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I'm running out of things to clean on Sunday. I still haven't heard from Hisaka, and don't have an excuse to go to the res to hang out. I open up my laptop and looked at my assignments. I could work in advance, but I don't really want to right now. I close the lid.

Instead, I went outside. It was sprinkling lightly, but for La Push, it was a pretty decent day. I decided to explore the woods around my house and see how far the property goes.

I looked around, the trees made it difficult to see very far. I close my eyes so I can hear everything, the birds, the trees rustling, the - my eyes snap open. I looked around me. I distinctly heard someone's footsteps. I turn in a full circle, before catching some movement out of the corner of my eye.

I turned to face them:

"Hello?" I call out, hoping they'll answer me, but not really expecting them to.

"Hey." I hear a feminine voice and turn around again.

"Sorry," I laugh nervously. "You scared me." I still haven't been able to catch more than a glimpse of movement.

"I didn't mean to." She laughed, and I was both comforted and terrified further by the sound.

"I'm Kaliska, what's your name?" I ask, pretending like she's not acting like a serial killer right now.

"I'm Regina, nice to meet you." She tells me, and a chill runs down my spine.

"Where are you?" I ask quietly. With a sudden rush of wind, she stands in front of me, only a few inches away from my face.

"Right here, darling." She nearly growls at me, and I see her blood red eyes.

Fuck, that's terrifying.

I take a step back and tell myself to breath. Chesmu told me that red eyed pale people are almost definitely vampires, especially if their skin is ice cold.

I reach out to touch her arm and quickly recoil.

"Vampire." I whisper to myself, not really meaning to say it out loud. My entire body is trembling in fear and I know that I can't outrun a vampire. She sneers at me, probably knowing exactly what's going through my head.

I run anyway. As fast as I can, anywhere that's not here. I run as she laughs from where I left her standing. I know I can't outrun her, but that doesn't mean I'm going down without a fight. I run towards the Quileute border, hoping that someone is on patrol nearby. I scream as I look back and see her running after me.

And then I trip. Not looking where I'm headed, I trip over something right as I'm reaching the riverbed, which means I'm going to fall about 15 feet into the rushing water below.

I'm falling, and then suddenly, I'm not. I don't know what the hell happened, but I'm upright again and tearing down the riverbank. I hear her confused "what th-?" as I run, and it's that moment that I realize I'm not who I think I am.

I'm running... on four paws... PAWS? Since when?

I don't have time to think about it now, I just have to get the fuck outta Dodge. I can hear heavy animal footsteps coming up behind me, and I realize that must be the boys. I just have to last long enough for them to catch up with her.

I run across the water, she leaps over the whole river. I duck under a fallen tree, she jumps over the top of it. I consider trying to run up a tree, but I don't know what I can do, and she could probably follow anyway.

The wolves are getting closer, I can see the rustling trees as they run through them. I'm almost there. I've almost made it...

I yelp as she grabs for my tail, managing to dodge out of her reach before her hand closes. My heart is beating out of my chest and I see what looks like a water tube coming up. It's just small enough for me to fit through, and long enough that I can't see the end. I aim for that and dart in, where she can't follow me.

I hear her cursing as she sees the wolves gaining on her, and she takes off. The wolves stampede past my hiding place and I catch sight of the few wolves I've seen, Leah, Hisaka and Chesmu. The rest I don't recognize. When everything is quiet, I move out of the tunnel, keeping my eyes peeled and my ears focused on any noise.

Silence.

I'm still terrified when I crawl out, and I finally take the time to look around me, unsure of where I've run to.

Also, what I am. Am I a werewolf? I'm significantly smaller than the rest of the wolves, which would make sense if girl wolves are a lot smaller, but Leah is the same size as the rest of them. I start walking back in the direction I came from, clueless about where I am, what I am, how I got here, what happened to my clothes, and how to change back into a person.

Eventually, I come to a house that I recognize from the bonfire. Who lives here?

Emily. Sam's girl. I hadn't met her, but this is where all the food was coming from. Speaking of food, now I'm starving. I go up to her porch, wondering what I should do. I decide to wait til someone comes up. There's no way a small wolf of some kind would be able to talk to Emily, I'd need to communicate with another wolf. If only I knew how.

I curled up to rest on Emily's porch, and eventually fell asleep.

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I woke up to someone screaming.

"It's a coyote!" Emily says, pointing in my direction. I jump up to my feet, looking around. Where? I turn to look where she's pointing, but all I see is trees.

I turn around. Sam jogs up, looking at me strangely.

"I saw that one, when we were chasing the leech. She was chasing it. I wonder how it found its way here." He says, and it hits me. I'm the coyote.

What the fuck?

He is still staring at me, and I look around awkwardly. I can't talk, and I can't change back, so now I'm just waiting for something to happen.

"Why isn't it running away?" Emily asks, coming up behind him. Sam shakes his head.

"I don't know, it looks like it wants something."

I jump down from the porch and use my nose to try to write in the dirt of their yard. I take a couple steps back and look at my work, which looks like 'kal:ste.' I look back at Sam and Emily, who are talking now and not paying attention to me anymore. I bark-cough at them, a little weirded out at the sound. They look back at me, squinting.

"Oh my god it wrote something." Emily says, taking a step closer. She looks at the word. "I don't... I can't tell what it says." She looks at me. "Are you a person?"

I nod my head.

"Someone we know?"

I shrug. I don't know if they've heard of me. Sam frowns.

"Are you Quileute?"

I shake my head.

"Are you new to the res?"

Nod.

"Do you know the pack?"

Nod.

"Are you an imprint?"

Nod.

"Kaliska?" Emily says breathlessly. I'm so happy to hear my own name that I sort of bark again. This is weird, I don't like this. Emily still looks shocked and Sam looks confused.

"Why are you a coyote?" He asks nobody in particular. Emily comes down the porch steps to sit.

"Are you stuck as a coyote?" She asks gently. I feel embarrassed as I lower my head and nod slowly. Sam laughs and I do my best to scowl up at him.

"I-I'm sorry, Kaliska. I just remember being in the same situation the first time I phased. Lucky for you, we have some people that can help you. Do you want me to go get Hisaka?" He offers. I shake my head violently.

"How about Leah?" Emily asks hesitantly. I think about this, and nod slowly. Leah's a girl and she doesn't care so she won't be weird about it. Emily gets up to go into the house, and Sam stays to talk to me.

"I'd like to talk to you some more, Kaliska. About all of this, and what it means for you and the pack. Especially because you're an imprint." I nod. "Obviously not right now," he says quickly, and I roll my eyes.

"Leah's on her way, she was about to go on patrol anyway. She'll meet you here and you can go out into the woods if that'll make you more comfortable. She's also bringing a change of clothes." Emily tells me, and even though I'm not human right now, I can almost feel myself blush as I nod again.

This is so weird...

Sam and Emily chat for a bit, telling me about things happening on the res, but I'm not really listening to them as I wait for Leah to get here. As soon as I hear her huff, I jump up and turn around to face her.

"Oh my god she's tiny." She says, almost laughing. "I don't know what I was expecting, but she's literally so small." Emily starts to say something, but Sam just puts his hand on her arm and takes her into the house.

"Alright, coyote, let's go." She says to me, gesturing to the treeline with her head. I follow her as she walks into the trees. I feel even smaller before standing next to Leah. I start to regret asking her to come help me. Then again, it's basically either her or Hisaka, and I'm not ready to talk to him. Leah's voice interrupts my thoughts.

"Okay, I'm gonna turn around so you can relax. You basically just have to think about being human until you're relaxed enough to phase back." She tells me. I nod, even though her back is to me. She tosses a tshirt and pair of sweatpants over her shoulder. "When you're back, you can put these on."

I sit down, thinking human thoughts. I have no idea how this is supposed to work, but I'm hoping I get the hang of it soon. I decide that yoga might help me relax, and let me tell you... a coyote doing yoga must be a pretty funny sight. Especially because there are only a few positions I can actually do.

Eventually, I feel myself transform back into a person, and I breathe a sigh of relief.

"You good?" Leah asks me, not turning around. I pull on the clothes as I answer.

"Yeah. Thanks." I go to sit next to her on the ground and say nothing.

"It's pretty bizarre, isn't it." She says after awhile.

"Yeah, I thought I'd like it more than I did." I sigh.

"You knew?" She asked, puzzled.

"Knew what?"

"That you could phase? You'd thought about it?"

"Well, no. I just thought the running super fast thing would be cool. But I'm so small that I can't really run as fast as you guys." I tell her. She shrugs.

"It's not bad. You'll get the hang of it. It's easier after the first time." She stands up, and I follow. "You're hungry, I bet."

"Yeah, starving." I tell her, realizing now how hungry I am. She walks back in the direction of the house with me trailing behind her.

"Emily always has food. I have patrol, so I'll see you later. I won't tell the boys." She says, anticipating my request. I thank her and she leaves me just outside of the treeline, right by the house. Emily comes out and beckons me in.

I take a deep breath. I guess this is my life now.

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Sooo... what do you think? I read a fic awhile back that had coyote shapeshifters from another tribe and thought it was really cool. I'd tag the original author of that one, but I haven't been able to find the fic again.. If you know which one I'm talking about, please lmk!

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, it was a lot harder to write since I don't really know what it would be like to be an animal, so if you have suggestions, definitely leave me a review:)