Kevin's Death

|So, posting order: Kevin, Claire, Damian, Rosemary|


    It was a nice day to prowl through the forests as one of the largest wild cats in Animalia Academy. The winds were low and cool, and the summer chill felt good on the Snow Leopard's long grey-white and black-spotted pelt was a relief, even if it didn't do much.
    Suddenly, Claire stopped. She was standing on a large fallen log with lush green moss under paw, tall trees all around. In the wind was a tang of something warm and bitter-sweet, like the scent of a freshly fallen deer lying in dew-coated grass. But it was different. It was human. And a waft of the person it was drifted on the breeze.
    The scent was the mind, tree-swept scent of wolf. It was laced with the undistinguished scent of half-blood. Kevin.
    Alert with fear and anxiety, Claire bounded off the log and into the trees. She soon reached a bloodied area where Kevin lay, bleeding out, dying. As fast as she could, she morphed back into a clothed human and ran the few feet over to the half-blood. Claire was able to pick up the scent of other, pure wolves, pain, and of course, blood.
    "Kevin!" Claire wailed, stripping her second-layer (meaning she had two on and she took off the top layer) shirt and wadding it up. "You'll be fine. It's alright. I'll help you." The anxious female attempted to press the cotton clothing to the worst of his injuries (just say what Claire pressed it to. Like, "and pressed it to a bloody cut along his chest")
    On the breeze was also a familiar scent. Cat. There was only a few cats at Animalia Academy, and only one that often prowled the forest on four paws. Even so, her scent was easy for the huntress snow leopard half-blood to pick up.
    "Rosemary!" Claire called, still trying to stop the bleeding. "Get your butt over here! Hurry!"
    

Rosemary came out from the trees to see Kevin, Claire, Damian, and a ton of blood. But only one of them was bleeding- and it was Kevin. What has he gotten himself into now? Hopefully he won't die... She thought as she rushed over to his side at Claire's call. "Kevin! What happened?" She asked curiously as she knelt by his side. No tears came this time, though. Honestly, Rosemary knew he was going to die. His wounds were pretty severe to her. Something that couldn't be fixed. "Claire... He's going to die. This is it."

|Just a note: Kat, Remember, Claire is a doctor. She would know better than anyone how long he has to live|


    Claire almost growled in frustration. She snagged Damian's cardigan and pressed it to to the wolf-boy's neck, where she was sure she saw blood. "Rosemary," She said as coolly as possible, because being anxious makes a patient's blood flow fast. Her eyes on the blood and wounds. "He hasn't lost that much blood. I can stitch him up. It's mostly just stitches that came out when he was attacked."
    The doctor frowned at the mention of a wolf attack. Kevin was wolf, and although she had already scented the angered wolves on the breeze, she was still astonished. Animals didn't attack half-bloods unless they were a lesser species.
    But Kevin didn't seem ready to live. He was rambling about his death. Claire didn't stop the tears. The more Kevin talked the more blood he lost, and by then he had lost too much. They hadn't gotten there fast enough. The female cursed over and over, at herself, and others, at nothing in particular.
    Crying, she turned back to Kevin and shook her head.
    "You've lived a good life, though. And before you leave us, I must let you know something. I watched my family die long ago. I didn't tell anyone because.. well, because I didn't expect them to care." Claire glanced at Damian. He was the only one that knew of her human family's death. But no one knew how her real family died. Claire always lied about how she was separated before she could remember where they went. It wasn't true.
    "The HBES bound me up in a way that would have hurt me if I shifted into my animal. So I was forced to watch as my mother, a half-blood, and my father, a human, were torched. The HBES thought I was just human anyway, getting my genes from my father. I had to stay there and watch. Watch my family burn. Those humans wanted to be sure I would never interact with Half-Bloods again. Of course, that didn't work out.
    "But, when the fires burned down, I saw something amazing. My mother's body was once again up in a full-animal form. She nuzzled me, then disappeared forever." By now, Claire was sure Kevin had only minutes to live. She attempted to take his hand in hers. "So, if you like, you have a choice. You can spend your life in where ever we go after death (I'm not religious so I don't want to offend by saying "end your life" or "Go to Heaven" so.. Lets say Claire is mutual and doesn't know where she thinks she'll go for sure after death if she doesn't decide to stay animal) or you can stay on Earth as your full human. You don't have to tell us. We'll know."
    Claire, sure she would choke on her own words, whipped away a tear and glanced at the other two. What would Damian think? I never told him, and he knew more of my history than anyone. And Rosemary? I never told her any of this, and she's my best friend.
    

| I know, Sunny... |

Rosemary was surprised at Claire's story. She had never heard anything like it but yet she couldn't bring herself to tears for Claire, or Kevin just yet. "Kevin, you're a great guy and, haha, I remembered the first time we met, we were probably both so startled by seeing each other. Heck, I know I was." She chuckled at the moment. She knelt by his side. She knew this was it, she was never going to see him again, and she knew he probably wouldn't die in pain. Then she thought of a song.

"Say something I'm giving up on you..." She sang to Kevin quietly, hoping he knew that song, and hoping Claire and Damian wouldn't hear. Rosemary stroked Kevin's forehead and sang to him, studying his face as she did. Slowly, tears trickled down her face, and her beautiful voice cracked as she sung. But she remained singing as she wept by his side.

Rosemary took his pulse the second he closed his eyes. "G...g...guys, he died." She said, crying hard. She didn't even realize how much she had cared about him until now. She lay down next to him silently, putting her back towards him, and tried to remember all the times she shared with him.

    Claire didn't know what to say. She hadn't known Kevin much, so she let the people that did say what they wanted while she just cried silently. The female had founded Animalia Academy as a place where Half-Bloods would be safe, but Kevin's death proved that wasn't going to be a positive aspect. It just wasn't fair! 
    Everyone knew how to take a pulse, so Claire trusted her best friend when she noted Kevin was gone. Forever. Just like that. Damian asked a question, and Claire looked up. She knew that Chase didn't want Kevin's accounts anymore it had been too long for Kevin to become solidly animal, so she bowed her head slightly before looking back up.
    "Well, he's in a better place, I'm sure. So yeah, we should bury him," Claire decided. "Do you guys have any ideas, maybe favorite places of his, or just.. the cemetery." It hurt to say. No one was supposed to die at the Academy, but Claire had made a cemetery just in case, knowing some people might want to live their entire life there.

|I've actually made one, since there might end up being more than two deaths over the course of this site's history|
|Also, Kevin, there will be a cemetery guide where you can tell what your grave looks like |