton to
bring you and I?" I looked at Merton. "Are you gonna do it?"
"Sure. I bring you two
chained up, so it looks like you gave a struggle. we put Lorie behind a tree
ready to attack, then you three kick monster butt."
"Might work." Said Lorie.
"But if it doesn't we all end up either dead or evil."
"and that's different from
every thing else we do how?" asked Merton sarcastically. "Meet me at the Lair
after school. I'd advise wearing a long sleeved shirt."
"Why?"
"Gee Tommy, you want the
silver from the chains to eat into your skin?" He sighed. "All I've got are
silver chains, I'm a Goth remember?"
~
"Ow, not so tight."
Complained Cassandra.
Merton loosened the chain a
little. "How's that?"
"Better, I think I can get
out of them now." She easily freed a hand that was tied around her back.
"What about our feet?" I
asked struggling with the chains around them.
"Oh right." Merton loosened
those too. "Now to the car. And remember, try not to let the silver touch your
skin."
Merton help open the door
for Cassandra and I and we slowly walked out. We all climbed into the hearse
and Merton started it up.
"Lorie's there right?"
asked Cassandra.
"yeah, don't worry. Every
things'll be fine."
"Don't worry?" she rolled
her eyes. "I'm a werewolf who has silver chains wrapped around her body, and
we're about to go pretend to surrender to a bunch of evil werewolves. You're
telling me don't worry? You've got problems."
"She's got a point." I
said, wincing as a chain dropped from my pants to a bear part of my ankle. It
started to burn, and I wolfed-out.
"Are you ok?" asked Merton.
"The stupid chain is eating
my skin." I growled.
"Doesn't matter." Merton
stopped the car. "We're here. Cassandra, wolf-out. If you come human they'll
suspect something."
She nodded and within a few
seconds there stood the wolf that I seemed to be so attracted to.
"Let's go before TnT decide
to come." Cassandra looked around smelling the air. "They're at the Hungry
Bucket."
"Ok, I'm going to pull you,
and…oh I don't know, just make it look convincing." Merton took hold of the
chains and started to pull us towards the meeting spot. We growled at him, and
basically did all we could to make it look like we wanted to hurt him.
There was one werewolf
waiting for us when we got there.. he was dressed in black and waiting by the
gazebo.
"Leader, you brought them."
The werewolf inclined his head slightly while looking at Merton. "We didn't
think you would."
"Well, yeah, wouldn't want
to disappoint you." He pushed us forward. "So here you go."
"Wrapped in silver too."
The werewolf looked suspiciously at Merton. "You'll have to help me get them
back to my car."
Merton let out a whimper.
"Right whatever."
I noticed a rusting in the
bushes. Cassandra and the other werewolf did too. Lorie came out and stood
ready to fight.
"Thank you." Merton looked
upward.
Cassandra and I got out of
the chains quickly, and turned to face the guy.
"So you tricked me. I
should've known. It doesn't matter though, I brought a backup."
Another werewolf jumped down
from the gazebo.
"Three against Two." Lorie
was muttering odds to herself. She started the fight, kicking the first wolf in
the stomach.
The rest of us joined in
after that. The second werewolf was down with in five minutes, and first one
escaped. The one that was lying on the ground, Merton wrapped in the chains,
and Cassandra carried him down to the river and dumped him in.
~
(A/n-ok did it suck? Should
I write more using my Cassandra character? Tell me!! Please Review.)
