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Nick woke up, hearing a strange noise. He glanced forward to where Joey should be snuggling in his arms to notice that no one was there. Suddenly, wide awake Nick franticly looked for Joey. He saw him a few feet away, face down on the ground with a strange fur standing over him menacingly.

Nick was on his feet in an instant. A low, aggressive growl came out of his throat as he charged for the strange fur. The strange fur sidestepped the charge easily, and Nick stumbles trying to recover.

"Calm down buddy... I'm not picking on a fur, its just a bit of human trash." sneered the fur.

Nick glanced up to get his first real look at the fur. He saw that the obvious male fur was a muscled black panther. He had short midnight blue hair and bright yellow eyes. Those eyes held such a hate and disgust that it really unnerved Nick, but he refused to back down when it came to Joey. He snuck a peek at Joey to see a cut on his cheek. This threw him into a rage and his eyes glared at the panther.

The panther looked confused for a second, wondering why this fur was protecting this human scum. He hadn't realized that the fur was there since he had been blinded by his hatred when he had saw a human on the grass. He thought that this lowly fur was a human lover and as such was just as bad, if not worse, than the human itself.

"You're a disgrace to furkind, hanging out with a human. Don't you understand if we don't show them their place then they will rise up and make us slaves? We have to remind them constantly where scum stands, never letting them stray to far from the bottom of our foot paws.", preached the panther.

Nick charged wildly again, jumping into a flying tackle, but it was easily sidestepped by the panther again. Nick landed heavily on his stomach and the wind was knocked out of him. Next thing he knew he was picked up by his pants and the scruff of his neck and tossed roughly into some bushes.

"Now, now....where were we my little piece of rubbish", asked the panther?

Joey slowly came to, fluttering his eyes open he saw the panther standing over him raising his foot. Joey instinctively rolled to the side as the foot crashed down where his head was with a loud crunching noise as a stick was snapped cleanly in two. The panther smiled as he slowly walked toward the helpless human.

He just loved it when his prey was weaker than him. Especially as they screamed as he hurt them. It was like ecstasy to his ears. He reached down and grabbed Joey by his shirt raising him off the ground. Staring into his eyes he could see the fear and he reveled in it. The human squirmed but to no avail as the panther slammed him into to the ground.

Joey couldn't take it and let out a scream as he felt a sharp pain in his side as he crashed into the ground. Tears started to stream out of the corners of his eyes, and he suddenly felt a sharp pain as the panther kicked him in the side. Gasping for breath Joey tried to roll away from his attacker.

Joey rolled into a ball expecting more of a beating from the panther. He heard some growling and a yowl coming from a few feet away. Joey opened his eyes to see Nick on top of the panther repeatedly punching him in the face. He rolled over and leaped up to pull Nick off of the panther.

Even though the panther had hurt him he didn't want Nick to dirty his hand with revenge. He grabbed one of Nick's paws with his hands and pulled. Nick suddenly turned with a growl and stared at Joey with a murderous glare. Joey, gasped and let the paw go falling backwards and quickly crawling away, fearing Nick for the first time.

Nick realizing what he had done jumped off of the battered and bruised panther to rush over to Joey. When he reached out to him, Joey pulled away and whimpered afraid that Nick would hurt him. Nick's heart broke, he couldn't believe his boyfriend was afraid of him, he would never hurt Joey. But then again, he had been in a total rage and he might of scared Joey.

He reached down and picked Joey up, slowly cradling him and rocking him back and forth. He cooed to Joey trying to calm him down and kept assuring him that he was here and he wasn't going to hurt him.

Joey slowly realized that Nick was back to his self and looked into his eyes to find the kindness that he had fell in love with. He was glad that the rage was gone because it scared him.

"I'm so sorry, baby, I didn't mean it. Please be ok, I would never hurt you. I was just so mad at that panther for laying his paws on you that I wasn't thinking straight.", Nick whined with grief.

"It's ok... I understand you weren't yourself, and I know you wouldn't hurt me. You were just so scary and your eyes were so cold. It was like my very breath was taken when I stared into them and I was afraid you were going to hurt me before you even realized it was me.", said Joey.

Nick held Joey tightly and slowly rubbed a paw along his face until he stopped shivering. Finally, Joey relaxed and wrapped his arms around Nick's chest letting himself be taken in by his warmth. Nick smiled when Joey relaxed. Realizing that Joey trusted him fully, he smiled at this thought and stood up with the human cradled in his arms.

Nick looked over to the spot he had left the panther to see that there was only a few drops of blood and some messed up grass remaining of the panther. He figured this was a good thing since he didn't know if he could hold back if he saw the panther again so soon. He walked Joey to the car and put him in the passenger seat fastening him in before getting in himself. Joey immediately fell into a deep sleep which would probably help him get past the troubling events of the last few minutes.

The forty-five minute ride home was quiet. Nick listened to his boyfriend sleep, he sounded so peaceful. He looked over and sighed to himself thinking that nothing could be cuter than Joey sleeping. He started to have some depressing thoughts. How could he be worthy of being Joey's boyfriend if he couldn't even protect him.

Instincts were screaming through his body. He had to protect his mate and not let anyone else touch him. Mate? What was he thinking Joey was just his boyfriend, they weren't that far into the relationship. But he kept hearing a voice saying that Joey was his mate. Could it be true? Could Joey be his soul mate? So far he had failed to protect Joey twice, once with Duke and again with this new fur. He made a silent promise to himself that he wouldn't let his boyfriend, no his mate be hurt by anyone else, ever again.

He glanced over at Joey again, he was still peacefully sleeping. He had an angels face when he was asleep his chest slightly raising and lowering it was just so cute. How could he not want to protect him, he was practically defenseless anyways. Yes....he would protect Joey and no one would come in between him and his mate again.

Since it was getting kind of late Nick decided to call Joey's mom and tell him that Joey was just going to spend the night at his house. He hoped the overprotective mother wouldn't put up to much of a fight. Because he wasn't going to allow Joey out of his sight tonight and he didn't know who Joey would chose right now. Especially between Nick and his mother.

"Hello?", questioned Carol.

"Um... Carol its Nick, Joey is kind of exhausted right now and I wondered if it would be ok if he could just spend the night at my house?"

"Hmm... I guess that would be alright, but what would he wear?"

"I'm sure I have something that I could lend him, it would be no problem at all."

"Ok, but I want him home tomorrow evening before eight."

"Yes ma'am!"

"Ok, you two have fun."

Carol hung up the phone with a smile on her face. It was so wonderful that her son had found someone that cared so much about him. She even thought that Nick was a good match for him, he seemed like the protective type which was just what Joey needed. She sighed to herself and laid the book she was reading down on the table before turning off the light and pulling the covers up. The last thought that she had before she went to bed was how cute a couple the human and wolf made.

Nick pulled into his driveway he got out of his car and carried Joey to the house. He juggled his keys and got it open he went into the living room and slowly put Joey on the couch. Nick's dad hearing some commotion walked in, taking one look at the injured human he rushed over.

"What happened to him?"

"He was attacked by a fur for being a human, dad."

"I see... well let me get my supplies and I will be right back."

Nick's father hurried upstairs. He got his medical supplies and headed back downstairs. He had plenty of experience since he was a doctor, so a few injuries would be no problem for him to patch up. He was just sad that prejudice was the cause. He had always liked humans, they had done nothing to him, and he even had quite a few close human friends. They had even helped him keep going after his wife had died in childbirth. They had convinced him to keep going at least for his son.

When he got back to the human he realized with a sigh of relief that the injuries weren't as bad as he had previously thought. He bandaged up his cheek and checked his sides. Just some bruising, nothing major but he would be sore for a while. He had stripped the human down to his boxers to do the exam.

"So, where did you find him?"

"Well... dad... he's my boyfriend"

"That's great! I'm glad that you finally found one." Nick's dad was relieved, he had known Nick was gay for a few years now. He had been afraid that he would never find someone to be close with. As long as Nick was happy his dad didn't care.

"You know he is kind of cute... like an angel sleeping... you had better take him upstairs before I can't control myself", Nick's dad said jokingly.

"Dad!", Nick growled possessively.

"Don't worry, I won't take him from you, he safe... for now", Nick's dad said as he stuck his tongue out at his son.

Nick carefully picked Joey up and carried him upstairs to his room. Since he was already in his boxers Nick slowly laid him down in his bed. He then stripped down to his boxers and slid into bed. He pulled the covers up over both of them and snuggled up to Joey's back, putting an arm over his boyfriend possessively. He would protect Joey, no matter what! He kept thinking these thoughts over and over as he feel asleep while slowly rubbing his paws over the humans soft skin.