what hurts the most

Zee’s homecoming had been such a dramatic time for Sirius. Starting with saving her from the slavers, burning their compound to the ground, and sheepherding her home. Things didn’t just fall back into routine after that. They had changed in their time apart. Her death had changed him. He wanted to be more volatile, and she needed a gentleness. She needed to build back her friendship and trust with him first, after hearing he had ben with another woman.

Deathbelle

He let too much time slip past, days, while he settled Zee in and let their children adjust to this dramatic new change.

It was Marshal who caught sight of her near their borders. Who warned him of who had come to call. Shock and worry flushed through his system, and there was trepidation in his form as he made his way to where she waited. He sat in silence for a moment, watching his childhood best friend. A part of him would always want to choose her… and maybe that's why Zee struggled so badly with the idea that it had been Deathbelle But his life and children and pack revolved around Zee. She had come back from the dead. He just wished it had left Deathbelle out in the cold.