I'd been doing gigs for a week and I was just about to leave when Dresden called. He was coming to look at some security stuff in the house, such as rocks in the doorway to weaken the enemy. I thought I'd be around for a few more days when Dresden promised to come tomorrow and the day after. I made myself some dinner and in the early evening, I felt the first cramp in my lower abdomen. It had been swollen and uncomfortable the whole couple of weeks I'd been on the move and now the undulating pains had me holding my stomach and waiting for the pain to subside. Then the bleeding started. Greenish bloody and smelly. I called Samuel who said it was a uterine infection but as the discharge was coming out there was nothing to worry about. He advised me that there were some painkillers in the medicine cabinet that I could take if I felt like it. Samuel was in a hurry. There was a bad bug in his clinic and he didn't need to talk now. He said " Call me again if the symptoms don't subside in two weeks. "

Wonderful, two weeks. really! The pain or the fever medicine whatever helped enough for me to eat and take a shower to rinse off the secretions that kept running down my bottom. The fever got pretty high because I was shaking like a leaf and didn't want to get out of the covers. I heard Dresden doing something at the door a couple of days later. I gathered the blankets around me and went to see him. I was now living in the downstairs bedroom because I was so shaky on my feet I didn't want to risk the stairs. Dresden turned around when he heard me " These rocks are now such that if some people have bad intentions then... You okay?" Dresden asked when he saw me " Yeah uterine infection, it'll take a couple of weeks and if it doesn't get better then ask Samuel again. " How's Damon?" I smiled "Left his phone and wallet and disappeared."

Dresden said, " Now go to bed and I'll see if I can make you a couple of potions to soothe the symptoms. You certainly have a fever. " I nodded and began to slowly stagger towards the bed. Dresden came to support me. He helped me to bed.

"Wait a minute, would you mind if I felt you over quickly?" I nodded and decided I was brave. I rolled out of my covers and lay shivering. He felt my chest and pressed and when he got down he rested his hand for a moment as if to think and nodded. " You don't have a uterus infection. This is some kind of abortion. Someone impregnated you and it can't be done because you're not supposed to reproduce yet. This is a reaction to that," Then I remembered the heat that mysteriously went off.

I told Dresden the whole story. "Fine. I'll curse your womb and ovaries as soon as you grow new ones because now everything will disappear inside you. I also recommend male sterility for your pack just in case. I make a couple of potions that really help with that fever and pain. But now you are susceptible to germs. Always if this happens. Now I don't sense an infection in you and we'll see if it doesn't come. Now rest, I'll bring you a drink, I guarantee they won't taste good.! " I wrapped myself in a blanket. I felt lonely. Somehow I felt that if such a thing happened to me I would want to experience it in Damon's arms. Not alone. Or Adam. But no. I really don't want a child. But the pain, the fever, the smell, it's just awful. I sent Adam a text message and after a while, the phone said the number was not in service. Oh well, not forcibly then. Let's be on our own then.

Dresden gave me the most awful tasting potion in the world which did put me to sleep in 10 minutes. I was just about to fall asleep when Dresden said " When you wake up, this should be over. Now rest" I fell asleep. When I woke up no pain, No fever. Interesting. I had slept for a week.

I set out and ended up in Boston because the pack was there again. Samuel wanted to do a very long and hard examination on me and so did Damon. They were both very sorry they couldn't help. Samuel vowed that next time he would come and help if that happened again. After Damon left to get me some food, Samuel came up to me after closing the door of the medbay and said " You should consider contraception. You apparently get pregnant really easily and for some reason, it's just not for you. Now I don't know Damon's attitude to contraception that's why I didn't say anything just now. I'll try to develop some kind of preparation for you, okay?" I nodded gratefully because what I had experienced was definitely not nice and I wouldn't want to experience it again anyway. I didn't want children, not pregnancy.

I then went out to dinner and talked to the men about anything and everything. The doorbell rang and I went to answer it. There was a demon. I hadn't really encountered demons like this before, but my Mimosa said in my head that that was a demon, by the way. It entered as if it was an invited guest and walked into the kitchen where everyone was. It said " You haven't disturbed us too much yet, but you need to be kept in check, so this is going to be a little lesson for you all. A little warning. Especially for you young lady. If you don't want to go through the same thing again then leave us demons alone. Don't get involved in any more demon-killing fight clubs"

The demon snapped his fingers and there was a great puff of smoke, I felt like something had been ripped out of me and when the smoke cleared the truth came out. There were wolf cubs sitting around the table. I heard a whimper and looked down at my feet. There sat a female wolf pup, tricolored. The demon had turned the men into wolves and made them into pups, and ripped the mimosa inside me and made a pup out of that too. These were about 5 weeks old and jumped down and started barking and tearing and yelping, the Mimosa bouncing eagerly after them.

Just my luck. Puppies were tearing up and rampaging everywhere. Eventually, I got them into one bedroom and went shopping for supplies. I called Dresden on the way and he agreed to go see what he could do. I bought dog food, puppy pens, toys, and beds. I dragged 15 big bags of dry food into my car because I knew I was going to need food. What I couldn't buy was nerves. I should just keep them. Dresden said when I came home that they grow up fast about a week/day and when they are adults the magic spell should be lifted. Dresden suspected they had to be about a year old before the spell was lifted so 52 weeks. They were now 5 weeks old and 47 weeks meant 47 days. Oh fuck. I started to work. Puppies in the puppy pen to romp, proper food, and then they fell asleep. But as they grew every day for that one week it wasn't so peaceful for a long time. A 5-week puppy sleeps a lot but 12 weeks not nearly as much and these were growing fast. Still, no one was talking, they were barking though. And ate my shoes. Especially Damon. Well, then I did get a lot of face-licking and tail-wagging when I was in charge.

My nerves were getting tighter by the day. As they grew up and the destruction came with it, but luckily there was an outdoor area. I started keeping the boys and Mimosa outside quite a bit. The only problem with them, the boys, not the mimosa, was that you couldn't shit outside. It had to be done inside, no matter how long they were outside. Mimosa did go outside nicely. I thought I'd try a bit of favoritism. They liked raw meat and they got it, but the special treat was the fried egg. So every time the mimosa made the poop out, she got a fried egg. Damon was the first one to make the connection and went and whipped up a big batch. So the reward was a fried egg. Soon I had all the wolves doing their needs outside and I added fried egg to their evening meal.

20 days had passed. The wolves were already big. Half a year old and showing a lot of attention to the mimosa. Mimosa refused. When Mimosa wouldn't give, Damon decided to move on to me. He came to me and started eating my skirt to pieces. I refused and then I heard Damon say " Come on baby, if you knew what a wolf's tongue felt like you'd be all ready." I looked at Damon and said. " If you are so smart how about you leave those shoes alone? You can be in wolf form but don't be wolves, Satan. Be yourselves. I'm not in the mood to be a dog-watcher for the rest of my life. "

Damon tilted his head and ran out and got into a fight with Samuel when the whole episode hadn't happened. Damon was destroying shoes while Adam was redecorating. Adam was eating walls, tearing up wallpaper, carpeting, and destroying. And by now Adam was pretty big and strong, so there was destruction. Bran focused on the furniture. Sofas, armchairs, beds. Bran's specialty was tearing up pillows and mattresses and blankets. Samuel was a gardener. Samuel was almost white in his wolf form but his most common color was brown, or grey because he dug holes and destroyed the whole yard. Mimosa was a good girl. She didn't do any damage, she was just tinkering around. She sat and watched the men. She came up to me and said " Did you know that those males are all pyh! " I said, "Yeah, all that! how come you're not a pest like that?" Mimosa looked at me for a moment and said "Because I'm Mimosa, remember that you'll be fine."

After 40 days I didn't recognize the house. Everything was destroyed. The beds, the sofas, the mattresses. The wolves were already fully grown and eager, also fully reproductive and enterprising in that department. At least Damon. I dressed tightly in jeans and granny panties and went to bed behind a locked door. Another week. I knew that when these returned to their proper form I'd take a little holiday from them. By myself. Mimosa had already grown up and jumped in two days ago. But not these morons. These rarely spoke and even then they were obscene. Now I wouldn't care if they threw a party and had sex with women, I really wouldn't. Then a week went by and they went back to their usual form. They pretty much remembered everything but claimed they had no control over their own behavior. It was the curse of it all. I said I'd take a holiday. I gathered my supplies and I'd get a renovation company to do the house. I got in the car and drove away.