home after a visit to Jade. She really enjoyed the weather but something worried her. She sensed that something wasn't right and kept looking backwards as if someone was following her.
Melody kept walking, not making any direct eye contact with the people around. Then without warning, she felt the side of her collar being tugged ferociously until she lost her balance and fell into an alley. Melody fell into the snow with an "Umph!" and then gathered herself back to normal and looked around frantically. For being a large alley, it was strange not to see anyone there. She swiftly turned around to leave only to see Hank with a maniac grin plastered on his big brown face.
"Hey, there, Mel," he crooned. "Your daughter is the reject of every male in town. And you're without your beloved Cobalt. It seems that the only one with a happy ending is your son, who seemed to have replaced me on my team. Well, even good things don't last. You should know that by now, sweetie." Through his monologuing, he crept ever-so closer to Melody, who did her best to back away from him, only to be blocked by a stable tower of boxes.
Hank grabbed melody by the neck and forced her to the ground. She did her best to struggle free, but Hank was just too strong for her. She started panicking, which annoyed Hank, but nonetheless he left his mark on her. Minutes later, when he finished with her, he pushed her to the ground and departed.
Melody lay on the ground crying for a long time afterwards. She couldn't believe what had just happened and she didn't want to think about it.
"Melody?" A voice came from behind her and She jumped up. "Are you okay?" She could see Saba walking towards her. But she was still shocked from what had happened so she snarled at her, telling her to keep away. Saba looked at her worried but didn't dare to come any closer.
Melody's breath was hard and she ran out of the alley past Saba who watched after her. As she came home she was very nervous and looked up at every movement she heard.
"There you are girl!" Elizabeth said happily walking to her, but Melody growled at her before she could reach out to pet her. "What happened girl?" But Melody only backed away from her and lay down in a corner under the staircase.
Elizabeth was really worried about her and called the vet. When the vet arrived he couldn't do anything, he only told Elizabeth that Melody was in a shock and wouldn't let anyone near her and asked what she had been doing today. But Melody lay there still for the next two weeks only moved to eat and didn't let anyone come closer.
About a week later than expected, Rodney and his team returned home. Rodney was a bit ashamed that he didn't win, but he still received a fair amount of money for being in second. But overall, he just wanted to get home to his beloved wife. Cobalt ran as fast as he could too, and even Iron did, which was good news because he had been acting strange lately...
Rodney ran his team right to his house and didn't even bother to unhook the dogs, yet. He jumped off his sled shouting, "Elizabeth! I'm home! We're home!" before he could make it in the door, she ran out the house into his arms, in tears. They held each other and rocked each other lovingly. They missed each other so much.
Cobalt looked around for Melody, but she wasn't coming out. Something was wrong. He struggled in his harness, barking, calling Rodney to let him go, but he wasn't listening. Cobalt growled. He needed to get lose.
"Calm down, Cobalt." said one of his teammates.
He didn't listen to him. He kept back up and shaking his body as hard as he could to remove the harness. It finally fell off and Cobalt bolted for the house. The door had been left open, and he ran into his and Melody's room, and there she was, laying there.
Melody had woken up hearing the dogs outside which made her worried "Hank" She had thought at first and hidden deeper into the corner.
As she looked up she noticed someone was standing over her. She growled but stopped when she saw it was Cobalt. Tears came into her eyes as she stood up and jumped at him nuzzling him so passionately. "I thought you weren't coming back" She said in between sobs and didn't let go of him.
Cobalt looked at her worried after how she had reacted when he'd arrived but his thoughts had pushed it away from the happiness of seeing his mate again.
"I'm here now," he said, nuzzling her back. They remained like that for minutes that seemed like years.
~~~
They slept together again that night after Cobalt helped Rodney put the sled and the other dogs away. Well, Cobalt couldn't really sleep. For the past year, he hadn't had a decent night's sleep, feeling guilty about putting Melody through all this. The death of their child, the separation anxiety... Even being home he still couldn't sleep. Something was wrong with Melody. But what...?
He wanted to find out, but he didn't want to wake her. He supposed trying to sleep and at least wait until morning would be the best thing to do. He leaned down and kissed her on the head, disturbing her. She raised her head and looked at him with the least bit of sleep in her eyes.
"You're awake?" he asked. She nodded.
Melody didn't want to worry Cobalt with what had happened between her and Hank. "But what if she was pregnant!" The thought made her almost jump up in anxiety. Cobalt looked at her and she relaxed more. "I'm so glad your back!" She said and nuzzled him once again, like she had been doing ever since he arrived.
Cobalt smiled down at her and licked her. He was over reacting. What could be wrong with her? He grinned in the dark and nuzzled her from behind, positioning himself. Cobalt was very slow while preparing simply because Melody seemed...scared for some reason. She was breathing weirdly. He progressed, not questioning, but when they were done, Melody was in tears.
"Mel? W-What's wrong? Why are you crying? Are you hurt?" Cobalt asked. She kept crying. Something was wrong, it was certain now. "What happened?"
Melody couldn't hide the tears. "I...I" She stopped and hid her face in his soft fur. "It was Hank" She said in a low whisper which Cobalt had hard times hearing. But when he realized what had happened his fur bristled in anger he had almost stood up wanting so badly to run into town and get Hank for all the things he had done to his family. But Melody needed him now so he stayed. Guarding over her like had had wanted to do for the last whole year.
Cobalt growled, "Don't worry, Melody. He'll pay for this."
~~~
More weeks went by slowly but Melody’s condition didn’t get any better. She only went out when Cobalt was with her otherwise she would just stay inside the house often looking out she window for intruders. And another thing which was happening, Her stomach was getting big. That really worried Her "Who's is it?" She kept asking herself and that question sometimes made her cry but Cobalt reassured her it was okay.
“Cobalt I can’t go through this!” Melody said to Cobalt as they lay in the corner together. Cobalt enjoyed nuzzling Melody’s large stomach and sometimes he could feel a kick but now when he heard what she was saying he got really worried about her.
“Melody you’ve done this before. Don’t worry your a great mother” Cobalt announced and nuzzled his mate who repaid him with another nuzzle.
~~~
Week later Cobalt and Rodney had left for a short training since they hadn’t done much of it since they arrived home. Cobalt wasn’t at ease at leaving Melody at home but Rodney made sure that Elizabeth was home with her before leaving.
Melody was afraid, her stomach was huge and Elizabeth thought that the pups of this litter would be at least 8. “What if they’re Hanks?” Melody thought once again lying on the side because that was the only comfortable position compared to her condition.
A huge wave of pain came over Melody which made her yelp. Elizabeth came running into the room as she heard her and looked down on her dog who was breathing harder than ever twitching and turning and another pain wave came.
Rodney was sitting on the ground watching Cobalt and Iron play for a bit. The two brothers were taunting each other in a game of tag, trying to relieve themselves of any stress. It didn't really work, but they tried getting the best out of it anyway. From across the beach on which they were racing, from the edge of town, a little Scottish terrier was barking uncontrollably.
"Cobalt! Cobalt! Cobalt!" the terrier barked. Cobalt looked at the Scotty, not answering back, but the smaller dog knew he had finally gotten the larger dog's attention. "It's Melody! She's having her pups!"
"What?" he whispered, wide-eyed. Disregarding Rodney and Iron's calls or anyone else, Cobalt rushed as fast as he could back to the house. He was very anxious to find out if he was the father. He was positive that he fathered these pups. He and Melody were assured less loneliness for a while now, again.
When Cobalt reached the house, it was as he suspected. The doors were closed and so were the windows, so the best he could do was stand on his hind legs and look through the bedroom window where Melody surely was. Elizabeth wasn't in the room, so maybe she went to get more rags. He looked for Melody, who was in the corner as always. She was laying on blankets saturated with her own blood, and that scared Cobalt. But scared him more was that she wasn't breathing. At all. In her state she should have been panting wildly, but...she wasn't.
He couldn't stop staring at her. And the more he did, the more he realized what happened. And the more reality sunk in, the more tears began to well up. He didn't let them fall. The anger wouldn't allow it. When he could finally break his gaze away from her, he started to maniacally slash his claws into anything he could.
~~~
His heart stopped when he saw two pups laying at her side, one brown and the other black. He
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