"Untitled" Chapter 1

“Kizzy it's time to wake up!” Kizzy’s brother calls out to her, “You gotta go to work young lady,” she can hear the smile on his face.1

“Brandon, why can't I sleep more?” She cries out, trying to hide her head under the pillow. She hears the door open and she lyes still; trying to pretend she’s still asleep.2

“Oh, come on Kizzy, I know you can't be dead or asleep,” he tells her, almost reading her mind, “but I do know that you are awake, now come on! You need to get up and get ready for work, you lazy bum.”3

“Why do I have to?” She whines, trying to get him to leave her alone so she can have a few more minutes of sleep.4

“Because, you're twenty-three and you need to work and help me pay the bills, I can't do it all on my own,” he tells her, starting to get frustrated with Kizzy’s laziness, and she can hear it in his voice.5

“Okay fine, I'll get up. But, I'm going to be really bitchy because you made me get up too soon,” she tell him as she pull the pillow off her head, staring at his shaggy brown hair and his stern green eyes, telling her that she better get up before he drags her out. “Brandon, I'm getting up now get out so I can get naked,” she throws the pillow at him, trying to get him to smile, and in three seconds a smile comes across his face and he throws the pillow back at her, which ends up hitting Kizzy in the face.6

“Okay, I'm leaving, but only because you need to get up and dressed for work,” he tells Kizzy, making sure that she’s really up before he closes the door to leave, then Brandon slowly shuts wooden door, making sure he doesn't bang it too hard.7

She stands up, stretching her arms across her chest and then bending her elbow over her head. She gets out of her room and heads left, stepping into the bathroom, standing in front of the mirror, seeing her hair messier than usual ,with the green hazel eyes looking back at her, she sighs at the way she look, “I need to stop staying out so late,” she tell herself. As she gets into the shower, she starts to think about what she saw the night before. It was so unbelievable and unexpected, which really made it scarier than it should be. Seeing a woman ripped apart by the creature that was unfamiliar to her, it was bizarre to her and that scared her. The demon had wings like a bat, but bigger and it’s face and body looked like a human, a female human, her hair was wiry and black. She was mesmerize by the site, but terrified at the same time. Kizzy ran around to the other side, so she can get a better look at this creature, this demon. As she moves a little closer, she smells a vampire close by. Kizzy sniffs her out, but by the time she got to where the smell stopped, the vampire is gone. That’s when Kizzy looks up and sees her standing up in the tree. The vampire drops down, grabbing a hold of Kizzy, and flies her out of the hearing of the demon creature. The vampire smirks at her, and then flies off once again. Once again, she thinks how weird that whole night is, and she knows something weird is about to happen.8

Kizzy is kind of an expert of weird and freaky things, since werewolves are looked as cursed beasts, people who made a deal with the devil or some kind of idiotic thing, but not all of them are. She has been born this way a turnskin werewolf, her family has always thought she was special, even though she couldn't bring herself to believe them, only because she has been scared of whom she is, and she didn't know anything then. Her father, whose family has a werewolf born in his family every so often, has helped her to understand that she wasn’t a monster and she really was special, in her own way. “Oh, Dad, I wish you were still here,” she tells herself, worrying about how the wolf inside her reacts every time she starts thinking about her father, who has passed away when she was sixteen. 9

Stripping off the pajamas after she sees how dirty she is for the first time since she’s been home, “Great,” she tells herself. She steps into the shower, turning on the cold water first, and let it run over her slender body, which makes her shiver down her toes as water runs down her body. She turns on the hot water, letting the water warm up a little as she lathers up the rag she leaves in the shower. Washing the dirt off, that has gathered on her from the night before, from running through the woods with the moon singing to her soul. As she finish conditioning her hair, getting all the tangles out of her hair, which is just like her mother‘s hair, wavy medium length, with the color of blood, but just a little bit darker. She finally gets all the tangles out, and then washes out the conditioner. She stays in the shower for a few minutes longer to let the water hit her tender back and she sighs in relief before she hears Brandon calling out from the living room, “Kizzy, get out of the shower!” 10

“This is my girl time, just a few more minutes,” she yells back, starting to growl deep in her throat, getting annoyed with how he’s been even more bossy than before.11

“Alright, just hurry up, we gotta get going,” he calls out to her, hoping to hurry her even more than before.12

She roll her eyes as she turns off the water, wondering why Brandon, her older brother, is being so demanding these past couple of weeks. She wonders if its because there is something he isn’t telling her. Wrapping a towel around her body, slender but muscular, of course. She walks out of the bathroom and back into her room; but not without glancing over at her brother, he's so loving and caring, but when he gets like this, there is usually something wrong or something is bothering him, and he’s scared to tell Kizzy, because he doesn’t want to worry her.13

She drops her towel to the floor and walks to her closet, when she starts looking around in her closet; she notices a smell, one that she recognizes quite well. Kizzy smiles to herself, knowing that it’s been awhile since he’s been around, and that makes her happy. Kizzy can hear him sneaking around the house and to her bedroom door, telling Brandon to be quiet, but all Brandon can do is sneaker, which was a big hint for Kizzy. She slips on anything that she can finds and right when she puts her pants around her slim waist, the door opens and Levi jumps through the door. Kizzy just stands there, finishing drying her hair,“Hello Levi, how are you doing today?” She just smiles sweetly at him.14

“Well I'll be damned,” he said to her, knowing that there isn't any way for her to hear him coming.15

“You should stop trying to sneak up on me, one of these days it's going to get your head bitten off,” she stands up and walks towards him with her arms hanging loosely by her side. She can tell that he's studying her, thinking how to sneak up on her and she just smiles bigger at him because he has no clue of what she is.16

“Most likely, but you always know that I'm here or there, I just wanna know how you do it,” Levi wraps his arms around her, giving her a quick hug, and Kizzy hugs him back gently.17

“If I told you that, I would have to kill you,” smirking at him, hoping he takes it as a joke even though it‘s the truth.18

He laughs a little, almost like a man giggle, “Now, now, no violence when I'm around, you know I have a weak stomach for that.”19

“Then you're in the wrong line of work,” she replies with a smirk.20

“Well, just because I work in the prison, doesn't mean I put up with any violence while I’m there and they know that too,” his face almost get serious there for a moment, and she can smell the bitterness around him, the smell that stress gives off.21

“Did something happen recently?” Kizzy asks him as she studies him, trying to figure out what happened.22

“Yeah, you can say that. There was a break out and we just got him back a few days ago,” he pauses and looks away, but she can smell his frustration growing. “He was in very bad shape when we finally got him, like a wild beast with no soul or thought in its head was trying to tear him apart,” His eyes grows wider. “Luckily, someone shot at it and scared it away.” He stops for a moment, “Kizzy, he's barely alive and we don't know what to do if he even lives through this, he won't be safe in that prison, especially since he‘ll be weak for months.” 23

Levi has explained to Kizzy what it’s like in there and she thinks prison is kind of like a pack; people challenge each other for their places in there, as people do when they’re in a pack. With their fights though, it’s maybe worse than when werewolves since they are sneaky and sly as a fox. Shaking her head is all she can do because she knows that if he survives this, he is most likely to changed into what she is, a werewolf, and she does consider the made werewolves to be cursed and more dangerous than herself, a turnskin werewolf. Looking at him, so fragile and tired she wraps her arm around him saying, “Everything should be fine. You know those people in there are strong if they can survive half of the things that goes on in the state prison, then this guy could survive this,” he looks me with his bright blue eyes and nods just so that his neatly cut hair moved just a little bit and smile a wiry smile at her. “You know what, if he survives, what's going to happen to him?” She wonders, trying to figure out how to tell Wade, the Alpha of the pack, about a new werewolf in state prison, he won't be very happy when he finds out.24

“We don't know yet. We could just let him go and hope that he stays out of trouble,” he tells her with a slight sigh.25

“Oh, okay. Well, if that happens I have a friend who can most likely help him out. Along with helping him find him a place to stay and a job,” hoping this will be better than having him running around on the streets when the moon sings his song to him, not being able to control the melody yet, “and he has an extra room in his house. He will be able to stay there until he’s done recovering from the animal attack.”26

The bitter smell is almost all gone, but not all of it, knowing that there is going to be a place for this prisoner to go to, a safe place, his stress has almost disappeared. “Thank you so much Kizzy. I'll get going and tell my boss, I'm sure he's going to be happy too, even though he acts like a hard-ass, but we all know that isn’t always true. We're going to owe you if my boss will allow a prisoner set free early,” he hugs her tightly and then he gets up and heads to work.27

Brandon allows her to finish getting ready in silence after Levi leaves; dreadfully, she puts on nicer clothes for work. As she walks out of her bedroom door, he's standing in the hallway, staring at her, “What are you thinking? You can't just allow criminals to be set free like that, I don't care that he was attacked by a werewolf, he needs to stay in there and have someone work with him in there,” he must have over heard Levi and her talk about the man in prison.28

“Brandon, do you really think a wild werewolf in prison, not being able to control the wolf is such a good idea? Think about it; and if he just happened to be dangerous, Levi would have told me so. It's a good thing that I got wind of this before Wade. He would have gone berserk,” she stares at him, not letting her eyes wonder from his. He knows better than to try to stare her down but he likes to try anyways, but this time it was different, so she takes her eyes away from his and sighs, “Look, I'm sorry. But we got to protect those who are like us,” she tries explaining to him.29

“There is no ‘us’ in this, it's the people who are like you. I'm not like you,” he explains to her, with anger flashing across his face, and the smell of the air changes as quickly as the wind blows.30

She stands back, and shocked, “Brandon...” 31

“Don't, not right now. I have to go, and so should you. I'll walk to work, you can take the car,” he tells Kizzy and quickly leaves the house as she stands there, not knowing what to make of his words, for once.32

Kizzy leaves the house, locking the door behind her, still wondering what Brandon meant by what he said before he left the house. She sticks the key in the keyhole and unlocks the car, and then step into her 1969 light blue Ford Mustang. Starting the car she leans back into the seat and sighs, worrying about her older brother, whom she thinks wants to be like her, and about the new werewolf who’s in prison, if he survives that is. She quickly look behind her and start backing out of the drive way and her head towards her office at the car dealership. 33

When she enters into the building, she’s all about work and all of the outside worries and troubles go away while she’s doing her job. As she walks farther into the building, she looks around at the cars, seeing a few new cars. As she walks by Alex Lane, one of the car dealers that she works with, gives her a nod and gives a car dealer’s smile as he stands up and walk on over to her, “Hey Kizzy, how are you doing this fine morning?” She just gives him a look, letting him know that it hasn't been all that great, “One of those, is it?” He asks her, with his perfect, but mistrusting smile.34

“Yeah, you could say that,” she tells him as she sits down at my desk. “I didn't get much sleep last night.”35

“Any reason at all?” He asks her.36

“No, not one bit,” she lies to him, hoping that he'll leave it at that.37

“Well, there has to be a reason if you can't sleep, there always are,” he eyes her, seeing if he can get more information out of her.38

“Maybe I was out all night partying and drinking way too much,” she snickers out, laughing at her own remark.39

He laughs with her at Kizzy’s statement, “Yeah right, I can't see you as a party girl. You may be young enough to be, but you're smart enough not to.” 40

“Yeah, well you need to get to work; you have people out there looking to buy a new or used car,” her anger starts boil my insides; she can smell it surrounding her.41

“Alright, I can take a hint,” he tells her and he walks away, going to the people who are looking at a 2008 Ford Expedition. 42

After she settled behind the desk, the phone rings, she picks it up and answer, “Salem Ford, this is Kizzy Willows. How may I help you?” She answers the phone, exactly how the boss trains everybody to answer.43

“Hi Kizzy, this is Levi.” 44

“Hey Levi, how are you doing?” She asks, hoping that it’ll be good news for the both of them.45

“I'm doing alright,” he simply tells her, not telling her anything.46

“Is there a reason you’re calling me at work?” Asking him, hoping that he understands that she wants to know about the inmate that was possibly attacked by a werewolf, and she knows Levi cares about him enough to even to try to find another place for him to get stronger and not having to worry about rather he’s gonna get shank in the state prison.47

“Yes I have, I wanted to know if you have gotten a hold of that friend you were telling me about this morning. I just got word not too long ago that the inmate is doing much better and is starting,” he pause a second, “pull himself back together I guess you can say, and my boss is giving the okay for your friend to take him in.”48

“That's great!” She tells him, “But I haven't talked to him yet, but after I get off the phone with you, I will call him,” she can hear him sigh a little in relief. “Don't worry; I'm pretty sure that he'll be willing to take him in. He has taken in many people in who wanted to start a new life, and they have been successful in doing so with him.”49

“You mean run-aways?” He asks, curious about her friend and pack leader, Wade.50

“Yeah, sometimes Wade takes in runaways and also all sorts of people,” she smiles with her voice, letting him know that it won't back fire on him, “I'll have him contact you and you can ask your questions to him.”51

“Sounds good to me,” now in his voice, she can hear that this is the best news he has had since they have gotten the inmate back.52

“Levi, before you go, I have a question for you. How come this guy is in prison?” She asks just to make sure he’s not to any threat to the pack.53

“He was convicted of murder,” he stops me from speaking before she can get a word in; “he is innocent of that. He didn't do anything wrong besides be at the wrong place at the wrong time. I have had a lot of a time with him and when he talks about what happened, I‘ve studied him and he isn‘t lying, but since he‘s a bigger guy and kind of scary looking, nobody really believed him, so he was sent here.”54

“Thanks for telling me, I just had to know. Now, I need to call Wade and get back to work. He will contact you as soon as he can,” she smiles into the phone, “Levi, everything will be fine. I can tell that you have created a bond with this guy and you will be able to see him when he's at Wade's, my friend, place.”55

“Thanks Kizzy, you always know what I need to hear,” he starting to sound more like himself again.56

“You're welcome, I'll talk to you later,” they say are bye's and they both hang up almost at the same time.57

She leans back in her chair smiling to herself, and then the phone rings again. She answer how she’s suppose to and a man asks what they have in our lot, she tells him what he wants to know, “We have most Fords, years from 1990's to the new models, but we also have cars that people have traded in, like Chevy, Jeeps, and so on.” 58

“Thank you Kizzy Willows,” he tells her in a voice to let her know that he knows something about her, something about who she is, but he doesn't say anything else, and hangs up. 59

After the man hangs up, she starts to dial Wade's cell number; it just keeps on ringing until his voice mail picks up for him. She doesn’t leave him a message on his phone, thinking that it wouldn’t be a good idea to do so, especially about the situation that the werewolf community have on their hands, a possible new werewolf in prison.60

Through out the day, she answers the phones and help people to get service from the dealers who aren't really doing any work, but they just pretend that they do. Doing the same thing everyday, for Kizzy, is starting to get old. She thinks that she should just live in the woods instead of the luxuries of a house, to stay a wolf for years and years to come. She imagines what it would be like to live as a wolf, instead of a human. 61

As the workday ends, she closes up her desk, and gathers her belongings up. She tells everybody she walks by that she’ll see her coworkers later, since she won’t be coming back here until Tuesday, glad that she’s going on a small vacation, even if it is for a few days it’s just the right amount for her.62

As she starts getting into the car, her cell phone goes off. She digs ithrough her purse trying to get the phone and she finally get her hands around it, pulls it out and glance at the caller ID, she sees that its Wade calling her back. She answers it, thinking that he's just calling her back, but instead she gets, “You're brother called and told me already. How come you didn't call me?” The smell of his anger, almost seems like it’s coming through the phone, but she can sense it inside her body; which almost makes her coward.63

“I tried to call you earlier but you never answered. I know I should have kept calling but I've been dealing with people all day and I was going to try and call you again once I got back home,” trying to explain to the Alpha is harder to do than people think. You have to be sure that it's right and not flimsy information, and if you know you're wrong, don't apologize, it'll just show that you've done wrong and show weakness towards any werewolf but even more so with the alpha; since they have never said sorry to anybody for anything. It's the only way to be an Alpha in the pack.64

He tells her that she should have left a voicemail or called earlier than she did. Trying to block him out, he tells her to listen carefully, which gets her attention, "You can not pull something like that again."65

"Of course not, how many times have I've done something like this? Besides, I already told Levi, the prison guard that I'm friends with, that he can stay with you. All you have to do is talk to him and probably his boss as well. You never gave me a chance to tell you about that, I'll give you his number where he can be reached and then you guys can figure everything out," she can hear his breathing slowing down. She relaxes a little, knowing that he’s not that mad at her anymore or worried about having a new werewolf, with no control, in prison. “But…” After she said that, the she can sense him stiffening up again, “I’m not totally sure if he was attacked by a werewolf, from what Levi told me, it sounds like it… But, you may want to go see him and find out for yourself.”66

“Okay, thanks for that warning,” he pauses, like he’s covering up the phone when he talks to somebody. “Just give me the number and I’ll call you later and let you know what I find out.”67

She gives him Levi’s number and they hang up with nothing else to say. That man drives her crazy sometimes. He's all sweet on her, like he wants her as his mate, and then other times he's acting like she’s doing everything wrong and then starts getting angry with her because he thinks she’s have done something wrong or he acts like she’s against the pack, just because she’s never really belong to one before she moved to Same, Oregon. Being brought up in a family who’s from St Louis, Missouri, that acted as her pack and they never did try to give her away to some other pack who would have abused her, just because she’s different than they are.68

When she drives back home she looks behind her, seeing a dark grey truck behind her. She thinks to herself “I’ve seen that truck before,” she keeps wondering where she’s seen it and when. She curses under her breath, wishing that her memory was better than what it is. She turns onto her street and the truck keeps going straight, she could barely see the driver, but their eyes seem so wrong, as if they're trying to pierce through her body, and straight to her protected soul; peeking inside and wanting to expose her for who she is, for what she is. Having that thought in her head, scares her. She doesn’t want people to find out she’s not who she says she is, it could ruin things for you and put the entire pack in danger.69

Pulling into the driveway she sees that it‘s almost seven o‘clock and, relief settles in, "Oh thank goodness I'm home," she tells herself as she gets out of the car. When she gets to the front door, she put the key in the keyhole on the door; she realizes that it's unlocked. She opens the door, peeking in, trying to smell someone she doesn’t recognize, nothing. The smells that she can recognize easily surrounds her, her brother Brandon, and her. However, something seems wrong to her, an uneasy feeling assumes her; she can't shake it, "Brandon, are you home?” She calls out for him, hoping he'll be home, "Hello?"70

"Yeah, I'm here. I'm in the kitchen making your favorite dish for dinner," he calls out which seems further than it really is.71

She through the medium size living room, filled with knick knacks and pictures, still feeling like there's something wrong but the smell of food finally hits her after having the door shut for a little bit, "Smells good. Why are you making chicken and rice?" She asks him, wondering what he wants since he only makes this for her whenever there's something he wants or when he needs to talk about something important.72

"Because I love you and you're my little sister," he tells her with a sweet smile and then goes back on checking on the chicken, seeing if it's ready to be taken out or not.73

"Yeah, and you want what?" She crosses her arms, and glaring at him, still wondering what he wants and what he was talking about this morning before he left in a hurry.74

"I just need to talk to you about something, something that's important; to me at least," he tells Kizzy as he leans against the counter looking straight at her, almost into her. "Dinner will be ready here shortly, go take a shower and change; dinner should be ready by then," he turns his back to her and leaves the kitchen. Smelling him as he leaves, he smells like his work, oil from the older cars, and something else that she can't figure out, almost a mixture of stress and disappointment.75

She goes to her bathroom and starts the water. Kizzy put the plug in, and then get out of her clothes once again. She sits on the toilet, watching the water raise in the tub. As soon as it gets full enough, she turns the water off and step into it, letting her muscles soak as she starts to relax a little. The caressing water cleanses her body, soul and, mind. 76

After getting out and putting on a pair of lose shorts and a t-shirt, Brandon has his and her plate ready. The table is set up like the movies, beautifully put together and she’s surprised that Brandon has done this by himself so fast, “I wasn’t in the bathroom for that long was I?” She looks at him, smiling as she sits down at the table, across from him.77

He gives a faint smile back as he starts to talk, “No Kizzy, I’m just a fast working man and it helps that I’ve been planning this all day,” he pats her hand as she settles in her chair.78

They both eat in silence, neither of them not wanting to say anything to each other, and she’s somewhat afraid of what he wants to talk about. After they both finish their dinner, Kizzy and Brandon leans back against the chair and Brandon pats his belly and smiles, “That was really good,” she tell him with a grin, “maybe tomorrow I’ll cook.” 79

He laughs at her telling her, “Yeah, I won’t hold my breath on that one,” she throws her napkin at him, and they both laugh.80

“I could always order in you know, I have magical fingers with the phone.” 81

“Yeah, I know. I’ve tasted the food of the Chinese you’ve ordered in,” he reaches over and rubs her head, “speaking of magic… I have to ask you something.” 82

“And that will be?” She prays that it won’t be about him wanting to be a werewolf, she wouldn’t want him to go through that.83

“Well, we’re both getting older and you’re starting to show no sign of aging anymore, not like you use to. And I keep getting older and older while you look the same age,” he looks down, trying to find the words, “and I’m scared that soon I’ll be mistaken for your father or uncle instead of your brother. And I want to know…” 84

She cuts him off before he could finish the sentence, “I won’t turn you into a werewolf,” she raises her voice so that he will understand that she won’t do it, she won’t even be there for the ceremony. 85

He looks at her, almost scared, since she has never raised her voice like that to him before, “I know that. I want Wade to do it.”86

“Brandon, you can’t be a werewolf. During the change, you could die. I wouldn’t be able to live without you.”87

“Well, I’ll die sooner or later Kizzy,” his facial expression changed from scared to sad, and his scent smells like a mixture of anger, terrified, and sadness that turns into a worry, almost, “and I rather be around until you die. However, I know that won’t happen because you are a werewolf and you can live for however God allows you too. I on the other hand, will die of old age or from some kind of illness.”88

She stands up and slams her fists on the table, “I won’t allow this! Wade won’t do it without my permission.”89

“We’ve already talked about it, and he agrees with me. He knows that if I die while you’re still alive, it’d be hard on you and you’ll lose all control over your wolf; he’s seen it before with other wolves, but I want to talk to you about this. I want to have your blessing on it so I won’t feel the guilt afterwards,” he looks into her eyes with soft eyes, and then she just hangs her head down low.90

“Wade would have to do it, I don’t have the will to change anybody, especially you, but I do give you my blessing,” a bitter taste came from her mouth when the words comes out of her mouth, and Brandon knows it too.91

“I know and, that’s why I have asked Wade to do it. And I know I won’t die from the change, because I do have werewolf blood in me, I just don’t change like you do,” he smiles gently at her as he stands up and wraps his warm arms around her and hugs her tightly, not wanting to let go of her.92

“You better not die on me, or I’ll bring you back to life and kill you myself,” she tells him as she put her arms around him, hugging him even tighter; not wanting to let him go of him either.93

“I’ll be fine, even Wade believes so because I’m your brother. I just don’t want to be left behind, you understand that, right?” 94

“Yes, I understand, but I don’t want you to die… I’ll be so lost without you,” tears started to fall, and she couldn‘t control them any longer.95

“Shh, it’s okay. I’ll be fine, I promise,” he reassures her, rubbing my back a little to calm her down. “It’s okay, I promise.”96

“Yeah… I gotta go, it’s about that time of night,” she tells him quickly as she releases him from her arms and moves away from him, looking at him before she leaves for her nightly wolf run.