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leave
Julia.
    Ever.
    He squeezed her hand and she squeezed back.
He stood to leave, pulling her with him.
    His last thought as he left the building was
that their elopement plans were screwed. With a grim face, he
pulled Julia behind him, his parent's car parked in front of the
broad concrete steps of the precinct.
    The storm on his dad's face told him what
the next few days would be like. The barometric pressure was
dropping as it moved in.
     
    *
    Jason
     
    It was a tense drive on the way to Julia's
house, his parents were glancing back at them in the rear view
mirror surreptitiously. He wanted to comfort Julia more than he
wanted to worry about a lecture from them. Forget that he'd almost
been killed himself, that he'd protected Julia... maybe more kids.
It was all about image. And he had tarnished theirs. He was so
pissed he could spit. It'd be so great once he and Julia were
safely in Anchorage, married and beginning their life together. His
parents could piss up a rope. He'd accomplished everything they
wanted, they needed to get off his dick about it.
    Julia interrupted his thoughts with a small
noise and he looked down at her, a small bundle in the cradle of
his arms. He was instantly alarmed.
    Delayed shock.
    Great timing, they were just pulling up to
her front door, her Aunt Lily waiting on the top step, wrapping a
thin cardigan around herself, her hands fisting the material in a
death-clench. She skipped down the stairs, making a war path for
their car.
    Before Jason could properly shield Julia,
Lily had torn open the door, putting her hands on Julia.
    “Don't, Lily,” Jason said,
meeting her tense and angry eyes.
    “You don't tell me what to
do. I almost lost my niece today. The one that you were taking care
of.” She said that last like an accusation and it made Jason's
heart clench in his chest. He had taken care of her. The best he could. He didn't
need this right now.
    Julia didn't need it.
    He looked down at Julia, her skin clammy and
pale, her breathing rapid.
    “What's wrong with her?”
Lily asked in a panic.
    “She's in shock,” Harold
Caldwell said.
    Jason sighed. “Please move, I'll carry her
into the house and get her in a supine position.”
    Thankfully, she backed away and Jason
unfolded his body outside the car, swiveling Julia as he went,
swinging her up into his arms.
    “Jason,” she said, her
eyes fluttering open. They widened and she said, “They're coming...
the wolves and... the blood... blood...”
    “What is she saying?”
Shelia Caldwell asked.
    Jason shook his head,
puzzled. “I don't think it's anything. She's in shock, getting her
lying down is key here, Mom.” Jason's eyes left the loose group of
adults and he strode to the house, toeing open the unlatched front
door. He pegged the first sofa he saw and brought a still and pale
Julia to it, laying her down gently. He swiped a hair from her
forehead and kissed it. She felt cool. He wasn't leaving until she
was okay. She was far from okay, he thought as he looked at her.
    “Stay away from here,
Jason,” Lily yelled, huffing into the room.
    “I don't think this is
helping things...” Shelia said, her hands fluttering helplessly in
front of her.
    Lily gave her a withering look of such
contempt that Shelia took a step back. “Don't tell me what is
helpful or what is not. What would you even know about suffering...
challenges, anything? Eh?” Seeing Shelia's helpless expression she
said, “That's what I thought. Go home to your fancy house and your
comforts and leave me and my niece alone.”
     
    Harold Caldwell looked down his nose at Lily
Wade. She was beneath him. He had suffered the relationship between
Julia and Jason, knowing it was a high school sweetheart thing.
Jason would see that she was all wrong for him and dump her when he
was attending college. This incident might prove to be the perfect
break for the relationship.
    It put Harold in good spirits. Magnanimous
spirits.
    “We understand, Lily. Of
course