A/N: Yeah I know, I disappeared, It's called homework and I hate it with the fire of a thousand hells, don't worry, I'm still alive, anyway on with disclaimer.

Disclaimer: Same old schtick, not mine, damn those UPN bastards, A/N's scenes, music, brackets blah blah blah blah blah. you get the drift.

Yeah so, we now return from our commercial break (damn that was corny).

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(We return to where we last let off, Matt standing just outside Sherman's door. Time is just about 4 in the morning, so the sky is just starting to light up and everything is that twilighty blue. Sherman pulls Sophia and Matt inside to "operating room." Camera moves much in this scene, allowing us to see the whole room. Sophia is on the bed, Matt is sitting beside her, still looking like he's shit himself, Sherman rushes around room, pulling vials of powders and creams from an ancient looking cabinet that is behind a painting of white wolf, flanked by paintings of a grey wolf, black wolf, and one of all three together, and rubbing them on various parts of Sophia's body, forehead, ankles, neck, stomach, etc. As Matt sees this he gets a puzzled look on his face, as he knows what the cabinets are for; testing to see if a Skin Walker is ready for the change. By taking the vials from that painting, means that he thinks Sophia will be a white wolf. Damn that was a long description..)

Sherman grabbed Sophia and carried inside, to the same bed where he pulled three bullets out of Matt's body (A/N: I can't remember, how many times did Matt get shot?). He laid her down, and then turned to Matt.

"When did this start?" "I don't know, she stumbled into HQ like this and. I just don't know.." Matt's face was of pure desperation (here Sherman pulls a large vial of a blue liquid and rubs in on Sophia's collar bone. He waits, as to see if it will change colours, but it remains the same).

"Well," Sherman says as he stands fully up and wipes of his hands. "She's not going to change today, but she will soon, and you need to be prepared for that. You need to let her begin to enter the Pack.." He's cut off by Matt. "NO! As long as there is a chance that she won't change, I won't let her join. them. She can't change, she won't!" (Sherman slaps him across the face. Matt is pretty stunned by this.) "Matt, stop it! You're thinking about what you want and not taking her feelings into account. You're being selfish and cowardly, and personally, I think Marie would rather have you try to let her be herself, rather then you pushing her so far away, that she does this to herself."

Matt goes white. "What do you mean?" "The reason why she's had a "fake" first flip of sorts is stress. She wants to be a part of the Park, it's calling her, stronger than I've seen it call anyone in a long time, but she won't let herself go, because she wants to make you happy. Matt, it's damaged her."

Matt hit his knees and began to cry into Sophia's still limp body.

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(We cut to the forest. Camera pans around and finally settles on two trees, on the top of a small hill. A few seconds later, a limping white wolf comes up between them, guess who? Throughout scene camera follows Ruby, then pans out in last shot. Wolfy thoughts and terms are in []'s)

[Gotta run, gotta run, gotta run, gotta run. so tired. must sleep.] Ruby lies down momentarily. [NO! Gotta run, gotta run, gotta run.] Ruby keeps running when all of a sudden, SNAP! Ruby gets caught in a net. From out behind tree appears none other than Tyler Creed. Ruby realizes that because she is weak from the blood transfusion, she can't sense other Skin Walkers.

"Well, what do we have hear, a runaway pet? Ruby, you really have brought this on yourself." Tyler pets her head. Ruby tries to bite him, but only succeeds in getting more tangled. Tyler laughs at her attempts. "Now, now pet, I wouldn't do that. See, Vivian is very upset about you putting the whole pack in danger by bringing Kanin here, so you're going to be put on [lupus corripiere.]" Tyler smirked as Ruby continued to whimper. "And I'm the only one in your defense." (A/N: For all those wondering, [lupus corripiere] means "wolf trial." God bless the English to Latin translator.)

*** (We cut to Jake's garage. Very big for a garage. Jake's father was probably a good friend of Willard's. Jake is working on Luke's car, whilst Luke is sitting on the hood of an old Vet, beside his GTO, drowning his sorrows in a beer. Jake is having obvious trouble fixing Luke's car Music: Nookie, by Limp Bizkit. just think about it, you'll get it.)

"Shit man," Jake turns off the welding iron and whistles as he looks at the GTO. "Your hood is seriously fucked up. What the hell did you run in to?" "Sophia Donner." Jake turned to Luke with a look of disbelief. "You hit Sophia Donner?!" "Actually she picked me up, threw me five feet in the air, and I hit the windshield." "NO FUCKING WAY! How the hell can a half-breed, zoo-bait, never-Flipped FEMALE throw a male Skin Walker five feet in the air, and dent a windshield like this?" Luke practically flew threw the air as he jumped up and grabbed Jake, a male eight years older than him, and slammed him against the hood of his GTO. (A/N: I plan on doing a few of these fics, so I might as well give you some background history, my way. At this current time, Sophia and Luke (and all other teenagers) are 17, so this is the last year of school. Kanin's 27. Ruby and Tyler and all likewise are 25. Vivian and Matt are both 40. Willard was 47. For future reference Luke's birthday is January 13, and Sophia's is March 21 (the Ides of March, which will probably come up later. not saying anything). The current time of year is real time, so a Christmas episode will be coming up. Sophia always knew a little bit about Skin Walkers and that her father was one, but not much more than that. Also in my little world, Marie died when Sophia was 8, if that wasn't what it was already, and Matt stopped flipping just before Sophia's first birthday, because Marie was just really disturbed by it. Sorry just had to get that out, it was swimming around in my head, and I needed the room.)

"First of all, I don't like the word zoo-bait. Secondly, if she can throw me across the street, she has to be something more than a half breed." Luke let him go, eyes still glowing, and started to walk away.

"Okay, okay," Jake knows to just let that one slide, he is the Alpha's son. "I agree with you. She is something, something important, but you have to remember who is the first person to call her zoo-bait to her face." Luke turned back to Jake. "What are you getting at?" "Nothing, but it looks like you to do some remembering." Luke gave him a puzzled look. "Just think about it, man." Luke started to walk away again, mad at what Jake was insinuating. "Have the car ready for Friday." He walked out, jacket in one hand, beer in the other. Jake just laughed. "About time for someone to get him to settle down, I just hope Sophia can do the job."

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(We cut to Luke walking in his front door. He goes to the kitchen, sees his mother ordered out for dinner, and grabs the container with leftover, VERY rare meat in it and headed to his room. The colour scheme in his room is hunter green and brown, HUGE bed (hmm. I wonder why?). Very dominate painting of a grey/white wolf, almost covering a wall. The rest of the furniture includes a computer desk, cedar dresser, and a large brown leather chair. Doors open to a balcony that looks over the lake. On the other side of Wolf Lake we can see Sophia's house, in fact Luke can see right in her bedroom window (dirty Luke.DIRTY!). Luke plops on the chair, which faces the window, looking at Sophia's dark room. Music: Foo Fighters Learn to Fly)

"Yeah, well I hope you're happy," he said pointing his fork at Sophia's House. You make me look like a fool, choosing an ungulate over me and then decide it would be fun to total my car, using me as a proverbial baseball bat. I just don't get you." With that last fork shake, he accidentally threw his fork and watched it as it flew through the air and landed behind his dresser. "Oh, shit!" He got up and began to fish behind his dresser, but instead of finding his fork, he found a picture frame. Fork forgotten, he pulled out the picture frame and brushed the dust off the glass to see what the picture was. He saw the two smiling faces of a boy and a girl, 13 years old. The boy with short blonde hair and an already well-defined face, waiting to become the handsome man that he was today. The girl with long black hair, adorned with one big lily and big brown eyes, at this point free of glasses, waiting to become the sophisticated women she was today. Luke smiled, gently brushing his hand against the glass, remembering that day.

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(A/N: that up there ^ symbols a flashback) (Okay, this scene is gonna look a little blurry and hazy. We flash back to a hot, damp August afternoon. We see a big field of grasson the outskirts of the woods. It's around 6:00 so the sun is just starting to set, making the sky a beautiful painting of pink, orange, red and yellow. A young Ruby and Tyler sit and the edge of the field near the house, Sophia and Luke are running through it.) Luke and Sophia ran barefoot through a field that Luke's parents owned, bordering the woods. They reached the end of the field, looked at each other, then raced headlong into the woods. They stopped at a patch of lilies by a tree. Luke picked one and put it in Sophia's hair. Sophia smiled. "Thanks it's pretty." Luke brushed the hair off the other side of her face. "But not as pretty as you." Luke leaned in and gently kissed Sophia, then pulled away and smiled at her. Faraway they heard the call of Ruby, calling them home for supper. They quickly race back out of the woods, still holding hands. "Aww, look at you guys," Ruby said with a smile, as the reached her. "Stand still." Ruby pulled a camera out of her pocket. "Smile" CLICK!

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His first kiss. Innocent and pure. Far from the relationship he has with Presley. And then it hit him. He knew what Jake was talking about. He knew why he and Sophia weren't close anymore. They were perfect back then, but three weeks later, he shattered that pretty picture, that beautiful girl, into a thousand pieces. Two days after that, he started his Flip. It was painful. It was hard on him. It took him a long time to adjust. He lay in his room for three weeks, hoping to see Sophia's smiling face. But she never came. He now realized that she didn't come because her father wouldn't let her, because he prayed that she would never be like him. But back then, it just didn't compute. As he lay, there in agony he started to think some of the things that he fought against he best friends, Sean and Alex, to keep unsaid to her. He started to believe that she was different from him. She was practically an ungulate, unworthy of his attention. Besides if she was going to let him suffer in his time of need, and not be there, to hell with her anyway. Half-breed. Filthy, dirty bitch. Zoo-bait..

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(Cut to a scene with deadly shape images, a play on how cruel reality is. We see a schoolyard, Wolf Lake Elementary. We see a very different 13-year- old Luke step of the school bus. Instead of the unsure, human motions he had in the last flash back, he was languid. There was almost a liquidness to him. A type of grace only a wolf can possess. He walks up the front of the school, the still un-Flipped, but undoubtedly loyal Sean, Presley, and Alex following behind him. In the midst of children playing, sits Sophia on a swing, reading a book, using a pressed lily, the one Luke gave her, as a bookmark. She sees Luke and runs up to him.)

"Luke!" Luke turns around to see Sophia hurling towards him, giving him a big hug. "Where have you been, I've been so worried about you. I." Luke pushed her off of him. "Don't touch me half-breed." Sophia was stunned. "Luke, what are you." "Worried about me? You weren't worried about me. You didn't even care enough to come and see." "Luke, I can explain." "No, I don't know what I saw in you, your nothing but zoo-bait." Presley snickered at this. Tears began to well up in Sophia's eyes. "Oh poor baby, " Luke snorted as he pushed her down. The book went flying and a corner of it landing in the mud. Sophia looked at Luke for a moment, then picked up her book and ran inside school, crying. Luke looks at her running home, mouths an 'I'm sorry,' then shakes his head as he turns back to his friends. "What a waste of good Skin Walker blood."

(We cut to class. Regular grade 7 classroom, double desks, pictures all over the place you know. Sophia sits surrounded by Presley, Luke, Alex, and Sean. We can't hear anything but the Teacher, a female, teaching. Every few seconds, one of the four lean in and say something to her. Sophia is slowly starting to cry, obviously disturbed by what they are saying. After a while, it's too much for Sophia, and she bolts out of the classroom, home bound. The teacher runs out following her, but doesn't catch her and in a few seconds Luke is watching her run down the street. A tear slowly slides down the cheek that isn't visible to his friends.)

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(We cut back to Luke, still stroking the picture, only his smile was gone.)

He remembered that it took her three hours to finally give up and run home. He was terrible to her. That was the reason why she avoided him, and he all but forgot it. He was the reason why she avoided him. It was all his fault. This time, tears ran both sides of his face.

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(We cut back to Sherman's house, Sophia still passed out on the bed, Matt holding her hand, Sherman pacing the room.)

Matt could believe it. He was the cause of his daughter pain. If only he would have let he be who she is. He was being selfish. He had to bring her into the pack now. For her. For Marie. Matt suddenly felt Sophia's hand grip his. She shot up in bed. "Dad.my head." she tried to get up. "No honey, just rest, you're gonna be fine, you gonna be just fine."

(Cut to commercial.)

(A/N I humbly ask your forgiveness for taking so long, I'm sorry. Well there gonna be one more chapter. I think, in this episode, then on to Episode 11. Please review, thanks guys.)