<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">~Night before~</span></span><br/><br/>Nyla was at home when her father came home. The dark hair black eyed man was drunk and in a violent rage. She made the mistake of going to speak to him. He backhanded her hard to the ground.<span style="font-style: italic">"Little bitch."</span>He swore at her. Jerking her up by her hair and shaking her.<span style="font-style: italic">"Stupid bitch."</span>He said again. Nyla whimpering as he grabbed her roughly by the area just above her elbows on her arms. Shaking her again in a punishing hold. He then threw her from him. "Daddy!!!" She shrieked out in pain. Her heart hurting a bit. She got up and got a fist to the stomach. Staggering backwards and doubled over. Breathing heavy. Her father swung his fist again and caught her right below her left eye. These were all going to bruise.<span style="font-style: italic">"I told you to stay away from that boy. I heard you were seen talking to him near the woods again. Little bitch you listen to what I say."</span>His words coming out almost hissed. He backhanded her again so hard she flew sideways to the floor.<br/><br/>She crawled away hurting everywhere now. Scrambling to her feet and ran out the front door. Dressed in just her nightgown with her pills in the charm upon her neck. Her heart racing. Tears trailing down them. She would hope that it would stay slow enough til she could make it to the cove. Stumbling and whimpering as her poor feet were getting scratched up. Her long strands flying behind her. She hoped that Leslie would notice the bruises that would be there but knew he would if he came by. Her father's image flashing before her eyes. Causing her to cry out in fear. Her heartbeat racing just a bit faster. Stumbling a bit as she made it to the secret hideout. Running inside and collapsed just out of where the breeze wouldn't take her scent to them if they came.<br/><br/>Tears trailing down her cheeks. She fumbled the charm off and got the pill she needed. Popping it back into her mouth and swallowed the pill. Curling into a protective ball and cried herself to sleep. Her body shivering as the nightgown was thin pink silk and fell only to above her ankles. She fell asleep with her body aching and her heard slowly beating back to a normal weak pace. Why did her father hate her so?<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">~The next day~</span></span><br/><br/>Nyla was shaking and shivering hard. A punishing bruise in the shape of a fist just below her left eye. A big one around her thin arm showed where a hand had grabbed her all around. A smaller handprint on her neck where he had caught her with the first backhanding. She trembled and whimpered. Her body sore and her stomach hurt. She slowly woke up as she faintly heard Leslie and Erika. Tears still trailing down her cheeks from how much it hurt. She slowly sat up. Every time before now she had been dressed. Wearing three-quarters sleeves when she met up and had fading bruises. These bruises were fresh and even shimmered from happening just the night before. Her friends never knew the punishments she went through for interacting with Leslie in his human form. Her daddy didn't know about the animals.<br/><br/>She stood up and slowly limped her way out there. Her right leg hurt a bit from being smacked into the ground so hard. Her hair was a bit of a mess from being grabbed and shook by it. She smoothed it out. Tears still staining her cheeks but she needed him. And Erika too if she was there. She made her way out of the secret hideout, the tree house, and over to them. The sunlight making the bruises shimmer even more. The one of her face the most obvious as it was bigger than the arm one by at least nearly an inch. She fell to her knees in front of Leslie. Throwing her arms around him and just cried. Burying her face in his neck. "I'm so happy to see you guys...I was hoping you would come here today. It is the safest place I know..." She said softly. Shaking hard even after the tears stopped. She stayed with her arms around his neck. Pulling her form into him. Shaking hard and just whimpered a bit.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">Jace was hoping to find Lulu and Holly. Though he was also trying to sneak off to make sure his brother hadn't done anything he considered stupid. There was a better way to this than killing other lycans and humans. Not all humans were stupidly cutting down trees. He looked at Pheonix. "Towards town. Maybe we can convince some of the humans of the idiocy of what they are doing. Though thats after we find the girls. You know...Lulu and Holly. Haven't seen them in a while and want to make sure they are alright." He pointed out. Not all of the pack hated the lycans that didn't stay in their wolf form. A lot of them did because his brother's rule was law...but still some didn't. He was one of them and stood against his brother on killing or hating lycans who shifted into their human form. He looked at Pheonix. "We'll have to shift to human form today." He whispered. "If we can't convince them maybe we can learn how far they plan to take down trees. We have to find a solution that is acceptable for all involved. Killing lycans who are human formed and humans is not the right way. I don't care what Lex says stating otherwise." He caught Lulu and Holly's scent and walked in that direction. Hopefully the girls were alright. They were quite a ways from the main pack lands.</span>