wuickly, whimpering.
"Sorry Steele..." she wept, running out into Nome, not destined for anywhere.
Balto ran back to the boat, anger fueling his speed. His paws crushed imprints into the dirt, he felt so enraged by Jenna. She had protected that idiot, that selfish idiot, and Balto was pretty sure Steele was going to hurt her. He stomred back aborad the boat and ran straight into the wheel house of the boat, slipping under his blanket. The collective noise of thudding paws alerted Boris that his son had returned.
"Balto, aye, what could be wrong with you now?" Boris said lazily, as Balto hid more under his blanket.
"I don't want to talk about it Boris." he said solemly, hiding everything but his snout u nder the blanket. Boris raised and brow as he watched Balto's nose twitch, before it started to run with mucus, and the sound of weeping was heard.
"Your not crying are you?" he asked, Balto shot up from the blanket, his amber eyes watery.
"I am. Jenna doesn;t beleive." Balto said, running up to the nose of the boat, his tail swishing passivley behind him. "She beleives him." Balto said lightly, his bland expression and bitter glare said all of his feelings.
Jenna trotted miserably around the back of a house, weeping to herself, her eyes shut and chest heaving.
"Balto..." she murmured to herself, letting her front legs slip down into the dirt so she was lying down, and she let her skull fall harshly onto her numbed little paws. Oh, how she felt so lost. Now she felt totally daft for helping Steele, yet she hated the fact Balto hadn't understood her. A side door from the house opened next to her, as Jenna peered around fro beside the bin she was laying next to.
"Go on boy," it was a gruff male voice. "I don't know what's gotten into you." he said, slamming the door as Jenna's chcoclate eyes fell upon the slumped frame of Jasper, who headed into the shed where the sleds were kept. Jenna's eyes shimmered with hope, and she pulled herself up off of the floor and padded slowly after the large, yet kind malamute. He slid into the shed and sighed, throwing himself down onto a rug that lay strewn across the floorboards. Jenna gently came in, the cold eerieness doing nothing to calm her.
"Jasper?" Jenna called softly into the cold, dank room. Jasper only shuffled a bit, huddling up.
"Jenna..." he murmured to himself, slowly picking his head up, like her presence was a burden. "What is it." he said abruptley, Jenna scoffed slightly, her ears flattening in disgust.
"Forget I even bothered." she spat, rusing back for the door when he suddenly leapt infornt of her, pinning the door shut.
"No, Jenna. I'm sorry." he apologised softly, as Jenna's ear slowly lifted to an average height. jasper gave Jenna a weak smile and dragged a cushion over beside his pile of rugs, offering Jenna a seat. "I bet Balto's mad at me huh? For stomring off on him like I did." Jasper laughed uneasily; of course, Jenna didn't have a clue.
"Sorry what?" Jenna asked timidly, as Jasper gasped and looked left and right, like help would be conured out from the shadows.
"I er... Ugh. There's no point in hiding any longer. This town conwiels my blood in evil." Jasper said mystically, Jenna shook her head and laughed, trying to act like she was scared by his strange words.
"W-what are you on about Jasper?" she asked uneasily, as Jasper closed his eyes,shutting out the green in them.
"I'm sad to say I'm related to the menace who toyed with your emotions." he said again, jenna could fell her heart getting faster, like it was beating only to hear these words, and then she would be in death's arms. "I am Steele's brother." Jasper said simply, Jenna fell backwards, kncoking over a metal paint can, as it span around precariously on it's side.
"Tell me it's not true Jasper!" Jenna cried, trying to get away from him as he paced closer. "Tell me your lieing!" she shouted, but Jasper shook his head, tears filling his eyes.
"I came here to get away from him, I now I found my emotions being toyed with. By you." he said seductivley, looking up at the female husky infornt of him. jenna didn't know hether to mate with him there and then or to shudder in fear, she took shuddering.
"Your a liar. I'm not playing with your emotions." Jenna spat, her hackles on end, teeth bared, but not in rage, in fear. Jasper towered over Jenna, and he looked down onto her, his eyes pleading.
"Can you be so blind? Can you not see that it is I you heart has been longing for!" Jasper, said, as Jenna scurried inbetween his legs and clambered up the barrels staked high in the corner, her legs scramberling uselesslly as she hauled herself up into the beams in the roof.
"No, no. I love balto not you!" Jenna cried, but even she was convincing herself. She let out a sigh and whimper, not sure what to do next. She couldn't live there forever.
"Now whose lieing. I can see the way you look at me, the way you make me feel when you look at me." Jasper said lovingly, Jenna's ear flattened in thought. She could go with jasper and betray Balto, who currently hated her, and please her family... or she could turn him down and hope the Balto situation would work out. Jenna took a deep breath and shuffled back aling the beams, Jasper's eyes watching her every movement. She slid off the barrels with expertise and landed present to Jasper, who enveloped her small frame and nuzzled it, thier coats tangeling together in warmth.
"Jenna... I love you." Jasper whispered into her ear, as Jenna nuzzled deeper into his auburn red fur.
"I love you too." she replied with a softness in her tone, and the pain she had felt with Balto melted away.
Jenna and Jasper stood in the silence of the shed, huddled close together, as if not to break thier bonds.
"No-one can know yet Jenna," Jasper whispered into her ear, jenna nodded back in understanding,gently parting from him.
"I promise I won't tell anyone. I have to go now..." Jenna said with her warm voice, warming up the atmosphere in the shed as she left, and Jasper smiled to her. Once into the brisk cold, the sun was setting fast on another day. Jenna kept a jaunty dash up on the way back to Rosie's, all thoughts blocked apart from one. Jasper and his brother. How on earth were they related? Well, apart from the fact they were both malamutes and had the same build about them; but Steele was so devious and Jasper was so caring, it just didn't seem liable. Jenna shut out this thought with a gruff snarl, before something stepped out infornt of her from behind a fence. Jenna felt her heart pound faster in fear, oh my god, Steele was going to tear her apart and then-
"Jenna." The voice said soothingly, Jenna sighed deep inside, wanting to cry and run off. It was Balto, and he seemed to be civil, after her decision with Jasper, it was the last thing she wanted him to do. She'd rather have him hate her so she couldn't feel guilty.
"Balto. Oh, hi." Jenna said shortly, pulling herself back to a square stance and ruffling her fur.
"Listen, I think it's time we had a talk. Come back to the boat with me." balto said wisely, going to turn when Jenna yanked him back gently by his tail, and he whimpered at first, thinking of the day's previous events.
"No, Balto. Because everytime we have a disagreement, you take me back there, we barely talk and we get intimate. Well, not this time. It's off." Jenna said coldly, like the elements around her had over thrown her soul. Balto winced and quivered, no, not this.
"J-Jenna? What did you just say?" he asked, as Jenna passed him, purposely fluffing her thick tail in his face.
"You heard me." she said with a cool tone, like she wasn't bothered. Balto couldn't belive any of this.
"No, you can't finish with me, I saved the town, I'm your mate!" he protested, as Jenna flipped, her teeth bared and she turned on balto.
"Oh grow up! It wasn't meant to be, your just a- a- filthy mutt! I'm a pedigree, I deserve a handsome, brave purebred and well, your just not good enough!" she said, losing her raging passion towards the end of her statment. balto was wise, he ignored her hurtful words and read her features like a book.
"Something happened didn't it? You found someone new." he called to her, as Jenna went to pad away. She stopped dead in her tracks and turned to face him.
"Yes I did," she said surpisingly, Balto exppecting her to deny anything. "It's Jasper. Heartthorb of Nome, and I'm going to be his mate, and we're going to have a litter of pure-bred puppies-" Jenna paraded, winding Balto up, the wolf inside calling him to go for her throat and tear it out, stop the stupid lies and noise. "It's going to be happy ever after for me, but what about you?-" she then let out a gag of a scream as Balto pushed her to cold ground and dug his paw up into her throat, snarling.
"Shut up! Stop lieing!" he cried, crushing his weight into Jenna, who just wouldn't stop laughing.
"Haha.. Go on Balto, kill me. Cut my throat and devour the flesh. See how much of a hero you feel then." she said, tempting him, taunting him. Balto lifted his paw slowly, and Jenna watched it carefully as the enamel on the surface of hios sharp claws glinted in the lunar light
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