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'Speaking telepathically'
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DEVIANTART IMAGE UPDATE!: Sorrell has been posted to my Deviantart! Her images consist of two pictures from the game Aion, representing what she looks like as a teenager (which will come in the story soon). Her hybrid form (which she is primarily in unless her form is changed, basically looks exactly like she does in the pictures (you know, with normal clothes instead of what she has on), just add on her wings, tail and wolf ears. The images are titled Sorrell 1 and Sorrell 2.
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Chapter 43: Shopping
Probably within minutes I must have passed out, because the next thing I know I am being awoken by the loud, screaming cries of Sorrell who must have been placed on the bed next to me after I fell asleep.
I open my eyes and sit up fast and pick her up, in a panic from her sudden cries as I look around the room. My brain realizes the obvious and my heart stops racing, my panic disappearing after realizing she is just hungry. Movement catches my eye as I see Axel lie down on the floor, he must have done the same thing I just did and sat up.
"…Why are you laying on the floor…?" I ask, watching him while I adjust Sorrell in my arms as she continues to cry.
"To give you both space." He says while I remove my shirt to feed her, she instinctively latches on to me and begins to feed.
"There is plenty of space up here…" I say, watching him and motioning beside me, the sunlight from outside bleeding through the sides of the curtain covering the window giving both of us a dim view of each other.
Axel watches me, both of us capable of sleeping in a bed together with a child due to the both of us being light sleepers, neither of us move very much in our sleep either. Axel gets off the floor and gets in the bed beside me, causing me to smile. I lay back down, facing him, on my side while Sorrell lays next to me still feeding while I hold her. Axel looks down at her and begins to softly purr, moving his hand to her head to slowly rub it, soothing her more.
"We should get more clothes for her later." I say, watching.
"More? We don't have enough?"
"We have both girl and boy clothes, I want to get more girl clothes, some that are red to match her fur color on her tail." I say, looking at him.
"We have enough." He says, knowing if I decide to get more clothes it would require us to sneak into a house to steal them.
"No we don't, you won't have to come with me to get them. I could try to be a human again for about 20 minutes and actually buy some clothes at a store."
Axel seems to slightly tense up at my sentence, not liking the idea of me going out in public to do something that, to him, isn't necessary, "No."
"Why not? No one will recognize me, it has been a long time since I was on the news and media…people probably have forgotten about it by now. Plus I can defend myself." I say, feeling Sorrell release my nipple and begin spitting up some milk while I wipe it up with some of the blanket.
"No." He says, more sternly this time.
"Please…?"
"I said no, Claire." Axel says, his eyes and voice telling me he is getting frustrated with my begging.
I frown at him and look down at Sorrell, who has already fallen back asleep.
Within minutes, Axel and I fall back asleep, only to be woken up over and over again throughout the day by Sorrell wanting to be fed.
Once night falls, Sorrell cries again, waking us up for the final time as I begin to feed her.
"…How many times have I fed her…twice every hour…? Once every hour?"
"You have fed her 15 times." Axel says, getting off the bed to stretch.
I check the clock, we have slept a little over 7 hours, "So…probably around twice every hour. My god she eats a lot…" I say, looking down at her while I sit up, realizing my stomach has returned to normal. My eyes widen as I realize, "Woah!" I touch my stomach, "I can't believe the swelling is gone already!"
Axel also seems surprised, but not too surprised since he is expecting to learn unusual things from me since I am a Wolcin.
"I guess since I was human the last time I had a baby, my body took on human traits when it came to my body as well…this is really cool!" I say, smiling, looking down at Sorrell, I notice her blanket is tighter around her than it was last night. I lower my eye brows in confusion and unwrap her from it.
"Does she seem bigger to you?" I ask, looking over at Axel.
Axel looks at her and nods, "She must have gained an accelerated growth from my genes, it stops once we reach maturity."
"Oh…" I say, Axel immediately leaves the room and moments later I realize why and change her diaper, laughing at the fact he hates the smell so badly.
Once I finish he comes back in.
"So, about getting her new clothes." I say to him while dressing Sorrell in a light blue onesie, awake now and looking at Axel as he returns, giving him an adorable smile.
"No."
"Why not? She can't wear the same thing forever. Plus since she grows so fast, she is going to need bigger clothes than what we have for her here very soon." I say, looking at him while picking her up.
Axel growls at me, I growl back at him in a playful manner.
"You can come with me and stay outside or something." I say to him.
"We cannot bring her with us, we can't force her to change form to come with us either."
"We don't have to bring her with us, there are plenty of people here who can watch her while we are gone."
"No. She is ours to protect, not theirs." He says, walking over to me and picking Sorrell up out of my arms.
"They won't mind." I say, "I'm sure you have taken care of others' babies before. It's the same thing."
"I have only done it if their parents are dead." He says, glaring at me.
"Oh my god Axel. It will only be for 10 minutes!"
"They cannot provide food for her!"
"There is formula! We have plenty of it!"
"Formula is for humans!"
"It's not like it will kill her!"
Sorrell breaks up our argument by crying in response to all the raised voices.
Linica enters the room, "Oh my god you guys are arguing as if you both have been married for 70 years." She says, crossing her arms, still very pregnant.
"Axel doesn't trust your ability to babysit Sorrell, even for a few minutes." I tell her.
"I know I heard all of it from my bedroom." She says, looking at Axel.
"I did not say that." He says, growling in his voice while looking over at me
"Technically you were implying that." I say.
"Stop it guys. Seriously!?" Linica says, Sorrell continuing to scream and cry, she approaches Axel and tries to pick her up to comfort her, only for Axel to immediately snarl at her, growling loudly in an attempt to get her to back off.
Linica looks him in the eye, narrowing her eyes at him, "Don't even try it, Galileus." She says, reminding him that she is much stronger than him and can practically end his life as easy as it would be for her to snap her fingers. Axel lets out a deep hiss before basically dropping his guard entirely, allowing her to take Sorrell from him.
Linica smirks at him and holds her before backing up from him and looking down at her, smiling and wagging her tail while she continues to cry.
"Sorrell" She says in a warm, motherly voice before rocking her in her arms and shushing her quietly, "its okay…" She says.
Sorrell slowly opens her eyes and quiets down, looking up at her, "There is your adorable, beautiful blue eyes!" Linica says, giggling before sticking her tongue out at her, causing Sorrell to giggle.
I look over at Axel, who is watching and obviously angry.
"See? She is good with babies." I say, watching him. Axel looks over at me and growls a little.
"Exactly. You guys can leave for as long as you want to." Linica says, looking at Axel.
Axel continues to quietly growl, "Alright."
I smile, "Thank you!" I say to Linica before getting dressed, Linica leaves the room with Sorrell and Axel also gets dressed.
Once I finish, I find my wallet buried in some stuff in the dresser, opening it to see how much money I have, which should definitely be enough because Axel gives me any bills he finds after he hunts. Dollar bills have become a lot harder to run into recently since people mainly use cards now instead of keeping their money on them, which sucks for me.
"Alright, lets go." I say before we both head out and leave the house.
The both of us fly a pretty good distance, passing a number of stores, most of which are closed for obvious reasons. We get far away from the house before deciding on an open store to stop at, for safety reasons in case either of us are spotted by anyone immortal, so they will have difficulties following us home, depending on the species.
Both of us land near the building behind it and I change into my human form, both of us looking like normal people now, for the most part. Axel begins surveying our surroundings, I watch him.
"We're fine. Stop worrying." I say, he looks at me.
"I only ever worry when you are around, before I met you I never had to worry about a thing." He says.
"…I can't tell if you are trying to be sweet or mean right now…"
Axel begins to quietly purr, letting me know which one is correct. I smile, "I will be back, I promise."
Axel nods, "I will be waiting." He says before taking off into the sky.
I walk around the side of the building and through the doors, the lights immediately causing my eyes to ache as they adjust, I rub them and continue walking.
I observe a few people at the checkout lanes, and others who are shopping, feeling extremely strange to be back in the 'public', somewhat.
The signs the store provides gives me direction to find the clothes I need, I have never been too picky with what I pick out for my babies to wear, or at least the last time I have had a baby I was never picky.
Memories begin to flood into my mind, but I quickly change my thoughts and focus on the present as I look at a little red shirt and shorts with a small skirt on them. I look over the clothes and take them off the rack, my attention gets drawn to another outfit for an older child, which I pick out too.
I notice someone in my peripheral, which I ignore and continue shopping. The person doesn't move and I can swear they are watching me.
A quick glance in their direction tells me my assumptions are correct, it is a man and I have no idea how long they have been watching me, as my senses aren't so acute due to my form.
Shivers run up my spine as I become uncomfortable, I walk away from the rack of clothes, acting casual I walk over to another rack, one that is tall enough to block his vision of me. I let out a deep sigh to get myself to relax. I wait it out for a few minutes, looking at the clothes I have on hangers in my arms.
Once I feel comfortable enough to check I peek around the rack to see that the man is no longer there, giving me the courage to walk out from behind the rack and continue shopping.
After gathering about 30 outfits of different sizes, I figure that I'm done for now.
I turn around to walk toward the front of the store, only for my eyes to lock on the man from a little bit ago standing down the isle, staring at me again only a few yards away.
I gasp in fear and surprise and accidentally drop the clothes onto the floor while he stares at me, after a few seconds I quickly pick up all the clothes again and take off running towards the front.
Normally, I don't think a human would scare me this bad since they are easy to overpower if I need to, but this feels different and something instinctively tells me that I need to run, and far. The man has short black hair, scruffy facial hair and probably stands as tall as Axel, which is frightening because I'm much smaller. My human form is smaller than my hybrid form, being inches shorter and more fragile looking. I rush to the front and slow down before I grab attention to myself and walk up to a casher and throw the pile of clothes on hangers onto the table for the casher to ring up.
The casher seems to notice my panic, "Is everything alright ma'am?" She says before beginning to scan all the clothes.
"Yes." I say, smiling and looking at her, trying to get my fear under control.
"Are you sure? You seem like you just saw a ghost." She says, concern in her face and voice.
"I'm fine. Just ring them up for me please, I need to get home." I say, running a hand through my hair as I watch her scan and bag the clothes.
"Okay, alright." She says, soon finishing and giving me a total, which I pay.
"Just keep the change…" I say, grabbing the bags onto my arm and jogging to the door.
I look around as I get closer to the door, looking for the man.
My eyes travel to the front door and I immediately freeze up, seeing the man standing in front of the door watching me. I begin to panic and remember there is a second exit, spinning on my heel I go to run in the other direction only to see him standing behind me a few feet away, causing a sharp gasp to escape my mouth. My brain begins to realize the fact that this guy isn't human and I force my legs to run in the opposite direction.
My legs move as fast as they can to the exit before a hand clamps down onto my shoulder hard just before I reach the door, causing me to scream loudly in fear as the man spins me around to face him. His eyes are now black, even the whites of his eyes are black, his pupils are now a deep red. The man grins, showing two rows of long, razor sharp teeth as all the light bulbs in the store explode.
Darkness surrounds me and all I can see are the red dots of his eyes, immediately I change into my hybrid form and kick him hard in the chest, sending him a small distance away from me. My night vision allows me to see him rising off the ground, his body also changing form as two things seem to be growing out of the top of his head.
Not waiting around to find out what they are or what he will look like, I dart out of the store and immediately get grabbed and pulled into the sky as I let out a loud scream in fear.
A hand covers my mouth and I realize its Axel while he flies away from the store fast, within minutes we are a few miles away from the store. He lands in the middle of a woods and puts me down, I drop the bags while I shake and look up at him.
"What happened!?" He says, slight panic and concern in his voice.
"A-A A man...was following me…" I say, looking around fast, "We need to leave! Fast!" I continue, grabbing the bags and spreading my wings to fly, only for Axel to grab my shoulders and turn me to face him.
"What man? What kind of man!?" He says, anger in his voice.
"He isn't human! He is coming after us! We need to run!" I cry out, tears in my eyes.
