From the moment we're born, we're put into categories. We spend so much of our lives trying to define ourselves. But the truth is, there are only two categories...predator and prey. Once you choose which side you're on, can you live with the consequences?

~Nora Sargent

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I stretched and look to my left to see Aidan already gone. I sighed which turned into a yawn and forced myself to get out of bed. I walked over to the closet and was about to get out my work uniform when the bed lamp turned on. I turned around and looked at it suspicously as it began to blink. One long blink, three short blinks, pause, two more short blinks, pause, one long blink pause, another long blink, one short, one long, another short, pase and four more short blinks. It did that over and over again. I think the light just called me a bitch. I quickly grabbed my uniform and tossed it into my bookbag and ran downstairs to the kitchen only to skid to a halt when I saw chairs stacked in a tower on the kitchen table. I looked at Aidan who was leaning against the counter, reading the paper and staring at the tower in confusion. The lights in the living room flickered as Sally circled around.

"Hey, Babe?" I called to Aidan as I glanced around at the lights. "I'm pretty sure your bed lamp just called me a bitch in morse code." Josh came down the steps and stopped on the landing.

"Why is the bathroom mirror calling me a whore?" Josh questioned Sally.

"I have no idea." Sally said and Aidan slowly walked into the living room to my side and Josh walked down the rest of the steps.

"So, there's this extremely lame Poltergeist homage going on in the kitchen right now." Aidan said. We all looked at Sally. "So, Sally?"

"What?"

"Ok, with the lights, can we just-I'm gonna have a seizure." Josh protested. "I'm literally-"

"Guys, this isn't me. I swear." We stared at her in disbelif. "Why does everyone just assume that it's my fault?" Aidan waved his hand at the tower of chairs, speechless. "How do we even know that it's a ghost? I think we've all pissed off enough people to wage a short but consequential war." Sally pointed at Aidan and took a couple steps back.

"Come on!" Aidan protested. "Don't look at me. My people can't enter without an invitation."

"Also, neither of us recently played Maria von Trapp to a group of ghostly teenage wastelands." Josh added. Aidan and I nodded our heads in agreement.

"Ok, those are my friends." Sally corrected him. "All right? Except for that one guy who tried to reap me. But he's dead! Holla!"

"Ok, with the lights, I'm gonna-Honestly, I'm going to hurl." Josh grabbed his stuff and ran out the door.

"Just find a way to make it stop!" Aidan said and followed Josh out the door with me behind him.

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The day was coming to an end and I was happy to finally finish up my patients and head home. It was quiet as I stuffed my hands into my jacket pockets. I looked up at the sky and smiled at the sight of it turning to pink with streaks of purple scratching it as the sun set in the west. I guess I was too busy awing the sight of the beautiful sunset to hear the patter of feet behind me before it was too late. The last thing I remember was pain to the back of my head and darkness clouding my vision.

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I woke up with a start and gasped in surprise to find myself in the darkness of the woods. I began to hyperventilate as I became scared for my life. I tried to move my hands but was unsuccessful. They were tied to a branch above my head. My feet touched the ground and I tried to put my weight on them but cried out in pain as I felt like someone stabbed me with a knife in my legs. My body felt weak and drained and I felt like I was struggling to inhale even the smallest amount of air but I tried to breath in as much air as I could and tried to shift but my body seemed to be fighting against and I felt my inner wolf cowering away from me. I felt a tear run down my cheek as I thought about me never making out of this situation alive. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know if I would ever see Aidan again and that scared me the most. A branch snapped in the distant in front of me and my heart skipped a beat as I listened. If my inner wolf wouldn't allow me to shift then the least that it could do was allow me to inhance my hearing. I strained to listen as I heard footsteps. I know those footsteps. Heavy, straining to keep the weight on the heel.

"Aidan?" My voice sounded hoarse I called out into the night. The footsteps became more frantically and then Aidan's face appeared next to the tree trunk in front of me. I exhaled deeply in relief. "Aidan."

"Glaceon!" He cried out to me as he began to run to me but immediately stopped when a large, brown wolf appeared to my right and began to stalk towards him. I looked up to the sky to see a full moon shining brightly down on the clearing. Shit, I forgot today was the full moon. I looked at the werewolf and searched its body with my eyes to determine whether it was Nora or Josh. My eyes stopped scanning when I saw a bare spot on the underbelly with no fur, just skin. Sort of like a burnt mark. Nora. A second werewolf appeared next to her, much bigger, almost twice her size. I immediately recognized it. Josh. Nora leapt at Aidan but he pushed her away, slicing her side and knocking her to the ground. Josh ignored Aidan and ran to Nora giving Aidan a chance to run towards me.

"Aidan, I-I-I can't feel my legs and I-I-I can't sh-sh-shift. I think I'm l-losing too much b-b-blood."

"You're going to be ok, Glacey. You're going to be ok. We'll get out of this." He cut my hands free and gravity took effect quick as I began to drop to the ground but Aidan caught me and swooped me up into his arms. I felt comfort from his arms around me as he pulled me tightly against his chest. My shaking fingers curled around his leather jacket as I pulled myself to him. Two more sets of growls sounded to the left and I moved my eyes to see two more werewolves heading in our direction. The purebloods.

"Aidan."

"Shhh. It's ok, Glacey, everything is ok." He turned on his heel and began to run through the woods, leaving the growls and barks of the four werewolves behind us as they prepared to fight. Two purebloods against two mutts. That should be an interesting result in the morning. If any of them survive till morning.

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I remember fainting when Aidan laid me gently in the backseat of the car but it seemed like everytime I closed and opened my eye, time had passed an hour or more. The last time I opened my eyes, I saw Aidan and Josh both in the front seat of the car as Aidan just pulled up in front of the house. Josh and Aidan both got out of the car and Aidan opened the back door and carefully lifted me into his arms and held me close to his chest as Josh closed the door behind him. I groaned in pain as he lifted me and he immediately buried his face into my hair to soothe me with his soft murmuring words that were incoherent to me. We climbed up the concrete steps to the house and walked in with Josh behind us. Sally was waiting for us in the living room and I heard her gasp when she saw my state of form.

"Is she okay?" I heard Sally ask Aidan. Josh and Aidan sighed together.

"It was a long night." Aidan answered tiredly as he begin to trudge up the stairs to his room. He slowly bent over his bed and gingerly laid me down. "You're going to be ok, Glaceon. You're going to be okay. I'm right here. I won't leave you. I'm right here. I love you." The touch of his hand to my hair soothed me and I drifted into nothing.