He didn't move. I waited keeping my eyes on him for a twitch or anything. Nothing. I don't know how long I waited but what I got were the scientists.
"We did it. Boss will be so proud of us now. But why is he still asleep?"
As they grab their pads and started walking around him taking notes there was movement. It wasn't the kind I wanted though. As we watched he slowly shifted back. One part at a time until he was bipedal again lying on the table. The scientists took a step back.
"But we did it. I thought we did. Why is he normal again? What did we do wrong?"
With that they were off again looking at all notes and process. They moved to other side of the room arguing over whose fault it was. How much trouble they were going to be in. I was only half paying attention when I saw De'rax hand twitch.
" De'rax? Are you okay?"
"I feel like a pod just landed on me. Why do I hurt to my bones?"
"It always feels like that the first time you shift."
"So you felt this way to? Wait! Did you say shift?"
"Uh yea you uh shifted into a black wolf. You just shifted back a few minutes ago."
"So their experiment worked? I was hoping it would not."
"I had a small hope it would. Because if I had to be forced to breed with someone I would rather it be someone I loved."
"I understand that. Wait… did you say you loved me?"
"Yea I did. I do."
"Not the way I wanted to do this but… I love you to Kyra. I was waiting till we were out of here though. Guess now is as good as we are going get for a but."
"I have to keep up the idea that our guys will rescue us. But until then I need to walk you through the shift."
"You can not have hurt this bad when you did it?"
"Oh trust me I did but when I first shifted I was five. It was involuntary like yours was though."
"Are all first shifts involuntary and painful?"
"Yes it is your bodies way of trying acclimate to the new you. Now I need you to take a deep breath and think of your wolf."
"Think of my wolf?"
"Yes but since you haven't seen yours I guess think of mine but black."
"Ok." I see his chest expand as he takes a deep breath. As he lets it out slowly I hear him.
"I can do this. Think wolf."
I try not to giggle as he gives himself a pep talk.
It takes a few minutes but I see he is slowly shifting again. I watch as he finishes. Lifting his head he looks at me. But with his movement comes the attention of the scientists again.
They start exclaiming then on pushes a button and it forcefully shoves him in with me.
He gets up and pads over to me. I don't know what to think. It's amazing.
"What do I do?"
"What do your instincts tell you to do?"
He doesn't answer instead he comes to me and rubs his head against mine. I nuzzle my face into his neck. Rubbing against each other we just stand there. I take a deep breath but his smell is the same. It's De'rax.