Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-26622438-20190311213924/@comment-36855838-20190312173241

I stare down at my hands, grubby as they are, and look around.

I'm in the woods, or more accurately a stand of trees.

The sun shines down, the grass itching at my legs.

The chirp of birds fills the air, and something, no, someone is at my back, soft and squishy.

I turn around to see a woman with long brown hair, she seems to be napping, and behind her is a mountainous man, both of them seem perfectly at ease.

I stand, shakily, on my own two feet, making my way over to a nearby puddle.

I collapse, kneeling before the reflective reservoir.

Gazing down, I see the face of my younger self, brown eyes and black hair, plentiful freckles, all of it.

"Michael?"

I stand again, almost without thinking.

So that's this child's name?

"Jean, Jean! He's standing up, Jean!"

The man wakes, clearly still groggy.

"What's that, Celia?"

He looks at me, his eyes still half-lidded, and gasps.

"Michael, my boy, you're standing! Come to momma and papa!"

I waddle my way over, and the two embrace me.

I try my best to speak.

"I love you, dada, I love you mama!"

The two beam with joy, and soon we return home.

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The sun is setting from the sky, and fish soup fills our bellies, when a wail fills the night air.

While Jean barricades the doors, Celia takes me to a room in the center of the house.

"It's werewolves, baby, they want us, we just have to wait for the hunters to arri-"

She goes deathly quiet, as the first wail is followed by more, until the infernal chorus is punctuated with the dreaded percussion of smashing, splintering wood.

I cower into her arms, hoping that it will end soon.

She sets me in a cupboard, sitting in front of it.

The scraping of paws on the wooden floor is punctuated with Celia's scream, and I hear a sickening squelch as the beast bites her flesh.

Then, moaning.

They've turned her, she's becoming a-

The cabinet door swings open, Celia sprouting fur, wolf ears, a tail, and-

Is that-

The werewolf who bit her snatches me up, holding me tight to her chest.

"What a little cutie! You'll be an excellent addition to our pack!"

''I'm here, of all the places I could've wound up, I'm 'HERE?!'

I nuzzle into the werewolf's bosom.

"Mmm, soft, new momma is soft."

I start letting myself drift off to the tune of her excited squeeing.

This is gonna be fun!