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You were being hunted; you're the prey. You can hear the howling, panting, growling and pounding coming towards you and if you didn’t know better, you'd think you were being hunted by wolves, but it wasn’t ever wolves, it was only Shauna
It was always just Shauna.
Nobody else was ever with her; they all knew she was hunting just for sport. Your legs were burning and the branches were tearing into you, but you had to keep running. You knew where you were running to and so did she. Whenever you two did this, you both knew the ending. You had to keep going. You felt her eyes; her presence, and you felt her stop. This was new; you had gotten used to your game of chase, and she never stopped, she would never give you a chance to win. You didn’t dare trust it, pushing past your superstitions you kept going.
You heard it before you felt it, the metallic grinding and eventually a snap as it dug into your ankle. Its iron jaws hit you hard and fast, each tooth digging its way deeper into you. “Fuck!” A guttural cry escaped you as the meat and skin tore off of me. You could feel my muscles peeling off and the blood starting to spurt out. Your body crumpled and crashed into the ground. The pain in your leg was searing and intensifying every second; it was making its way through your veins and tendons all the way up to your thigh. You were writhing in pain like a wounded rabbit; You wanted to die.
You wanted Shauna.
Like the devil appearing before Jesus in the wilderness, Shauna came walking up to you with faux concern in her gaze. She was tempting you to lash out, hurt her, yell or scream, but most of all to blame her. You knew better than to do any of that; You were her trained dog, you knew not to bite. Dogs that bite got put down. She crouched down to your level and pushed the hair out of your eyes so that you could see her. At this level the sun had formed a halo around her head; the light surrounding her head contradicted her dark eyes. Her eyes were like caves that trapped you in their depths. She smiled at you almost seeming to relish in your pain, “New addition to the game, I didn’t want you to get bored of us.” She gestured to the bear trap that was still gnawing at your leg. “Jesus, Shauna it fucking hurts.” You said while not letting your eyes leave hers. Without saying a word, she reached down to get the trap’s maws off of you. She was gentle about it, taking care not to harm you further. Pulling the mechanism apart almost hurt more than the initial attack, feeling the metal slowly pull chunks of me out with it had you wanting to scream in pain.
Eventually she got the trap off and kept you close to her before sitting with you on the ground. You still needed to express the pain that was shooting through you but instead, you lowered your head and dug your teeth into Shauna’s shoulder, whenever she let me get this close no matter the circumstances you knew she loved you and God, did you love her.