They ran for hours before coming across an old, uninhabited house miles away from the cave. It was in the middle of the woods, and looked as if it would fall over any minute. Fenrir weighed his options. He could push the pack to continue on their journey or they could rest here for the day. He looked up and noticed the first rays of sunlight filter through the treetops. He cocked his head to the side, listening for a sound that would give any indication that wizards were close by. All he heard was the sound of the forest and animals beginning their daily activities.

Fenrir turned to study his pack. They were all so tired; some were beginning to fall behind. He felt the weight of his mate pressed against his back. He could tell that Harry was not far from sleep; he was still trying to recover from the change. Fenrir was also worn out from the hours of running.

His decision made, Fenrir tilted to the side to slide Harry off of his back. He became a human and faced his pack.

"We will rest here for the day." He watched as they collapsed with relief. "We will begin to run again tonight."

He turned away as the rest of the pack changed back into their human forms. As he moved to open the door of the house its hinges groaned in protest of this long forgotten movement. He felt Harry move closer to his leg as the door opened to reveal a dark, empty room. He turned to look at his young mate.

"Go find Storm and stay with her." Fenrir did not want Harry to be with him if something dangerous was in the house.

He watched as Harry ran to find Storm before turning to enter the house with Luther. They searched the house for anything out of the ordinary but only found a family room inhabited by spiders and cockroaches, three empty bedrooms, rats living in the kitchen, and mold growing in the bathroom. After they had completed their search of the house they let the other pack members enter their temporary hideout.

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Harry and Rain stood together by the kitchen doorway looking at the place they would be staying in for the day.

"It's better than some of the places we have stayed at." Rain said after taking a good look around.

"You've stayed in worse places?"

"Yeah, ever since Lord Voldemort died we've had to run from the wizards and we are always finding places like this to rest while we're running"

"Why do you run?"

"We tried to fight the first time they came after us and many died so now we run. We still lose a lot of pack members but not as many as we did the first time." Rain took a deep breath and wrinkled his nose at the smell of the stale air. "My dad died trying to fight, mom says we can't lose anymore of the pack because we won't be able to survive."

Storm came to stand over the boys. "Boys, eat this before you go to sleep."

She handed them each a piece of jerky before going to give some to the other children. They both finished the food within minutes and were almost asleep when Storm came back over to pick Rain up. The movement caused them both to wake up and look around.

The floor of the house was covered in pallets and some children were already asleep in the corner of the living room. Harry watched Storm carry Rain over to the corner before moving to follow her.

Before he could reach the pile of sleeping children Harry was lifted off of the ground and carried over to a pallet in the middle of the room. He looked up into Fenrir's face.

"You'll be sleeping with me from now on, pup."

Harry nodded his head as he drifted off to sleep.

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Harry woke up to the feeling of someone shaking his shoulder. He looked up at Fenrir as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. As he opened his mouth to ask a question a bottle was forced to his lips.

"Drink it."

Harry did as Fenrir ordered and grimaced at the odd taste.

"What was that?"

"Nourishment potion. From now on ask what it is before drinking somthing that someone else has given you." Fenrir thought of the potions that the wizards would give Harry if he was ever caught, "It could be dangerous."

"Not if you give it to me." Harry said with complete confidence.

Fenrir shook his head."Come on, it's night time and we're leaving."

They walked out of the house to where the pack stood in their wolf forms. Fenrir changed into his wolf form and waited for Harry to climb onto his back before running into the woods with the pack following close behind.