Beast of a Woman

Chapter 1 “Listen ma’am,” Detective Williams said to me softly as I laid my head on the cold metal table of the interrogation room sobbing. The white room with only one glass window had now become covered in red in my eyes. It was hard to focus on Detective William's short stubby frame. He wore a trench coat, black dress shoes, and a fedora hat. I felt like a spectacle. I knew there were people watching me from outside. “I just need you to tell me what happened.” I continued sobbing. My whole body was trembling. How could I have let myself get so out of control? I didn’t mean to let any of this happen. My slender fingers were stained in blood, but whose blood? My body continued shaking. “Vanessa,” Detective Williams continued, “I can’t help you if you don’t tell me everything.” “Screw you!” I yelled, looking Detective Williams straight in the eyes while screaming and tears continued to stream down my face. I had been in the interrogation room for what felt like days. “Give me a got damn lawyer!” I placed both of my hands, which were bound up tightly in handcuffs, on my face before slamming them on the table and continued crying. I slowly placed my head down on the table before looking up to find Detective William’s face intimidatingly close to mine before he whispered angrily, “Have it your way. But just know, I will get to the bottom of this, you murderous foolish woman!” Detective Williams abruptly got up from the table before turning around, then spitting in my face. My mouth dropped open in disbelief as I began to tremble with anger and his saliva slowly trickled from my eyes down my face. Fear was nowhere in any fiber of my being. My body continued to shake as I wiped my face. I could feel my body tearing as I watched my hands go from their original slender state to paws and sharp claws. Oh God it was happening again. I was changing! “Guard!” I heard Detective Williams scream. “Get me out of here! Hurry!” I tried to fight it, but I did not have the strength. I felt the fur pierce through my skin and the tail shoot out of my back. “Aghhh!” I screamed in rage and in pain. I was losing control. Suddenly, I was on all fours, and running towards Detective Williams. I could hear myself growl through the beast of an animal I had become. Detective Williams scurried through the door of the interrogation room just before I could sink my teeth into his legs. I continued to growl and howled as I watched the glass window to the interrogation room shatter at the very sound of it. I was panting as my eyes raced back and forth to find Detective Williams. I was going to seek vengeance. Once the wolf took control, it would not stop until any wrongs committed were avenged. I continued to growl and barked angrily as I watched seven different people who were watching from behind the glass window stand still with fear and amazement. My eyes suddenly rested upon a small child curled up in the fetal position crying next to a police officer who stood before me trembling in fear. I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my neck. Was it a needle? My bones began to retract back to their original size. It was always painful to change into the wolf and always painful to change back. “Agghhh!” I whimpered as I felt my claws retract back into my hands. My hands and feet were no longer paws and my teeth were back to their normal size. My body hit the floor and I looked up to see a man with deep brown eyes staring sympathetically at me when, suddenly, the room went dark. Chapter 2 "Vanessa!" Trisha cried out in fear, "They're catching up with us!" My best friend Trisha and I were running as fast as we could in the woods from a pack of wolves. In the distance, I could see a tepee. There looked to be several Navajo people standing next to it looking in our direction but not moving. "C'mon Trisha we have to move faster!" I screamed shakily as we continued running. Suddenly I heard Trisha shriek to find her on the ground and holding her right ankle. He short curly brown hair was covered in leaves and mud. "Trisha get up!" I screamed in fear as I watched the wolves getting closer to us and began to close in. "Vanessa it hurts!" Trisha cried. "I think its broken, my God damn ankle is broken! I'm going to die!" I knelt down next to Trisha and felt a rush of strength enter my body, strength I had never felt before. I picked up Trisha in my arms and began running with incredible speed as the wolves bit at my heels. I continued running toward the tepee when I heard who was an older woman shout, "Skinwalker!" I abruptly stopped in front of the tepee begging the Navajo people to help Trisha and I. "Oh child," the old woman said calmly, "If you would just accept your calling the wolves would have already stopped." "Please!" Trisha cried, " Can't you see the wolves are coming!" I genlty laid Trisha in front of the old woman and asked, "What do you mean? What calling?" A sorrowful look came on the old woman's face as she turned her back from Trisha and I as did the other Navajo people. "Odina," said one of the Navajo people, a man of strong stature and long wavy black hair that reached to the middle of his back, "They could die." "Oh Ahiga," Odina calmy said as I could hear the wolves growling and surrouding all of us now. "The child must learn to embrace who she is and learn her weaknesses as well as her strengths." Ahiga bowed his head down and looked very grave as he followed the rest of the Navajo people in turning his back to us. I could feel myself become angry rather than afraid. These people were just going to leave us to die. My body began to shake and tremble. "Aghhh!" I heard Trisha scream as one of the wolves bit into her leg and another was beginning to follow suit. I felt my body tear for the very first time. Before I knew it, I grabbed the wolf by it's throat and ripped the wolf's mouth from Trisha's leg throwing it to the ground. I felt my bones popping and growing as fur came right through my skin. I bit the other wolf's neck causing it to break, and heard the rest of the pack wimper as they began to retreat. The wolf I had thrown on the ground looked at me with mournful eyes and wimpered as it limped toward me with its head bowed down then suddenly turned its back to me and walked in the direction of the other wolves. "Oh child!" Odina cried, "Look what you have done!" I could feel my bones retracting and my body going back to normal as I cried out in pain. I looked toward Odina and watched her holding Trisha who had become unconscious. So much blood had spilled out of her leg. The wolf whose neck I broke, was laying dead next to Trisha. "You will learn a very grave lesson skinwalker," Odina said as she looked me straight in my eyes before continuing, "But I will give you the choice in how you would like to learn that lesson." I panicked and began to sob uncontrollably. I did not know that this would be the moment in my life that would truly alter it forever. "What lesson?" I said dropping to my knees as I began pulling on my long kinky black hair next to Odina and Trisha. "Trisha I am so sorry!" I cried. "Child," Odina said taking my trembling hands into her right hand while holding Trisha with her left, "The first rule in being a skinwalker is to never kill unless absolutely necessary. You killed that wolf out of anger." "That wolf was killing my friend!" I growled feeling my bones begin to grow in my mouth again. Suddenly Odina gently laid Trisha on the ground and shape shifted into a large black bear in front of me then quickly changed back. I could feel my teeth retracting back as I shook with fear. "Child," Odina said softly, "You have no control over your wolf who in fact, is you. You must learn to control yourself. That wolf was biting your friend but you child, you killed your friend when you ripped it's jaws from her leg." "But I-" I began and Odina continued talking. "And then, you killed the wolf who never harmed Trisha," Odina said with a scowl on her face. "But he was going to!" I screamed. Odina looked sympathetically at me. "You must learn your lesson child," Odina said as she looked at me arduously before asking, "Do you want to save the life of your friend? Or the life of the wolf?" "Are you serious right now?!" I shrieked angrily. "I want to save Trisha !" "If I bring her back, you will never be able to fall in love and keep your ability to skinwalk. Falling in love for you child, will be the death of you," Odina began. "And why would I care about an ability that just killed my own friend!?" I sobbed angrily, "Stop with all of this mysterious talking and save Trisha!" I could feel my body tremble with anger. "Control it!" Odina said growling back at me. I could feel my anger continuing to rise when Odina touched the forehead of Trisha and her leg healed up before my very eyes. My anger instantly subsided as I watched Trisha's eyes open. I quickly embraced her as we both began crying and the Navajo people began to walk away accept for Ahiga and Odina. "You now have your desire child, " Odina said somberly, " but just know one day love will find you." "Thank you," I said gratefully to Odina not understanding fully what she meant. "Child, that wolf you killed was the mate to the wolf who limped away from you. Never forget that," Odina finished as she whispered something in Ahiga's ear then walked with the other Navajo people. "Come," Ahiga said avoiding eye contact with Trisha and I, "I will escort you both out of these woods and back to your town." "Please tell Odina we are truly grateful," Trisha pleaded as she sighed relief. Ahiga kept his head down as he turned to me and said, "Odina will be expecting to see you often...to help you with..to control what happens to you." I continued walking in silence and- "Vanessa? " The man with deep brown eyes spoke softly into my ear. Where was I? The room slowly went from dark to light and both my hands and feet were restrained. I was on a hospitpal bed. "I think you were having a nightmare," the man said looking softly and deeply into my eyes. Chapter 3 "Where am I?" I said beginning to panic. "You're safe now," the man began, "And I will be taking care of you during your trial." "Trial?!" I shrieked as I began to cry. The man bowed his head down in a shy manner while fidgeting with his fingers. I found him extremely handsome. His hair was brown and ear length, his body was muscular, and his lips were full coupled with a deep comforting voice. His skin was white with life; not pale at all. "Yes Vanessa...you are a supsect for the murder of several people who have been found deceased over the past few weeks," the man said looking at me heavy-hearted. I felt the anger rise inside of me and my body tremble. I angrily tried to get out of the bands of the hospital bed. The man stood to his feet and walked closer to me kneeling his face right near mine. "Vanessa calm down okay?" He said as took his hands and gently rubbed my dark sun kissed cheeks. We began staring in each other's eyes and I felt my body calm and the shaking stop. "God you are beautiful," the man said as his lips came closer to mine. I could feel his breath on my lips and it sent a shiver down my spine. I could feel my breathing change. What was happening to me? "Who are you?" I asked softly as he continued to rub my face. "David," David said softly, "Doctor David Preston." Suddenly the door opened and I felt ashamed and embarassed as well as suprised David never flinched and continued to rub my face and look deeply into my eyes. "David what on earth are you doing with the suspect patient?" said a tall frail white woman looking pensively at the both of us in jealousy. "I am keeping our patient calm as instructed," David said smiling at me then gently took his hands away from my face before he continued, " We would not want her to have another episode now would we?" David then turned away from me and walked toward the frail woman who handed him a clip board. "Do your damn job Preston," the woman whispered angrily shoving the clipboard into his hands, " I seen the way you looked at her. Don't screw this up." "I am doing my job Natalia," David answered in a loud voice, " Now I suggest you do yours." David angrily signed the clipboard and then forcefully held it out for Natalia to take. I could see the veins pop in his neck and a scowl come on his face. "I'm so-" Natalia began. "Oh get out Natalia," David answered in irritation while waving his hand as if to shoo her away. Natalia looked at David sadly before looking at me in disdain and mouthed the word b***h while putting up her middle finger. I felt my bones popping once again, the fur coming out of my skin, my teeth growing sharp, and my hands and feet turning to to paws and claws. I was engraged. I yelped in pain as I fully changed into the wolf breaking the bands that restrained me and jumped up on the bed growling and barking towards Natalia. "David do something now!" Natalia screamed running for the door. I quickly ran off of the bed and in front of her knocking her to the ground and blocked the door. I towered over her growling and biting at her face. I wanted to put fear into her. I felt so much rage. "Vanessa stop now!" David said running towards Natalia and myself. I felt David's large hands begin to pet my back and rub my neck and ears. My anger began to subside as David looked at me the same way in my animal form as he did in my human form. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my leg and the room began to go dark again. I faintly heard Natalia and David conversing. "Natalia you can hurt her like that!" David began shouting. "She was going to hurt me David. Can't you see that?" I faintly heard Natalia whine before everything went completely dark. My eyes opened and I was unrestrained in a king size bed under a simple plaid blanket. I felt very weak. I looked around the room to find a cherry wood desk with a laptop on it logged out with the name Dr. Preston. Was I at his house? There was a bathroom to the right of the bed with a tub in the middle of the floor and a large shower to the left of it. I could see myself in the mirror. My hair was all over my head. I placed my hands on my face and giggled inside of myself. I looked so horrible. Suddenly I seen David walking out from the right of the tub with only a towel on with an extra towel in his hand. "Hello beautiful," he said softly walking towards me, " Sleeping beauty awakens." He chuckled softly and handed me the towel. " I am not trying to be forward but I have been instructed to keep you from having any more episodes and this method has been proven to work on many patients with schizophrenia and I am sure that with your condition, it could help you too." David sat next to me on the bed and gently lifted my head off of the pillow and rubbed both of my cheeks with his hands. "Vanessa," David said looking deep into my eyes, " I am going to do everything I can to help you okay?" I was lost for words and he continued. "You don't have to say anything." David handed me the towel and smiled while lightly kissing my cheek then said, "I am going to get in the tub and I want you to join me." "Join you in the tub?" I asked forcing an angry tone and fighting my excitement at the thought of being in the tub with him. "Like I said Vanessa, " David began, "This is not me trying anything with you. You can keep your clothes on if you are more comforatble that way but skin to skin contact is the best for your treatment." "Treatment?" I said slowly lifting my body off of the bed. I watched David's eyes move all over my body to my face and back over my body again. "Yes," he said soflty and began to move his arms under my legs. "What are you doing?" I asked shyly. "I'm picking you up and carrying you to the tub," David answered smiling. I was wearing short white loose shorts and a white t-shirt. "I do not want to make you feel uncomfortable. Keep everything on. I believe this treatment can still be just as effective. I just need you to open up fully to me okay?" David began carrying me to the tub with both hands then carried me with one and used the other to take his towel off. I covered my eyes and softly laughed. "Open your eyes Vanessa," David chuckled, "I have underwear on." I sighed relief as we both laughed. "It just would have been better for you to have stripped down as much as me so we could have as much skin to skin contact as possible but this will have to do." David placed me in the water and got in placing his body behind mine before wrapping his arms around me and burying his head in my neck and shoulders. I felt at peace, the water was warm, and David began massaging my legs and arms. "Now Vanessa," David whispered in my ear, " I need you to think about something that enrages you; something that triggers the episodes. Tell me what it is that makes you so angry." Suddenly my mind went back to Odina- "Control it Vanessa!" I heard Odina yell. Odina had taken me to the woods to help me shapeshfit on demand and in my control. "I can't," I yelled in fustration trying to get the wolf to emerge. Odina gently placed her hand on my shoulders, stepped away from me, and shapeshifted into the black bear when suddenly I heard a gun shot and watched as she fell to the ground at my feet. My mind was flooded with rage. I turned to see a figure in the distance coming towards us with the gun pointing down. I felt my body beginning to tear and the wolf emerging when I heard Odina's soft voice from the bear's body, "No No No Vanessa. Control it." I tried with all my might but the wolf continued to emerge. "I said control it!" Odina yelled with all the strenth she had left. He body stayed the bear and I felt my bones going back to normal as the person with the gun approached Odina and I. "Look at that lassy," said a man, with a short and stubby build, "This bear's head is going to look great on my wall ." I felt enraged but could only seem to hear Odina's last words. As I felt my body shake and the wolf trying to emerge, I used everything inside to me keep it at bay. The tears began to stream down my face. " Don't be sad girl," the man said patting me on the back, " Had I not been out hunting today, you would have been killed by this here bear." My mind came back presently to David and I but it was like I felt the rage all over again. My body began to shake and tremble and the tears began to stream down my face. "Hey Hey, this is good," David said moving his hand gently across my stomach, "Tell me what you're feeling." I kept shaking my head no and pushing him away from me as the water began to spill out of the tub. "Vanessa calm down," David said softly pulling me back into him, " I need you to calm down okay? You need to face the anger and control it." I felt the strength of the wolf as I ripped myself away from David and stepped out of the tub in anger. This was pointless and it was certainly not bringing back my memory of how I had blood on my hands before being in that interrogation room. I looked back at David to find him staring at me with very soft eyes. I had hurt him. "I'm sorry," I said softly and beginning to cry, "but you don't understand. My life is at stake here." David slowly got out of the tub and began walking towards me as I continued to talk. "I could have murdered people David, and you have me sitting in a bath tub getting in touch with what?" I said angrily staring into his eyes with my heart pounding faster and harder with each step he took closer to me as I continued. "I need to know if I killed those people David. This isn't help- David took my face into both of his hands and looked me deep in my eyes before pressing his full lips against mine and passionately kissed me. "Vanessa I don't care if you did it, I just want to help you, " David said gently while stroking my hair and still holding my face. I did not know what to say or how to feel. "David what is this? You don't even know me" I said breathily. "I don't," he said as I tried to look away from him. David gently pulled my my face back towards him and picked me up before continuing to say, "But I feel like I have known you forever. I have never felt more connected to any woman in my entire life." "So now what?" I asked feeling afraid. It was a different fear; unlike any fear I had felt before. David placed his his index finger and thumb on my chin and kissed me passionately again. "Vanessa I don't know what will happen but you and I only have two more days with eachother and then I have to hand you back over to the authorities," David said sadly. "Why did they release me to you?" I asked running my fingers through his hair. "I am the best in what I do and I was chosen to help you not give in to these episodes you have...the ones where the authorities think it makes you responsible for the death of the victims that were found." David held me close to his chest as I laid my face between his neck and face. "But I don't know what will happen if they still find you guilty..." David said his voice trailing off as he looked down and away from me. "David," I said gently pulling his face back towards mine, "let's not think about that." I could not stand it any longer. I began to passionately kiss him. There was a fire between us that was burning since I was restrained on that hospital bed. I could feel him begin to take my my tshirt off and I dared not stop him. Suddenly I was on the bed with David on top of me as we continued to passionately kiss. His hands were all over my body, massaging and caressing me. I felt him reaching for my shorts and closed my eyes anticipating what was to happen next. I opened them just in time to see David throwing his underwear to the floor as he pulled the plaid blanket over both of us and leaned into my face and started kissing my neck. "I love you Vanessa," David said softly in my ears then looked me in my eyes as he began to penetrate me. Chapter 4 There was a window in David's house where I could see all the stars perfectly. David had fallen asleep holding me and had his face buried in my neck. I felt so torn. Did I love him? Suddenly I rememembered Odina and what she said about falling in love and how it would be the death of me. But, what did she mean? To be continued...