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"Lucy! Here girl! Lucy!" Jim called, walking through the fields around his house.
His Labrador Lucy hadn't come home last night and he was starting to worry.
Lucy was his one friend in the whole universe and she always came home for supper.
He'd gone out at dawn to begin searching for her and the sun had gone down an hour ago.
He gone about two miles from home and could barely see his house in the distance. It was getting late and he knew he had to start heading home, but he gave one last call into the distance.
"Lucy! Lucy girl!"
A bush at Jim's right rustled loudly made Jim turn around hopefully.
His heart leap into his throat when he caught sight of bright eyes reflecting from his flashlight's glow. With the intimidating stride of a predator a dark shadow slinked forward.
Behind it came several more until Jim was surrounded by a pack of wolves.
Jim fell backwards and onto the hard ground and started breathing heavily as his head spun around in an effort to watch all of the glowing eyes at once.
"Lucy." He gasped out quietly, his voice barely more than a whisper.
None of the eyes around him were the loving brown ones of his faithful companion and he was at least able to feel a glimmer of hope that she was far away and safe.
He certainly wasn't.
He had heard tales all his life about packs of wolves of attack people who wondered around alone at night. Since they were a protected species and the farmers couldn't kill them their numbers had gotten out of control the last few years.
These facts were the last thing on Jim's mind as he curled into a ball and wished for a quick death.
He was ready to die and not have to face another dawn with his whole family gone or dead and Frank just itching to get his grubby hands all over him.
He had nothing precious left in this world except Lucy and even she had forsaken him.
"Just get it over with." He whispered into the darkness.
No sooner had he said the words then the first wolf jumped in for the kill.
Jim couldn't look away as death made another attempt at his life and in the time it took him to blink he was once again saved from it, this time by a flash of white blonde fur tackling the attacking wolf.
"Lucy!" He screamed, watching in horror as the two canines fought at his feet.
The wolves around him barked out bits of encouragement as they stared enraptured at the sight of their alpha of their pack fighting a mere Labrador.
Yelps and growled filled the night as fur and blood went flying.
They moved so quickly that Jim could barely catch their movements and couldn't tell who was winning.
Finally in a flash of bloodied fangs Lucy pinned the alpha down on his back and sunk her teeth into him.
The whole pack backed up at the sound of his dying yelp as she tore his throat out. His corpse fell to the ground lifelessly as Lucy shoved him aside and turned to glare at the remaining wolves.
One growl from her blood drenched lips sent them racing back into the fields and out of view.
Only when the last linger wolf had left did Lucy sway on her feet and collapse onto the ground in a graceless heap.
"Lucy!" Jim screamed, rushing to her side and putting her head in his lap.
Up close he could see that she was torn to ribbons from where the alpha's claws had sliced her underbelly deeply.
Even he knew that no vet could be save her and like the rest of his family she would leave him.
His faithful companion stared up at him with glazed yet loving eyes as she licked his hands gently.
"I'm sorry I ever doubted you Girl. I love you so much." He wept into her fur.
Lucy's breaths came out in labored pants as more blood seeped onto Jim's pants.
"No Lucy. No." He cried lightly into her fur as she breathed her last breaths.
He felt her heart stop under his hands and he could not stop his weeping as he held her tighter.
"Lucy. I didn't want this to happen. I didn't want anyone else to die for me."
Jim held her till she grew stiff in his arms and then he carried her home.
He buried her the next day and as he did he made himself a promise.
No would ever die trying to protect him again.
I have no idea if there are wolves in Iowa and I'm too tired to look it up. If anything I hope everyone likes this chapter. I've always had this picture in my head that Jim would have had a female Labrador named Lucy. She's my first OC dog.
Anyway, the goal as always is five reviews!
P.S: The next chapter will be about Bones.
Yours truly,
Jessica499499
