Sophia woke up to another vision embedding itself permanantly in her mind. Like the last one that had scared her, this one once again was showing her the dead. However this time there were two bodies. One of a young blonde man and the other of a blonde woman. They closely resembled each other almost as if they were brother and sister, but Sophia's gut instinct told her that they were a couple. She felt like she knew them like she had seen them before but she couldn't put a name to the lost faces staring back at her. She noticed that these two victims were attacked differently, this time the murderer had gotten more risky with slicing the throats of the Skinwalkers. Wait, how could Sophia sense that they were Skinwalker? She didn't know herself, but it was clear as day that they belonged to the Pack.

Sophia looked around the alley where she was standing in her premonition. Off in the distance she saw great glowing eyes the color of amber staring back at her in anger. She swore that she had seen those eyes looking back at her before and not just in her other premonition. If only she could think where she had seen those eyes before and why they were so familiar. A name was just about to appear in her mind when she was suddenly pulled out of the premonition and back into that tunnel pulling her back into the present.

Sophia woke with a start gasping for air almost as though she had been winded by the tunnel that transported her to and from her visions. Sitting up in the bed to see the fresh snowfall from last night, Sophia's soul ached to be out in that snow. It had been so long since she had been outside and with the snow, her white wolven pelt would blend in perfectly. Quickly getting out of bed and writing a quick note to Alice, Sophia opened the front door taking a deep breath before shedding her skin for fur and running towards the forest.

Sophia couldn't believe how incredible she was feeling right now. It had been days since she had been outside, let alone in her true pelt. Only a week had gone by and so far she missed being a wolf. Her other half was starting to take over herself completely. Feeling the crunch on the freshly fallen snow underneath her paws and the sight of the mist escaping from her mouth was enough to send a high through her body causing every amount of stress in her body to suddenly disapear. God she had to get out more often and stop being so weak towards nature. It was almost as if she got weak in the knees every time she went outside because of her amazement of feeling she got when she was truly one with nature.

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Ruby's eyes fluttered open with the sound of Sherman making breakfast in the kitchen. When she also heard and felt John coming to as well, she noticed how quickly he was adjusting to all his new wolven abilities. Ruby felt only bliss when she heard John's lungs fill with air with a deep breath and the movement of his naked flesh against hers. When his arm slowly began to wrap around her stomach and pull her closer to their already flush bodies, Ruby could just drown in that moment for the rest of her life.

"Good Morning." John's husky voice whispered in her ear sending a pleasant chill down her back.

"Good Morning to you too." Ruby said turning to face John who loved the feel of her body now moving against his.

John took only a few seconds look into her eyes before lowering his head, letting his lips touch hers. He couldn't stand the torture anymore. Being neglected from her for so many months and afraid of the fact that she might one day disapear from him again, John was thankful for every second he now had with her, holding onto those precious moments so dearly, Ruby had no idea how much his love had grown for her. Nor did John for the increasing affection he would receive from Ruby knowing that he had never given up on her.

John was just about to further their kissing when Sherman's footsteps quietly made their way towards the bedroom housing both Ruby and John. Sherman immediately knew what they were doing so he kept the door the way it was and lightly knocked on the door knowing that they were listening to him, sensing him there, but nothing could change his manners.

"Ruby, John, you two awake?" he asked already knowing the answer to that one.

"Breakfast is ready and then it's off to see Vivian." Sherman said feeling like the two's parents making them breakfast and sure that they were awake.

"We're up Sherman." John said from within the bedroom.

"Then get a move on it." Sherman said adding more to his mother-like attitude at the moment which John caught up on.

"Yes Mom." John said trying to hide his smile even though there was a door separating him and Sherman. Sherman couldn't help but smile as well as he left the hallway walking back towards the kitchen to finish breakfast for the two who would soon be out knowing Ruby's craving for meat which would also start John's craving for it as well with his new abilities. It had started out as a great day, but Ruby's gut told her something was going to happen today only she couldn't place how much it was going to effect her. She had no idea.

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As John and Ruby were just starting to get out of bed not so eagerly looking forward to the day at hand, Sheriff Donner was making his way out of his house and towards his truck. He had called Vivian the night before and asked to meet with her privately with important information concerning the Pack. This which caused Vivian to agree to such a visit along with the chance to see Matt, prompted the early appointment in the morning, Vivian hoping no one would disturb the two of them as they talked about whatever was concerning Matt and the Pack. It had been a long time since those two words had been used in the same sentence.

Matt didn't know how he was going to break the news to Vivian. It would have been better to have Sherman to deal with it, but since Matt wasn't quite sure who's life exactly was at stake, he figured that it was better to keep it between him and Vivian before allowing the rest of the Pack and Sherman to become involved. The person responsible for these terrible crimes had not clearly defined which Alpha exactly he was after. By killing blondes and saying "the Alpha" as in the present Alpha it stated that the killer was after Vivian. On the other hand, the killer was murdering people who had kept their distance with the Pack and the killer also could have been talking about the "Alpha" as the supposed Alpha seeing that Matt should have been the Alpha, but had dismissed his postition within the Pack after falling in love with a human.

Although Matt wasn't exactly 100% sure who was the supposed target, he figured it was better to warn Vivian than leaving her out of the loop knowing that she would be pissed when she found out she was being the hunted. Sides, she had enough problems on her hands with the ever increasing threats coming from males within the Pack at her leadership. Knowing her stubborness, Vivian might think that this kind of threat might just be another male trying to rise to power. She had to know the true reality of this situation at hand, and the fact that it wasn't going to go away with time. Nothing ever does.

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Vivian was busy walking through the house making last minute changes to the way her house looked. She knew she was obsessing too much but when it came to a rare visit from Matt, especially prompted by him, concerning her and the Pack, Vivian wasn't about to let herself look like a bad Alpha, nor a housekeeper. She was just about to step into the study when she heard a moan come from the family room. Not ignoring the noise, Vivian stepped in the room and began to inspect the situation at hand. And it was not a very good one.

"God damnit Luke." Those were the only words that could escape her mouth with what she was feeling and events that began to unfold within her own house.

Vivian saw her son lying on the floor, empty liquor bottles and cans all around him, and the heavy scent of alcohol radiating off his body. Luke was just beginning to wake up and try to get up but with the many different types of alcohol racing through his veins, wound up exactly where he left off back on the floor. On his pleasant trip back on the ground, Luke hit his head on the counter, adding to his hangover and headache already brewing. Vivian had no idea what she was going to do with the boy. He had wasted his time while Sophia was alive and now he was trying to forget about the whole experience with hopes of amnesia after hitting his head so many times while also destroying his liver in the process. First he was in denial and now it was in some sort of stage of drunken denial. She could only imagine what other personality would come next, but she didn't have time to think about it now hearing the doorbell ring and the prescence of Matt at her front door.

"For God's sake Luke, take a shower, and stop sulking. And drinking." She said leaving Luke in the family room to sort out his own problems. She would deal with him later, but now other issues took her attention. The one, most important to her right now, was standing on her front porch.

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Sophia's mind told her to go back to the cabin, but her heart protested saying that it needed more time out in the woods. The inner wolf also rising within her protested with her heart making her cave against her judgment to head back towards the cabin. She had only covered a portion of the land that Alice owned and she wasn't about to head back now not knowing what the rest of her property held with natural wonders astounding Sophia around every turn. No she wasn't about to head back against her mind and gut telling her otherwise. She had been deprived too long having to stay inside the past couple of days. Alice had only allowed her out twice before and those had been small trips outside when she knew no one would see Sophia.

Sophia was running as fast as she could when she felt like she was being pulled into some deep hole, making her fall to the ground like she had done previous times before, only this time in wolf form. Once again sucked in the tunnel of her premonitions, Sophia saw a heart-wrenching vision taking her breath away along with part of her soul.

Sophia saw Alice standing outside the cabin with the whiteness of the woods and the snow enveloping her. She was standing there by herself it seemed, but Sophia's senses told her other people were there only Sophia could not see their faces, nor bodies for that matter. So intent on looking for other people around Alice, Sophia failed to notice the falling of Alice's body to the ground. Sophia felt that she was somehow attached to Alice's body as she felt her body fall down on the ground next to Alice's. Sophia closed her eyes afraid of the fall, but when she felt the cold shock of the snow on her warm skin, she opened her eyes. She saw herself lying only inches away from Alice. Her face right next to hers, Sophia couldn't help but notice the shocked look upon Alice's face with her eyes wide open. Sophia also couldn't help but see the snow changing color as the liquid spread all around the two of them, standing out in the snow. That color was the color of a crimson red. Sophia knew immediately that it was blood and could actually smell the blood making its way out of Alice's body at a constant pace.

Sophia tried to look away from the picture taking place. She wondered how it was a picture when it felt so real. She turned her head back to see who was behind the two of them, in hopes of seeing who had taken the life of her new friend. Who would kill a person as innocent as Alice? Who had that much rage surfacing through their body to kill another? Her own anger and rage began to swell through her body. So much anger to look the person who did this in the eye. Once she looked into that person's eyes she knew exactly what kind of a person it took to kill another. Evil and ravengeful eyes were starring back at her chilling her flesh down to the very bone. His name escaped her mouth more as a growl but nonetheless it was audible through her intense hatred for the person starring down at her.

"Tyler Creed."

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"Good Morning." Matt said as Vivian opened the door and let him in her house.

"Good Morning Matt." Vivian said as they continued their way towards her office. The office that used to belong to her husband. The office of the Alpha. The office Matt sould have had along with the house and Vivian.She couldn't let herself go there right now. She had to put it all behind her for now. Matt had come on business and business only. She only hoped she would have time for pleasure later.

"I'm glad that you could see me on such sort notice." Matt said as he entered her office.

"Well you sounded very concerned on the phone. How could I ignore your call?" Vivian said making her way towards her chair as she talked. "Have a seat. Can I get you anything?"

"Thank you and no, I'm okay." Matt said as he sat down with Vivian.

"So how are you doing these days Matt?" Vivian asked making small talk seeing that Matt wasn't exactly happy to be there. In fact, he seemed nervous.

"I'm all right, I guess. You?" he said turning the question on her.

"I'm good." Vivian said shaking her head and letting it look towards the ground knowing that if she looked Matt in the face she would be tempted to tell him the truth. She waited for him to say something seeing that he was the one who had called her but the room became quiet. Looking up, Vivian saw a blank stare on Matt's face as if he was waiting for her to say something. "So Matt..., why did you call me? You said it had to do with me and Pack. What's going on?" Vivian said breaking the ice.

"In the past couple of days, there have been three murders in Wolf Lake." Matt said knowing that he was risking a lot here by telling Vivian, but then again she could be a possible victim.

"What? Who?" Vivian said surprised by this information as she sat up a little straighter in her chair and moved more towards Matt.

"First it was Margaret Sulivan. She was strangled to death next to an abandoned building. Then last night we found Jacob and Lucy Conners both with split throats in an alley." Matt said lowering his head, hating to have to be the one to tell Vivian.

"Oh my God." Vivian said hardly believing what Matt was telling her. She knew that the victims were Skinwalkers. How they were part of the Pack even though they were like Matt and kept from themselves, trying to distance themselves from the pressures and the troubles the Pack sometimes caused. "What does this all mean, especially to the Pack?"

"Hang on a second. There's more." Matt said looking at Vivian before he continued to see if she could withstand what he was about to say. "Last night also in the alley was a message from the killer written in blood. It said, 'Your turn is coming Alpha.' Now the thing is I don't know if its directed to you or me."

"Why not? It clearly seems to be towards me." Vivian said pointing towards herself, taking the heat though Matt could see she wasn't thrilled

"Although you are the Alpha and all the victims were blonde, that doesn't necessarily tell me that you are the target. Margaret, Jacob, and Lucy all in their own ways abandoned the Pack and I was supposed to be the Alpha, not you, so you see-" Matt said but Vivian cut him off.

"It could be either one of us." she said taking a deep breath and trying to keep her cool as she tried to find some good out of the situation, but when you could be the target of a serial killer, there was no good side to it. "So what do we do now? Do we tell the Pack? Hold a meeting? What?"

"If I were you, which I'm not, I would talk to Sherman before calling any meeting to see what he thinks. I personally wouldn't call a meeting just yet because we don't know if this killer is human or Skinwalker. Although I'm leaning more towards Skinwalker with the presence of a gray wolf hair fiber found on one of the bodies. I'd give it a little more time to see if we can find any more evidence or come closer to knowing exactly who this psycho is after before alarming the whole Pack." Matt said trying to calm Vivian down from so much to take in especially when her life along with the members of the Pack's lives could be at stake.

"Whatcha talking about?" a voice said interrupting the increasing drama in Vivian's office as Sherman's voice rang out when he opened the door, surprising both Matt and Vivian since they were so in thought with their conversation.

"Sherman." they both growled in unison knowing that it was him who would always find himself in the middle of everyone's problems and even deeper in their moments of intensity and tension.

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Sophia woke up with the deafening sound of the fire of a gun. The look that she saw on Alice's dead body in her vision was enough for Sophia's heart rate to increase a few beats. Clearing the remaining cobwebs from her head she looked where she was and immediately started running making her way towards to Alice hoping that she could help her, but in her heart she already knew she was gone. Sophia saw the cabin within her sights and her heart along with her mind forced her to run faster towards Alice. She began to slow down, however, when she began to reach the cabin knowing that Tyler might still be lerking around. All she needed was him to see or sense her and think that she was Ruby and be carted off back to Wolf Lake. She kill herself before that would happen.

Once she made it towards the cabin, Sophia tried to hang tight towards the walls of the cabin and crept her way towards the front where she remembered being in her vision. She was about to step around the corner when she stopped herself hearing voices.

"Find anything?" a voice asked which sounded like Tyler's.

"No, looks like the old lady lived by herself." another male voice said. Even though Sophia didn't know who it was, she figured it was one of Tyler's goons.

"Fuck!" Tyler said not afraid to hide his anger.

"Where the hell is she? Are you sure about our informant? You're positive that he saw a white wolf up here?" Tyler asked wondering where his plan had failed.

"He said a white wolf has been here for a little over a week."

"Damn you Ruby, where the hell are you?" Tyler said to himself more than to Ruby. "Allright, take care of this and let's go." Tyler said as Sopphia could here his footsteps walking away from the cabin and to a car by the sound of the opening and closing of a car door.

Sophia didn't even have to turn the corner to know what was beyond it. She couldn't stand to see Alice's face again. Seeing it in her vision was enough let alone going out there and witnessing all of it again. She didn't know what to do; didn't know where to go. What could she do? She couldn't go back to Wolf Lake, but that was the only place she had ever known until now? Sophia didn't know what she was doing or where she was going but she just started running as a single tear began to fall down her wolven cheek, the blue-white droplet immediately being absorbed into her pure white fur. That fur which caused the death of Alice. That fur that caused her to now want to avoid being who she was supposed to be now more than ever. The color which would come to haunt her for the rest of her life until she overcame her fear and became proud of the curse she has to live with.

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"You shouldn't use that tone of voice when speaking with your keeper who holds vital information for the Pack." Sherman said taking the liberty of inviting himself inside the office.

"What do you want Sherman?" Vivian said ignoring Sherman's complaint about her manners.

"I just happen to want to let you in on some new developments within the Pack." Sherman said giving Matt a smile which worried Matt wondering if Sherman was going to spill about Sophia. "Matt, if you wouldn't mind staying, this new piece of information may interest you if not intrigue you."

"Okay Sherman, what new shocker do you have now?" Vivian asked already getting mad at Sherman with telling her now instead of when the situation first happened, knowing exactly how Sherman worked his magic around the Pack, always leaving everyone, especially the Alpha, out of the loop about very important issues.

"I would like you to meet the newest member of the Pack."

"Sherman you know I don't meet every single new member in the Pack. What makes this one so different?" Vivian asked wondering what Sherman had up his sleeve.

"This member you didn't know about." Sherman said as he walked over towards the door that he just entered and motioned a "come in" signal to the person outside.

Following Sherman's lead, a black wolf came barreling in the office to present himself in front of Vivian and Matt. Both, whom were astounded by the wolf's beauty.

"A black wolf. A fine addition to the Pack. Who is our lucky member?" Vivian asked already knowing the benefit of a black wolf with a Pack. The power within a black wolf that was known for centuries of the power they could contain. Only the wisest and most special wolves were given the chance to become black.

The black wolf looked at Sherman before changing, making sure that Sherman gave the wolf a nod allowing him to reveal himself before the Alpha and the should-be Alpha. Gasps and shocked faces were given when the black wolf turned out to be none other than John Kanin. John felt like he was at a freak show surrounded by people mocking him. He now experienced a small percentage of what Sophia must have felt when she was growing up. Now he was the half-breed of the Pack. John thought that he was going to run from the office until a familiar hand came to rest on his arm. He turned to look beside him to see Ruby there, willing to stand with him through his first experiences of the Pack. She wanted him to know that no matter what would happen, she'd be there next to him when it came down to it.

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"Would you care to explain what the hell is going on here Sherman?" Vivian said only taking her still shocked eyes off of John to look squarely into Sherman's giving the look of death for not notifying her sooner with this stunning information.

"What do you need to know other than the fact that John is a wolf and therefore a member of the Pack with Ruby as his chosen mate?" Sherman asked not seeing the importance of John's past seeing that no one could change it let alone stop what had happened.

"Well you could at least explain how this all happened?" Vivian said holding onto the last straw before strangling Sherman for not telling her this.

"As you know John received a blood transfusion a couple weeks ago. The only thing you didn't know is that John has Skinwalker DNA running through his veins. Enough to be there but so far removed that no one could tell the truth about him by just looking at him. It was only the mixture of a white wolf that would give him the strength to actually cause a spark inside of him and help him complete the unfamiliar change happening within his body." Sherman said not able to help the fact that he had been smiling the whole time he had been talking to Vivian.

"Well let me be the first to congratulate you on becoming the newest member of the Pack. Too late to go running now." Matt said as he walked up and shook John's hands knowing that the man had a million questions and worries racing through his head right now. A little bit of the tension in his back begain to release knowing that he had Ruby, Sherman, and Matt on his side aware of how important their positions within the Pack were.

"Wait, who said he was allowed to be in Pack?" Vivian asked surprising Matt and Sherman with her ignorant ways of handling the Pack.

"Are you telling me that you will willingly let any other wolf raised in Wolf Lake enter the Pack with no questions asked and the continuing of the hunt for my hide, but you won't let a black wolf, a strong one at that, enter the Pack just becuase he is new to the laws of the Pack? God Vivian I knew you were stubborn but not that bad." Ruby said tired of the way people were being treated in the Pack. Sophia had it so bad that she faked her death just to leave and Ruby knew for herself how hard it was to live in Wolf Lake with the pressures baring down on you with every Pack member pressuring you to become something great because of the color of your pelt. She had witnessed and experienced too many people's lives tortured from the Pack, she was not about to let John become the next victim.

"How can I trust him? How do I know that he will stay within the confines of Wolf Lake when his mate has been known for disapearing countless times?" Vivian said stating a cold fact to Ruby's face.

"The only reason why I left is because of how some members of the Pack are treated just like how your sons treats innocent half-breeds who diserve a chance but can't find a friend, human or Skinwalker, in Wolf Lake because of some wannabe Alpha." Ruby said sticking that knife hard in Vivian's gut, but what hurt even more was the honest truth of what Ruby point had made.

Vivian couldn't help but see the white wolf rising to the surface in Ruby as she even caught a glimpse of those eyes starring at her briefly flashing gold before returning to their grayish-blue normal color. Vivian sometimes pitied Tyler for trying to take on such a big task of controlling Ruby and keeping her away from the man she loved. Yes, Ruby was a fine addition to the Pack, but that didn't mean that Vivian couldn't control her to stay within the city limits of Wolf Lake.

John saw the tension begin to grow between to two women and he knew if he didn't say something quickly there was going to be a cat-fight on their hands. More like a bitch fight actually. Sherman and Matt weren't about to stop the fuede coming between the Alpha and the white wolf knowing that they had no say in the matter and both of them had more power than the two of them. No John had to be the one to stop this arguement for he was the one they had started the battle over.

"Vivian, listen. Since I flipped a few nights ago, Ruby and Sherman have shared with me vital information of the Pack. I know what contract I am subject to with my involvement with the Pack. I would never risk exposure with the outside world because in doing so I would risk exposure of myself and Ruby along with everyone she cares about. You have my word that I will never betray the Pack as long as it never betrays me." John said knowing how to bargain with Vivian and her mood suddenly lightened.

Sherman was right. He would make a good recruit for the Pack. His strength was clearly shown but there was more underneath just that muscle. In a way he was similiar to Matt, also thinking clearly and wisely before running into trouble. Vivian couldn't help but wonder if it was because of the cop within or the fact that they were both very strong wolves.

"Well I guess there's nothing left to say but welcome to the Pack and your new life." Vivian said surprising them all with her acceptance of John in the Pack. "I don't know how easy it is going to be with fitting in especially around some of the male members of the Pack," Vivian said not needing to mention Tyler to get the point across. "but good luck. Just remember you are not alone out there. All of us in this room have accepted you, hopefully others will as well."

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Sophia couldn't gather the will power to stop herself from running. She didn't understand what she was doing only that she couldn't go back there and bare to look at Alice's cold body lying there in the blood-stained snow. She didn't have the courage to face what her premonition had warned her of. If only her power had been greater then she would have been able to have to premonition sooner and might be able to help Alice. What was she thinking? There was no way that she would have been able to protect Alice and fight off Tyler and his goons and come walking away from it in one piece. She was just about to make a left around a fallen tree when another vision came forcing its way into her mind.

Pulled once again in that hellish tunnel Sophia prayed that this vision wouldn't be another dead body looking back at her. She hoped with all her mind that this vision might bring good news instead of the constant stampede of death and grief that had come to haunt most of her visions. This time, unlike all others she saw herself. At first she thought she was stuck in the tunnel with the constant feeling of propelling downwards, but after a few moments she realized that she was in the woods were she happened to be running at the moment. Sophia was just about to discover what her vision was trying to tell her when reality came pulling her out of the tunnel that made her both scared, shocked, and out of breath. She wouldn't realize it then but the screamed that voiced its way from her mouth came out as a howl where she was standing but as an ear-splitting, tortured cry on the three private links she was connected to.

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Although Matt and Luke both heard that ear-wrenching scream coming from Sophia's mouth, no body heard nor felt her pain more than Ruby who thought she was going to fall over from the shockingly hard blow caused by Sophia's outreach. If it hadn't been for John standing so closely behind her, she would have undoubtedly fallen on the floor. Her eyes immediately fell to Matt's as the worried expression on his face continued to grow making the color on his face disapear for a moment. Ruby's eyes then fell to Vivian's wondering if the secret about Sophia would still be kept safe after such an blow from Sophia's mind.

Thankfully Ruby was happy that Luke was in the house when Sophia's unearthly scream had entered his mind pulling him out of his hangover coma and instantly waking him up. He had been up in his room after a long shower when Sophia's scream had stopped him in his tracks, almost making him double over from the pain caused from his heart clenching. Almost wondering if what he was feeling was for real or if it was just another allusion brought on by the substances in his body, Luke quickly made his way downstairs causing a bit of noise when he jumped from the top of the stairs, feeling like Evil Kenieval as he cleared all of them with one leap, landing on the floor in front of the door.

"Excuse me a moment." Vivian said rushing out of the room after hearing the noise created by her son.

Ruby only waited a few seconds after Vivian had closed the door to start a much needed conversation with the four people in the room with her.

"Sherman, she's hurt." Ruby said before she tried to connect further with Sophia to find out what really happened to the poor girl.

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Sophia found herself lying on the soft yet cold snow floor covering the forest where she was, in pain from something yet she was so dazed and confused to find out what had happened to her. Sophia tried to stand up and get off of the floor, when she discovered it painful to move her leg. Actually it was downright hard to keep consciousness from the increasing ache and throbbing beginning to form from the wound. She looked back behind her to see that her vision had caused her to lose her balance and in that fall her foot happened to land in a trap. A trap not like a piece of rope tied around her leg, yet a razor sharp, jaw clenching, steel trap that had cut through flesh, tissue, and muscle down to the bare bone on both sides causing her leg to now bleed profusely. Just when Sophia felt like she was about to fall back to the soft confines of the snow, Ruby forcefully entered her mind, clearly worried about her.

"Sophia, what happened?" Ruby asked the fear showed in both their minds.

"I had a premonition, which caused me to lose my balance and my leg got caught in a trap which is now trying to cut off my leg from the rest of my body." Sophia managed to reply trying to hold back the tears.

"Premonition? Of what?" Ruby asked her.

"Of me falling, but it wasn't able to stop myself in time before falling in the trap. Just like I wasn't able to stop Tyler from killing Alice." Sophia said unconsciously telling Ruby everything.

Alice? Who's Alice and why did Tyler kill her?" Ruby asked not yet following Sophia.

"Alice was the person Sherman set me up to stay with and Tyler killed her because an informant had told him that there was a white wolf staying with her. Oh, by the way if you haven't figured out, I'm a white wolf. Go figure." Sophia said trying to lighten the mood, but she was trying to restrain herself from breaking down on the inside. "While we're on the topic of sharing good news, congrats for you and John getting back together and for him successfully making it through the flip. I see he's a black wolf."

"How did you know?" Ruby asked amazed by Sophia's talent coming on strong.

"Another premonition I had."

"What else have you seen?" Ruby asked curious what Sophia's gift might also be seeing.

"I saw my father crying and three Skinwalkers from the Pack all die from either being strangled or slit throats. I don't know who they are except that they are fairly young and blonde. Also in every premontion of a dead person there's a gray wolf in the background looking at me. I feel like I should know him, but I have no idea from where." Sophia said shocking Ruby with the information she was revealing here.

"All right, Soph, stay calm. I gonna talk to Sherman and your dad for a second. Stay with me." Ruby said before she came back to Vivian's office to tell them all what she had just learned.

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Ruby opened her eyes to see herself sitting on a sofa in Vivian's office with John on one side of her and Sherman on the other. The most shocking thing was the person sitting directly across from her only inches from her face. Matt starred into the grayish-blue eyes of Ruby hoping for answers and relief. Boy was he in for the ride of his life?

"Matt, Sophia's hurt. Really bad." Ruby said alarming Matt even more, if that was at all possible.

"How?"

"First you need to know something." Ruby said as she quickly looked at Sherman knowing that this secret had to be told or Matt would never forgive Sherman. "Sophia's pelt color, do you know what it is?"

"No, I looked away when she flipped." Matt said the concern along with curiousity starting to grow on his face.

"Matt she's white." Ruby said looking directly at Matt in the eyes knowing that she was telling the truth.

"It can't be true." Matt said not believing it. "It's not possible."

"Matt, believe me it is. You yourself even said that we had a similiar characteristic that no one could put a finger on. Now you know."

"Is this true Sherman?" Matt asked looking at the man wanting him to tell him no.

"Yes." Sherman said making Matt close his eyes with that word coming out of Sherman's mouth.

"Okay, what does her having to be white get her hurt?" Matt asked wondering where all this was going.

"Since she's white and so am I it's like the two halves were brought together the night she flipped. As you know, whites carry special powers. Mine happens to be healing people and Sophia's is premonitions." Ruby said letting it all sink in. "Anyways, Sophia had a premonition of the person she was staying with, Alice, dying. When her premonition had ended, she found out the truth that Alice had been killed."

"Who did it? Who killed her?" Sherman asked sad at the truth of his friend's passing.

"Tyler." Ruby said not shocking Sherman who quickly nodded and bowed his head. "He was told a white wolf was up where ever Sophia is and he assumed that it was me. Sherman, I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you."

"Ruby, we have no idea when Vivian's going to get back, what happened to my daughter?" Matt asked desperately wanting to know Sophia's condition.

"She was so scared of what happened that she began running and she began to have another premonition of her falling, only it was too late again. She felt into a trap. It got her on the leg all the way down to the bone. Matt, she's hurt really bad even though she doesn't want to admit it." Ruby said worrying Matt as he got up to begin pacing around the room. "Wait, there's more." Ruby said as she began to tell Matt about the other visions Sophia had including the ones about three dead Skinwalkers which would hit Matt with even more shock.

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"Lucas Cates, where in the hell do you think you're going?" Vivian asked her son as she saw him beginning to discard his clothing and head towards the back of the house. She knew where he was headed, but she had to say something to her unresponsive and tranced son who just walked past her without even realizing she was there.

"Luke, what's going on?" She asked him following him as she ran in front of him and placed herself in front of the open door frame leading towards the back porch and down to the grounds of the mansion.

"She's alive Mom? She's hurt. I'm not going to stay here when I know she's out there." Luke said before he tried to push his mother out of the way, but he should have known better than to try to control her. Not only because she was the Alpha but because she was his mother.

"Luke, I don't know how many times I have to tell you this. Sophia is not alive. She's dead. Accept it." Vivian said knowing that she was breaking her son's heart here, but he had to stop hoping on the impossible.

"Why don't you let me go find her and then I'll prove you wrong." Luke said hoping that a challenge would change his mother's mind, but there was no way of changing a maternal instinct.

"No, you are to stay in the confines of Wolf Lake. Not just because you may be the future Alpha some day but because I say so." Vivian said standing up to her son knowing that he would have to listen to her.

A growl soon rumbled its way out of Luke's throat but when his mother gave him a look of death, he stopped it and drifted his brightly glowing amber eyes away from his mother. He knew it was bad to disobey his mother but even worse to disobey the Alpha's direct orders. Standing her ground, Vivian watched as her son backed up a couple steps before retreating towards his room where another loud remark came from him. The slamming of his bedroom door as he fell on his bed, disgusted with himself for not defying everything to save the life of the one who had made him go insane the past week.

Vivian couldn't understand what was happening to her son. He had always been hard to control and sometimes talk to, but never like this treating his mother with so much disrespect. Sophia's death had changed him in more ways than one, and she just hoped that he would come around sooner rather than later or he was viable to lose his position that she had helped create in the Pack. Time was not on her side.

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While Ruby was busy talking to her father, Sherman, and John she began to think about the situation at hand. Sophia couldn't wait for someone to come to her rescue, for no one knew where she was. She had to get herself to safety and fast before it was too late. The only problem she had no clue where safety was except her room. If she had only been able to hack all the pressures and torements she had encountered through her life. Who was she kidding? She hated every moment in Wolf Lake. However, it was the only place she had ever considered home.

Sophia looked back on the steel trap on her leg. If only she could somehow get it off her. She tried to open the jaws of the trap but the rust that had built up over time wasn't going to make the trap move. She wondered how then she had gotten herself in that situation. She looked at how the trap was reinforced into the ground. She saw that the trap was connected to a chain which was connected to a spike driven into the ground. If only she could pull out the stake.

Sophia changed back into her human flesh which caused her even more pain from the trap. Now able to use her hands, Sophia slowly moved towards the trap. She was able to grasp the spike and begin to pull, trying to loosen the stake from it resting place for the past decade. But it wouldn't budge. She was able to throw a full-grown Alpha male onto the hood of his car, but was useless when it came to pulling out a simple little stick. Sophia pulled and pulled until the only thing that help was a growl coming from deep down in her throat. Finally after what seemed forever, she was able to pull the stake out. Now she was free even if the trap was still on her leg, she was at least able to walk on three legs as she once again changed back into a wolf, releasing some of the tension on her leg caused by her changing.

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Just as Ruby had finished talking to Sherman, Matt, and John, Sophia had interupted her thoughts to tell her something she thought she would have never heard out of Sophia's mouth or mind for that matter. As soon as she came, Sophia had vanished, blocking herself from any links. Ruby was so shocked from what Sophia said, she could hardly take it all in as fast as it came. Only with the pressure to tell those around her and the concerned look on Matt's face, was Ruby able to continue with her conversation.

"Ruby what is it?" Matt asked sensing the girl had been tramatized in some way.

"She's coming. She's coming back." Ruby said with a smile.

"Who's coming where?" Matt asked not following Ruby.

"Sophia. Sophia's coming back to Wolf Lake."