I woke up with a start and looked around my surroundings. My vision was blurry for a second until they adjusted to the daylight. Daylight? I was on a plane and it was nightfall. My mind whirred as the gears began to work and I placed my memories together. Crash. We were on a plane and it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. So why was I here in the daylight? Shouldn't I have drowned? I tilted my head down and examined my body. I was in my wolf form. My chest and stomach wounds were healed. All that was left was bald spots where the scars showed. Wait a minute. I just had surgery. No way the wounds would have healed that fast. I scrambled to my paws but immediately collapsed as my muscles screamed at me. They were stiff. I laid on my stomach and looked around. I was in a chain link cage. A kennel. A few yards away was another cage with a leopard inside. I stared hard at the leopard and notice that it had the same facial markings as the leopard cub we found. I stare wide eyes at him as I pieced it together. That couldn't be the cub. This leopard was almost in adult hood so it couldn't be the cub, could it? How long have I been asleep? Directly in front of me was a two story house with a chain link fence around the perimeter of the property. I stretched out each leg before standing back up and shaking my fur.

"Callana?" I looked around to see Jamie walking down the back steps of the house. Jamie! I rushed over to the side of the cage and balanced myself on my hind legs and placed my front paws on the chain links. She had some clothes in her hand. "I have some clothes for you if you want to phase back and I'll explain what's going on." I hopped down and tried to summon for my human side but it wasn't there. I couldn't find it. I couldn't feel it. I out a whiny bark and snorted as I backed up. "Can you not shift?" I shook my head and sat back on my haunches. "Great. Another problem for Mitch to solve." My ears perked up at the name and I raced forward and leapt onto the fence, startling Jamie that she stumbled back. I let out continuous barks wanting to know where my fiancé was. "Callana, please, shh. Mitch isn't here." She walked around to the door of the kennel and walked in. She came over to me and sat in front of me and I sat down too. "I have no idea where Mitch is. I was actually just about to call him when I came out here but then I saw that you were awake." She pulled a phone out of her pocket and I rushed forward, nuzzling her hand, whining, trying to get her to hurry up with the phone call. "Wait, Callana, there's more that you have to know before we call Mitch." I whined but sat back. Jamie sighed before she hung her head. "Callana, you've been in a coma for three months. So have I. But while you were in your coma. . ." Her voice trailed off and I army crawled towards her and nuzzled her knee. "Callana, you had a baby." That got me to my paws faster than a black snake could bite. I barked at her while I circled around her. Baby? I was pregnant? Can't be. I was only out for three months and I had no signs that I was pregnant before the crash. I stopped in midstep as it dawned on me. I now know why I couldn't shift back to human form. My wolf took over my pregnancy and a wolf's gestation was only sixty-two days, two months. So my baby would be a month old right now. But how did I get pregnant. . . I sighed and rolled my eyes. The night I got attacked by the leopards. I walked back over to Jamie and I barked at Jamie and looked around at my surroundings then back at her. "We're in New Brunswick, Canada." Canada?! "A nice old man found us and brought us here. He's been taking really good care of us while we were in the comas. And he even saved the leopard." Jamie fingerings the numbers on the phone and began dialing. My tail began to wag a hundred miles an hour. A couple rings passed before I heard the voice that's been haunting my dreams.

"Mitch Morgan, totally awesome scientist." He answered.

"Mitch. Mitch, can you hear me? It' me. It's Jamie." It was quiet for a moment.

"No, it isn't. Jamie's dead. Uh, who—who. . . who is this? You don't even. . . you don't even sound like her."

"Okay, are you gonna stop being an ass for a second and listen to me? It is me, I am alive, and. . . and I'm really glad you are too." I stood up and backed up a couple steps. I barked a couple of times and raised my head to the sky and let a howl rang through the trees. "Do you hear that, Mitch? That's Callana. She's here too. She's alive."

"Calla?" I gave a confirmation bark, wagging my tail.

"Um. . ."

"It really is you." Mitch said on the other line.

"It's really good to hear your voice."

"It's really good to hear yours too."

"I still have it. I have the leopard, I have the cure."

"Okay, uh. . . you still have it." I heard Mitch laughing and I laid on the ground and placed my head on my paws, looking up at the phone as I imagined his face on he laughed.