"Get off of my sister!" Allie yelled as she slammed her fists into Nathan's back. Nathan let go of Lily who was lying broken and sobbing on the wooden floor. He threw Allie off his back and she flew backwards and hit her shoulder against a bench causing her to cry out in pain.

Nathan stood and redid his pants while he sneered down at Lily.

"Pull your dress down wife. You are showing too much leg." he said with a chuckle and then he kicked her hard in the thigh and she let out a whimper before pulling her legs into her chest.

"Stop kicking her!" Allie screamed as Nathan brought his foot hard into Lily's side. "You're going to hurt the baby!" Nathan became as still as stone at her words and looked over at her.

"What baby?" he hissed. Lily sat up and wrapped her knees into her chest.

"Allie, be quiet." she moaned through her swollen lips.

"What baby?" Nathan hissed again.

"The baby that she is pregnant with, you great big jackass." Allie replied angrily. Nathan tapped his gun against his hand and turned his attention back to Lily.

"You let that good for nothing animal get you pregnant?" he demanded with disgust.

"It's your….." Allie stopped talking suddenly when a low growl filled the room. Everyone's eyes flew to the door and Hawke was standing there seething with anger with Wolf by his side.

"You had better hope you did not hurt my child." Hawke said in a voice that was so low and cold it sent shivers down even Lily's spine. Nathan quickly grabbed Lily's arm and yanked her to her feet. He held her in front of him like a shield and pressed his gun to her temple.

"If you or your pet so much as twitch, you damn savage, I'll blow her good for nothing brains right out of her head."

Hawke took in the situation and for the first time in his life he did not know what to do. He had no doubts that if he went for his knives, Nathan would kill Lily. His poor Lily. Her face was once again swollen and covered with bruises. Her dress was ripped and Hawke saw that Nathan's pants were twisted and Hawke felt his blood seem to freeze and boil at the same time.

Nathan had forced his woman! He had stuck himself inside of her right here on the dirty floor of this dusty stage office and Hawke had not been here to protect her.

"Are you okay, naakiiwa?" he asked, keeping his voice hard and emotion free. If Nathan knew the amount of fear and desperation that Hawke was feeling it would only make things worse.

"I am fine, ninaa. I love you." Lily replied while a tear rolled down her cheek. She knew she was going to die and she wanted to make sure that Hawke knew how she felt.

"Kitsiikakomimmo. You are my mosskitsipahyo." Hawke replied and then he narrowed his eyes and looked at Nathan.

"Let go of her and leave." he said. Nathan laughed harshly.

"Yes and I guess you're just going to let me leave here alive and well huh?" he asked and Hawke nodded. He would let Nathan live if the man would just give him Lily back. He would forget about revenge and payback if he could just have his arms around that woman again and have her safe and warm and back at home with him.

"Nice try." Nathan said pushing the gun harder against Lily's temple. Lily whimpered with pain and bit her lip to keep from crying out. Wolf started to lunge but Hawke grunted and he stopped in his tracks.

"You better keep that beast under control!" Nathan warned. "Now Lily and I are going to walk out of here, jump on my horse and ride out of town and you are going to be helpless to stop us because you are going to be dead." Hawke prepared himself. The second Nathan pulled that gun away from Lily's head he was going to send a knife flying straight into his skull.

"Hawke watch out!" Allie cried but it was too late. Deputy Franks brought the butt of his pistol down hard on the back of Hawke's head and he went down hard. Wolf turn and lunged at the man, knocking him to the ground and tearing a chunk out of his arm.

Lily took advantage of the chaos of the moment and pulled Nathan's knife from his belt before driving it deep into his thigh. Nathan screamed in pain and threw her to the ground while clutching at his leg. He pulled the knife out and tossed it to the side as blood quickly began soaking his pants leg.

"Why you stupid bitch!" he bellowed and he backhanded her hard across the face causing Wolf to jump away from Franks and lunge at him. Nathan pointed his gun at the beast and pulled the trigger and Wolf fell to the ground with a loud yelp of pain and landed in a motionless heap.

"Hawke!" Lily yelled as she ran to him and tried to shake him awake. Deputy Franks was crawling backward out of the stage office, trying desperately to get away without being killed.

"Lily help!" Allie screamed. Lily looked away from Hawke's face and saw that Nathan had her sister pulled against him as a shield and was limping for the door with his gun pointed at her and Hawke.

"I'm leaving, Lily. Have fun with your savage." he growled out, his voice full of pain.

"Allie no!" Lily cried and Nathan pressed the gun to Allie's temple.

"Stay where you are." he warned and Lily froze and watched helplessly as Nathan took her little sister out the door.

Jack saw Nathan limp out of the stage office with Allie held against him. He could see the fear on Allie's face and the blood covering Nathan's leg. Somewhere among all the screaming and gunshots, the man had gotten himself injured.

"Help!" Allie screamed. "Somebody help me!" Jack pulled away from doc Mason and walked slowly out into the road. His head was spinning and his arm was throbbing but he was NOT going to let this son of a bitch take away the one girl in this world that he loved.

"Let her go." he stated as he stopped about ten feet away and took a wide legged stance with his hand inches from his gun. Nathan rolled his eyes. All he wanted was to leave. He didn't care about Lily or Hawke or any of that anymore. He needed to leave and have his leg patched up and he never wanted to come back to this stupid town full of ignorant savages and idiots.

"Fine take her." Nathan said and he threw Allie forward. While she was stumbling toward Jack, Nathan aimed his revolver at the boy but before he could pull the trigger Jack drew his own gun and fired a single shot into Nathan's arm causing him to drop his gun. Nathan turned and ran then. He ran harder and faster than he had ever run before because he knew he was running for his life.

Jack slid his gun back into the leather holster just as Allie reached him and threw her arms around his neck. He ignored the pain in his shoulder and wrapped his good arm tight around her waist as he watched Nathan disappear into the woods.

"I can't believe you're alive! I thought he killed you back at the cabin, Jack! I was so scared!" she exclaimed. Jack kissed her hair and squeezed her more tightly.

"Naw, doll, it'd take more than a bullet in the shoulder and a bump on the head to kill me."

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"Where is Nathan?" Hawke demanded as he sat up suddenly. His head was pounding so badly that his vision was blurred and he couldn't see clearly.

"I stabbed him and then he took Allie. Jack has Allie now and Jack shot him but he ran into the woods."

"Wolf." Hawke called and Lily shook her head sadly.

"He's dead, Hawke." she replied Hawke shook his head and looked at the beast lying on the floor. He saw the slow rise and fall of his chest.

"Wolf." he said more sternly and Wolf slowly raised his head and looked at him before pulling himself to his feet. The bullet had gone into his back leg and he held it up high, keeping his weight off of it. Hawke shook his head trying to clear his vision while Wolf looked at him expectantly.

"Wolf, hunt and kill." Hawke said and Lily would have sworn that Wolf nodded and grinned before running out the door.

Wolf could smell the bad ones scent in the air. He could smell his fear, his pain and his blood. Wolf ran quickly, ignoring his own pain. He would serve and protect the alpha and his pack no matter what pain he was in. He would give his last breath and his last drop of blood to protect for the two leggers. Because those crazy two leggers were his pack and the bad man had hurt all of them.

No one messed with Wolf's pack and lived to talk about it. Hunt and kill. Wolf's mouth watered as he imagined sinking his teeth deep into the bad one's throat.

Wolf could hear him now and knew that he was getting close. The prey was breathing heavily and leaving a large blood trail. He was tiring and slowing and Wolf knew the hunt would end soon. He rounded a bend and there the pray was. The bad one turned and saw him and let out a scream as Wolf launched himself through the air and knocked him to the ground, sinking his teeth deep into his flesh.

Hunt and kill. That had been the order. Wolf jumped away from the bad ones dead body and shook out his fur. His leg was hurting badly and he turned and licked it several times before limping back towards town. Maybe the small female would give him some more of that sweet tasting candy.

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Hawke, Lily, Allie, Jack, Deputy Franks and Doc Mason were all crammed into docs office as he went about patching them all up. He was sewing Jack's shoulder, while Jack held tight to Allies hand and forced himself to smile despite the pain because he wanted to look tough, when Marshall Yale came bursting into the office.

"Does anyone want to explain to me exactly what the hell happened and why Percy Jenkins is laying dead at the stage office and the entire town has been shot all to hell?" he demanded loudly.

"I'll tell you what happened, Marshall." Deputy Franks exclaimed standing up and pointing to his now bandaged arm. "The damn savage was screwing Nathan Yeary's wife and Nathan came back and was pissed of course. He was just trying to take his wife and sister in law out of here and the damn savage attacked him."

"Why you lying son of a bitch!" Jack yelled as he jumped up and stalked toward Franks, dragging Allie along while doc tried desperately to follow him and keep from tearing his wound. He was going to defend the damn man he was starting to see as a father. "You know damn well that wasn't what happened. That crazy ass Nathan came out to the cabin and shot me and kidnapped the women and Hawke came to save them!"

"Calm down." Hawke said sternly from where he stood beside the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. Lily was sitting in a chair beside him and he had a look on his face that made it clear that he would kill anyone who tried to come near her.

"Yeah calm down." Marshall Yale added. He turned to Lily.

"Did your husband do this to you?" he asked pointing to her bruised face and arms and her ripped dress. Lily nodded while Hawke growled.

"Yes sir." she replied.

"Nathan came to the cabin like Jack said. He knocked Lily out and then he cut my cheek and shot Jack before bringing Lily and I into town. Percy and him got into an argument about there not being a stage to leave on today and Nathan shot Percy in the chest and then he started beating Lily and he…. He…." Allie's voice broke and Jack wrapped his good arm around her waist and kissed her temple just before Hawke's fist put a hole through Doc's wall.

The Marshall was shocked by the sudden show of anger from the Indian. He liked Hawke. He respected Hawke and he knew that Hawke had better self control than anyone else he knew. If Hawke was losing his cool over this then Marshall Yale believed it to be true.

"What happened then?" he asked. Deputy Franks opened his mouth to speak but Marshall Yale held his hand up. "I want her to tell me." he said pointing at Allie. Allie looked up at Jack with wide, scared eyes and he nodded.

"Go ahead, doll. Tell him everything that happened."

"After Nathan finished….uh… you know…. Then he started kicking Lily and I begged him to stop so he wouldn't hurt her baby. He was about to hurt her worse when Hawke and Wolf showed up. Nathan grabbed Lily then and put a gun to her head and told Hawke that if he or Wolf moved he would shoot her. Hawke tried to tell Nathan to just leave town and that's when Deputy Frank's came up behind Hawke and hit him in the head with his gun and knocked him unconscious."

"Why you little!" Franks yelled and he went lunged for Allie but before he could reach her, Jack's gun was pressed against his chest.

"Don't even think about it, slick." Jack warned.

"Put the gun down, boy. I'll deal with the deputy in a minute." Marshall Yale said and Jack slowly put his gun back in his holster.

"Then what happened." Marshall Yale asked Allie.

"Wolf attacked deputy Franks and Lily pulled Nathan's knife and stabbed him in the leg. He threw her down and Wolf lunged at him. He shot Wolf and Lily ran to Hawke who was still unconscious. That's when Nathan grabbed me and dragged me out the door. Jack saw him and told him to let me go. Nathan shoved me forward and then went for his gun but Jack shot him in the arm. Nathan ran into the woods and a few moments later Wolf came out of the stage office and ran after him.That's all of it. We all came down to docs after that."

Marshall Yale stood there silently for several long moments processing what he had just heard. He couldn't believe that a man he had trusted to protect his town had acted the way Franks had acted.

"Give me your badge, Franks." Marshall said holding out his hand.

"What?" Franks demanded. "Arrest the savage! Or the boy for shooting Nathan! Or go after Nathan!"

"Nathan is dead." Hawke cut in and the room full of people looked at the window to see Wolf standing there staring at them through the glass with blood coating his muzzle.

"I'm gonna kill that beast." Franks said starting for the door. Marshall Yale shook his head.

"That beast is more of a hero than you are." he replied. "You took an oath to protect and serve the people of this town and then you stood by and let something like this happen and when you did step in, you attacked one of the people you were supposed to be protecting. As far as I am concerned the guilty party in all of this is lying out in the woods dead and everyone else is free to go. Hawke and his family are free to go home and you Franks are free to give me your badge and get the hell out of my town."

"Are you serious?" Franks demanded angrily.

"Dead serious." Marshall Yale replied. Franks tore the star from his shirt and threw it at Marshall Yale's chest.

"You go to hell Marshall. You savage loving son of a bitch." Franks stormed from docs office and toward the livery to get his horse.

"Go on home you all. You've had a hell of a day." Marshall Yale said. "I'll get the undertaker to see to Nathan and Percy." He tipped his hat at the ladies and then turned and left the office.

"Well I'll tell you what, I ain't never seen a day like today.. First damn time I've ever really shot somebody. I've never actually had to do that before." Jack said happily as he looked down at his gun.

"How much morphine did you give him?" Hawke asked doc who just chuckled and shrugged.

"Let's go home Hawke." Lily said standing up. Hawke nodded and wrapped his arm tight around her. He looked over at Jack.

"Let's go home."

A/N: And that's the end of 'Savage Desires!' Continue on to 'Savage Intentions' to read more of Hawke, Lily, Jack and Allie's tale! 

A/N: Blackfoot translations

Naakiiwa- my woman

Ninaa- my man

Kitsiikakomimmo- I love you

Mosskitsipahyo- heart