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@ 2010-05-31 23:25:00

hunter and julian

While Jeremiah had been easily accepted his shifts, Julian had been pushing them back. It was difficult and exhausting, and it was causing the little boy to be cranky and want to sleep more. Of course his sleep wasn't as restful as it could be, and Jason's presence wasn't helping things because Julie could tell that Joshua didn't care for the man and Julie was strongly linked to Joshua. When Julie wokeup from a nightmare, he sat up in his bed with his two ponies and looked for Miah. Usually he'd wake Miah up and go sneak into Joshua's room or Hunter and Wendell's, but Miah must have fallen asleep with one of them because he wasn't there. Instead of getting up, Julie just started to cry softly alone in his dimly lit room.

The crying woke Hunter immediately, and he got up and went down the hall to see what was wrong with Julian. Jeremiah had fallen asleep in bed with him and Wendell and the little boy was wrapped up in Wendell's arms, sound asleep. Hunter went into the boys's bedroom and closed the door behind him before going to sit down on the edge of the bed. "What's wrong, Julie?"

When Hunter came into the room, Julian moved to crawl up onto his lap. His arms looped around Hunter's neck and pressed his face against the bigger wolf's shoulder. "Bad dream," he said in between sniffles. "Where's Miah?"

"Miah's sleeping with Wendell." Hunter wrapped his arms around Julian and he rubbed his hand gently up and down his back. "What were you dreaming about?" He hated that the boy's had nightmares but there wasn't really anything he could do to stop it. So instead he just did his best to make them feel better after they were over.

Julie's little pajamas were a bit damp with sweat and he curled up on Hunter's lap as he held onto him. "My Mom," he told Hunter in between sniffles. "She came to take us back, and she was mean. She hurt Joshua."

"Well she's not here and she's not going to get you." He rubbed his hands up and down his back and he kissed his forehead. "You're all wet, puppy, do you want to cool down and put something clean on?"

"Kay," Julie said, his tone a little whiney. "My arms and legs are sore." He was holding back his shifts which only made things worse, but he didn't quite understand that.

"It's because you aren't shifting. Do you want to go downstairs and we can shift together? We can run for a little bit and then you will feel better afterwards." he stood up, holding onto Julian as he started for the door. "Let's go for a run."

"No, I don't wanna, it hurts," Julian said as he tried to squirm out of Hunter's arms. "That man tried to make me I could tell and I didn't want to. I just wanna go to bed with you."

"Julian." Hunter's voice was stern. "You have to do it sometimes. You are going to hurt yourself if you don't do it." He was going to make Julian shift if he wouldn't do it on his own. "If you keep pushing it back it'll come on it's own and it'll hurt."

"But it hurts," Julian protested, still trying to get down out of Hunter's arms but Hunter was a lot stronger than the little boy was. "Why do I have to? What if a bigger wolf eats me because I am small."

"A bigger wolf isn't going to eat you, Julian, I am going to be right there with you." He carried him downstairs and outside, and all the way out to the woods before he put him down on his feet.

Julian kept on wiggling, trying to slip out of Hunter's arms. When he was put down on his feet, he looked up at Hunter with a frown. "I'm scared," he said softly. "How come it doesn't hurt for you? Does it hurt for you? It doesn't seem like it."

"It does hurt for me, I am just used to it." He crouched down in front of Julian and tugged his shirt off and then he stood up. "Go ahead and take off your pants. I'll shift first and then you shift, okay? And then I'll be there to protect you."

The air was cool, but it felt a little good. At Hunter's words, Julie shook his head no. "Don't wanna, I want Daddy." Miah called Wen and Hunter by name still, but Julian had taken to calling Wen Daddy and Hunter Papa.

"No Julian." Hunter crouched down. "it's time to be a big boy and to shift with me, okay? all the wolves have to do it. Joshua and Miah do it too."

"Joshua didn't have to until he was bigger," Julian protested as he looked at Hunter with a frown. "How come I have to now? Why can't I just wait til I'm bigger."

"Because you already shifted now and so you have to keep on shifting. Once you do it once you have to keep on doing it. You don't get a choice. You'll get really sick if you don't do it."

Julian twisted his fingers together nervously as he furrowed his brow. He looked terribly worried, and he chewed on his lower lip a little bit. "Sick how?"

"Your arms and legs hurt because you haven't shifted, but soon your whole body is going to start to hurt and it is going to be really bad, Julian."

Hunter looked so serious, and it made Julian want to cry. He rubbed at one of his eyes with a tiny fist as he nodded his head, finally. "Okay," he said, his voice raising an octive. "What if I can't do it?"

"You can do it. You just have to be brave and you have to just do it, all right?" He pressed a kiss to the top of his head. "I'll help you, okay?"

"Okay," Julie said softly as he reached out to hold onto Hunter. He pulled back a moment later and knelt down to fold his pajama shirt, then he took his pants and underpants off and folded them, too. When Wendell had seen some of himself in Julian, he really had, because Julie definitely had some strong Wendell traits.

Hunter tried not to smile. Instead he just brushed his fingers through his hair. "Okay think really hard about shifting all right?" he kissed his forehead and then leaned back so Julian could try.

Julian really didn't want to, but he knew better than to keep arguing with Hunter. He'd argued as much as he could and finally conceded because he trusted Hunter and just needed to be assured that he'd be all right. He stayed crouching and furrowed his brow as thought hard about shifting. It didn't take long to start, his wolf was aching to get out and the shift came hard and fast. Julie tried to fight it at first, crying out in pain and discomfort, but he gave in eventually and soon enough a little white pup was at Hunter's feet.

Hunter took off his pajama bottoms and he shifted quickly so that he was in his wolf form. Once he was settled he leaned down and licked along Julian's face to clean him up a little bit. He tried to run with the little boys every time they shifted just so they felt safe.

Julian's tail swished back and forth as Hunter cleaned him up. He managed to bite down playfully on one of Hunter's ears before he jumped away and stuck his rump up in the air, his little white tail wagging in excitment. Now that he was shifted, he hadn't a care in the world it seemed.

Hunter stepped forward and in one bite had a hold of Julian by the back of the neck so that he was carrying him. Then he trotted off into the woods with the wolf pup in tow.

Julian's eyes went wide, and he went limp as Hunter grabbed him by the scruff. That hadn't happened to him before, and he looked awkward, legs held out stiffly.

Hunter would have paid money to see what Julian looked like in that moment, but for now he just trotted out to the woods and to the stream before he put Julian back down on his rump, letting him sit so they could get a drink of water.

When he was settled down, Julian relaxed and tipped his head back to let out a pitiful attempt at a howl. He yawned in the middle of it and shook his head before he leaned forward and lapped at the cool water.

Hunter leaned his head back and let forth a loud and powerful howl just to show Julian how it was done. Then he leaned his head back down and took a few big laps of water. When he was finished he nudged the little boy over and then trotted away a few yards to see if he'd follow.

When Hunter howled, Julie stopped drinking to stare over at him with his head cocked to the side and once Hunter started to drink again, Julie tried to howl again. It was better, but still pretty weak, and adorable. When the pup was nudged, he watched Hunter for a second and then trotted after him. Or tried to. He was still a little clumsy.

Hunter had every intention of wearing Julian out and then curling up with him to sleep outside for a while. He figured that way they would just sleep through their shifts back into human form and they'd be all right come morning.

After running and playing with Hunter, and the two had found their way back closer to their clothes Julie flopped down and let out a big yawn as he shook his head. The two fell asleep curled up together and when Julie woke up it was still dark, but early morning. He yawned and poked Hunter in the side. "Cold."

Hunter woke up when Julian poked him and he turned over and stretched his arms out over his head before turning over to get up. "Come on, let's get up so we can go and get breakfast."

Julian got up and followed Hunter over to their clothes and after he tugged them on he held his arms up to Hunter. "I wanna crawl in bed with you, I'm still sleepy."

"All right, then we can go and get in bed." Hunter tugged on his pants and then picked Julian up so that he could carry him back to the house. "In my bed?"

"Yes," Julian said with a nod as he let his head rest against Hunter's shoulder. "Your bed. Are you and Daddy married?"

"Yes, we are." For the most part, anyway. He wasn't that worried about the fact that they weren't really married in the court. He picked up Julian and carried him through the yard and back to the house.

"When I get bigger I wanna marry someone like you," Julie said softly. "Why do you love him so much? Did you pick him or did he pick you?"

"We picked each other." He carried the boy inside and went back upstairs and into the bedroom. Hel aid Julian down next to Jeremiah and he crawled in with him and laid down.

"Oh," Julie said as he got laid down in the bed. He stretched his legs out and wiggled his toes as he peered up at Hunter. He wrapped an arm around Miah and yawned a little bit before he curled up against Miah, the two of them snugly in between Hunter and Wendell.

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