K so I just got back from trick or treaking (you're NEVER too old!) and decided to write this chapter :)
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"I'm going to go look for him okay? You guys just stay here," I said.
"No don't be stupid," Kelsey almost shouted at me. "You wouldn't know where to look. I can hear thoughts and West can-"
I cut her off, "Send a thought to him and tell him to come back!"
"I can't. I hear his thoughts but I can't get through to them."
"Then tell me what he's thinking. Maybe he'll be thinking about the land that he's around and I can go find him," I offered.
"That's the thing…I don't understand anything he's thinking. I know he's thinking stuff but the words are going too fast for me."
I smirked, "Then I guess I'll have to go after all."
"No," Weston said. "I can use a spell that lets me see where he is."
Irritation was tempting to spill out of me, "So why haven't you done that?"
"Well because…I don't remember the words to the spell and I haven't really tried…hey wait! Get back here! Sapphire you're just going to get yourself hurt," he called after me as I walked into the forest.
Sapphire get back here. Kelsey said to me in my mind.
I don't think I'd ever get used to saying that.
No. I'm finding Derek and you can't stop me unless you control me. We both know you can't do that yet so just listen for my thoughts. If I need help, you'll know. I thought to her.
Dead and fallen leaves were crunching under my shoes. The temperature was dropping rapidly and soon I could see my breath in front of me. I jammed my hands into my jean pockets to keep them warm.
Something skittered to my left and I jumped. A little fluffy bunny and it's two babies looked at me then ran the other way. I took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
Derek was out here somewhere, I just needed to find him. My eyesight had adjusted a little so I could see better now. There was tree in front of me that I stepped around. One of its branches almost knocked me in the head but I saw it just in time.
My left foot sunk into something mushy and I tried to think that it wasn't anything's shit because it was big. Big shit=big animal.
Not good.
"Derek?" I shouted. "Derek where are you?"
No one answered. I walked forward a bit. An owl 'HOO'ed to my left and I jumped then nervously laughed at myself.
"Derek? It's Sav…Well, Sapphire but whatever."
Still no one answered.
I felt so stupid, walking around the forest, looking for a guy, getting scared at the tiniest things. I was just waiting for someone with a chainsaw to jump out from behind a tree and hack me into pieces.
Something like a dragonfly flew right past my right ear causing me to duck. I watched it fly away and slowly got back up. There were crickets chirping and frogs croaking but I still heard something off in the distance.
It was a moaning sound.
"Derek?" I called out a little louder. "Derek is that you?"
I walked toward the sound ignoring the chills going down my spine.
Lets pause for a second shall we? Imagine a horror film where the stupid girl is walking down the deep dark basement even though the whole movie theater audience is screaming at her not to. That's exactly how I felt right then. Except I was ignoring my gut feeling that was telling me to run because I thought that it would be Derek.
K we can un-pause now.
"Derek…?" I asked quietly, stepping around another tree to reveal the source of the moaning.
Derek was there, crouched on his hands and knees, drenched in sweat, the smell of puke wafting in the air.
I would have said something like, 'Oh my God Derek what the hell happened are you okay?' but I was frozen again. I couldn't move and couldn't think and I could hardly breathe.
His body jolted and he whimpered. I snapped myself out of it and fell to my knees, "What-"
"Go," he said. I could hear the fear and pain dripping from that one word.
"No," I said firmly. I didn't know what was going on, but I refused to just leave him like that.
"You-" his words were cut off by more jolting and whimpering. I couldn't help, I could only sit there and watch. When the wave of pain passed, he tried to speak again. This time I cut him off.
"Shh, it's okay. Just relax, this'll all be over soon," I said even though I had no idea what was going on.
He couldn't refuse because another wave hit him and he jolted. This time the hair on his arms started to get thicker and darker. I hear bones cracking and his body shape shifted. My jaw dropped as realization swept over me.
He was changing into a wolf.
Right here.
Right now.
Right in front of me.
He stopped moving and started panting. I started to say something, but he was being jolted with pain again. His bones finished snapping into place and his hair finished changing.
I kept my eyes on him, getting ready to run if he decided I looked appetizing. Then I realized that this was still Derek. Although I barely knew him, I knew that he was still Derek. There was still human under the fur and…
He turned to look at me. I saw his green eyes against his black fur and almost fainted or something crazy like that. He looked stunning actually.
He looked like he could protect me, like I would be safe as long as I was with him.
After getting the hang of walking with four legs, he caught two rabbits. I congratulated him when he wagged his tail and laughed when he ran around trying to catch it.
But after some time he started to change back. This was much less horrifying than the first change although he was still in pain.
When he was done, I tried my absolute hardest not to look down. I locked my eyes with his and told my self to just keep staring.
"Uh…" he said.
Of course staring made me come off as a total creeper…
"You umm clothes," was all I could say.
He looked down, "Fuck…"
I shut my eyes and held them tight, not letting them open even when I could hear the ruffling of fabric.
He cursed, "You can open your eyes now."
I did, "So, you turned wolf. Must've been hard."
He sat back down to where I was, "Yeah, hurt like a bitch, but overall it was nice."
I scoffed, "Nice?"
"Yeah. That was only the second time I'd turned wolf and it happened because I triggered it. I did it by myself, no one else cause it."
I paused, "So I guess it didn't help that I was there did it?"
He took a moment to find the right words, "Actually, it helped a lot. I was glad that I wasn't alone. Sorry if I scared you."
I smiled at him, leaning closer, "You didn't scare me, I was just worried that when you were wolf you would….oh never mind."
"No, tell me," he insisted.
"I thought maybe you would hurt me," the humor vanished from his eyes as I spoke. "Then I realized that you wouldn't. Yeah, you were in wolf form but you're still Derek no matter what form you're in."
Something about the moonlight and his eyes and all the magic that had happened, well, I wanted to kiss him. A lot.
I leaned a little forward and waited. He didn't move away. I moved my lips right next to his, feeling his warm breath.
He closed the gap between us and I felt his soft lips against mine.
Before I could even process what was going on, he pulled back and stood up, "I guess we should be getting back. They could be worried. Plus we still have the rabbits to cook."
Wha…? "Yeah, uh, sure…"
I stood, he grabbed the rabbits, and we walked back.
Wait, did we just kiss?
Just wait for the next chapter...
-Camimae707
