Wolf at the Camping

What lies beneath..

"So, I have an idea, since it's such a beautiful day why don't we have lunch at the meadow we saw when we arrived yesterday?" Lisa proposed and everyone agreed. A few minutes later they had packed everything and were on the way to the small clearing next to the parking.

Lisa couldn't help but worry as they made their way to the clearing. Her other half, her wolf, was too quiet, not a good sign. Sure, she had ran the previous night but that was barely enough for her wolf's pent-up energy. She would need to run again, and she hated to admit it but she would feel better if she had some company...

She glanced up at him, he was walking in front of them, leading the way. Lisa let out a breath and looked back down.

Sarah made a sound from beside her and she looked at her friend, "Is it too heavy? I could carry it!" she offered even though she knew Sarah could carry her load.

"Why did you?" Sarah asked and Lisa stared at her, she couldn't explain it now, jake could hear every word.

"It was only fair, Jake made breakfast..." she said while trying to make Sarah understand that this was not the time for explanations.

"I didn't mean to intrude, if you would prefer to eat on your own..." he said, he'd stopped a few steps in front of them and was ready to offer the basket he was carrying and go back.

Lisa felt her wolf stirring and knew she had to fix it, quickly, "No, I said lunch was on us. If Sarah or Anna don't want to be in our company... We will both go back to the camping and I'll cook something. I might not be as skilled, but I can assure you I can cook!" she was looking at Sarah as she spoke and saw her friend's shoulders falling as she finally gave up.

"Sorry." Sarah murmured, and they started walking again.

"What the heck is she thinking? How can she insult him like that? She doesn't even know him!' Lisa was thinking to her self as she was trying to understand why Sarah was so hostile against Jake. Sure the name might bring back bitter memories, but the resemblance ended there.

Anna started singing something that Lisa didn't recognise, but the lyrics were about unrequited love and how the person wouldn't or couldn't express the love she or he was feeling. Noone could accuse Anna of not knowing what was going on around her, somehow she always matched a song to the vibes on the atmosphere around her.

His ears caught the slight changes in their breath patterns, Anna, the happy one, had started singing softly. 'At least she can carry a tune!' he thought smiling to himself as a scent of worry and weariness reached his sensitive nostrils. He could separate the two scents and match them to Lisa and Sarah. He understood Lisa being worried, after all the memory of her wolf almost taking over was too fresh. But Sarah's weariness was a very different matter, he could understand her not trusting him, not liking him. But the hostility she showed him was a bit too much for someone she had just met. 'She worries too much' his wolf told him and usually his instincts were infallible. 'Worry about what? Me hurting her? No, that doesn't make sense, I hardly know her.' he played with that thought and almost stopped again when his wolf gave him the answer he was looking for, 'She's afraid I might hurt Lisa?' he just barely managed not to growl at the thought. He could never harm Lisa! Help her, protect her, be with her, but nor hurt her, never that! He would just have to find a way of making sure Sarah understood that....

Last night's dream was still in her thoughts, she was trying so hard not to let her feelings show but knew she was failing miserably. She tried to think outside the box where she had put everything that had even the slightest connection with the wolves. After all Lisa was one of them and she would, could, never really harm a fly. So why was she so worried about Lisa? Hadn't Anna already told her how Lisa had managed to defend herself in a challenge? How she had made him clean the floor... and she would have been victorious... if only he had played fair... So Lisa could defend herself against a male twice her age... But Sarah knew, that was not what worried her, it wasn't the physical hurt that had her terrified for her friend, it was the emotional harm that she couldn't protect herself from. Sarah was afraid of how Lisa would react if, when, Jake hurt or betrayed her emotionally.

Those were the wounds that no one could see, only thr bearer of those wounds could really feel them, and Sarah, no matter how much she wished it, could do nothing to protect Lisa... Well maybe not nothing.... There was something she could do, she would talk to Lisa when they would return to their cabin. She would make her understand that you couldn't trust a male not to hurt you, even if they didn't mean to...

'That's it!' Sarah thought, and finally felt a huge weight being lifted from her shoulders