Balto and Kaltag where going to Fairbanks in three days and balto decided to spend some time with Jenna.
meanwhile...
Jenna sat in the boiler room waiting for someone to talk to her, she just happened to look round when she spotted a very familiar wolfdog.
“Hello, Balto” she smiled warmly at her mate.
“Hi Jenna” he smiled nuzzling her and licking her head.
They where the last ones to leave the boiler room that night.
some time later…..
Balto was stuck in Fairbanks for a couple of weeks as there had been an large storm and the snow was blocking the route back to Nome, but eventually, when it cleared up Balto, Kaltag and the rest of the team ran back to Nome.
To his surprise Jenna sat waiting for him just outside of town.
"BALTO!!!!!” she shouted
“Jenna…”he whispered,looking wistfully at her now plump body,.
When he got there he climbed out of his harness and went to meet Jenna.“Balto, I ……”she collapsed on the floor panting heavily,
“Kaltag Help me!” shouted Balto as Kaltag rushed to his aid.
what seemed like hours later balto was allowed into the vetanairian's surgery
“How many doctor?” asked rosey’s father sounding tired and rubbing his temples.
“She had eight..... but only one survived” said the doctor sadly also rubbing his head
Rosy, who had stayed with Jenna during the birth, slowly walked into the waiting room with a basket.
“I'm so sorry boy” whispered Rosy, tears streaming down her cheeks
“She had eight….now theres only one” she showed balto his lifeless pups.
Balto ran into the birthing room where Jenna lay crying.
“Jen, what happened to them…did they just die?” he whispered sadly remembering the still bodies of his pups
“it’s all my fault, I should have tried harder, I killed your pups Balto, I’m so sorry!”
Balto gasped
“It’s not your fault!”
“It is!” balto climbed on the counter to comfort Jenna, he nuzzled Jenna and said
“Well, what should we name her?” asked
“Katie, after my mother” Jenna said looking at the white pup
“She looks just like her, oh, balto, theres something i've been meaning to tell you, you see my mom....was....was part wolf ” jenna said looking ashamed, balto smiled.
“my mom was as white as snow and had a warm voice that made me feel safe, her name was Aniu”
“tell me about your child-hood” said Jenna
the tale lasted all night.
1 year later….
I wandered the streets of Nome, every dog I passed began to chatter amongst themselves, I don’t care though, I'm used to it.
I walked past a particular group of male dogs, who laughed hard at me.
“Hey, wolfy, where’s your pack?”
“Get lost Thunder ! Who’d want to be a dog anyway? i could kill any of you if i liked”
“You think your strong mutt? well come on!” he laughed.
I turned, leaping, and pinning him down with no fuss at all.
“Who’s stronger now? I smirked,
“Kira! Get off of that dog now! You could have hurt him, he didn’t do anything to you so just leave him alone!” shouted pop charging over to me
I rolled my eyes and puffed loudly.
“Young lady, just because your part wolf don’t think you can go pushing everyone around,”
“im sick of this "Young Lady" thing", I pulled a face and made a strange voice whilst saying "YOUNG LADY" "let’s face it, you don’t want me to grow up!”
“I do, its just…”
“leave me alone dad!” I said running away from him, i needed some time to think and the beach was the first place i could think of.
“I hope she’s not gonna be another alue!” sighed balto sadly thinking about his other daughter.
Balto had noticed how his daughter was changing, her blue eyes had turned to brown, she wore a love heart pendant which she had gotten for her birthday and her fur had turned reddish brown, she had grown her mother and sisters markings . His daughter was growing up and there was nothing he could do about it.He feared that one day she may want to join a wolf pack of her own and leave him.
Meanwhile on the beach….
I lay on the sand
The dogs where having a meeting and just about all of the dogs in Nome where there, exept me.
Shadow, trotted over to me.
“hey, you ok” he asked.
Shadow was the wolfdog whom I am friends with (well lets face it I secretly fancey him.)
"my dads treating me like a baby again, he just wont let me go, he still calls me young lady blablabla, "I know whats best for you" yadda yadda yadda, i'm so totaly sick of it!"
“Hopefully he'll loosen up” he smiled, suddenly Thunder appeared with his gang, they burst out laughing,
“wolfys turned into a baby, does baby listen to daddy all the time, does baby wet the bed?!” he laughed,
“Leave her alone!” growled a voice; it was Shadow, the wolfdog I adore.
"he-he, hi Shadow!" Thunder cowered obviously, fearing, reaspecting AND giving signs of submittance
"why where you bohering this girl?"
"Shadow, it-it was only a bit of fun!"
"I don't care, just leave her alone!" Shadow repeated
"But Shadow!"
“That’s enough!” he snapped.
I pawed my way to Shadow "can i say my peice please?" i asked quietly, he nodded
"I'm sick of you Thunder! so what if Shadow IS my "BOYFRIEND" its none of your buisness so just get lost!!! and i dont know how you can dare call someone, have you seen yourself, oh and dont try teasing me again, just dont coz i swear on my fathers grave that i'll rip your throat out, understand?"
Thunder whimpered and ran away with his gang.
"you said "so what if shadows my "BOYFRIEND"" did you mean it?"he asked
I stared at him "I'm so sorry i was a little forward and..."
then he KISSED me!!!!
I suddenly melted, time seemed to fly past my eyes and i thought i was going to faint.
Shadow, yes Shadow, had kissed me!
I closed my eyes and then pulled away
“Meet me later at the boiler room; I want to ask you something” he smiled breafly, walking away leaving me with my mouth gaping
later in the boiler room (ya know, the back bit where mom and dad had their first date).....
I found Shadow at the place where he said to meet him
"I've been waiting a long time to ask you this Katie, longer than i can remember, but……can i hang out with you, as like, a boyfriend?”
I was taken aback
“Of course Shadow" i smiled snuggling into his soft coat.
we stay there all night watching the auroras