IzLiz shook her head and sighed. "If I stay I'll try my best." she whispered and then looked up still feeling Nathaniel's anger. She looked away and closed her eyes as she felt him go into the house. "Ill stay..." she whispered and then sighed softly as she looked at the both of them. "Im just going to stay out here for awail..." she said softly and walked to the small grove of trees and slowly sank to the ground at the base of one, her blood from her palms leaking onto the sand. She looked at them without fear or care, just sadness as she closed her eyes. She then let out a soft sigh as she tried gathering all of her thoughts logically.

Nickoli looked at Liz and laid his ears back once she'd found a place to sit he looked at Livianna. "What is your problem you selfish little twat!?" He asked which ticked Livianna off. "You cause all this and not even one appology really?!"
Livianna looked at her brother and although it was pure anger she felt a tear run down her face as she smacked him over the snout. "You obviously haven't been paying too much attention to yourself lately." She said softly. "You are obviously not my brother anymore. Your acting just, like, Cash." She said slowly at the end.

Nickoli growled and pounced pinning his sister down. "Say that again." He challenged before his ears laid back. Livianna's arms covered her face and she had curled into a ball. "S-sorry Livianna." Nickoli moved in shock of what he had done. Liv was quiet frightened at this point and let out a wimper before running inside. Nick sighed and sat down shaking his head. He really wasn't acting like himself right now.

Nathaniel had felt Liv's fear and had bolted towards the door. Seeing her there he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close. "Everything will be okay.... It's alright Liv... I'll protect you." he whispered softly, his hand rythmically stroking the top of her head. He felt connected to her, he too had been scared of werewolves, practically his whole life. He then looked at her softly and just held her gently, wanting to show her his care.

Liz looked up shocked and then ran over to Nick. Gently wrapping her arms around his neck she hugged him. "Relax... Please.... Don't be angry or sad... Things will get better. I promise. You will get better." she whispered softly and kissed his wet nose. "You just need to learn how to control the wolfish impulses... I'll help you .." she whispered gently lookin into his eyes.

Livianna whimpered and sniffled. She liked being comforted but she didn't want to be around anyone right at that moment. "Please, let me go." Her voice filled with soft sobs and sniffles. Pulling away from Nathaniel she ran upstairs. Once in the room she pulled herself into a corner laying on the floor with a blanket over her. Shaken up, sad, confused, and partially angry Liv softly cried to herself. She didn't want comfort, or sympathy, apology, or explanation. She wanted to be alone, not have people feel her feelings, or know her thoughts. All Livianna wanted was to be able to be human with out so many new obstacles. She couldn't feel with out causing problems. She couldn't become numb with out going insane, she couldn't think. Nickoli had always been her protection, now he scared her more than anyone else.

Nickoli laid his ears back and looked at Elizabeth sadly. "I can't, she's so scared. How could I do that to my own sister?" He asked growling deeply. "I'm not myself Liz, I have to get this under control. I have to train. Work on shifting, fighting, whatever it takes. I wanted to bite her head off. Not verbally either." He said disgusted with himself. "She's terrified of me." Closing his eyes he laid his head on the ground. "I was supposed to protect her, not scare the shit out of her. She'll probably lock herself away for the rest of the day. Maybe into tomorrow."

"Okay..." he whispered and kissed the top of her head and watched Liv go. Nathaniel shook his head and sat upon the couch. He was still shocked at how Elizabrth had gotten so much better.... Had she snuck out and trained last night? He figured he would find out somehow, because he wanted to be stronger then her, he wanted to be the strongest person so they all didn't have to worry because he would protect them.

Liz nodded and then hugged him once more. "I know. We can train together... I'll help you become stronger... Better..." she whispered reasuringly. "Theres a secret place here that's perfect for training... I train there every night." she whispered her secret place to him gently, her eyes full of worry and care. "Do you want to start training now? Because the more we train wnd the stronger you get the better your control will be." she said and smiled at him widely. "And when you're strong enough appologize... And promise Liv everything will be alright...." she added knowing he could do it. She believed in him..

Liv stayed under the blankets by herself for a while. The once soft material was flattened and rough but it provided the same feel of security as before. Closing her eyes she started counting back from 1000. "999, 998, 997..." Trying to calm herself down. It was almost as if she was to scared to move the blanket, to scared to move or breath to noticeably. Her heart was still racing but her anger had subsided. Reaching out she grabbed a book and pulled it into her little heap of pillows and blankets. But before she even had the chance to find her place Liv had fallen into a slightly dazed day dream.

Nickoli shook his head. "Not now, later but not now." Sighing he laid his head down a little. "I just want to be out of this form. Check on Livianna if she'll let me." His voice was horse and he seemed weary and tired. "Liz will you walk with me for a bit?" He asked softly, "I need to calm down."

Elizabeth nodded gently and then smiled at Nick reasurringly. "Yes. I can walk with you." she said gently and followed him as they walked slowly. She kept quiet knowing Nick need to stay calm and shift back. As of right now things were completely crazy and Nathaniel was pissed off at her and she was just waiting for him to yell At her. She closed her eyes and took in a deep calming breath so she could clear her mind.

Nickoli walked silently with Elizabeth for a while before smirking some. "If we had met under different circumstances, back at our little apartment building, with my stable hand job and Liv's many." He chuckled some. "If we had stayed where we were....then Livianna, she'd love you, probably Nathaniel too." He looked up at her and closed his eyes. "When she's taken away from something she is comfortable with she panics, everything is scary, everything is worse and things get blown out of proportion." Looking at his paws he tried to calm down and it was working he could feel himself shifting back slowly. "Give her some time and she'll connect with someone here, then she won't care where I am or what I'm doing." A smile slid over his face. "um when we shift back do we have clothes on?"

Nodding as Nick talked and explained things Elizabeth's bright blue eyes softed in understanding. Her blonde hair being gently blown in the breeze she then smiled softly and shook her head. "I know the feeling. I used to be the same way when I was smaller. Mom always had us moving to different homes, leaving our old lives behind, getting new names. It scared me slot until I began to understand that she did it to protect me." she said gently and then giggled hearing Nick's question. "Uh no. But there's pants hanging up in the patio for anyone who needs them so if you shift back we should probably head for the patio." she said lightly and shook her head at the thought.

"oh well that would be highly embarrassing if I shifted back then wouldn't it. Note to self don't shift back until I can carry extra pair of pants...got it!" He said cutely before sitting down under the shade of a tree. "I like it here Liz, do you think we can stay?" He asked softly laying down inviting her over to lay with him. "I would really like to stay here, maybe build a house of my own nearby." A soft doggy sigh came from him as he laid his head down softly. He was just watching everything.


Livianna snapped out of her day dream. It was literally just a random dream. Laying there in the dark of her blanket she took in a few deep breaths before throwing her covers off and marching down stairs. It didn't take her long to find Nathaniel. Sitting next to him she looked at him softly. "Hi," She said softly. Folding her arms over her chest she looked down at her feet. She wasn't very good at talking to people usually but she felt ok talking to him. "Nathaniel...will...ugh..." she couldn't find the word she was looking for. What was she even trying to say? Rubbing her head lightly as she sat next to him she looked at him then away again. "Never mind." She stood up quickly and started walking away before turning around then disappearing up stairs again. "Why is it so difficult to find words with out Nickoli here?" She asked softly sitting back in her corner before pulling out a pencil and writing down her question. Nathaniel will you show me around? I'm kinda bored and tired of hanging out by myself. Reading the little note she crumpled it up and threw it out the door. "Thats so lame." She muttered. She wrote something else down Nathaniel will you sit and read a book with me. I'm so lame.. Annoyed she threw that one out too. Several notes ended up outside the room with random requests like that. Sit with her, talk with her, walk with her, read with her, show her around, so on and so forth each with a little side comment about the lameness of writing letters instead of being brave enough to say it herself. Taking off her glasses she covered her face with a pillow.

Liz just giggled and shook her head laying down and rested against Nick's side. Closing her eyes and listening to Nicks words she smiled and nodded. She then sighed and opened them again looking around. "Yes.... It's very peaceful here, but I don't know how you will build another home here. You would have to find another oasis because of all the animal life that thrives here would be driven out... But I'm sure you can find a perfect place because here the sand and heat is the only enemy." she said light and smiled up at him.

Nathaniel was surprised as Liv came downstairs and looking for him. Once she found him he smiled gently and listened to her studdering. Seein her blush and walk away was adorable and after a few minutes he followed her upstairs feeling like she was in need of him, but she didn't know how to say it. Seeing the paper being throw out the door he picked it up and read if smiling to himself. He then shook his head and was about to go in but another was thrown. Soon he was sitting by the door reading each little paper wad in each and soon he smiled and wrote on one and threw it back in. You're not lame. Your cute. Would you like to go do something? he wrote on the paper and crumpled it up and threw it to her, laming it in her lap.

Nickoli nodded. "Yes I understand, know of any other peaceful oasis that have beautiful birds, and trees, and ladies?" He asked nudging her lightly with a laugh. This was such a nice moment relaxing some he felt small shifts in his body and tried to think of something to keep him balanced with his current form. The last thing he wanted was to be naked with Liz...wait that was the second to the first thing he wanted to do. Chuckling to himself he shook his head some.


Liv looked up from the pillow when the paper landed in her lap. Grabbing her glasses she read the letter and turned a very deep shade of red. "Your sitting outside?!" She squeaked before closing her eyes. "Ooh," This couldn't get any worse. Scribbling something down she threw it back out the door. The new letter read Sure...what should we do? She would of asked herself but she was to red, and really didn't want him seeing the color in her face. I'm so red Rudolf the Reindeer would be jealous! She thought to herself hiding her face in the pillow again.

Liz giggled lightly hearing Nick's light joke and shook her head. "Well no, but we can always go looking for one together." she said lightly and then loooked over NIck's wolf form. She noted how well toned his muscles were just like his human body, which nearly made her blush. "Well it seems that you have to keep training in this form... You havent reached your full power yet if you don't have some tribal markings in your furr." she stated softly, thoughtfully lookin at him.

Hearing Liv's squeal made NAthaniel chuckle and laugh as he shook his head. "yes." he answered trying not to laugh too hard at her surprise. When she threw back the paper he smoothed it out to read it and he thought to himself. How about cooking? he wrote on the paper and then tossed it back not looking at Liv incase she would be dressed in pjs.

((sorry for not posting in forever, I didn't realize that I hadn't added to this and then somehow lost the subscrition. My Bad!))

Nathaniel's letter rolled to her feet and Liv grabbed it quietly looking at it. "Um.." She got up quietly and walked over to the door. She was fully dressed still so it was no biggy. "Sure, what kind of stuff do you cook?" Her voice was soft and her face was still rather red. Gathering up her notes of the floor she dropped them in a random box with a slightly embarrassed hussel. I really need to work on not throwing these out of my room... She thought to herself before thinking. If only she knew which box it was in, she could totally pull out her apron, it was a gift from Nickoli before Livianna made a point of not cooking when she was to sleepy to stand on her own. It was cute though she just had to find it...


Nickoli looked at himself. "Yeah, I was kinda hoping I'd be like super human or something and be able to morph right into a wolf with kick ass skills. Apparently you have to work on that though. Moving he stretched with his paws in front of him before laying back down. "I'm getting tired, maintaining forms isn't easy. Drains the life out of ya sometimes." He rolled over. "No wonder dogs don't do this..i-it isn't...easy" He said with a final huff as he got himself back to his original side.

Nathaniel blushed when she asked and he ran a hand threw his shaggy black hair. "I bake..." he said softly and blushed. "I love baking and then decorating cakes.... It's alot of fun." he said softly and looked up at her and smiled sheepishly. My mom sewed me an apron so... Don't laugh when you see it." he said and chuckled knowing she would laugh anyways. It was a picture of a girls body in a bikini on the apron, it was a gag gift from his brothers. "Would you like to make a cake or even cupcakes?" he asked lightly and smiled widely at her.

Liz giggled and watched Nick for awail before she sighed and closed her eyes. She then slowly smiled and was about to say something when her eyes snapped open in pain. She gasped and sucked in a breath as her hands flew to her lower stomach area. She gritted her teeth as her bright blue eyes flashed with pain and she curled up. "No..." she whimpered painfully and then fell over onto her side, paralyzed by pain. Tears streamed down her cheeks as the pain kept stabbing and stabbing and getting progressively worse swiftly. "Nick... Please... I can't... Move..." she choked as she cried, curling up tighter. "Help me..." she begged softly, the pain nearly unbearable to her at this point as she shook.

Livianna tried her hardest not to giggle madly at the picture on the apron and just shook her head biting her lip. "Oh, I'll cook anything, I'm just not good at is cause...I don't really cook normally." She said lightly scratching the back of her neck. "Your apron isn't too bad!" She commented breifly before digging through her box and pulling out one that looked like a large quilt had and attempt to be fixed into an apron. Pulling off the cover she showed off a cute little black and silver apron. "This is mine. Nickoli requires it be protected by this stupid thing unless its being worn." Her voice was soft but she slipped it over her head and struck a small pose before smiling a little and shuffling her feet out of her room. "Lead the way chef." Sweeping her hand towards the stairs.

Nickoli looked over at Liz, he couldn't help but wonder if he was going to have to deal with at least 5 attacks a day. He didn't know how much more of these random bursts of body crushign pain he could handle. Taking a deep breath he stood up and looked at her, worried of course but not sure what he could do. I need help, Liz is in trouble! If I could only get her on my back... He thought to himself trying to push the thought onto the rest of the pack. "Liz I need you to get on my back please." His voice calm as he laid himself close to the ground and near her. "What is it that's bothering you? What can I do?" He wondered aloud.

Nathaniel smiled widely and chuckled as he watched Liv strike a pose making him shake his head. "Your apron is alot better then mine." he said and walked down the stairs and turned into the kitchen. He was about to pull out his cookbook when he glance up to look out the window. His eyes slowly widened as he resitered what was going on and he was about to move but the twins were faster. The older males shot out of the house and over to Nick. "We got hour message." one breathed and the other slowly knelt and picked Liz up, the movement causing her to yelp and grit her teeth. "Nick you need to change back... Liz is having her medical episodes... We need to give her drugs, but someone has to stay near her at all times. " they explained hurrying for the door. The one holding Liz dissappeared inside and the other hit Nick on the head, making him shift back, and he could go pull on pants. "Hurry... She needs you."

Livianna looked outside and just watched the scene unfold. Sighing some she simply took off her apron. "You should probably go help your sister, and I should get Nickoli some clothes." She muttered softly before bustling out of the kitchen towards her brother's room. The human suppressed the feelings of annoyance as she grabbed Nick a button up, boxers, and a pair of shorts. She hurried back down stairs and met him at the porch keeping her eyes closed and still out of the way she handed him the clothes.

Nickoli winced as he was smacked. "IS there no better way of doing that?" He asked getting up and rushing to the porch, his sister had been kind enough to bring him clothes pulling them on quickly he went to meet up with Liz. He gave Livianna a quick second glance. He was staring to understand her doubts a little more. He didn't care but she was the weaker being here, so she had more to worry about. Shaking it out of his head quickly he went to catch up with Liz. Once by her he grabbed her hand. "Hey beautiful I'm right here, just crush my hand if your in pain. It doesn't bug me one bit." He said softly with a quirky smile.

Liv took in a deep breath as her brother rushed off and smoothed out her shirt. "Tis the way of the wolf." She muttered thinking about what she knew about wolves. She decided it was better to stay outside and out of everyone's way. Liz needed medical help that was obvious so she wasn't going to get in the way. Besides the heat this was a nice area to be in.

Nathaniel looked at Livianna appologetically and then dashed into his room grabbing Liz's medicine and pain pad and ran back into the room. When he got there Liz was biting her lip so hard it had started to bleed and her knuckles were burnif white as she clutched Nick's hand. "Liz... I've got your pain pill... And the patch... You're going to have to move to get them to work." he said and the blonde female nodded her head slowly as tears streaked down her cheeks. She gritted her teeth and swallowed down the pill as Nathaniel proper her up enough to. But before he could move her anymore she let out a cry and convulsed curling back up. "Liz... I know it hurts, but I need you to stretch out..." he said caringly and wiped her hair away from her face. "Please... No..." she choked out pittifully as she looked up at him with pleading eyes. "I'm sorry Liz... But you know that this needs to be put on... Where does it hurt?" he asked softly and with her free hand Liz shakily put her hand on her lower stomach to the right side, right above her hip. "Alright.... Nick, I'm going to need to to hold down her legs." Nathaniel instructed as he took a packet with medical stinky on it and ripped it open. Pulling out a soft pad with a gel side and a paper side he then pulled Liz's pants and undergarments down far enough as she cried out in pain as Nick straightened her legs. He then pealed off the coverif and out the gel side down on the spot that was hurting Liz. "Let her legs go." Nathaniel said after smoothing on the patch and putting her clothes back. Liz whimpered and curled up once more hurrying her face into the pillow as she sobbed. "She was doing so well... She hadn't had an attack in over a month... I was hoping they had gone away...." Nathaniel said softly and ran a hand threw his hair. "I know this must be annoying and overwhelming with all that's happened today... But please don't be annoyed with Liz..." Nathaniel asked as Liz seemed to slowly pass out as the drugs took affect. "We don't know what causes her so much pain or what causes it, it just randomly comes on and practically paralyzes her with pain... She had them so bad sometimes that it was once a week. All we can do is give her pain killers...." he said and growled. "You would think with all the medical advances that they would know what it is but they don't, she's been waiting for two years for someone to figure it out..." he explained and then swt on the edge of the bed and leaned down to kiss the top of her head. "Thank you for being here for her..."

Nickoli did as he was told and when all was said and done he just nodded. "Its not that I'm annoyed with her, I'm really not, how could I be, its not her fault. I just don't know how to handle situations and that annoys me. That I can't help her." He said softly kissing her hand lightly before standing up. "Livianna has her own problems that I have to take care off. So I understand your position..." He said drifting off for a second in thought. Smiling some he sat back down, kneeling mostly near the bed. "My sister, she has very few problems. One has to be treated regularly, with out fail. I took over her medical stuff when I was very young. About 9 or 10. She hates taking anything for anything. She rather be in pain or dieing than take any kind of medicine. At least Liz knows what she needs and only fights you cause it hurts. Its a nice change." He said softly looking up at Nathaniel.

It was then he realized that Nathaniel still had his apron on. "Um..." Nickoli motioned to his chest area. "What's with...the....apron?" He asked simply as he got comfortable. He had no intention of moving.


Liv laid in the sun like a cat, balanced on the railing of the porch. Her eyes where closed and she just enjoyed the natural heat. It wasn't till something big crawled on her that she looked around. Her eyes widened and she let out a high pitched, blood curdling, scream. "HOLY mother of god! What the hell!? SOMEONE!!! GET it off!" She laid there in pure panic as a huge camel spider sat on her staring at her like she was a loon. "Someone get it off of me..." She squeaked her voice suddenly gone. She hated spiders, and this one was from leg to leg as long as her leg. It was huge!

Nathaniel smiled and nodded hearing Nick. "She hates ring a burden... And she knows that she can help out more if she is healthy." he said and then seeing Nick indicate his chest Nathaniel was about to ask when Nick mentioned the apron. "Oh.... Umm...." he started and rubbed the back of his neck. "I bake alot... And my brothers gave this to means as a gag gift." he explained and then heard a scream. "You wait here... She probably fell into my brother's dirty clothes or something." Nathaniel said reassuringly and then walked out into the house. Not finding her he walked outside and was surprised seeing Livianna with a camel spider. "Oh jeez." he said and then he drug up his courage and looked at the giant spider. Suddenly making lion growles and transforming his face the spider slowly began backing away and was on the ground as Nathaniel kept walking towards it. He then gave a roar and the thing scurried away swiftly, scared out of it's mind. Shifting back Nathaniel hurried back to Liv and looked down at her. "Are you okay?"

Nickoli chuckled some and nodded as Nathaniel took off. "Either that or a spider." He muttered just relaxing next to Liz. If he didn't have to take care of it, it was all good.

Livianna looked at Nathaniel's new form and just watched until the spider was gone. A shiver ran down her as she brushed herself off. Rubbing her arms and hair until she was pretty sure no other bugs were on her. "NO! I am Not alright!" She said practically shaking. "I have been dragged halfway across the world, THE WORLD! Attacked several times, been surrounded by a group of werewolves who turned the only other Human I know right now! And now that THING just tried to eat me! I'm not ok, in fact I"m pretty damn sure I'm traumatized, which is a complete dramatization but I'm kinda freaking out. AND I really don't want to come off as unappreciative but DID You see the size of that thing?! Oh my god! What the hell?!" She asked while ranting. Calming down she took in a deep breath and pushed her hair out of her face. "I'm sorry for ranting. Thank you for getting that disgusting, over sized, killer spider off of me." She said softly.

Liz groaned softly as she slowly woke up, and opened her tired eyes slowly. She was still in an imense amount of pain, but it was doable now with her pain patch and pills slowly beginning to work. Surprised, she registered that Nick was laying next to her. Her eyes widened a bit and then she reached out hesitantly. "Nick? You stayed?" she breathed, sounding shocked. Nathniel left as soon as he gave her the pain killers usually.*

Nathaniel listened to Livianna, quite surprised that she could spit out so many words so fast. He blinked a few times taking everything in and then shook his head as she finished. He smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head, making his earring five a small jingle. "It's alright... Everyone needs to rant once and awail." he said reassuringly. "Would you still like to make that cake?" he asked lightly with a smile.

Nick looked up a little surprised. "Oh, your back, how's the pain?" He asked before clearing his throat and nodding. "Yeah, I stayed." He said with a smile. "I think Liv is cracking sounds like she got pretty loud just a moment ago. Something about killer spiders?" Shrugging he moved Liz's hair out of her face before yawning a little. "Its been a crazy two days...honestly it feels like its been longer." Nickoli's voice was low and deep as he talked to Liz.

Livianna took in a deep breath as another shiver ran down the course of her body. "Sure, why not. It'll be normal right, like flour sugar eggs, nothing weird or creepy goes into the cake?" She questioned before grabbing her apron for the second time and motioning for him to head back towards the kitchen. Squishing the smaller cousin of the camel spider on her way in. The crunch of stepping on it made her slightly naucious. Her arachnophobia was even greater that her fear of werewolves.

"Horrible..." Liz rasped softly and then smiled at him lightly. She blinked groggily and let out a soft giggle. "Well that is funny... I hope it wasn't a camel spider... Those are creepy." she whispered and let out a soft yawn seeing Nick yawn. "It was very sweet of you to stay with me.... Nathaniel doesn't anymore... He thinks when I pass out I pass out." she whispered softly and then closed her eyes. "But when I wake up, I get scared because it's all dark usually and I'm all alone."

Nathaniel chuckled and nodded walking back into the house. "Yeah, just a normal cake." he said lightly like she was talking about super weird stuff and then walked into the kitchen. Grabbing his pans to make a three teared circle cake he smiled at Livianna brightly and then chuckled. "Could you grab some eggs from the refrigerator please?" he asked lightly and began mixing the dry ingredients together with a sifter with lightning fast movements it seemed. He had this recipe down to a science now.