MsHarleyQueen: Thank you so much for the comment. And I'm happy that you like of the redoing, I was a bit nervous of rewriting the whole thing but this feels much better than the old version.
MsAartByHeart: No problem, just being fair. And thank you for your words, I was a bit hesitating with the whole thing but I feel this is the right thing. Anna, or Diana, felt like needing some changes because of describing and appearance problems. For example, her different colored eyes really didn't serve the plot and made describing them a bane. I feel she's now more balanced by her appearance.

Hopefully you'll enjoy!

The predator's question didn't shock nor was uncomfortable to answer to.
It was just hard to give one clear reason, as Anna never had really thought about it.

She has a deal with Joseph: only hunting mutants or the old man would kill her.
It would be dangerous to let powerful and aggressive mutants roam freely at her territory.
She needed to kill them before they would come after her.
She couldn't trust on anyone to give her the secureness she yearned and without that feeling she couldn't relax.
Living through whole childhood in complete fear, hearing to be faulty and never able to stop the assaults were things that left their marks. Physical and mental. Anna never wanted to feel so powerless and afraid ever again.

So whenever there was a mutant, who was potential attacker and who was to be provoked to come after her, Anna of course fought to kill them. Learned from her mistakes, got over her faults, getting stronger, smarter and faster to be able to rival even stronger mutants than she.
Nothing felt better than to lure and then surprise a predator, turning the tables and revealing that she was the predator in prey's clothes.
Of course not every mutant was a threat. Some were just harmless, and those Anna let be.
But those that come after her? She would hunt them without mercy.

Victor's question had brought many memories to the surface. From first prey to the… Current, that was still work in process.
Anna couldn't just give one solid answer, even if she actually didn't have to tell him anything.

"I don't want-"
The woman was finally going to answer after long time of silence, Victor had almost thought she wasn't going to.
"...Any other mutants in my territory."
"Didn't know deer were territorials."
The glare she gave made him to half smirk.
"And I thought that sabre-toothed tigers were extinguished."
"Not this one."
"Maybe I'll fix that."
A full smile spread onto his face.
"By reproducing?"

Victor's shoulders shook as Anna's face turned into deep red. He didn't even bother to dodge the punch to his ribs, he was laughing so much because of the face she had.

"You are an asshole!"
"Aaaw, come on", he spoke while following the woman's quickened walk. "You did enjoy it."
She didn't say anything back, pulling his jacket so the collar shielded her face from him. Pride, or arrogance, sprouted in Victor's chest as he kept following the woman. Messing with people was always fun, but he usually messed with them by scaring them to piss their pants. But he found making this headstrong feral get embarrassed and irritated just as fun. Maybe he should try these kind of longer stalks more often.

A hint of arousal, mixed with anger, floated into his nose. Brown eyes glanced at the bambi with surprise.

The smell of the predator was strong on the jacket. Anna didn't have as good sense of smell as her ability to hear, but being surrounded by the cloth gave a strong whiff.
Musky, pine needles, earth, blood, animal and other things from wilderness. It was like whole forest had rub into him and his clothes. With every breath the woman felt comfortable and ease. Despite the ass smart next to her.
Rich and strong smell, just like back there.

"Want another round?"
She glanced at Victor, seeing a sly smirk and his puffed chest.
"Or would it be the third one?"
"What I said about cutting and snapping?"

He was complete incontinent! One rut and he thought she wanted it if he even hinted about it. He was just an animal, and not in the good way, thinking only about killing and sex. She would do everyone a favor by getting rid of him for good.
"And just to make it clear; just because there was some fucking by accident, I'm still going to kill you. Got it?"
Despite him snorting he fortunately did think the same way with her.
"Didn't think anything had changed." Then he added: "But I'll break you, make begging me to kill you, after I fuck you, bambi."
"Good luck with that, puss."

Huffing to each other the two ferals continued in more comfortable silence.

The already darkened sky at afternoon was normal during winter, the moon up when they finally got to the edge of the village.
The rest of the walk had passed in silence, first in comfortable one but then getting awkward bit by bit.

Anna didn't know what she was doing, or how should she really think about this situation. Her preys didn't live longer than maybe two days if they were hard to kill at the first time. But the current prey of hers was still alive, already a week behind. And they had now spent the walk without any attempts to kill each other.
Well, considering what had happened at the forest it was a bit hard to get into killing each other right away. She couldn't fight in these clothes.
All in all, it was an awkward situation as hell. And Anna appreciated it very much that the predator didn't say anything as she gave back the jacket, continuing her journey to the village.
She needed to take the back alleys to avoid anyone, she was not going to be caught like this.

Taking a peek over her shoulder the female didn't see the man anymore. Nor heard him lurking around.
Good, she didn't need this to get anymore weirder than it already was.
She finally arrived to the village and the backdoor of the building she lived in. Getting in and up the stairs Anna started to feel very tired.
The man really had his way of wearing her out. Why was he even still lingering here? Wasn't he after Logan, so why not just kill her- Well, if he would do that than Sarah and probably Gary would report her disappearing to police. And people already had talked about him, he really hadn't kept his mutation in low levels at the first day. He practically looked like the bad guy.
Guess he was just playing with her until Logan would arrive.
She really would need to think a way to get rid of him. Maybe cutting him into pieces and then dip him into wet concrete?
That would work if there would just be that much wet concrete around.
She was too tired to think about the solution.
And Anna had other problems to worry about, when she saw Sarah sitting in front of her apartment's door.

"Hey", Anna spoke softly when seeing her friend, the shorter woman getting up.
The brunette was shocked of Anna's appearance.
"Oh my god what happened to you? I heard some jackass pissed you off and you vanished but- Did he come after you?"
Smiling tiredly the blond knew this was going to take time. And she kinda needed to ask from Sarah some pills. For a thing. She was not just getting out of this, wasn't she?

The female's scent lingered at his jacket.
Victor was not sure did he like it or not or should he even care. Opening a door to the abandoned cottage, that he was inhabiting for now, he stepped inside.
The place was deep in the forest and there were no human traces around the house. Dust was everywhere and things were laying around like who ever had lived here before had just left in middle of things.
Or died. There was dried, ingrained large pool of blood in the kitchen area.

First Victor walked to the animal carcass at one corner. He had hunted and dragged it in here couple of days back, the meat getting a bit hard and dry as he ripped out a junk from it.
He would need to get rid of this carcass and hunt fresh tomorrow. Good, he was feeling edgy. Staying in here and not able to do much but harass that female would probably soon bore him.
Although today had been especially fun.
That woman was full of surprises that Victor could still explore.

Falling to lay on a large couch the beast man ripped some meat into his mouth, chewing on it in deep thought.
It would be months before spring and then Logan finally showing up. What kind of man Jimmy was, leaving his woman for half a year and then just visiting for a moment, leaving the firecracker getting into trouble? Sabretooth huffed.
This was the reason why Silverfox easily got killed by him and then screwed baby brother with her fake death. If Jimmy just had kept an eye on his old lady, he wouldn't have gotten messed up. At least this time brother had chosen a better one.
Licking meat juice from his lips Victor smirked, going through all the fun he had with the bambi so far. From fighting to her many faces, to fucking and how she had just ride him wildly.
Wonder had Jimmy yet used her in the right way? He's scent was in the woman's apartment, but Anna had said something about friendship. Logan also hadn't left any marks on her or her workplace nor her apartment.
What a waste.
...Victor scowled.
And why was he even paying so much mind into that? It didn't matter what the woman was to Jimmy, as long as he had connection with her, Sabretooth was going to use her to get back to little brother.

Then the thing that Victor had tried to ignore back there, when she had given back the jacket and left without even glancing at him, started coming back.
Growling Sabretooth stood up enough to get the jacket off of him, throwing it far away and concentrated to just finish the meat. Thinking that he should maybe take some contract or just leave the place for couple of months. Jimmy would surely come back at spring. And the woman wasn't going anywhere.
She would just be hunting mutants and act all cocky like with him. She was lucky Sabretooth still had interest to keep her alive.
But someone else like him wouldn't think the same way.
Or if they were, he wouldn't like it. He didn't share what was his.
And that feral female was his to hunt. And to mate. Have fun with. To keep.
The memory of seeing that scar on her lower back, hearing her talking about her father, her fighting to keep her territory safe…
Distracting cold shiver, that raise goosebumps, went through Victor's body, in response to the alien feeling in his chest. Making him whine and feel odd.
The reaction shocked Victor. Just like when the woman had told about her father. When she was mating him-
Swallowing Victor felt nervous and uncomfortable.

His instincts had never confused him and he had never had problem to understand nor obey them.
He was more animal than a man in the end, he didn't hide like everyone else.
But now, getting all these things running inside him, instincts giving him mixed up orders as they crossed themselves, confused him even more. And all of them circling only around the bambi.
Jaw tightly clenching Victor tried something he hadn't done in years. Only when Jimmy had needed him.
And now only because he was feeling confused in disturbing way.

Withdrawing from the animal side that had formed into him from the first time he mutated, it taking long time before he started seeing it just a part of him and as a good thing, was hard.
Uncomfortable and unnatural. Like he was sawing his own hand off with rusted blade.
There was no line between him and the animal side. There was no human nor animal side to Sabretooth, that only worked on people like Jimmy. They tried to separate themselves from what they were while Victor embraced it.
He was the animal who wore man's hide.

Getting up, angry and frustrated, the mutant trashed some furniture around. He couldn't and he wouldn't. Whatever this shit was that his instincts were doing to him, no matter how unpleasant and unfamiliar it was, Victor was not going to fight back. But it didn't mean he was liking this, his senses confusing him and telling him how to act towards the woman.

It didn't feel right. Didn't feel clear to him. Not familiar at all. He should have just stayed away from the woman when he first time started to feel like this.

Anna was trying to keep her face normal and keep the eye contact as Sarah stared at her in disbelief.
"...You had sex", the short brunette confirmed, sitting at the bed as Anna put new clothes on after showering and Sarah treating her wounds. The mutant also had to explain the self-stitched shoulder wound, so everything was a bit of a mess now.
And Anna was not happy to try to solve it with her human friend who couldn't know everything. At times like this, the blond wished she hadn't made friends with the doctor.
"Yup."
"In the woods."
"Yup."
"With a stranger?"
"...Yes?"
The brunette stared for a long moment at her, seeing that she wasn't joking nor telling lies. It was long awkward silence.
"Well, Anna, I don't... Who is the guy? The man who's rumored to be a mutant, who has been seen at the village for some time?"
Cheeks blushing and feeling uncomfortable Anna nodded. Could this be over already?
"And you had sex- He did this to you?"
"It's not that bad as it looks", the mutant answered dryly. "I really don't wanna talk about this, please. It's really awkward."
"I'm just worried."

The brunette rose and walked to hug the taller woman. Anna stiffed, just like when their friendship first started, as she didn't want any comfort now. She didn't want to think anything about the bastard nor this whole situation. She wasn't a victim here or anything, she didn't like to be treated like one. She had just... Fucked with her prey. And yes, it was odd. Wrong. Fucking your prey while planning to kill them was so messed up. And she already was a mess, so what did this thing with the bastard make her then?
The taller hugged the other one.
"If he's hurting you, you tell me, and we will figure this out together", Sarah told her softly. "I can neuter the guy and Gary can shoot him."
The words humored Anna so that she laughed. "He didn't rape me Sarah."
"Maybe. But he clearly wasn't treating you gently", the brunette looked up to her. There was a scowl on her rounded face, making Anna laugh even more.
"I've have it worse." She was after all covered by scars.
Huffing the doctor friend let go, walking towards the kitchen.
"Doesn't mean he can treat you like that. I'll smack him when I see even a glance of him. Now, what do you want to eat?"

Image of the shorter woman going to slap Victor was pretty amusing. He as the big, tall guy and she as the short human who needed a chair to do the act.
But in reality it would be horrible, no doubt. Anna would need to keep an eye on her friend closely. And figured out how to kill the guy. She needed to plan.
"Whatever you make is good. Just not much meat."
"Okay boss."