Rei walked out onto the veranda only just dodging a large snowball that had come hurtling out of nowhere.
"Damn, I missed."
Rei looked over to see Tyson andMax ganging up on Kenny and Hilary in a snowball fight, Hilary and Kenny seemed to be the less covered in snow, though whether it was because Kenny went and built a fort or because Tyson couldn't aim, no one would ever know.
"Why do I even come out of my room!" Kenny mumbled, as heshook the snow out of his hair from where Max had got him while he tried to extend their fort.
"Because you'd miss me!" Tyson said cheerfully, as he and Max continued their onslaught of snowballs.

……….

Rei walked up the stairs heading towards their leaders room, that night Kai hadn't come down for dinner in fact Rei hadn't set eyes on Kai since he got back from… 'out'… wherever that was. He nocked on the door but there was no reply…
"Kai?" He questioned, slowly opening the door, the Russian was sitting on the edge of his bed legs crossed arms folded as he faced the open window the wind coming in making his slate blue hair sway slightly. Rei stop admiring his leaders image and slowly walked in after waiting for an answer he knew he wasn't going to get.
"Why didn't you come down for dinner?" he asked, standing next to the bed.
"I wasn't hungry," Kai responded plainly, wondering why Rei would care whether he missed one meal or three, he never ate much anyway.

Rei frowned, Kai had barely eaten breakfast that morning, missed lunch and wasn't even hungry for dinner.
"What do you think about the Demolition Boys?" He asked, for the sake of making convocation.
Kai glanced at Rei, not totally understanding what he meant, was it what he thought of them personally or why he thought they were here. He guessed the latter, even if it wasn't he wouldn't tell Rei or anyone on this team the answer to the other option.
"I don't know… but they're up to something…" Kai replied. It was true he didn't know, not yet. He would find out when he had his chance to talk to Tala, he wanted to know if they had missed him like he regretted leaving them.

"Hilary thinks it's a conspiracy against us," Rei commented, looking down at Kai. He just shook his head.
"They're no longer with Biovolt… we made sure of that when we one the finals remember," Kai retorted.
"If not…"
"What's with all the questions?" Kai snapped, standing up off the bed. Rei took a step back not sure how to answer…
"I'm concerned that's all… you haven't been yourself lately, you always seem to be so distracted with something within you…" Rei stopped, realising that what he was saying probably didn't make sense.
"I don't want your concern," Kai told him, walking towards the window.

"Kai I'm your friend, friend's are allowed to show concern for each other!" Rei insisted, taking a step forward onlystoping when he noticed Kai was now standing out side on the roof.
"Kai?…."
"Just… Just leave me alone!" Kai yelled, as he ran and jumped off the roof landing perfectly on the ground below. He turned and glanced back at his bedroom window and sighed, Rei was already gone so he shoved his hands within his pockets and began heading back down towards where he had been earlier that day.

……….

"What's up with Kai?" Tyson asked Rei, as he came back into the kitchen.
"Is he sick?" Max asked. Rei sighed and shook his head.
"Something's up… I just don't know what and when I tried to ask him about it he told me to leave him alone before jumping out the window. I think he's gone down into the val…"
"He jumped out a two story window?!" Hilary exclaimed cutting Rei off.

……….

Tala turned away from Kai's teammates to go back to staring into the fire from where he lay on one of the couches with Bryan; Kai had gone down into the valley. He slightly nudged the boy lying on top of him as he looked away from the flames. Bryan lifted his head up off Tala's chest.
"Are we going hunting now?" he questioned, but Tala shook his head.
"You will… I'm going to go talk to Kai," Tala said, "I want you to lead the pack tonight," he added, moving Bryan so he could sit up. The boy nodded at his leader before disappearing behind the door to their rooms to find Spencer and Ian, they were sure to be hungry by now… he was.

…Tala's POV…

I watch Kai from hidden among the trees as he stops out in the openness of the valley before moving to lie down in the snow. I look up into the sky, its truly night now but lucky for me the clouds have come up shielding the moon and helping me to resist the urge to transform into my wolf form. He's still lying there still as any stone in a wood and I begin to wonder what he's thinking about now.

During the days before my sixteenth birthday I had been like him, totally unaware of what was about to come over me that night, besides the dreams. Dreams of running free across snow covered Russian plains; I miss the plains they're so much easier to sprint across then the deep snow of the mountains. I sigh and wonder if the others missed them to, I had led them away from the plains since a week after Ian's birthday when he had adjusted and accepted what he was.