Day: February 21, 2018

mythsandmonsters:

“Okay,” Vaughn nodded, glad that she understood his reluctance on that front.

“Speaking of the little ones, I don’t think we’re gonna hear the end of it from Genesis if you go home smelling like me,” he added with a soft laugh, knowing the little girl would see it as undeniable proof that he now had to permanently be a fixture in all of their lives.

“I already never hear the end of things from that pup.” She rolled her eyes and giggled before her expression softened. “She’s started calling me “momma Cadi”,” she confessed, still not sure what to do with that one. 

mythsandmonsters:

“Can’t say fairer than that, can I? You got my word, alright? If the heat gets too strong, you’ve got my complete permission to beat the shit out of me for it.”

“That was easier when you were shorter than me.” She thought there was more to it than he was saying, but she knew pushing any further wouldn’t get her anywhere, so she let it drop for now, but it didn’t ease the knot in her stomach.

mythsandmonsters:

Vaughn was a little reluctant. There was something about Andy that unsettled him but he didn’t know what, but he figured it was just another thing he had to learn to understand and cope with.

Not only that, but Vaughn was nowhere near ready to broach the idea of pack life, or at least meeting with wolves that were in one fulltime. He was fine with being around the little ones and Cadi for now, but anything more than that was still too overwhleming for him.

She gave his hands a light squeeze before nuzzling under his chin and rubbing her cheek against his. “I can go and meet with them and take the little ones, you don’t have to if it you don’t want to,” she promised softly, not wanting to make him feel obligated to anything.

Even if he didn’t go with her, she would still go to at least meet with them out of curiosity. She wanted to see how a healthy pack interacted so she could help the pups better, be what they needed her to be. 

mythsandmonsters:

“Maybe, but let me try. If I’m wrong, then you can tell me “I told you so” for the rest of my life, okay?”

They were never going to completely agree, both of them stubborn to the end, but Isaac understood his sister’s concerns, even if he believed there was a small glimmer of hope and he couldn’t let it pass without at least giving it a chance.

She pulled him down enough to press a kiss to his forehead. It wasn’t exactly easy with the height difference, but she didn’t care.

“You leave me with these whelps and I’m dragging you back from the afterlife by your ear and killing you a second time. And if it gets too dangerous, I’ll personally chain you up in the backyard if I have to.”

mythsandmonsters:

“Do you think this is maybe what wolves are supposed to do when they haven’t been through what we have?”

It was an honest question. Vaughn had literally no clue what quantified proper wolf behaviour outside of captivity, so he was sort of hopeful that because this felt good, it meant maybe they weren’t as broken as they thought they were.

“I don’t know but I know Andy said we could meet with the pack he’s from. Maybe they could give us real answers?”

They were still learning just to function outside of abuse and navigate being all together for the first time. They were coming together as a pack but without the knowledge of how a pack functioned.

mythsandmonsters:

“It ain’t gonna come to that. I promise, but if I can do something that stops more of them killin’ more of us, then that’s gotta be worth a shot, hasn’t it? Even if just one of ‘em changes sides, that’s a start.”

She touched his cheek, a sad smile touching her lips briefly. “You’re my brother and I love you, but you’re a fucking idiot. None of them will ever choose any of us.”

mythsandmonsters:

“I don’t even know what I’m supposed to be doing right now,” Vaughn confessed with a giggle, nuzzling Cadi’s nose with his. “I’ve never felt like this before, like, ever.”

He was more than happy to just keep doing what they were doing, even if he didn’t fully understand what it meant or why, but he felt like he should at least tell her that the things she made him feel were good.

“Me either,” she replied, nipping at his lower lip before kissing him again softly. “I’m not even used to touching anyone other than the pups and that’s a completely different kind of touch.”

He had seen what she meant in terms of the pups because of Genesis, but that was the only kind contact she had learned before. Everything else had been abuse or manipulation, and she definitely liked this better.

mythsandmonsters:

“They ain’t never found any bodies, so there’s a chance they’re not as dead as he thinks they are. Especially the girl, and from what I hear, she wasn’t his kid anyway. Anastazia says her father took that betrayal particularly personally and he’s starting to get careless because he’s hellbent on making up for it.”

“Then let him be careless and get himself killed. Don’t get yourself dragged down with that family because I will never fucking forgive you if you leave me like that.”

mythsandmonsters:

“I don’t know what this is, but I like it,” he murmured, a faint moan catching in his throat as he continued to pepper Cadi’s jaw, throat and shoulders with soft nips and kisses, a gentle buzz settling into his head that made him feel almost sleepy in a way, but sleep was the last thing he actually wanted to do.

A faint keening sound escaped her lips as she tried to press closer to him. “I don’t know either but same,” she whispered, leaning up just enough to nip lightly at his earlobe.

mythsandmonsters:

“Because she ain’t just a Mahlendorf. She’s one of Aleister’s kids, and everyone knows that prick’s got a big mouth when it comes to his own. She knows the location of every hunting unit in the country and who they’ve got on file, and if that ain’t worth knowing for the sake of passing it on to packs that don’t have the luxury of a safe place to bed down and preventing another Carson from happening, then you tell me what is.”

“Yeah, and his other two kids are dead. No one even knows what happened to the girl and the boy was killed by a feral wolf. Do you really think he’s going to risk delicate information to a kid that’s, as you put it, not got her heart in it when if she were caught, that information could be tortured out of her? Hunters don’t live to his age without being smarter than that.”