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"Goodbye, Maddie, Jack," Vlad said coolly as we left. We'd been there for two, maybe three days and now Mr. and Mrs. Fenton were eager to get back to Amity. Shadow was too, and his uneasiness bled through into me. Vlad grabbed my shoulder as I passed him, and I bared my teeth in an automatic response when his hand landed on the biting scar. He let go rather quickly at the sight of my sharp teeth. "Have you considered staying, Rose?" he asked me.
"Yeah, and I'd rather not," I responded lightly. He'd been asking me to stay for the past day, and each time I told him no. "Goodbye, Vlad."
"Goodbye, Rose."
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"Vlad is creepy," I groaned into Danny's pillow. "Who the hell asks a teenager who's run away ten times if they've considered staying?"
"Well, he is a fruitloop," Danny pointed out.
"Fruitloops are the creepiest of cereals," Sam laughed.
"Don't worry too much, dude," Tucker reassured me, "nobody's gonna let him kidnap you."
"Thanks, guys," I sighed, propping my head up on my arms. "Shadow's super nervous, so all his worrying is bleeding over into me."
Tucker patted my back and then my head, causing me to sigh and relax a little.
"Shadow's pretty set on keeping us all inside forever," I mused. "Give me reasons why he shouldn't."
Laughing, my friends began piling reasons onto me, whih ended up with Shadow whining to me for a couple of hours.
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"Shadow!" I called. "Come on out. You can't hide forever!"
"Watch me!" came his muffled reply. I sighed and shuffled forward, wincing as my twisted ankle dragged on the ground.
See, Shadow was hiding because I'd gotten caught in the middle of a ghost fight. Despite not being in his body, I had attempted to ease the fight. When the ghosts wouldn't listen, Shadow had become agitated and separated from me. He got in the middle of the fight, snarling and snapping, and an ectoblast had hit me. He was absolutely convinced that it had been his blast and was now mortified, hidinv from everyone.
"It wasn't your fault, Shadow!" I shouted. "Sometimes humans get hurt, and you have to stop sulking because of it!"
No response.
I realized I couldn't feel Shadow's presence anymore. And my ankle was throbbing.
Sighing, I sat down with my back to a tree and hoped Shadow would get over it and come find me soon, necause the forest was scary at night when it was dark and I had no way to defend myself.
"Please find me," I whispered, curling up into a ball as rain began to fall.
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Shadow did not find me.
I sat on the ground and steadily got wetter and wetter until I was so cold I couldn't move. Snuffling in the underbrush was what forest alerted me to the fact that I wasn't alone. But what was the point in looking up when Shadow had left me all alone?
My distress must have been clear, because the snuffling creature whined and came closer. I raised my head to see a grey wolf coming closer. It was larger than Shadow and had amber eyes. Behind it waited three other wolves, all three the same grey color. The one that approached me must have been able to smell my pack-scent, because it was far friendlier than a wolf should be to a human.
It shuffled closer and sniffed my hair, then bit my shirt and dragged me forward. Too shocked to scream, I let the wolf drag me with it through the woods to a large, dark cave. The area reeked of wolf, and I realized in fear that I must have been in this pack's territory. What were they going to do to me?
Not for the first time, I wished that Shadow had come for me.
The wolf dragging me must have been the alpha, and I whimpered as it dragged me into the cave. It dropped me at the back and then thumped down next to me, tail still and calm. The other three bounded in with a deer being dragged between them, bloody and barely dead. My breath choked me and I flinched, hiding my face in my arms.
Please, Shadow, I begged into the darkness surrounded my mind, please please please come find me.
The wolves tore the deer apart and ate, trying to offer me the meat when they realized I hadn't moved from my spot at the back of the cave. The alpha carried a piece towards me, and I was left with no choice but to take it and eat it.
I felt sick.
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The wolves did their best to care for me. They were animals, wild animals, and thus couldn't understand me, but my body language was clear enough to them. I was terrified. At night, they would curl around me and rub their pack-scent intonmy skin and clothes. During the day, one wolf would stay in the cave with me while the others hunted. Each time they came back, I forced a little bit of meat into my mouth. Each time I did, the nausea in my stomach grew.
It was days before Shadow managed to find me.
A howl split the air one night and I whimpered, pressing myself farther into the damp wall of the cave. The wolves sprang into action, snarling and thundering out of the cave to fight.
Rose! I finally found you a relieved voice cried in my head. Don't worry, I'll save you.
Shadow had finally come to save me.
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The fighting was fierce, but mortal animals were no match for a vicious, angry werewolf. When the wolves were down, he sprang into the cave and helped me onto his back, sprinting away towards Amity.
When we finally got there, Shadow was all over me. He seemed so upset, cleaning away the blood on me and rubbing his scent over the new pack-scent that I had. He was just so worried.
"I've been searching for days," he told me in between his fussing. "I finally found you and oh my stars I'm so glad you're safe-"
Shadow broke down then, just holding me close and letting his tears go.
"I thought I lost you," he whispered.
"I thought you wouldn't come for me," J whispered back.
"No," he snarled, hugging me tighter. "I'd never leave you. Never."
I cried for hours.
Well. uhhh tbh this chapter wrote itself. i didnt plan for this sadness but uhhhhhh it happened. well. hope you guys enjoy?