Hello again my pups! That's right it's the new chapter! Its not nearly as emotional as the last one, thank you to those who have returned to read my story. I know most might like to avoid things that are too emotional totally understand! But thankfully it will be a while before things get that emotional, of course I always give a heads up if things get intense:)

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Lexa POV

"Your job here is very basic, nothing too difficult it will be feeding, cleaning, and maintaining the environment for Wanheda. Everyone here helps each other out. If you ever do need help just use your walkie-talkie. Of course, everyone is separated into different groups according to the animals that they are working with. There a lot of animals here after all and some need a little more special treatment to make sure they are happy," Anya explained to Lexa as they walk down the path close to the animal's enclosure. Lexa can't help but look around her in complete awe at being able to stand so close to the wild animals that she has admired from a far. Lexa was so giddy when she drove up to the Sanctuary this morning. As soon as Lexa had come through the doors, they had her uniform, gear and ID tags ready at the front office. Then Rainer, the hiring manager, handed her off to Anya who would be showing her around the Sanctuary so she could know where everything was and where she could find extra material if she needed it.

"Understood, shall I be working with Wanheda right away?" Lexa questioned, as she slowed down seeing some foxes chasing after one and another. One fox's coat had a mix of black and white while the other was completely gray; the gray one was running away from the mixed one as it nipped at its tail. Lexa chuckled as the little gray one turned around and tackled the mixed one to the ground. The foxes continued to playfully fight with each other before taking off and running again.

"Oh, you'll meet her soon enough, but first I need show you around it's protocol. Your coworkers around here are a lot more carefree. So, there's no need to be so polite," Anya laughed she smacked at her shoulder getting Lexa's attention. Lexa smiled shyly and nodded continuing to follow her close friend down the path.

"Sorry, guess I'm just really excited to finally be working here," Lexa laughed shaking her limbs getting herself to loosen up. Anya grinned and gestured for Lexa to follow after as they took a detour towards a different path.

"No big deal, you been wanting to work here ever since you saw us in action with the wild fire. I get why you are so excited, this is a big opportunity compared to working in that petting zoo." Anya looked down at the clip board in her hands, not seeing the glare Lexa sent her way for mentioning that awful time. It wasn't the best job she's ever had plus she had to deal with a lot of people constantly which was a big downfall to her. "Let's get you familiar with the tool shed, considering who you'll be dealing with you'll want to know where it is." But before Lexa could argue she wouldn't dream of using an tranquillize on Wanheda, there was a horrifying roar coming from the far northern enclosure.

"Fuck," Anya cursed sprinting off in a full run towards a caged area in the north end of the path. Lexa ran after, not sure what was going on but she would help in a way that she could; though the idea of helping was short lived as they reached the cage where all the commotion was coming from. There was a large man huddle in the corner curling into to himself. He was visibly shacking as he held on to his arm that was dripping blood. There was a pair of girls banging on the other side of the cage trying to attract attention to themselves. There was a bunch of people screaming and yelling. Anya had taken off towards a small shed in the distance. But Lexa's attention was only focused on the large golden wolf that was baring all of its fangs at the cowering man in her enclosure.

The creature was beautiful as it was dangerous, as it let out another horrible roar; its muzzle was stained in crimson making Lexa's body tense up. The pair of girls were still yelling and shouting trying to get the golden wolf's attention but it seemed more intent on tearing apart the man in front of it. Lexa moved without thinking, slowly walking up to behind the man that was inside the cage. She could hear people telling her to move out of the way but she ignored them as the golden wolf turned its head up looking straight at her. Lexa bit her lip stopping herself from gasping as she stared into pale ice blue eyes. The golden wolf's snarls stopped immediately as it stared right back at her.

Lexa could see to the side of her vision people were quickly opening the gate and the cowering man was quick to crawl across the dirt towards the safe heaven. Though Lexa couldn't afford to look away as the golden wolf's eyes locked with hers and it was slowly moving forward to stand right in front of her just on the other side of the bars. Lexa's finger twitched having the greatest urge to reach through the bars and touch the gleaming coat.

The golden wolf stared at her so intensely like it was studying her every feature, it didn't growl or snarl at Lexa only observed her. Its eye color changed from a pale blue to a deep ocean, it made Lexa's heart race. The wolf's eyes were so beautiful, Lexa had never seen a wolf's eye color be able to change like that. Lexa took a step forward without meaning to breaking the enchantment that was there. The golden wolf blinked a few times, gone were the ocean blue eyes changing back to an ice.

The golden wolf snapped its attention to the corner were the man used to be and it growled angrily before it looked back to Lexa. It stepped up as close to cage as possible. Lexa would only need to reach her fingers out and she would be able to touch its fur. It was extremely tempting, but then the golden wolf opened its muzzle showing off every single one of its pointed teeth. The golden wolf roared at Lexa making her flinch back in fear, the sound so loud and deafening the horrid sound vibrated throughout her body. Just as quickly as the wolf roared at her, the golden wolf turned its back on her and took off speeding away like a flash of lightening.

"Who was that?" Lexa whispered but it was loud enough that Anya who had long returned witnessed everything caught what she said. Anya pocketed the tranquilizer gun on her belt her hand shacking a little out of nervousness.

"That my old friend is Wanheda, the commander of death," Anya let out the breath she was holding then reached out and yanked Lexa away from the cage. "Do you have a death wish? Never ever get close to the fence like that again. She's found ways to fit her muzzle through the bars; she will take a chunk out of you," Anya lectured her, though Lexa was busy searching for the golden wolf who hid herself away. But she couldn't see her so she turned her attention back to Anya.

"I'll be careful next time, she's gorgeous. I've never seen a wolf with her colors before," Lexa glanced back to the enclosure looking around for the wolf. She thought she could see the wolf further out but it was too far to be able to tell for sure. Anya walked off towards the man that got his arm bitten but not before Anya smacked the back of her head with her clipboard.

"Only you would be more mesmerized by the wolf then the poor guy that got attacked by her." Anya continued on while Lexa rubbed the back of her head, only casting one more glance at the enclosure before following Anya. Lexa thought she saw Wanheda peaking over a rock, but her attention was caught by the man whose arm was still bleeding. He was holding the injured arm close to his chest and some girl was wrapping a towel around it.

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"The ambulance should be here shortly, how are you holding up Titus?" Anya asked gesturing to see the wound. Titus grimaced as he carefully lifted the towel to show the fresh injury. Lexa peaked over around Anya to see for herself. She gulped, it was obviously a bite mark and a bad one at that. Wanheda's teeth tore across his forearm revealing patches of muscles and oozing out blood each time he moved the limb. Lexa felt a pang of sympathy, her hand drifted to her thigh where Wanheda had actually bitten her before. However, at the time Lexa didn't feel the pain, her body was running on adrenaline purely focused on helping the wolf. She did feel bad for Titus but something didn't seem right about this situation.

"Why were you inside her enclosure?" Lexa spoke her mind not considering how it might sound insensitive. Lexa had the habit of saying what was right on her mind, it was both a favorable and hated trait to her. In this situation it proved to be not enjoyable as it earned her a glare from some of the employees. The guy named Titus swallowed hard not meeting Lexa's eyes. Lexa looked him over, minus the bite mark on his arm he seemed out of place here. He didn't look like someone who worked here long, his uniform shirt was marked as a volunteer. She noticed something shining around his neck, it looked like a dog whistle, why would he need that here?

"Does that really matter right now?" he huffed out. He held onto his injured arm letting out a whimper. Lexa eyed him down she was getting a weird vibe from this guy. Anya looked back at her questioning look in her gaze, though Anya seemed to catch on she looked at her clipboard. Lexa informed her that the clipboard had all the information of what would be happening today, like what employees should be around this area for feeding or clean ups.

"Yes, that does matter, why were you inside her enclosure? Wanheda's area is off limits only zookeeper specialists can go inside her enclosure. You are a volunteer here for grooming. You had no business being in there, so answer the question, why were you inside there?" Anya demanded firmly. The employees that were helping him previously slowly backed away clear wanting to stay out of it. Titus swallowed hard, he was breaking out in a sweat but it was hard to tell if it was from nervousness or pain.

"I was told that Wanheda needed to be groomed. I mean just look at her, the fur is matted and dry, like she hasn't been groomed in years," Titus looked away again not meeting anyone's eyes. Lexa felt something off he had to be lying. Was he afraid of being kicked out of the volunteering program? Anya looked like she wanted to push it further but then the sirens of the ambulance were sounding off in the distance.

"Lance, help him to the side exit to get him to the ambulance. I'll be having a word with Rainier and have him confirm your story, Titus. We wish you a quick recovery," Anya dismissed the group before turning away from them. Lexa kept an eye on Titus as Lance helped him up, leading him towards the exist. Titus looked back towards Wanheda's enclosure, the look on his face was hard to describe; hate? Want? Disappointed? What did that look mean?

"He was lying you know," Lexa pointed out as she looked to her friend. Anya chuckled nodding her head. They both watched as Lance helped Titus towards the exit where the gates were already open. The paramedics took over after that seeming to already know the cause before the employee could explain.

"I know Lexa, I'm just trying to figure out why. We do groom the animals to make sure they don't get any fleas and help them grow out their summer coats, but Wanheda is done on rare times. I hate to say it but we have to muzzle her. No sane groomer would willingly groom her without one. So why the hell would Titus go in there willingly with no back up or even a muzzle? I'm going to talk Rainier to see what's going on." The ambulance took off with Titus inside and Lance went back to his own work. Anya walked towards the corner of the path motioning for Lexa to stay put. "Luna! Come here and show Lexa where all the materials she'll need while working with Wanheda," Anya shouted. Lexa could see the employee named Luna jump a little while she was looking into a foxes' enclosure. Luna walked over a scowl on her face,

"Just yesterday you were telling me not to yell and here you are yelling at me," Luna huffed crossing her arms. Lexa noticed her entire right arm was covered in tattoos they were really nicely done. Her tattoos had a number of different fishes like an underwater aquarium. There where sharks, turtles and squids. Lexa didn't even know half of what the other fishes were, but it definitely had a beautiful theme.

"Quite your whining. Lexa this is Luna she's been working here for a while so she can show you all the ropes. I'll be back as soon as I can." Anya walked off already heading to where she needed to be. Lexa chuckled shaking her head,

"Pain in my ass that one, freaking gets here a few years ago and becomes the damn manger," Luna gestured for Lexa to follow her. "She's lucky she's so damn sexy or else I wouldn't put up with her." Lexa couldn't help but nod.

"She's been that way since we were kids. Always straight to the point, she hates to waste time on something that isn't beneficial to her," Lexa explained. She glanced over seeing some movement from Wanheda's cage but it wasn't her just some other wolves. They were gathering under the trees, though one wolf was heading off to the far left.

"Oh? You two have known each other that long?" Luna continued walking on seeming to have a destination in mind. She seemed to be heading towards an open building. Lexa knew the building, this one housed the animals that were almost ready to join the others on the outside archers.

"Yes, practically grew up together. Her dad and mine went to high school and college together back in our home town Ton DC." Lexa looked around her checking out the area and memorizing it. A few cages down were different felines and even bears further down the path.

"Sooo you two dating? I'm assuming because Anya acts differently around you a lot more open not looking like she'd kill ya with one look, like when she talks to the coworkers." Luna apparently didn't like to hit around the bush. Lexa hadn't gotten the vibe of her being interested in Anya, though if she had been paying attention, she might have noticed the attraction she had for her friend.

"Oh god no, she's practically like my older sister. You're not the first person to think that, we're both gay but we are not each other's types." Lexa felt no need to hide that fact, plus it would help to spread the word that no guy should try to "score" with her. Luna lips curled into a wide smile, a spark of determination flashing in her eyes.

"I like you, I've been trying to figure out if she was gay or not for a while," Luna threw an arm around Lexa's shoulder shaking her a little. "Here you tell me in just a matter of minutes versus years ha!" Luna grinned. Lexa smiled feeling maybe a little guilty but what was wrong with a pretty girl flirting with you? Minus the fact that Anya was their manager, but Luna wasn't her type because she preferred blondes. Luna would be Anya's type; more likely her friend didn't want to make things complicated at work. Anya would mention Luna now and again through some silly complaint or that she was weird. Anya wasn't one to bluntly tell if she liked someone.

"Well you didn't find out through me, she'll kill me and it wouldn't be hard for her to do considering we share a house with one other guy." Lexa was getting the nagging feeling she should shut up now.

"Throw in a tip on how to wow her and it's a deal. Alright here are the basics you'll want to know. Tool shed has the simple supplies as shovels, racks, hoses and mostly cleaning material. I've heard you'll strictly be working with Wanheda so you'll want to know where the sedations are." They made it to open shelter where there were some animals inside. Lexa guessed they were the ones being slowly introduced to the Sanctuary. Luna unlocked the doors to the sheds showing what key to use and then allowed Lexa to peek inside to look around before she stepped in.

Luna headed towards a shelf where a row of tranquilizer darts were caged in glass. The latch to the case wasn't locked and next to it was the box with the gun to use for the darts. Lexa decided not to rant about how wrong she thought it was to use those on any animal. Lexa would rather not be known as the overbearing tree hugger. Not that she was offended by the name, it was a good thing after all.

"Have you guys had to use them frequently on her?" Lexa chose to ask while she memorized where everything was before they existed the shed.

"Only in emergency, like when she's really about to hurt someone. I'm not a fan of using them, so I've found an alternative. I keep a bucket of water by the enclosure and if she tries to hurt someone, I throw that at her. May seem mean but I think it's kinder then drugging the poor girl." Luna rambled the words so quickly Lexa barely picked up what she said, though what she did pick up was that Luna wasn't a fan of drugging the wolf so for Lexa that made her enjoy her company.

"That's good know, do you by chance have a file on her? That way I know what I'm working with." Lexa and Luna continued on their walk. Luna would explain the areas and what they were used for and where they kept extra materials.

"Yeah we have one on her but there's not much in it to be honest. We usually are rescuing the animals from where they are being mistreated; so, we know what's going on and the animal's history based off of their environment." Luna stopped by one enclosure pointing inside to a bear who was enormous. He was like two bears put together. He was by the water dipping one of his paws inside the cool stream. "Take Tiny here for example, He and his siblings Natasha and Boris came from a rundown facility where they were kept in concrete rooms. They weren't the only bears either in that small place, they lived with 22 other bears in that cramped room."

"They rarely were given any food or water, then top that off with the jackass owner who had them living in their own filth. The person who owned it just up and left them, leaving all those animals to die in the worst possible way. All because he had a run in with the law." Luna paused. Tiny heard them and actually wondered over. He took a sniff at them both, Lexa was awed at how calm the bear was when he approached them. Tiny seemed to favor Luna more though as he moved closer pushing against the fence. Luna reached over, scratching his side the bear let out a content noise,

"When we got there, these guys were skin and bones hardly anything on them and some had already died from lack of care. All of them were like walking skeletons, not at all how you see him now nice and fat." Luna smirked. She reached into her pocket pulling out some dried meat and held it out to the bear barely past the bars. The bear happily grabbed it and munched on it loudly smacking his lips and drooling.

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"What happened with the owner?" Lexa wondered. She felt her heart pain that they went through such treatment. Tiny finished with his treat then wobbled off throwing himself inside the water,

"Don't know, don't care. I just care about helping these guys live the rest of their lives in peace." Luna gestured for Lexa to follow her as they continued their walk. It felt good to hear that these people cared about the animals here just as much as Lexa soon would.

"Any how back to the original topic with Wanheda. I can tell you everything that's in her file. When they brought her here to the Sanctuary, they told us that she just appeared randomly in this awful forest fire and that if it wasn't for some girl who went after it to help her, they never wouldn't have seen her. Thanks to whoever the girl was, the boss brought Wanheda in and after being looked over from the vet it was obvious, she was mistreated." Luna stopped for a moment as she collected her thoughts. They were approaching a different building with a few cages most were empty. From the looks of it, it seemed to be an indoor area for the animals to come inside if they wanted to.

"How was it obvious?" Lexa questioned. She chose not to mention that she was that girl. She'd gotten mixed reactions; some good some were critical. Luna stopped by what looked like another shed. She unlocked it and went inside pulling out two buckets. She handed one to Lexa, then headed over to a water pump. Luna placed the first bucket underneath then began to pump the line.

"Wanheda had scars everywhere, stab wounds on her ribs and legs; these long gashes down her spine maybe from a wipe; has missing back teeth; her liver and kidneys are an abnormal size more likely from not being fed often enough." Luna paused while Lexa switched out the buckets. Lexa placed the filled one out of the way.

"And if that wasn't freaking enough, her owner had to be some filthy rich snub. Anya told me how she had this thick gemstone collar that had actually real gems not imitations. This person that owned her had to have tied her up most of its life because all around the neck, legs and muzzle the skin was all torn up." Luna growled out as she'd pump the water to fill the second bucket.

"Who the fuck can be so screwed up to do that to an animal?" Lexa hissed out, her chest felt tight, so unbearably tight. Just thinking about the wolf going through all of that was horrific but what bugged her most was the why? What on earth could drive a person, no not person a monster to cause so much pain?

"No clue, I just wish I knew who did it. Not going to lie, I'll happily put a bullet through their heads." Luna finished with the second bucket. She picked up the first one and Lexa picked up the next one.

"I'd do the same. Is this for Wanheda?" Lexa questioned as they slowly made their way back towards the wolf's enclosure,

"This? Nah it's not for her, it's for Kim down here. She's new to the Sanctuary and she's been moved to the next stage since she's more comfortable moving around. She doesn't like to go outside yet, so I like to wet the dirt for her to lay down on," Luna explained as they neared an enclosure with a skinny looking cougar. It was close by the open door just looking outside, her tail twitched side to side in a nervous gesture.

"Well aren't you sweet, oh and thanks for the fill in on Wanheda. Where does she go to sleep normally?" Lexa watched as Luna tapped lightly on the cage to alert the cougar. Kim turned her head back to look at them for a moment before looking back outside. Luna garbed the first bucket tossing the water inside to one corner, the cougar didn't budge.

"She sleeps outside. She doesn't join the other wolves that sleep in the underground den." Luna sighed out chuckling as the courage got up and tossed itself in the soaked dirt.

"Odd, wolves prefer to be in groups. They don't normally stay alone on purpose," Lexa commented as they watched the courage dig her claws into the cool mud. She yanked up chunks of mud before pawing it down,

"Tell me about it. She's really weird, but you'll figure that out soon enough. It's about snack time now actually want to help me feed her group?" Luna grabbed both empty buckets before walking to the shed to drop the buckets off.

"Of course, if it's okay I'd rather stay with Wanheda after giving them their snack," Lexa requested while they head back down the path towards where the golf carts where parked. Luna hopped in first and started it up and Lexa slid into the seat beside her.

"Sure, Wanheda is all yours to deal with as the boss says. I hope you'll be able to help break her violent behavior before the owner of this place is forced to put her down," Luna drove out to the path and took up some speed as they head back to the beginning of the path.

"So, everyone knows about that, I hope I am able to help her. Maybe she hasn't had the right person around to help her feel comfortable." Lexa glanced into the wolf enclosure but still couldn't see the golden wolf, just a few of the other wolves.

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Luna and Lexa had two buckets full of fresh goat meat when they pulled up to the wolf enclosure. Some of the wolves were already waiting by the gate they licked at their lips in excitement.

"Despite them being so dangerous they look so cute when they prance round like this," Luna chuckled while she pulled on some gloves. Lexa did the same glancing around the cage and was surprised that Wanheda was there this time. She sat further back though, she didn't dance around like the others did. She just sat down with her head held high she was staring very intensely in their direction.

"Yeah they do look pretty cute," Lexa looked away from Wanheda to see how Luna was going to feed the wolves. Luna moved to a feeding door to the far right pouring the first bucket inside. She then pushed the metal boxes in and pulled open a metal door on the inside of enclosure so the meat was accessible to the wolves. Lexa did the same for the far-left feeding door but the wolves didn't go for the meat right away. No, they just whined and paced around waiting, there was a large male wolf there to but not even he was trying to take some. "Why isn't the alpha taking any?" Lexa asked confused as the male was whining away like the other four females.

"Take a wild guess," Luna chuckled as Lexa looked over at her. It took Lexa a second to catch up, before she realized why.

"Wanheda's the alpha female, so she's in control of the male alpha since they are mated?" Lexa found that very odd. She heard a sharp bark she looked over seeing that Wanheda was now moving closer. Her fur was raised up at the back of her neck like she was angry.

"Oh god no, she's the alpha all together. She runs the show in there. Sure, Cody tried to impress her a number of times but he gave up after she gave him that nice bite on his shoulder," Luna laughed as Lexa looked at her stunned. Lexa felt like her education on wolves was being thrown out the window. It was always the male alpha that had control, the alpha female just supported him.

Lexa looked back at Wanheda, she nearly screamed when she saw the golden wolf standing in front of her. The wolf was staring her down it really seemed to be mad at her. Which was odd since she hasn't done anything to upset her, it felt like time was moving slowly as the wolf studied her. Lexa wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.

"Does she always do this?" Lexa couldn't look away from the wolf's eyes as Wanheda kept her eyes locked with hers. Her eyes weren't those intimidating ice orbs. They were a lovely sky blue, Lexa was astonished by this wolf. How was it possible for a wolf's eyes to change color? What kind of wolf is Wanheda? Lexa had guessed at first look that she was from Finland where they do have golden pelt wolves, but those wolves were mixed breed with a dog. The wolf Lexa saw now didn't have any futures of being a wolf-dog.

"For the new people yes. She makes sure you know she's in charge and not you, but she's never done it for this long," Luna puzzled. She moved forward and tapped the cage hard getting the gold wolf to turn her way and freeing Lexa from its intense stare. Wanheda bared her teeth at Luna then glanced at Lexa before huffing and moved to the metal box. Wanheda grabbed some of the meat then moved to the other one grabbing more before she moved back to sit in front of Lexa.

Wanheda placed her food down and only ate one piece before the other wolves moved to boxes and grabbed their share of food. Unlike Wanheda those wolves took their meat back to their preferred spots. "Gosh she's being really strange today, she normally just takes the food back to her favorite rock and eat. Huh you good here for now Lexa?"

"Yes, I'm fine. I did want to stay here after all." Lexa tilted her head curiously as Wanheda grabbed another meat and ate it slowly. She exposed all of her teeth as she chewed on it. Lexa was able to see the missing teeth along her jaws. Wanheda was missing 4 teeth all together, a premolar on her upper jaw, 2 premolars and a molar on the lower jaw. Thankfully it didn't seem like she had any trouble eating her food. Lexa wondered how'd she faired in a hunt though, maybe not to badly. It was the jaw that was more necessary. It was the utmost powerful part to a wolf.

"Alright, Anya should be back here soon. Might have gotten caught up with something else." Lexa only nodded her head to acknowledge her as she heard the golf cart start up again and drive off. Lexa only spared a look to see which way she was going and checked to make sure she was alone before looking back to Wanheda. Wanheda was still sitting there just looking at her. Lexa oddly felt like the wolf was judging her.

"You might not remember me, but I'm the one that saved you from a bad fire a while back," Lexa crouched down till she was eye level with the wolf which didn't take much. Lexa tried not to let that bother her, the golden wolf just seating down was able to keep eye level with little difficulty. Lexa didn't remember the wolf being this big, though of course that day was a haze for her. "Not the best way to first meet that's for sure, but anyways my name is Lexa and I'll be your personal zookeeper for hopefully a while," Lexa smiled at the wolf. Wanheda only stared at her, fur puffing up more. She felt threatened for some reason. Lexa lowered herself till she was on her knees so now that Wanheda had to look down at her, but Lexa didn't break eye contact with the creature.

"I must have done something wrong. You seem to already hate me not sure why," Lexa muttered. Wanheda narrowed her eyes at her. She kept her eyes locked with hers as she grabbed her last meat and ate it. Lexa decided to break the eye contact first to see where the other wolves are. The other wolves had ventured off to their own areas. They seemed rather happy as they lounged around eating their meats.

Wanheda snorted getting Lexa to look back at her. She had finished her meat already but hadn't taken off. Instead Wanheda moved over to the feeding box and ducked her muzzle in probably to look for more meat, Lexa guessed. Though the wolf trotted back getting closer to the bars near Lexa, her muzzle under her chin was soaked in blood from the meat. Lexa smirked at her, "Didn't find any more huh? Maybe I ca-" Lexa didn't get to finish as Wanheda shook her head and sent blood flying. Lexa barely got the chance to shut her eyes in time.

Lexa hears the wolf barking but she could have sworn that it sounded like a laugh. Lexa opened her eyes and looked down at herself; the front of her uniform was spotting in red and Lexa could feel the blood on her face too. Lexa glared at Wanheda as she stood there showing her teeth her tail moving behind her.

"You did that on purpose. Well I was going to offer to get you more not sure if I want to do it now." Lexa shook her head. She grabbed the end of her shirt and lifted it to whip her face off. Wanheda didn't make a sound though. Lexa pulled her shirt back down before looking at the wolf again. Wanheda was looking at her stomach, her head tilted curiously letting out a small whine.

"Instead of wasting your food you could have eaten it. Maybe the other box still has some meat, if you're still hungry." Wanheda looked at Lexa's stomach longer before she was surprised that Wanheda actually looked over to the box she hadn't went to. It was like she understood what Lexa said, which couldn't be possible, animals didn't really know human language. Sure, they understand a handful of words like a toddler would but Wanheda seemed to know what she meant.

Lexa leaned close to the enclosure and Wanheda looked back at Lexa meeting her eyes. Lexa could see so much in this wolf's eyes. Lexa could see her haunted past, see her need to be violent and see something almost human in those ocean blues. Lexa was able to see the small scar around her muzzle and wondered briefly what kind of muzzle could leave a mark like that.

"I'm pretty sure that I'm imagining this, but I swear you understood me just then." Lexa whispered. Wanheda stared back; her whole body had tensed up, her shoulders hunched and her claws dug into the dirt.

Lexa subconsciously leaned close enough that it would be very dangerous for her. Wanheda let out a whine, she's feeling nervous and she shifted on paws back and forth. Lexa reached out slowly placing her hand against the cage where she could sniff her if she wanted to. "Can you understand me?" Lexa whispered. She kind of felt like a crazy person, she was talking to this wolf like she was a person. Lexa done it to her own pets yeah but she didn't address them like she'd just done for Wanheda.

Wanheda stared at her for a long time, her knees staring to hurt and Lexa just about gave up her outrageous idea. However, then the golden wolf leaned forward and pressed her cold nose against Lexa's hand. Lexa felt Wanheda's gentle breath. It was warm against her palm and felt soothing while the wolf accepted her scent. Wanheda pulled her head back and ever so slightly the wolf bobbed her head. Lexa felt her forehead itch she reached up rubbing at it the weird feeling.

"Lexa, please for the love of God move back slowly,"

Anya's calm voice reached Lexa's ears snapping her back to reality as it did for Wanheda. Wanheda's fur puffed up right away and she backed away shaking her head. Lexa wanted to calm her down as the wolf began to panic, but then Wanheda shot forward and stood on her back legs she slammed against the gate and snarled at Lexa. Wanheda shoved against the fence and shot away running off towards the far end of the enclosure.

"She nodded," was all Lexa could say as she turned to Anya. Anya was looking at her bewildered.

"What the hell are you talking about? What was the one thing I told you before I left! Not to ever get that close to her!" Anya snapped. Lexa understood her frustration. She was only worried but Lexa was still in awe as she looked back to where the golden wolf was running around the enclosure.

"Wanheda...she understood what I said to her she literally nodded her head to confirm it.," Lexa explained but Anya's expression made her think twice about what she was saying and just how insane she sounded. "Umm never mind did you need something Anya?"

"I need you to be more careful Lexa, you nearly gave me a heart attack." Anya placed a hand to her chest while she took a deep breath to calm her nerves. Lexa stood up taking a few steps back, rubbing her legs a bit and took a few deep breaths. "Why are you covered in blood?"

"Wanheda, apparently, thought it be funny to shower me in her afternoon snack." Lexa laughed though Anya wasn't as amused but she seemed interested.

"She approached you?" Lexa nodded. "Really? Wow that's a first, she hasn't approached someone before like she just did for you. She normally does that for a few short minutes to just growl at a new person. She normally stays away from people as much as possible. That's also the first time I've seen her not attack someone for being close the cage," Anya exhaled. She seemed to have relaxed as her stance was lose.

"She did stare me down but she didn't growl at me. Wanheda doesn't seem so bad. Luna told me be about her past, were her injuries really that bad?" Lexa looked to the enclosure seeing the golden wolf was still running around the edge of the cage. Though the wolf avoided coming towards where she and Anya were.

"Wish I could say no, but it is true. I saw the wounds myself when she was put under for a short while to be treated. I've seen mistreatments at the shelters before, but this was..." Anya was watching as the golden wolf run, some of the other wolves ran after her. "It was like the person who owned her just wanted to hurt her. Wanheda had signs of abuse everywhere, but what I don't get was why her coat was so clean and maintained."

"Plus, she had this expensive collar that was heavy as hell. I turned it over to Pat the owner of this place. Pat gave it to the police to see if they could track it back to the owner, but they weren't able to it was a black-market kind of thing untraceable. Pat told me that thing was made out 22k gold and costed about $10,000 bucks. Whoever owned Wanheda has to have more money than they actually need," Anya continued. Wanheda must have heard the other wolves following her because she slid to a stop turned around and barked angrily until the others left her alone.

"The owner used her like some fancy object, tortured her yet kept her clean and pretty, that doesn't make sense. Abuser don't care what state the animal is they only care about taking care of themselves or to take out their frustration on something that is innocent. Why would someone with wealth waste money on buying jewelry for a wolf if they're just going to be cruel?" Lexa sighed. She never would be able to understand those types of people. How they could just look at another living creature and choose to hurt them. It made no sense to her, what did it matter if the abusive person was suffering with their own demons? They shouldn't inflict their misery on others.

"Exactly, look I'll try to stay out of your business when you deal with Wanheda alone, but it makes me rather nervous when you get so close. I know what she's cable of, I've seen her kill a person before." Anya sighed. Lexa looked over at her, she moved closer, giving her a sideways hug. Anya chuckled pulling her into a real hug. "Still I'll stay out of it and not interrupt again that was stupid on my part since Wanheda wasn't even doing anything. If you want, I can find a way to move her to a secluded area where you both can mostly be alone?" Anya offered giving a soft smile to make up for her behavior. Lexa smiled back but before letting go of her friend she searched for the golden wolf.

"Yes, if you could, I'd appreciate it. That way I can really work with her one on one and once she trusts me, she can be out here again," Lexa watched as Wanheda turned her head in their direction and stared for a little while before turning away and run around the enclosure.

"Alright I'll have it arranged, I am going to have to use a tranquilizer, a low dosage I promise. It's not safe to move her otherwise." Anya grabbed her elbow tugging on her. "Come on let's get you a new uniform since yours is filthy." Lexa nodded before turning away walking with Anya back to the front of the Sanctuary.

Lexa's mind was spinning as she worked out a plan to earn Wanheda's trust. There were a number of different ways that would take some time but Lexa felt they could work. She reflected back to when Wanheda was so close to her and how she dipped her head like she was nodding. Lexa's logical mind was telling her that it was just a fluke the wolf just moved her head that was all. Yet her wishful mind was saying wouldn't that be incredible if Wanheda understood her? How amazing would that be? Though logic wins versus fantasy. Lexa lived in the modern world so she had to accept the basic facts of how the world actually works; she shouldn't be dreaming of the impossible.

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Clarke POV

Clarke laid on her favorite rock perch under a large tree. She had a good view of her entire cage. She was able to see the wolves that shared the same space with her. They were lounging under the shades of the trees further away from her. She could see the humans walking about taking care of the other animals. Clarke could hear the humans above on the bridge. She was under the covers of the branches so she didn't have to worry about being seen by them.

"Should walk around the cage, make sure no humans try to pull anything sneaky," She let out a yawn. Standing up she stretched out her legs and hopped down from her rock. Clarke wandered close to the cage's limits close where the humans walked by. Aiming for the large pool of water, she lapped at the cool drink.

Clarke looked about checking her surroundings. The only danger was a new male human wondering close to the bears' cages but he was making his way down the path. Clarke ignored him for now as she finished drinking. She caught the scent of strawberries floating in the air. She picked up her head and sniffed at the smell. She knew this smell. But where from?

"Blue?" Clarke felt her entire body stiffen, her joints locked and her fur raising as she turned her head to look at a familiar face.

"I know it was you Blue, who else could have your gorgeous fur?"

"No..." Clarke stepped back to put some distance with the man that stood outside of her cage. Titus looked at her. She could see his eyes sparkling as he looked at her. Clarke whimpered she unconsciously licked at her missing teeth, remembering the pain.

"You've grown Blue, but look at your coat. It's a mess! No shine or glow do these people even groom you?" Titus moved to the gate's door unlocking it. He pushed the door open and stepped inside while closing the doors. Clarke growled in warning showing her fangs right away. Titus heisted before he glared at her, he dug into his pocket and pulled out something silver.

"No!" Clarke snarled she pounced forward to attack him as he moved towards her, but Titus below that damn whistle and automatically Clarke's mind worked against her and forced her to lay down on her stomach and place her head paw between her paws. Titus put the whistle around his neck keeping it close to himself.

"Naughty girl, what would Nia think? You know she was so sure you died in that wild fire. She's going to be so happy to know you're still alive." Titus got to his knees and reached out and stroked her coat. Clarke could feel his hands as he checked her over yanking out knots of matted fur. Clarke would have whimpered at the harsh yanking but Titus's words hurt far worst.

"Nia is alive?" Clarke whined this time. She trembled scared of what Nia would do to her for almost killing her. Clarke was sure she had done enough damage to cause her death but no the woman had to be like a cockroach. What punishment would she get for trying to kill her owner? Just for trying to bite her owner, Nia would have her teeth be yanked out by the very man who was touching her.

"Ugh you coat is disgusting, so many knots and it looks like you haven't been bathed in months. Blue be a good girl and lift your head." Titus dug into his pocket and pulled out a phone when Clarke didn't lift her head Titus hit the top of her nose with the phone. "Are you really not going to be a good girl Blue? You know what happens to bad pups," Clarke whimpered tucking her tail. She lifted her head only a bit, "There we go, how about we take a picture and let Nia now her pretty pet is alive hmm?" Now that snapped Clarke out of her submissive state.

"No! I'll never go back to her! You can't make me!" Clarke lunged forward snapping her muzzle over Titus's arm the one that held the phone. Titus blanked out he was stunned. Clarke broke the skin and tore down then he finally screamed. Clarke threw him against the cage as she released him. Titus pushed backwards being forced to stop as the cage got in the way. He looked around, fear clear in his eyes as he realized he had backed himself into a corner. Clarke snarled baring her teeth as she slowly stalked closer, "I won't go back, I may not be free but I won't go back to her!" Titus fumbled for his neck, trying to grab the whistle but Clarke wouldn't let him. She shot forward getting close to his face and roared. Clarke felt such a power watching the man cower. Titus hunched over like a turtle he held his injured arm to his chest. Clarke could hear his heart beating a mile a minute.

"She will not find out, I won't let her find me," Clarke sucked in a breath having used most of the air in her lungs. Her heart was raising with her excitement at seeing the man be so weak, she would end him here and now. Clarke will inflict more agony then the man could ever think of. Clarke showed all of her teeth letting out a deep growl as she moved forward ready to kill this man but then something moved behind him. Clarke looked up. She would take this new threat down if it got in the way, who cares how many humans should die. However, when her eyes met forest greens, her growls died out.

"It's you," Clarke was taken by surprise. It was Lexa and she'd gotten ever prettier if that was possible. Her features were sharper yet had a smooth edge as though touching her would be both a pleasure and a sin. Lexa stared at her like she was mesmerized. Clarke moved closer, her scent was so welcoming, that strawberry smell was coming off of her skin. Clarke's mind hazed a little as she looked into the female's eyes. "Are you even human? How can you be so pretty to me?" Clarke wondered. Lexa moved a step closer which put Clarke on edge. "Too close," Clarke growled out softly in warning trying to get her to move back, but Clarke felt a great amount of guilty to growl at this female.

Lexa did something to Clarke's heart, for the life of her Clarke couldn't figure out what the feeling was. She should be angry with the human, should be grabbing her throat through the bars and end her. Yet the more human side of Clarke was (in a way) telling her the female was actually trying to help Clarke in that fire. Lexa had risked her own life to save a wolf like her even though a human's life could so easily be killed.

"Wait...I'm forgetting something...Titus!" Clarke blinked a few times clearing away the haze and looked down only to be disappointed. He was gone.

"No! Damn it all!" Clarke glared at Lexa she stepped as close to the bars that she could, opening her muzzle wide and roared at her. The human flinched back, proving to Clarke that she still had an upper hand here. "You stupid girl! You have no clue what you just stole from me!" Clarke shot away digging her claws into the dirt and ran off.

"What the hell is she? She distracted me, I had him right where I wanted him." Clarke snarled out to herself. She felt so stupid letting herself get drawn to the human. Humans are evil, they were the worst creatures to ever walk the earth, this human should be no different. Humans have beaten her, tormented her, and degraded her like a dog. Humans did that Clarke had to remind herself, but again she felt the human part of her pushing that hate away and bring up the fact that Lexa hadn't done anything to her. Lexa hasn't tried to hurt her in anyway yet she still could hurt Clarke that was a possibility, wasn't it?

Clarke abruptly halted remembering something vital, "The phone! Shit! Stupid attractive human," Clarke spun back around and trotted back towards the front gate. She peeked behind a tree making sure the humans had all left. She saw Anya talking to Lexa and Luna. Clarke couldn't really hear what they were saying as the wolves were rough housing not too far away. Clarke was about to shut them up but then Anya walked off towards the big house and Luna and Lexa walked off to the right towards where Clarke used to be for a short while. Lexa looked her way and Clarke quickly dropped to the ground.

"Why am I hiding?" Clarke scowled herself before getting back up and walking quickly towards were she attacked Titus. Clarke looked around the grass, sniffing for the offensive rectangular devise. "There you are you horrible thing," Clarke reached down grabbing the phone in her muzzle she ran off to far end of her cage. She checked her surroundings to be sure no one was watching not even the humans on the bridge should see.

Once she was sure it was clear Clarke rushed over to a sizeable rock in the corner of her cage and pushed the rock out of the way and began to dig. She dug up the dirt until her paws hit the other things that were hidden beneath. Clarke bit down hard on the phone until she heard it crack before dropping it inside the hole letting it clatter with all the knives, clear plastics with poisons and that small metal stick that made those awful sounds, all of which that were meant to end her.

Clarke looked at those things a little longer reminding herself humans were not to be trusted, not even that pretty one. Even though her human mind was making her doubt herself, Clarke wasn't sure how long she was going to have to argue with herself on that. Clarke pushed the dirt back using her nose to make sure the dirt covered every bit of the harmful things. After they were covered, she used her paws to smooth out the pile then made sure to push the rock back on top.

"There we go, should be safe for now. I hope the bite I gave Titus will keep him away for a good long while." Clarke felt doubtful though. She sighed as she trotted back to her rock perch. Clarke noticed one of the females was walking towards her slowly she was holding something in her muzzle. "What do you have there, Molly?" Clarke felt silly talking to these wolves because they didn't understand her, they weren't like her. Maybe she just talked to make sure she kept her human self. God only knows how close she's come to losing her human mentality.

Molly walked over to Clarke slowly, her tail moving nervously as she lowered herself making little eye contact to show she wasn't challenging her. This was a normal behavior for an omega. Clarke barked gently to give her permission to come closer. Molly's tail moved like crazy far happier as she got closer. She still kept her head low out of respect. Now Clarke was able to see she had caught a mouse. Molly whined holding up the mouse to Clarke, the simple wolf wanted her to have her kill. Clarke shook her head though, that was kind of an intimate action among wolf custom. It was like saying "I like you, I want to be your mate"

"No Molly, I'm not interested. Go share it with Cody or Tami," Clarke turned her head away not even offering to sniff at the mouse. Molly whined again though moving closer she felt Molly's muzzle rub under her chin. Clarke felt bad for ignoring her, but she didn't plan on having a mate, not ever. Clarke didn't even want pups.

"No Molly, go away," Clarke gave a small growl to force her to stop trying, but Molly was stubborn. Molly has always been trying to show she would be a good mate, bring some of her food or fighting with the other omega to show her strength. Clarke felt Molly drop the mouse on her paw. She looked down at it by reflex and Molly the sneaky thing leaned in and licked Clarke's muzzle then dashed off before Clarke could bite her. Molly only stopped till she was with the others wolves, her tail wagging high like she was floating on cloud nine.

"Freaking sexual harasser." Clarke growled out as she leaned down and grabbed the mouse Molly left. Clarke carried it back to where Molly was watching her excitedly, but Clarke didn't approach the omega. She merely dropped the mouse where she would see it and turned her back on her. She tried to ignore the whimper she let out.

Clarke was ready to head back to her spot but then she heard that rumbling sound that came from what the humans called a golf cart and it was coming towards her cage. She looked over seeing Luna and Lexa had brought them treats. By the smell of it they had brought them goat meat. Clarke licked her lips. She rather favored that meat.

"Well I am kind of hungry, plus it wouldn't hurt to remind that female she can't control me. Not like before I won't let her distract me. I just have to keep a clear mind. Maybe it's her eyes, there's something there that pulls you in," Clarke trotted over to the ledge of the feeding area and sat down. She held her head high showing she wasn't afraid. The other 4 wolves weren't as restrained; they whined and pranced around waiting for the food to be given to them. Clarke huffed at them. They had no shame, of course, they didn't even know what they were doing was demeaning Clarke kept her eyes on Lexa as they served the food. Lexa looked over at her, Clarke made sure not to stare into her eyes this time. Instead she focused on her nose.

"Yea they do look pretty cute," she heard Lexa say, Clarke felt her cheeks heat up a little embarrassed until she realized Lexa was talking about the wolves prancing around.

"Typical human, of course this would look cute to you. Wouldn't find them so cute if you were like me," Clarke kept her eyes on Lexa. She could hear the metal doors opening so they would be able to get the meat. The wolves knew better then to grab some though and followed Clarke. She was their alpha so she ate first.

"Why isn't the alpha taking any?" Lexa asked confused. Clarke puffed up her chest feeling kind of proud to see her looking at Cody like he was in charge. She remembers the first time that she woke up in here that male wolf snarled and bit her nap. Clarke didn't care that the wolf had lost his human mentality she attacked him right back. Cody hadn't expected her to fight him, he was far too hot headed that he was the only male in here thinking by wolf customs he was the alpha. Well she proved him wrong. Clarke had him baring his neck quicker than an omega. Clarke took that offer bit his throat and earned the position as the alpha wolf.

"Take a wild guess," Luna chuckled. Clarke laughed, wagging her tail a little. She may have sat taller to prove who was the alpha here. She knew she was being kind of smug but she did feel proud to be leading this small pack. Be that it's only four other wolves but they obeyed her demands and treated her with respect, well minus Molly that little devil wolf always sneaking a kiss.

"So Wanheda is the alpha female, so she's in control of the male alpha since they are mated?" Clarke jaw literally dropped. Did this female just assumed she was mated to that weak wolf!?

"As if I'd mate with Cody! How dare you assume something like that! What just because I'm a female I can't be in control!?" Clarke barked at Lexa angrily. Lexa turned her head her way while Clarke stalked closer to the female. Clarke felt her fur rising with her frustrations, yet again her human side was trying to calm her. Lexa was a human she couldn't understand her ways so Clarke wasn't technically allowed to be pissed off at her. Clarke was thankful that Luna knew better as she told Lexa who was the real alpha and how Cody would try to get her interest to be mates. She had no interest in him whatsoever.

"God he was really annoying about it to. Wouldn't stop bringing me food and constantly fighting with me to prove his so-called strength. Well now he got a permanent reminder to back off," Clarke sat down right in front of Lexa, the human far too distracted to see that she gotten closer. Lexa was stunned that she was the alpha. Clarke should have been offended but Lexa wasn't denying the basic fact so she'll let this one go.

"I'll just scare her, make her see she's no different from anyone else. I've done this a bunch of times, she's no different. Though normally I would have snapped my teeth at her by now." Clarke ignored that last thought, Lexa wasn't any different than the other humans. She wasn't special just some stupid human who risked her own life to save a wolf who didn't even need her help in the first place.

Lexa was reasoning that Clarke lost her chance to be free. If she would have walked away from the human she would be with her fellow wolves by now and not trapped in another cage. Though the idea of Lexa dying in those fires felt wrong, it caused her chest to hurt at the thought of Lexa suffering like that. "Fucking hell, why do you have this effect on me? Why don't I want to hurt you? I can grab you right now and hurt you like I did for the others. But here I am instead taking it easy on you," Clarke huffed frustrated with not being able to understand these new emotions. Lexa looked her way and Clarke smiled inwards as she saw her jump from being surprised.

"Does she always do this?" Lexa spoke to Luna not Clarke but she felt kind of offended since she was sitting right here. Clarke nipped her teeth a little. Since when did she care about humans speaking to her directly? No human speaks to her unless they were yelling at her to not be hurting one of their own.

"Yes, I do, don't go thinking you are special or anything. I do this to...everyone… your eyes remind me of the forest," Clarke wooed getting lost in Lexa's eyes. The color was so bright yet there was something more in them. Clarke was able to see a spark, someone who was content with their lives and how she was ready for anything thrown her way. There was also a hard edge to her eyes, she has suffered in some way but what was the suffering Clarke wondered? Clarke held her gaze for a few moments longer. She could hear Luna say something but Clarke's mind was staring to leave her until she heard the banging on the cage. Clarke looked over at Luna giving her a smile. "Thank you, I almost got lost there for second." Clarke glanced at Lexa before she moved over to the metal bowl.

"I'm not done with you yet, you stay there." Clarke grabbed some meat and held on to it before going to the other metal bowl and grabbed more. Clarke moved back towards Lexa and sat in front of her. She dropped most of her meat minus one she gulped down, then looked at Lexa. "Now, where was I?" Luna was saying something else but it didn't interest Clarke so she continued to eat her food.

Clarke purposely showed her teeth to remind Lexa to be on her toes. Lexa looked away from her eyes now checking out Clarke's teeth. She hoped that would put Lexa on edge. Instead Lexa's face showed concern, she wasn't worried about Clarke showing her fangs. The odd human was observing how she was eating instead of feeling unease. Clarke sneered "What is with this human? Why doesn't she react like everyone else? Humans are supposed to be all the same, they are greedy, cruel, and hateful. Why can't Lexa be the same as the other humans? It'd make hating her easier, maybe she just hasn't shown her true colors yet."

"Yes, I'm fine. I did want to stay here after all," Lexa locked her eyes with hers. Clarke found it rather unusual, most humans knew not to look a predator in the eyes yet this weirdo didn't seem to know that. Locking eyes with a predator is a form of challenge. Lexa was trying to dominate her, that had to be it. Well Clarke won't have that, she will not be shown up by some pretty human. Clarke could hear the golf cart start up and drove off, but she kept her focus on Lexa even when she couldn't hear the golf cart anymore. Now Lexa broke the eye contact and looked away,

"Ha, I win," Clarke's tail wagged slight for the victory. She finished off her meat enjoying it quite a bit. It wasn't like those tasteless round balls that Finn used to feed her nor was it the same as the frozen meats that Nia gave her. This meat was rather tasty even fresh, she really did enjoy the goat meat. Clarke hoped one day she'll be able to hunt one down. Were their goats in the forest? Actually, now that she thought about it, she didn't even know what they looked like, just how they tasted.

This new caged home wasn't all that bad. They did always feed them and gave them fresh water; groom them even though they'd force her to where a muzzle and kept the cage clean. Maybe if Clarke grown up here, she might have loved it. Though she knew life outside of the cages, be it that it was fuzzy memories, but she remembers the feeling of being free. That isn't something so easily forgotten.

"You might not remember me, but I'm the one that saved you from a bad fire a while back," the female lowered herself to Clarke's eye level. "Not the best way to first meet that's for sure, but anyways name's Lexa and I'll be your personal zookeeper for hopefully a long while." Lexa smiled at her, but Clarke couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"You saved me? I saved you! You're the idiot that chased after me in a forest fire! And like hell I need you! This your fault to begin with!" Clarke's anger rose. This female actually thought she did her a favor? That she saved her?! "If you just worried about yourself and minded you own damn business, I would have been free!" Clarke fumed her breath coming out in puffs. Lexa got to her knees now, was she trying to show she wasn't a threat? Then why won't she stop challenging her!

"I must have done something wrong, you seem to already hate me, not sure why though," Lexa muttered. Clarke glared at this female, she really thought she was all that high and mighty? Clarke kept her eyes locked with hers as she ate her last meat. Lexa finally looked away though it did little to make Clarke feel better she felt insulted. This female actually believed she'd done the right thing.

"I'll show you just how much I don't like you, I don't actually hate you," Clarke huffed not even noticing what she admitted to. The huff got Lexa to look at her, Clarke made sure to glare harder at her before looking away and walking off to the metal bowl. "Let's see how mighty you are after this," Clarke growled out. She dipped her muzzle into the blood making sure she was soaked before moving back to where Lexa still kneeled.

"Didn't find any more huh? Maybe I ca-" Clarke shook her head hard. It will make her dizzy but it would be worth it in her opinion. Clarke smiled in satisfaction, Lexa's entire front body was colored with her goat treat. She couldn't help but laugh and her tail moved on its own accord. Clarke felt happy to see Lexa glare at her, her little prideful moment killed off.

"You did that on purpose, well I was going to offer to get you more, not so sure I want to now," Lexa looked herself overseeing the mess Clarke made of her. The human sighed shaking her head.

"No duh, you need to stop feeding your ego and get your facts right. I'm the one that saved your...your..." Clarke train of thought flew by as Lexa lifted her shirt exposing her stomach. Clarke could see a large scar across her skin, it didn't look serious in fact they looked rather old. The long scar started from bellow her breast down to the middle of her stomach that stopped short of her belly button. To Clarke's knowledge a scar like that came from a knife or a metal hanger. Clarke let out a confused whine, "Was Lexa abused like I had been? What human would hurt Lexa? What type of abuse has Lexa endured?"

"Instead of wasting your food you could have eaten it. Maybe the other box has some meat if you're still hungry," Lexa smiled sweetly. Clarke was feeling more lost by the minute. If Lexa was tortured like she had been then why was she nice to her fellow humans? Clarke has seen her completely relaxed with them, she didn't seem to have an issue being with them.

"I'm not hungry, I'm confused. How are you able to forgive the humans that have hurt you?" Clarke's hazy mind made her forget how to act. She looked over at the other metal bowl but it didn't interest her at all. To the side of her vision she saw Lexa moving closer to her cage, Clarke met her intense eyes. Lexa's gaze felt like they were digging deep into her world and Clarke was getting lost looking right back at her.

"I must be losing my mind, because I swear you understood me just then," Lexa whispered. Clarke's haze waned as her words caught up to her mind, she had messed up. Clarke reacted like a human, not a wolf, of course she'd fucking notice that.

"Clarke you bad girl! You weren't supposed to get sucked in like this," Clarke whimpered as Lexa leaned closer to the gate. She shifted on her paws she felt really vulnerable right now as Lexa stared at her so seriously. Clarke's heart was speeding up, fear slowly creeping into her at being discovered. Lexa slowly lifted her hand and pressed it right against the bars.

"Can you understand me?" Lexa whispered her sweet calm voice eased her raising heart, looking at Lexa made the world vanish. She saw and could only hear the human in front of her. Clarke really took the human's features in. Besides being beautiful Lexa's eyes weren't twisted and cold like Finn's, hers were not like Titus or Ontari that sparked with joy whenever they physically hurt her, her eyes weren't like Nia's whose eyes were empty of all compassion. Lexa's eyes spoke more about herself then any part of her body and Clarke could see that she was kind hearted and true.

Clarke has never met a human who affected her like this. No human that's come this close to her cage without being seriously wounded. Humans who came this close were always aiming to harm her, but Lexa had no weapons on her. Instead Lexa was exposing herself to a dangerous threat on purpose. Lexa was giving her a chance to choose to trust her. Clarke looked at that hand pressed against her cage, she was surprised to see old scars along her arm; like she had been bitten and scratched a bunch of times. Did animals do that? Or did humans mark her skin like they had marked Clarke's? Clarke met Lexa's gaze again, she thought to herself would it be so bad to allow this one into her world?

"Yes..." Clarke leaned in slowly pressing her nose against Lexa's palm and she felt such a heat wave rush throughout her body once she had touched Lexa. Clarke breathed in deeply. Lexa's scent was so inviting and free like the human surely must be, she smelled like wild strawberries and sweet honeysuckle flowers. Lexa's scent reminded her of when she was a pup, how her mother after her hunting trips would bring her a muzzle full of the sweet plant. Clarke would share those flowers with her friends and they'd be so happy as they munched away on the plant and their muzzles would get sticky.

Clarke she could feel her heart raising but it wasn't from fear. It was such a pleasing reaction but unlike with her friends when her heart would raise it was because she was happy but what she felt now seemed stronger than that emotion. Clarke wanted more of this… this...what? What was she feeling? It was that same rush of pleasure from when she first looked at Lexa.

Clarke didn't know what this new feeling was but she did know that she wanted to feel more of it and to do that she'd have to break a law of the pack. One of their most important law that would get her in trouble if she was found out. Clarke pulled back and ever so slowly she nodded her head. "I can understand you," Lexa's eyes widen. The silly human looked back at her with such a shook it made Clarke laugh softly. Clarke took a deep breath letting it out slowly, she was about to do something that she has never done willingly. Clarke reached out to Lexa working on making a mental connection with her. The human had to feel it because she rubbed at her forehead.

"Lexa, please for the love of God move back slowly,"

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Clarke snapped back to the real world at hearing Anya's voice, whatever spell that isolated both broke off. Clarke stared at Lexa shocked, she almost linked with a human. Clarke's fears came rushing back practically biting her tail. Lexa had broken through her walls, Clarke has always been careful keeping herself guarded; she attacked and killed to protect herself and this human who got her stuck in this cage managed to make her weak for a short moment. Clarke backed away quickly she shook her head; her eyes stung with tears threatening to spill over.

If her kind ever found out what she almost had done she would be shunned from her fellow wolves. Her kind was never to allowed to expose themselves to humans it was against their oath. Wolves and humans do not mix, her parents have always told her that. Humans will hurt you because you are different. Humans will destroy their kind for not following the human's laws, humans will want to control those wolves. Use them, beat them, degraded them and humans have already done that to Clarke.

Clarke was about to risk it all for what? One human that choose to be kind to her? No wolf pack would ever allow Clarke into their pack. Raven and Octavia wouldn't want her, she'd be a traitor. She'd permanently be a lone wolf until the other wolves heard of her betrayal and they would kill her. No, Clarke couldn't have that! Her parents would be disappointed in her, disgusted! A true wolf will stay away from the humans like they have done for hundreds of years!

Clarke snarled loudly opening her eyes she lounged at the fence. She hit the bars so hard her paws stung. "I won't let you into my world! Humans don't deserve that! You're trying to use me just like Nia! Screw you Lexa!" Clarke snarled again and shoved against the fence as she took off running as far as she could.

"You are a bad girl Clarke, you are a very bad girl!" Clarke whimpered. Her paws were hurting from slamming against the cage but still she used that pain to make her think right. "Wolves and humans don't mix; wolves stay in the forest, humans stay in the city. Humans are evil, humans are selfish, humans will kill you," Clarke repeated in her head over and over again as she ran around her cage avoiding the front area. All the while as her paws hit the ground. She forced herself to ignore Lexa's sweet scent that was stuck on her nose.

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Thoughts everyone? Hope you enjoyed the new chapter and will come back for more! You know the drill come back in two weeks and the next chapter will be up!

Love ya lots and pretty please won't you be sweet enough to leave me a treat?

-YuriWolf