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Backstory ~ Chapter Six
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"You’ve always said you want Angelica to learn languages."
"You know perfectly well that I mention human languages. Unless her adult career is going to be hunting for the Yeti, wolf speak will not prove to be useful."
"It will program her mind for all sorts of languages. Besides, she should be able to speak to her family."
"T, I’m starting to feel as if I live in a lunatic asylum, and I can’t tell whether I am one of the keepers or patients."
Tina, hand on her hips, glared “Bette, this is not negotiable. I am going to make sure that she can communicate with her grandparents.”
Bette returned the glare, but eventually sighed, “Fine.”
Tina nodded and began to leave the room.
“T?”
Tina turned around.
“Teach me to be able to speak to your parents by name.”
Tina’s heart burst with love, “Baby.”
Bette smiled, “Just as long as I don’t have to call your mother “Ms. Kennard.’”
They both laughed.
“I think you would call them ‘Pinky’s Mommy’ and ‘Pinky’s Daddy’. That’s the style my sisters- and brothers-in-law use.”
Tina coached her partner in the complex vowels and consonants. Bette had trouble with her accent on the “grewlr” combination but Tina assured her that she would master it with practice.
As they were leaving the bedroom to rejoin their daughter and the pack, Bette stopped and pulled Tina back. “T, what is my wolf name?”
Tina smiled, “My mother calls you ‘yipwhooyipyyip’.” In a soft voice she explained to Bette, “It means ‘Pinky’s Beloved.”
“You are my beloved too.”
“She knows.”
Bette smiled and slipped her arm around Tina’s waist, “Let’s join Boo and the ‘rents.”
Tina slipped her arm around Bette’s waist. As they walked, Bette pondered.
“T does that meant that the rest of your family calls me something else?”
“Well,,,”
“What do they call me, T?”
“It doesn’t matter. C’mon. Angie is waiting.”
“T.”
Tina replied with false brightness “They call you “Yegwhelegrewlgrenthyowlyowlyipgrowl.”
Bette noted the length of the name and, her suspicion evident in her tone, “T, what does that mean?”
“It’s very respectful.”
“T.”
“It means ‘She who is a great hunter but very cranky’.”
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One morning, Angelica romped around the house with the wolf pups, who adored their big cousin. The three found all kinds of mischief, with the promise of more to come, and collapsed into a sleeping pile whenever exhaustion hit.
Tina and her mother chatted in the kitchen, catching up on all they had missed over the two decades they have been apart.
"Pinky, you are too hard on her. I can tell how much she loves you. She’s just trying to protect you both."
"She’s insensitive about my family."
"She doesn’t have your experience with wolves."
"She could try harder."
"Pinky, there are 11 wolves living in your pretty house. How much harder could she try?"
Tina stared at her mother, then burst into happy laughter. "Mommy, you have no idea how hilarious it is that Bette Porter is sharing her home with 11 wolves."
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Tina is so right. It is hilarious that Bette is living with 11 wolves. Is it time to bring Alice in? It would freak her out to see Bette sitting on the sofa with a wolf!!
I can’t seem to say this enough,I love this story. I have a Chow and a Collie and the are so sweet. when I go to the back yard.one will stop at the gate until the other one makes a run arounf the yard to make sure no on is aroung the runs and get on the picnic table so I can pet them. Not in my home tho. Love Bette in this and Tina trying to Potty train them The great hunter by very grumpie. Doesnt sound like our Bette thanks
Spumoni, you have indeed lost it, you are around the bend, but this is such an awesome fic! You rock! In wolfspeak, that might sound something like yipyipgrawlsnort! I must say though that Mama is right on by pointing out that for someone NOT used to it, meaning Bette, it might be quite trying at times to live with 11 non toilet trained wolves,yet she is doing her best, and Tina doesn’t seem to show her much understanding or appreciation of this, or that she is an excellent hunter. Hey I am cranky even when I am NOT living with 11 wolves! Is this post making your foot thump on the floor or are you dancing with your nose in the air like Snoopy? Oh, I imagine Angelica is Pinky’s Cub?
‘Unless her adult career is going to be hunting for Yeti, wolf speak will not prove to be useful.” – ha! – (Maybe she could catch one and name it after Mama B – YetiBetty? ;-)
i don’t even know what to say, i’m really enjoying this…Pinky’s Beloved….so cute!!!
Oh yeah I forgot about the howling! Wouldn’t the neighbors kind of ..notice that loud and weird sounds, alot of loud and weird sounds, are coming from a formerly quiet home, alot? I also wondered if Angelica wanted to eat her meat raw like her cousins.
Forget the howls–the smell!
Yes, that too. Bette said that she was going to gut the bathroom after they left, but I think she might as well gut the whole house, as wasn’t it said that they were messing everywhere? I shudder to think of everything that would become very smelly very quickly.. the food, the fur, the…Ha, I bet Melvin is looking REALLY good to Tina by now! So is Tina’s next job to teach them how to take baths? You have done it now, Spumoni..we are all off on this flight of fancy witchoo!
This is hilarious and I am enjoying every minute of it. “Unless her adult career is going to be hunting for Yeti, wolf speak will not prove to be useful.” That was “careening off the wall” funny, narly fell off the chair laughing. Too funny for words, yet there is a moral in this tale. I love it.
lmao, I’m at a loss for words. I bow to your immagination!!! Will Angie start howling too? It’s an important part of wolf language lol
Awwwwww, Pinky’s beloved, sooooo sweet. I think Bette’s trying really hard to accept the family. Funny that they wouldn’t try to eat her because she has no meat on her bones! You’re a funny lady. PPS!!
hunting for the yeti????? LMAO!!!! you crack me up!!! (and i thought my mind was warped?) PPS
the logistics are amazing and the dialogue etc is damned funny. pps