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"I'm a little better but where is Clover?!" Jade asked in a hurry.

"She is playing on the beach with Utah" Kit answered surprised by his eagerness.

"Thank you for helping her!" Jade said and nuzzled her before running towards the beach.

Jade came to a stop and looked back at Kit.

“Oh, I should have told her before but…” He stopped and looked to the ground trying to get his face together. He couldn’t keep on being depressed; he needed to take care of his daughter.

“I’m really thankful for you helping Clover through this.” Jade said with a sad smile then turned back around.

“I’m going to try and fix our relationship again!” he called back to Kit who was still following him.

“DAD!” Clover noticed Jade coming and ran to greet him. She nuzzled his thick fur and he took her into his embrace.

“I’m so sorry honey.” He said and a tear slipped down his cheek.

“So you are not sick anymore?” Clover asked and Jade looked surprised in Kit’s direction. She looked down a bit embarrassed and Jade understood.

“No honey, I’m feeling better now. Was it fun playing with Utah and Kit?” Jade asked and Clover nodded happily.

“It was really fun! Kit told me mom could never come back why is that?” Both Utah and Kit looked at Jade as he struggled to put it right.

“She had to go but some day in the future we will meet her again but that will be a long time away, so in the mean while we have to think about her and also you can speak to her she will always be listening to you.” Jade answered hoping she would understand.

“Oh...” Clover looked up at the sky. “Hi mom, I really do miss you and I hope can come meet you someday, me and Kit are good friends now and also Utah, he is really funny!” She said and giggled to herself.

Jade looked at her with a sad smile on his face.

Jade spent the day playing with Clover on the beach before taking her home. As they were walking home Jade noticed that someone was watching them. He pushed Clover to the site so he was covering her.
Jason went back into the shadow and walked the other way; Jade really wanted to run after him and revenge Aiyanna but he noticed Clover looking up at him worried.

"Lets go home" He said with a smile and followed her inside.

"Dad? can we meet Kit and Utah again tomorrow?" she said as she lay down next to him yawning. Jade looked surprised at her, she really had taken a liking to Kit and Utah.

"Maybe, we will see tomorrow." Jade answered and laid his head down next to her.

Jade woke up the next day and noticed Clover wasn't lying next to him.

"Clover?" He looked around shocked. Where did she go?

"CLOVER?" He called again looking around the house. He finally found her in the kitchen asleep next to the food bowl. She looked up and yawned after hearing her name.

"Hi dad!" She said with a small wag of her tail. Jade went over to her and nuzzled her. He had to calm down. He was really afraid of letting Clover out of his sight.

"JADE COME HERE BOY!" his owner called from outside.

"Oh I forgot I have to make a run to White mountain today" He said to Clover. He had promised her that they would do something fun today.

"Can I go meet Kit then?" Clover asked hopefully. She had been looking forwards to spending some time with her dad finally but she understood the importance of his job.

"JADE!" Jade noticed his owner was in a hurry.

"Okay Clover go check if Kit is home but if she isn't you go straight to either Ruby or Maggie, understood?" Jade received a nod from Clover who then ran to the door.
Jade gave out a sigh he really wished he could spend more time with her.

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"Kit?" Clover called from outside scratching the door with her paw.

Clover blushed after hearing Utha's greeting but she shock it off.

"Can I be with you today? Daddy went to deliver the mail and I don't want to be with Maggie or Ruby today they are so busy thinking about boys" She said sticking out her tongue which made Utah laugh.

"Please Kit! I'll behave and you don't have to worry about me I'll just follow you around like a shadow, you won't even notice!" Clover tried to compose herself to stand straight and closed her mouth with a dramatic bite of air.

The three of them ended up spending time on the beach once again. The beach was very lovely in the summer and you could watch the sun set from the old boat that stood there. The boat was empty but Clover had heard that a half wolf and half dog had once lived there who had saved the town. Clover didn't really know how he saved the town but she was to scared of stepping onto the boat.

"What are you so scared of?" Utah asked jokingly

"There is probably a ghost on that ship Utah and if you come aboard he will eat you!" Clover said in a harsh warning voice. Kit rolled her eyes and wasn't really happy with her brother teasing poor Clover.

"And who told you that?" Utah asked lifting his eyebrow

"Ruby's and Maggie's friend JT, he said he had gone on the boat one night and after the sun had set the ghost came out and was going to eat him but JT was quick to escape!" Clover believed the story and couldn't understand how Utah could laugh so much.

"It's not funny Utah! He almost died!" Clover said standing face to face with Utah looking really mad.

"Oh really? Should we go check it out then?" Utah asked and lifted Clover up and started walking towards the boat.

"KIT HELP!!!" Clover screamed and Kit came running.

"Okay that's enough Utah!" Kit said giving him a warning glance.

"CLOVER?!?" A voice called from the distance. Clover looked up and forgot all her anger at Utah.

"DAD!" Clover ran down the beach to great her father who hugged her tightly.

"Thank you so much Kit for taking care of her, I really owe you so much." Jade said with a smile.

Jade noticed that Kit was deep in her thoughts and was worried. Maybe he was putting more pressure on her making her babysit Clover while he was away with his team.

Jade looked down on Clover with a smile. "I bet you can't catch Utah's tail in less than ten minutes!" Jade said with a grin which got Clover into a attack mode. Clover suddenly sprinted off after Utah. Utah turned around just in time to escape her tackle.

"You little prankster!" He said and started to run around the beach laughing with Clover after him sprinting.

Jade looked back to Kit who had been surprised by the sudden action.

"I'm really sorry if I'm putting so much on you...We didn't really know each other much before all of this happend." He said with a sad smile. Kit was taken by surprised. They hadn't really talked about it much before.

"I want to make it up to you for all that you have done for me and Clover" He said and pointed towards Clover who had chased Utah into the sea, not to his amusement.

"Me and Clover will take you out tomorrow, what do you say?" Jade asked with a hopeful look on his face.