Author's Note: So I had inspiration today during work but I was too busy to write. When I got home, I wanted to unwind from the stress of the day. So it's taken me this long to write this because of my day.

My plan is to make this fourteen chapters. I have this chapter and the next one planned. I will have to wait until these two come out for the next ones. It may only be thirteen. It depends on the plot twists.

My playlist on this chapter included the entire albums for B.A.P's Carnival, Monsta X's Rush and Block B's new one plus Topp Dogg, Vixx, High4, History, and iKON. I can't write without music considering most of my characters are based off KPOP idols. Check out these guys who have taken over my entire life.

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"Why is there a wolf in the living room?" Jenissi asked. He shook his head immediately. "No. That's not what's important. Why are the kids laying on an unknown wolf that is in our living room?"

Baye looked from her desk wedged in the corner of the playroom/ living room. Her twins Jae Mi and Jae Kyun, Ji Hoo's foster son Shin Woo, and Jenissi's two year old daughter Hyun Joo sat or pulled or laid on the wolf version of Dasha. The animal allowed them to do whatever they wanted as long as they didn't fight each other. Every now and then they would hear her sigh as the kids stopped whatever it was that they were doing, but as soon as they picked up momentum again, she was stoic.

Across the room on the black chaise that looked more white with animal hair, Leo kept a close eye on what was going on in the room. He had a book open in his lap but more often than not he was watching the rambunctious kids. He was the only one not concerned about the kids playing with an unknown wolf. But then again, kids had a different outlook on life than their parents. The same went for these kids.

Just then Jae Mi shoved his brother. Before anyone could think to do anything, the gray and white wolf lifted her head and growled. All the kids stopped what they were doing and looked at her. Jae Mi immediately hugged his brother and all was well with the world. Once she was convinced that the kids weren't going to hurt each other, Dasha laid her gray head back on the carpet as Hyun Joo rubbed her ears to comfort her.

Baye looked up at her oldest friend with a shrug. "She doesn't seem to be unknown to them."

Jenissi rolled his head to look down at her with a Not-Helping look. "Do you even know her?"

"I know of her. If you want more information, ask Yi Jeong or Leo. They know so much more about her than I do."

"You'll let just anyone in here won't you?"

"She saved our lives. You know as well as I do that as soon as we left New Zealand our compound was bombed. We could have been in it if she hadn't come."

They had heard about the bombing on the news a day and a half after they had left. It had been a suicide bomber who had come to take the lives of the Wild Power and her family. Unofficially, meaning to the general public, it was just some lunatic who had had a grudge against a computer company. Insurance had covered the building but they had all been safe.

The Underground had gotten word to them about the increase in intelligence searches. The Halflings as they were officially being called were doing their best to get any and all information on Baye as they could. But not only did the Guardian Council have such great computer analysts, so did the Underground. They had walked Jin through the trials of setting up an alert system is someone tried to hack into Shinhwa Group's computers. So far nothing had happened but that didn't mean it wouldn't.

Though she had been in her animal form, Dasha had helped Benji give information they thought would be pertinent to protecting the house and the family. The wolves had been put on full alert and had formed their own watch shifts. Since there were twenty-five of them, everyone had paired off into groups of five, and four groups took a five hour shift while the last shift took four. They kept an eye on the properties and could easily call for backup if it was needed.

Dasha had pulled a favor, though no one was really sure how since the woman had been a wolf since she had arrived. A week after their return, a truckload of supplies had arrived. Food, clear drinking water, medical supplies, and emergency rations had been delivered and stored just in case something drastic happened.

But the biggest shipment had been weapons. Baye had argued with a canine that weapons were not allowed in the house until she had been blue in the face and angry at the animal who stared up at her with ice blue eyes. Dasha had silenced her with the simplest fact that the full moon was upon them. Even though Baye wasn't as affected, the rest of her family was.

If the Halflings had any sort of brains, they would separate the wolves from the rest of the pack. With half of the Guardians under the effects of the full moon, it would only leave six people left to defend the house. They were walking into a massacre at that point. They needed the weapons just in case. So they had stored them in the empty room by the medical clinic.

There wasn't much the Hunters had left out. Jin had gone out and had bought a few gas cans which she had filled and stored in the pool house along with a generator and water proof supplies. Benji had stocked about eighteen first aid kits and had put one in every car as well as an emergency kit should they be separated. The cars gas tanks had been topped off and kept full just in case they needed a fast getaway. Everything had been thought of by four women who didn't seem like they could come up with any sort of plan.

Dasha huffed across the room and hefted her huge body from the floor. Hyun Joo rolled off her back laughing hysterically. She jumped up and raised her arms to be picked up. Dasha turned her fuzzy head to look at her then hunkered down just enough for the toddler to pull herself up onto her back. The little girl fisted her hands in the scruff of the massive neck and held on as the wolf stood up and padded from the room. They could the incessant babble as they disappeared down the hall. A few minutes a door opened and closed again. They had gone outside.

In the corner Leo turned around and looked out the window just as the two came into view. Baye could see Hansol's blond head as he and his brothers B-Joo and Byung Soo handled the third watch of the day with Yano and Xero. Though Byung Soo was technically a minor, he had been involved in every decision that had been made. He was also one of the fiercest fighters because the kid had trained in mixed martial arts before his wolf side had been exposed. He was currently help train some of the younger wolves just because he needed something to do.

"Will she be able to train Hyun Joo?" Jenissi asked as he watched his daughter run around Dasha as the animal sat outside in the sunlight.

"We won't know that until Ji Hoo evaluates her. He can't do that until she's human. Right now she seems to be content as an animal," Baye answered, turning back to the grades she had been putting in the computer.

"It's easier to heal the body when it's smaller," Leo said. Jenissi turned to him even though the man continued to stare out the window. "She's still suffering the effects of the poison. Her wolf has a higher metabolism so it works faster at restoring her correct functions. It shouldn't be too much longer."

"How do you know all that? I know we haven't told you."

"It's amazing what you can hear when there's a telepath in the house," Baye said.

"You're not going to force her to change back?"

"Only half of her belongs to me. I can't force the wild side of her to obey me. She's not part of your pack so she's not bound by the rules your guys follow. She's also not part of Shinhwa Group so Jun Pyo can't boss her around. She outranks him anyway since Hunters are held to a higher standard than the rest of us save the Wild Powers," she explained. He raised an eyebrow at her. "I've done my research. I wanted to know what grounds I had to boss her around. Sadly I don't have many. The ranks go Wild Powers, Councilors, Hunters, and everyone else. I barely outrank her and with my limited knowledge, I can't help but admit I need her expertise. I don't want to boss too much and push her away."

"Even though you're jealous."

Baye looked at him then and watched his face. She hadn't hidden the fact that she had been jealous of the sudden bond that Leo had formed with the woman. Ever since she had taken her position, he had been at her side constantly dogging her every step. Now his eyes had been turned from her. It felt weird. Leo had had undying devotion to her and now it had changed in the blink of an eye.

Everyone had treaded carefully since everyone had been back in South Korea. They hadn't wanted to upset her by bringing it up. But Jenissi had always been different. He hadn't cared that she was hurting and upset about a new fact in their lives. He was going to say what he thought without thinking of the consequences. He knew Baye wouldn't do too much to him.

"It's a mental thing," Leo said suddenly. "We're mentally connected. I don't know how it works but no matter what I did, I always sought out her mind. Even on the plane now that I think about it. She was sitting beside me on my way to New York. I remember feeling something brush up against my mind. Now that I think about it, it was her. She had known this was going to come at some point and she had wanted to know who I was."

"You're saying she can see the future," Jenissi observed. "There are only seven who has that ability."

"And there are two Hybrids and a Wild Power in one house. If you have learned anything, you should know that the impossible is possible."

"He's got you there," Baye acknowledged. "Until I showed up, pretty much everyone thought Wild Fire was a myth. Now look at us. We have twenty-five wolves and many Guardians who weren't considered human. I think our impossible has become quite possible. There's nothing we can't accomplish as a group, but we have to be united."

/That's what I've been trying to tell you./

They all looked at Dasha as she padded through the door. Hyun Joo tottered beside her, hand fisted in her side. She chattered nonstop until the gentle wolf nudged her with her nose. She plopped down in the floor and began playing with her toes as she mumbled something under her breath. Dasha sat down beside her, bushy gray and black tail wrapping around the child's back.

/She talks quite a lot. It's amazing to listen to a child's brain work. She's very smart, although she thinks the twins are idiots./

"You can talk to her?" Jenissi asked.

If she had been human, Dasha would have smiled. /She doesn't talk to you?/

"No, she just strings together nonsense. We were beginning to think she had autism or something."

Dasha looked at the child, wolf head tilted as if she was listening to something far away instead of the brain right beside her. After a minute or so, she snorted. The rush of air ruffled the girl's black hair, making her laugh.

/She's a completely normal Hybrid child. Nothing's wrong with her brain. She may not talk because she's trying to figure out how to use her voice. It's too soon to tell what power she will have, but Hybrids are as rare as Wild Powers. You should be able to see what she will be able to do in the next few years. That is if she isn't killed first./

Baye scowled at her. "Why would you say that?"

/It's the truth. You've already been through it at least four times. If they succeed in killing you, everyone has to wait five hundred years for a new Wild Power to be born, and no one knows when the next Wild Fire will manifest. The same goes for Hybrids. It takes a special set of parents to bear and raise a Hybrid into maturity. Most Hybrids are killed before anyone can find out if he or she can even become a wolf. Society doesn't want to chance it and no one wants an uprising to the already tentative balance. It took too long to gain it, but inflict one small nick and it will all crash down like a glass wall with a single spider vein./

Jenissi waved his hand around in front of his face for a moment. "How far is your broadcast range?"

/I can talk to anyone I have had previous contact with and hear their responses. That includes if I'm halfway across the world. To talk to someone I don't know, I have to be in the same country. It's not an exact science and I know a couple telepaths who don't even have that range. We all guess it's due to my duel lineages. Which is why you need someone like me to train Hyun Joo./

The co-alpha turned to his Alpha. "She's got a point. We have no idea what we're walking into."

Baye looked at Leo. "Did you tell her who Hyun Joo's mother was?"

Leo shook his head. "Not specifically, but if she's been in my head since the flight to New York she would have found it floating around in there."

/I was curious as to why he and the others smelled of sweet cherry blossoms with a mixture of burning brush. I had to peek to find out./

Leo looked at her. "Is that why you pressed your nose to my shoulder? I thought you were asleep."

/I was, but I was curious at the same time./ Contrary to her completely human mind, her wolf body lifted its back paw and scratched behind her ear. When she was done, she sneezed. /The constant scratching is the only thing I don't like about being like this. It drives me nuts./

Baye made a face as Jenissi laughed. "Do you always spout nonsense?" she asked.

Dasha's tongue lolled out of her mouth as she offered a toothy grin. /Only when things are too tense and when I have a feeling I may die. At this moment those two things are quite possible./

Shaking her head, Baye went back to her grades. "Keep being a smartass. You'll figure out why my husband doesn't say much around anyone else."

"Well if I had a face that looked like his I wouldn't say much either," Leo said.

That last comment had Jenissi laughing so hard he fell to the floor as Dasha barked out a laugh then whipped around until she was sitting in the door. It would be an easy get away if she needed it.

Baye turned slowly in her chair. She dared Leo to say one more word. He didn't have to however. He had already hit his mark. So instead of speaking, he allowed a slow smile spread across his face.