her time alone since Alice and Jake were always together now leaving her no chance to spend some time with Alice. Ofcourse Alice didn‘t forget about her but everytime Alice was about to do something with her Jake would step in and take her attention away.

“Isha there you are honey” A soft voice said coming from behind her.

“Hi dad” Isha said not even looking at her father as he sat down next to her.

“You still here? It seemes this is the only place anyone can find you at” Balto sighed as he looked over the cliff that stood above the ocen. Isha loved the view here, it gave her a place to think.

“Me and your mother are really worried about you, you don’t seem to be enjoying life and no one sees you with Alice anymore”

“Dad? I can find there is something missing but I don’t know what, everytime I feel a bit of happiness it feels like it’s taken away from me! Alice is always with Jake now and all my friends have families now it seems.” A tear slipped down from Isha’s eye as she looked up at her father.

“I don’t know honey, life is hard but it’s also the most precious thing we have so make sure no one takes it away from you” Balto said as he nuzzled his daugther then walked away.

Isha watched as her father left then stood up and walked back into Nome. Dogs and people greeted each other but Isha felt like everything around her was blurrie.

“might as well go home” Isha thought and strolled home.

The door was open and Jack came running out.

“move it mutt!” He shouted and pushed Isha to the side as a doctor came out the door and Jack went to help him carry Alice. Isha watched terrified as she was taken away. She had known that Alice was pregnant but it was too soon for her to have her baby now.

“the hospital” The idea quickly came up in her head and she sprinted off towards the hospital. Isha ran around the hospital looking for a window.

Although Isha was extremly worried she could help it to be a little bit happy also. A little human pup running around the house, wanting to play and when something happened she could be around to help. Isha barked happily so people around her stopped and glanced at her, but she didn’t care what they thought.

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Time went past and Isha sat outside in the dark hoping to hear something, but nothing seemed to happen.

“where is Alice?” Isha thought tired and scratched the door hoping that someone would be so nice to let her in. Suddenly the door was opened and a nurse stood in the doorway.

“So you are the little trouble maker that has been barking outside?” the nurse asked. Isha realized this was probably her only chance to get inside so she pushed the nurse a bit and ran inside.

“where is she” She thougt worried and ran between rooms. As she was about to give up one of the rooms was opened and Jack came out looking worried and different. Isha hid behind a chair that was outside the room and as Jack had gone past she walked slowly into the room.

“where is the laughter of Alice and the new born baby” Thoughts went through her head so many at a time she almost couldn’t make out what was around her. After a minute of stress she walked to the bed. The doctor stood over it and sighed.

“So young” the doctor said and the nurse next to him nodded.

“YOUNG?” Isha’s eye widdend.

“how could the baby die, if it hadn’t even been a alive?” Isha didn’t care if the doctor would see her, she had to support Alice after what happened. When she came next to the bed she saw a hand lying out from the duvet. Isha licked it and pushed her head against it, but the hand didn’t respond.

“hey what is a dog doing in here? Shoo! Get away from the body!” The doctor shouted and Isha stepped back.

“Body?!?” She said and looked back at the hand.

“NO!!!!!” That was the only thing that came up in Isha’s mind as she ran through the hospital door. Running through town, feeling tears stream down her cheeks, she didn’t care what the other dogs thought, she didn’t care anymore.

“Isha?” Kodi asked as he saw her running by. There had to be something wrong so he ran after her hoping she wouldn’t do anything stupid.

Isha stopped on the cliff which she spent most of her time on and looked down. Taking a deep breath she gave out a big howl which cut through the night silence.

Kodi walked up besides her and sat down without a word. Isha didn’t look at him, she just sat down and looked into the distance.

After awhile Isha sighed “Alice is gone...She just died and I couldn’t do anything” Isha said in a low voice like she was talking to herself. Kodi looked down on her and laid his head on hers “These things happen, sadly, we just have to get through them together” Isha listened and after awhile she stood up and looked towards Nome “At least the baby was born and Jake can’t take care of it” Isha said growling a bit at the thought of Jake “I will need to help him” Isha said and started walking towards Nome. Kodi quickly stood up and followed her hoping it would get better for her from now on. Isha had to keep strong, she knew that it was what Alice wanted.

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Days went past and Isha watched carefully as Jake tried to take care of the baby, everytime he didn’t come while she cried Isha ran to her aid and tried to comfort her which worked.

One day when Isha came home she looked into the kitchen and heard the baby crying in the other room “Where is that stupid human” Isha thought but suddently saw him lying on the floor with beer bottles surrounding him. Isha ran shocked into the babies room and tried to comfort it, but she was hungry and cold. Isha ran into the kitchen and started barking and growling at Jake “Wake up stupid human” She thought and tried to drag him up but when he stood up he slapped her. Isha couldn’t believe what had happened but she didn’t give up, she ran into the babies bedroom with Jake following her hoping he would realise what he had done wrong. As Jake came into the room Isha barked more but he didn’t seem to care about the baby.

“will you just SHUT UP!” Jake screamed and Isha stopped barking but the baby kept crying. Isha knew he wasn’t himself so she started to growl at him, Jake was about to hit Isha but as the hand came close to her face her wolf sences came in and she attacked it. Jake was surprised at the suddent attack so he started to kick her and hit her more but Isha tried to fight back, trying to protect the baby. Jake walked out of the room but soon came back while Isha was lying on the floor infront of the baby’s bed licking her wounds but what Jake carried in his hand scared her. He was holding a glass bottle and he swung it at Isha’s hitting her in the head so she fell down uncouncious, the last thing she heard before that was the baby still crying while the man shouted angrily at her.

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“Where am I?” the thought went slowly through Isha’s head as she shook her head to try to see something else than blur.

“A CAGE!!!” Isha yelped as she noticed the bars infront of her. A loud noise was suddently heard from under the cage. The cage was in a car and the car was moving. Isha started to scream for someone hopefully to hear her, but it looked like it was early in the morning and no one was awake. Isha thought of her family and the baby who would take care of it, but the thought that was above others was “where was she going?” As she sat in the cage she wondered if she would ever be able to see Nome or the ones she knewagain.

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Isha watched as the landscape changed around her, still worried sick about what would happen to her, Jake had never been so angry before. Though he hated her he still took care of her and gave her food and shelter after Alice’s death. But the thought of him hitting her with a glass bottle terrified her.

Isha lied down on the shaky surface underneath hoping to get some rest. Maybe it was all a dream but that idea seemed so far away.

Suddenly the car stopped moving and Isha woke up as she heard someone approaching. It was a tall man, he had a scar on his face and he looked angry compared to all the other people in Nome, but who was he? Isha didn’t get a change to think about it for to long because he opened the cage and dragged her out by the pelt. Isha tried to bite and fight back but it was pointless he was used to this judging by the scars on his hands. The man took up a chain from the ground and placed it around her neck.

Dragging her towards a large red barn, Isha tried to stop herself from being dragged by digging her claws deep into the ground and shaking her head violently to get the chain of her neck. “Spare that for later” The man said in a dark voice as he threw her into a bigger cage in the barn. Isha started barking but the man had already left the barn locking the door carefully behind himself..

“where am