( WP ) A Predator and Prey

`` Jane, do you think we're odd?'' 
 
 She looks up from the book she was reading, `` What makes you say that Lou?'' He takes another swig of his beer. `` It's just well, people talk, about us.'' She twist her cervid head around to better face him. `` So?'' He closes his eyes and rubs his snout in mild frustration. `` So... are they on to something? You know, this whole me beinga wolf, you a deer thing. I saw the play Romeo and Juliet. Him a mouse, her an owl. He gets eaten by her and she commits suicide. Remember how I took you to see the Fox and the Hound? When you got home I had to hold you, you could n't stop crying'Oh Todd, poor, poor Todd' Now that I think about it, you're really cute when you get all teary eyed. The point is, every day I got to leave, go to the morgue, and eat some old person who died of natural causes. Thank Fenrir eating a herbivore's only a fine, otherwise us carnivores would be in a tight spot. I have to eat meat. You can just have grass for breakfast. Face it, you have it easy, dear. Ow! What was that for?'' 
 
 She smiles, still holding the book she used to whack him on the head. `` Dear? Really love?'' He grins wolfishly. `` Eh, why not? I thought it was my roguish wit that attracted you to me.'' She kisses him on his grey snout. `` Something like that, love.'' They stare into each other's eyes, lost in admiration for minutes'till the doorbell rings. He leaps down from the couch and trots over to the door. Opening it, he is greeted by a stork bearing a parcel. The bird speaks. `` Jane Doe?'' Lou looks down at his wolf frame. `` Really? Me, A wolf? I'll get her.'' He turns his head into the house. `` Sweetheart! You got a package! He turns back to the stork. `` What's the matter? Vlasic pickle plant laid you off?'' The stork merely gives a deadpan reaction. `` Haha, very funny. Everyone's a comedian. Sign here ma'am.'' Jane does so, penning her name on the presented clipboard. `` Thank you.'' With that he tips his hat and flies away. 
 
 `` Who's it from?'' He asks. Jane swats him lightly on the chest. `` Patience love. It's from my father. Remember, we're visiting him and my mom during the winter solstice.'' He makes a face. `` You know he does n't like me. Me being a carnivore and all. Before I picked you up at prom, he spent twenty minutes threatening me with his Winchester. Kept going on how you should have been dating that one elk. What's his name, the one on the football team?'' `` Hubert.'' `` Yeah, Hue. I swear, when was the last time one of his family got eaten? Oh sure, he lost a cousin to bruin like twenty years ago, but when was the last time a wolf killed someone he knew? Never! I think your father might have some elephant in the woodpile.'' 
 
 She rolls her brown eyes and sighs softly. `` If you say so love. Oh, what are you going to have for dinner?'' He laughs. `` Me and the boys are gon na go to Al's Steakhouse. With any luck, dinner will be Hue. But seriously, probably just some old nag. I'll have a few pints,, Rob's driving tonight. His wife Marian did n't care for him the last time he went home drunk. Made him sleep on the couch. She's intent on Vixen his faults.'' Jane whacks Lou on the snout. `` What? I said fixing, fixing his faults'' `` No you did n't love.'' She kisses him and speaks again. `` I'll expect you home by ten.'' He smiles bashful like. `` Yes dear.'' Whack! `` Ow, okay, okay.'' It's his turn to kiss her. `` Ten it is. Love you.'' With that he exits the house, leaving her to lean against the door frame ruefully.
