"There is another matter, child."

I turned, mouth still open to the white wolf. Dear god, what was he going to scare me with now?

"You now carry your own child. Regarding your circumstances, I recommend keeping a steady supply of food nearby and--"

"What?!" I screeched into the oblivion like plane I was currently in.

"It is not healthy for neither of you to not have nutrition in your body. Especially yours, child, as young as you are and because of the new blood in your body."

"What the fuck.." I gasp and grab at my hair, almost hysterical as I stare down at the black floor below me. The wolf was just freaking deadpan the whole time like he was a doctor delivering the good news to lady werewolves all the time. "I'm pregnant?"

"It will be challenging, human. But, your mate is currently with you as we speak."

"Harry?" I whipped my head up and turned it to stare at the dead serious wolf in wonder.

"He will help you along your journey. That is what mates are for."'

"God.." I cursed again and went back to the position I was in, grabbing at my hair like I was crazy and casting my head down at the floor.

"He cares for you, very much. At this very moment he is watching over you, making sure you're dry and warm."

"What? Where.."

"I believe it is time for you to wake up, child."

There was a small glitter above my head that caught my eye, then I looked back at the spirit to see if it was his doing. Even if it was, I couldn't tell. It wouldn't have mattered.

The glow lowered and soon enveloped me like a ring. I glanced down at it, then back at the wolf to see if he had any more words of wisdom for me other than: Oh, yeah, you're pregnant and now a super powerful werewolf warrior thing

He said nothing and merely watched and tilted his head up to follow me as my body started to float. His tail seemed to flicker about the higher I got.

The last thing I saw was the spirit wolf blink, before my own eyes opened to slightly gray darkness.

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"Benny!" Harry exclaimed with airy breathe the moment he saw the flicker of Benny's eyes in the dark of the early, wet morning.

He slipped inside of the small tent with a goofy grin on his face, his Benny was here. She was now fully with him. She was alive.

"Benny..holy shit..you're here.." He exhaled as he bent down to crawl into the small cave that Benny laid comfortably curled up into a ball. Albeit she was covered in a little dirt, Harry cupped her face in both of his hands to get her to look at him. She was a little out of it still, her eyes squinted with sleepiness and curiosity. "Benny..baby.." Harry repeated and thumbed at a patch of dirt near her eye to perhaps clear her vision.

She blinked in reaction and groaned. When her eyes reopened, her pupils dilated, probably more so then they ever had.

Harry gazed in awe and amazement when he saw Benny's eyes change before him, her soft, honey brown irises were now bright and vibrant yellow, shaded with a hint of brown around the edges.

"Har..."

"Shhh.." Harry shushed her the moment her groggy voice rose to just barely be heard. He furrowed his brow together while ducking his head to kiss her forehead. He wet his lips after pulling away to see Benny's somber expression. He tasted dirt and sweat, but he didn't care. "It's okay."

"I..I feel," She tried to speak again and sit up, but a huge burst of pain pulsed in her head. It felt like a bomb had counted down and in slow pulses was hitting her skull like a dull hammer. "I feel like..god.." She cursed and slowly sank back down onto her back with Harry's worrying head hovering over her.

"What? What's wrong? Benny?"

"My head is throbbing.." She preached the truth as he eyes rolled to the back of her head.

"Shit.."

"And.." Benny took a sharp in take of breath,"God..I just..feel..like shit?"

This made Harry laugh and brush his fingers over her head to sweep her bangs away.

"Shit is good enough for me.." He nuzzled his nose against her cheek and then her neck. It made her breath out a strained laugh.

"Harry.." Benny said suddenly, her head turning to Harry's that still laid rest in the crook of her neck. As much as she wanted to have Harry hold her she had a lot more things on her mind.

"Hmm?" He leaned his heavy head away and locked eyes with his love's.

"Are..Are we safe here?"

Harry paused to think of the answer. Truthfully, he wasn't sure. There was no real safe place for them.

"Harry?" Benny's voice rasped.

He looked away from the trees around them and back to her with a frown. "I don't know.."

"God.." She whimpered and laid flat on her bed of moist, wet leaves on the ground while Harry hovered over her like a worried mother hen. He brushed her hair away with care and begged her to speak, but she didn't say a word after that.

"Benny.." He urged on. "Come on..you should eat something."

"Food." She sat up instantly and said the phrase like it was a blessing. "Food." She looked at Harry with pleading eyes that he couldn't say no to.

He moved with a chuckle and lowered himself to crawl backwards out of the lean-to. "Follow me then."

Benny found the strength to follow Harry's movement and crawled out of the tent of logs to a small fire that was barely flickering, but had a charred piece of meat hovering over it. As soon as she sat up by the opening she felt her blood started rushing, her head was reeling. Meat scent had hit her nose and made her nostrils flare. Harry watched with some sort of pride in seeing her yellow pupils dilate.

It was such a blur, Benny didn't even realize what had happened until she looked down to see she had stolen the meat right off of it's stick and had it in her hands, and mouth. She had taken two whole huge bites out of it. And god did it feel good when it hit her stomach. She almost felt satisfied.

She wet her lips as she studied the dead animal that she had just ravenously torn apart with her teeth. With no idea what she had just gulped down she gazed up at Harry who was just smirking,"What is this?"

"Rabbit. I caught it a few hours ago."

Her eyes blazed down into her food like she just ate a mythical creature. In all honestly when she recalled eating it, it just felt like she was eating a huge chicken after not eating for days. She stared at the animal in horror when she saw a bone with just barely an inch of connective tissue poke out of the crispy skin.

With a squeal, she tossed the animal aside on a pile of leaves, quickly and frantically wiping the residue of her used to be meal on her pants.

"Oh..did I cook it wrong?" Harry pouted and walked his long legs over to where Benny had thrown the rabbit and bent down to pick it up. Benny observed Harry as he sniffed it and felt a familiar sense of wonder when she got a full side view of Harry's eyes dilating and changing into yellow. "Smells fine.."

Harry snarled, then ripped apart the rabbit with his molars that were now bare. The noise frightened Benny and made a squeak spill from her parted lips that still had some cooked rabbit skin on them in the corner.

The scene that was unraveling before her could've been in a movie, she thought. Harry proceeded to dig into the small and adorable animal that used to have a pulse. The scary thing was, it looked like Harry felt no remorse. He showed a lot of aggression eating the thing. He growled and slurped up at the bones to consume the fresh and tender meat, smacking his lips when a part of the muscle got stuck on his face. He nearly had the meat cleaned up. When he was done, Benny noticed his eyes had become red.

Now in all of Benny's experiences, red eyes meant evil and demonic, or in her case bad werewolves like Lars. Had he become like Lars? That's when she saw Harry's head cock at her. His eyes were a dull red, but she saw past it and noted the look of a strong, lustful and wanting male.

Male? What was she? An animal?

She gulped and wanted more than anything to run, but she stood, or sat really, still a few ways away from Harry.

A low, seducing purr came form Harry's throat. It made Benny's insides tingle and burn like they never have before. She recognized the feeling of..being a little horny? But it didn't exactly feel like that.

She watched the male with full, bright eyes as he skulked over, crouched until they were inches away from each other. Red eyes stared into yellow ones. The chemistry made Benny want to burst. She suddenly felt like she needed him. Like, really needed him. Now, of all the times!

The two sealed their hormones and chemistry with a deep kiss, fangs brushed against fangs as well as tongues and soon the couple was wrestling on the ground for each other, not even apart of their minds at the moment. They weren't entirely themselves, but at the same time they were.

Benny giggled as humanly as a human could when she wound up on top of him. In the back of her mind this felt so right. She loved Harry, and loved how playful they were around each other and then the next second they'd be having sex. Was this what having a mate felt like?

With a knowing look and a soft growl from Harry, he let her climb off of his waist and crawl quietly into the lean-to for privacy. Harry sniffed the air and sat up on the ground with a wild grin before following his mate quickly to sate both of their needs.

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*a few hours later, in the rain**

Benny's POV:

I listened to the rain pour down on our small tent of logs. It muffled the dripping sounds I'd often enjoy. The worst thing was every now and then a freezing cold drop would slip through and land on my hot and naked body. I shivered every time it happened but the one good thing was Harry tightened his arm around me every time. I hummed lightly into his chest and started to kiss it. Both of us knew damn well we were both wide awake.

"Harry.." I mumbled, trying to get his attention by tracing small burning circles onto one of his pectorals.

He pretended to ignore me by keeping his eyes closed and head tilted up, his breathing steady.

"Baby.." I cooed and kissed the area I was tracing, glanced up to see no reaction, then started kissing up his neck.

That did the trick and pulled a groan from his lips. I smirked when I was rewarded with a sign of his consciousness. He hummed and heaved a heavy sigh before finally speaking to me in his masculine and husky tone that boys have when they first wake up. Swoon.

"Hmmm? Yes my love?" He purred back to me with a sleepy tug of his lips on his way down to kiss my forehead.

I smiled at the gesture,"I love you."

"I love you too.."

Hearing him finally say it was not only a huge weight off my shoulders, but also a huge straining and pull on my heart. I could've cried right there and then. But circumstances being what they are, I held back and beamed at him.

After a few minutes of snuggling in comfortable silence, I shifted and began to sit up, and like all usual males after sex or a nap, Harry took no notice and laid there completely immobile and uninterested, even when a few heavy drops landed on his head and hair, pushing a few strands down of his mane and making them stick to this face.

With a soft chuckle, I pushed the wet hairs away towards his hairline. He replied his thanks to me with a happy sounding hum that burst from his chest.

"How long does mating season last?"

Harry stirred in his sleep as I used as little room as I could in our small shelter to put all of my clothes. I elbowed Harry one time and he groaned with a wounded,"oof,"

"Mating season?..how do you know about that?" Harry asked, actually curious. I could tell because he fully opened his eyes.

I locked eyes with him when I had all of my undergarments on. I gave him a dumb look that made him laugh.

"Oh..yeah."

I moved my eyes away from him and started to frown, but I focused more of my attention on my clothes until I had all of them back on me. They stuck on my skin in a cold, wet and unpleasant feeling.

Harry answered after a small silence that filled in along with the rain pouring on us,"A few weeks..at the least."

"The least?"

"Some people are more.." He cleared his throat,"horny then others.."

"So.." I suddenly turned around with my back facing the opening mouth of our small handmade shelter. It made a breeze blow over my entire backside and my wet hair move slightly to the side.  I ignored it and pushed it back away from my eyes to see Harry sitting up now, eyes sleepy, but more alert than before. "The whole purpose of that..is just.."

"To mate. Exactly, and impregnate the females."

I scoffed somewhat in disgust at how informal he was,"Wow. Blunt much?"

Harry simply shrugged his shoulders,"I'm just telling you how it is. But usually impregnation doesn't happen. It's just a free month to excuse your extremely hormonal needs..especially if you're an Alpha." Harry seemed to look down as his sentence started to end and i followed his eyes down to his hands.

I bit my lip as I watched his fingertips fumble around with his matching pair of his other hand. I wanted so bad to hold them, but for whatever reason, I didn't. I didn't just reach out and take both of his hands to hold as tenderly and lovingly as I had wanted. I just stared at him. He looked like he was thinking, deeply. About something I had no idea of. Did I even want to know?

"Har-"

I might as well have not have said anything because I was interrupted by a loud crash of thunder. On cue, Harry yelped and lurched forward towards his only comfort. Me. He pushed me to the ground in a hug with his arms around me in an instant and put me in a position where my head was out of the safety of the lean-to while from my neck down was protected by logs up above. I was instantly doused in raindrops and greeted by a delayed and bright lightning flash in the sky.

"Hey.." Instead of being upset about my current situation, I cooed to Harry and touched his long and wet tendrils of hair that hung loose on my stomach to soothe him. "Harry.."

"Ooooowoooo.."

Harry and I froze to the ground when we heard the howl. We looked up at each other and locked eyes. As if the tenseness of the storm wasn't enough, now we had Zayn, Louis, and possibly Lars on our tail. My head felt a lot clearer though, I still felt scared shitless, don't get me wrong. I just felt more..confident, I guess you could say the word was.

"Louis and Zayn." Harry alerted me with a twitch of his mouth and a dangerous look in his eyes.

I gulped and nodded at him and moved my head to watch him unclasp from my body and stand over me. Quicker than I wink, and wishing I could change into my clothes that fast as a human, Harry slipped his clothes on and scooped me up before I could even whisper out a small,'what?'

"Harry?" I yelled to him over the loud rain that poured down on us. Harry was now carrying me in his arms as he sprinted as fast as any man could through the woods we found ourselves in. From what I could tell, they didn't look any bit of familiar.

He grunted and leapt over a small, fallen over log that was in the way, then glanced down at me while still running for a beeline to no where. "We need to find a safe place..now."

"W..Why?" I cried.

Harry didn't seem the least phased when the thunder boomed continuously above us in the now darkening sky. When I looked up at him with both arms around his neck, I found myself frowning. He looked determined, furious and hiding behind pain and possibly fear. It was hard to describe, but his expression was sad enough to make my heart drop.

He didn't answer and started to breathe in and out heavily through his nose to kick it into high gear and make his legs move faster across the woods.