Love so Nearly Lost

by WhiteTiger3

It's been a year since the events of Series 2. Neither Maddy nor Rhydian have forgotten the promise they made to each other, and both of them are finding it hard to wait. But when an unexpected arrival prompts Rhydian to leave in search of his distant love, a series of spiralling events threatens to jeopardise their future together. Maddian guaranteed! ;D PLEASE READ!

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Maddy was sat on the crest of a hill with the wild pack, all in wolf form. It was going to be a full moon the next night, they all watched it. Nearly perfect.

Maddy felt no different to Rhydian. Nearly every wolf in the pack had stopped thinking about him all the time – even Ceri! They knew it was going to be another few years before he came in search of them, so they thought it was best not to dwell on things that are only going to make you miserable.

Maddy skulked off and, behind a tree, turned back into human form. Luckily Jana never minded this. She knelt on the soft earth and, gently pushing her finger tips into the damp leaves that littered the ground, looked up into the sky. She could see everything, smell everything, hear everything – Eolas. Rhydian was there. She loved him so much.

Emma appeared a moment later, still in wolf form, the Eolas had just ended, leaving Maddy (as usual) in a crying, muddy heap. Her mum pushed up her chin with her snout and licked her cub lovingly.

"Mam!" Maddy groaned, a smile spreading across her face. Emma disappeared into a bush for a moment and reappeared as her human self.

"Come 'ere pet." She said, "You know, me and your dad thought it'd get easier. But as you are showing us, it's just getting harder."

"Mam, when is he gonna come?"

"Mads, it's only been a year. He probably thinks that isn't enough time to wait. He's still with his foster parents isn't he? And as they say, 'absence makes the heart grow fonder'!"

And more miserable. Maddy thought.

"We're safe Mads, and that's all that matters."

But all the time, Alric was listening.