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Kim woke up with a start. Sweat beaded down her face and her whole body was shaking violently with terror. Her breaths were quick and hard. She had the dream again. She calmed her breathing and began to take long, slow breaths to relax herself. This was the second time she's had this dream and she was not enjoying it. Exhausted, she laid back expecting to be meeted by the soft plush of her bed but was instead came in contact with the hard rocky ground.

She looks at her surroundings confused until the memory of the past days events come rushing back into her.

Woods. Arrow. Boy.

Her eyes scanned the cave looking for the brunette that had forced her into this situation with no luck, but she did smell a delicious scent drifting in from outside. She pushed herself off of her feet and peeked outside the walls of the cave. There was the boy from last night laying on the ground with his head rested on the outer wall of the cave. In his hand was the small bone of what used to belong to an animal.

Being trained to notice a presence he turned his head towards her direction and gave a small nod of recognition. "Come on, I have food." Kim hesitantly walked out of the cave eyeing the bone in his hand. She noticed a metal pan which contained a similar bone, but still harboring meat. She examined the piece of meat further before asking, "Uh...what is this?"

He arched an eyebrow at her as if her question wasn't reasonable. "It's meat," he answered simply. She directed her attention to him and rolled her eyes, "I can see that. I want to know what kind? What animal is this?" He smirked a little as if he was awaiting to see a humorous response from her. "Squirrel." Her eyes widen and she looks at him incredulously, "that's disgusting!"

He scoffed and strided over to the pan picked it up and held it in front of her. "Look princess, it's either this, or nothing." Kim hesitantly reached out and grabbed the piece of meat and eyes it as if it was infected. Jack laughed at her actions, "It's not poisoned; it's safe to eat." His words still didn't spark a wave of reassursance. She didn't look at him as she admitted, "I've never had meat before." His eyebrows crawled to the top his head, his eyes widened, and he watched her with his mouth slighty agape.

"Seriously."

It wasn't a question and she knew that. It was a conformation and the tone in his voice held so much disbelief that she almost didn't want to answer. "Yes, Seriously. My grandma didn't believe in eating meat so I never had the chance to eat it because she never bought any." His facial expression still didn't change at her explanation.

"Your kidding me."

"No, I'm not." she said while grinding her teeth. He sighed and shook his head sadly at her. "That's a shame. Hold on, I'll go get you something else." With a last sigh he turned on his heel and went back into the cave. Kim took the time to examine the meat. She picks it up scowls in disgust noticing the drips of oil coming off of it. As she placed it back in the pan, Jack came out of the cave with a mischevous smile on his features. "Here." He tosses the plant in the air and Kim barely manages to catch it. Looking at it closely she could see what it was now.

Turnips.

"Do you think I'm an animal?" she snapped at him. He only smiled, "Techincally, you are. Besides, you said you don't eat meat and this is the only edible vegetation for miles." Kim rolled her eyes. "I never said that I only eat vegetation, I just said I've never had meat before." This kid was really starting to irritate her and her patience was about to go out the window. Well... They're living in a cave so out the opening he calls a door. While Kim was trying not to explode, Jack was having fun. He found it so funny how the littlest things got on her nerves and her reactions where beyond priceless.

Jack smirks at her."Okay... Then, why don't you try it?" Jack says picking up the plate of bacon again. Kim eyes it and then says, "You know... I would... But I looks like somebody ate that." (1) Jack puts the plate next to him and sighs deeply. "Look,"

Jack rubs his temples to try and get rid of the headache that is slowly creeping into his head. Now she was starting to annoy him and you really don't want to see him when he's angry. Or be around him for that matter. But, she's also being forced to stay here with him for a week and she's probably scared and confused, so he's going to try to not explode on her. "I know you're not necessarily thrilled with the idea of staying here for a week-" "No! Really?" Kim cuts him off sarcastically. He rolls his eyes at her and then continues. Man, this chick has the sarcastic vocabulary as big as big as the English language!

"BUT, you're not going anywhere, so being a butthead is not going to do anything but get me angry." Jack finishes before starting off towards the cave. Who knew women could be so much work? "Butthead?" Kim asks, confused. Jack turns around. "Yeah. Butthead." Kim narrows her eyes at him and giggles, "Who says that?" "ME!" Jack says defensively. Jack wasn't trying to be funny, it was supposed to be a scary insult but something tells him she didn't take it like that. Kim laughs and stands up, "And you just made fun of yourself. Congratulations!"

It's now Jack's turn to narrow his eyes at Kim. This chick is all kinds of weird. When Kim collects herself, she notices she's standing dangerously close to Jack. Part of her brain is telling her to step back, and another is saying to stay put. Kim sighs and fiddles with her fingers under Jack's gaze that has turned from annoyance to confusion. Kim was... a girl and Jack figured out they could be difficult. -He figured that out when he met her. But, Jack also knew that the littlest things could set them off, but things that you think will get to them, they find funny. -Or something like that. He's not an expert yet, it's only been two days.

He has a feeling he'll be an expert sooner then he would like, though.

Kim looks down and fiddles with her fingers, "I- I'm... I'm gonna go freshen up." She says just above a whisper and walks past Jack and into the cave. Why was she suddenly lost for words when their eyes connected?

Jack turns around to watch Kim retreat into the cave. Why did his brain draw a blank when their eyes where locked? He's not quite sure what just happened or why it occurred, but he slaps his arm just to snap him back into reality.

He does not have feelings for her.

Even if he did... He couldn't.

Later in the day, Jack hadn't seen Kim since their encounter at breakfast, so he decided to go look for her. -Just to make sure she didn't escape and go back home. He's not sure why she wanted to go back home so badly though. What was so great about home? Finally, he found her with her feet dipped inside a small river that ran by the side of his cave. -In his defense though, he'd been inside the cave all day.

Kim had taken her red boots off and they were placed next to her and her honey blonde hair that was tied in a half braid was now let out and flowing past her shoulders. Her dress was rolled up to the top of her knees and she looked into the woods in front of her; like it was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. So many thoughts where flowing through her head, but she made sure that the whole eye-contact encounter at breakfast was in the back of her head.

Jack walks over to her, leaves crunching under his boots. When he gets over to her, she doesn't look up to acknowledge his presence, nor does she move. The idea of her being a mummified body crosses through his mind but he shakes the image out. Seeing a mummified body once changes a man...

"Hey," Kim moves her head to the side, away from him. "Can I join you?" Kim's silent for a second and Jack's now starting to wonder if she's gone deaf. But- if she's a mummified body, she's dead, so she can't hear anyways. WHAT AM I THINKING? I've gone nuts! SHUT UP BRAIN! Kim sighs, "If you have too." Not the answer Jack was looking for but it's good knowing she's not dead, nor deaf. Jack pulls off his shoes and sits down next to her. He rolls the ends of his pants up so they don't get wet and sticks his feet in the water.

They sit in silence for a couple of minutes and Jack figures he needs to do something. He reaches over to a bush a couple of feet away from him and pulls out Kim's sketch pad. Kim turns her head towards him when she hears the bushes ruffling. Her eyes widen and the corners of her mouth twitch upward when he turns back to her, holding her sketch book out to her.

"I forgot that I never gave it back." Kim now has a smile on her face as she looks at her book and back up at Jack. She takes it and flips through it. "...Nothing's ruined." She mumbles to herself as she flips through the pages; just as she left them. Jack smiles down at her and she looks up at him. "Thank you- I-...You have no idea what this means to me. There's 15 years of artwork in here."

Jack smiles, "And I thought the multi-colored scribbles couldn't have been done by the same person that drew a realistic looking town." Kim smiles, "That's my marketplace." Kim's thought's travel to that marketplace where her grandmother is probably flipping out about her not being there. "-Wait- YOU LOOKED IN IT?" Kim asks, glaring at him. Jack smiles weekly, "I only looked in it to see if I could find who it belonged to." He says, holding his hands up in defense. "Never. Touch. My. Book." (2) Kim glares at him.

He gives her a look and tilts his head slightly to the side. "Well, nonetheless, your drawings are amazing." Jack says. Kim tilts her head to the side and raises an eyebrow at him. "Really?" "Really." Kim eyes him, "Good." "Good." He teases. She laughs, "Fine." Jack smiles, knowing he got her to laugh and not get on a rage to kill him. "Fine." (3)

"So... What's your name?" At Jack's question, Kim turns her head towards him and shuts her book. "What?" "-You know my name but I don't know your's." Kim thinks back and then laughs slightly, "Oh yeah! I guess we where too busy not trying to kill each other and saving each other from getting killed with arrows that we never had a formal introduction." Jack shrugs, "I'm an informal kind of guy." Kim eyes his clothes and laughs, "I noticed."

Jack, being the ham that he is, holds out his hand, "Jackson Brewer." Kim raises an eyebrow and through chuckles she shakes his hand and says, "Kimberly Crawford. Nice to meet you." "You as well." Jack says in a weird accent. They both try to hold in their laughter but it doesn't work- they start busting out laughing like nuts. When they've regained their breath Jack sighs and says, "So, do you go by Kimberly or a nickname? -like Kim or Kimmy or something?"

Kim laughs, "Kim. Just Kim, please." Jack nods, "Well, it's nice to meet you Kim. -Despite what happened to us earlier yesterday and this morning..." Kim laughs as Jack trails off. "Likewise." Kim says, smiling at the river in front of her and Jack. "You know," Kim turns her head to look at a smiling Jack, tossing a rock up and down in his right hand. "I kind of like Kimmy." Jack says, winking in her direction before skipping the rock on the water. It gracefully bounces the surface of the water 3 times before sinking to the bottom.

Kim's mouth drops open a little bit than she laughs, shaking her head of honey blonde hair. "Okay, now you're just flirting." (4) Jack smiles down at her. "Can I help it that I'm a master at flirtation?" Jack jokes. Kim rolls her eyes, "Yeah right. The day I see the guy who chased me into the woods for a good mile and half," Jack laughs, remembering how fast Kim was yesterday and how hard he actually had to work to catch up to her. "be GOOD at making a girl melt, is the day pigs will fly."

Jack laughs, throwing his head back. Kim smiles as he lifts his head back up and looks at her. "Hey, I'd take the challenge." Kim raises her eyebrows at him. "Ah-" she snaps her fingers at him. "You just did it again." Jack smiles. There was something about this guy that got on Kim's last nerves...but yet there was something so... relaxing about him. She couldn't help but be (Somewhat) calm around him.

"Hey, do you think..." Jack starts, fiddling with another rock. "There's anyway we could pretend yesterday didn't happen? We got off on the wrong foot..." Kim laughs, "Yeah we did..." she stops and thinks about it, straightening her spine. "Actually, I'd rather if we didn't forget it. I'm so thankful that you saved me as many times as you did." Kim smiles at him. He laughs, "Oh, now who's flirting?"

Kim bumps into his side, "Still you." After a couple of minutes of silence, Jack pushes himself onto his feet and grabs two rags from the bushes. He dries his feet off and tosses the second rag to Kim. "Come on." Kim eyes him, "Why-" "Just come on." Jack says winking at her. She rolls her eyes at him, pushes herself onto her feet, and dries her feet off with the rag. Putting it where Jack threw his she grabs her boots while Jack grabs his.

Jack grabs her wrist and pulls her towards his cave again. "Still have a strong grip-" Kim winces. "OH. Sorry." Jack says as he transfers his grip to her hand. Kim tries to ignore the slight hotness coming to her cheeks as Jack led her up the side of his 'cave'. Yes. Up. They climbed up the side of his cave, seeing that it wasn't too steep. When they got to the top, Jack stood there and put his hands on his hips; letting go of Kim's hand.

When Kim caught her breath and stood up straight again, she saw the most beautiful sight she's ever seen. She's looking at a massive green field that must go on for miles and a beautiful sunset painting the sky a light orange, pink, purple, yellow and red. But, what really caught her eye was the giant packs of wolves that where out and playing around with each other while the parents were perched up on rocks, watching them and licking themselves.

"Wha- What is this?" Kim asks, mouth agape. "Wolf's Peak." Jack says simply. Kim now has the biggest smile on her face. "Wha-How-Wait. I'm confused." Jack laughs, "I saw you had wolves drawn many," Jack shakes his head. "many times;" Kim makes a face at him but the smile doesn't leave her face. "so I figured you'd want to see these guys."

Kim smiles even wider, "I was going to show you earlier, but I figured now is a good time since we're not trying to kill each other anymore." "..Which is ironic, because you where trying to save me FROM being killed." At Kim's response, Jack laughs. "Would you mind if I...?" Kim gestures out towards the wolves and then down at her sketch pad.

Jack nods, "Of course. That's why I brought you up here, stupid." Kim rolls her eyes at the use of 'Stupid' as her nickname and was about to come up with a nickname for Jack but she decided against it. Plopping down on the edge of the rock, hanging her legs of the edge; she took her bag off her shoulder and grabbed her pencils.

The irony... I probably would have run into this guy anyway- even if I did make it through the woods unharmed.

"So," Jack is seated next to her and has tried to be quiet for a half an hour now, watching Kim sketch the scene in front of her... but he's now getting bored and NEEDS to talk about something... anything.

It's not everyday you have another human around you all the time.

Kim raised an eyebrow in his direction to show him she was listening but she never took her eyes off the paper. "Why did you idiotically come into the woods in the first place?" Kim sighs, "Actually, I wanted to see this." "A handsome man?" Jack jokes, referring to himself. Kim raises an eyebrow in his direction before giving him a look. "Wolf's Peak... Doofus." Jack laughs as he leans back on his hands. It was extremely easy to mess with her and he was getting as much pleasure out of it that he could. "-Is that why you came back the second time?" Jack asks after a couple of minutes of silence.

"More or less." Kim nods, glancing up at the wolves. "Since we're asking questions; what kept shooting the arrows at us?" The sun was starting to go down and Kim was loosing drawing light. "UH-" Jack quickly stands up, looking at the sunset. "I have to go... right now." Kim looks up at him. "Why? Where?"

Jack sighs, "It's nothing that concerns you." Kim doesn't know why but she felt a little hurt by his words. "Just... don't go anywhere. OK?" Kim sighs, looking down at her notebook, fiddling with her pencil. "Fine."

"Great, I'll be back in a couple of hours." "WAIT-" Kim stands up. "A COUPLE HOURS? Where in the heck are you going for a COUPLE HOURS?" Kim yells at him, causing Jack to have to rub his ears to make sure they still worked. "It's nothing." "Would you stop being so cryptic and just tell me what in the heck is going on!?" Kim yells at him. He gives her a sympathetic look. "Look; I wish I could tell you. But now is not the time."

"When would that time be? When I rip your head off?" Kim questions, putting her hands on her hips. She was suddenly not liking this guy so much anymore. Back to square one. "No. I'm sorry. I'll be back- Don't go anywhere; Okay? I promise I will explain everything when the time is right." Jack says before jumping off the cave and onto the ground; landing like a cat- perfectly on his feet. "I mean it!" He yells up to her before disappearing into the woods.

Kim lets out an angry breath at him before turning her head to look at the wolves.

Why couldn't she be a wolf?

That would make so many things much easier.

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(3) Sonny with a Chance reference. :)

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