Eunji shifted and wigged as she put on a pair of faded black jeans inside the bathroom attached to the hospital room. She sighed as she was able to zip and button up the jeans and looked into the mirror.

“God, I look awful…” Eunji muttered to herself as saw her puffy red eyes. She adjusted the white crop top sleeveless sweater and touched one of the bandages around biceps.

Eunji jumped at the knocking at the door, “Did you fall in?” Maria’s voice called out and Enuji could hear the joking manner behind her words. 

“No, I’m fine…mostly.” Eunji grabbed the hospital gown she was wearing before and opened up the door. She saw Maria had taken a few steps back towards the hospital bed and she patted the mattress.

“Those bandages can come off, and I was able to borrow these from the doc.” Maria waved some medical grade bandage scissors and Eunji's nose twitched causing her eye brow to raise. “Your quick study, already catching half truths.”

“Lucy would ‘borrow’ things and ‘return’ once she was done with them.” Eunji sat down on the bed and relaxed as much as she could. “The night we went out, she borrowed Aaron’s keys…”

In the corner of her eye she could see Maria smirking and felt her gently grabbing her arm. “Are they alright, my friends?” 

“They are still knocked out but showing signs of waking up soon.” Maria said as cut away the bandages on her wrist and bicep. “They have been assigned to different packs that will help them with their own problems.”

“Own problems?” Eunji asked while trying not to sound panicked, which she failed to do. Maria was calm and tossed bandages on the bedding. “What kind of problems? Do they still have their memories?”

“We can tell a lot from a person's first transformation, for example you have a tight grip on your control...most of the time.” Maria stated as she removed the last bandage on Eunji’s other bicep and tapped Eunji’s bicep. “Even if it means hurting yourself.”

Eunji looked to where Maria tapped and saw four claw mark scars. She paused before looking towards her other bicep to see match scars. She looked next to wrist to see a bite mark and the angle told her that it was self-inflicted.

“I did this.” Eunji states, rather than ask, as she already figured it out. “So is my problem, I'm too self-sacrificial?” 

“No, you have a death grip on control is unhealthy.” Maria put the scissors on the bed and grabbed something on the bed. “If your control breaks or something makes you lose it, the backlash will hurt more than just you.”

Maria handed some black bridal gloves to Eunji and made her pause to realize something. “Wait…these are my gloves and my clothing.”

“Alina grabbed them from your apartment and dropped them off when you were asleep from your little cry. She figured you wouldn’t want to walk out in medical dress with your bare ass to the world.” Maria chuckled and Eunji blushed at the thought. “Also we moved most of your things to the den.”

Eunji put on the gloves and they cover the new scarring on her arms. “The den?” Eunji asked as stood back up and Maria handed her a blue track suit coat. 

“You’re new home,” Maria smiled as Eunji put on coat. “And a safe place to talk more about everything.”

Eunji nodded and wished she could just go back to her apartment but in her gut knew being alone would be a bad idea. Eunji did catch something in Maria’s eyes as if she understood what Eunji was feeling before Maria put on a pair of red circle sunglasses. 

Maria led the way out of the room and Eunji followed without words. Without thinking Eunji grabbed Maria's leather coat like a baby elephant grabbing their mother’s tail. She noticed Maria glancing back at first and smirked seeing Eunji wasn’t asking to stop walking.

Half way down the hallway the hair on the back of Eunji’s neck stood up and chill ran down her spine. “Ma-” 

Eunji was cut off from Maria moving fast but smoothly and carefully turned around and kept Eunji protected behind her. Eunji found the movement surprising and felt like Maria had lots of practice in doing it.

Eunji just realized Maria was hunched over before to make herself smaller and gentler to Eunji but now in a defensive stance Maria stood tall and fists clenched hard.

The only thing in the hallway was a stocky white man walking aggressively towards them like a beast clumsy to prey. As he got closer Eunji could see was an inch or two taller than Maria. He was well shaven and blonde hair was a bit messy but Eunji figured it was messy from the fury oozing off him.

Maria scowled when he started shouting in French and getting closer to them. “Claude, speak English or Greek as none of us speak French.” Maria hissed and the man snorted from comment.

“Maybe you should learn, Spartan B-” He bit off the end of his sentence and Eunji only saw Maria lower her sunglasses. He glanced away from Maria but his eyes locked on Eunji and Eunji felt greatly uneasy from his hungry eyes.

Eunji grabbed onto Maria’s coat with both hands and tried to hide behind Maria better. “Leave her alone, The Order already agreed where the new pups would go.” Maria growled and Eunji could feel a low rumble come off Maria.

“The Order, and your pack leader is not always right.” He spat back and Eunji could feel Claude’s eyes trying to lock on her. “My pack could easily straighten them all out.”

“The same way you ‘straighten’ out your last batch of four?” Maria hissed and Claude flinched from biting a comment. “One out of four survived their probation period.”

Claude’s face soured more before taking a step forward and growled, “At least they should have given my pack the magical kitsune, b-”

“I AM NOT A KITSUNE!” A voice hissed angrily and full of spite. The hallway was silent from the voice and Eunji started to look around for the voice. 

Eunji caught her own reflection in the window and froze when she saw her eyes had turned amber gold. She started to panic and hyperventilate as gripped onto Maria’s coat harder.

“GET LOST CLAUDE! BEFORE I THROW YOU OUT THE WINDOW!” Maria yelled and Claude growled before Eunji could hear his feet stomping away.

Eunji felt Maria spin around and hug her tightly. Maria was quietly hushing Eunji like she was an upset toddler and normally Eunji would have hated that but right now she is thankful for Maria’s comfort and heart beat in her ear.

Eunji finally calmed down and Maria let go only to cup Eunji’s face. “Let’s see your eyes.” Maria said and Eunji stared into Maria’s eyes. “You're back to green.”

“W-Was that voice me?” Eunji asked and Maria nodded with a smug grin. “I-I didn-”

“Don’t worry, I’m not surprised your instincts came out from the stress of us fighting.” Maria chuckled and used her thumb to wipe away a tear on Eunji’s face. “Also it’s historically known that the Kumiho breed hate being called Kitsune.”

Eunji blinked from Maria’s words before speaking, “Kumiho, but you said I was a werewolf.” Maria let go of Eunji’s face and started to chuckle.

“I said Lycan, not werewolf.” Maria poked Eunji’s nose with a smirk. “We use Lycan as our race but there are breeds of Ly-” Maria cut off and looked over her shoulder.

Eunji focused on what Maria heard and could hear footsteps. The footsteps sounded casual and not in a hurry, “This is not a place to talk about private matters.”

“Right.” Eunji said and understood this conversation was not for normal people to listen into. The two return to walking with Eunji following Maria and grip Maria’s coat.

In no time they were in the parking lot structure and Maria led Eunji to a black van. The black van reminded her that the van ‘The A-Team’ drove but it was missing the red stripe on the side.

“I’ve been meaning to get a paint job of my band name on the side.” Maria commented as took out her keys. Once unlocked Eunji got into the co-pilot seat and in the back she could see hard cover instrument casings. 

Her eyes locked on a bass guitar case with a bunch of stickers on it. Three stickers stuck out to her as she knew them at simple glance, a Greece flag, red and black pentagram, and pansexual flag.

Maria noticed Eunji staring, “My band had a gig last night, I didn’t have time to offload everything at the den when…”

Her words trailed off and Eunji nodded, “When a new puppy Lycan woke and needed your wisdom.” Eunji joked with a smirk and Maria nodded before starting the van.