Chapter 41

Sara sat her rear end down and cocked her head to the side, lifting her ears up as if in question.

Amanda had never known an animal could actually look annoyed, but Sara managed to do just that. Even as she kept her head lowered slightly at all times, she still managed to look annoyed. She gave an indignant sniff and her tail thumped on the floor in an agitated thwump, thwump, thwump that almost sounded like someone tapping their fingernails on a tabletop.

Amanda laughed until she cried. The laughter died off quickly when she caught sight of Daniel reaching back and petting Sara’s side lightly. She was sitting almost between the two seats and he touched her no differently in her wolf form than he did in her human form. “So, you’re both werewolves then? Is that why you growled at me when I called you a dog? Is that offensive somehow? If it is, then why? Can you come back to human form any time you want? If you bite someone do they become like you?”

Daniel laughed to himself, but he kept quiet except to say “She’ll change back in a minute, but you saw how long it took her to change like that. It takes twice as long if not more for her to change back the other direction. For some reason, it’s more difficult for them to go back the other way. And no, I’m not a werewolf, but I am one of them. We’re married. We’re a team that’s just how it works with us.”

“Just for the two of you or is that how it is for all of your kind? Or, I mean their kind. Whatever.” She blushed faintly at stumbling over her words so. Sara’s soft whine followed by a sharp pop signaled the beginning of her change back over to human. Amanda watched again with that same mix of shock and awe from before. “It hurts her that much every time?”

Daniel nodded. “It’s a thing of both beauty and agony. Beautiful and amazing to watch and also agonizing at the same time. It hurts my heart a little every time I see it but at the same time.” He trailed off as his voice wavered slightly.

Amanda smiled sadly. “The two of you together are so adorable it’s almost enough to make me barf.”

Daniel grinned over at her and winked. “Hey, don’t worry. I have a feeling you’ll know what it’s like to have something like what we have soon enough.”

She shook her head and let out a soft breath. “No. I don’t think I’ll ever know anything like what you two have. I mean, you love her even when she’s all furry and her breath smells like Scooby Snacks.”

A pained little growl filled the tight confines of the van and Amanda snickered softly. “I’m only teasing. I promise.”

This time Sara’s change took almost twenty minutes.  By the time it was over with, they were pulling up in front of a small house nestled at the end of a long driveway lined with thick woods all around. The van stopped just as Sara’s change was complete. She just leaned forward onto the floor of the van and rolled onto her side, completely naked.

Amanda watched the other woman in complete disbelief and she quickly shifted her body around and covered the other woman with the blanket that had covered her only a little while earlier. “Here you are.” She said and brushed the hair back off of the other woman’s face.