AN: and chapter three. I am on a roll people. Please review. I will just keep updating whether I get reviews or not but you can send me ideas for you fave characters to be mentioned.

CHAPTER 3

"Daddy!" Little Daniel Treaty called to his father who was inside their cabin. Daniel was 4 now and was allowed to play out on the front porch by himself. He could not go off the porch or around to the stables. Daniels backside had felt the consequences of disobeying that order.

"What is is buddy?" Will Treaty asked opening the back door. Big brown eyes mirrored his own as they looked at each other. Will then saw what Daniel wanted. Daniel was sitting on the front porch step and a menacing dog was staring at him. The dog was eyeing the small boy with something akin to hunger. It was extremely skinny and some of its fur was missing in places.

"Daniel go back inside." Will ordered his son, but Daniel kept staring at the dog with curiosity. "Daniel." Will said impatiently. Daniel looked back at his father and saw stern brown eyes looking at him. Daniel looked back at the dog who had moved a few paces closer.

The dog began to sniff Daniel's hand and Will was ready to pull Daniel away should the dog prepare to attack. The dog however didn't attack but simply pushed its nose into Daniel's hand looking for food. Daniel giggled and Will came closer. The dog shied away but Will held out a hand to comfort it.

"Alyss, would you bring out some leftover meat please?" Will called softly to his wife. Alyss brought out the meat confused then saw the mangy dog. She quickly pulled Daniel back as Will began feeding it. The dog snapped up the meat and sniffed around for more.

"Can we keep him daddy?" Daniel asked. He had managed to get away from his mother and was now petting the dog. The dog began to lick Daniels face happily. "I'm going to call you Kindle." Daniel said adorably trying to evade the dog.

Will nodded and watched his son play-wrestle with Kindle for a bit. He watched his son have the most fun in a long time and was at a loss for words.