Redhawk Caldera [m] Kamikaze

Thanks for joining the drama, everyone! Your posts are absolutely fine. I'll be posting with Junior next. Otherwise, it's open season!

Junior's cheerful greeting caused Peregrine's smile to falter, as if in that final instant, it clicked. It was a ruse. Even as the realization struck him with the force of a freight train, he made to jump between the yearling and his three youngest. He wasn't quick enough and Peregrine would have nightmares about this moment for the rest of his days, as he watched Junior's jaws close around Wildfire's throat. He was responsible for this; he had led the butcher right to her victims.

Fortunately, the caldera's wolves proved quick on their feet. Besides Fox, several of them appeared—such impeccable timing—and they quickly fell upon Junior even as she strangled Wildfire. The little red cub dropped to the ground as the others proceeded to pull the yearling off her young victim. For a split second, Peregrine didn't know what to do as he watched both of his children being slaughtered in front of his eyes. 

But a single glance at his struggling toddler let him know exactly what he had to do. While Tiger and Sebastian swooped down to help Wildfire and Fox and Finley leaped to punish Junior, a veritable roar burst from Peregrine's mouth. He had made a terrible, grave mistake by bringing her here and he would rectify it now. The instant Junior had aimed to harm the innocent Wildfire, she had ceased to have any meaning to him. She was not his daughter; she was a fucking baby killer.

As the Alpha and Beta females' teeth sank into either side of Junior's neck, Peregrine charged forth to join the effort. He took a moment to roughly push Nightjar out of the way, toward Sebastian, then reared up and slammed his weight down on his daughter's bony shoulders. She began to crumple to the ground and the black Alpha dropped with her, jaws yawning wide open. He sought to do to her exactly what she had tried to do to Wildfire: throttle the life out of her. With Fox on one side and Finley on the other, he aimed his fangs at the sweet spot on the back of her neck.