Adeline crawled back to the tree and leaned herself against it. She practically folded herself as small as possible to the tree, trying to disappear from the rabid wolf. He was watching her doing what she thought she could do to save herself.

He watched her feeble attempts at failure.

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She folded her legs to her chest she watched him and the wolf soon grew tired of this game. He stepped forward and those loud bark whilst he growled only leaving the gap of a few inches in between them. Adeline watched him step closer to her along with a loud bark that stopped her heart.

A stench filled up in the air with something warm gushing down her pants. She quickly glanced down not wanting to look away from the killing machine. She had peed her pants.

She cried more at that. The fear of death and pain and gripped her hard enough to lose control of her bladder and body functions.

With a loud bark, he jumped forward and out of instinct, Adeline raised her leg, ready to kick his snout with her leg. She raised it quickly but the ferocious beast caught it in its mouth.

"AHH!" She screamed. The wolf bit down her right leg and she felt every sharp tooth pierce through her skin. The pain was immense and she was going to pass out.

"Let go!" she screamed and kicked him with her other leg. She was not going to die! "Let g-AHH!" She screamed in agony when he chomped down on it harder. The pain was unbearable now and she gasped out the breaths. "Please. . . " she gasped at the sight of her bitten leg. The blood was pouring put and much of it had dripped to the grass. The wolf had a good chunk of it in his mouth and she stayed still.

The pain was getting to her and the loss of blood that was pouring out of her with record speed was making her dizzy.

She would not make it.

The wolf scraped his teeth off her skin and licked his lips, playing with its food and humouring her. He taunted her.

She just whimpered as her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she was on the verge of losing consciousness. It was the time, the end of Adeline. The end of her journey with her father and . . . . With whatever she was going to have with Xavier.

She felt his teeth on her again but no cry escaped her. She had nothing left inside her and numbness spread through her entire body as she lost the feeling of her leg and the body.

Just as she was ready to leave it all she heard a loud thud and the weight of the wolf fell on her leg. She whimpered as the strength of it only remained.

". .un . ." she heard and her eyes twitched to open.

She struggled to pen her eyes. ". .deline . .un . .p. ."

She took her large breath for courage and finally opened her eyes a little. She saw a figure throwing something at someone. Something splattered her face and she cringed.

Who was it?

She saw the figure of a man standing near her.

Was Xavier finally here?!

She blinked her eyes, slowly as the action pained her too, and tried to make out who was it. "Adeline, get up and run!" she recognised the voice of the person. It was Noah.

"No. . .h?" she slurred out as the world got dizzy again.

She heard a growl and out of fear her eyes snapped open again. The sudden burst of energy surged through her and she saw Noah standing above a whimpering wolf who was on the verge of getting up and lashing out at both of them.

She Sat up, the paint on the back of her mind and hope taking over. Hope that they could fight the wolf as it was now the two of them against one. "Noah?" she whispered to him was previously looking at the wolf looking just as scared as she was.

"Go," he whispered harshly and looked at the wolf who glared at him with a snarl and she finally noticed the blood seeping out of his head. A very small wound it looked, enough for him to get up and eat one of them.

"What? No. . I can't just. . ." Another round of dizziness hit her and her eyes rolled back. Leave him, her mind whispered. If he was not able to take care of himself, he won't have come here.

"Go Adeline!" he yelled, "I have a gun with me!" he revealed the weapon. A small pistol but real nonetheless, "I am going to injure it and if not, I have to kill it. You go to the car outside! You need the hospital and it's just a twenty-minute drive from here!"

Adeline didn't want to leave him but when she glanced at her right leg she gasped and cried at the sight. The leg was literally in tatters. She could see the bone but she didn't feel the pain and she wanted to take advantage of it. She looked back at him, waiting for him to take back his words and have her help him but he didn't. He merely cast a glance her way and said, "Go and save yourself. You need it immediately."

She didn't need to be told twice now. She stood up, wobbling on the other leg and gasped for the pain but that did not deter her. She was given a chance at life and she was taking it. She quickly hopped on her leg and used the right one twice or thrice and made it out of the park. She saw the car and prayed that the car keys were inside because if they were not she won't have the strength she gathered anymore.

They were there, she thanked the Lord.

She started the car and started to drive. She knew the way to the hospital and the GPS screen had it displayed as an icon. She cried out of relief and she sobbed making the tears of relief fall.

She was safe.

A shot rang out but this time she didn't care. She didn't are to give anyone a second chance. She had to live for herself and her father who had her as the only living force. The hospital came into the line of her sight and she sighed in relief. The pain was coming back and she finally started honking like crazy and successfully attracting the attention of everyone outside.

She was safe with some of her right leg left.