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your 17 you have one more year until you get out of foster care, your case worker is sweet really but you wish she'd stop trying to get you into werewolf homes you hate that part of yourself you want to go to the city and forget it, fully pretend to be human, you watch the trees go but as your case worker pulls into the new town roseberry it's in the middle of a forest and apearently your new foster parent retired here after his time in the air force you didn't get much of a brief on him but as the car pulls up his gravel driveway you inspect his yard
the yard is overgrown theirs a car on the lawn bushes growing up the wheels a clear sign it hasn't been driven in a long time theres other hunks of metal in the bushes theres a dusty swing chair on the porch you notice the house is placed just infront of the forest handy for when you'd need to shift
you hop out the car when it stops trailing behind your case worker knocks on the door you wait for a minute rocking on your feet heel to toe, heel to toe, heel to toe-
"ah good morning" the door opens standing there is a tall man leaning into the older side a few grey hairs and a russian accent, he tilts his body letting you two into the house and leading the way into the kitchen you and your social worker sit down at a small dining table he stands the table only has two chairs and the one your sitting in is newer like he brought it recently a clear sign he doesn't get many visitors
"so Mr Nikolai you are aware of y/n's situation correct?" your case worker questons
"ah yea she's a dog sometimes?, and im not meant to tell people" Nikolai answers sounding unsure the use of the word makes you grunt a little annoyed
"yes, how about you show y/n up to her room while we go over the rest of the paper work"
"right yeah come on kid" everything nikolai does and says is somehow both confident and questioning you get up following him up the stairs your door is the first to the left, he opens it and follows after you into the room it's all very... girlish
your greeted with pastel pink walls white ikea shelves on majority of the walls and a loft bed with a desk under it on one of the walls is a pair of sliding doors presumably the closet this room would sort a younger girl better but you can make it work it's decidedly one of the better rooms you've been put in, when you turn around nikolai is gone so you put your back pack down next to the desk and exit the room nikolai is helping your case worker carry in your suitcase
"oh y/n im just gonna put your stuff in your room why don't you head out to the forest get yourself situated sniff around" your case worker says cheerfully waving you out the door you shift into your wolf form more of a pup really in the awkward stage of growth but between the fluff and healthy layer of fat you don't look too lanky you pad your way thru the hallway and out the back door, the fence is high you probably can't jump it so instead you focus your attention digging under it and slipping out into the forest trotting thru the trees
the forest is rather uneventful a few smaller game animals the occasional deer foot print you find a fallen log and sniff around it the inside is big enough to fit so with nothing better to do you stick your head in sniffing around until a set of teeth grip your back and drag you out you yelp and swipe at the ground but you can't get free that is until your carried further from the log and dropped on the ground you snarl turning to look at the offender to find a big reddish brown wolf with peircing blue eyes he circles you slightly tail wagging he crouches chuffing playfully at you snarl at him and he just lowers further, the hair along his spine is longer then the rest making it look like a type of dorsel fin he hops closer batting at you, you bat back at him and you circle each other, he clearly want's to play but your not eager to play with a strange man in the woods werewolf or not which he clearly is you can smell the human on his so run at him pretending to try get around him only to fall back turn around and run full speed back to nikolais fence you stop just infront seeing the wolf pause at the treeline watching you longingly you growl one last time which only makes his tail wag you crawl under the fence