The Last Female *Complete*

Talk

I wake up to pounding on my front door. I glance at my phone. A few texts from Alice I notice, but it's 11am. Lillian is already at work. I throw on my white robe and run down stairs. I realised in all the insomnia and heat I undressed so I had to cover up. I wish I could peek outside, but this house is older so the door doesn't have a peep hole and there are no nearby windows that I wouldn't have been seen in. 

The pounding gets a bit stronger.

    "I'm coming! Geez!" I shout while tripping over my shoes from last night and catching myself on the door handle. I swing it open a bit, still frazzled. I'm hoping it's Walter or Rosie because I'm embarrassed, but it's Dillan. His eyes widen when he notices my robe falling open so I quickly pull it shut. 

    "You okay?" He asks

    "I just woke up," I tell him 

He comes in because I don't want the whole world seeing me in my robe either and I close the door behind him. 

    "I was going to see if we could talk or hang out, but maybe not until you get dressed," he says while kinda looking away. I run up the stairs and throw on my sweats and a sweatshirt. I notice in a mirror by my door that my hair's a mess as well. So I throw it up into a bun and run back down stairs. 

     "Well what do you want?" I ask, remembering how pushy he was being last night

    "Well it's just this girl I know, she thinks she's mated with me… and I thought I might have… but then I met you and… you feel it right?" He says. I don't know why I feel a deep pain in my heart when he says other girl

    "Why does she think she's your mate?" I ask

    "Her inner fox is probably hot for me and thinks she's feeling what we are feeling. Honestly, I've never talked to her before and thought she was rather appalling," he explains

      "I remember when we were kids even feeling this way…" he adds. I do kind of remember him avoiding me, was it because he was a few years older and felt this and I didn't yet? As a kid I just saw a grouchy pre teen. Now that I'm 18 I can't take my eyes off of him. Even in pictures. 

     "I know I was too young to feel mating… uh.. feelings," I tell him "so it is possible I do now," I admit. He looks surprised I just said it, but he looks relieved to not be rejected. 

     "I will admit…" he bites his lip "my inner instincts tell me to be with my mate. But the real me is pretty sure you'd like to take things slow, am I right?" He asks

I nod.

     "Well I do have to go to work in a while, not at the shop, but with walter. We can talk more later if you want. I just couldn't leave things how they were last night, I know I can be aggressive," he sighs.

I touch his hand to reassure him that I'm not mad at him and would like to talk more. He smiles and I walk him to the door. I'm about to say goodbye when there's another knock at my door. I open up and it's Alice. She looks exhausted, cold, and wet. She must've walked the last bit here in the rain. Dillan looks confused until he realizes that I know her,

     "Alice! Come here!" I grab my huge coat on the hanger by the door and wrap her up in it and pull her in, she starts crying, "what's wrong?" 

Dillan nods his way out and I give all my attention to my hurting friend.

      "Z-zach said he'd talk to me in a motel about 30 miles from here. He dumped me here, I'm not sure why. He just said he had to leave," she tears up. I just hold her. Maybe Walter could get a hold of zach. I send him a quick text.

     "Why here? Why not in washington?" I ask

     "He told me he was running away with me," she looked up at me "he was going to save me and get me away from my abusive father, now I have nowhere to go," she starts sobbing. Immediately I take her things up the stairs to my old room that's empty except the bed and I come back down. 

     "You are staying here," I tell her.

She hugs me tighter. I won't let Alice get hurt anymore, not by her family or zach. I had no idea about her father until now, I would've helped sooner. 

     "I was alone in that motel room for hours and he never came back fawn, do you think he was teasing me?" She sighs.

     "I don't see zack being that cruel. I'm sure he'll call you. Then I can talk to him," I tell her

She smiles. I don't think she's had someone help her like this at all. 

     "Why are you here, on this…. Commune?" She asks "it's in the middle of nowhere,"

     "This is a house I inherited when my parents died. I have really liked it here so far. I did grow up here," I answer

   "And the hot guy?" She asks

   "Oh Dillan, he is an old childhood friend as well," I smile

    "Are more of your childhood friends that attractive because damn," she giggles 

    "Actually, he's the only guy built like that here… I've been told by several that he's a ladies man," I tell her

Another knock, I answer and it's Walter. He gives me a big hug.

    "I want to hang out, but we need to talk about zach," he says

I motion back to the kitchen to let him know I'm not alone and I lead him back to Alice. I introduce them to each other. Alice decides she wants to get out of her soaking clothes so it gives me a chance to leave and go to the main lodge to speak in Walters office.

     "Zach is around. He isn't in trouble or hurt," he assures me

      "Well what is he doing? He dumped her at one of the motels in town," I tell him

     "I don't think he was dumping her… he is planning on changing her, something he did not get approval for and he could possibly kill her in the process of doing. There is a reason you ask alpha and go through the process, because we have the right resources for a smooth change without getting sick, infected, or dying," he tells me

     "I know he didn't talk to her about it," I say

     "She knows nothing of us does she?" He asks

      "Not at all," I nod.

Walter's eyes flicker and he moves close and picks up my scent. 

      "Are you alright?" He asks me

      "Yeah?" I reply

      "You may go, I will track down zach," he says. It's weird to think my friend is alpha. He can be very dominating in conversation and in alot of other ways. I get up and leave. Dillan is waiting outside. He must've been listening. Why is he so concerned about me? I can take care of myself. 

     "Do you want to go for a run?" He asks

     "A run?" I'm confused 

     "Yeah, come on," he says while grabbing my hand and leading me out of the lodge. A few female members fling me dirty looks. 

We get to the tree line. It's daylight. Only 1pm. Everything is warm like spring. The rain has stopped, leaving an earthy smell behind. He starts to grab at the ends of my shirt and I push him back.

     "What do you think you are doing?" I ask

     "I was going to help you shift?" He says "normally you should undress for that…" he adds as if I didn't know. 

     "I'm taking things slow," I tell him with a smirk. 

     "besides, I've never shifted on my own, well after I left this place I couldn't, only the alpha, and the night of the party are times If shifted after that," I admit

He pulls me closer to him by grabbing my hand and the heat intensifies between us,

     "Maybe if I get your temperature to rise enough you'll shift," he whispers between us

      "I doubt that," I manage to say

      "What drove you crazy the first time?" He asks

     "I'm not exactly sure," I reply

     "Well I'm going to shift," he says while beginning to dress down. I look away quickly, but just knowing he's behind me makes things get more intense. I take off my sweatshirt behind a tree. We are a good ways apart so I dont notice he's staring at me hoping I'd take more off for a minute or two,

     "Geez you are such a guy!" I say, throwing the lump of sweat shirt in his direction too bad I glance at his everything in the process. It makes the situation just hot enough for me to shift and before I know it we are both shifted.

His fox is bigger than mine is. And his coat is dark brown. He takes off quickly forcing me to chance him down. Lucky being a full blood means I can keep up with his pace. 

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Dillans p.o.v

It's almost thrilling. I've never had a girl keep up

With me so easily. I keep trying to weave in and out of the trees and it's like she knows my every move. My fox tells me to hunt her down, claim her, but my conscience tells me no. I drop back and follow her scent until we end up at the old tree house. I shift back and it allows her to. There are "shift bags' ' (bags with clothes and supplies around the property) so I find one nearby and we dress in the sweats it provided us. We head up the ladder. I've never been in here alone with her, well, once before she left and this force shifted me from the intense mating instinct. She was too young or she would've felt it too. I was always jealous of Walter. He could be with my mate whenever he felt like it, and never have to worry about scaring her off. He never has had my tempure. 

She walks over to my carving. I look away. I don't want to talk about it, but  I know she'll ask.

     "So who did you carve this with?" She asks. I knew it.

     "Oh uh, no one actually…" I laugh

     "Then who is F.w?" She presses on

     "Well, uh, that's you…" I admit "I think my fox missed you, but at some point it just stopped whining. It knew I had to keep doing other things until you came back," I add "well… if you came back. We didn't know if you would," 

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I look at dillan. He looks so sad. Almost broken when he talks about being a kid when I left. He keeps trying to not act emotional or sensitive, but I can tell he was hurt, alone, and lost. 

I decide it's time to start getting close to my mate. I walk over to him and interrupt his sentence by kissing him gently on the lips. That was my first kiss and I hope he couldn't tell. He lets me pull away even though I can tell he doesn't want to. 

    "I thought we were taking it slow?" He asks

    "We are… I just… didn't know what else to do, you started rambling. I was listening, but you got upset," I answer

    "Next time I might not let go," he smirks 

I start climbing down the tree house. He follows. 

    "So when people say you are a ladies man? Does that mean… s*x…?" I ask

    "Well, no. I just flirt a lot. People might think things, but my fox didn't want to betray you. No matter how my body felt. Even if I was a little mad or upset," he let's me know "did you… ever?" 

    "Nope, we moved around so often and Lillian was so protective I never have even had a boyfriend," I admit "well i did have to move states a few times, there was a crazy wolf that heard of me and wanted to claim me. I'm a fox still, but he thought it would be like extra powerful if he used me for offspring, lucky I never actually saw him face to face," 

    "No boyfriends ever?" He asks

    "Well have you had a girlfriend?" I ask

    "No. Only rumors," he responds

It gets silent as we walk back to where all the people are. Just before we get out of the tree line he stops me,

    "Maybe we shouldn't mention us being mates quite yet… I need to focus on stepping up to become alpha and I don't need all the drama, from other people's rumors that is," he says

    I bite my lip "I guess that's alright…" my fox cries and ignores me. She doesn't want to hide. Yet I just agreed to it. We walk out to the fire, its sunset so one has just started being built,

    "Hey Fawn can I ask you something?!" Walter shouts as he runs over panting

    "Oh?" I'm curious 

    "Do you want to go out with me tomorrow?" He asks. I look over at dillan, he's begging me with his eyes to say no, but my fox is upset with me and blurts out for me

    "Sure, sounds fun," I almost covered my mouth, but I stopped myself. I'd look odd. Dillan looks hurt, but I just flash him a look of, you asked for this. He starts to storm off, but Walter wouldn't let him. He drags us both over to the fire and starts holding my hand and twirling me around while pushing Dillan in Rosie's direction. It's hard to see through the twirling, but Dillan looks more and more upset as the night goes on. I try to keep my distance from Walter as much as possible without seeming odd. At the end of the night I say goodbye and walk off. 

Dillan catches up to me and grabs my shoulder, 

     "What was that?!" He shouts

     "What do you mean?!" I shout back "You asked me to pretend, so that's what I'm doing!" 

     "But what if he tries anything?!" He starts getting closer, but I hold my ground.

     "I'm sure I can take care of myself! If you cared, you would've said something to your BEST FRIEND right THEN and THERE!" I get louder and start pushing him back a bit, I take a breath and notice people concerned, I know they didn't hear everything, but they heard my shouting. I grab dillan and lead him more into the woods and towards my house. 

    "What are you doing?" He asks

    "What you asked! Hiding us," I reply angrily as I drag him further. He doesn't resist me either. He can tell he won't be able to intimidate me. I pull him into the living room. Aunt Lillian shouldn't be home yet.

     "Why would you ask me to pretend and then when I do you get mad at me, huh?" I ask

     "I thought you'd say no! I was hoping you'd say no!" He gets frustrated. 

     "Walter is nice and it would basically be like hanging out with a friend, what is your problem?" I press on

    "I know how he feels about you, fawn. I know it's not just hanging out for him," he sighs and looks down. I just walk over and hug him close. I'm still taking things slow. And he just hugs back. 

    "It's okay, I'm not leaving or rejecting you," I let him know

    "Plenty of people sleep around outside of their mates…" he mumbles 

    "I wouldn't do that," I promise.

Lillian will be home any minute.

    "I should le-"

     I interrupted him, "stay?" 

He looks surprised he tries to speak but I just cut him off again,

     "Please, you don't have to do anything, or tell anyone, just sit here, like this?" I ask

He picks me up and takes me to my room and sits with me on the bed and we both fall asleep.