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to her husband. Giovanni was doubled over in laughter and Rosa
was wringing her hands nervously as Jared was brought down to the ground,
covered in a swarming and writhing mass of dogs, all barking and biting and
attempting to mark their territory.
    Jared cursed, yelling out words
that caused mothers close by to cover their children’s ears and look
admonishingly at the now barely visible Jared. Elena winced at Jared’s cries
for help, torn between laughing and trying to save her husband who had always
bragged so much about being big and scary.
    Deciding that the dogs would
likely tire themselves out, she decided to get her phone out and snap a couple
of photos for posterity; she was sure that Jared would want to laugh about this
moment. Someday. Eventually. After a long time. A very long time.
    Just when Elena had decided
that, since it was nearing about ten minutes since she had last seen her
husband, she was going to get her dad to step in and begrudgingly help his
son-in-law, an inordinately loud growl came from the pile of dogs,
reverberating throughout the park and sending frightened shivers down everyone
in the immediate area’s back.
    As if they had coordinated their
synchronization prior to their attack, every dog immediately leapt off of Jared
and ran, tail tucked between their legs.
    Jared carefully and calmly stood
up. Eyes lit with an inhumanly yellow glow that he quickly blinked away before
people could start capturing the look with pictures and begin asking too many
questions. Elena rushed over to her husband, about to hug him but keeping him
at arms’ length as she realized he was drenched in urine from the dogs that had
decided to try and prove a point by marking their territory all over Jared.
    He was lucky that as a werewolf
he was immune to sickness so at least he didn’t have to worry about the chance
of getting rabies, although he knew he would likely have to convince Rosa that
he was fine later.
    Jared had a dark, humorless look
in his eyes and Elena sympathized with him, but in the end she could no longer
hold it in and guffawed with laughter. The look on his face was so out of place
on her husband, and as he looked at his soiled clothes and sniffed himself, he
pouted, the childlike expression comically juxtaposing with his large, manly
stature.
    Rosa was the first to speak.
“Well then, I guess this concludes our tour. Perhaps we should get back to the
house, no? But, considering your soiled state, I think it’s best if you and
Bella walk back, we’ll meet you home yes?”
    Elena nodded, still giggling as
she delicately placed a hand in commiseration on the single dry spot on Jared’s
shoulder. “Alright Mama, we’ll see you there.”
    Rosa nodded, offering Jared a
small, sympathetic smile as she grabbed GAO's hand and began to lead him the
way they had come, out of the park, taking care to step around the stained
patch of concrete that had the clear, dry imprint of a man within it from
Jared.
    Giovanni cast a lingering look
at Jared, sizing him up with something new in his eyes. He had heard that
growl, and knew from his experience as a dog trainer when he was young that no
ordinary canine could make such a sound, at least none that had been at the dog
park.
    He didn’t know how Jared had done
it, but if he had thought his son-in-law had been suspicious before, he knew it
to be a fact now. He’d definitely have to do some more intensive investigating.
He had previously been going soft on the boy out of concern for upsetting
Elena, but now the gloves were coming off.
    Elena and Jared waved as they
watched Rosa and Geo leave the park, Geo looking back at Jared one more time
and winking before heading after his wife who was getting ahead of him.
    “He knows something.” Jared
said, “Did you see that look?”
    “You’re being paranoid babe”
Elena said, “no one could see anything with how buried you were under them and
that growl could have come from any one of those dogs.”
    “He