Kairos {joshler}

Josh blinked his eyes open, his head felt too heavy for his shoulders and a sharp intense pain ripped straight through him like a shiver as he tried to lift it. He muffled his cry as he adjusted, finally blinking back the blur in his vision to see he was sat in the forest. He tried to move again, grunting, before realising his hands were tied down to the chair he was sat in. He tried to move his feet but they were trapped too.

Panic flooded through him, waking him up faster than anything ever had before. He looked around himself to see there was no one around, he'd been left out in the cold. He struggled again, but his wrists had rubbed raw on the ropes and it stung too much.

Josh took deep breaths through his nose as he tried not to panic, squeezing his eyes tight and gritting his teeth as his body told him how much everything ached.

"Okay come on Josh, think, what happened?" He whispered to himself, desperately trying to figure out what the hell was going on...

- one month prior -

start the song: Home - Little Wolves!

Josh pulled his sunglasses off as he stepped out of the car. The sun was beating down on his back as he walked into Tyler's house. The door was open to let the occasional light breeze through. Josh knocked on it and was surprised when Mrs Joseph poked her head into the hallway.

"They're out the back honey." She smiled before disappearing again and Josh smiled. Heading through the house and out into the yard.

The backyard was more like a meadow, the grass thick and tall, little flowers poking out every so often. Two wolves skipped and hopped through the grass. The one was dark brown, so dark it looked almost black and the other had soft golden brown fur, they were slightly smaller than the first but both were clearly young, given Tyler was so much bigger. Tyler sat near-by, Jay dancing excited circles around him as he watched the two other wolves chase one another and play fight protectively.

There was a chocolate brown wolf lay in the grass panting, that he knew was Maddy. She had found an area where the grass had been flattened a lot and Josh sat beside her. She looked up at him startled but remained lay down.

Josh crossed his legs and watched as Jay tried to join the other wolves. Without thinking Tyler began stroking the wolf pup by his side. She froze at first but then relaxed into the human's touch. Tyler noticed his mate had arrived and began making his way over.

He walked between where the two wolves he didn't recognise where standing, the bigger one licking the youngers face with affection. They were forced to separate and the bigger one growled at Tyler which made Josh chuckle and realise it must've been Zack and his mate Tatum.

Tyler made a sound at Josh, nudging the hand stroking Maddy away and Josh finally realised what he'd done, eyes widening and a blush overcoming him.

"Sorry Maddy!" He said but Tyler whined at him, making him look at him instead. He rubbed Josh's chin with the top of his head before circling and trying to sit in his lap. Josh laughed as he was almost knocked backwards, Tyler had a habit of forgetting he was way too big for Josh's short ass to do this kinda stuff.

With a lick of apology to Josh's cheek, he lay down, resting his head in Josh's lap instead. At the sight of Tyler's wolf form sleeping on him Josh couldn't tell if it was the sun that made him feel warm inside or something else.

It didn't take long for Tyler to fall asleep, the warm sun beating down on them all as the four younger wolves playing with one another, hopping through the flowers and rolling around. Tyler's soft ears twitched, as did his wet nose and big paws. His tail twitched like a cats and Josh smiled, smoothing a gentle hand through his fur. Pure contentment overcame Josh, sure it wasn't conventional to play with wolves on a daily basis or for those wolves to also have human lives but it didn't matter, to Josh, he saw their personalities in their wolf-selves obviously but he felt a distinction between the wolves and the people. He was hardly the boy who ran with wolves or however the saying went, but it was nice to pretend, to escape from "reality" for a bit. It makes him thing how even more freeing it must feel to actually be a wolf not to just spend time with them. He looks back at Tyler's sleep-twitching nose and thinks about why he refuses to turn him, he's glad in a way but sometimes, he does feel like he's been left out of the club, especially at times like this where there's only wolves and he has no way to even know what they're saying to one another. Just as he considers a way to talk to Tyler about it all someone whistles and all the pups stop and look, Tyler is up and looking at where the sound came from.