Authors Note: Two in one night! Crazy! I hope you like this one because I have no idea where this is going. I keep trying to find a way to end these stories but my mind doesn't listen to my fingers so it is unfortunate. I will probably still be typing stories until I am eighty.
Disclaimer: I don't know how to spell that word, thank goodness for Microsoft. And I don't own the Wolves of Mercy Falls.
Prom with the Wolves:
Isabel's POV:
"Call Grace and Sam. Now." Cole said putting his tux coat around the little girl's shoulders.
"I'll go run and get them she's probably hungry." I said running towards the school without high heels on. I ran into the building almost knocking a couple over. Sam and Grace were at the refreshments table just inside of the room. I grabbed a whole bowl of chips and pulled Grace out of the room with Sam following her.
"Isabel… what are you doing?" Grace fussed behind me but I kept going without pause and pulled them all the way outside before she stopped pulling her.
"Wolf." I said panting. "A little girl." She took another breath.
"One sentence Isabel." Grace commanded.
"A wolf led a wolf-girl out of the forest." And Grace's jaw dropped. I began to walk back to Cole with them following me. When we approached Cole and the little girl was on the bench. I handed her the bowl and she began to eat quickly but Cole stopped her.
"Whoa! Eat slowly or you'll puke. Trust me. I would know." Cole smiled at her and the little girl chuckled.
"What's your name?" Grace asked her.
"Luca." She answered before eating a chip.
"How old are you, Luca?" Sam chirped in from behind her.
"Seven." She shivered next to Cole.
"Do you know where you are from?"
"Sort of. I know I am from Aberdeen." I smacked my head knowing that she had traveled from South Dakota to Minnesota. Alone.
"Well, you really made it far." Cole said impressed.
"Do you know the names of your parents?" Grace asked.
"I don't have a mommy. I only have Daddy. His name is John." She said. Then a door slammed causing Grace and I to jump. We watched as some of our classmates headed toward where we were standing.
"Crap, we've got to go." I said to the group of horrified faces. Luca and Cole stood up moving towards the parking lot where our limo awaits. Not putting the bowl of chips down, Luca ran to the limo and climbed inside right before the driver came to hold the door for the rest of us. We began to ride back to Sam's house.
"What are we supposed to do now? We just kidnapped a little girl?" Isabel asked.
"Look we know she's a wolf. We'll clean her up, get her some clothes and find a way to talk to her dad without the press but in the meantime no one can know that we found her." Sam said. "We all need to make sure her father will accept her for what she is."
"Do you remember how you were bitten, Luca?" Grace asked her.
"I was hiking in the wood with my daddy when we found one on our path. It was hurt and he tried to help but it bit me in the process. When I was human again a different wolf led me to you." She said looking at Cole and me. The car ride was silent accept for Luca who had finished the bowl of chips by the time we got home. That's when the same wolf reappeared.
"Cole." I said standing behind him but holding his and Luca's hands.
"I think this wolf knows Luca." He says stepping forward holding his hand out for her to grab. Together they slowly stepped toward the wolf and braced themselves for the worse but the wolf just bowed down towards Luca. She put her hand out for the wolf to smell it and shrieked of laughter when the wolf began to lick her small hand.
"Holy crap." Sam said under his breath.
"What?" Grace said.
"This is the first wolf ever to recognize his daughter." Cole answered. The wolf licked Luca's face and she smiled. She wrapped her thin tan arms around the wolf's neck burying her face into his fur.
"I have never seen this before. I wonder if Urlik wrote about this in his journal." Sam said running into the house. Cole held out his hand for Luca and she grabbed it looking miserably at her wolf-father knowing she had to leave him.
Cole's POV:
I sent her father images of us taking care of Luca until he shifted back and with a snort he understood. Walking into the house with Cole and Luca, I realize I had no idea how to raise a kid and neither did anyone else. I knew that all we would have to do is wait for her father to shift back and adjust them to their new life. Then we wouldn't have to worry about them anymore.
Isabel's POV:
"Isabel. Can you...um?" He said nodding towards Luca who was looking out the window towards her dad.
"Yeah, find her some clothes." I said giving Cole an order.
"Bath time!" Grace shouts from the bathroom and Luca just sighs as we walk toward it.
Cole's POV:
"Sam!" I said running into the room. "What do seven year old girls like to wear?"
"Cole, I have no idea what they like to wear. Why?" Sam asked holding an old journal.
"Well I don't know if you know this but we have a little girl now?" I said to him putting my hands on my hips.
"Cole. I don't know if you know this but you are starting to act like Isabel." Sam snickered.
"Very funny. Come on!" I said walking back towards the door.
"We are we going?" Sam asked following me out the door.
"Clothes shopping." Cole said in a higher pitched voice.
"I'm sorry but Isabel is that you?" Looking for a response all Sam got was an eye roll which caused him to laugh even harder.
Sam's POV:
"Why did you bring me with you? I don't know anything about clothes. Or little girls!" I asked irritated.
"Good to know you're not a pedophile." Cole joked while looking through a rack of pink dresses. I began to look at a black and white stripped t-shirt and remember Grace wearing one like this when she was younger.
"What about this?" I showed Cole.
"Sure." He agreed and pulled out a pair of purple shorts. "These okay?"
"Yeah, probably." I said.
"Crap. Do you think she needs a bra?" Cole whispered leaning next to me.
"Cole. She's seven, not seventeen." I said to him but he seemed confused with my reply so I clarified. "No bra. Underwear though." Cole picked up a pair of XXL women's underwear and gestured them toward me.
"Maybe a smaller size." Cole suggested and I shook my head in humor. I picked up a pink dress and tossed it in the cart with the other items. "Dude, check out how small these socks are!" Cole said walking towards me with a set of small socks.
"Cole?"
"Da." He said.
"You left your manhood over in the socks section." I said laughing a little bit.
"At least I didn't leave it in the dresses." He said after putting the socks in the cart.
"What size shoe do you think she wears?" I asked Cole.
"How would I know that?" But just then Cole got a text message. "Never mind, she wears fives. Has your girlfriend always been psychic?"
"Yes." I said amazed by Grace's timing. Cole came back with pink shoes and a toothbrush and placed them in the cart.
"Sam?" Cole asked.
"Yeah?" Wondering what he was about to ask me.
"Do you realize what we look like right now? Buying little kid clothes in tuxedos." I thought about it for a second and realized what Cole was getting at.
"Like we just had a great prom night but a horrible life in the next nine months?" I assumed.
"Absolutely. Oh well, let's check out." Before paying for everything Cole tossed a teddy bear on the counter along with all the other clothes.
"Cole." I began to ask.
"What? I use to sleep with an elephant when I was younger and I just thought she might want something to cuddle with tonight." I raised my eyebrows surprised that Cole had even thought of that. "Yeah, I can be deep if I want to." He said due to my reaction and grabbed the bags and walked out of the store.
Grace's POV:
Although sitting with a naked little girl is fun, having her clothes would make the United States less awkward. Where are they? I thought.
"They're here!" Isabel yelled from the kitchen. I had just finished braiding Luca's long dark brown hair, while she was still in a towel and got up from the extra bedroom.
"Wait here. I'll bring you some clothes." I told her. She nodded in understanding and continued to watch cartoons on the television. Sam and Cole came in with the bags even though they looked exhausted; they still were pretty impressed with themselves from the shopping trip.
"Wow. You even got her underwear," Isabel said. "Impressive."
"And a toothbrush plus a teddy bear." Cole boasted.
"You even bought her a dress." I said. I looked at Isabel who was cracking up.
"What?" I asked but she showed me that nothing matched each other.
"Hey! At least we bought her socks." Cole said trying to reclaim lost dignity.
"Come on," Sam said holding up a bag of Chinese food. "Let's reheat dinner."
Isabel's POV:
Luca was adorable with her dark brown hair and green eyes. Her eyes were green as fresh spring grass but subtle. Cole had given her the teddy bear when she approached the table and her eyes lit up even brighter. Luca was sitting next to Cole, who was entertaining her best out of all of us. She watched Cole eat a red pepper from the Spicy Chicken and then watch him drink milk out of the carton after it was too hot causing the whole table to roar in laughter. After dinner, Luca and Grace played cards while Cole and I cleaned the dishes.
"What time was your bedtime when you were seven?" I asked him looking the digital clock that read 11:46.
"Eight thirty?" Cole said unsure.
"Do you think we should make her go to bed soon?" I asked him and listened to her laughing in the other room.
"Soon. I'm afraid she might have nightmares though. We all do when we first change. We should ask Sam." He said.
"Ask me what?" He said coming in from putting the garbage outside.
"Should we make her go to bed?" I asked him. "Cole's concerned about nightmares."
"Maybe." Sam said thinking about it.
"Maybe what?" Grace asked walking into the kitchen.
"Telling her to go to bed. Wait why aren't you watching her?" Cole asked.
"Because while you were talking she had already brushed her teeth and went to bed with her teddy bear." Grace said, "And I think I am going to join her." She almost left the room until she moved her hair off her shoulders. "Someone unzip me!" She requested. I unzipped her and followed her into their bedroom.
"Did you see the way Cole played with Luca today?" I asked Grace while she unzipped me.
"Yes. And it made me realize that Cole is one big half-human half-wolf ex-drugged-out-rock-star child." She said in one breath.
"How long have you been saving that insult?" I asked her.
"Since the beginning of dinner." We both put on our sweat pants and spaghetti strapped shirts. Then we heard noise coming from the kitchen. We ran out of the room and into the kitchen to find a naked man on the floor.
"I would make a joke about this but I've got nothing right now." I said. Sam grabbed the blanket off the back of the couch and placed it on the man's shoulders.
"Who are you?" Grace asked the man.
"John." He said in a whimper.
My longest chapter yet! So happy!
With love,
Steph