- Afterlife - Semi-Literate

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..........Shay Collins

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Shay tore off into the trees, dodging and ducking quickly, leaping over branches and logs with ease. For his size Shay was an amazingly agile wolf, and quick too. He kept ahead of the other wolf pretty easily, until he began to tire. He could only sprint for so long, and he had been loping along for quite a while before this two.
A heavy weight slammed into him from behind and Shay went tunbling head over heels until he hit the trunk of a tree. He scrambled to his feet before he stepped away from the and shaking the snow from his pelt, spraying it in sll directions. He sat down with a heavy sigh and a wolfish grin, looking around with his head tilted. His clothes were nearby, that he knew, and he thought he shoulder probably find them and start heading back home.

[pretty short, sorry >.<]

(No I'm sorry my one before this was pretty short because I've never actually written for a werewolf before and don't actually know what wolves act like... That and it was late, and I wanted to post before I fell asleep on the laptop... Sorry.)

Alex looked quite amused that he'd caught up with his friend, and was sat there, head tilted to the side, with an expression that you'd call a smirk if he were a human. He snapped at the snow when Shay shook it from his pelt all over, and shook the powdery white nuisance off hs own pelt, sending it all over Shay in return. A lopsided grin made it's way onto Alex's face and he scrambled back still wanting to play. As his tail waved through the air he sent another spray of snow towards Shay.

Alex didn't care much about going inside right now, sure the inside had food - this thought tempted him to reconsider - but out here, there was snow! Alex loved snow, it came once a year and in England there was alway plenty of it. In fact, he liked the snow so much, he had turned into a wolf the moment he woke up and run down the stairs in the shared werewolf house, and raced out to mess around in it. When he'd go back inside, he'd get changed in there, it was common to see wolves in the house - especially in the living room since there was a huge fireplace that was brilliant to just lie in front of.

He let out a low whine wondering if the play was over, Alex wanted to stay as a wolf forever, it was just amazing and exhilirating.

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..........Shay Collins

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Shay huffed when he was spattered with snow again, after just having shooken it from his pelt. He shook out his fur again, and shoo his head. He sat down, and yawned widely, before standing and shaking his head. No, he did not ant to pa anymore. He had dealt with enough snow for the day, and was hungry, as his belly notified him of that with a rather loud growl. so, he turned, looking back with a small whine ot see if the other wolf was following, and started off at a lope into the woods. He slowed as he neared a hge tree that he had discovered a while ago, that was usually pretty dry in the hollow under a huge root. He pulled his clothes out fomr underneath it with his teeth, and held them high so they would not dag in the snow. He startedback toward the cabin they shared, planning on getting something to eat before sleepng on one of the chairs in front of the fire. He didn't sleep well lately, and he looked tired and haggard when he was a human. Dark cirlces under his eyes, movements that were sluggisha and he was just plain out of it.
Comng out of the woods near the house, he pushed the door open with his nose- all you had to do was simply flip a latch with your nose to make it easier, and used his shoulder to push the door open. He slipped though, and bounded up the stairs immediatly so he could shift in pivacy. A lot of the wolves would shift anywhere, anytime in front of others, but Shay was uncomfortable with it. He didn;t like the thougt of people seeing him like that, it wasnt just that a lot of them were boys. It wouldn't hav ebeen any different if they were girls.
AFter shifting and pullingon gray sweatpants and an underarmor pullover sweatshirt, he came downstairs slowly, planning on getting some breakfast. After loking through the fridge, he settled on cold pizza, just picking it up out of the ocntianer and starting to munch on it. "Alex, are you back?" he called, wondering if the boy had stayed outside or come in.

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.......... Rose Landa

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Rose rubbed her arm to fight off the cold, reminding herself once again why so disliked it so. She watched as the boy stood, a bit intrigued by his figure. He was sorter than herself- a rare sight, and utterly, soaking wet. IT made her feel quite bad, and she felt none of the akwardness he felt at letting him into her home. She was often much too trusting, and did things like this which could have put her in a potentially dangerous postiton, but she couldn't stand not helping people. "Come on," she said, turning and walkng back up the sidewalk to her house, opening th door and having to push the dog back with her foot. "There's no one home but me, so you can stay until this stops, or until you're dry..." She sounded skeptical, looking over the state of his sopping wet clothes. Perhaps she could find something that fit him, and dry his clothes for him... She shook her head subtly at that fact though, suspecting he would decline the offer anyway- he had no idea whoshe was, and vice versa.
She waited until he crossed the door frame to let the door swing shut, scooping the dog into herarms, who was wriggling and thrashing in an attempt to get over to the newcomer and jump all over him. Rose promptly set him down on te other side of the gate, where he sat down and whined with wide, pleading eyes. "You are pathetic," Rose muttered with a small, sigh, but loked up to the boy ina second. "Hello," she said with a smile. "My name is Rose, and well... this is my house.' She laughed lightly, and stepped forward. "Don't worry about getting things wet, just come on into the kitchen." She turned the corner, which led to the kitchen, and slipped into the bathroom right off into the hall to grab a towel, which she handed to him. "You can sit down if you'd like," she added, gesturing to the high chairs that were pulled up the counter in the middle of the kitchen. She went to the cupboards, getting a glass/ "Would you like anything to drink?" she asked, looking over at him. "I'm going to make myself some hot chocolate, I could make you some too."

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If it were possible for a wolf to look like they were sulking, Alex was achieving that look perfectly. He gave a short whine, but followed the other wolf, trudging slightly since they weren't messing about in the snow any more. Then again, Alex was beginning to feel a bit chilly, he'd been out in the snow for a few hours now, it was probably time to head back. He followed as Shay sought out his hiding place and bought back a bundle of clothes, and carried on following as Shay led the way to the house. He followed into the house, closing it much like Shay had opened it - with his shoulder. He raced down the hallway, the house had that many occupants that the rooms spread out onto all three levels of the house, and Alex's bedroom was on the lower floor towards the back of the house. He raced into the room, jumped on the bed and had a few moments to attack a pillow before he shifted and got changed.

He heard Shay in the kitchen, and yawned heading that way after he'd changed into a simple pair of washed out jeans and grey shirt. He hadn't bothered with shoes - he never bothered with shoes. He pushed his hair back out of his eyes as he made his way into the kitchen, and waved, "No I'm front." He grinned lightly and grabbed a packet of crisps from the drawer. He didn't like the idea of cold pizza, it just felt weird not having the pizza warm. He slumped into one of the seats at the breakfast counter, and after a few seconds of sitting still, began to spin the chair about a bit. "Did you have to kick me? My shoulder hurts." He pulled at the left sleeve to his shirt and looked at the reddened skin. After analyzing it, he decided it would be fine, there was no cuts though that said nothing about possible bruising.

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..........Shay Collins

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Shay glanced up as the boy came back in, fixing him with a blank look for a moment as he processed that statement, not quite understanding it for a moment. "Ha, ha,"he mumbled around his piece of pizza, sarcastically. "You should be a comedian." He rolled his eyes and took another bite, chewing slowly. He had finished his first piece of pizza in a record of six large bites, and set to work on his second a bit more slowly. He was starving- he had not eaten supper the night beore, and it was almost dinner time now. He usualy ate more often than that...
Taking the container that held just one more slice of food, he sat down at the table with a sigh. "It's nasty weather out today," he muttered, looking out the window as he had to get up again to grab a mountian dew out of the fridge. "Sucks. I don't feel like being cooped up all day." He pulled a face and took a long drink from his can, glaring out the window. "And the weather isn't overly welcoming..." Shay made it a very known fact that he did not like the winter weather. He loved the snow, but when it was sleeting and blizzarding, he was grumpy and irratable, making life miserable in any way he could entertain himself for anyone in the house with him.

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Alex gave a mock bow and spun the chair around, "Right - comedy. Why did the chicken cross the road?" He tipped the crisps up to wolvishly snap up the rest. "It's brilliant weather!" Alex, as previously stated, loved the snow. A lot. He ran his fingers through his still wet hair - when he'd shifted back it had been soaked from the amount of snow that he'd been racing around in. "If you don't like the cold, I suggest lying in front of the fire." Alex didn't much like warm weather, because of his fur he got frightfully hot in the summer.

"Actually... We need to head out to get food... We've not got much food left in and if we get snowed in here it won't be pretty."

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Skye Briht

Skye looked up to watch the girl's expression for any sign of anything that would hint that what she was doing wasn't just an act of kindness, the whole 'looking up' thing very unusual to him who's previous self was quite tall for his age, and he found nothing to confirm his worries. Given that staying outside wet and cold as he was would probably result in the less then pleasant demise of freezing to death, Skye figured it was probably best to trust this girl. Seeing the dog, Skye had an interesting reaction. He instinctively flinched back an inch, but quickly caught himself; his mind didn't seem afraid of the fluffy thing. Strange, his old self had an ever irritating phobia of dogs, but that seemed to have left when he was given his second try at life. Skye wasn't complaining, that was an improvement. He followed the girl without another moment of hesitation, letting out a breath of relief as the warm air rushed around him. realizing only then just how cold he had been, his gratitude for whoever this was doubled. "Thanks." He said quickly, taking the towel and doing his best to dry of his face, his hair sticking up in large tufts. he ran a hand over them to try to make it stay down, and it just made the look of his hair exploding worse. Giving up, Skye returned his attention to talking. "I'm Skye. My house is kinda far away and I didn't want to head back there so.. yeah. I'm in your house." Skye shrugged, but he was smiling. A bit odd everything was, but it was strangely amusing in it's own way. Taking a seat in one of the offered chairs, spreading the towel over it first so it wouldn't get utterly soaked, Skye nodded. "That'd be great, thanks." Skye also wasn't much of a talker, clearly, despite his old self being a chatterbox who could never shut up. He had a lost of getting used to to do.

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..........Shay Collins

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"Why?" Jace asked to humor the boy, looking as if he could cae less and really, he couldn't. He wasn't usually so grumpy, but when he wasn't a wolf, even the thought of snow on the ground made him grumpy and edgy. "It most definitely is not good weather!" he argued indignantly. "It's wet and slushy, and we can't go anywhere if we get snowed in. Speaking of which..." He wandered into the living room to sit on the arm of a chair, grabbing the remote and flicking on the TV, promptly turning it to the weaher channel to display a large, red and orange and green colored blob covering much of the area just left of where they were. "Looks like we're gonna get hit pretty hard here soon... So we might want to go get food now." He turned back to the other boy with an expectant look, expecting him to give the yes or no. It just seemed like that he held more power than Shay, but Shay didn't mind.



{ I kinda want to make a girl werewolf... maybe they could find her as they go to the store, shiverng and alone on the street and take her in. She could have been one of the wolves who killed one of the ghosts, but... it wouldn't be for the reason you would expect :3 }



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.......... Rose Landa

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Rose nodded with a small shurg, unable to talk since she held the handle of her spoon in between her lips, filling two cups with milk and putting them in the microwave. She shrugged, turning to lean against the counter and studying the other boy. "Well, you looked miserable, so... I couldn't just leave you outside. It seems as if it is going to snow hard soon though, I just looked at the weather... So if you don't want to be stuck here or somewhere else you might wand to head home." Again, she just shrugged, looking like it didn't matter much. And really, it didn't. Maybe she was abit too trusting, but he didn't seem harmful. She turned and reached up to take out the two cups as it beeped loudly in her ear, andset them both down on the counter, pressing her now very hot fingers to her jeans in an attmept to cool them. "I'll let you get your own amount of chocolate..." she said, and slid his cup and the chocolate powder with a spoon across the small island counter after she had prepaed her own. She moved across the kitchen as she waited for it to cool, looking down at the dog who had kept up an insistent whining the whole time. "Put your feet up fif you don't want them licked and possibly chewed on," she warned before opening the gate. The dog immedialty gave a loud and happy bark, sprinting into the kitchen, but slipping and sliding on the tiles, running straight to Skye, his tongue lolling out as he jumped, putting his feet on the chair, obviously wanting attention. His whole body shook as he wagged his tail, panting and whining.

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"Because I was chasing it with a fork... Aw... I'm hungry for chicken now..." He yawned and got up, flicking the coffee maker on since Shay seemed like a grumpy grouch because of the cold - the logic would be to give him a coffee. "I did just point out that we desperately needed food so yes it would be a good plan to go now. Do you want me to clear the driveway and get the car out of the garage?" Alex, being old enough to drive, had actually saved up money from his job to buy a car - sure it was a pretty unfashionable one, but it did have good grip on the tyres - perfect for snowy weather. He poured coffee into a mug, added milk and sugar and carried it over to Shay. He then headed off to start up the car, grabbing his coat from the cupboard along with some shoes.


((Awe I think it's cute that they are gonna take someone in~ It's absolutely fine by me I have no say over anything apart from the plot here XD))

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..........Shay Collins

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Shay turned to give Alexander a look that said 'really' at his joke. "Well, actually, that's probably one of the funnier chicken jokes I've heard," he admitted, cracking a grin. He turned his attentoin back to the weather, shuddering to think about what it was going to be like. Snow, snow, and more snow... Nasty. He gave a small sigh when Alexander gave a halfway sarcastic response, rolling his eyes. He never really snapped or got mad at the boy, he put up wit hit and just shook his head. He looked up in surprise when he was handed a mug though, thinking he had been making coffeef or himself- not for Shay. He sighed, raising the mug to his lips and taking a large swallow- and burnig half his mouth. He barely managed not spitting it out everywhere and set the cup down quickly, like it was poisoned, before shutting off the TV and heading after the boy. He shrugged on his fur covered jacket, and stepped outside with the hood up, standin just inside the garage, waiting for Alecander to clear the driveway enough to get the car out. He supposed he should help but... he didn't.

{ okay, cool :3 Do you want your ghost character to get snowed in with Rose so your girl doesn't have to be all alone? They could be friends! }

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((Sure can you do me a repost for Rose? ))

It didn't take long for Alex to clear enough of the snow out of the way with a snow shovel. He pulled a face at the other werewolf for not helping out with snow removal. He dug his hands in his pockets and took the car keys out. He opened the car and slipped inside, reving the engine a few times to warm it up. He waited for Shay to get in the car, and once he did, Alexander pulled the car out onto the road, got out and shut the garage door, before climbing back into the car once again and pressing the buttons with the heater settings. It didn't take long to drive the car to the supermarket, and he pulled the car to a stop in the car park.