Here again, there's third chapter! I admit it, i'm impressed too, i wrote three chapters in 2 days, didn't expect story would flow like a waterfall!
Anyway, remember to read and rewiev, please!

Chapter 3: Two colors, one soul

A couple of days passed from the unpleasant encounter. Wolves of the pack had found Alpha Leader's lifeless bodies, and gave them honor they deserved, they celebrated a funeral, and then burying them in cemetery area. That situation had not only left scars in her heart, in her soul , but it caused the death of the people that used to lead the pack, the only people who cared for her unconditionally. She wanted to do honor to their memory, so she decided to propose herself as the new Alpha leader of the pack. She wanted to do this for them, in repayment for have shown her hospitality and understanding , despite all odds.

It has passed a week since she got there, things have taken place so rapidly, she was going to take her responsabilities, splitting herself between her maternal duties and pack ones.

She tried to do whatever was in her possibilities to raise pack's situation, but it seemed that, everytime she tried something, things got worse instead of getting better. Group's opinion didn't help very well: she appreciated both constructive and destructive opinions, but it really was a continuous lament. The only thing that truly made her get through the day was the relief to embrace his newborn son, Grin. When she used to approach the den in the early afternoon, damn tired after completing a part of her obligations, waves of a newfound energy pulsed through her body only just seeing his little body laying surrounded by a warm coat of leaves to keep his body heat constant. She couldn't help but smile at the sight and, as if it were on purpose, he began to weep, maybe identifying his mother's presence, and trying to communicate her something.

She slowly cuddled around him, and Grin begin to nurse her breast, maybe a little to greedily.
"Ouch" exclaimed Katherine, a little surprised by his hunger , "Are we hungry, huh?" she managed to say with a smile.

She take a look very carefully to his son.

He has a brown-tawny vaporous fur with some white shades across all of his fur, just like his tips of the ears, tips of his paws, and has a completely white tail except for his tail tip.

She connected every feature of his fur: Katherine's fur was black coloured, with a white-greish mask that shaded from white at the top to a dark greish pattern at base of her mouth, tips of her ears white coloured, just like her paw tips and her rear legs, her tail was black except for her white tip. Here yes were a shining petroleum green, with some yellowish sectors inside.

Grin took a lot from her husband's fur: almost all of his fur was exactly like its, with the only exception that Waylon didn't have a white in his tail at all.

The thing that she was mostly excited about was the eye opening: she was pretty anxious to know what color his eyes were. She was almost sure he was going to inherit her eyes 's colour. She just had to wait some time to know the almost certain truth.

Seconds after seconds, minutes after minutes, nine days passed, doing this routine every day, until opening time finally come.

In a cold autumn morning, finally he had opened his eyes to finally take a look of the world.

He wake up very early in the morning, eager to want to look at the place where he lived, and its surroundings. Driven by curiosity, he tried to sneak out out the den silently, but he stomped involuntarily on a fallen dead leaf, producing a slight sound.

He froze on the spot. He gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, hoping that his mom won't wake up.

After a few moments of silence, he tried to continue his quiet escape, but was startled and stopped by his mother's voice.
"Ahem…Where do you think you're going, Grin?" She said, thinking it was another of his blind attempts to go out. He seemed to have indeed a brisk personality, or maybe was just the age. He tried some attempts to exit from den ,although he had not opened his eyes yet, so this wasn't the first time he tried to escape. Katherine, slightly angry tone, said to him:"You know the rules, when you're gonna open your eyes, we're gonna get outsid…-" She suddenly stopped talking, because she saw her son turning his head to her and LOOKING at her straight in her eyes with HIS EYES.

Tears started to form in her eyes. Finally his son opened his eyes. But soon she realized it happened something whose chances are one in a million…Even less.

He…is affected by heterochromia …he has two eyes of two different colours.

One was like hers, was a brilliant petroleum green with some yellowish shades inside, but the other one was reddish-brown… remembered her the twisting, sick insanity of her husband.

She knew that in some packs this condition was regarded as a witchcraft, and if recognized, the subject could be processed and condemned to a unhappy doom: be framed, or, even worst, immediate death.

She just hoped not to have happened in a pack like that. She didn't want to be the cause of the death of her son. So she wanted to hide its peculiar characteristic until it was possible, but, like every other mom, didn't want to alarm his son about possible dangers. She was thinking of every way to keep his son out of troubles, but nothing came to her at moment, so she decided to pretend that nothing was bothering her.

She started to speak: "Oh, dear, it's amazing!... You finally opened your eyes,didn't you?"
He stood proudly, saying with a smile: "Yes mom, i did, but…" His face suddenly saddened, knowing that he had disobeyed "… i tried to walk as quietly as possible because i didn't want to wake you up, i promise!"

That gave Katherine an idea: She could have the time to appoint a successor to her position, she could abandon this pack with her beloved son, never coming back, and during this time she didn't need to worry about his son, he's gonna be in detention for...hmm...a week for his disobedience, just long enough to accomplish her goal.

"Oh i don't think so, boy… you're gonna to postpone your view of outside world for… lemme think... one week is fair enough… you're grounded!" She shouted, but she couldn't hide her fear tears, that were pouring down her face.

"OOOOOOW, Mom, why you have to do this? You know that i'm really freaking out to se-" He started to say but he stopped while being embraced by her mom, her tears slowly leaving her eyes and moisting his fur.

"Mom…why are you crying?" He stated, in a worried tone.

"Hmm?" answered Katherine. She clearly couldn't reveal her fears to his son, so she kept pretending that nothing was bothering her. "Oh, got something in my eyes, sorry…But remember son: punishments are not always bad things...it's only another way to say that I care about you"

Then her son started smiling, his grin being that sun that illuminates her darkest days. And, of course, she couldn't help but smile, too.

When everything throw you down, you cannot find better comfort in a gesture of affection of one who really cares about you.

Will she be able to keep safe his son from eyes of the others?
Find out in the next chapters!