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"Andi and Sarah have been hiding something from me, we used to be so close, now they have there own secret, I am afraid I am loosing the only wolves I have left and you have been on my mind as well and I have this huge secret that I can never tell anyone," I said sighing the last part.

"I am sorry about your friends, you have been on my mind a lot too and about that big huge secret, I highly doubt that it can be that bad, you don't have to tell me, but maybe, one day you will," she sighed lying her head on my shoulder.


"Abby," I heard someone whisper.

I raised my head immediately to find that Abby was not beside me, this realization caused me to panic a bit until I finally laid my eyes on her.

She was trotting toward the front of her den where Tony stood with a wagging tail.

"Yes Tony?" she answered.

"Ducky wanted me to let you know, that he wishes to see you," Tony said.

"Alright tell him I will be there in a moment," Abby said wagging her tail that was uncurled.

"Alright," he said before he turned around and sped off in the direction of Ducky and Palmer's den.

"Abby," I called gaining my mate's attention.

"Yes," Abby answered turning around and capturing in her happy gaze as she continued to wag her tail.

"What is going on?" I asked sitting up in our nest.

"I am just going to see Ducky, he sent Tony for me," she answered.

"Oh, I will go and get something to eat while I wait for you," I said as I stood up and shook the grass and dust from my fur.

"Alright come on, I will walk with you until we get to Ducky and Palmer's den," Abby said with a happy face.

I said nothing, but got up and started walking, I licked her cheek as I got to her and continued to walk. She turned and walked beside me as we walked she wrapped her tail around mine.

As we left her cave I bumped her body with my own playfully causing her to let out a small giggle of joy.

"Have fun hunting," she said uncurling her tail from mine and entering Ducky and Palmer's den.

I nodded to her and raced of to the camp entrance.

I raced along in the woods allowing the wind to blow scents toward me.

Suddenly a slightly familiar scent hit me. It was Mudstep's, but unlike any other time, Hyperdemon and Quickthinking's scent was not mixed with hers.

"What are you doing out here all alone?" I whispered to myself.

I raced toward her scent until I came to where the dirt of the woods turned into the sand from the beach.

I made sure to stay hidden and I kept my scent downwind so that she couldn't smell me.

"I have to go, Ducky told me to go to his den first thing in morning, I am already late," I heard Mudstep say to a blue-grey and light silver female wolf.

The she wolf was unfamiliar to me, so when the wind blew my way I lifted my nose to try and catch her scent.

My eyes went wide when I recognized her scent.

"She is from the Pack of Rising Stars. What is Mudstep doing? She should be chasing her off of our territory." I thought to myself.

"Alright, meet me hear again tonight?" The she-wolf asked crossing back over into her territory.

"Of course," Mudstep said before walking back into the woods.

I followed her, making sure all the while that she could not catch my scent or hear my footsteps.

She entered the camp and I stopped there, I couldn't follow her into Ducky's and Palmer's den, I had to give Abby space and I didn't want Mudstep to suspect that I was fallowing her, I also didn't want her to think that I was being nosy and wanting to know why she was meeting Ducky and Abby.

I walked into the camp and looked for Tony, he would keep me distracted.

I spotted him lying down next to McGee, they were laughing about something and I quickly decided to go find out what it was that was so funny.

"Hello Tony, McGee," I said as I nodded my greetings.

"Hello Ziva," Tony and McGee said nodding in return.

"Mind if I lie here with you both?" I asked them wagging my tail.

"Not at all," McGee said with a shy smile, his smile faded into a frown as he watched me lie down in front of them both.

"What is it McGee?" I asked in confusion.

"You have a mate?" he asked with hurt in his eyes.

"Oh, yes, why do you look hurt?" I asked still confused at what my being Abby's mate had to do with why he was sad.

"I just thought, never mind," he said shaking his head.

"No what is wrong McGee?" I asked with concern as I placed my paw over his.

"I have kind of had feelings for you ever since we were pups, romantic feelings," he said with a shy smile.

I let out a small laugh, but I quickly stopped myself.

"Sorry, I did not know, but even if I had, I do not think I would have been your mate," I said with a hopeful face.

His eyes flashed with anger and he ripped his paw out from under mine, "You don't know that, we could have been mates, I bet I would have been better than whoever is your mate now," he growled.

He opened his mouth to growl something else, but Tony quickly cut him off.

"Hey now, this other wolf is a better mate for her then you are, she is right, you two would not have been mates, this other wolf has been around almost as long as you have," Tony growled in my defense.

"Whatever," he huffed before getting up and walking away in a fit.

"Thank you," I whispered in shame.

"Ziva, don't let what McGee said bother you, he will come around and he will understand once he realizes that Abby is your mate," He said reassuringly.

"How did you know that Abby was my mate, we haven't told anyone yet?" I asked with a curious face.

"Ziva, before you and Abby became mates, you followed Abby around like a pup would follow it's mother through a snow storm, any wolf with eyes could see that you loved Abby, and now you walk around with a bounce in your step and a mate's mark on your shoulder," he said with knowing eyes.

"I was that obvious?" I asked.

"Yes you were," he laughed.

"Well, when are you going to settle down?" I asked with a sly face.

"I don't know, I haven't found any she-wolf that I have deemed worthy," he said with mock cockiness in his voice.

"Hmmmm, what about Shadowfur," I asked looking at the dark grey she-wolf.

"No, she has a sharp tongue, she always has to have the last word," he said with a thoughtful look.

"Well, what about Beetleclaw," I asked shifting my gaze to a female with dark orange fur and brown paws.

"No, she is too nosey, she always has to be in every wolf's business," he said studying the wolves in the camps.

"Well then, I guess you will have to wait until some of the pups grow up or until a trainee becomes a normal, or a healer, or possibly even a sight," I said with a content face.

"By then my fur will be as grey as Silverfox's fur," he laughed.

"Speaking of pups," he continued.

"Are you and Abby going to have any?" he asked with his usual Tony face.

"I don't know, I don't know if Abby wants pups and even if she does want them, it is a little more complicated for two she-wolves to have pups, they either adopt a pup when it is in need of parents, which does not happen often, or they are granted one by the ancestors, then it would be as if a she-wolf had mated with a male wolf, she carries the pup or pups for a while, then she gives birth to it or them," I said with a defeated sigh.

"Do you want pups?" he asked with caring eyes.

"Yes, but I will only have them if Abby wants them," I replied to him.

"If Abby does want them, I don't know who will want to carry them, Abby does not like to sit still, she is always moving, and she has other duties to carry out, I don't think she will be able to do them all if she carries the pups," he informed me.

"I will carry them then," I said in a confident voice.

"Oh gosh, that would be a sight to see," he laughed.

"What would be a sight to see?" Abby asked causing both Tony and I to jump a bit in surprise.

"Hello Abby," I said with a nod of greeting as she laid down beside me.

"Hello," she said with a return nod.

"Now what would be a sight to see?" she continued.

Tony stayed silent waiting for me to give him permission to tell her, finally, I nodded, letting him know that I didn't mind.

"A pregnant Ziva," he said turning over on his back so that the sun hit his stomach.

"Hmmm that would be a sight to see," she said with a thoughtful look.

"Why are we talking about you being pregnant by the way?" Abby asked with a curious look.

I opened my mouth to say something, but I was quickly cut off by Tony.

"Because Ziva wants pups," he said quickly.

"I did not say that, I said I only wanted pups if Abby wanted them," I tried to explain as I panicked a bit.

"No you said, that you did want pups, but you would only have them if Abby wanted them," he said looking up at the sky in a distracted daze.

"Tony," I growled.

"Yes," he answered still in a daze.

"Shut up," I growled.

"Why would he do that, well besides the usual reasons?" Abby asked with a curious face.

"I. Well. I-I thought," I sputtered out before finally giving up on trying to form actual sentences.

"I rather like what Tony said, other wise I don't think you would have ever given me a straight answer," she said with a happy face.

"Well?" I asked hoping she would get what I was asking.

"I would like to have pups," she answered.

I whined with excitement and licked at her muzzle for a moment before composing myself once more.

"Hello Abby," I heard Michael say as he padded up to us.

"Ummm, hello Darkheart," Abby said in confusion as she turned her head to him.

His smile faded and he started to growl suddenly and she angled her ears back in fear.

"Has someone hurt you?" he growled at her.

"No why?" she asked in fear as she backed up into me.

I bared my teeth at him, but he wasn't paying attention to me.

"There is a bite mark on your shoulder," he barked baring his teeth in anger and stepping closer to her.

"The mark was not meant for pain," she said trying to reassure him.

I noticed that as he stepped closer, Tony had rolled over and started baring his teeth as well.

"Then what was it meant for?" he barked loudly stepping even closer to her.

I let go of my composure, I barked and jumped up, quickly I got in a protective stance over Abby.

"That is close enough," I growled as Tony got by my side growling and snapping his jaws as Michael.

"She is hurt, but of course you are to stupid to notice that," he growled in anger.

"She is not hurt and even if she was, it would be none of your concern," I growled snapping my jaws at him before quickly getting back in my stance.

"Of course it is my concern, she is going to be my mate one day," he growled.

"No she is not, she is my mate, not yours, she will never be yours," I said stepping in front of Abby and getting into his space.

"Your lying," he barked.

"No she's not," Abby whispered in a moment of confidence in the middle of her fear.

He lunged at me at hearing this, he quickly pinned me down underneath him, he was a large and deranged wolf, I could see why Abby was afraid of him.

"I'll kill you for stealing her away from me," he growled as he lurched forward towards my face.

I closed my eyes and waited for him to bite into me, but suddenly his weight was lifted off of me.

I opened my eyes to see Tony tackle him to the ground and they rolled in a ball of fur and snapping teeth.

I watched as Michael flung Tony aside and ran at me.

I lunged forward and locked my jaws on any part of fur I could get as we fought.

I tore at his fur and clawed at his body as we rolled.

"Stop," came the command that was given by our Alpha, he did not have the Alpha's voice, he wasn't born from an Alpha.

Michael ignored him and continued to tear at me.

"STOP," I heard the Alpha's voice ring through my head as Michael leaped off of me and coward on the ground.

I quickly rolled over and did the same.

Abby's eyes were hard as she stared in our direction, her tail was raised straight up showing that she was in charge. Brownfur was barley able to stop himself from reacting to her Alpha's voice.

Brownfur walked up to us both, I should expect better of you Darkheart, you are my beta after all, or should I say, you were my beta," he said with a hard look at him.

"What do you mean?" he whined.

"I mean, you are released of your beta duties, you are no longer beta, you are once again a normal, now get out of my sight," he growled.

Michael quickly ran to the normal's den, Brownfur then turned his hard gaze on me.

"As for you, you are restricted from leaving the camp for two days, now go back to where you sleep," he growled.

I quickly ran to Abby's den where I ran to where our nest was, I turned a few times before plopping down in the nest, once I was curled up, I buried my face the best I could in the nest. I listened as he announced Tony's punishment.

"You will not be allowed to leave the camp for two days as well, you will be sleeping in Duckfeathers and Oddpaw's den, now go to their den," he said sternly and I listened as Tony ran to Ducky and Palmer's den.