The Wolves
Jared was rubbing his ear, holding his sleeve on it, trying to stop the bleeding. His head was ringing. Derek was holding the searing whip mark on his face and howling in pain and anger. That fucking bitch. Acting all nice and then hiting him in the face. Wait until he got ahold of her again. He was going to give her more than flowers next time he saw her, that was for sure.
Dani looked around at the men, who didn't seem as tough now as she had thought they were. One girl had turned them from wolves into sniveling babies with nothing but a bendy stick and a few rocks. As far as she was concerned, it served Derek right for acting foolish over that woman and thinking he could replace her so easily. She started gettting things together and packing up their campsite.
"What the fuck are you doing?," Derek asked her.
"She got away," Dani said, "She knows where our camp is. Her people are going to come looking for us. We have to leave." Derek started swearing. Dani was fucking right. He had been heading in to do some more spying when he had happened upon RickyJo. And he had been so eager to get her back here that he didn't think about the possible consequences. And now the people in this town knew not only where his camp was, but how many of them there were and that they were out here. He wasn't going to be able to just sneak in like they did at the last place, because now these people knew that he was coming. They were going to be hunting him, and that was not the way he liked it. "We could just leave," Dani said, "go back to the old camp or find a different place to take over."
"No!," Derek screamed at her. He still wanted that woman and he aimed to get what he was after. And now he wanted to take this town more than he had before. He would just have to think of another way to do it.
"Well we have to leave this camp," Dani screamed back, "they are coming for us and I don't intend on getting caught." Jared watched the exchange. He had never seen Dani yell back at Derek before. And he guessed part of it was her anger over how he had been treating that woman. Jared didn't understand what all the fuss was about. She was pretty, but he had seen prettier. And she was a lot older than Derek liked, maybe even older than him. Derek had her up in this camp treating her like she was the queen of fucking sheba and they had all got their asses kicked because of it. That bitch had hit him so hard with that rock, it had split his ear and busted his eardrum. Now he wasn't going to be able to hear out of that ear for a while and that could cost him his life if an ugly snuck up on him. And worst of all, she had taken off with his goddamn woman. He had liked that girl. She was pretty and had a nice body. And she had been well behaved too. It was going to be hard to find another one that easy to control.
Jon had a nasty bump on his head, and a throbbing headache, but he was otherwise unharmed. He got up and started helping Dani pack. If Derek wanted to stay here and face an entire army alone, he could knock himself out. Ever since he had found that picture he had been acting crazy, well crazier than normal at least. He gagged that woman and dragged her back to their camp at gunpoint. Did he think that was going to make her legs magically open up for him. If he wanted her so bad, he should have just taken her while he had the chance and gotten that shit out of his system.
Derek cursed a few more times and then starting packing up like everyone else. He knew no matter how much he would like to think he could take on that entire group, they were outnumbered probably ten to one. And some of the men there had not looked as sheepish as he liked to pretend they were. The wolves were going, but they were not running scared, only finding a place to regroup and think of another plan.
"We are going to head the opposite way that we want to go and then double back," Derek told everyone. Jared nodded. At least Derek was starting to make some sense again. Jared would have been alright with leaving, but if Derek wanted to stay and try to fuck with these people some more, he was down. He actually really wanted that girl back, or at least another one to replace her. "We will watch them a while like we planned to and then come up with another way to attack them," Derek said. Yeh, Jared thought, because your dumbass ruined the element of surprise. He didn't say anything though. The pack was small enough, if they turned on each other now, they were dead for sure.