Love, Lust and Lycanthropy

Jacob awakens with the morning, the sun peeks over the horizon, Jacob looks down at Sandra still wrapped in his body. Her eyes flutter under their lids, ‘I wonder what she is dreaming about,’ Jacob thinks internally. He covers what little of her he can with the edge of the sleeping bag.

Sandra finds herself wandering the forest, she is looking for Jacob, she calls his name repeatedly and there is no answer, the cool air bites at her skin, she rubs at her arms trying to bring the warmth to them. She hears low growls coming from a short distance ahead, she runs toward them without thinking, she comes to a clearing and sees three large wolves a white and grey one and two grey and black ones, none of them are Jacob, she slowly backs away but has their full attention. The two grey and black ones slowly pad toward her; she realizes that they are smaller than Jacob is but still larger than a normal wolf.

“Do you know Jacob?” she asks hesitantly, her fear shows in her voice, the two wolves stop in their tracks, they look back to the white one, she feels warmth from the wolves, the white wolf slowly changes to human, it’s Karen,

“Why do you want Jacob?” Karen asks comfortable with her nudity,

“I-He brought me here,” Karen slowly walks toward Sandra, her hips swaying seductively,

“Can’t find your way out of the woods little red riding hood?” Karen says touching Sandra’s face,

“No I just want to find Jacob,” Sandra says as the two large wolves frame Karen, they wrap their heads around her waist like a large furry belt. Her hands runs over the fur on their heads they make small contented noises and lick her hands,

“He’s waiting for you where you came into the woods.” Karen laughs softly, “You have to find your own way to him.”

Sandra looks at her surroundings but nothing works as a reference to where they came from she decides to go back the way she came, she spins around quickly and there are five more wolves behind her they are all baring their teeth at her and growling low and threatening, ‘okay cant go that way,’ she thinks to herself,

Karen laughs loudly, “you don\'t even know where to start do you?” she laughs again,

“Help me or shut the fuck up!” Sandra screams at her, one of the grey wolves slowly pads toward Sandra; it nuzzles against her stomach, and slowly walks past her it cranes its head back at her and keeps walking, she decides to follow it, or him she should say her mind drifts to what she did with Jacob, the thought brings heat to her face.

She follows the grey wolf for what feels like hours, “Are you sure you know where you\'re going?” she says to the wolf, he stops in his tracks and bends down motioning at her with his head, she climbs onto his back, she squeezes her legs tightly around his body and grasps fistfuls of his fur, the wolf takes off in a flash, they move through the forest at incredible speed the trees whip past them until they come back to the cut line where Jacob parked the car, she hops off the wolf and looks around, Jacob is nowhere to be found,

Sandra slowly opens her eyes, her hair tousled with sleep, she notices that she is wrapped up in the sleeping bag, she looks for Jacob real quick, he’s dressed and busy taking down the tent, she stretches, “Good morning,” she says,

“Morning,” Jacob replies, “How did you sleep?”

“Pretty good, just had weird dreams,” that was putting it lightly; at least she didn’t get raped and torn open in this one, “how about you?”

“I slept well, I always sleep best with you,” Jacob says, Sandra blushes

“Well that\'s good,” she finds her underwear and slips it on, she keeps the bra off and slips her shirt on, the bra was uncomfortable anyway, Sandra puts the skirt on and stands up straightening it, she brushes off bits of grass and dirt.

“Anything I can do to help?” Sandra asks feeling useless,

Jacob turns to her, “Yeah, just roll up the sleeping bag,” once Sandra is done with that, Jacob is putting the finishing touches on the tent, she sits down on the rolled up sleeping bag, just watching Jacob. He tucks the tent under his arm and walks over to Sandra, he helps her stand and kisses her softly, she wraps her arms around the back of his neck.

Jacob picks up the sleeping bag, “Your offer to carry me still stand?” Sandra says, Jacob looks at her confused at first,

“Oh yeah, sure thing, hop on,” Jacob kneels down and Sandra hops on his back for a piggy back, she wraps her legs around his waist and her arms around his shoulders, Jacob walks through the woods back to the car with amazing speed and grace, they get back to the car in under a quarter the time it took for thhen hen she walked, Sandra drops off of Jacob’s back and walks to the car hopping in the passenger seat, Jacob puts the sleeping bag and tent in the back seat and starts the car,

Sandra wants to ask him all sorts of questions about him being a werewolf but decides not to, “Something on your mind?” Jacob asks, sh, she is startled by the question,

“Uh well not really, just werewolf things,”

“Werewolf things?” he cocks and eyebrow at her,

“Well, like things about you being a werewolf but you don\'t have to tell me,” she says rubbing her hands on her knees; she feels the tiny scratches under her fingers.

“I want to, besides its not like I could get into any more trouble than I would be in if anyone found out I told you, so it will be just our little secret okay?” Jacob says keeping his eyes on the road,

“Well like how do you catch it?” she feels funny now she made it sound like the common cold,

“That depends, its different for every werewolf and the person they infect, some can only pass it through a bite while in half wolf form, others are more contagious,”

“Which are you?” she asks warily,

“Don\'t know, I\'ve never infected anyone, I would hate to make someone a werewolf against their will,”

“You get many that want to be werewolves?” she asks without thinking,

“A few but its few and far between its mostly just people who know a werewolf that end up asking for it, we are too good at hiding for a stranger to come to a pack,” he looks over at her quickly,

“Okay, now about the whole silver bullet thing is that true,” she watches his face she knows she shocked him, he swallows quickly,

“Very,” he leaves it at that, he feels bad for telling her how to kill his kind,

“I-I\'m sorry I was just curious,” she feels bad for asking now, Jacob shakes his head,

“Don\'t be its just I\'ve only had to go through these questions once before when I was the sponsor for a new member in the pack,”

“Sponsor?” she asks

“It’s someone who teaches a new wolf about our lifestyle and our laws, kind of like a mentor,”

“Who was your sponsor?” he doesn’t flinch at this question

“Her name is Ivy; she is the lover of our pack\'s leader,”

“You mean his mate?” Jacob shakes his head,

“No, we can’t reproduce like that, that\'s why most males have themselves fixed, it saves on the disappointment of their lovers miscarriages, when the full moon comes we have to shapeshift and the change is too violent for the fetus to survive more than three months,” he says, there is a tightness in his voice,

“I\'m sorry,” Sandra doesn’t feel like asking any more questions. The rest of the car ride is in silence, when they get back to civilization Jacob speaks again,

“You want me to drop you off at your place?” Sandra thinks about his question for a moment,

“No, I left a change of clothes at your place,” she stares out the window watching the buildings whip by, they both go up to Jacob\'s place and when they enter they notice that Marcus is sitting on the couch with Karen watching TV,

“Hey Jacob, Sandra, what\'s up?” Marcus says tearing his attention away from the TV,

“We went camping,” Sandra says with a big smile on her face,

“Really? Well I hope you two had fun,” Marcus says brushing his long golden hair back off his shoulder, Sandra can’t help but wonder if Jacobs hair was curly like Marcus’s in neat curly locks.

“We sure did,” a huge grin on her face, “Well I\'m going to have a shower,” Sandra quickly makes her way to the bathroom, the shower drums trough the apartment,

“Well I see you two made up and from the smell of things you two had a real fun time,” Marcus emphasizes ‘real’

“Sure did,” Jacob, says putting the tent and sleeping bag back in the storage closet, “So what have you two been up to while I was away?”

“Oh not much, just watching the news for any new info on that lycanthrope bill,” Marcus says, Karen has remained quiet.

“Really? Anything new that I don\'t know?” Jacob asks sitting in the chair,

“Not yet, except there are a lot of people rallying to have it passed mostly college students but there\'s a lot of political figures behind the thing too,”

“Looks like we may not have to live in hiding if it does get passed too.” Karen says an obvious hint of happiness in her voice. The three of them watch the news until they hear the shower turn off,

Sandra walks into Jacobs bedroom covered by a towel, she dries herself off and digs in his closet for the outfit she left here, she finds a pair of black jeans, but can’t find her shirt, she decides to wear one of Jacobs, she grabs the smallest one she can find it’s a red t-shirt, she pulls it over her head it hangs down passed her thighs she tucks it into the pants and goes out to sit with the others,

“Jacob I couldn’t find my shirt so I put on one of yours is that okay?” she says as she steps into the living room,

“Yeah, sure I haven\'t worn that shirt in forever anyway,” he says, Sandra walks up to Jacob and sits across his lap in the chair, she locks her arms around his neck and kisses him,

“Aww isn’t that just adorable?” Marcus says to Karen, “Why don’t you act like that around me?”

Karen looks at him funny, “Well first I\'d have to be dating you and second I\'d have to be drugged to do something like that with you,” Jacob and Marcus laugh.

“Ah you know you want my body Karen there\'s no denying it,” Marcus says flexing his muscles,

“Yeah like I want a shotgun blast to the face,” she says crossing her arms over her chest, Marcus leans over and kisses her on the cheek, she pushes him off the couch and onto the floor, his head makes a loud ‘thunk’ as it hits the floor,

“Are you hurt?” Sandra asks hanging off Jacob,

Marcus sits up rubbing the back of his skull, “Only my pride, you know Karen, we always hurt the ones we love,”

“Then come over here so I can ‘love’ you some more,” she says making a fist.

“I love it when you talk dirty to me,” he says as he jumps back on the couch, “So, Sandra what do you think of this new bill that gives lycanthropes human rights?” he says changing the subject,

“I think it’s a great idea, I mean they were all born human why should that change just because they got bitten by someone?”

“Wow I\'ve never heard it put any better,” Marcus says, “Normally people will say ‘because they caught some disease,’ its statements like that, that make them sound like lepers.” Marcus says putting his hand on Karen\'s thigh squeezing slightly; she grabs his hand and squeezes hard pulling it off her,

“Didn’t you have something you were going to do other than pester me?” Marcus makes small pained noises,

“Ouch uh yeah, I was going to go see someone who isn’t a total bitch,” Karen squeezes his hand again, “Ow, you know I like when you play rough,” Karen pushes him away,

“Dammit Marcus go fondle someone else for fifteen minutes,” Karen says, her lips curled into a snarl.

“Fine, I\'m sure someone out there would appreciate my advances, rather than brood over an old fling,” Marcus says pulling his hand out of Karen’s and heading out the door, Karen is shocked by the remark, she just sits on the couch with her arms crossed over her chest staring at the TV.