A Son of Wolves 3

Chapter 10: Boyfriend Material

The coming night brought with it chills and a cold temperature, tonight was defiantly to be a cold one. Leo, in his den, knew he was going to be cold tonight, but from his long sleep today he had plenty of energy to move around for a while before seeing if he could. The den walls would shield him from the cold breeze; the same could not be said for those outside, especially Sahara who, like all the other nights, didn't want to leave his side. Well…his bars more like. Leo had to put on his pleading face and puppy eyes to beg her to have at least one night in a den, whether it be hers or Leo's family's, she needed someplace warm tonight. Of course, she refused, wanting to spend each second with him, but then again as did Kate and Humphrey, but they knew they could stay out here, and after an hour's long argument, she was convinced to go and stay the night with them, leaving Leo on his own tonight.

So while his girlfriend was getting cosy in a nice warm den with his family, he was left to his own devices and knowledge to keep himself warm. He had energy to waste first however; the long sleep he had pretty much all afternoon stopped him from even resting. He used a variety of thing, walking in circles, push-ups, seeing as before all this he'd have places to exercise to at least run to, using the wall as a punch bag. Doing this for three hours straight, it took him that long before he finally yawned. It must have been far beyond mid-night now. If anything, he was too warm, a slight sweat starting to develop. Curling up in the back of the den, he draped his tail over his face and drifted of into a…not so peaceful sleep. Why?

It started raining, a thunderstorm even, and it poured down heavily like the heavens wanted to cause another flood. This had to happen right as he left his eyelids become heavy, now he was awake once more. Back in the family's den, most of the were awoken by the claps of the thunder and worried for Leo, hoping he'd be ok by the morning, they were going to be sure that they'd be up at first light to make she he wasn't fried by lighting. But Leo was fine, in the real world that is, but was it the real world? He couldn't be sure. He couldn't sleep, he just couldn't. He tossed and turned, he was tired certainly, but the rain and lightening just wouldn't let him sleep. A sudden, cold sensation on his paws, he looked to see a small trickle of water leaking in from the bars, a bit like a small stream. He sighed to himself; he was in for a cold, wet night. He watched the trickle start to form a puddle, then he noticed a second trickle, this time large come in from the bared entrance, then a third, then a fourth. The next thing he new he was standing ankle deep in water. It happened in the blink of an eye. This couldn't be happening, what was going on? The water wasn't going anywhere; the den was filling with water! He didn't understand, how could it? There were to entrances to the den, but from looking at it, the water simply ignored the holes and acted as if it was a wall, not a gap. Blinking his eyes again, the water was up to his chest, the entrances on both sides of the den clearly open, but the water travelled up it as if a flood was sweeping through the Valley. He had to get out.

He ran to the bars and started pulling, screaming for help as he tugged, pushed and pulled to loosen and squeeze through them. The water moved in quickly, soon his paws were taken out from underneath him and he began to float as the water deepened at a far beyond rapid pace. He cried and screamed for help, he couldn't see water on the outside other then the rain; it was like some invisible force was keeping the water in here with him and wanting to drown him! He rose with the water, holding his breath and diving under constantly to try and get out. He'd reach through the bars and feel the air beyond them, not water, but he just couldn't reach it with his muzzle. He resurfaced, finding the water nearly filling the den and he could only just breathe in enough for a final breath. Diving for the last time, he swam to the other side, he couldn't get out that way, then back to the main entrance, he cried under the water, pleading for help as he tugged and pulled away at the bars, wasting more air as he did.

He cried out as he snapped his eyes open and frantically looked around the den. No water and no rain, just damp dirt, wet grass outside and plenty of sunshine. He breathed heavily, thanking god it was just a dream. He rolled onto his front and pushed himself to his paws, letting out a yawn and a groan as he stretched his back, soon turning it into a groan and slight cry of pain as it suddenly swept over his neck like a hundred bees stings in that one area. He placed a paw over it gently and wiped, seeing on his paw pads a mixture of blood, puss and other bodily liquids, clear signs of infection and the disease spreading fast.

Then he heard something, like a girl's grunt like they were moving something, a young voice. "Sahara?" He asked out towards the bars. It didn't answer, the noises only continued. He got up, groaning again as he did and walked towards the bars. "Sahara is that…" He froze at the she-wolf before him. "Cara?" She looked up at him with her brown irises but red veined eyes, a wild and desperate look in them that you'd only find in a crazy lunatic. Her fur, messy and looking dirty again, not no where near as bad as it was when Leo first found her. She seemed to be digging in the dirt for something, she really didn't look good. Her ribs starting to show again, her the bite on her back bubbling with the infection, her eyes incredibly bloodshot and fast breathing rate. Suddenly, she bolted up and started running away. "Cara wait, it's me, it's Leo!" He yelled to her and holding the bars in an attempt to get her back. She stopped and looked back at him, her cheeks wet and although she wasn't crying, a constant flow of them falling down her cheeks. "Cara it's me."

"L…Leo?" She stuttered in her young, innocent voice.

"Yeah, it's only me." He smiled at her. "Are you ok?"

"No, some…something's wrong with me, I, I…I don't know what but I just…"

"Everything's going to be alright, just come over to me."

"Why are you in there?" She asked as she nervously approached, her ears flattened back and her tail tucked under as she looked around.

"Cara, do you know what's wrong with you?" He asked her kindly as she still walked towards him.

"I… I don't, I can't remember much. I hardly remember when he howled the other night or the last few days. One minute I'm running away from some wolves and the next I'm here digging for food."

"Just come here, I'll explain." She sat before the bars, still with a flow of tears falling. "I'm so sorry Cara, but we're both sick, very sick."

"I know, but what's wrong, why's this happening?" She then started to cry.

"The wolf that bit our back all those months ago, he had a disease call rabies, in our world it's call the mad wolf disease."

"What's that?"

"Something not very nice." He smiled bravely. "But you need to know that there's no cure for it and we're not going to get better."

"You mean…" She gulped. "We're going to…die?" She sniffled.

"Sooner or later, yes." He nodded and picking up her paw. "It's why I'm in here; I'm a gander to everyone else. The disease, it causes you to become a completely different wolf, a dangerous one, one that can make other wolves sick like us if we bite or scratch them, like that wolf did to you and like what you did to me. So I'm in here so I don't hurt anyone."

"I made you sick?"

"It's not your fault." He smiled reassuringly. "Its nobodies fault, you're going to be ok."

"Do I need to come in there with you?"

"I'd very much like you to." He nodded. "That way we can look after one another and keep us from hurting anyone else."

"How?" She nodded in understanding.

"Let my howl for my family, they can come and help us." She nodded and Leo howled for his family to come quickly. But they weren't the only other ones who heard or wanted to help.

"Hello?" Someone called out as Leo brought down his head. Cara went into a state of panic, she'd hurt someone. A wolf stepped out of the bushes, Skye's date to be precise, Logan. He saw them, and of course instantly became puzzled to the sight before him. "Leo? What's wrong?" The dark brown and grey furred wolf asked.

"Logan, you need to get out of here now." He ordered. Leo looked at Cara, her eyes narrowing and her breathing increasing in faster and shorter breaths, a crazed look growing in her eyes as she stared at a spot by the bars.

"Why? You said you needed help." He replied in a puzzled manner.

"You don't understand, it's not safe for you out here. Go now!" Cara looked up out the corner of her eye to Leo, something was happening to her and he had an idea. "Cara, keep calm, it's ok."

"Wait, isn't that the girl we're after?" Logan asked and walking towards them. Suddenly, her eyes snapped wide open and shot towards him, freezing Logan in her tracks. The one thing on her mind, kill! She slipped out of Leo's grip and started sprinting towards him.

"Logan, run!" Leo yelled desperately as Cara screamed with insanity towards him. Seeing this, Logan didn't think twice and started running, only Cara was faster then him and threw herself to land over him. Knowing she'd land on him, he ducked underneath her and watched her fly over head and sprawl into the dirt and grass. Leo threw back his head again and howled, this time urgently needing help for anyone, just anyone to come and help at the same time he tried to get out of the bars. Cara was fast, driven by a cannibalistic bloodlust as she charged back at Logan who was ready. She jumped at him again, so he rolled over onto his back, placing his paws underneath her and rolled back over, throwing her behind him and jumping back to his paws again to ready himself.

"Leo, what's wrong with her?" Logan called as she picked herself up and ran back him again, this time off guard. She landed over him and Logan placed his paws over her neck and chest to stop her snapping jaws from getting any lower.

"Don't let her bite you!" He yelled both as an order and out of pain as he pushed his shoulders through the bars and hung by his waist.

"Clearly!" He yelled back obviously. He was stronger then her, he knew that and was able to keep her away from him as she squirmed and snarled on top of him, spit falling from her mouth and onto him as she did. He pieced all this information together, the foamy spit, red eyes, disgusting health and cannibalistic bloodlust. "Oh my god, Leo she's a mad wolf!"

"I know!" He yelled out in pain again as he tried to pass his hips through the hole. Logan knew what to do with a mad wolf; it was in his Alpha training and it was pack law. He flexed his claws and manoeuvred them over her neck; she didn't see what was coming in her enraged, blood thirsty trance. But Leo did. "Logan, don't!" He cried. He had no choice, it was either her or the pack, and as all Alpha's knew and lived by, the pack…comes…first. He tensed his eyes, ready for the blood the pour down on him and started to slice. But suddenly, the weight above him vanished as Leo tackled her and pinned her by her shoulders to the ground beside her. Logan rolled to his paws, seeing the infected bite on his neck.

"Oh my god, you're both infected." He gasped. Leo could only look back at him, the secret was out now. He looked back down to Cara as she started to calm down.

"Shh, it's ok Cara, you're ok, nothing's going to happen." He soothed as he breathing calmed down and her body language returned to its shy nature. She looked back up to Leo from the corner of her eye, that crazed look now absent. "You're going to be ok." He smiled and licking her cheek. She looked to Logan who glared angrily at them both.

"I'm so sorry." She sniffled. "I didn't mean…"

"You're both a danger." He interrupted. "Garth needs to know about this."

"He already knows." Garth said as he walked into the clearing to the scene along with Lily, Kate, Humphrey, Sahara, Dom and Jasper right behind him. They couldn't believe it, Leo got out and Cara was here. Leo still stood beside her as she lay on the floor, confused and afraid.

"Leo, how did you get out?" Kate asked.

"Without a lot of pain and effort." He smiled. "Cara, come with me, everything's going to be ok." He nudged her up to her paws and he led her back to the bared den, both of them being watched the entire time. He picked up her paws and placed them on the bars. "We're in this together, just don't let go of the bars." She nodded and he placed his paws over hers to keep her there and to comfort her.

"Sir? With all due respect, they can't be allowed to stay." Logan said as he approached his Alpha leader. "They are a threat to the pack."

"We know that." Garth nodded.

"They are to be contained in this den." Lily added. "We are ordering you to keep this secret, do you understand?" She didn't have many chances to show her leader side, being an Omega; it didn't exactly come naturally to her.

"Yes ma'am, understood." He nodded.

"Understand that they will not be able to get out." Garth added. "They shall be secured and kept under quarantine; the pack shall be safe from infection."

"Yes sir, of course sir. I have a debt to this family for letting me go out with your niece; I need to return the favour."

"You aren't in any debt." Humphrey chuckled.

"I am sir, your daughter is wonderful, and I don't want to make her unhappy by exposing your son to the pack."

"We're thankful." Kate smiled. "Thank you."

"Do you need help? Leo could hardly get out in the first place."

"We're going to have to take it all down again." Garth nodded. "Any help would be appreciated greatly."

"I like this boy." Humphrey whispered to Kate. "I approve."

"He's boyfriend material." Kate giggled. "I'm going to say this now, I would, I so totally would if I were a few years younger."

"Tough, you're stuck with me now." He chuckled.

Leo continued to talk with Skye to keep her calm and try not to trigger another burst like earlier. But there was one thing she couldn't help but notice. Two male wolves standing beside Leo's parent's, she recognised them from the time she had dinner with them all. She stared and watched, trying to pretend they really weren't when they so clearly were. "Your brother's think I'm a freak." She sighed. Leo looked back to them, seeing and knowing what was happening.

"They think you're hot." He chuckled.

"No they don't." He insisted. "I'm infected, we're both going to die and I infected you, they think I'm a freak."

"Hey, they're two hormonal guys, the amount of times I've caught them spying on girls and that look is the same one they give each one of them." She looked up to his smile before looking back towards them, still pretending they weren't looking at her while they were talking.

"You really think so?"

"I know so, you spend three years with them and you know what gets them going, and at the moment it's you." She blushed a little and laughed to herself. Never has she had a boy think of her that way. "The guy of the left of Dom and the one on the right is Jasper, take your pick." He chuckled.

She never had time, because it was at that moment Garth needed them to be back behind the bars. Wanting to keep Cara away from everyone else, Leo took her to the side while the others started to remove some of the branches, and in that time Eve was able to arrive, happy to see that Cara was ok. She cautiously gave her a brief check over. Seeing she needed another wash really badly, so in the meantime Eve took her to a nearby stream with Garth to make sure nothing happened. He didn't watch though, he had his back turned to them. By the time they returned, Cara was cleaner and Leo was already on the other side of the small hole they made in the bars for them to get through. Cara crawled in with him and the hole was blocked with more branches, closing them in. Kate, Dom and Jasper went out hunting while this was happening, returning just after the hole was filled and tossing in four plump hares, which Cara salivated over at the sight.

Sahara, now jealous and angry, all due to that fact the she-wolf that Leo howled with, has become quick friends with and is now blocked with him and who infected him in the first place. She contained her rage to the she-wolf, it wouldn't be fair to start yelling at her and saying how all this was her fault, that because of her she was going to lose her boy-friend. She was young, very young, it wouldn't be fair.

At the same moment, way up north in the Alaskan mountains, Caleb stretched off, groaning from the night's prior "activities" he and Ciara had. Funnily, she was already awake, standing before the ledge of a vertical drop of hundred of feet down. This has been their home for a little while, the top of a mountain, living in a small cave. Her scent, it was incredible. It wasn't the scent of heat, she came out of that a few weeks ago, rather early to be honest, it was just her natural scent, plus the scent of her pheromones from last night and he all over her. He walked towards her, brushing his tail over her hips and back as he stood beside her looking over the view. "Time to go home?" She asked.

"We've been gone for long enough." He smiled at her and kissing her cheek. Oh how she loved his kisses and touch. "It'll still take over a month to get back; we've got to make a start at some point."

"I'm sure the others are worried about us."

"Probably, so let's go and ease their minds then shall we" He suggested.

Cara's back and as insane as ever, Ciara and Caleb are coming home, Skye and Charlie are continuing to travel towards them, what are the chance the four will bump into one another at some point I wonder? While we're at this point, I want to thank you guys for staying with me for these stories, I've had fun doing it. Until next time! :)

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