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So you won t get blood all over the bed. It will bleed some. That can t be helped.
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He went and got a couple of towels and had me lie on my stomach with my legs spread
apart and put the towels under them.
Now, it would be best if you just lie there and close your eyes. You don t need to see
this happen.
Uhh& would you& would you kiss me first? I asked quietly, and I could hear my
voice quaking somewhat in fear.
He leaned down and kissed me gently.
I love you, babe. More than anything in the world. You just remember that.
He got off the bed and I laid there, my eyes closed, waiting for& well, waiting for God
knows what. I didn t have the faintest idea of what was going to happen. Which, frankly,
turned out to be a good thing. The next thing I knew, I felt something heavy leap onto the
bed and then searing pain shot through my right leg as something -- well, Josh in wolf-
form -- bit down on it.
AHH! I screamed.
I don t ever remember something hurting quite that badly. But it only lasted a moment
and then the wolf let go and I could feel his weight leave the bed. I opened my eyes just in
time to see the mist dissipating and Josh standing there naked and human again. The next
thing I knew, Josh was bending over me and he was bandaging my leg with gauze pads and
taping it up. I could see some blood on the towels but not very much of it. My leg, however,
hurt like hell!
Fuck! That hurts!
I know, babe. I m sorry. I got mine in the heat of battle. I didn t feel it for a while
because of the adrenaline but, once that wore off, it really fucking hurt.
So they wanted you to run the wolf-pack in Seattle? I asked, remembering his telling
me the night before how he had been bitten by the Seattle Pack Master himself.
Yeah. Too bad that a queer wolf can t be an Alpha, he said, bitterly.
What do you mean?
Well, you said you read about wolves. Did you read anything about the structure of
the pack?
Yeah. I read about how the Alpha male, who rules the males of the pack, mates with
the Alpha female, who rules the females, and then, if there s enough food in the territory
where they live, the Beta Male and the Beta Female mate. It s all based on the available food
so the pack won t starve.
Yes, that s right. Well, among werewolves, it s somewhat the same thing. The
strongest males are the Alphas. They are the pack leaders. The next strongest are the Betas.
They take over if something happens to the Alpha, kind of like the next in line. In the Seattle
Pack, the rule is that the Alpha of the pack must breed and produce heirs. That means he
must marry a female were and then produce a were child.
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Wait a minute. You mean werewolves can be born?
Yeah. If a male were and a female were mate and have a child, that child is oftentimes
a were. They don t have to be. They can have non-were children, too. But if a were mates
with a normal human, no were can be born of that mating. It s only when two weres mate
that they can produce a were-child. There are some weres who believe that born weres are
somehow stronger. That s what the Seattle Pack is trying to do. They are trying to grow by
making more born weres. I didn t fit into their program because I wasn t about to be a
breeding stud for them, he said, with disgust in his voice.
I take it you are an Alpha male?
He grinned sheepishly at me.
That s what I was told, he said with embarrassment.
I can see that. You were always a leader. You were always looked up to. So, how long
is this going to hurt?
Probably for a couple of days. Oh, I should warn you, you might feel like you re
coming down with something over the next twenty-four hours. You might even run a low-
grade fever. It s just the virus working on your system. What it will be doing is killing all
other viruses in your body, hopefully in this case including the HIV.
Well, I guess I can put up with a little discomfort and pain for that. So I m cured
now?
Well, you should be in a couple of days if it has worked the way I think it will.
I looked at him and tears started to roll down my face.
Josh, I don t know how to thank you. You saved my life, I said, huskily.
He took me in his arms and held me against his naked chest.
The way I look at it, babe, I just saved my own life. I couldn t bear to lose you.
If this makes us immune to viruses and bacterial infection, does that mean that we
have a longer life span?
Yes. I forgot to tell you about that problem.
How is long life a problem? I asked.
Well, to most people it wouldn t be except that it can be an exceptionally long life.
Weres are known to be quite active into their third century.
Their what? You mean they live more than two hundred years?
It is not uncommon. Depending on how old you were at the time of the change and
how well you keep yourself. But those problems we won t have to face for many years yet.
So that s what all the running and weight-lifting is about.
Yes, that s part of it. Of course, I ve been doing some type of physical exercise all my
life.
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Yes, I remember, Mr. Jock. You know, I thought you had a magnificent body when
we were in high school, I said as I trailed a finger down his well-muscled torso. But that
was nothing compared to now.
He grinned at me but I could see a rather feral light in his eyes. I guess the idea that the
way to a man s heart is through his stomach could be true, but the way to his libido is
through his ego. I wasn t the least bit surprised by what happened next. Despite my now
injured leg, I was very rigorously bred by my now pack-mate. I began to wonder, in an
intellectual way, just what wolfie-sex would be like with Josh. I also began to wonder just
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