Her Parents

Jude's POV age 3 years

After we told Lucy about her mom she looked at me and tilted her head to the side. "go on" she said I sighed and looked at Layla who nodded her head. "Alright" I said and began the story…

Jude's POV Flashback (age 1 year 6 months)

It was April of my second year, and was already a skilled hunter so my father Jose the alpha of the Phantom Lord pack sent me to scout out the newly acquired area taken from Mermaid Heel not too long beforehand.

I was on a new patrol of Phantom Lord's territory in the southeast when I came across a cabin in a clearing. Not knowing what the cabin was doing there approached it; I came up to the window and peeked inside. By all accounts it was a regular old cabin with only one room the human was asleep but someone noticed me a beautiful light brown and white husky she came up to the window and growled a warning. I looked at her and tilted my head to the side, she rolled her eyes and looked over to the near wall, I followed her gaze and saw a rifle.

I didn't leave though I stayed to talk to her through that window. That night I learned her name was Layla and that she was from a place called Magnolia a human settlement in the north where she lives when she's not with her human on hunting trips. This trip was going to last until September, after that I yipped a quick "good night" and left before the human could wake up.

End of Flashback

Present Time Sill Jude's POV

I looked at Layla and then at Lucy and said "that's how we met" I nuzzled Layla's ear and lay down. "What happened next" Lucy asked. "Well" I said looking at Layla.

Another Flashback Jude's POV (age 1 year 7 months)

I had known about Layla's cabin for a month and had yet to tell anyone. I hadn't taught her any of our howls but was planning on it. One night we were on a walk into the closest neutral territory and that was the first time I heard her song, and as she sung I closed my eyes to listen. Her song was higher in pitch than any wolf I had ever met and I promised myself I'd listen for it every night during the midnight howl with the pack. After that I taught her the howls of the wolves starting with the distress call once she got that we made a game of the locating calls. After a few weeks of our nightly walks we started getting close but after three months of these walks we slipped up, she didn't go back to her cabin the night before. Her human found us by the forest's river and dragged her away from me but I didn't do anything to her human for the sole fact that he was her human. That night during the midnight howl I heard something I never wanted to hear, a goodbye in her song.

I answered her asking what she meant and then I heard a distress call from her for the first time since I taught it to her. With that I took off running ignoring the rest of the pack's song ignoring the stares I got from the others even ignoring my father's low growl of warning. I had to get to Layla, my Layla. It was only May, why would there be a goodbye in her song? I didn't know but when I got there she was in a pet crate on the back of a pickup truck whimpering in pain, her leg was bleeding. I jumped up onto the truck, looked at her in the eyes and licked her paw. The only thing she said was "North" whimpering with the pain still I yipped back an "I'll find you" after that her human came back and told me to leave. I looked at Layla barked a final "fight for us" turned to her human growled so fiercely that it scared most of my pack and left. What I hadn't known was that my father had sent someone to follow me so the next morning at dawn I was exiled. It didn't matter to me though because left me free to travel north and find Layla.

One night three months later, I found Layla in a human settlement alone outside a tavern on a leash and when she saw me she didn't make a sound but looked at me then looked at the door then looked at me again and wagged her tail. I waited a minute and went over to her and bit hard on the leash, breaking it. After that we moved as quickly and quietly as we could. Once out of the settlement we went back to Phantom Lord Territory not to stay there but to go west. I knew if they found us it would be a fight to the death so we moved as fast as possible. Once we were far enough from Phantom territory we slept and a month after that they found us pushing us to where we live currently.

End of Flashback

Present Time Jude's POV

We've lived here ever since Lucy