When Fates Collide – Chapter 1 "Running From Nothing"
#2 of When Fates Collide
Kat opened her eye's, it was dark now and the full moon was overhead. She tied to pick herself up but used her broken arm, she yelled in pain and lied back down. Taking a glance at her arm she could she that the bone went though the skin, her own fracture was looking at her. She wasn't sure if it was the shock or her not caring because there was no pain afterwards. Picking herself from the ground she grabbed her arm, seeing the damage in the light of the moon was hard. She figured it better if she tried to get help, as she walked out of the forest she said to herself "What where you trying to do, you can't end you life because of some stupid idiotic husband". She left the forest and started to the closest house, the house was 3 doors down from hers but the garden looked different. She dismissed it as the shock was playing tricks on her and kept walking to the house. Once out the front she opened the gate with her spare hand, walking to the front door she looked in the windows. There were no lights on except for the faint light of a TV, good she thought someone's home and I can get some help. She stepped on the porch and opened the door, walking inside she went into the kitchen. What she sore next would change her life. He opened his eye's, he was only half way down the hill. He tried to pick himself up but he couldn't get any grip, he decided that the pain in his arm wasn't too bad and slid down the hill. Once at the bottom he spied a sharp rock, directly in front of where he was rolling. "If I hit that it would have hurt badly" he sighed to himself, "What was I thinking, the Lord has shown me the error of my ways." Walking back to his house he almost forgot his arm, stopping for a second to pop it back into join. "Man that hurt, well that's my punishment" he walked down the path. Something was different he thought, it smells different. Walking out of the forest ran to his house, there was a police car out the front. "Ops I've been gone to long" just as he said that he noticed a weird smell coming from his house, figuring some animal was there he ran in the gate and into the house. Once he got in he immediately noticed something was different, none of this furnatchure was his. That wasn't his TV, something was wrong. "Hello I am home!" he yelled, "Why are the police he..." he was stopped in his tracks. There standing in front of him was a wereman; he just stood there and stared at him. The police obviously out of his trance pulled out his gun, "Sarge, Sarge what is it, Sarge!" The other officer gave his head a shake and also pulled out his gun. "Fuck, It's a fucking monster idiot, shot the thing before attacks" He fired a shot; it hit its target in the left arm. Screaming Karl lunched out of the house, running for the woods he heard 2 more shots fired. When he got to the forest he sat down, his arm was gushing blood and it was just then he noticed his right leg was also bleeding. "Sure I made a mistake, I know trying to end my life was wrong but where have you put me now." He let out a deafening howl, he was stuck somewhere he didn't know about. His ear twitched, he heard footsteps. He was going to accept his fate, it didn't matter anymore. The sergeant turned to find the monster sitting down against a tree, blood was visibly leaving his body. The monster didn't look his way; he pointed the gun at it. The werewolf looked at her; it seemed as dazed at seeing her as she was seeing it. The wolf shook its head and looked at her arm, the bone was visible and it was slowly bleeding. The look on the wolf's face turned into concern, it started putting its hand out slowly towards the arm. She just stood there, frozen from fear. Then her instincts hit her, she screamed and run out the door as fast as her legs could take her. "Where am I" She huffed to herself as he was running down the street, she was obviously weaker from the amount of blood loss. "What was a werewolf doing there, why did he try to get my arm, WHAT HAPPENING!" she screamed, this must have been heard by the other houses as all the lights went on. They all came out the front; there in almost every door was a werewolf. They were no bigger than me, each wearing robes and shirts. Each robe was cut in places, she stood still. She sat down and started crying, her arm pulsed in pain with her breath. She tried to get up but didn't have the strength, she was about to lie down when she sore red and blue lights coming down the road. "I am saved!" She screamed, but the police that got out weren't normal police. They where werewolf's, they had the right clothes but they where wolfs. She felt a sudden surge of adrenaline and got up, she backed away carefully. 2 Furry arms grabbed her from the back, she just stood there. To scared to move, what was she going to do. Move, Move! She thought to herself, she kicked behind her. Her foot hit something and the wolf let go and fell to the ground, her legs then started moving like they never have before. Her heart pounded and her lungs burned, she turned down an alley way. She could hear the paws behind her, gaining ground fast. She must be weaker from the bleeding; she was running down the alley way when everything went black. She remembered nothing more. He turned his head looking down the barrel; his life now lied in the hands of this wereman. He looked at the man closely; it had the same clothes as any cop he had ever seen but the clothes where different. There was no cuts in the clothes, they where perfectly fitting around his body. His ears where on the side of his head and he had a little fur on his face just under his nose. He looked much like Mike; it then hit him like a sledgehammer to the face. He was in the world Mike talked about, a world full of heterosexuals, woman that don't die at a young age, he was in a hell he couldn't escape. The other cop ran over to him and almost jumped out of his skin. "Holy mother of god, sir what is it" The young one had a slight shiver in his voice. "I have to idea but we got it, look at his arm and leg" "Dam good shot sir but what are we going to do with it" Karl tried to talk; he had lost lots of blood and felt very weak. "H......h......he.....lp....me" she struggled out, the weremen just about jumped out of their skin. "Sir, Sir it talked!" The young cop could barley make the words leave his mouth "Look, I know that, I was here too" "What are we going to do.........SIR?" "Look, where going to help it, go and get the first aid kit." the other cop did nothing, "COLIN, go get the kit!" "Y..y..yes sir" he tripped as he started to run. I was feeling lucky; this wereman was obviously here to help. He holstered his gun and put his hand out; he grabbed my hand and looked at it. The pain was unbearable; I had never been shot before and now know why. It hurt badly. Colin came running up with the kit; the other cop grabbed a bandage and started wrapping it around my arm. I can't even explain the amount of pain my arm was in, he pulled the bandage tight. That's when the pain took over and I fainted. He opened the door; the excitement from last night was over. They all expected the wereman to be a hoax, Sundur walked out to the front of his house. He picked up the paper and it was then he smelt something funny, like blood but not the same. He looked around, after a close examination of the ground he sore that some of the grass was red. He followed the trail; he was now around the side of his house. He looked around the corner; he almost jumped out of his skin when he sore it. "Holy!" He yelled and this must have been enough to wake her because its eye's slowly opened. It looked at him and its eye's opened wide, it started to whimper and tears rolled from its puffy eye's. He looked to where the blood was coming from, her arm was broken the bone smiling to him as he looked at it. "Are you ok" he said softly, her eye's opened more and she tried to back away. She obviously was very weak, and could barely move. The whimpering got worse as did her crying he knew something had to be done about her arm. "Stay right here" he said softly as he ran inside. Sundur picked up the phone, he dialed 911. After a few seconds he heard a voice on the other end. "Hello, 911 emergency services how may I help you" "Hello, my names Sundur and your not gona believe this but I've got another wereman at my house." he yelled at the phone, he needed to hurry as she wasn't going to be alive much longer. "Don't worry, the police have called and said this might happen. What are her injuries? How serious are they?" "She has a major compound fracture, the bone it protruding out of the skin and she has lost most of her blood." "Ok we have an Ambulance on the way, try and bandage the wound to stop the bleeding and make sure she stays awake" "I will" he quickly putdown the phone and ran do his first aid kit, got a bandage and ran outside to the wereman. When he made it to where she was before she was gone, quickly looking around he sore a trail of blood go out to the back yard. He followed the trail, sniffing the whole time. The smell was like a female, but that's impossible. She had to be over 15 and females very rarely live past 16, she couldn't be. He found her, slowly pulling herself along with her other arm. He walked over to her, she looked at him, her eye's where full of fear and pain. He stared into her eyes, they were a bright blue. Her pupils where very large, a sign she was either scared or in lots of pain. He put his hand out to get her broken arm, she let out a loud whimper followed by something that sounded like words but he couldn't make them out. He continued to get her arm, but slower now know that she was scared. Once he grabbed her hand she closed her eyes and tears began to roll down her face, she was whimpering faster now. "P....p...please leave me" She could only just let the words escape her mouth, the wolf looked at her. He seemed to be registering what she said, "I.....I'll do anything, just don't hurt me" now the wolf jumped back and looked at her. Her eye's where still closed, he felt how scared she was. It must have been hell, out there all night with that arm. "Its ok, I wont hurt you" He said softly, she stopped crying and slowly opened her eyes. She looked into his, her pupils were starting to shrink and her whimpering stopped. "Here, let me take you inside" He picked her up making sure her arm was comfortable, he started to walk back to the house. She felt his chest fur as he carried her; she snuggled up to his fur and smelt it. He smelt very clean and refreshing; she almost fell asleep from the softness of his touch. When she was inside she was surprised to find that the house was no different from any other, it just smelt different somehow but she couldn't put her finger on it. He put her on the bed softly; she relaxed knowing that she was safe for the time being. He motioned for her arm she tried to move it but she couldn't, he picked it up and she closed her eye's. The pain was powerful; it felt as if every pound of her heart was making it worse. The wolf started to bandage the arm; he was half done when the woman couldn't take the pain anymore. She yelled in pain crying heavily making the wolf jump and hit the wall on the other side of the room; he ran back to her and patted her head. "Help will be here soon, hold on" He said softly in her ear. "p..p..p..Please don't leave me" She had trouble spitting the words out "I won't, I promise" Just as he finished she fainted. Full of worry he tried to get her pulse, it was very weak and slow. Just as it seemed to stop paramedics burst into the house, he quickly ran out into the hall and told them about her. They rushed into the room, picking her up they ran to the ambulance. Sundur jumped in as well, keeping his promise. Karl slowly opened his eye's, waiting for them to adjust to the light. Thoughts where running through his head, what happened, am I dead, where am I. The second he thought of the last question he remembered where he was, he quickly jumped up scaring Colin. By the time he sorted himself he was looking into the barrel of a gun again, his eyes opened wide and he started backing off on the bed. Quickly looking for a way out, he looked left, right, up, there was no way out. He shot a glance at the other person there; it was the one who saved him. Colin shook the gun in his face and he let out a yelp and screamed this made Colin jump and fire a shot into the wall next to him. "Please don't shoot me, I'm sorry I'll never do it again" He yelled, the other 2 just looked like they sore a ghost. "Put the gun down Colin" "But Ken, what if he tries anything" His voice was shaking "Look at him, does he look like his gona kill you" Karl couldn't believe what he was hearing, me kill them they were attacking me. "w...w...why did you shoot me" Colin trained the gun on him again, he put his arm up to brace the shot "I'm sorry, I wont talk again please don't hurt me" Karl cried as he looked at Colin. Ken quickly looked at Colin, grabbing his gun he threw it away. "Sorry for him it's his first day on the job" Ken's voice had a reassuring tone to it, "What are you, more importantly where did you come from?" "I....I...I don't know" Karl only just squeezed the words out, the entire time watching Colin closely. "Well you didn't just appear out of know where did you, you must of come from somewhere" "Ok look, I'll tell you the story as you obviously haven't seen one of my kind before" The words came out much easier now that Colin was no longer armed, "I come from a world that is full of werewolf's as you call us, the way all the houses look are much the same but instead of weremen there's us. We have already had a visiting wereman; he is now very sick and can't be cured. We still don't know how he got there, but now I think I've done what he did" "Hang on; someone has already been to your world. And before that, what's this world part." "Our scientists have come up with a theory, there are 2 opposite universes. Once has you and the other has us, there virtually identical except for a few differences. The one that came to our world was Michael Riggs" "Hang on a sec" Ken raised his hand, Karl jumped back. "Oh its ok, I'm not going to hurt you, but that person you just said went missing in the forest about 38 years ago. Another person went missing around that area only 2 years ago." "Yes the second one didn't make it though; he fell down a cliff by the quarry on out side. We never did find the wolf's body." Karl dropped his head, tears started to roll down his snout "You know what I was doing there, I was about to kill myself" His crying was getting worse now. "Why, you don't have to answer that" Ken said softly. "No no, its fine. I was just dumped by my husband whe..." He was stopped by Ken "Did you say husband, are you gay?" Karl gave a puzzled look; he remembered how his world had females that live longer than men, where homosexuals were outcast. "We don't have a choice, from what I've heard your females can live longer than males. Where we come from, females live no longer than 16." "What, how does the species survive?" "Each female has birth to around 2-3 cubs, then dies thereafter. It's up to the male to look after the cubs." "This doesn't make sense, nyah! I've got a headache and its getting late. Do you want something to eat?" He motioned the Wolf to the kitchen. Karl struggled to get up, following Ken into kitchen and sat down on the seat. He looked at the plate in front of him; I was a wonderful piece of chicken, and a mixed assortment of vegetables. He gave Ken a quick glance, something didn't seem right the food was ready but something smelt wrong. He glanced at Ken, took a long sniff of the food on the plate. He immediately knew what the smell was, it was sleeping pills, Ken was trying to drug him. He gave Ken and angry glance, Ken's eye's opened wide. Karl got up out of his seat and started to walk towards him slowly, his paw outstretched claws ready to dig into Ken's flesh. Beep Beep Beep, the heart rate monitor beeped next to her. She slowly opened her eye's looking around she was in a hospital, all the walls where white and she was the only one in the room, the window was closed and so was the door. "Hello" she yelled, nothing happened. She looked next to her bed and spied the help button, she pressed it and waited. About 30 seconds later, a nurse came in. She looked at the nurse, the nurse was in white robes that covered the hold person and the one thing that didn't look right was a snout. She was trying to remember what happened, thinking quietly to her self she remembered something. It was then she realized she was in a hospital full of werewolf's. "Where is he, he said he would be here!" she screamed to the nurse, the nurse jumped and almost hit the roof. "Ill will go get him, wait here" the nurse said, strangely is sounded like a man. Oh well there where plenty of men nurses, she heard the heart rate monitor getting faster. The door was just about broken down as a wolf ran in; she knew who it was instantly. "You kept your promise, thank you." "My pleasure, I was worried about you since you came here" The wolf looked nice in the sun, his fur was a nice light grey, he had a black V of fur from the bottom of his chest to his shoulders. The underside of his muzzle was white; the rest of his face was black except for the odd grey stripe or spot here and there. He sat down on a chair that was next to the bed, he looked at her as she looked back. Her arm was still in pain but no as bad as before, she let out a sigh. "I'm sorry" She whispered "What for, you have nothing to be sorry for." Sundur said calmly "Yes I do, if I hadn't tried to kill myself I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't have broken my arm and I wouldn't have ended up at your house" She started to cry, covering her face with her free arm. He put his hand on her head. "Its alright, I'm glad you came, you might be interesting to talk to. My name is Sundur by the way, Sundur Felton. You are?" "Kat, Katrina McWilliams. As I said before I'm sorry, you can leave me if you want now" She looked into his eye's, her blue eye's were pink around the edges and puffy from the crying. She dropped her head and looked down; he smiled and put his paw on her chin pulling her eyes to his. "Its ok" He gave a reassuring smile, Kat smiled and lay back in her bed. Her eyes became heavy and she fell asleep again. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around, she was in the same room Sundur put her in before taking her to the hospital. The curtains where closed, there was only a small space between them casting god rays over the room. He sat up looking at her arm, it was in plaster. The door was open and she could see a dining room, the bed she was in very soft and the quilted had pictures of various animals. "Hello, Sundur are you here?" she yelled into the next room, there was no movement and she started to get a bit scared. Her stomach started to growl, "I wonder if he has any food, I better not have to much as I don't wana be a bother" She got up, holding her arm and walked into the kitchen. It was the original white, except for the bench which was a nice cream color. There was a bread box next to the microwave; the door was a sliding door. She had trouble finding a spot for her arm as she tried to open the box, she looked into it and got the most stale bread she could find "I don't want to eat his good bread" She said to herself. She thought she was getting crazier by the minuet, talking to herself become a usual thing lately. She looked into the fridge; it was full of all different kinds of food, nothing that a normal person wouldn't have. She got the margarine not wanting to use the butter; she walked over to the bench and put the margarine down. Systematically looking into all the cupboards she found dished, bowl, cooking utilities and finally she found a butter knife. Getting the knife out, she closed the draw and looked at the bread and it hit her how was she going to spread the margarine with 1 hand. She started to spread the margarine but found that it couldn't be done with ease. "What are you doing?" Sundur yelled, it startled her and she turned around. "Oh my god, I'm sorry I didn't think you would mind." raising her hand to protect her face. "Yes I do actually, want me to have to take you back to hospital with food poisoning." She put her hand down and looked at him. He walked over to her and she started to get scared every step closer he got, once he was standing next to her he grabbed the knife and the bread. He put the bread into the bin and went to get some fresh bread. "No, its fine, I don't want to impose", Sundur smiled at her "What do you think I got the bread for, do you want anything else on it?" "No, I'll be fine." She looked at the ground "I'm sorry, I t..." "You don't have to be sorry anymore, it seems that you are going to be staying with me till your arm gets better." He smiled and walked over to her, "C'mon, its back to bed with you." He grabbed her cast and started to lead her into the bedroom. He put her into the bed and put her arm down softly, "I might have new questions later on though" He smiled; she nodded her head and lay back in bed. "Il is right back" He practically jumped out of the room, about 30 seconds later he entered with a plate and bread on it. "Here, don't worry I'm going to look after you. Anything else you want?" He said waiting for a reply, "No I'll be fine thanks." She got a piece of bread and put it into her mouth; he sat there and watched her eat. "You can go now, I'll be fine." He nodded and walked out; she finished eating and put the plate on the ground next to the bed. Her eye's started to get heavy, "Sundur!" she yelled. He ran into the room. "Yes?" "Thanks" She said just about to fall asleep "Its ok" Her eyes went heavy, and she was asleep. * * *
Chapter 2 will be out soon, thanks for reading.. All crits and comments go to [email protected]