The Claiming by Cooper

Layan’s Return Chapter 4: Jara

“Or me.” Antonio says, nuzzling Annabel who is already in his lap.

“We understand, Jara.” Seth says.

“Okay, let’s get down to business.” Councilman Jason says.

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“We’ve brought all of you here today to discuss our research findings. In order to give you the full results and answer any questions you have, I’ve asked our scientist, Dr. Braxton, to join the call today.”

We see an older gentleman, wearing glasses enter the video screen. I wonder if he wears them to make himself look more distinguished, since, as werewolves, we have advanced eyesight. Or perhaps, because he’s always looking through a microscope, the glasses give him an advantage and he’s just accustomed to wearing them.

“Good afternoon, everyone. As Councilman Jason said, my name is Braxton. I have studied human biology, veterinary medicine, zoology and more recently I have focused my studies on virology and genetics.”

“Uh, for those of us that aren’t doctors, can you put that in plain language.” Quinton says.

He smiles, looking into the camera. “Ever since my father died from feral- fever over twenty years ago, I’ve been studying every possible science to figure out why he and therefore, our kind, are going extinct.”

“Virology is the study of viruses. Once we realized that feral-feve mirrored the canine versions of the rabies and distemper viruses, vegan my intensified studies, to see what I could discover about our separate, but similar virus.”

“So, I’m guessing you’re here today because you found something.” Luke

says.

“That is correct, Alpha. And what I found is extraordinary. Let me preface, I will need to do more research, but this is an amazing find.”

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doe! What did you find?” Antonio

complete reversal and eradication of the virus that

“Eradication?” Davis asks.

the virus was suppressed, killed for all intents and purposes.”

sit in silence for a moment. “Our blood kills feral-fever?” I ask. I’m in shock. I knew we, as females could help, but to actually kill the

that you, all

“How?” Hana asks.

sure if it is some sort of natural evolution

all sit in stunned silence. Then another thought occurs to me.

call it, isn’t permanent, is it? When my sister died, her pack began to go feral very quickly, almost as if every virus she had pushed off

mutate. Because the tissue I’m working with is dead tissue, I can’t know for sure, but there was another interesting find in my research. The cells I found in some of the

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to take in, doctor.” Mason says beside

more work to do. But these are very exciting discoveries. And they

what are the next

like to see if I can get saliva and blood samples from some of the other she-wolves, those in different ranks. My research did not show a difference in the impact of the vaccination process with the samples I had, but every one of you is a Luna with the exception of Miss Isabella who comes from an Alpha line. I would also like to take samples from all of the mated Alphas. I would expect to see that your resistance to the virus is higher than normal. given that your mates have

whole lot more work to

“Yes, Alpha.”

tell us that

agree.” He stops for a moment before looking at the

idea, but all of you recently ad female children…” He is

all

blood. This vaccine or whatever we want to call it, seems

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