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happen,” Leslie
     said. She looked at Carlos. “You have more, I take it, by the excited look in your
     eyes?”
    “I do. We found the drugs in the blood. A form of X, but it has vampire and lycanthrope
     traits in it.”
    “Impossible!” Collin said, “The two bloods can’t live together unless it found a livable
     donor. Like me, a half-breed.”
    “Well the test says what it is.”
    “What kind of lycanthrope are we talking about?”
    “Undetermined. Maybe it’s mutated in the drug with the vampire blood. When we do tests,
     it brings us to wolf and bear. This again can’t happen since the different strains
     of lycanthrope can’t live together.” He was true. There had only been half-breeds
     who were wereanimal and vampire. However, never had there been a case of a half-breed
     who was two different weres.
    “That’s why I picked up the smell in the blood. I smelled the vampire and lycanthrope,”
     Leslie said, mostly to herself.
    “Only wereanimals have a sense of smell that good,” Carlos said, eyeing the Blood
     Witch.
    The guys shrugged it off because they knew it bothered her. How did a blood witch
     start coming down with wereanimal abilities? It just never happened. Of course, the
     blood witches have been very few and most very secretive in their power, so not much
     had been studied.
    “Anything else?” Collin asked the lab rat.
    “Not as of yet,” he said.
    “Okay, well, let us know if you do have any more.”
    Carlos left them alone with the new evidence. “If we have rogue bears out there, Nathan
     should know. He could set up a line and see if we can hunt them down. The full moon
     is coming, and this could cause a lot of crap,” Patrick said.
    “We need to think this through. If we tell, it could get out to the wolves that there
     are rogue bears. Of course they will use it against your brother, and show he isn’t
     fit, and kings do not step down from a challenge. But this would be challenge not
     in ranks, but to blood. And then we have to step in, and you know what will happen
     if the bears are brought up on charges. The wolves will want blood for stupid shit,
     and there goes the civil war we have been trying to prevent. Both your clans are equally
     matched, it will spill over to the normal world, and then think of all the trouble
     we are going to have,” Leslie said.
    “Damn, everything is so fucking complicated,” Patrick said as he looked over the closest
     file.
    “What if this has something to do with the wolves?” Collin said. “Maybe this is something
     they planned. I mean, there is wolf blood in it too.”
    “I dunno,” Leslie said between chewing on the cap of her pen. “You really think Jonathan
     could come up with something as crazy as rogue bears? And where would he get the blood.”
    “Not just that, but bear lycanthrope is harder to catch than wolf lycanthrope, it’s
     much easier to be born with it than catch it. So they would have to pump someone with
     a lot of bear blood to actually get them to change,” Patrick said.
    “I’m just throwing out suggestions,” Collin replied.
    “And right now that’s all we have. However, we have to think of it this way: if this
     did get out, the wolves have a lot to benefit from this. So maybe they do have ties
     to it. But I doubt Jonathan would dirty his hands too much. He might want to rule
     the Northern Central Valley, but he also knows if he gets caught, it will turn around
     and bite him on his furry ass,” Patrick said.
    “You know Jonathan to a point, Les. What do you think his ties would be to this?”
     Collin asked.
    Anger. Her mind clouded in with white noise. “You know I don’t know him that well. Fuck.” She got to her feet quickly, toppling her chair. “Everyone assumes I
     seem to know him so well. Bite me.” She walked out the door.
    “Ouch,” Patrick said and Collin nodded.
     

Chapter Seven
    She had gotten home, her anger riding high in the winds. She had come into her