It had been a week since her last run in with the wolf, also known as Alcide. Everyone seemed to actually listen to her and leave her alone, working at the bar was going smoothly, nobody messed with her, Sookie would look at her, but didn't try talking to her again, Sam did the same.

Just one more week of saving and she should have enough to leave Sam a good bit for the house and make it far enough away from this town that she doesn't have to worry about running into any of these people ever again.

The bar was getting ready to close when they walked in, Maggie was putting her dirty dishes up when she smelled them and froze. She peeked around the corner and seen them and her heart stopped. They'd found her, after all this time, they find her in the smallest town she'd been in. She seen them sniffing the air as Arlene walked up and asked them if they wanted a table, Maggie didn't wait around to see their answer, she busted through the back door and sprinted as fast as she could to her truck, cursing herself for parking so far from the bar.

When she finally made it to her truck, she was in such a panic she dropped the keys, as she stood back up to unlock it, someone grabbed her arm and jerked her around and slammed her into her truck.

"Well, hello again, Maggie..." She looked up into his green eyes and refused to let her fear cripple her, "Didn't think we'd find you, huh?" he yanked the keys out of her hands and tossed them into the woods. "Well, I can't wait to see what Ryan does to you."

Maggie kicked him in the nuts as hard as he could and took off into the woods, she knew she could outrun Goose, especially with this much of a head start, but she didn't get far before she was tackled to the ground. She had rolled away and pushed herself up onto her hands and knees to watch as Ryan changed back from his wolf form.

"You didn't really think you would outrun me did you?"

Her heart was beating out of her chest, she knew she just needed to run, but part of her was tired of running. So very tired of always looking over her shoulder. She was just fed up with it all. So she slowly stood and they started walking circles, like an old western standoff, except neither of them had a gun, this was just based on pure skill.

Just as she was going to pounce, someone grabbed her from behind and slammed her onto the ground, she was so busy concentrating on Ryan that she forgot about Goose, and then Clay, who just walked out of the woods laughing and smoking a cigarette as Goose pinned her to the ground.

Ryan came over and climbed on top of her, pinning her whole body down and got right into her face, his breath smelled of rotten meat, Maggie gagged, at one point she thought she was in love with this man, and now, he was here to kill her.

"Oh sweet Maggie, how I have missed you." he licked her cheek and she spat in his face.

He hauled off and punched her so hard she seen stars, "I see you haven't changed at all, want to hear what we did to your Mom after you left? Want to hear how we raped her again and again and again? And how she screamed your name over and over as we slowly ate her, piece by piece? Where were you Maggie, why didn't you come help her? She birthed you, and you left her to die."

Maggie screamed, and reached up and bit his throat. She wanted to tear it out and bathe in the blood, but he jumped off of her and grabbed his neck. "Kill this bitch!"

Goose jumped on top of her and just started hitting her in the face over and over, the blood was pouring out of her mouth and down the back of her throat, she reached up and shoved her fingers into his eyes, trying to claw them out. Goose screamed this blood curdling cry and fell off of her. She rolled over and tried to push herself up when Clay came over and kicked her so hard in the ribs that she went flying into a tree 3 feet away from where she was.

Maggie couldn't breathe, she knew this was it. Everything was starting to fade, Clay was bent over Goose trying to see the damage she'd done, Ryan was walking towards her, blood running down his chest from the bite she'd given him.

He was blurry and surrounded by a black tunnel, he was coming to give her the final blow. After the years of running, she was finally going to meet her Maker.

Out of nowhere a white wolf and a bear busted through the woods, the wolf tackled Ryan and they started fighting, the bear went after Clay, who had shifted into his wolf form to fight.

What the hell is going on? Was Maggies last thought before she collapsed to the ground and passed out.

…...

Maggie woke up in a bed she didn't recognize, in a room she had never been in. She sat up too fast and the room spun, she noticed she was in a long black t shirt that was way too big for her and a pair of boxer shorts, her whole body ached, but she was alive and that's all that mattered, well maybe, it depended on where she was.

She got out of the bed, the room was still spinning as she tried to walk, then everything really hit her, she was saved by a wolf and a bear, and her mom...what they did to her Mom...she left her, left her to die, alone and scared and horribly and alone.

Maggie fell against the bedside table and knocked the lamp over, it hit the ground and shattered, she just slid to the floor crying hysterically, her Mom was gone. She was a coward that left her Mom to clean up the mess she left behind, and her Mom paid the price. It was all her fault, it should have been her, but no, it was Mom.

The door busted open and Maggie jumped and cowered against the bed, Alcide made his way across the room, he crouched down and reached over and touched her shoulder. She yelped and jerked away from him, crawling to the corner of the room and balling up into a little ball, her crying just getting worse.

"Maggie, it's Alcide, I'm not going to hurt you, and I'm not going to let anyone hurt you again." Alcide inched towards her until he was finally beside of her, he didn't try touching her this time, he just sat there and waited, she slowly uncovered her face and looked at him.

She looked into his brown eyes and believed that he wasn't going to let anyone hurt her, and that he wasn't going to hurt her either. She crawled over into his lap and let him wrap his arms around her as she cried.

…...

Alcide held her as she cried, he didn't know what else to do, she obviously wanted to be held, so that's what he was going to do. Her crying slowed until he noticed she was asleep, so he carefully picked her up and laid her back in the bed, taking the cover he pulled it up to her shoulders and brushed her hair out of her face.

Then he went downstairs and got a broom and dustpan, he cleaned up all the glass and walked to the door and turned to look at the broken girl that was laying in his bed.

He ran his hand over his face and stared at her, she intrigued him, but the last thing he needed was to get involved in trying to fix someone, hell, he didn't even know how to fix himself, much less some girl he saved in the woods and knew nothing about.

Once she was healed, he'd send her back on her way and out of his life.