Prey in the Wind

17 years ago:

             Mike and his wife were driving home after coming back from Mike's mother's house after christmas day. Mike is driving really slowly due to the snow and icy conditions on the roads when his wife, Eve screams in horror "Mike stop the car now!" Mike slammed on the brakes worried, the car skidding to a stop, smoke rising up from the tires. 

         "What is wrong? Are you feeling ok, Eve?" Mike asks worriedly while looking at Eve. She just points out into the snowstorm and replies with "I think there is an animal in the middle of the road, babe." Mike gets up and grabs the black flashlight from the backseat from his job as a janitor at the local high school. Mike slowly walks outside and walks in front of the beat up tan Nissan, the haunting forest ahead. A small trail can barely be seen where there are two towering trees above Mike.

      The silence is stifling, all the snow falling slowly around Mike makes it harder to see what is in front of him. He slowly looks around creeped out by the lack of sounds when out of nowhere a sound of an animal crying cuts through the silence as Mike starts looking around him before spotting a small puppy no bigger than his size 13 shoe, in between the two creepy trees covered in snow. Mike bends down and scoops the puppy up in his arms as he runs back towards the car, as a loud howl is heard behind him. Right behind Mile looking from the shadows of the tree is a lone wolf with bright yellow eyes just staring at the human carrying its baby. 

            Mike opens the door up and hands the shivering, white puppy to Eve who stares at it for a second before covering the white puppy up with her jacket. Mike turns the heat up, as he slowly maneuvers the car back to the road. Eve starts to pet the cold puppy trying to warm it up, as Mike starts driving home, the snowstorm getting worse by the minute. Eve looks outside and looks at Mike, relief clear in her eyes, as they slowly leave the creepy forest behind " I honestly thought you got caught up in the snowstorm. I saw some yellow eyes looking through the forest and heard a howl." Eve says and  looks down at the puppy while frowning sadly. "I wonder how this puppy got in the middle of the forest, I wonder if someone abandoned it." Mike shrugs and replies "It was cold enough I figured the puppy would have been dead a long time ago. Usually the cold kills real quick, so it probrably will not last the night." 

              Eve winces at the thought of something so small like the baby puppy dying especially this early in life but doesn't reply back just letting the silence fill the car. The rest of the drive home was quiet and relatively normal compared to what the first part of the drive was both too tired to even speak. Once home they both go inside and bring the puppy inside putting it on the couch while they put up their coats.

     Eve starts filling a bowl with warm water and grabs a black blanket to cover the puppy with for the night. Eve slowly brings it to the puppy and was about to lay it on the puppy when the puppy starts to whimper. All the bones in the puppy seem to start cracking as Eve stares in shock and starts screaming "Mike, come here the puppy is breaking bones!" Mike rushes in and stares at the small toddler sitting on their white couch. Eve starts to faint as Mike is still staring in shock at the toddler, the only thing that breaks him out of his shock was Eve hitting her head on the wood floor as she fainted, her brown hair fanning around her.

      When Eve finally woke up, the toddler was asleep on the couch and Mike was standing next to her still in shock. Eve looked at the sleeping toddler before looking up at her husband who is still in shock from the toddler changing forms. Eve looks at the child again before asking "Are we going to keep it?" Mike looks down at her his blue eyes troubled "How can we raise a creature like that when we are only humans?" Eve stares at her husband in disbelief "That creature is just a child, Mike. We have no right to discriminate against it. It didn't ask to be born that way." Eve raises her voice as she says that before continuing her rant. "We are keeping that child because someone has to take care of it and someone needs to protect that child." Mike looks at her before nodding and saying "Fine, but that child is your responsibility." Eve just stares at the child one last time before getting up and grabbing her husbands hand. She drags him imto their bedroom after locking up and turning the lights off in the house. They both crawl onto the queen size bed, and both are asleep as soon as they reach the bed.