High School

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Emery sits upright when he hears the howl, but brushes it off, though his body is still tense. "They want to teach me self control.. I uh..." He looks at his feet, hesitating. "I'm not the best at stopping myself, and I uh, I killed a girl yesterday morning, and I meant to and, it's not okay I know that but i cant help myself, i don't know how to stop.." The words rush out of his mouth quickly, and he takes a deep breath at the end.

 

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Leela recognizes the howl, it was her dad's, she shrugs and just goes back to listening to Emery. "So they're putting you through torture by making you walk into a place full of humans while you're hungry? That's not the right way to do it." She says, ignoring the part where he said he killed a girl. She wasn't afraid of Emery, she felt like he was misunderstood.

 

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Emery nods. "I don't know what to do.. I cant skip school forever." He bites his bottom lip and stands up, climbing up the tree to a branch next to Leela, he sits on it and leans against the trunk while he dangles his leg off the side of the branch, one leg bent at the knee. He looks at Leela, chewing the inside of his cheek.

 

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Leela smiles her top canine teeth sliding over her bottom lip, then she hangs upside down again. "Hmm." She says, thinking for a while until she hears the same howl. "Oh crap." She says sitting back up on the branch and looking in the direction that it came from. "That's my dad." she touches her cheek, the scratch still sore and she growls.

 

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Emery looks at her again, then in the direction of the howl. "What? What's going on?" He says, ready to jump from the tree and run if it came to it. He didn't fancy dying today. He'd heard a lot about werewolves, how they would rip you to pieces if they so much as even suspected you were a leech, as they called it.

 

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"Just stay up here." Leela says, then jumps down from the tree. A large black wolf jumps from the brush Leela had caught the rabbit from and when it sees Leela it tilts it's head. "Dad, what are you doing here?" She asks, and then the black wolf smells something. It looks up to the tree and spots Emery, a loud growl comes from the wolf as it steps in front of Leela and starts running towards the tree. Leela's eyes go wide and she jumps in front of her father, she phases quicker than usual and her clothes rip from her body.

 

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Emery gasps and stands up on the branch quickly, he scrambles to climb up the tree, and holds onto a branch closer to the top. He can still see Leela and her father fighting on the ground and he watches wide eyed, desperately trying to think of a way out.

 

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Leela bites at her father's ear, as he pulls on the nape of her neck. She finds a way to push him away from her and lunges on him biting his shoulder, but she stops and yelps when he bites down on her front leg, then he bats her with his paw in the nose. Blood trickled down her snout and she sneezed, and limps on her foot. Her father wasn't in control of his wolf, he was letting his killer instinct kick in. He looked up at the tree seeing that the boy was gone. He then growls at Leela and runs off in the direction he'd come.

 

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Emery watches as the first wolf disappears in the direction he came and he looks down at Leela. He climbs down the tree and looks at her, the brown wolf, and he notices that she's hurt, and he can suddenly smell the blood. He pushes the feeling of hunger aside and jumps down from the tree and lands crouched on the floor. Emery rushed over to Leela, the blood overwhelming to him, but he was determined to help her.

 

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Leela looks up at Emery as he runs over, then looks at her leg her eyes widening. She whimpers a bit, and backs up, but she didn't think he would hurt her. Instead of running away she lay down and licks her leg, licking the blood of it and trying to sterilize it. She then licks the blood from her nose and wags her tail.

 

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Emery crouches down next to her, reaching a hand towards her, hesitating slightly. She didn't look so hurt anymore, her tail wagging, but he still wanted to help her. His hand comes in contact with the wolfs neck, the brown fur soft and fluffy. He smiles slightly, his hand still touching her, as he sits down and crosses his legs, he moves his hand back, looking into her brown eyes.

 

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Leela opened her mouth and he tongue hangs out as she pants. Her tail still wagging at Emery, and she stuck her nose under his hand asking him to pet her. She might be part human, but she loved to be patted, she never would have known why dogs like it so much but she does because she's part dog.

 

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Emery pets her for a while, scratching her behind the ear and grinning at her. If someone had asked him a week ago if he would ever pet a werewolf then he would have told them that they were crazy, that he would kill them instead. What was so different about Leela that made him disregard everything he'd ever been taught about them? Minutes pass and he leans back, moving his hand away again, and just watching her.

 

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Leela gets up and walks over to the tree. She looks around at her ripped clothing and sighs. Well, looks like I'm walking home naked. She thinks to herself and stretches. Her mouth opens wide with a yawn and she trots back to Emery where she lay down beside him and rests her head on his leg.

 

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Emery strokes the top of her head with his thumb while he sits in silence thinking of how much he'd smell like dog when he got home. They may not have made a big deal about it yesterday, but they would find good reason to today. He notices her ripped clothes on the floor, suddenly realising that if she changed back she'd be naked. He takes his coat out of his bag and puts it next to him. It came down to his thigh, and he was taller than her, so if need be she could wear it to walk home.

 

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Leela moves her head onto her paws and closes her eyes. She was sleepy, being in wolf form always made her sleepy. I'm sure he won't be here when I wake up. She thinks to herself, and she was okay with that. If she were to phase back in her sleep he would see her naked, and that was not something she wanted to happen. She heaves a sigh, then slowly drifts to sleep to the sound of the forest around her.

 

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Emery looks at the time, it was only around 12pm, so he couldn't go home, and he wouldn't let himself go to school. He lays in the grass and puts his hands behind his head, thinking about his brother, and his father.

 

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Leela wakes up after around an hour and stands. She looks around and then remembers where she was. She yawns and stretches, then feels her stomach growl. She decided she would hunt for some dinner, perhaps the rabbit she got for Emery would have some buddies around there somewhere. She sets off into the brush and sniffs around, until she smells squirrel. It was wounded, and trying to make it up a tree. It was just low enough for Leela to grab it, so she does just that and bites down on its abdomen killing it instantly.

 

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Emery had dozed off, with the woods silent and he could hear Leelas breathing. But as she got up to go hunting, he opens his eyes slowly and looks around. He didn't know where she had gone, but he could smell blood, and death. He scrunched up his nose as his stomach rumbled, and he covered his eyes with his hands and closes them before spreading his arms around him comfortably. He was too comfortable to succumb to the hunger, as he waited for Leela to come back.

 

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Leela goes back to Emery as she licked the Squirrel blood from her mouth. She walks up and looks down at him, her head over his. She tilts her head and wags her tail at him. He looked comfortable, and peaceful, well as peaceful as a vampire can look. She sighs, then looks around her. She was bored. She rooted around for a while before she found an old deer bone buried in the ground. She picked it up in her mouth then lays down beside Emery again. She places the dear bone standing up in her front paws and starts chewing on the part that was pointed towards the sky.

 

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Emery watches her silently, chewing on the bone, she sort of reminded him of himself. He propped himself up on one elbow and put his head on his hand when his phone rang. He sat up properly and looked at the caller. Fenton. Of course it would be, he was the only other person in his family that had a phone. His mother and father preferred the older more traditional methods. He accepts the call and puts the phone to his ear. "What do you want?"

 

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Leela's ears perk up when Emery starts talking and she looks at him with the part of the bone still in her mouth. She tilts her head and then goes back to chewing her bone. She didn't want to intrude, and by the tone of Emery's voice she could tell it was someone in his family.

 

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"I want you to explain why you're not in school right now. And I want to know where you are right now so I can send someone to get you." Fenton says, Emery could hear the tone of disappointment in his voice.


Emery rolled his eyes, "How about instead, I tell you to go fuck yourself." He ends the call and puts his phone back in his pocket, looking at his feet. He lays back in the grass and tilts his head to look at Leela. How long would it be until she turned back?

 

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All of a sudden Leela's body jerked and her eyes widened. She dropped the bone and ran behind the tree once again as she whimpers. Soon the whimpers turned into groans of pain and Leela leaned against the tree. "Um." She says, looking down at her body and she peeks her head around the tree, only her head.

 

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Emery sat up, for a moment his face expressionless before he stood up, seeing Leela poke her head out from behind the tree. He grabs his coat from the floor and walks over, he covers his eyes for Leelas privacy as he hands her the coat. Something in him did want to see but he had more respect than that. "Here."