he does.

     Dasha ate the rest of the food and they began to walk back to the cave.  "Hey, Jaxson why don't you tell me something about yourself?" Dasha asked, the only thing she was sure about with him was his name.  "Oh, theirs nothing very special about me... Or my life." Jaxson said, but he whispered the last three words.

     "Oh c'mon!" Dasha teased.  "Everyone has something exciting happen!"

     "Huh, fine.  I lied, my life was very.. uh, exciting, but not always in a good way.." He began. "I was born in my moms first litter, I had four other siblings. Lightning, Kevoku, Starlight, and... Crestle.  But when I was very young, Crestle was killed by a dog who really hates my parents."

     "Oh... What was her name?" Dasha asked.

      "Rose."

     Jaxson explained the rest of his life, but not whit to many details.  "What 'bout you?" He asked.  "Eh. To be honest, I-I don't remember most of my puppy-hood. But I remember born into the zoo, and staying there for a few months, then it flooded one day, and my pack got out. And just about three weeks ago, s-something happened to my pack and I got separated. Then I woke up in the cave with you." Dasha sighed.

     "Do you want to find your pack?"

     "Hell no! Not after what happened." Dasha snapped.

      "Well what happened?"

     Dasha paused.  She really hated having to tell him this, but now that he knew something happened, he would really want to know.

     "I-I-I... Made a mistake."

    "What kind of mistake."

     Dasha sighed. "It was dark" The event began to flash back inside her head.

     "It was very dark, the temperature dropped, the ice cold rain made it even worse. I couldn't see a thing.  But I knew our pack had an injured deer blocked out.  We needed this food.  Many of our pack members' had died of starvation.  Then, I caught Its scent.  I lunged....Then, I heard a shriek of one of my pack members. It was so close to me, I-I didn't know what it was..."

     "What next?"

     "Well, It was then I realized I hadn't grabbed the deer.  But the Alfa female of our pack.  She'd lunged for it when I did and I'd grabbed her throught.  I killed her.  Was so young, I didn't mean too." She felt tears form in her eyes.  "They all were shocked, The Alfa male attacked me and left me to die." She cried.

     Jaxson felt very bad for her, he'd never killed any of the dogs he'd fought before.  He knew she must have felt terrible. "I-Its ok Dasha... They didn't kno-"

     "How? How is it ok?! I killed her! I KILLED the Alfa female of my pack! Do you know how bad that is?! I-"

     "Dasha.  Listen to me.  It wasn't your fault. You didn't mean too.  I know this is hard for you, but, its good for you to talk about it." Jaxson said, he really had no idea what he was talking about, he just didn't want to see her cry.

      "You think so?"

     "One hundred percent sure." He winked, knowing how that made her laugh, and she did, she giggled a little.

      "Oh, wow." Dasha gasped.

     "What?"

      "I just noticed how dark it is."

     Dasha was right, it had gotten very dark, but thankfully they were not very far from the cave.  "Hmhm, and I just noticed how tired I was." Jaxson chuckled. Dasha laughed too.  Jaxson walked to the back of the cave and curled up.  He closed his eyes, but then opened one to see Dasha, he watched her plop on the cave floor, then he closed his eye.

      ---

      "Jaxsoooonn"

     Jaxson raised his head.  Dasha was standing at the edge of the cave, there were two tiny lumps on the ground by her feet.  Jaxson slowly over to her.  Once he reached her, he saw that the lumps were hares.  She pushed one with her muzzle over to him.

     "Wah--Th-Thanks." He gasped.

     "Don't worry about it." She winked.

     Jaxson smiled, but then he noticed something was wrong.  Dasha had two tiny little scratches one of her eyes. 

     "Dasha! Y-Your eye!"

     "Oh, yeah that.. I-It's nothing I haven't gone through before."

     "You sure you're ok?"

     Dasha nodded, they peacefully ate their meal, and started the rest of their day.

     "Hey, Jaxson."

     "Yeah?"

     "This is gonna sound kind of strange, but, y-you don't smell like a-a-a wolf."  

     Jaxson blinked, what kind of question was that.

     "Oh, did I not tell you? I'm not a wolf, w-well I mean I'm  half  wolf, but I'm also half husky." He explained. 

     "That explains so much." Dasha chuckled.

     "Now its my turn to ask a question." Jaxson grinned with a kind of silly or 'trying to look evil' look, which made Dasha laugh to herself.

     "Who's... Your mate?"

    Dasha paused.  She didn't expect that kind of question to be asked. 

     "Oh.." She looked at her paws, a bit ashamed.  "I-I don't have one..."

      "Ah, don't be so upset 'bout it.  I don't have one either." Jaxson smiled, trying to comfort her.

      "To tell ya the truth, I don't know if I'll ever find one." He shrugged.

      "Now why on earth would you say that?!" Dasha exclaimed.  "I dunno, I just don't think I'm looking for one at the time." He cocked his head and looked down.  Dasha rolled her eyes.  "Boys are so picky!" She whispered.

     "What was that?" Jaxson asked.

     "Ooohhhhh..." Dasha stopped talking and blushed.  Jaxson trotted over too her and stared at her.  This made her look down at her paws.  No one spoke, wich was secretly driving them both crazy, Jaxson nued Dasha with his nose, making her fall, he took of running.

     Dasha chased after him, she wans't aware of just how fast he was, he stayed in front of her the entire time they ran.  Until he tried to make a sharp turn, he slipped and fell on the snowy ground.  Dasha stopped and walked over to him.

     "You....Ok?" She asked, trying to hold back laughing.

     "Yeah.. I guess.. I'm ok.." Jaxson said between breaths. He slowly got up and walked over to Dasha.

     "Are you sure you're-" Dasha was about to ask, but Jaxson suddenly scooped her up on his back.  "I think I'm ok." Jaxson teased and dumped Dasha on the ground.

     Dasha laughed and looked at the sky, the sun was very high.  Her stomach growled, and so did Jaxson's.  They each new that they couldn't make it on just hares or any other small mamels. But they could tell a herd of deer had been by, hoof prints covered the ground.

      "You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" Jaxson asked. Dasha nodded.

     They followed the hoof prints of the deer, then caught thesent not long after, they eventually found them in a small clearing.  Because it was only the two of them, they new they'd have to go for a small one, a fawn or a doe, or mabey if they were lucky, on old or injured buck.

    They watched the herd for a while before finding an easy target, a young buck, he was large, but it looked as if his leg was hurt.  Dasha crept over towards it and began chasing it towards Jaxson.  She bit at its hoovesand swiftly dodged its kicks.  Then out of no where, Jaxson leapt for the the beast.  His jaws grabbed its neck, it fell to the ground.

     Jaxson began thrashing his head back and forth, and Dasha held on to one of its hind legs.  Jaxson could taste the buck's blood in his mouth.  Finally its head became limp.  Jaxson dropped it and Dasha let go of it's leg.  They panted heavily.

     They began eating quickly and soon ate almost all of the large animal.  The only meat left was on the face, around the hooves, on the tail, and along the spine.  They were very full and very lumpishly walked back to their cave.  It seemed so much farther than before.

     When they reached the cave they both walked to the back of the cave and unknowingly slept very close to another.  Snuggled together, Jaxson's head ontop of Dasha's, Jaxson had one paw on her