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lucas stepped in front of anne, pushing her towards the door as the shapeshifter leapt at her, snarling and with gleaming dark eyes. it landed on lucas and tried to go after anne but lucas grabbed it around the middle and pulled it to the ground. the shapeshifter turned and started to snap at lucas other than go after anne who was his original target.
anne was staring around with horror, listening to the screams and yelling caused by what everyone other than anne thought to be wolves. looking back at lucas wrestling with the shapeshifter who had wanted to get at her, anne realized lucas was still telling her to run. for once in her life, she listened to him.
half way down the hall connecting the gym to the rest of the school, anne heard the clicking of nails against the floor behind her and the heaving breathing of an animal running. a shapeshifter was following her. her panic reached a new height. she started to scream in her head for james to save her, to help her, to protect her. even though he was too far away to hear her pleas.
the dream she had the night before she met james came into her head, unbidden and in a rush. a dark room filled with people. shapes flying through the air. screams. panic. and the overwhelming fear.
she needed a place to hide. an idea came to her and she made the turn that would take her there. there were plenty of places to hide and some equipment that could be used in defense, knives and pots. tears started to gather in her eyes.
she was nuts. she couldn't defend herself against a shapeshifter. they were 10x stronger than she could ever hope to be. and add the telepathy to help locate her and her chances flew out the window. she started crying.
anne reached the doorway to the lunchroom and flew into the room. her tearfilled eyes searched the room for a good place to hide or a piece of equipment for a weapon. she didn't see any. but what she did see was a tall figure with dark hair and green eyes....
"james!!" anne ran at him and put her arms around him. she was only slightly aware that he didn't put his arms around her too. that james remained stiff and formal. she ignored that and started to tell him what was happening, stuttering because of the panic.
"th-th-there's sh-shapeshifters attacking ev-every-everyone who was at the d-dance. lu-lucas was f-f-fighting one when i-i-i ran away. i sh-sh-should've helped him..."
james cut her off. "i know about the shadow pack. i sent them here, to help me kill you." his tone was unfamiliar and cold.
anne didn't immediatly comprehend what he said. "w-we n-n-need to get h-help....what?" she figured it out and tried to pull away. but james grabbed her around her neck and lifted her into the air.
"you're not james." she was almost hitting panic point again. she was with a stranger who was lifting her into the air by the throat. not a good place to be. she remembered something from what james had taught her about shapeshifters: they could change to look like any human.
the james-who-wasn't was just answering when another shape broke through one of the windows. another shapeshifter. the second it landed, a familiar presence entered anne's mind, one that was filled with anger, panic, hatred, and love for anne: anne are you okay?
james! anne's panic was beaten back by relief quickly. but only for a moment. the panic came rushing back as the shapeshifter holding her by the throat tightened their grip slightly.
james changed into a human quickly. i'm gonna take that as a no.
"let her go angel. this is between you and me." james's eyes were filled with hatred and locked on his twin. the james that was choking anne started to change. in his place was a beautiful teenage girl with shining, golden hair and sparkling, blue eyes.
"this is not just between you and me anymore jaime." angel was looking at james with a horrible look in her blue eyes. her voice was like an angel's but it sounded the devil was using it. "the minute you fell in love with her," angel shook anne by the throat. anne whimpered quietly and james snarled in fury. "she came into this. she became my ticket to your pain."
james was furious by this point. but in his eyes was fear, fear for anne. "keep her out of this. put her down and we'll settle this like the wolves we are."
angel was smiling sweetly. "no james. i'm not putting her down." her hand tightened around anne's throat again; anne choked and james paled, his eyes were the only color on his face. "you broke my heart so now i'm breaking yours."
not able to take anymore and mostly and panic, anne kicked at angel. her foot connected angel's head and angel dropped her, snarling in her angel's voice. immediatley anne started to back away, new fear coursing through her.
angel started to go after anne but didn't get far before james landed on her in wolf form. and not for the first time, a fight started in the lunchroom of anne's high school. but this one was different from the others. it was bloodier and way more violent. and it ended in a death.
james stood up as a human ten minutes later covered in blood. angel was laying on the ground in a puddle of more blood. and she wasn't moving. james looked at angel for a few minutes then at anne with concern and love in his eyes.
"are you okay?" he was worried about her like always. but this time he had a good reason. for once.
somehow anne found the strength to be sarcastic. "oh i'm fine. i was just attacked by shapeshifters and one was going to kill me to get at the one thing i can't live without. so yeah i'm perfectly okay."
james smiled in relief and moved to hold anne in his arms. shutting her eyes, anne buried her face into his shirt, tears running down her face again.
"i love you, anne." james was still holding her tightly as if he didn't want to let her go and was afraid if he did, she would vanish. she didn't want him to let go of her either. she put her arms around him to hold him closer.
"i love you too, james." anne lifted her head up to look at james's face and found he was looking back at her. their lips met.
and as they kissed, the world fell away, taking anne's fear and panic with it and leaving love and the sense of security in their places.