<span style="font-style: italic">This was it. Finally after five long years, they were to be together again. I should be happy…I am happy. Then why am I freaking out????</span><br/><br/>It was the truth. He was on the verge of full on panic and he was not sure why. The years he had spent away from her he had spent them well, or at least he thought he had spent them well. Each day of each year he had worked hard to control himself, to make himself strong; all for her. Ever it had been the goal to gain the control that he needed so that he could be with her again, to hold her and not be so alone anymore. For five of the longest years of his life he spent it all with the desire to just be safe for her to be around again.<br/><br/>Every time he read one of her letters, every time he felt her pain and sadness he wanted to just run from the woods. Show himself to her and let her see that he was fine, to tell her about everything and stop with the secrets and hiding in the woods.  Yet, he could not. Not yet.<br/><br/>The beast, the monster, the wolf was not something to tamper with and not something that he wanted to chance when he was with her. It had to be controlled he had to be under complete control. Last thoughts began to creep into his mind as he headed to their place.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">A fitting spot to meet, no?</span><br/><br/>Steps felt heavy with each moment that past and the closer that he got to her.  So, caught up in his own mind he did not even notice when the birds stopped in their noise, when the world as a whole changed and everything went silent. The only sound that now filled the woods were the ones he made amongst the dead leaves and twigs that littered the forest floor. How long had he learned to move silently, to be as a true ghost among the trees and brush? Long, though now it would seem that he was nothing more than one of the many tourist who blunders and tramps through the woods without any true thought to where they were headed.<br/><br/>Just as the thought to change his mind began to push its way into the forefront of his mind, he heard the tapping of her foot and knew that he was there. A final deep breath was taken and he stepped into the clearing, from behind her out of habit from his recent Hobby of hunting.<br/><br/>“E….” his voice soft, just barely above a whisper as he stopped just a few steps from her.