Thank you Mist for getting these to me so fast. 3 you.
Madison watched in horror as the red wolf circled her. She watched as the black one whimpered and left the opening heading back toward her house. She turned her attention back to the red wolf and fought the urge to call out to the black wolf suddenly seeing it as a lesser of two evils. She took a step back and the wolf shook its head, its eyes watching her every move.
It was a dance that she wished she had never joined. As the wolf took a step toward her, she took a step back. Her hair stood on end as it laughed, a sick hacking laugh unlike any she had ever heard before and she knew. She knew that before the day was over her life would never be the same, either by this wolf's hands or by someone else and she prayed it was by someone else.
Madison glanced over her shoulder for a split second to gauge her distance from the woods, she knew she would never be able to outrun it but she wasn't going to lie down and let it have her without a fight.
She heard it move before she saw or felt its body hit her. She screamed louder than she had ever screamed in her life; her own ears ringing with its force.
Quil pushed through the shrubs that surrounded Madison's house and bounded up the stairs. The fact that her porch door was standing open didn't hit him until he got to the front door and saw that it too was standing open. He raced into the house, his body taking up too much and he felt trapped almost instantly.
"She's not here!" He growled to Jacob and let him see her house as he saw it. "She hasn't been gone long," He inhaled her sweet smell still strong in the kitchen, "maybe a few minutes." Quil turned and followed the scent toward the porch and down the stairs. He stopped mid-step as her scent seemed to die out instantly.
"What?" Jacob felt his concern as he exited the woods to Quil's left. "Where is she?"
"I don't know. She's, it's gone. Her scent it's gone." He continued to follow what he thought would be her trail but couldn't smell anything other than another animal.
"There is something else here, someone else." Jacob passed Quil and entered the woods, a scent he'd never smelled before tickled his nose. "Go north I'll go west." Jacob headed in the directions he had ordered and Quil broke off to the other side.
Jacob felt when the others shifted, and knew that they would soon be joined by the rest of his pack.
"Em tell Leah to stay behind with Seth. I don't want to torture him."
"Okay." Jacob felt Embry change back and almost instantly felt him rejoin the pack.
"She said she had no intention of leaving him. What did he see?" Embry asked. Jacob could feel the pads of his paws covering the ground between them quickly.
"Something that even I won't touch, I don't want to know what it was. I just want to keep it from happening."
"Do you know where she is?" Embry asked as he picked up on Quil's rapidly growing sense of desperation.
They all stopped as they heard Madison's scream. Jacob tasted his fear on his tongue as they raced toward the sound still echoing through the trees.
Jacob passed Quil as he bounded onto the path. They raced toward the sounds of her scream, both of them refusing to acknowledge that they may be too late. They broke into the clearing and saw the red wolf before they saw her.
She saw them as they cleared the trees and found the strength to fight harder. "Jacob! Quil!" She screamed and broke its hold on her for just a second before it tackled her again and stepped on her back pushing her face into the ground painfully.
"Let her go." Jacob's growl carried through to his voice.
"Why?" The wolf asked his voice strong but his sickness was obvious. A werewolf with a mental condition, it didn't much worse than that.
"She's ours." Quil replied as he circled toward the back of the creature.
He leaned over her, his snout to the side of her face and she whimpered a weak pain filled sound. She jumped when he pushed her hair out of the way and sniffed her neck.
"Jacob, please." Madison could barely see him out the corner of her eyes, she didn't know where Quil was but she prayed he was doing more than Jacob was.
"She does not wear your scent." It looked up at Quil. Jacob caught the taste of an accent just enough to know he wasn't from the west coast.
"We have not mated." Quil replied and fought the urge to look over at Jacob.
"But she has mated with him." The wolf motioned with his nose toward Jacob.
Quil loathed having to talk to the insane animal but it was keeping him occupied enough to let him or Jacob advance on him so, "Yes."
"Interesting, I wonder if she is worth all of this turmoil," He looked back down at Madison and readjusted his paw on her back and she yelped in pain. "Probably not but it will be an interesting slaughter." His plans rolled through his mind both Jacob and Quil growled and advanced on him. They realized that this is what Seth had seen. It was too much for anyone to see let alone a 15 year old boy.
"There's another wolf!" Embry called out as it crossed his path as he followed Jacob's scent. "I'm on it!" Jacob listened long enough to see Embry break to the right and saw a flash of a black coat streaking through the woods away from them.
"Careful it could be a trap." Jacob called out and turned his attention back to the wolf in front of him.
Madison couldn't see either Jacob or Quil and she felt panic set in worried that they had left her.
He moved so that he was at the back of the creature but it was too quick. It turned and snarled at Jacob.
"Do you really think I'm that stupid?" It asked, obviously convinced that it was better than the rest of them. "I can take the most important thing away from you before you have a chance to blink."
Before Jacob realized what he was thinking he bent and bit Madison on the nap of her neck. She screamed and fought to stay in contact with the ground as it lifted her and flung her across the clearing her body landing with a sickening thump.
The wolf's plan had worked, they both turned their attention toward Madison and the wolf broke through the woods.
"Follow him!" Jacob growled and raced across the clearing. When Quil didn't follow his direct order he called again, "Follow him and take him out." The voice of the Alpha was something that any lesser wolf could not disobey.
Quil fought with everything in him to stay by Madison's side but when his legs obeyed Jacob's command he followed but not without a parting shot.
"Go." Jacob growled back before he changed and knelt beside Madison's broken body. "Madison." He called to her gently and felt a great relief wash over him as he saw her chest rise and fall. He untied the shorts from his leg and slipped them on before he lifted her into his arms. He cradled her tightly against his chest, in an attempt to keep from moving her as much as possible, and ran through the woods to the only place he knew there would be a doctor.