I Want a Puppy

We wandered around La Push for a few hours, chatting and goofing off. Suddenly, as we were passing a bush on the side of the road, I heard soft squeak. I turned around. Seth stopped for me.

"Did you hear that?" I whispered.

"What?"

"Guess you didn't…" I looked at the bush, the only possible hiding space. I saw flecks of brown cardboard.

"Aw!" I squealed, peeking over the edge. "Someone just ditched them like that!"

Inside the box were nine puppies, all tiny and adorable.

"Puppies…" Seth cocked his head to the side.

"Get used to it, it's what you're kids will look like, now help me carry them home."

"Home? As in Jacob's house?" Seth gave me a look that said I was crazy.

"Where else, dumbass?"

"Well, considering Billy has you, Jacob, and your horse-cousin Jennie I really don't think he'd want any more animals in his household." Seth pointed out.

"But he has to take them, they're so adorable!"

"I'll lift the box and carry them home, but I refuse to explain why you have to have them!" He gave in.

As we walked home, with my occasional comment on how his terrible coordination was going to give the puppies all brain damage, I heard another noise as we came upon another box.

"Is the whole world abandoning their dogs today?" Seth grumbled as we saw three little grey-hound heads poke out the top.

"Scooch the Jack Russell puppies over, we have to fit three more heads in there." I told Seth as I picked the shivering bodies up.

"You do realize Billy will probably shoot you?"

"He doesn't have a gun, he fishes. The worst that could happen is he hooks my eye with the line." I rolled my eyes.

"No, he has a gun." Seth shook his head, "He got one when his daughter started dating Paul."

I laughed.

"Don't blame him. Point is, puppies give puppy-dog eyes very well."

"You should give one to Renesmee. I heard she wants a dog."

"She'd eat it." I made a face, "Along with Bambi and his family."

"They don't orphan woodland creatures, what is with you all!" Seth frowned.

"No, they don't orphan them, they only make it near impossible for them to reproduce."

"Deer and bears are not endangered."

"Says you."

"Says Carlisle."

"Says the head tick himself." I corrected myself. We came upon another box.

"You have got to be fucking kidding me!" Seth groaned.

"Aw, look at the Dobermans!" I cooed.

"Aren't they vicious or something?"

"That's a stereotype." I snapped at him, "Look at them!"

"That's another nine! So far you have twenty-one puppies. Billy is going to have a heart-attack. He now has one dog, two horses, and twenty-one puppies."

"One horse, Jennie is leaving soon." I pointed out. "And then I'll be alone."

"And you already have Grant! When will you take care of all of them?"

"Seth, you'll help me, won't you?" I let a tear fall, "R-r-r-right?"

He groaned. I smiled.

"Thank you!" I skipped forward until a bag flew out at me from a passing car. I caught it. Frantic mewing came from inside the little sac.

"Seth! I caught KITTENS!" I exclaimed.

"You're diseased?" He walked up when I counted the little mewing bundles inside the pouch.

"NO! I caught kittens! Eleven of them!"

"Fantastic." He grumbled, "So Billy is the proud owner of one wolf-boy, a horse-girl, twenty-one puppies, and eleven kittens, not to mention his horse-girl owns a horse and he babysits her horse-person cousins."

"Exactly, now you understand!" I praised, "Except I intend to name them and find most of them homes."

"Most of them?"

"I am going to keep some, Seth!" I rolled my eyes.

"You're going to be Billy's best friend." He sighed.

"You're going to adopt one, right?" I asked him, "A nice little puppy? Or a little kitten?"

"No."

"Pwease, Seth?" I pouted, "Wook at their wittle faces!"

"Fine, I'll take one, ONE." He frowned.

"And maybe Emily will take one!"

"She has a baby on the way…"

"Well, Alex then! Or Leah—"

"My sister will not want a dog." He raised an eyebrow.

"She will. And then there are Rachel and Kim! I'm sure they'd love little puppies!"

"They have some full grown wolves at the moment, I think it'd be a little much to handle." He stopped me.

"And Collin loves animals!" I hugged the little bundle of kittens to me as I went inside Jacob's house.

"Collin runs patrol."

"And Claire's parents wouldn't mind, I'm sure."

"I think Quil is allergic to dogs."

"He is a dog, that's like saying I'm allergic to horses." I pointed out.

"But aren't you allergic to hay?"

"That's not the point!" I rolled my eyes, "That's more like saying Quil is allergic to dog-food."

"Maybe he is."

"Well, he doesn't have to spend all day with the puppy, just all day with Claire!" I frowned, "And maybe your mom would want a kitten? My mom loves kittens."

"My mom has hated animals ever since Leah and I turned into one."

"Stop being such a downer!" I snapped, "BILLY I HAVE A SURPRISE!"

I heard Billy wheel down the hall.

"Not another one." He grumbled, "What is it?"

"Look!" I smiled. He looked at them.

"I have a wolf already, I'm good, thanks." He looked at them. One of the little Jack Russells fought to get to the top of the box.

"But that one likes you!" I smiled as it tumbled out and into his lap.

"No I do not want another—aw, isn't he cute?"

Seth looked surprised and I smiled at him.

"Isn't he, Billy?"

"I'm going to name him Blazer." He smiled as his little puppy licked his face.

"After the basketball team?" Seth looked at him, "I can't believe you're taking a puppy in the first place!"

"Look at him, Seth, he needs a home and I'll just take the money for food out of feeding the pack. You guys will survive."

Seth looked somewhere between shocked and angry.

"Aw, Seth, pick your puppy!"

"The grey greyhound is good." He mumbled.

"It's an Italian Greyhound, Seth." Billy shook his head and wheeled back down the hall with his puppy in his lap.

"Well, I'll take the grey Italian Greyhound then." He sighed. I picked the puppy up and he licked Seth's face.

"What are you going to name him?!" I jumped up and down.

"Please, stop acting like Alice Cullen on sugar rush." He begged.

"She can't get sugar rush, she can only get blood-high."

"Whatever, just please stop." He looked at me pleadingly and I rolled my eyes, "If you want me to name him, I'll name him."

"Please do!"

"Rocky."

"Aw, Rocky, you have a new home!"

"My mom is going to kill me."

"Do you think Charlie will want a Doberman as a police dog?" I asked randomly.

"Well…I don't know. I guess they could always use help on the force…but maybe a K-9 program is a little far…" He looked at me.

"What is all of the noise?!" Jacob came into the house from wherever he had been.

"I found twenty-one puppies and eleven kittens, want one?"

"No, I'm good." Jacob stopped, obviously surprised.

"You're dad adopted one and named him Blazer. This one," I pointed to Seth's new puppy, "Is Seth's and he named him Rocky. And this one," I picked out my favourite little boy puppy, "Is Wishbone."

"Ah, I see…" He nodded.

"Puppies?!" Jennie ran inside.

"And kittens!" I smiled.

"Aw, let me see!"

And so, the adoption process began…

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A/N-

So, there is chapter 7!!!!!!!!!!!! A tiny bit longer, with a little too much dialogue, I was inspired by the story of a kid in my classes uncle (I believe…) found a box of puppies on the side of the road. I picked my favorite small breed of dogs (Jack Russell Terriers, big dogs in small bodies) and Dobermans. I picked the Italian Greyhounds because I wanted to get a joke in there about one of my BFF's dog (who doesn't like me because I made him work for his food) named Rambo. He is chestnut (sorry, the only things I don't know about dogs are color terms so I'm not sure if that's right…) and white so Rocky is grey and white. Or he may be blue and white or blue wild irish…I'm not quite positive…

But point is Rocky and Rambo, haha so funny I kno, not my best.

But it is when you think of Rambo's full name, I still think registry names are hilariously long, for dogs, horses, and sometimes even cats!

Some of the animals haven't been named yet, but I'm going to have their little pictures up soon/litter pics up soon.

So, sorry for the Author's Note, but it's what I'm famous for!

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