Greatwater Lake don't you forget about me

Gah!! I couldn't help myself!!! Not sure where this fits in the timeline but probably after Burke spends the night with Malice? And after Malice and Issun talked etc? But I will be vague!!

Burke had been planning on making a stop at the Great Lake. The male had not expected to see what he was seeing right now. His pale eyes settled on a fight and a black wolf was clearly loosing. Yet Burke soon realized that those movements were familiar to him. It was most definitely Nemesis!! The large male trotted forward then realizing that Malice herself was arriving too!

The male held his docked tail up, yet his whole face was as calm as ever. Even thought the male had just lost his son and was quite upset about it seening that Nemesis needed him made him push his own feelings away. The male might be a brute and a terrible jerk but he was quite a selfless alpha. His pack came always first and that stoic mask he had mastered was the perfect disguise for himself. The attacks stopped as Nemesis went to.... Malice thinking it as him. Ah... Their scents.

Burke stepped towards her as she rambled how she failed him. He stepped next to Malice so once Nemesis would snap out of it Burke would be standing there. Though bystanders must have noticed that Malice smelled of him and that he was standing quite close to her. Alas. So be it. Nemesis seemed to have quite the psychosis. Once she was done, and still bleeding the male nudged her. "You did not fail me Nemesis. I might have asked you to watch them but as Pietro's father it was my job and not yours. You were not his mother. That cat happened to be at the right time at the right place for us not to watch the pups. Cougars are nasty things and even with my daily patrols and Pietro's fighting skills we taught him it was not enough. He died a noble death, protecting his sister." Burke's voice was so calm while Malice probably knew by now how much he was struggling with it.

The massive male nudged Nemesis. "On your feet now. Let me bring you home.". Burke looked at the other wolves and recognized their scents as being from Malice her pack. He was not sure what happened or why Nemesis was attacked so he could not judge. His pale eyes looking at both of them. Young. So young. He wondered how they would even take the news if they would even know. Burke was not sure if Malice even told them. Maybe it would be better for Nemesis mental state that she would not find out today....