Maria couldn't regin in her anger, her teeth bared ready to snap if they were to come into contact with flesh. All her eyes could see was red, the traps had erupted her already unstable emotion's. But before she could take another inch towards her shaking prey. A shot rang out the bullet landing by her foot, she yelped in surprise but soon her fangs bared again. An angry growl erupting through her as she shot him a acussing glare  at the poacher with her blue eyes. But the sudden thud along the dirt made Maria's gaze shift an out of the brush down wind of her was a poacher that laid unconscious along the ground, an stepping out behind him rifle in hand was none other then Caleb.<br/><br/>Caleb pointed the rifle at the poacher that she had meant to be her prey. But to keep there secret's what they were secret. Her attention back to the poacher, Maria growled again showing the poachers there presence would not be tolerated. With the poachers out of the clearing the other's began to emerage from the brush giving her a wide birth. Even her bouncy Omega looked at ehr nervously letting out a whine.<span style="font-style: italic">"For the love of Fernir kid"</span>she thought as she turned form his gaze.<br/><br/>There attention drawn to the Alpha's son there loyality just as strong to him as it was to his father. There eyes an ears at attention his command there will, Maria's insides turned mush when her name slipped from his mouth. In two very different way's, one wanted nothing more but to fall into those arms. The other half wanted the oppositeto run to live. Anguish washed through her feeling's she wanted to live she wanted to love but she could not have both. Her father had repeated as much an had beat it into her with her every session that they trained.<br/><br/>A swirl of emotion's washed over as she watched the other's follow the scent of the poachers, making sure they left there land. As soon as Caleb had enveloped her in his arms, his embrace tight an warm. He felt like home quickly her form changed an she was back to her human form her arms enclosing him to her. But he quickly moved to scold her an look into her eyes, his hand on her back the tenderness made her want to weep. Quickly she escasped from his grasp nothign but cool wind to replace his warmth. Her arms clung to herself as if she would fall apart if she let herself go. "You know you shouldn't hold me, they'll smell you on me" she said the last past bitter in her mouth.<br/><br/>She hated to be cold to Caleb but it was the only way she held any reslove with him. "I know but, it's hard to look at such things an not be angry. Not after what happened to mother" her words almost a soft echo. The memory of when she was but a pup, an had been lost in the woods an her mother had fallen into a trap. Maria had watched her mother shift in pain back an forth wolf, human, wolf, an then laslty human. She had laid in her mother's embrace till they were found, both drentched from the rain. She remembered the anguish in her father's eyes as he picked up her mother's lifeless body home. He didn't speak for weeks the loss had almost killed him. Two years later she had made her promise with Caleb, after that her father never looked at her the same.<br/><br/>The guilt an shame of it all washed away the warmth she had felt for only an instant in Caleb's arms. It sombered her up quickly. "I need to report in, an take my punishment" she said her face stone faced, the other's would repot it, it would be better if she did it herself. "Besides I'm not that hungery anyways" she said weakly. With minor disobendience was dealt with by with lack of food. She was the one to recieve this punishment the most considering her status in the pack. She tried to give Caleb a weak smile but ti was too hard to face him.