OOC: Sorry for the wait everyone. Thesis is over and therefore so is the hiatus! <3 WC: 515
As soon as Cerberus jumped down from the roof of the monstrosity, Ciara felt better. She couldn’t help but wonder if the Omega was acting this way purely because of the conversation they’d had a few nights prior. He had come back expecting her to be waiting for him when he had disappeared so suddenly, and with another female? She never thought she’d see him again, and besides they’d never been dating. Her lips pulled back from her fangs to show her irritation, though luckily the eyes of the Omega as well as her mate’s were both on each other. Was he doing this because he was jealous, or just to mess with her? That had been the impression she’d received from his greeting, a few moments before Augustus had arrived.
Then, after that tension had been momentarily dissipated, Shadowfang arrived. Ciara had to stop herself from sighing. She remembered the day clearly when the sable-pelted male had disrespected her mate, and she knew just how Augustus had felt about it. Her guard hairs rose as the two males faced off, the greeting of her brother barely registered as she tensed to see what would happen. Why couldn’t a few of the females in the pack have shown up? Why did it have to be all males, and in particular, a mix of these three? She loved Augustus, was fond of Shadowfang and felt…something – pity, guilt, hopes of friendship – for Cerberus, but the mix of bitterness and testosterone was too much for the golden Epsilon.
She sat back on her haunches and made soft growls of frustration while the two spoke. Shadowfang should have saved this for a private discussion, and yet Augustus should have been a little more lenient. Both of them were being stubborn brutes in the girl’s mind, and she gave a little shake of her head when they finally parted. She noticed the embrace between Ceri and Shadow, and half-wondered if they weren’t flaunting it to cast Ciara and her mate aside in some strange way. When the two each closed their fangs and began to rip angrily at the car, she couldn’t help but feel that they were exerting just a little more aggression than was necessary. Males.
With an irritated twitch of her ear, Ciara strode over to her mate and pushed her nose briefly against the thick scruff of his neck. Her tongue lashed out over a black-rimmed ear, before she allowed her eyes to meet his. It was as though she was apologizing for the tension in the air, feeling that it was somehow her fault that her call had attracted the disgruntled trio. With a sigh, she brushed her fur against Augustus’ and moved towards the car as well. She studied the hunk of rusting metal for a moment before digging her canines into the thick rubber of another tire, crouching and tugging in an attempt to rip the thing from the eyesore. She was smaller than the males, and wouldn’t have the same brute strength as they did, but she wouldn’t be shown up, either.
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