Logan complained as he was woken in the middle of the night and summoned to Hank's office. "This better be pretty dmn important!" he complained as he dragged himself out of bed and made his way down the halls. He opened the door. "Why the h3(( did you wake me up at 2AM, Doc?" Then he saw the two students. "What happened?"
"There was a fight," Hank said, pressing gauze up against one of the bite wounds on Zane's leg.
"I can see that. But why call me? They aren't on my team."
Hank sighed. "You lived in the wilderness for a while. Look closely at the wounds."
He looked at Hank, then walked to Jim and looked him over. There were some scratch marks on his arm, along with some deep bites. They must have really been at it if they were biting each other. Wait He took a closer look. The bite marks were too long and narrow to be from a human, the teeth to big. Those scratches were to close together to come from human fingernails. In fact, they looked like "No, he didn't."
"They said they were walking by the lake when Wolf came and attacked them."
"What did you guys do to him?" he stared in disbelief.
"We didn't do anything!" Jimmy protested, "We were just walking, and next thing we know he's trying to kill us!"
"I don't believe that he would attack you for no reason," Logan narrowed his eyes.
"He did!" Zane insisted.
"Regardless if he had reason or not, these boys were attacked by a canine. I suggest you go find out where Wolf is."
Logan sighed and rubbed his temples. "Fine," he turned to leave. He really didn't think Wolf would attack anyone unprovoked, but he wouldn't put it past him to consider the lake his 'territory', and that meant he'd try to chase off any trespassers.
He walked to Wolf's room to find his bed empty. He frowned, that wasn't good. He should still be asleep. The most recent scent trail led back out of the room and down the hallway. He closed the door and followed it.
It led him to a small utility closet. He opened the door and looked inside. "Wolf? What are you doing in here?" He heard a whimper and spotted him hiding behind the vacuum cleaner. "Get out of there, are you ok?"
Wolf sighed and inched his way out into the open.
Logan gasped. "What happened to your eye?"
His eyelid on the left side was puffy and swollen, bruised deep purple. The eyeball itself was slightly red, and tears were leaking out down that side of his face.
Wolf looked down. "I hurt myself."
Logan sighed and picked him up. "We need to get that taken care of, then you're going to tell me what really happened."
Wolf whined and leaned against him, he was too dazed to think straight.
Logan didn't think it would be a good idea for him to be in Hank's office at the same time as Zane and Jim, so he carried him to the kitchen and set him down on one of the chairs. Then he went to the freezer and grabbed a cold steak for his eye.
Wolf saw the steak and immediately perked up. "Is that for me?"
"Yes, stay still," he pressed it against his eye.
Wolf pulled back and bit into it.
"Wolf!"
"What?" he looked at him, confused.
"The steak is for your eye, not eating! Besides, it's frozen and raw. You shouldn't eat raw meat." He pressed the steak back over the eye and held it there.
"How will a steak help my eye? And what's wrong with raw meat?"
He sighed. "It will help the swelling go down and the pain go away, at least a little. And raw meat can make you sick or give you worms."
"Raw meat doesn't make you sick! I eat it all the time!" he protested, "And that's ok, I'll eat worms too."
Logan looked at him in his good eye, then hit him upside the head. "Just stop talking."
"Ow!" he began to cough and groan, grabbing his side, "What did I do?"
He noticed the cough and looked at where Wolf was rubbing. "Does your side hurt?"
Wolf nodded. "Only when I breathe too deeply."
He felt along his ribcage. "You may have broken some ribs, then, but there's nothing I can do about that now." He glanced over the rest of him, noticing some bad cuts and bruises. "Tell you what. If you hold the streak over your eye while I clean you up, you can eat it when I'm done."
Wolf grinned. "Ok!" He'd do just about anything for steak.
Logan grabbed some wet paper towels to clean off the blood. "Now, tell me what happened," he said as he cleaned.
Wolf sighed and summed up the whole story for him.
"So," Logan sighed, "They were just as much a part of starting the fight as you were. If that's true, than they lied to me and Hank, and I don't like it when people lie to me."
"Why? What did they say?"
"They told us you attacked them for no particular reason," he looked at him.
Wolf gasped. "But that's not what happened! We all agreed to the fight! You believe me, don't you?"
Logan studied him for a second, then sighed and ruffled his hair. "Yeah, I believe you, Pup. You're not really good at lying, at least not to me. And I didn't think you'd do something like that anyway. Don't worry, one of the perks to this school is we have someone who can just tap into your mind to see who's lying. But you still shouldn't have been fighting, and you know that. After you get fixed up, we're going to have a long talk."
Wolf whimpered and looked away.
Logan looked at the time. "Well, Hank's probably done with those two, so let's go to his office so he can take care of you." He took the steak off his eye and lifted him to carry him to the office.
"Wait!" Wolf tried to climb over his shoulder. "You said I could eat that!"
Logan sighed. "You can have the steak after Hank is done with you, and after I cook it."
"No! I don't want it cooked!" he complained.
"Well too bad, you're not allowed to eat raw meat anymore. I don't want you getting sick. Come to think of it, I'd better have Hank check you for worms while we're there."
He whined and sulked. He hated going to see Hank in his office, mostly because he hated doctors and anything medical. "I haven't eaten any worms lately thought."
Logan rolled his eyes and smacked Wolf's head again. "Just stop talking, Pup."
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In order to answer Henshu's questions:
Wolf snuck out his window, so he wouldn't have been caught. In the previous chapter he went out the door, which had sensors installed. He tripped the sensors and that's how they saw him. There aren't sensors in the window, so he got away free.
And yes, Bobby and his friends were spanked for what they did. I was trying to show that by having Jimmy saying he wouldn't sit for days, but I guess I wasn't clear enough.
