AN- I'm back! I was actually really surprised by the amount of lovely reviews I got, turns out baby Rhydian stole all of our hearts! Which is why I'm considering slotting in little snippets of his life before Stoneybridge, let me know if that's something you'd like. Anyway, I had to lock my heart away writing this so... you have been warned...

Disclaimer- I do not own Wolfblood.

Ceri's POV

"Admit it!" Gerwyn dragged our kill through the forest, looking positively jovial. "Go on! Admit it, I dare you!"

I laughed at that trademark phrase. 'I dare you' It had been one of the first things he'd ever said to me, and he'd used it against me ever since. He knew I could never turn down a challenge. He gave me that cheeky smirk I loved and I rolled my eyes. "You were amazing!" I gushed sarcastically. "The most powerful, stealthy wolf I've ever seen and I'd never have been able to take the buck alone!"

His eyes twinkled with mischief and he leaned in the kiss my cheek. "Don't forget handsome."

I scoffed and pinched his cheek playfully. "I prefer my men with significantly less facial hair."

He laughed. "Good luck finding one of those round here."

"Perhaps that's my problem?" I mused teasingly. "I settled down too early, with the first wolf I saw... Perhaps I should look further afield..."

He growled playfully and me and dropped the buck, scooping me up instead. "Mine!"

"Gerwyn Morris! Your hands are filthy!" I scolded, and tried to wriggle of his arms. Blood stains were near on impossible to get out of our clothes

He threw me over his shoulder. "The mother voice doesn't work on me!" He scoffed. "You'll be sending me to bed without meat next."

I glared at his back. "Put. Me. Down."

"Or you'll what?" He goaded.

I brought my knee back and drove it into his gut. He doubled over with a groan and placed my feet back on the floor. I grinned and carried on walking. "Well done Mr powerful, stealthy wolf, you held me captive for all of five seconds." He bared his teeth at me and growled before picking the buck back up and dragging it by its antlers... They'd make for some useful tools... My mind soon wondered, daydreaming of how I could use the buck, that pelt would be priceless come the winter months...

We eventually made our way back to the den and I ducked inside to check on Rhydian...

I froze...

Standing in the entrance and looking down at the bundle of blankets that were supposed to be wrapped around my son... "Gerwyn..." My voice was barely there... My heart was pounding heavily in my chest... I breathed in a ragged breath so I could call him again and spun around onto the campsite. "Gerwyn!" He looked up from the buck, frowning at the tone of my voice. I shook my head in disbelief. "He's gone..."

I could see the worry settle in his eyes and he looked around at the surrounding forest. "...He's probably just wandered off... Rhydian!" He called.

I kept shaking my head, it was a valid point, but something told me this was more than him just exploring... "He knows not to leave then den while we hunt..."

Gerwyn knelt down, touching his fingers to the ground and looking up as he opened up his instincts to Eolas... When he brought himself back he shook his head. "I can't see him... He must be too close to the human trail... Rhydian!" I whimpered quietly and Gerwyn placed a hand on my shoulder. "We'll find him Ceri..."

I shrugged him off and sniffed the air around the den before tracking his scent, it took us deeper into the woods before falling rapidly down the bank and onto the human trail... I looked around warily for a moment, desperate for any sign of my little boy. "Rhydian!" My voice broke as his name turned into more of a sob.

I was starting to pick up other scents now, human, dog, but they all mixed and morphed together so I couldn't figure them out, that was when I heard the rumble of one of those big metal human machines... My eyes widened as things started to piece together in my mind and I sprinted towards the noise. I was vaguely aware of Gerwyn shouting my name, but I ignored him, I needed to find my son before they took him away!

My every step felt as though it was in slow motion and the sound of the machine got further and further away. I pushed myself faster, ducking under branches and jumping over tree roots, but it wasn't enough...

I broke through the trees onto the dirt track road just in time to hear Rhydian cry 'Mummy!' And see his little face through the glass, blotchy with tears, before the machine turned the corner and he disappeared...

"No!" I whimpered and let my wolf take hold, I had to go after him! I had to get him back no matter what it took even, if that meant exposing myself...

Hands gripped my shoulders and my waist and Gerwyn tugged me back into the trees. "Ceri! You can't!"

"No! That's my son!" I sobbed, struggling against his hold. "My baby! Let me go!"

"Ceri, shhh." He pulled me against his chest and I tried to push him away but he held on tight, finally I collapsed against him, trying to draw in breath through my tears, I couldn't breathe! "We'll get him back... I promise you."

"How! How can we possibly get him back!" I gasped. "He's gone!"

He lowered us to the floor at the side of the road, holding me in his lap and pressing his nose against my hair. I don't know how long we sat there, but all I could do was cry. I felt weak, as if all the energy had been drained out of me. I didn't want to move, talk, anything, I just wanted to disappear...

Gerwyn's POV

I held her tightly against my chest and rocked her, trying to get her breathing evened out. I hated that I had to hold her back, especially when I wanted exactly the same thing she did, but now wasn't the time for hasty decisions, if we were to have any chance of getting him back, we had to think it through... Running after them in wolf form wasn't the answer, and I'm sure deep down she knew that too.

"We'll find him." I kept saying this over and over to try and reassure the both of us but I knew that now they had him, it just wouldn't be that simple.

I lowered us to the floor, my legs unable to support us anymore I'd lost my son, our son... I hid my face against Ceri's hair as the first few tears welled in my eyes and spilled over...

I felt numb, I didn't know what to think... What to feel... I just sat there, cradling Ceri in my lap, holding on to the last bit of normality I had left...

I let her cry herself out until the moon rose and she went limp in my arms, emotionally exhausted. I hadn't let myself shed more than those first few tears, I knew I had to stay strong, for Ceri, for Rhydian...

As I stood, I lifted her with me, carrying her away from the side of the road and back into the surrounding woods...

I took her back to the den and lay her down in the furs and blankets, her fingers curled around Rhydian's comforter and she sobbed quietly, clutching it against her chest. I tried to stay with her, I really did, but the tears threatened once again and I finally had to step outside, I couldn't let her know that I felt just as hopeless as she did... I sunk down against our doorway, letting the tears well over...

I felt more than hopeless. I felt useless...

Third person POV.

The strange lady stopped the big machine outside a big rock den and came to get him, but Rhydian didn't want her to touch him. He'd screamed for mummy and daddy until his voice hurt but the lady had ignored him, she's taken him away and now mummy was going to be really cross that he hadn't stayed in the den the way she'd told him to.

Rhydian thrashed and kicked to keep her away and tugged on the straps around his shoulders, he didn't like the strange seat, it stopped him moving and closed him in.

"Shhhhh." The lady tried to sooth and reached towards him. "I'm going to unbuckle you..." Rhydian cried because he still didn't understand her words but then she reached even closer...

Rhydian panicked and bit down hard with his teeth against the lady's wrist. She cried out in pain and skirted back out of his reach. He growled at her the way he'd seen daddy do and she backed away before disappearing into the rock den.

He tugged some more and chewed on the straps to try and break them but he couldn't. He sobbed and cried out for mummy and daddy again but they didn't come to get him, even with the lady gone.

"Hey! Hey! You'll hurt your little teeth doing that!" Rhydian froze because those were words he knew, they were words mummy and daddy used. There was a different lady this time, dressed in funny clothes. She smiled softly at him, but Rhydian didn't feel safe in the big machine anymore. "Out! Out! Out!" He demanded rocking and wriggling in his seat.

"Okay." The lady said softly, Rhydian watched as the she pressed a red square next to his tummy and the straps let go. He squirmed his way out of the seat but the lady blocked his way so he turned around to find another way out. There was a hole in the machine on the other side so Rhydian ran towards it but when he got there he hit his head against something hard and fell over. "Careful!" The lady said and climbed in

Rhydian whimpered and rubbed his head to stop it hurting, before touching his fingers to the hole, it was covered with a hard sheet which he didn't understand since he could see the outside, but couldn't get to it. Rhydian sniffed as other funny smelling people surrounded the machine and climbed down into the gap on the floor by the lady's feet, hiding. "What's your name?" She asked.

Rhydian hesitated, even though this lady's words made sense he still wasn't sure. "I want mummy..." He whimpered quietly.

"Tell you what." She said quietly. "You tell me your name and we'll try to find your mummy together, sound good?" Rhydian nodded. If this lady was going to take him home, that meant she was good.

"Rhydian..." He murmured.

"Do you have two names Rhydian? A last name?" Rhydian frowned in confusion and the lady sighed, thoughtful, before smiling. "When you're naughty what does mummy say?"

Rhydian tilted his head to the side, thinking... "She say..." Rhydian got to his feet and put a hand on his hip and pointed his finger like mummy did. "Rhydian Morris! Don you dare!"

The lady laughed and Rhydian giggled but then he saw the other people outside and he shuffled back down into his hiding place. "Where is mummy, Rhydian?."

Rhydian tried to explain that mummy was in the trees at home but even the lady with the right words didn't seem to understand. She kept turning to the people outside the machine then back to him. He kept pointing to the lone tree that he could see outside the machine, incase the lady didn't know what they were. "Lotsa trees, lotsa big trees."

"You got lost in the woods, but where's your house? Where do you live?" She kept asking him, but Rhydian didn't know what a 'house' was.

He got more and more frustrated that the lady didn't understand him that he beat his fists on his legs. "Rhydian have nap and when wake up mummy gone in the trees." He said, louder this time.

The lady frowned and turned to the people outside the machine, using words Rhydian didn't know again. "He just keeps say he was in the trees… the woods… That his mum went into the trees… do you think... I mean it sounds like... she just… walked away… abandoned him there."

Gerwyn's POV.

I opened my eyes as I heard Ceri climb out of the den, I don't think either of us had slept at all last night, I could see from here that her eyes were bloodshot from crying. She didn't look back at me, just started off walking towards the east, Rhydian's blanket still clutched in her hand.

I stood and went after her, grabbing her free hand as soon as she was within reach. "Cariad... Where are you going?" She tried to shrug me off and pull away but I didn't let her. "Ceri!"

"I can't stay here!" She shouted. "I can't... Be here anymore..." Tears rolled down over her cheeks. "I want my mum!"

I paused, a little lost for words... We'd grown up a lot when we had Rhydian, so sometimes I forgot just how young we were... Every time Ceri cried for her mum when we were cubs, I'd run to get her, like that time she broke her arm after I dared her to climb the dead oak tree, so we could see the human lights... I shook my head. "We can't tell our parents yet... Ceri you want to go out and look for him, don't you? You know the packs would never let us go to the human world!"

She screwed her eyes shut, gasping in a shaky breath and pulling her hand out of my grip. "Then we go now! I can't stand this anymore!"

I reached for her hand but she just lifted it away from me and turned, walking towards the human paths... So I followed her silently.

We entered the town the same way we had so many times before, but this time Ceri was tense and guarded, watching every human that passed with narrowed eyes. I glanced down to find her hands streaked with wolf veins and ended up having to forcibly take them. "Cariad, calm down, otherwise they'll notice..."

She growled at me under her breath, so I continued to watch her from the corner of my eye, this wasn't like her at all... If she was this close to wolfing out, we couldn't be here, it'd put us all in danger...

We searched through town, trying to pick up his scent, or the human scent from the woods. The woman who found him couldn't have lived too far away surely... I kept a tight hold on Ceri's hand, not quite trusting her to be alone right now. She didn't speak to me, she seemed solely focused on finding his scent, which was fine until to took into consideration that she wasn't even trying to look human. She was crouching and sniffing, loud enough that we started to get some funny looks from passers by, so I pulled her up straight.

She batted my hands and pushed me away. "Stop it!" She growled. "Leave me alone!" She sprinted off and I ran after her, only I didn't have to run far, she'd paused outside a small... Shop, I think they're called, paper in hand. On the front, clear as day, was a picture of Rhydian, his frightened blue eyes looking up at us. Big letters were printed above his head and lots of little letters were printed below him, Ceri turned to me quickly. "What does it say?!"

I took the paper from her touching Rhydian's picture with the tips of my fingers. "I don't know Ceri, I can't read either."

"Then find someone that does!" She sobbed.

"Calm down!" I ordered again. "I can't just ask someone to read it! Everyone out here can read, we can't draw attention to ourselves by saying we can't!"

She tried to pull it off me again. "I don't care anymore! He's my son! I have to get him back!"

"Excuse me?" Someone called, breaking our scuffle, and I turned to find a middle aged man in the shop doorway. "Are you going to pay for that?" He asked, nodding down to the paper in my hands. Ceri and I looked between one another, Ceri was the one most fluent in English, her pack had more English members than mine did... She'd been the one who taught me, so automatically I left her to answer the question, but when she didn't answer him I was forced to step up.

"Ermmm... We don't have anything to pay you with..." I remembered vaguely that humans exchanged metal disks for things, but I didn't know what they were called or how to get them.

He walked forward, hand held out expectantly. "Well, if you can't pay for it, I'll be having it back."

Ceri growled lowly and I nudged her with my elbow, pleading with her to be quiet. The man reached out to take the paper from me and Ceri growled louder at him, baring her teeth. He looked startled to I shoved it into his chest and grabbed Ceri's hand to pull her away. She snarled at me and yanked her arm out of my hold before clawing at the paper in his hand, I grabbed her by the waist and lifted her up, desperate to get her out of here. The paper ripped and Ceri held her section in a tight fist. "Get her out of here." The man shouted.

"I'm sorry." I called back but he'd already pulled the stack of papers inside and slammed the door to his shop closed.

I could her him muttering under his breath. "Crazy, filthy kids." And listened to try and hear if he'd seen anything he shouldn't have before turning the corner.

I pulled Ceri down into a quiet back street and she sat down on the rock path, smoothing out the paper she'd managed to grab. The picture of Rhydian was still there, along with the big letters, it was only the small letters that were torn in half. "What we're you thinking!?" I demanded. "You could of exposed us!"

She ignored me touching the picture of Rhydian gently with the tips of her fingers, tears welling in her eyes again. "I'm so sorry..." She sobbed. "I'm sorry I wasn't a proper mother."

"...Ceri..." I didn't know what to say to her...I hated that she blamed herself, because the whole thing was entirely my fault, I knew that already… It was me that suggested we go hunting, me that told her to leave him in the den... So I didn't say anything, just sat down on the opposite side of the street, my head in my hands.

...

I wasn't sure how long we sat there, it could have been minutes or hours but the scent of two other Wolfbloods came from down wind. I stood and moved towards Ceri, standing in front of her. I hadn't realised until now that the street was a dead end, we were trapped.

A middle aged couple rounded the corner less than a minute later, their eyes turning yellow as they locked there gaze on us. "So it's you two who have been trespassing on our territory? All this time." The male snarled. My own wolf tried to surface in response to the threat, and even though I'm sure my eyes had already turned, I tried to control myself, which for some reason was a lot harder than usual.

"I'm sorry, we weren't aware that the territory had been claimed." We'd never really stayed long enough to find out...

He moved closer sniffing at our necks and I forced myself to submit. "You've been wandering into our territory for years..."

"Just visiting." I reassured quickly. "We live in the wild, you see, just wanted to see what the human world is like... We were cubs, and we were curious..." I added, hoping they'd cut us some slack.

"You're still cubs." He muttered. "I want you gone, within the hour, and I don't want you coming back."

"No!" Ceri protested and he growled at her, I pushed her further behind me and growled back at him baring my teeth, defending my mate. It took everything in me not to go for his throat, I was about to do just that, but managed to clear the fog from my mind... I could sense even without seeing his wolf, that this wasn't a fight I could win.

"We're going!" I grit through my teeth. "Ceri come on!" I pulled her with me, and managed to get past the other two wolves before she began struggling again.

"No!" She reached back with her free hand. "Gerwyn! Stop!" I did just that since it wasn't anger in her voice this time, she was sobbing.

I looked back to find the paper lying on the floor where she'd left it, I composed myself, trying to take a deep breath and calm my wolf. "Can we have that back?" I pleaded.

He looked back warily and frowned. "It's a ripped piece of newspaper." Ceri and I growled at him. That was my son!

The haze lasted only a few seconds before I managed to snap myself out of it. I shook my head, feeling dizzy. "Sorry... Please..." I begged, looking back at the picture.

The female watched us closely before stepping back from her mate and retrieving the newspaper. "The pair of you... You both have the Morwal in you." She said quietly, speaking for the first time. "I recognise the scent... And your wolf eyes... One is different from the other..." I froze... The Morwal, I'd heard stories, even seen someone with one a few years back, but until now I hadn't even considered that Ceri and I were going to pick it up... That said, it explained Ceri's short temper, and my inability to control myself the way I usually could...

The woman looked down at the paper and back up at us. "You know the little boy..." Her eyes scanned the words. "Rhydian..."

"He's our son..." My voice broke. Their eyes widened, obviously because we looked too young to have a two year old of our own. The female lifted her hand to her mouth in shock before gently handing the paper back to me, I stared down at the words which still just looked like a jumble of lines. "Can you read it to us?" I asked her.

"You can't read?" The male scoffed and I tensed, baring my teeth and fighting against my wolf... The Morwal... I just didn't know anymore...

"No." I said finally. "In the wild, we don't normally need to."

The woman placed a hand on her mates chest and looked at us, pity in her gaze. "It says. 'Child abandoned in the wild." She said quietly.

We all stood in silence for a few moments until Ceri shook her head. "I didn't abandon him." She whimpered. "I didn't abandon him! They took him away!" She cried.

"Ceri..." I tried to hold her in my arms but she struggled away from me, eyes bright, I realised what the woman meant then, one wolf eye was Ceri's, the other... The pupil was dilated, only a thin band of yellow before it darkened back to black around the iris.

I realised with a start that mine would be exactly the same...

Ceri locked those eyes on the other pair of Wolfbloods and growled at them. "How can you even bare to live here? Live among and act like them? Tame!" The male stood in front of his mate protectively and I moved closer to mine. "How can you possibly want to act human, when they're capable of taking a baby from his mother! He was mine! They stole him!" She sneered and took a step forward.

The male stood his ground, snarling at her and I was about intervene when Ceri shoved him backwards, making the female growl at her, defending him.

All four of us were at a stand off, circling one another, and I tried to pull Ceri behind me but she snarled and turned on me instead. That foggy haze returned even thicker than before and I snarled back at her, lunging forward, working purely on instinct. My muscles were coiled, ready to fight and I was about to let the wolf take over when...

"Hey!" I blinked the fog from my mind once again and stood, looking across to see Ceri looking just as dazed as I felt. The other couple stood off to the right, watching us with equal amounts of shock and wariness. "Both of you need to get out of the village now! Away from humans! The Morwal is making the wolf too strong for either of you!" The female said. "...Look... We'll try to help."

"Rach-" The male started but she cut him off.

"They've just lost their son!" She hissed at him. "What if it was our Charlie?!" He looked away, so she continued. "You'll have to come back after full moon... You're too dangerous...to us, to yourselves..."

I didn't argue with her, I'd just turned on my mate without even stopping to think about what I was doing...

I rubbed at my neck trying to release the clenched muscles there, before herding Ceri out an back towards the woods, I didn't dare touch her, as out of control as I felt...

The tame wolves would know more about this world than we did... We'd figure something out after full moon... We had to...

AN- Ohhh... Double Morwal, I'm not sure whether or not to look forward or be nervous about writing that... it's gonna be intense but hopefully good to read. I'm not sure how often this story will be updated, since I'm finding it's a bit of a challenge, writing something from scratch rather than basing it on episodes, and I'd still like to write some more Maddian (Gotta love Maddian!), so I might post some one shots between chapters, we'll see.

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