Lilly's POV

My heart raced as I heard my mothers words. My sister? Oh God not Kate. anything but Kate. I didn't want to have to live through what Rick did. Please God let her be okay.

"What about her is she okay?" I asked in a panic.

"She's fine, she was just attacked, I don't have all the details yet but she's fine. And so is your friend" mom explained.

"Friend? What friend?" I asked.

"Shaky. The brown one?" mom answered. Shaky was over there? Me and Humphrey turned to each other, exchanging worried glances. We didn't know that he left. I felt sick.

"Mom… what happened?" I asked, choking on my own voice. I felt as though I was about to break down. I needed to know that everyone was okay. I know mom said they were but… what happened?

"Like I said, I don't know everything. Me and your father went out and… look just stay over at Humphrey's for right now. I'll call you back once everything's calmed down" mom instructed.

"Wait mom-" I said but it was too late. The phone call ended. I felt tears fill my eyes as I stared at my phone. I needed to know what was going on.

"That sounded bad… What did she mean attacked?" Humphrey asked. I didn't reply. Instead I put my phone to my side and curled up into a ball as I sat on the bed, resting my muzzle on my knees as I hugged my legs. My tail wrapped around myself, blocking my crotch.

"Should I head over there? I… why was Shaky there?" I asked.

"I don't know Lills… but your mom said to stay here for now so… just relax… she said everybody was fine just calm down" Humphrey said. I turned to him angrily.

"How could you be so fucking calm? Rick just got murdered in the street and no my sister was attacked and she's in… God only knows what condition and you want my to fucking calm down?" I said.

"Alright alright I'm sorry… I'm just trying to help" Humphrey replied. He was doing a shitty job at it. I winced in anger with a low growl.

"If someone hurt my sister I swear to God" I growled.

"Look… why don't you go and take a shower, it will calm you down a little bit. I'll take one after you and then we can go downstairs and wait for your mother's phone call" Humphrey offered. It actually didn't sound like a bad idea. I wiped a tear from my eye as I began to feel scared for my sister and Shaky. Humphrey was right, that did sound bad. Oh my God, Kate… I covered my face as I began to sob. Humphrey now sat up, pulling me into a hug. "It's okay Lilly… your mother said everything was fine" he said. I pulled myself away from him quickly, grabbing his arm.

"Why the fuck are you so-" I began to ask the same question but stopped once I realized that Humphrey was shaking. He was scared too. He just didn't want to show it. Probably because he knew it would make things worse for me. And here I was being selfish.

"Just try to calm down okay? Everyone is fine" he said after my pause. I reached up, cupping his cheek with my left hand and took a deep breath.

"I'm… I'm sorry its just-"

"I know… just go freshen up… and we'll wait together okay? I love you" Humphrey said. He was still shaking.

"I love you too," I replied. I then leaned in and gave him a soft kiss on the lips. We both closed our eyes, trying to relax, and although it worked a little bit everything that I just heard over the phone was still on my mind. I broke the kiss and then got off of the bed, not bothering to get dressed since the bathroom was right outside the door. Luckily Humphrey's mom was still downstairs. I walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower, not getting in until the water was nice and hot. I stepped inside and let the water soak my fur.

I grabbed my washcloth that Humphrey's mom had let me keep there and put some soap into it. I then began to scrub my fur, starting with my chest. The whole time thinking about everything, still feeling nothing but worry and panic. I just felt sick not knowing what happened. Did the same person who killed Rick attack Kate? And if they attacked her then how is she alive? If this person was strong enough to take Rick out then how did Kate stand a chance? I saw what Rick did to Lyle and it wasn't pretty. So if it is the same person and Kate did somehow get out then… she wouldn't be in good condition. I prayed that she was okay.

Could mom have lied to me to make me feel better for now? What if they came home and she was dead and they had to take care of everything there. They would probably tell me that she's fine so I didn't worry or get too upset. I prayed that wasn't the case, but the unknowing still made me panic. I needed to know right now if she was okay, but I knew if I called then there would be no answer.

I began scrubbing my legs, washing away the various sex fluids that dripped down them earlier. I was fucking disgusting. While my sister was getting attacked I was over my boyfriends getting fucked. If Kate was dead and I was over here doing that then I wouldn't be able to live with myself. I couldn't bare the thought of Kate getting killed while I was whoring around. I squeezed my eyes shut as I tried desperately not to cry. Don't cry Lilly don't cry. Kate was strong… and not to mention she had a gun… maybe she was okay… maybe I was panicking for nothing. I hoped so. I never wanted to be wrong more in my life. Please God please, if you're real then let her be okay.

Once I felt like everything was cleaned out of my coat I put the washrag back and went for the shampoo bottle. It was my own, again Humphrey's mom thought of me as a part of her family. I had been around so long and she loved me so much that she was kind enough to lend me these parts of the bathroom. It wasn't much but I was more than grateful for it. I began to wash my hair, and it felt great. But even that wasn't enough to shake the feeling of what might have happened.

Why was Shaky there? When we were there earlier he said that he wanted to be alone. What made him go over to our place? Did he call Kate? Maybe the other way around? Or did he go there for me? We have been talking a while so I could help him with Angel's death but… it was always over phone call, so why would he go over there? I didn't get it, but mom also said he was okay so that was good. If Kate was attacked then maybe he helped her out. I hoped they were both unharmed. But then why was mom so panicked? And why was there so much commotion in the background? Someone had to have been seriously hurt. But who?

I rinsed my hair out and began to apply conditioner. Hopefully mom would call back soon. If she did sooner than I expected then I wanted to be there for it. I'm sure Humphrey would answer but I needed to talk with her. I scrubbed my hair quickly, not even letting it rinse before I went for the shampoo again to apply it to my tail. I started scrubbing. The whole time I tried not to get too upset as I thought of all the possibilities. After getting enough shampoo through my tail I began to fully rinse my hair, going back to my tail afterwards. I took a deep breath. Please be okay Kate…

I quickly applied conditioner to my tail and rinsed it before turning the water off. After pulling the shower curtain back I grabbed my towel off the bathroom door and began to dry myself. I could groom myself in Humphrey's room to get my fur dry, I couldn't stay in here long. I dried myself off as best as I could, getting my feet last so that I didn't leave a trail of water across the floor. After my fur there was dry I hung the towel up and walked back to Humphrey's room. Again thankfully his mom was downstairs, but I had no time to be careful. I opened up his door to see him lying on the bed still nude. Once I entered he looked up at me and then stood up.

"Anything?" I asked.

"No, nothing. Listen, I'm gonna shower and then we can head downstairs okay?" Humphrey said as he approached me, cupping my cheek. I nodded.

"Okay" I said. Humphrey nodded and then gave me a peck on the lips.

"I love you," he said.

"I love you too," I replied. He rubbed my cheek for a second before leaving the room, shutting the door behind him. I walked over to the bed, sitting on the edge of it. I grabbed my phone and checked it in hopes that there was something, even though Humphrey had already told me that there wasn't. I grunted in annoyance as I felt the urge to know what was happening again. If I didn't get an answer soon I would break. I tossed my phone to the side and then walked over to the closet to grab some clothes. I chose blue jeans, a brown belt, and a yellow T-shirt. I straightened my long hair a bit as I waited for Humphrey to come back. It was only about seven minutes before he came in. Like me he still wasn't clothed when he arrived, but unlike me he went right to the closet to get dressed after putting on some boxers.

"Did she call?" he asked.

"No," I answered. He sighed as he shifted through his closet, picking out black jeans and T-shirt. He put them on quickly and then came over to sit down next to me, wrapping an arm around me.

"Knowing Kate Lilly… she's okay" he said with his muzzle pressed against my face,

"Rick was strong too Humphrey… and he still couldn't beat him" I replied. Humphrey squeezed my shoulder a tiny bit, showing that he was still scared of the outcome.

"Why don't we go downstairs? Hang out in the living room for a bit?" Humphrey offered. I said nothing and stood up. Humphrey did the same, walking me out of the room, leaving the door open after shutting the light off. We walked down the stairs, running into Myra once we reached the bottom. She looked as though she was gonna pass us to turn in for the night.

"I woulda thought you two were asleep? Feel better?" she asked. Humphrey, who was still holding onto my shoulder, answered for me thankfully.

"Lilly just got a call from her mom that has her pretty freaked out. Apparently Kate was attacked" he said. Myra's face turned from one of sympathy to one of worry. She looked at me with a slightly opened mouth.

"Oh my God, is she okay?" she asked worriedly.

"We don't know. Her mom only wanted to know where she was and then told her to stay here" Humphrey answered.

"Oh no… sweetie… are you okay?" Myra asked as she approached me. She hugged me, making Humphrey let go of me and take a step back.

"No… I need to know if my sister is okay" I answered.

"We're waiting for her to call back. She said that she would" Humphrey added. Myra broke the hug to look at her son, and then back at me.

"Okay, I'll wait with you guys. Were you going in here?" she asked as she let go of me to walk into the living room.

"Yeah, we were gonna sit here while we waited," Humphrey answered as we followed her. I took a seat on the couch to the right, as Myra sat down on the one to the left of us. Humphrey sat next to me, holding me close.

"How long ago was this?" Myra asked. Humphrey looked at me for an answer. I shrugged.

"About… thirty minutes ago" I said. Myra nodded. Afterwards there was a moment of silence as we all just sat.

"Do you want me to get you anything? Are you hungry?" Myra asked. I shook my head.

"No thanks" I said.

"Oh you poor thing… I swear you kids just can't get a break. I'm so sorry that you have to go through this, if anyone deserves to be happy it's you guys. I've never seen friends so close" Myra explained. I wanted to tell her that we were more than friends. We were family, even the ones other than my sister. Even my best friend who I still considered as just that even though she was gone. My best friend.

"I… I just don't wanna bury my sister" I said as I began to cry, leaning on Humphrey even more. I felt his hand as he brushed it up and down my shoulder, rubbing my back with his arm.

"But Eve said that she's okay," Humphrey said.

"What if she's lying? What if she doesn't want to tell me what actually happened yet?" I sobbed. Humphrey didn't answer.

"I'm sure if things were that bad then she wouldn't have called you at all. She would have been too busy grieving" Myra said.

"She makes a good point," Humphrey said with a slight smile. It faded as quickly as it came though.

"Do they think it's the same person you got your other friend?" Myra asked Humphrey. I felt him shrug.

"We don't know. I can't see why anyone would target us. But who knows?" he answered. Still holding onto Humphrey I took my phone out to look at it. There was nothing.

"Lilly… sweetie? What do you know so far?" Myra asked. I tried to stop my sobbing to answer the question.

"My… my mom and dad went out, and they left Kate at the house… and I guess someone attacked her there… her and Shaky" I said.

"Shaky? You didn't tell me that Shaky was there" Myra said, turning her attention to Humphrey again.

"We didn't know either. We went over there earlier and he said he would come over tomorrow so that he wouldn't be alone. We just told him about Rick. I guess he went over to Lilly's house to talk with Kate and he got caught up in everything" Humphrey explained. That wasn't a bad theory. If anyone knew what Kate was going through it was him. Maybe he wanted to try and show her that she wasn't alone.

"Oh God" I said, coming to another realization.

"What? What is it?" Humphrey asked, trying to make eye contact with me even though I was leaning forward.

"What if… what if Shaky got there too late? What if he found Kate when she was… when she was…" I couldn't finish my sentence. The ending of it was too much for me.

"Again, I'm sure she would be too busy grieving… I know I would be" Myra said. It made me feel a little better, but not enough to stop my sobbing. I eventually calmed down about an hour later. Humphrey kept holding me the entire time as I felt worried. The living room was dead quiet as we waited for my phone to go off. Every notification put me on edge, making me think every time that it would be my mom. But it was never my call or my text tone. It wasn't until an hour later that finally I had received a call from my mom. I never thought I would be so quick to answer a phone call. I answered it, putting it on speaker, shaking as I held the phone to my mouth.

"Mom? Is Kate okay?" I asked quickly. I heard no background noise, only silence in the background as mom spoke.

"Yeah sweetie she's fine. Sorry I kept you in the dark" mom said.

"Where are you? And what happened?" I asked. Mom sighed before answering.

"We're at a hotel right now. Cops are posted outside to make sure that Kate doesnt leave. They want to ask her some things in the morning. Someone broke into the house and tried to kill her and your friend. She fought them off though and… she actually killed them" mom explained. My sister… killed somebody.

"Do the police know it was self defense?" I asked.

"When they got to our house she was too upset to talk. Your friend was in bad condition but your sister got an ambulance there just in time so he's gonna be fine. But as of right now our house is a crime scene so we were told to go to a hotel until it's cleaned up but… your sister isn't allowed to leave" mom explained. Shaky was in bad condition? He was hospitalized? At least he was okay.

"Can you send me the location? I'll be right over" I said. Mom sighed.

"Lilly, could you please just stay there? I don't think Kate can handle much right now, she's very upset" mom answered.

"Mom please… I have to see her" I said with sadness in my voice. "Where is she now?" I asked.

"She's sleeping. I'm happy that she's able to be after everything… if you come down here promise that you won't upset her. Keep talking with her to an extreme minimum" Mom requested.

"Yeah mom anything" I said.

"Alright… I'll send you our location" mom said.

"Hey Eve… it's Myra. Do you guys need anything?" Myra asked as she knelt in front of me.

"Hey Myra, we're fine right now. But I gotta get back in the room. I stepped outside to call Lilly and not wake up Kate. I gotta go" mom said.

"Okay… if you need to talk you have my number" Myra said.

"I do. Thanks" mom said before hanging up.

"I… I gotta go over there" I said, beginning to get up.

"Do you want me to come with you?" Humphrey asked. I stopped to turn back to him.

"I wish you could but I don't think it's a good idea. I'll go over there, let you know how everything is, and you let Stephanie know what's going on okay?" I said. Humphrey nodded. "Alright. Thanks… thank you for everything" I said to Myra.

"Oh of course sweetie. You stay safe now okay?" Myra said, wrapping her arms around me. I hugged her back just as my text tone went off. It was the location of the hotel.

"I gotta go," I said, breaking the hug. I ran outside, just barely shutting the door and ran to Kate's car. I put the location that mom sent me on the GPS and then started the engine, buckling my seatbelt as if there was an extremely short time limit. According to the GPS it was gonna take me thirty-two minutes to get there. Immediately I began to drive there, listening to every direction. The whole time I still felt worried for my older sister. Even Though I knew now that she was indeed okay. I couldn't believe that she killed somebody. She had to have had no choice. She must have been so scared, and now there were cops making sure she didn't leave as if she was some criminal? I guess she was lucky enough to not be in a cell though. Most cases apparently worked out that way.

It was twelve in the morning when I finally arrived at the hotel. It was a big seven story place that I had seen every now and then every time I came to hang out in the area. I wanted to come here, not that it was luxurious. It was only a place to stay a night or two if you needed it. I never thought the reason I came here would be something along the lines of this. I got out of the car, locked it and speed walked to the hotel. I saw cop cars parked in the front. Luckily my mom was outside already. She came over, scooping me up in her arms as I hugged her back, beginning to tear up at the embrace of my mother.

"I thought she was-"

"I know," mom said. We stood there, squeezing each other for a moment before mom broke the hug and began brushing my hair. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah, I just wanna see her," I answered. Mom nodded and then turned to the building. I followed her inside and into an elevator where we rode it to the fifth floor. From there on out it was two hallways to get to our room.

"The police paid for us to stay here until they're done with our place. I saw what Kate did to that girl who tried to kill her. It wasn't pretty. I just pray that she isn't scared from it" mom said as we approached our room where two officers stood. Mom said nothing to them as she pulled out her key card and entered the room. I followed behind her, stepping in front of her as she shut the door. It was a small room. Just a tiny hallway right when you walk in with a bathroom to the left, and the hallway leading to a single room with two beds, and a TV in front of them. The light was on when we walked in. a bedside lamp in the center of the two beds. Dad was sitting up, resting against the headboard on the bed on the left. And then in the bed on the right was Kate. she laid under the blanket with her arm out of it, showing off her shoulder which let me see her pink T-shirt. She looked so peaceful as she slept.

"Hey Lilly" dad greeted me.

"Hey" I said, walking over to Kate. I knelt down in front of her next to the bed, looking at her eyelids as she slept. Again I felt myself tear up. I was so glad she was okay. "What's gonna happen to her mom?" I asked.

"We'll get a lawyer if we have to, but they said that they only wanted to talk to her. They said it shouldn't take much since she was in our house" mom explained.

"Who was it?" I asked, looking back at her.

"We don't know, only Kate does and she couldn't really talk well when we found her… listen you can sleep next to her if you want. Me and your father can share the other bed. Just try and keep it down okay?" mom asked. I nodded. What was the ride over here like? Was Kate really messed up when they found her? I wanted details. All that mattered right now though was that Kate was safe. Tomorrow I will have to check on Shaky. Hopefully he was alright.

"Hey mom? What exactly did you see when you got there?" I asked as mom climbed into the bed.

"I… I saw your friend being taken in an ambulance… Kate was being questioned but she was too upset to form a decent sentence… It didn't help that she was covered in blood. They tried to keep me and your father away but I told them that we were her parents and so we got whatever details we could, were told about the situation and our options, and took this one. Luckily they let Kate shower as we packed some clothes. We didn't know how long they would be… but me and your dad saw the body and… I didn't know your sister had it in her, it upsets me that she had to do what she did. I want to talk with her about it but… right now this is enough… Now come on, get some sleep. You should get some rest" mom said.

I nodded and walked over to the other side of the bed that Kate was sleeping in and got under the blanket, being careful not to wake Kate up. Dad turned out the light and before I knew it the room was dark. Although I could still see thanks to the window that stretched across the wall, letting the lights from the surrounding buildings gleam in. I turned to Kate one last time before going to fall asleep. I was so glad that she was okay. I turned over, shutting my eyes. It wasn't hard to fall asleep, I just couldn't get the images of everything out of my head. Like mom said I hoped Kate wasn't scared from this. Knowing her though she would be just fine.

About ten minutes into me trying to fall asleep I heard a slight moan. Nothing unusual. I let it slide and tried to get some sleep but heard it again. It sounded like a bit of a whimper this time. I turned over to look at Kate again. Was it Kate? I got my answer when she grunted in a low tone and then began mumbling in her sleep.

"No… I didn't… get… forgive me…" she mumbled.

"Kate?" I whispered. Kate yelped loudly, sitting up as she began to sob loudly. Instantly the light flicked on, showing that my parents were also up.

"Kate what's wrong? Are you okay?" mom asked as she got out of bed and ran to Kate's side. Kate said nothing as she hugged mom tightly, crying loudly. I felt sorry for her as I watched the scene play out. "Shhh it's okay. It's over now" mom cooed, rocking Kate gently. It didn't seem to do much as Kate kept at it though. Dad got out of the bed and ran his fingers through her hair. Both parents now trying to calm her. All of a sudden there were three knocks at the door.

"Everything okay in there?" I heard a muffled voice ask. Mom scoffed.

"Mommy will be right back okay?" she said, giving Kate a kiss on the cheek. As she left Kate went to reach for her but mom was already across the room, opening the door angrily.

"It's okay Kate. you're safe now" dad said. "Look" he added, nudging in my direction. Kate turned around and finally she saw me.

"Lil… Lilly?" she said.

"Kate…" I said emotionally. Instantly Kate wrapped me up in her arms, hugging me as I hugged her back.

"I thought I lost you" I said. Kate shook her head, even though it wasn't much due to her muzzle being on my shoulder.

"No… no I'm still here… I don't plan on going anywhere" Kate said through the tears. I took a deep breath as I stayed clung to her.

"Are you okay?" I asked. Kate sniffed before answering.

"Yeah… I am now" she answered with a slight smile.