they read you cinderella..
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DaVinci had decided that he had enough of his packmates wanting to get to know him and put a smile on that brooding face. He'd escaped off into the Dampwoods and for once was glad to find that there weren't too many new or old scents of his packmates along the border. It meant that he'd have to push a few of the lazy lot into actually performing their duties but then again it meant he could slip out of the lands without worrying about some fellow or another playing tag along. The male let out a long sigh as he shook his head and hestitated in the middle of the lonely woods.

His sight had drifted towards the direction of the clan and the lady who'd stolen and broken his heart all the same. He lowered his gaze and stared out towards the mountains and where the shoreline ended. He hadn't roamed the lands in a while and though there was a magnetic pull towards the clan lands he didn't want to feel that dull ache that had settled in his chest where his heart use to be. He couldn't lie and say he didn't have feelings for the woman still but somehow he'd tried to accept the fact, their lives weren't meant to be. No matter what the beauty of the clan might believe he's seen the cold hard truth. He was not one of them.

He just shook his head and let his eyes draw closed as he sat there alone in the silence of the woods. He could have looked like he was sleeping if anyone had passed his way though he wasn't. His mind was just flooded with thoughts of the woman who seemed to dip in and out of his life and yet he barely recognized any of them anymore since Ryan had affected him so. Everyone and everything he'd cared for had taken a backburned to the Inferni lady and yet now that she'd crushed his heart and soul he was slowly trying to make it back to the world, if it was possible he wasn't sure but the male was struggling on the inside and the outside to do right by all involved.
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Finding a needle in a haystack would’ve probably been less problematic. Wherever those puppies were, finding them would not be an easy task. Most of her pack mates were searching all over for them and yet, not a single member had any clue as to where they could possibly be. How could children simply vanish into thin air? It had been six days since their disappearance; time was running out. Lexey wondered how Firefly and Haku were handling this whole ordeal but at the same time, she didn’t really want to know. The Koios girl was angry with both of them even though she had no valuable reason to be. Her anger had to be directed somewhere and the children’s parents happened to be the most logical people to blame.
Alexey did not know if anyone had taken the time to alert the neighboring packs. It seemed like a smart thing to do. Deuce had spoken of her former pack somewhere along the coast and that’s where the tawny girl was headed. Phoenix Valley. Last time she’d ended up there, someone by the name of Jefferson had greeted her at the borders. She remembered him quite well: he was an odd yet intriguing fellow.
Halfway there, a familiar scent invaded her nostrils. It belonged to a man she hadn’t seen in quite some time, someone who could probably help with her current mission. Had Firefly told him that his nephews had gone missing? Probably. Alexey watched him for a brief moment, noticing how he seemed so incredibly caught up in his own train of thoughts. Perhaps now wasn’t the right time to pick on him but she simply couldn’t help herself. The Dahlian girl reached down to grab some snow, shaping the white substance into a perfectly round ball before taking aim at his head and throwing it as hard she could.
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DaVinci really needed to get over the brooding and get on with his life before it was the death of him. Seriously. The male just shook his head and growled at the idea before he took another step, wondering if he did need to just loosen up and find the dark warrior woman. How or why he'd denied her thatnight was starting to grow dimmer and dimmer in his head as he frowned. Something was seriously delayed about him and he wasn't for certain if that was a good or a bad thing. The male paused a second to catch the scents of the world around him when he realized he wasn't alone out there.

Too late though was his brilliant realization as he felt the wet slush trickling into his fur as the backside of his head was given a new bright white coat. The male shook the snow from his pelt and growled deeply, thinking that one of his packmates was fucking around again and thought he'd like in on a piece of the action Davinci whipped around, his stormy orbs scanning the area for the owner of the snowball, and the one he owed a little revenge towards. He so hoped it was a packmate thatway he could find some really nasty chores to do, or even just to make up some cruel punishment so he could watch them suffer.

Sadly though, the scent that had hit him and the face that was staring back at him over the distance was another from his strange always twisting and turning ill fated romances(or lack of them..). DaVinci's eyes softened as he stared at the woman quietly for a while before finally clearing his throat and speaking. "Alexey.." What the hell was there to say, it had been ages since he'd seen the woman and he'd figured she'd probably not want to see him again.. with the awkward parting and truth of the matter left behind in their past.
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A childlike giggle escaped the tawny girl’s maw as the snowball nailed her target right where she had intended it to. Oh god, the look on his face right as he turned around to face her was worth a million dollars. Alexey shrugged her shoulders in a sheepish manner, a grin spreading from one ear to the other. “My bad,” she said, sprinkling her voice with the best apologetic tone she could muster. It felt good to see him; though that wasn’t something the Mai would openly admit.
A good distance was kept between the old friends, mostly because Lexey wasn’t stupid enough to believe the hybrid would just let it go without retaliation. She braced herself for whatever he was planning, ears perked up and body alert for any rash movements coming from DaVinci. None so far. His demeanor might’ve been calm and collected, but that did not mean anything.
“Since when do you get your butt kicked by girls?” she questioned, referring to her little sneak attack. Lexey wasn’t quite done egging him on yet. She stuck her tongue out at him, honey-hued eyes defiantly locking with his stormy orbs. The Koios girl did not have to say what was on her mind, her eyes said it all: What are you going to do now?
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The giggle that assulted his ears seemed to lend more wound to his pride and dignity as he leaned against one of the small trees and raised a brow at the words the woman had uttered. "Yeah, your bad." he repeated as he ran a hand through his hair and shook the slush from his pelt. His life had been filled with so much chaos lately that he hadn't even had a chance to try and revisit Dahlia de Mai and his new role in life had kept him from being current on the packnews. He knew his sister had settled in quite well in the lands just as he'd performed his duties to his pack and in the end had rose to the rank of Savant.

The male noted the distance she kept as he granted her with a slight smirk. "You're lucky you don't belong in Phoenix Valley right about now you know.." He really hadn't developed any sort of idea on just how he was going to repay the woman, but he knew it would come to him sooner or later. If she had been from his own pack he could have thought of a million ways to punish her, or atleast get his own little thrills from the duties he'd find for her, but sadly she wasn't and he was stuck puttering through a normal conversation with the girl who's heart he'd unknowingly crushed because his own was too tied up to realize what stood before him.

He crossed his arms as she went on, the teasing just rolling off his pelt unlike the snowball had as he chuckled lightly. "I don't know, I haven't been beat yet, unless that was just the beginning.." he stated in a rather cocky manner as he sat there and waited, knowing the dare that burned in her eyes yet knowing that making her wait would be more of a suffering on her behalf, and an enjoyment on his. The male had aquired patience with the tending of children and a love lost and could wait til the end of days.. he doubted she could.
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Hm, strange. Amber-colored eyes narrowed into slits as she scrutinized his every movement for anything that could indicate what he was planning to do. DaVinci was a little too calm. Shifting her weight from one leg to the other, the Dahlian girl did her best to mirror his composure. And honestly, she sucked at it. The grin and comment he’d granted her brought another mischievous smile to her lips. “What difference would it make if I was a member of Phoenix Valley?” she retorted a little too soon. Then it dawned on her. There was a certain sense of authority around DaVinci that she hadn’t detected until now.
“Oh, I see,” she murmured, Deuce’s words reverberating through her mind. Deuce had left her former pack because hybrids had taken over, wasn’t that what she’d said? It all made sense now. Alexey often forgot about the coyote blood that flowed through her friend’s veins, knowing that his allegiance lied with the wolves and not Inferni. “I get it. You’re one of the big guys now,” she said, nodding her head slowly as if to confirm her own assumption. “Well congratulations, bucko!” Perhaps she should’ve given him a hug or something, but she judged it wise not to.
Alexey couldn’t allow herself to let her guard down, there was no telling what he’d do to get back at her for the snowball attack. And, well, she quite liked the comfortable distance kept between them; he was still a strikingly handsome man and Lexey refused to let old feelings resurface. Her reticence was the only thing that kept her from approaching him and tormenting him furthermore. She was over him and that wasn’t going to change, at least she hoped not.
Her gaze riveted to the ground and she remained silent for a moment before moving on to more serious matters. If he was one of the leaders in Phoenix Valley, he could spare her the extra mileage and tell her if his pack mates had seen the children. “So how are you? I’m guessing Firefly told you what happened,” she said, a little uneasy with the subject at hand.

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The male had not noticed the little changes in his life since he'd begun to push the Inferni woman away. He'd never noticed when Tyrone and Skylar had left, when Zana had disappeared or even when Iskata had passed on, why should he notice now. His stormy orbs gazed past Alexey as she began to speak, a smirk resting on his muzzle as with a raised brow she began to catch on. The golden lady was sweet enough but long enough ago without even thinking he'd probably ruined any chance of them getting any close then the span that seperated them now.

When she finally spoke up he just shook his head. "Don't put it thatway.." he said, he'd lost his mother in the process of his rise in rank and he didn't like to think about the fact that while her nephew and son might continue on the pack she'd help to start she was gone. Flicking one last tiny patch of snow from his pelt his eyes caught those of the tawny lass again as he shook his head. "It really is a pity you know.." he said again, in response to the fact that she didnt' belong to his pack.

He took a step towards the lady as he contemplated just what he could do to get his revenge on the woman who's so wrecklessly targetted him for her amusement. A slight grin spread across his maw as he chuckled. "We could pretend though.." he said lightly, knowing there was no way she'd pretend to be part of his pack just so he could dole out the punishment she deserved. He knew if he didn't get her now that there was probably little chance in the future that he could seek the revenge she deserved.

He'd been about to take another step when everything seemed to disolve and her very manner changed. DaVinci raised a brow as a frown settled on his lips. He had no clue what she was talking about but it didn't surprise him, he'd been so caught up in the affairs of Phoenix Valley that he hadn't really had much of a chance to try and visit his sister again since the last time he'd run into Cercelee. DaVinci meerly shook his head and admitted. "Things.. have been less than perfect in Phoenix Valley this winter.. I haven't had the time to keep up with the other packs.." His eyes shifted away towards his own packlands as he settled back against the rough bark of the tree again, waiting for an explaination of what Firefly should have told him. "What's going on?" he asked, the playful manner left behind for a moment in time.
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Their discussion had gone from lighthearted and playful to dangerously serious within moments. It was a shame that she’d gone and ruined the mood by changing the topic of conversation, but finding the children was her top priority. When DaVinci announced that he’d been too caught up with his own pack’s complications to keep up with other issues, the Koios girl could only sympathize with him. Hell, she had plenty of things to deal with when it came to Dahlia de Mai and she wasn’t even a leader. She could imagine how rough being in a position of power could be.
It was still a little odd that Firefly hadn’t taken the time to seek him out, though. Didn’t he have the right to know? He was their uncle after all. Alexey found it ironic how she was always the one bringing him bad news. On the first day they’d met, she had told him how Firefly was being kept hostage within enemy lands. And now, now she was about to tell him his two nephews were missing. Ugh. Did he even know the Acer had given birth to them yet?
Alexey felt the need to lower her gaze to the ground before delivering the bad news. “They’re gone,” she said, glancing up to see if DaVinci would catch on. “Emwe and Conor, they’re gone! Someone took them away!”


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DaVinci hasn't exactly made himself findable lately outside of doing his normal rounds of patroling the male was often tucked away hidden in some little nook or cranny somewhere or else far from home as it was. His stormy orbs narrowed slightly as Alexey seemed to change so suddenly and he wasn't liking this shift at all. The subleader of Phoenix Valley straightened up and asked. "What's going on.." Why in the world would he need to know business from Dahlia de Mai, even if it had to do with his sister he hadn't found time to attempt to deal with the real world, was he about to find that it was probably a good thing he never found time.

Suddenly she seemed to burst out with news that made his ears fold back against his head. He'd known that his sister had had children, but only because Iskata had told him that Cercelee had mentioned it when she'd been found by the leader of the pack. Confusion flashed in his eyes as he asked. "What the hell do you mean gone? How can someone just take puppies?" He didn't want to suggest that the pack was lax on their border patrols or that even his sister wasn't fit to be a mother but it seemed to be adding up to something strange.

"Alexey.. calm down.." he sighed softly as he tried to think if he'd seen anything strange along the beaches or even if he'd noticed anyone or anything out of place in the pack. Hell, what was he thinking, he hadn't been paying attention to the packmates lately.. some leader he was.
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Short post. Sorry. D: Work is killing me and I really wanted to reply to this.
His question was a damn good one. Alexey shook her head mutely, wondering how she could possibly explain the children’s disappearance when she herself could not understand how someone could’ve simply infiltrated Dahlia de Mai and taken the pups, only to vanish without a trace. “I- I don’t know!” she whimpered, feeling like a blubbering idiot. Firefly’s words flooded back to her and the caregiver transferred them to DaVinci as accurately as she possibly could. “We were all at the pack meeting. Everyone was there, except Firefly and the pups. When your sister showed up, there was blood all over her. Someone must’ve taken the pups while she was chasing a trespasser away from Dahlia.”
Alexey reluctantly looked up at the silver-hued hybrid, wondering just what he was thinking. Beige-colored ears were laid flat against her head, displaying just how ashamed she was. Taking care of them was her duty and she had failed. She didn’t deserve the title of caregiver. Would DaVinci hate her now?



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He could feel the fur raising along the back fo his neck as she answered honestly. He shook his head and frowned at the woman as he sputtered. "How can you not know!" He didn't understand at all. He hadn't been there, but yet Phoenix Valley had had their own little mishap witha missing pup.. though their situation was a little different. He folded his ears against his head, showing his discomfort with the conversation as he ran both hands through his hair and asked. "How.. is Firefly taking it?" e really didn't know what to say, the only puppy in Phoenix Valley that he knew about was Addison. He'd seen no sign of his sister's children and as often as he patroled he doubted that they could just wander into the lands freely without being noticed.

The information he'd been granted on the whole scene that had taken place didn't do much to help the male. All he could do was just sigh and hope that the small boys would do better than he had at their age. His stormy orbs glanced up at Alexey, seeing the seemingly lost look in her eyes he asked. "Are you ok?" He really didn't know what to do about the whole thing. He knew the little ones hadn't come anywhere near the borders of his lands but he really didn't know if any of his packmates had seem the little ones. He hoped that the childen were safe, wherever they were.
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End it here? XD I'm having problems RPing as if the pups are gone since they've been back for a little while ;_;


Alexey couldn’t help but wince as her friend questioned the whole ordeal. It wasn’t like her to be this submissive, especially not with someone like DaVinci. But she blamed herself, and those feelings of guilt intensified whenever she was presented with inquiries to which she had no answers. It was a silly thing to say, now that she thought about it. How could they not know where the puppies were? It was surreal almost. Even the pack’s best scouts couldn’t track them down, their own father included. Lexey was not only starting to doubt her abilities as a puppy sitter, but the pack as a whole.
Another question followed, this one pertaining to Firefly’s well-being. The Koios girl took a moment to reminisce on the Acer’s feelings on the subject. Admittedly, it wasn’t an easy thing to do. Lexey hadn’t seen the children’s mother since the pack gathering. And at that time, she’d been a complete wreck. Shaking her head, the Dahlian girl brought finally brought forth an answer. “Not good, I guess.” What else could she possibly say?
“I’ll be alright, I think.” she answered truthfully, pursing her lips together. In reality, she was far from “okay”. Her youngest friends were missing and her reputation as Dahlia de Mai’s babysitter was also hanging by a thread. “Just let us know if you find them, please.” That being said, she spun around in the direction where she’d come from. Now that Phoenix Valley’s sub leader had been alerted of the situation, she would be able to focus her research on other areas. “Was nice seeing you again, DaVi,” she said amiably before walking away from the male.



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