Malia had heard, accidentally through Argent that Isaac was supposed to come back today. Naturally curious, she went to the airport to see him, but he never showed. Any normal person would merely assume that he just decided not to come, that it was too hard, but Malia would never be a normal person. So she followed her hunch, headed to the baggage claim and found his suitcase. Clearly something had happened to the curly headed wolf, and she needed to find out what.
Sitting in her car, she drummed her fingers on the wheel before finally coming up with a semblance of a plan. Quickly unzipping the suitcase in the seat next to her, the coyote dug around until she found the blue scarf at the bottom of the bag. Sniffing it for a second, she got a lock on his scent and started the car, driving around, windows down until she pulled up outside a building. “What in the hell?”
Quietly slipping out of the car, she surveyed the building before starting inside. Maybe she should’ve called someone, anyone to come help her, but she was trying to just do this on her own. The scent was stronger the more she walked into the building, and more worrisome because she could smell blood, and hear at least five other heartbeats in the room. Hunters. Growling softly, the coyote inched herself in enough to turn the lights off before she made her way inside, taking out the hunters while they were blinded by the darkness.
Isaac bit his tongue back, knowing if he gave them the information about Scott and his whereabouts, the other wolf could’ve been in trouble. They continued to press, punching him in the face time and time again, a crack of his nose sounding. “You’ll heal. And after that? We’re gonna start with your ribs and then your spine.” One of the hunters chuckled, Isaac not even flinching at the roughness to his voice. “If you think a few broken ribs and a broken nose will give you the information you’re so desperate for, you’re wrong.”
Just as the burly hunter was about to strike him again, the lights were gone; blackness surrounding all of them. They began to argue over who was going to check the generator but then Isaac’s eyes flared golden in the darkness, catching a glimpse of a woman fighting off the hunters. Had someone come to his aid? Pressing the back of his head against the wall behind himself, his tired eyes snapped shut, ears concentrating on the sounds of the fight going on.
Her scent was different, a scent he’d never smelled before. Who was she and why’d she come and find him? “Damn it! Someone stop her!” One of the men cried out, seriously pissed off. Being restrained in any sense was never ideal for Isaac. It reminded him of the many times his father locked him up, sealed him in the freezer.