Chapter 3: hasty decisions

Okay so I think I should explain. My story, last man standing is not being abandoned, I promise. Im too busy to write much. Its taking quite a while as you can imagine but I will be done and uploaded a new chapter soon.

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I stayed in my position until I felt the light thuds of his paws approaching. He was running so fast he was bound to end up skidding past me. I got up and got ready for the impact.

He bounded into the clearing, just managing to stop himself before he collided with a tree. His eyes looked around wildly and when he pinpointed my face he immediately pounced onto me. I didnt take kindly to the fact that I had pinched my arms raw in agitation. When he reached my self induced bruises, he gave a loud growl and looked around suspiciously for whoever could have done this to me. Seeing nobody in sight he lowered narrowed eyes back to my arms and sofly licked them when a pitiful whine.

I lifted a hand and curled my fingers around the fur at the nape of his neck. He looked at my face and saw my apologetic grimace. I saw huge tears welling up in his wolf eyes. I lifted myself up and sent a thought to him. He shook his head and refused to phase until he was completely positive I was safe. I had to reassure him. After a few minutes of trying to convince him unsuccessfully, I finally gave up and pushed him aside.

I felt tears of my own prickling at the corners of my eyes.

I heard him phase. He immediately ran to where I had slumped off to. I felt his arms wrap around me from behind as he pulled me into his naked torso. He turned me around and with tears running down his own face, he lifted my head and leaned down into our very first kiss. We just stood there, not moving much, lips just pressed softly against each others. I felt a need for my Seth. It was so strong I completely disregarded the fact that he was still naked and climbed right into his steady arms.

I had my legs wrapped around his waist and he softly pushed me up against a tree.

Seths POV

I hardly felt her jump up, it felt so natural. She was still crying but she didnt just me that had hurt her so badly but my wolf insisted on putting all the blame on me. I needed to make it up to her in any way I could. So when she started whimpering (most likely unintentionally) I got the hint and softly pushed her up against a nearby tree.

I felt her desire flare up like a fire burning her from the inside out. At the same time I had begun feeling something deep in my chest, it was slightly uncomfortable.

She let out a small moan and I used the opportunity to let my tongue slip slowly into her honey sweet mouth. I licked up at the roof of her mouth and wrapped my mouth around her tongue gently sucking on it. I had never done this before but I had seen people on the rez do it dozens of times. Judging from the shudder that ran through her, she must have liked it.

Till now I hadnt. I let a slow smile creep up on my face, knowing storm was hearing exactly what I was thinking. She let out a breathless huff which might have been her attempt at a laugh.

She waddled over to me, eyes still glassy. I didnt a short girl but compared to my inhuman hight, at the moment she looked like a midget.

She could only just get her left hand to wrap around her right wrist, any more than that and she would have to literally hang off me.

She nuzzled my chest with a soft sigh of contentment. I lifted her up in my arms so she could lay her head on my shoulder. After about 4 minutes in that position, her breathing evened out and she began doing her version of a snore which was a deep breath in and a barely audible mewling type noise out. It was honestly the most adorable thing I had ever heard.

I started feeling a bit drowsy myself so I lay down on the ground, being careful to jostle her as little as possible. I was just falling asleep when my ears picked up a rustling noise. Drowsily, I lifted my head and found my view blocked by Storms sea of hair. I carefully moved her head so it would lie on my shoulder instead then when my view was clear I glanced around for the source of the noise.

I recognized the sound of panicked footsteps.

It was only then that I realized it was most likely already mid morning. The footsteps were getting closer.

I sprang up with Storm and hoisted her up into my arms. She was awake and alert the moment I let a warning growl slip through my throat.

I put her down and in turn she let her wings spring out, bringing with it small drops of blood. I saw the little kitten like ears on top of her head prick up, trying to catch the sound. The noise was coming closer and I stood in front of her, ready to protect her at any given moment.

It took a few moments for the feet to make it to the opening where we were and as soon as I saw the shadow come from the bushes I phased and pounced on the intruder.

s storm!What the hell did you do to her!t only on the surface either; my breath had a slight tang of vanilla.

Jacobt jump to any conclusions!

By her desperate voice in my head I could tell Jake was not only jumping to conclusions, he was jumping to the worst possible ones. He looked broken and cast betrayed eyes towards me.

s not whatever you But at this point Jacob was far beyond listening.

t find either of you.I looked everywhere, at the Cullens all over the rez, I couldnt Seth that gave me the bruises or made me bleed, it was me! Seth-Seth is my mate tooJake, buddy. We wanted to give you some time before we told yout lose donWe do Jacob, we really do we just wanted you and Storm to have your bonding time before I came into the picture. And I swear Storm only told me about her family because she wanted to get it out first without being completely smothered, which didn

Jacob whipped his head around to face Storm.

t even mentioned them to me once!t know how you would react, I was really upset and I wanted to tell Seth first only so he would calm me down before I told you in case I made you more angry than needed!

t know if you have noticedbut It need you to keep things from me because you

It supposed to be like this.

s a little late for sorry, you should have trusted me Storm. you don you cant stopping him. I knew Jake and I knew this was his way of coping with things. It was admittedly a very dumb and pointless coping mechanism, it didnt sure when It turn back.

I comforted storm for what felt like hours. She only stopped crying at about noon, judging from the sun. Suddenly, she started singing mentally and after the first verse, I knew the song was for Jacob. I had never heard her sing before, she had a beautiful voice, just as angelic as her face. It wasn

Her voice was like a waterfall, sucking me in. but no, I couldnt want to hurt her in anger.

The night was all you had, you ran into the night from all you had

You found yourself a path upon the ground

You ran into the night you cant want to feel anything, thatm running away. I need to be an animal just for a while and when Ill come back, I promise. Let me go.

Summer evening breeze it blue, drawing voices deep from you

Let by a beating heart

What a year and what a night what terrifying final sights to put out your beating heart

The night was all you had, you ran into the night from all you had

You found yourself a path upon the ground, you ran into the night you can

I was slowly becoming the animal. And when I was the animal, Storm couldnI ran into the night, Im soo sorry it took so long to upload, school is really such a pain. Please donve now written the next chapter too so do you guys want me to post it tomorrow to make up for the slow update or do you want me to save it and upload in about 4 days?

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