She lay on her stomach unable to move, her muscles quivered and clenched, a cool breeze bathed her skin. He covered her with the sleeping bag, and walked over to start the camp fire, stirring the coals, and adding shavings until it smoked then blazed, He cooked sausage, onions, and peppers then added a can of drained potatoes, stirring in some eggs he wrapped the mixture in tortilla's.
"Breakfast's ready, are you gonna get up, or do you want breakfast in bed." He teased her.
"I'm coming, what did you make, it smells good, my head was trying to go back to sleep, but my stomach said get your ass out of bed." She took the plate he offered.
"Just some breakfast burritos, one of my specialties, easy to make, and spicy."
"Do you like spicy foods? I make some wicked chicken enchiladas, maybe I'll cook them for you sometime." She took a few bites. "Mmmmm, this is good."
"Thanks, maybe you can come out to my house some day after first quarter starts, and play Susie Homemaker, I'll even buy you one of those short little maid outfit to wear around the house."
"Your just a bit kinky, aren't you?"
"Nope I just want you to come by, cook, and clean the house, no sex with the Maid, that's the Plummer's job, they clean the pipes." He laughed.
"Well maybe I'm more mechanically inclined, and I need that little cotton bib overall's like a Plummer would wear, and some more thongs, you keep ripping them up."
"Yeah, I'm a panty raider, kept every pair."
"You kept my underwear?" Weirdo, she thought.
"Souvenirs of great sex, and willing conquests." He leaned forward and kissed her. "So what shall we do today, hike around the lake?"
After agreeing to his suggestion, she pack a few things to eat and some water in a duffle, and they set out. They walked along the shore, hopping from rock to rock, he occasionally held out a hand to steady her, and when they couldn't trace along the shore any more they walked a little further into the pines, deep dark pockets of rush with dank musky smells, vegetation rotting and something more. He stopped and grasp her arm, drew in a long breath.
"Jen go back, follow the path back, get in the truck and lock it."
"Abner, what is it?"
"Do as your told." He commanded.
She turned, and headed back the way they came, when she heard a howl break the air. She turned to search for Abner, and she could not see him, the she saw a large silver wolf loping through the trees toward her, it got within two hundred yards, when it was struck from the side by a large black wolf. Both wolves fought, teeth bared, hair bristled, rolling on the ground, raising dust and digging each other with their claws. Jen backed up the trail then ran across the boulder covered shore to the campsite. Climbing up the truck running board she got in and shut the doors, locking them with the button, she listened to the sounds of the forest, and observe a strange quiet, no birds, not even the camp robbers that plagued them the day before. No sounds of squirrels or chipmunks, chattering as they foraged and played, dead silence. She waited hours for him to return, but he did not.
In the afternoon, when the sounds of birds returned, Jen felt brave enough to leave the truck, she got behind the seat and took the twenty two rifle out loaded and removed the safety. She gathered the knife he used to cut up breakfast and pocketed it. Starting down the shoreline she stopped every hundred yards to listen, then crept on. It was close to the lake outlet, that she heard the voices of men, though she still didn't understand what they were saying, for they spoke in a foreign language. She cast a look around and saw the large black wolf tied to a tree, desperately trying to get away, pulling and jerking back on his hind legs, squirming to release himself. The wolf chewed the rope, but ended up gagging, and sick. The rope must have been treated with something to cause that reaction. She did not see the silver wolf, and wondered if one of those men could be a Werewolf. She would wait until dark, before making her move.
Just past dusk, the men had settled into camp chairs, around a table and began to play cards. The black wolf lay on his side, exhausted from the attempts at freedom, neck raw from the rope. She crept down between the trees, keeping to the shadows, god she hoped he was okay. Jen eased the knife from her pocket and slid it open, and began to saw at the rope. It felt oily and smelled bad, but she managed to cut though it. Giving it a tug she signaled him that she was there, he looked back over at her and growled. She backed up and lifted the rifle from the ground, and backed into the trees hoping he would follow, slowly he got up and walked up behind the tree, he took the rope in his teeth and shook it. She went forward with the knife and cut the knot at his neck, when she had it off of him he still remained I spirit wolf form, but began walking back to their camp. When they reached the Tee Pee Rock, he lay down and morphed back to human, Jen gasped because he was cut and bitten in many places. The rope burn around his neck looked the worst of all, almost like an acid burn, it had bubbled up and was oozing. Jen went to him and knelt down taking him in her arms.
"Jen, get the stuff from the cave, while I dress, we gotta get out of here."
Jen moved to do as asked, without question, she pulled everything out dragging it all on the tarp to the truck in one trip, she tossed it in the truck, and got the food box and cooler down loading them. Abner wore a pair of cut off shorts, when he walked back to the truck.
"Had to wash some of that crap off my skin, it itched and burned, come on."
"Abner, what were those men?" she said as she got in the truck. "They spoke in some foreign dialect."