memeories came back. She remembered the green roof and cream coloured bricks. Aleu yapped playfully and rushed to the house's porch.
"Mum! Dad!" she barked, hoping they were in.
It had been atleast 20 minutes since Balto and Jenna had gotten back from the boat, and Jenna shuddered, taking off her bandanna.
"I hate Steele. He's repulsive." Jenna squeaked, as Balto led them both upstairs to Rosie's room, who was currently at school. Balto lay Jenna dow on her bed and nuzzled her neck softly.
"Just relax." Balto said. "Let the silence take you to sleep." he said calmly, as Jenna laughed at him.
"Weird..." she yawned, resting her head down. Mum! Dad! Jenna's ears shot up as she looked around, Balto leapt up at the windowsil, he looked down and saw something that made his day the best day ever.
"Aleu!" he called, as Jenna gasped, getting up quickly.
"Really? My baby's home! Aleu!" Jenna called also, clambering out of the window with Balto and balancing along the snowy shed roof before ascending the barrels and crates. Balto was the first to get down, and he threw himselfr at Aleu with as much froce as she was to him.
"Dad! Oh dad, I missed you!" Aleu wept, hr emotions coming over her. Jenna yapped and ran over to, hugging Aleu just as hard as Balto.
"Baby I missed you! Are you alright?" Jenna asked, as Aleu thought bac to the hunt.
"Not really..." Aleu mumbed, scuffing her paws in the sparkling snow. "I failed a hunt and the rest of the pack are being ever so nasty about it." she said, shrugging shortly after to change subject. "But oh well eh? How have you been?" she asked, as Balto and Jenna stuttered endlessly for words.
"Great Aleu, gosh there's so much to tell you!" Jenna said, burbling quickly, blinking rapidy in such surpirse. Balto laughed at her; nuzzling Jenna.
"Calm down Jen. How about we let Aleu familarise herself with Nome again?" he suggested, Aleu smiling to the both of them. She nodded to her father and went to turn around again.
"That's a brillaint idea dad. I'll see you two around." Aleu said strongly, as Jenna gasped, reminding herself of a warning.
"Oh Aleu!" Jenna called after her daughter, as Aleu turned her head back at Jenna. "Watch out for Steele. You'll know him when you see him." Jenna said, a worried look on her face. Balto ushered himself and Jenna inside of the house again, before turning around one last time
"Check out the boiler room Aleu. It's in the alley way between the barber shop and the pet shop." Balto exclaimed, as Aleu set out on remembering Nome once more.
Steele had finally pulled himself beside the boat and headed into town; where he had seen his new crush go.
"Where is she?" Steele grumbeled, kicking over a bin as the metal clanged on impact. "I have to find her!" he roared, emerging for the alley way next to the alley way with the boiler room. Steele's looked left and right down Main Street, gruffing. But then, she emerged from around the corner, looking around herself in wonder. "So beautiful." Steele mumbled, as this new angel noted the boiler room alleyway and dashed down it. Steele sneered to himself and coughed, inflating himself with pride as he strutted after her.
Aleu unhinged the door after guessing that's what you did to open it, seeing claw marks from years gone by; and paced inside, taking in the rooms detail. The roaring furnace, the orange glow about the room and the high beamed cielings.
"This place is-" Aleu said, as a new face leaned on the doorframe.
"Amazing, beautiful, romantic." he said, a new softness to his vice no-one had come across. Aleu raised a brow and flattened her ears.
"Who are you?" she asked, although her instincts told her itwas Steele; he certaintly looked like a Steele kind of dog. The male padded futher into the room and stood inches away from Aleu.
"Steele. Pleasure to meet you." he said kindly, making Aleu flinch.
"I've been warned about you." she replied to Steele, trying to edge around him.
"You may have been. I used to be a liar and fool... I was so selfish." he said, shaking his head, opening his eyes quickly, shocking Aleu with the icy blueness of them. "I've changed since... Let me show you something." he said, slipping through the gap in the wall which was infact Balto's secret, but had sourced the information from Dixie who was informed by Jenna. Aleu paced beside Steele, brushing him. "Stay close..." he said, instigating for her name. Aleu blinked quickly and spoke.
"Aleu." she said warily, still following behind still as he turned a sharp corner into a place full of broken bottles. Aleu scoffed slightly, as Steele tried to remember what Dixie had told him; he had t hurry though, lest he would look like a fool. "Er, Steele?" Aleu said, relaxing. "Those are broken bottles..." Steele turned back to her and smiled.
"Only if you don't imagine. Think, they are the Polar Ice Caps." he said in a story telling voice. Steele alinged the bottles with the light coming from the infirmary above. "The light is the sun." Steele exclaimed, stepping back to meet as Aleu's side, when the bottles lit up and created some artificial northen lights. "All for you." he whispered, Aleu's eyes shimmering with pinks yellows and blues.
"Steele... oh, thier lovely..." she said, her tough tomboy core melting away. Steele had finally found someone who made him a better person.
"Aleu, from the moment I saw you today I admired you. You are so beautiful in many ways..." Steele complimented, as Aleu held back the brimming tears. "I feel as if I've known you forever." Steele said breathessly, his snout closing in with Aleu's.
"Steele... I feel the same..." she said whispily, closing her eyes and allowing herself to fall deeper into his love. When thier lips connected, tiny fireworks exploded in both of them, Aleu crushed her lips harsher onto Steele's, Steele returned this passionate kiss, not daring to break it. It was like they were floating in a cosmic orbit, and no-on e could ever pull them out. They eventually stopped te kiss and slowly opened thier eyes, taking a gaze at one another.
"Meet me tomorrow night just outside of the town. I will be waiting for you... Aleu." Steele said seductively, watching Aleu weaken as he brushed past her.
Jenna paced irratebly by the window, craning her neck up to see if she could see any trace of Aleu.
"What if she's in danger Balto?" Jenna gasped, her chest heavig in fear. "What if she's lost?" Balto came up beside Jenna ande soothed her with a nuzzle.
"Relax. Aleu has been in a wolf pack for the last year!" he reassured, as Jenna nodded and calmed down. Just then, the door slung open and a snow coated Aleu aced in, chilled to the bone from the blizzard outside.
"Oh Aleu!" Jenna whinned, setting her down by the warmth hearth and gently placing a blanket over her grey fur. "What happened?" she asked, as Aleu thought about it. It was clear, somewhere in the past, Steele had offended both of her parents, and they would die if they found out she'd kissed him and was falling in love.
"I just got a little lost in all the alley ways." Aleu said, nodding at her brilliant excuse. "Luckily, I got back just before I was about to freeze to death." Balto came over and licked the top of Aleu's head.
"It's alright now... Your safe." he said, looking up at the clock. "It's that time? We should get to bed Jenna." Balto said, as Jenna got up and gave her daughter a quick nuzzle.
"Night, Aleu." she soothed, as Aleu snuggled up in her blanket, yawning and smiling sweetly, as her parents cooed like she was a pup. Once the light had flickerd off Aleu sighed and closed her eyes shut, she thought about what Steele may have done to her parents in the past.
Aleu's Dream:
The snow danced around the young wolf as she waded through the thick snow into nowhere, she dared to lift her head, her eyes squinting as she gazed out and tried to search for any sign of any place, but there was nothing but the cold bleakness of the snow. Aleu whimpered uselessly as her long fur blew back into the wind, she two figures at last, and went to approach them. As she did so, the blizzard seemed to stop, she was in the middle of the street in Nome, peering into the boiler room, where a group of Sled dogs, Jenna and Doc sat. Aleu peered in, the rest of the dogs unaware of her presence.
"I thought Steele was lost, so what's Balto doing?" asked one spiteful dog, chomping heartily on a bone. Jenna had a shawl wrapped around her shoulders, Doc sitting beside her for comfort.
"Well, he's tracking them..." she protested, as the sled dogs burst into fits of laughter.
"That mutt? Tracking!?" one jeered, wiping back the tears and Jenna hig her face away in sadness. Aleu snarled and began to step into the cabin, her teeth bared.
"Not now Aleu..." a gentle voice soothed, Aleu looked down beside her paw and saw Muru looking up at her. "Just pay attention and make your decision." Muru whispered, before fading away. Aleu blinked and looked back, seeing the double doors at the other end of the room swing open.
"Steele buddy!" One sled dog called, Aleu watched her mother's expression turn sour. The sled dog rolled
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