Four months have passed since Flare has joined the small pack.

In those four months, she has seemed to have taken the role of care taker over the four small pups. The pups have grown in size, and are starting to slowly loose the fur along their bodies. If Flare had to guess they were probably 5 years of age. The pups were one of the few things Flare could actually tolerate. Except one thing has her twitching from just thinking about it:

They are very clingy.

They are constantly staying near Flare, cooing and nuzzling her as if she was their real mother, something she was perfectly fine with; they also kept the other males away from her with their constant hissing and snapping.

..But, now that she thinks about it: she was perfectly fine with that as well.

Dragging the corpse back into the building was a hassle, seeing as how the prey was a fairly large male that put up a fight and left Flare limping from a slash to her hind leg with a long blade. But she managed, threw the now cooling corpse in the room, and fell to the ground panting for breath as her muscles twitched from the adrenaline still rushing throughout her body.
She was treated to by Sky, who licked the wound clean and clumsily wrapped it with gauze that was in the prey's bag. Next came in Alpha and Neon, both of which managed to capture a smelly good one. It takes immense precision and quickness to make sure they don't explode when you go in for the kill, and Alpha was able to do just that.

It was a small group, Flare muses, as she takes in the hunters in the room. This pack consisted of Alpha, Bones, Neon, Sky, herself, Rose, Shark, and the four pups. She briefly wondered why they didn't want to expand the pack, seeing as how you have power with numbers, but understood why they didn't; it would be too hard to feed too many mouths, seeing as how the prey were quickly becoming extinct.

An arm was dropped in front of her, snapping Flare out of her thoughts; she looked up to see Neon looking down at her. He gave a couple of clicks before settling down a friendly distance away from her. She barked her thanks and dug into the meal eagerly, chomping through the flesh easily and swallowing it down quickly, only stopping to cough slightly and Neon gently patting her back to help her clear her throat.
Tomorrow Alpha, Neon, Shark, and Flare will have to begin capturing and saving as many preys as they can for the white storm; they will have to also collect sheets and clothing to make the nests warmer, and begin cluttering the window and doors shut with furniture. It will be a tedious task, but they can manage.

Flare limped herself towards her nest, snuggling into the comfort and warmth that it always provides, and gave a quiet yawn as the four pups entered as well. They wormed their way under the covers and pressed themselves to Flare's stomach and abdomen, cooing and clicking tiredly about what they did today while she was gone. Flare let out a grumble but let them continue with their story, which was getting quieter and quieter with every minute that passed, and curled in slightly towards the pups, forming a living pillow for them.
They eventually stopped their chatter, falling into a much needed sleep with Flare not too far behind.

Flare awoke to the playful growls of the pups playing just outside their nest and a warm body pressed to her face. She let out a small yawn as she shook the small huntress off her head, which fell off with a squeak before cuddling into her neck, and Flare lazily looked about as she blinked the drowsiness out of her eyes. Her two male pups were wrestling about on the ground, the female pup was snuggling up against her, while the shyer male of the pups was watching his brothers play with curiosity from under the blankets near Flare's belly.
Sky lifted her head and gave a small hiss towards the noisy pups, telling them to stay quiet. Flare reached forward and snatched them up, putting them back in the nest while she gave Sky an apologetic purr.

Sky was not a very good morning person, especially now that her belly is swollen with Bones' pups, so Flare always tried to make the rambunctious pups stay quiet until she takes them out of the warehouse. Bone's let out a small grumble and shifted towards Sky, nuzzling her head, and Sky relaxed into the touch as she lay back down. Flare sent a sharp look to the two noisy pups, "Frenzy. Butch." She growled out warningly.
They shrank under her gaze, yipping apologetically as they buried their heads under the blankets. She gave out a sigh before settling back down into the nest, wanting to go back to sleep but was unable to as Neon came through the door and towards their nest. Flower saw him coming and dislodged herself from Flare's neck, jumping excitedly onto his being while yipping out greetings.

Sky gave out another, louder, hiss.

Flare tensed before crawling slowly out the nest and through door Neon came, Frenzy and Butch clinging onto her back while Flower did the same to Neon and Shell simply followed out calmly behind them.
Once out the room, Flower and her two rambunctious brothers screeched happily and bounded around the main room. They happily greeted Shark and Rose before dog piling on Alpha, whom was still half asleep, and began nipping and speaking to him; asking if they could leave with Flare to go out jumping.
Flare has been teaching the pups to jump from one side of the street to the other. It may sound easy, yet was anything but that. The pups were easily distracted by most things, and were unable to control their ability to tell their body 'hey, jump over their-to the other side of the street, not into the pole or cars'. One time, Frenzy miscalculated his jump and smashed into the windshield of a bus, triggering its alarm and making the big angry one chase after them. Flare had to shove two of the pups into her jacket, while one clung onto her front, and she carried Frenzy by biting onto the hood of his jacket.
Flare was able to lose the big angry one, and finally made it into the warehouse panting for breath with four shivering, from fear, pups.

Alpha let out a snort as he shoved them off, agreeing that they could go. The pups yipped excitedly as they hurriedly exited the warehouse. Flare huffed a sigh before turning and following, Neon tagging along with an amused bark.

A/N: Hey guys. : )

OMG YES IM ALIVE. ; u ; I'm really sorry I've been dead for a while, school and all+ moving and going to a new school. _

Well, I tried to make this a long as I could, and I hope you enjoy this little filler chapter. : )
NEXT CHAPTER: trying to train pups, will it work? ; )

I don't own L4D.