Chapter 9 Family
Runt's POV
"I'll get her back to the den, you two should get some rest." Grandpa said and we followed him allowing Huntly and Dusty to get settled in. Garth helped Grandpa who looked like he had seen a ghost.
"So do you two know her?" Claudette asked
"Um dad?" Mom asked
"She's your sister Kate, back when the packs were at war we had to spate you, Liily, and her to keep any harm from coming to you. But only you and Lilly came back." Grandpa said
"That makes her, their aunt that soon to get married." Dad replied. I knew she didn't know that we were her family.
"Who tells her?"
"I can." Claudette suggested mom quickly hushed her though.
"When mom wakes up you two should tell her." Lilly said and we left the den and headed home. Along the way we spotted Huntly and Dusty planning a hunt on the cliff. We started walking over to them.
"Your wrong they would go that way." Huntly pointed to the left.
"They'll go right Huntly." Dusty disagreed.
"Fine we'll set up your way but if your wrong I get to say I told you so." He replied as we walked up on them.
"Um hey you all planning on hunting?" Mom asked
"Yeah we've had to live off berries for the past two weeks." Dusty replied .
"Well alright we'll come by later." Mom said and we walked home. I couldn't wait for them to hear the news that Dusty was part of our family. It took a few hours till everyone was ready for the news, we walked to their den, and they had eaten most of two caribou they got from their hunt.
"Dusty." Grandma called out and she walked out
"Where's Huntly?" I asked
"He fell asleep after we finished eating." Dusty replied
"Well we have something to tell you." Grandmam said
"We think you might be our daughter." Grandpa said and she sat down.
"Wait me? I mean I know the gas station looked familiar, but I-I just need some time to think." Dusty replied
"We understand come talk to us when you're ready." Grandma said before Dusty walked back into her cave. Later I saw Split and Huntly walking around talking about going further North, I don't think Dusty had told them what we told her earlier.
"I'm just saying we could hit the beaches." Split said
"That's three days by train Split plus aren't you forgetting about Dusty."
"Oh yeah what was that stuff about you being her fiancée?" Split asked
"Well we talked about and decided to get married, I mean we've known each other for our entire lives." Huntly replied
"Hey." I called out.
"Oh hey Runt sup?" Huntly asked
"What are you talking about?" I asked
"Well Split thinks if we go to the beach in California he'll have better luck with girls and I'm trying to tell him his species goes north." Huntly replied
"I'm just saying when went two months ago scored with that german shepherd." Split said
"Dogs and wolves are practically the same species besides she was in heat I was just the first one to find her." Huntly shot back.
"And when Dusty found out she nearly tore your throat out." Huntly started rubbing his neck.
"I remember."
"Um what?" I asked and they both looked at me.
"Um grown up stuff kid." Huntly replied before continuing walking past me.
"Um has Dusty talked to you at all?" I asked
"No she was asleep when I woke up, seemed to be emotionally drained but I wouldn't worry too much about it. Hey Runt do you know where we could get something to drink?" Huntly answered I showed him to the creek, he drank a lot.
"Um Huntly?" I looked up to see Dusty. "Can we talk alone?" Huntly walked off with Dusty leaving me with Split.
"So any idea on what that's about?" Split asked
"Um she might be my aunt." I replied and Split didn't realize what I said at first but after thirty seconds it hit him.
"Wait she's your aunt? That would mean then Huntly is going to be your uncle." Split started talking to himself and I slowly backed up, and ran off to find my siblings. They were wrestling with each other in the den. I joined in climbing on top of Claudette, she easily pushed me off though and Stinky got on top of me.
"Alright you three knock it off." Dad said as he and mom walked into the cave. We got off each other, and saw Dusty walking up behind them.
"Hey, um Kate can we talk?" She asked nervously.
"Oh yeah of course." Mom said and Dusty walked in.
"Um do you think we could be sisters?" She asked
"Well mine I mean our parents certainly think so, but you really should talk to them about it. I'll go with you. Humphrey do you mind watching the pups while I'm gone?"
"No problem Kate." With that my mom walked off with our possible aunt.