and standing on her hind legs. jenna stood up also, higher than Dixie just standing still.
"Go-O Balto!" Jenna cried, smiling as she saw the blur of mate and the opposition team dashing through the snow.
Balto could sense his win was imminenant, as he sped up so much he could barely draw single breath. Star and the others on Balto's team were close to collapse, as they panted uncontrollably.
"B-Balto..." Star said whispily. "It's ok to slow down." he said, as Balto just kept on going.
"No, I have to win for Jenna!" he cried, kicking up another lump of snow as he bolted for the finish line, the musher losing his balance almost at the sudden burst and clutching onto the sled for life. Balto barked happily as the front of his frame crossed over the finish line, shortly followed by the new dog and his team. Balto's team were just about dead, and as soon as they were released from each other, they collapsed in the cold of the snow cool themselves down. jenna yipped happily from the top of the crates, launching herself down from them and running through the crowd, who parted way for her and cooed at her love for the hybrid that the town had once outcasted.
"Oh balto, I'm so proud." Jenna said, nuzzling into the soft fur on his neck, closing her eyes, when the sun was blocked completely by another frame, and Jenna slowly opened her deep brown eyes. The looming frame of the red malamutr towered over her, his sculpted facial features offered a smile to jenna.
"Your balto's mate?" he said, chuckling in a joke way, causing Balto to laugh to. "Well done." he said to balto, his green eyes gently looking at jenna and offering her a look of want. Jenna flickered her head over to Balto who was laughing in a way jenna had never seen him laugh before.
"Thanks. Sorry but, I didn't catch your name before?" he said, easing out of his laugh. The male rolled his shoulders back slowly until they cracked and let out a sigh of releif.
"Jasper. 5 Time Sled Winner in the lower parts of Alaska." he said proudly, Jenna's mouth edged into a short half smile of wonder, before she stopped to avoid Balto's detection. "I'm guessing your top in Nome then. I hope you don't mind me saying, but you don't look much like a dog." Jasper said, his nose twitching slightly, picking up on Balto's scent. Balto, for once in his life, smiled proudly.
"That's because I'm part wolf." he said to jasper intently, whose eyes widened in disabeleif.
"Your kidding right?" jasper chuckeled, Balto breaking into laughter to. Jenna smiled warmly at her mate finally meeting another dog who he could get along with so well.
"Oh god," balto said, trailing away from the chuckles. "Tell you what, let's go to my boat and we'll eat my celebratery sausages I'll get from the butcher." Balto said, gesturing his neck towards the butcher's in a swift action, Jasper close at his side. He stopped abruptley, remembering Jenna. "Unless you want to go instead Jen?" Balto said in his tone of hope. Jenna sighed, she badly wanted to spend to intimate time wqith balto, but he should secure a friendhip like this.
"No, no. You go and have fun Balto." Jenna suggested, turning away from them, sadness crossing her expression.
"Jenna, if you want to go I'll stay here." It was Jasper, Jenna turned around and looked into his emerald gems of eyes. She felt a little bit of hope flash like a spark inside of her heart.
"Go. I'm fine." jenna reassured through her black tounge, as she turned around, Jasper watching her swishing hips strut away, before he followed Balto to the butchers. Jenna cxollected her friends and padded down the road to the boiler room, Jasper's eyes still set in her mind.
The warm fire crackeled behind them, as Jenna, Dixie and Slyvie snuggled up in thier blankets beside the boiler.
"I'm just glad Balto's finally got a friend," Jenna began, setting herself down on her stomach and crossing her front paws over. "I mean, he's been so lonely without a friendship with another male dog." Slyvie panted lusterously, her eyes twinkling.
"Me, you Balto and Jasper should go on a date. That's his name isn't it? Jasper? It's an attractive name.." Sylvie rambeled, trailing off into a day dream. Dixie gave Slyvie a rather dominant kick because of her little dog syndrome. Her hackeles stood on end and her eyes blazed.
"No! I called keeps on Jasper!" she spat, Slyvie brought one paw up and rested her head on it, rolling her eyes.
"No way, I called keeps on Jasper a long time ago."
"You've only just met him you bitch!" Dixie snapped, when Jenna decided it was a good time to intercept. She lurched out from under her blnaket and seperated her friends.
"Don't do this..." Jenna murmured softly, watching thier expression drop sorrowfully. "Don't let this new dog come between us all." Jenna said, bringing her friends into an embrace with her, as they all cuddled and smiled.
"Thanks Jen." Dixie said sweetly, as Jenna looked down on her with nututring eyes.
"Your welcome." Jenna whispered, giggling.
Boris swept the mop over the deck and rolled his eyes another time, looking back occasionally on his "son" and his new friend.
"Oh god! Stop Jasper, your killing me!" Baslto roared, his sides splitting with laughter. Jasper's eyes were lined with joyful tears as he held back his splutters.
"The funniest part is, it was my mushers cat!" and they bellowed once more, rolling about, pulling another sausage off the string and chomping it heartily. Balto laughed lightly, wiping the tears away.
"Be quiet boychick," Boris whispered harshly through the night, as the pair stopped. "Aye... your giving me a headache. Sometimes you worse than the bears." he said, continuing to mop. Jasper got up and pressed his nose against Boris' beak, laughing.
"Have a heart, old goose!" Jasper laughed, tipping |Boris back with the force of his nose as he tipped it, sending Boris flialing backwards. Balto raised a brow, this scene rather reminded him of Steele. Just before the goose was to hit the floor, Jasper placed a paw aroun his feathery back. "I joke Boris. Come and have a sausage." Jasper said, pacing back towards Balto and laying down on the board deck. Boris stopped for a second and leant against the mop, gesuting his wing down his body.
"Incase you haven't notcied, I goose, not wolf. I eat herring, not sausage." Boris said miserably, continuing to mop. Jasper shrugged and yanked off a smokey sausage, slavering over it in his mouth.
"So, how'd you come about to get jenna then hybrid?" Jasper said through a full mouthg, as Balto pulled his neck back smiling.
"We both knew it was right from first glance. I cared for her, she cared for me." Balto said simply, taking a sausage off himself and take a bite of it's rich smokey flavour. Jasper swallowed the lump of meat and glanced at it's paw.
"Yeah I know that, but, I mean, Jenna is hot, she must be the focal point of Nome. I bet every guy was after her." Jasper stated, cocking his head to the side, wanting an answer. Balto didn;t really feel inclined to answer, but he didn;t want to lose a friend.
"Well, there was this one dog. He reminded me of you in looks, but this dog was evil. He would constantly flirt with Jenna, even told her I was dead to try and get her." Jasper exasperated at this, stopping his jaw clamping down on another sausage.
"Really?! That's low. Tell me his name, Balto." Jasper said, taking a nibble off of the sausage before looking back up at his new companion. Balto wriggled uncomfortably, he hated talking about the past, how Steele always jeered at him for being different. Jasper waited in silence before he picked up on Balto's resistance. "Oh come on pally, what's gonna happen?" he asked, patting Balto on the back with his paw, when Balto sighed and gave in.
"Alright, ok. The dogs name was Steele. He used to be lead dog on my team." There was a very worrying pause. It lasted to long, it was aching Balto, making him feel uneasy. Jasper drew a short breath and replied.
"Oh." he said sharply, before getting up and rushing to the ramp on the side of the boat. "Well I must be on my way Balto, it's getting late.." he said hurriedly, Balto rushed after him, confused and upset.
"What? Why?" he called, but Jasper had already ran back to Nome.
Jenna had left the boiler room and was heading back home to Rosie. The wind teared up her spine like cold fingertips, messing up her rosy red fur. She held her snout down against the cold wind and scrunched up her eyes. She thought about Jasper, and how good looking and kind he was... But oh, she was with her mate. Balto. She was going to be faithful, not matter how hard the temptation niggled in her mind.
"Jenna, Jenna!" Jenna's ears pircked up to the sound of Rosie's voice chirruping from on the porch. "Come here girl!" Rosie called, as Jenna trotted up to the porch, the light from the ahllway vasting out into the bleak grayscale of the night. "Come inside, it's super cold out!" she giggled, leading her dogs inside and sitting her down in the living room beside the fire.
"I see you found her Rosie," Rosie's father called, his arm wrapped around his
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