AN- Hello! I'm back! With an idea I'm not 100% how you guys will take, but I guess we'll see... It's quite Ceri/Gerwyn centred, which I haven't seen before, and I know a lot of people just like to read Maddian, but there's a lot of baby Rhydian too. (And if that doesn't keep you reading, I don't know what will! :') ) Anyway, I'll explain more after the story.

Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer- I do not own Wolfblood.

Gerwyn's POV.

I watched on with an amused smirk as Rhydian peered out of the bushes he was hiding in, eyes locked intently on his mother's back as she scrubbed our clothes and blankets in the wooden basin. He took a tentative step forward and the dry earth crunched under his tiny booted feet, Ceri turned her head ever so slightly to the side and he giggled quietly and shrunk back behind the leaves, out of sight.

He caught my eye from between the branches and held a finger to his lips, ordering me to be quiet, and obviously, not wanting to initiate another toddler tantrum, I did what the kid asked and kept shtum. I walked over, sat down beside Ceri, and started to wring the water out of the clothes she'd draped over the side of the wash basin. "Rhydian's stalking you." I told her quietly under my breath.

She smirked and continued to scrub the shirt she was washing. "I know..." I started to turn around, to tell him he'd been caught, but she elbowed me roughly in the ribs. "Don't spoil his fun." She scolded. "And act surprised!"

I frowned. "Why? If we were a rabbit or a pigeon we'd have scarpered half way through the woods by now, he's not exactly the master of stealth, is he?"

Ceri scowled at me. "He's two...ish, Gerwyn... If I remember rightly you were, what? Thirteen before you bagged your first kill."

"I was ten." I corrected her smugly.

She laughed "That rabbit had a gimpy leg, it didn't count, neither did that so called deer you stalked for two hours, you know, the one that turned out to be a bush"

I growled playfully at her and splashed the water at her face, she was never gonna let me live that down! She splashed me back and I wrestled her to the floor and pinned her down. "Gerwyn!" She squealed and struggled against me but I held onto her, nipping her neck playfully with my teeth.

We'd played like this all the time when we were cubs, I guess we still were cubs in a way, since I was only around eighteen or nineteen and she was about a year younger than I was. Pretty damn young.

Yeah, Rhydian was an accident... Neither of us had planned to have a cub so young, I blamed Ceri for coming into season early, she blamed me for not being able to control my wolf urges... But at the end of the day there'd been nothing we could do about it... She gave birth to our little boy six months later and he turned out to be the best accident we ever had, I wouldn't change him for the world.

Ceri continued to struggle so I changed tactics from biting her neck to kissing it... Slowly she surrendered the fight and stayed still. "Cheater." She murmured.

"Naturally." I laughed and trailed my lips up over her jaw and towards her lips...

There was a cute little growl as we were jumped on and Ceri and I knocked noses. "Oww! Rhydian!" We scolded lightly, I sat up rubbing my nose to relieve the pain.

"Daddy! You stole my hunt!" He stood on his stubby little legs and crossed his arms defiantly with that stubborn little pout on his face.

I laughed, knocking him off his feet onto his bum to sit beside us. "No I didn't! I was distracting her for you! Go get her!" The pout turned to a cheeky little smirk and he pushed himself up onto his knees and pounced on her, growling playfully.

Ceri laughed and fell back with him into the grass, letting herself get pinned. "Ahhhh! Daddy help me! The big bad wolf is after me!"

I watched them tussle for a few moments before grabbing his sides and pretending to try and pull him off. "Sorry Mummy, he's just to big and strong for me! Please Mr Wolf, take me instead."

Rhydian snickered and turned to jump on me. "Rawhh!" He shouted and I fell dramatically to the floor as he wrestled with me.

"Can't... go on!" I gasped. "Ceri... Cariad, I love you...Don't ever forget me!"

Ceri was laughing giddily at the pair of us eyes shining with love and excitement as she shuffled towards us. "Perhaps this little wolf has one tiny weakness." She reached over and tickled his sides and he collapsed against me in a fit of giggles

She lifted him up and into her lap before tickling his tummy instead, his most ticklish spot. "No! Mummy!" He laughed. "Stop it!" He curled up into a ball and kicked his tiny legs but without success.

I sat up and grinned at her. "My hero."

She smiled back before nodding over to a second wash basin we'd placed out in the hot summer sun to warm up this morning then back down at Rhydian. I smirked, we were getting real good at this whole sneaky parenting thing, and went over to retrieve it, placing it down in front of her. When Rhydian saw it his little blue eyes widened and he scrambled out of his mother's grip and tried to run, all the while shouting "I don't wanna bath!"

I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and carried him back to the water, dangling him over the top of it. "No!" He squirmed and tried to wriggle out of his shirt before he realised he'd just fall in the water if he tried, after that he clung to my arm tightly and refused to let go. I lowered my arm as if to put him in the tub and he tucked his legs up to avoid the water.

I shook my head and pointed to him with my free hand. "This kid is good." Ceri rolled her eyes, digging out the towels we'd hidden in the trees, the slightest hint of bath equipment and Rhydian ran a mile, getting this boy to bathe was a two wolf job

Ceri moved over to tug his boots off his feet and managed to undress him, how she did it while he was still clung to my arm though was beyond me, must've be a mum thing... Finally I lowered him into the tub and he sat in the bottom dejectedly. "Bath time, little wolf."

He scowled at me but I ignored him and tipped the water over his hair. We washed up as best we could in rivers, but Ceri would only properly bathe him in the summer since she didn't like putting him in cold water, plus Alric's dad was pretty prissy about using so much water.

All of a sudden his little scowl dropped and he motioned me closer I frowned in confusion but leaned closer... He motioned again and I leaned even closer, thinking he wanted to whisper something to me, but he stayed quiet. Finally I turned to look at him full on and he spat a mouthful of water in my face.

He giggled happily and I spluttered and wiped my face with my sleeve. "You little...!"

"Gerwyn!" Ceri cut me off and I huffed and looked away trying not to show just how impressed I really was. Not bad kid, not bad.

I could tell Ceri was trying not to laugh at him, her lips pressed together and her eyes twinkling with mischief, we did after all, have to at least try to be good role models... "Daddy can have a bath after you." She told Rhydian, pushing his blond hair out of his eyes and rubbing the dirt from his forehead with her thumb.

"What!? I'm not going in! He'll probably pee in the water!" Ceri laughed and Rhydian stuck his tongue out at me.

"Mummy says you have to bath! You have to do as she says. Mummy's alpha!" He told me, a smug grin on his face.

"Is not!" I protested.

"She is too!" He and Ceri argued.

I rolled my eyes at them. "You're such a Mummy's boy." I muttered. "Why'd you always pick her side?"

He splashed his hands in the water making it slosh from side to side as he genuinely considered that. "Mummy gives best cuddles." He said decidedly. "Daddy's face is scratchy."

Ceri scoffed, my mouth was already open ready for some witty come back but I closed it and frowned in confusion. 'What?' I mouthed at her.

"You need a shave." She laughed and pressed a hand to my jaw. "I agree with him..."

I scrubbed at my face self consciously. "I'll shave the next time we sneak off the the human world." I murmured, and winked at her, we weren't allowed out there but Ceri and I had been sneaking off since we were fourteen, just into the town or the nearby villages and shops... What could I say? We were curious, and it was an adventure?

We were pretty isolated out here, so we could slip away undetected most of the time, If either of our packs knew we went to the human world, there'd be some serious consequences...

We'd originally come from two different packs, both of which settled in territory within a three mile distance of each other every summer. That three miles were kind of like no man's land for both packs since neither of us wanted to get too close to the other.

I met Ceri for the first time in that three mile gap, little eight year old Ceri had wondered off on her own for the first time and gotten lost, straying dangerously close to our boundaries. I still remembered the first time I saw her, she stood in the woods, tears in her frightened yellow eyes as she turned in hectic circles, trying to figure out where she was. Her hair was in two long pigtails down her back and she clutched a heavy branch in her hands as if for protection.

Me, well I decided, being the kind, thoughtful nine year old that I was, that I was more than qualified to take her home safely, that and I thought she was real pretty, so I ran over to greet her, and she'd whacked me over the head with her branch.

She told me she wasn't supposed to speak to my pack, I'd grumbled at my sore head, called her a scaredy cub and dared her to spend the day with me anyway, and being the stubborn kid she was, she accepted the challenge. Finally I escorted her back towards her packs territory... And got us even more lost than she'd been in the first place... Another thing she'd never let me live down...

We wondered around all evening until it started to get dark, I'd held her hand as she cried and reassured her that we'd be alright, we spent the night in some cave in the middle of no where, and I'd told her stories about how we'd be alright, how we could make our own little pack until our parents found us, as long as we stuck together we'd be fine.

Of course they'd found us come the next sunrise, even though it had felt like weeks to us, we were asleep and curled up together in the cave trying to keep warm. Our mums were on better terms after that, since they had teamed up to try and find us, even if the pack alphas still hated each other.

Our mums marked out a trail for us through the woods after that, so we could visit each other in between territories, she was the first kid I'd known that was so close to my own age so I enjoyed her company and by the time that first summer came to a close we were best friends. Still, it was too cold for the packs to stay here during the winter months, and inevitably we were split up, but not before I promised to meet her back here next summer.

We carried on like that throughout the years, we built our own den there by the river, and those three miles became our territory every summer. As we grew older we spent more and more time there, just the two of us... And I fell in love with her more and more each day.

Some of our pack members didn't like us being together, and our alphas certainly weren't pleased, but our parents were more or less fine with it, especially seeing just how much we loved each other, and mine were particularly fond of Ceri anyway.

Still getting her pregnant so young didn't go down so well on either side...

It wasn't until Ceri had Rhydian that our packs became more accepting of each other, I could walk through Ceri's territory unhindered and she though mine. That was also the first winter we spent together, Ceri and Rhydian came to stay with us, my parents were the beta wolves in the pack so managed to pull a few strings, they loved their grandson too much to say no... But then again who could say no to those bright blue eyes!

It was summer now, and we were back to living in our own little territory, between the two packs. Our own little pack just like I'd told Ceri all those years ago... Our own little family. We took Rhydian between the two, he had a little red headed friend in Ceri's pack, Jana I think her name was, and he loved his grandparents to bits, but we preferred it out here, we got less disapproving looks that way...

"Daddy's bath time!" Rhydian called, breaking me from my musings. Ceri was rubbing his hair dry with the towel.

She left the towel on top of him and gasped in mock shock. "Where's my beautiful boy gone? He's disappeared!"

Rhydian giggled and threw the towel up over his head. "Boo!" He shouted and I watched in amusement as Ceri pretended he'd scared her.

"There he is!" She cried happily. "I didn't recognise you! All squeaky clean!" She cooed and hugged him tightly.

"Squeaky clean!" Rhydian giggled and wrapped his little arms around her neck.

Yeah, he definitely was the best mistake I'd ever made...

"Daddy! Wake up!" I groaned as his boney little knees dug into my stomach as he climbed on top of me. "Mummy's pack today! I play with Jana! And see mama and gand- ad." He bounced up and down on top of me tugging at my shirt, trying to wake me up. I rolled onto my stomach and he fell off me and onto the floor. Still, it didn't put him off long, he sat up, unfazed and patted my face excitedly with his hands. "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" He growled at me, jumped on my head, biting my ear hard with his little teeth.

"Oww! Alright! I'm up!" He jumped up and toddled quickly out of the den and I followed him groggily, how he had this much energy every morning was beyond me. I walked over and wrapped my arms around Ceri's waist from behind, watching her cut up the last of our meat for breakfast. "Why'd you set the kid on me?" I grumbled.

She laughed quietly. "Because you don't get up for me."

"I wake up for morning kisses, you know that..." I leaned down to press my lips to her neck and she batted me away playfully.

"Yeah, then morning kisses turn into morning cuddles, then morning cuddles turn into things I don't want a certain little cub to walk in on, since daddy can't keep his hands to himself for five minutes..." She grabbed my hands and pulled them out from under her shirt.

I huffed. "Why did we have to become such responsible parents?"

She raised an eyebrow at me. "You? Responsible?!"

I frowned at her. "Ceri, why did you have to become such a responsible parent!?" I corrected.

She laughed and turned in my arms to face me, wrapping her arms around my neck. I nuzzled the side of her face and and leaned in to kiss her lightly. "I love you, even though you're far too responsible and don't let me have fun anymore."

She hummed softly and nudged her nose with mine. "I love you too. Even though you're an idiot."

"Well, thank god for that!" I kissed her again, longer this time until hands tugged at my shirt, unfortunately for me, they weren't Ceri's.

"Stop dis...dis-ter-acting mummy! I'm hungry!"

I groaned and picked him up, balancing him on my hip. "Just wait until you find your mate, I'll keep interrupting you when your kissing her, and we'll see how much you like it."

He screwed his little nose up and shook his head. "Yuck!" I laughed and bounced him on my hip as his eyes zeroed in on the food. "Meat, meat, meat." He ordered, making grabby hands at the bowl, Ceri cut a bit off for him to chew on and he took it in his tiny fist. I made my own grabby hands at the bowl and Ceri rolled her eyes at me before popping a bigger piece in my mouth and taking some for herself.

Once I'd finished I looked back at the bowl and frowned. "Looks like we need to hunt tonight." Ceri nodded in agreement. "What do you want little wolf? Pheasant? Wood pigeon?"

"Rabbit!" He said excitedly through a mouthful of food.

I laughed. "Good choice. No wings for your old dad to contend with." I held my hand up for a high five and he slapped his little hand against mine.

"Come on." Ceri laughed fondly. "They'll be expecting us soon, we can finish breakfast on the way."

I hoisted Rhydian up onto my shoulders and we set off, running through the forest towards Ceri's pack.

It was only three hours later that I carried the sleeping Rhydian in my arms on the way back home, his head curled up against my neck. He'd been running around with Jana all day, playing at being wolves, and worn himself out. We'd had a bit of a hairy moment when he'd pushed Jana over, making her skin her knees and Alric had kicked off, that of course meant things got heated between the two of us and Ceri had made Rhydian apologise before marching the two of us off.

"Just because she's third in line for alpha doesn't make her this fragile little princess... They're kids, they bounce, if Alric keeps her sheltered all her life how will she learn to defend herself?"

"It's not our place to say, so just keep your muzzle out of it! There was no need to wolf out the way you did!" She scolded.

"He's the one that was growling at a little kid, all Rhydian did was give her a shove." I defended, rolling my eyes. "If your parents kicked off every time I pushed you over as a cub, we certainly wouldn't be here now."

I placed Rhydian down in the den and covered him over with his blanket, he shuffled slightly before curling up in the furs and settling back down. I licked my thumb and rubbed some dirt from his cheek before climbing out and back over to Ceri. "He's out like a light."

"I don't want him sleeping too long, otherwise he'll be up through the night, you know what he's like." She told me, sitting cross legged and cleaning our dishes from this morning in the wash basin.

I pulled her hands away from the washing and pulled her against my chest. "I'll do that later..." I promised, and I tilted her head up to kiss her.

"Gerwyn." She sighed half heartedly, but she didn't put up a fight for long, kissing me back.

I pushed her down onto the grass bank. "Come on, Cariad. The little tyke's asleep and we haven't had any alone time for weeks."

She scoffed against my lips. "Welcome to parenthood." She reached up and pulled me closer.

I rolled my eyes and kissed down her neck gently. "I think there's still a bit of teenager left in us yet..." I trailed off and paused before sitting up and sniffing the air, my eyes widened. "Do you smell that?..." I turned my head and sniffed again. "Deer..."

Ceri shoved me off her, exasperated. "I swear there's only two parts of your body you think with, just a shame neither one of them is your head."

"It is deer, and not far from here!" I said excitedly. Deer were a rare catch even in the best of conditions. "Come on Ceri! Let's go get it!" I jumped up and crouched, handing myself over to my instincts and using Eolas to locate it. It was stood lapping up river water about a quarter of a mile away "It's down by the river." I told her finally and grabbed her hand.

"Rhydian..." She reminded me but I brushed her off.

"He's asleep and hidden in the den. Anyway, we'll be back in no time." She looked back towards the den so I grabbed her other hand and tugged her down the bank. "Come on, I need my back up girl!"

"Your back up girl?" She laughed and paused for a second before she took off in a sprint towards the river. "I think you'll find you're my wing man!" She jumped lithely into the air and took her wolf form. I growled at her playfully and followed suit...

Third Person POV

Rhydian startled awake when lots of flapping wings echoed around the den. He growled at the noise and sat up, rubbing his eyes with his little fists as he yawned. He kicked his feet out of the fur, looking around for mummy and daddy, but they weren't in here with him.

He pushed himself up and wobbled as he stood, since his legs were still really tired from running with Jana all day, he toddled out into the sunshine and screwed his eyes shut against the bright light, he didn't like it when the light hurt his eyes.

Mummy and daddy weren't out here either so Rhydian figured they must have gone to look for meat for dinner. He ran back into the den and sat cross legged on his blanket, mummy always said. 'Stay in the den' when they went hunting, and mummy knew if he didn't cause she used her special wolf powers to check on him.

The flapping sound started again, making Rhydian jump and he looked up to find a pigeon fluttering over his head. He growled at it. "Bad pigeon!" He scolded. "This my house! Get out!" The pigeon ignored him and Rhydian backed up into the corner away from it. He watched as it gave up fluttering and landed on the floor on top of his blanket. "No! That mine! Mummy just clean it!"

Rhydian pounced after the bird and it flapped its wings, landing again a few feet outside the den. He smirked and giggled because the bird waddled funny, before crouching and pouncing at it again, Rhydian was a good pouncer and he was gonna be a good hunter like daddy when he grew up... Perhaps he could help daddy now? He'd be very proud if Rhydian found some food too, he'd be a big wolf, just like him!

Rhydian chased the pigeon off the campsite, and followed it deeper into the woods, but the pigeon was fast, and it could fly. Finally it took off and Rhydian pounced one last time, but his feet didn't land where he thought they would, he lost his footing and tumbled down the steep bank head first.

Rhydian fell down a lot, so he was used to it, he'd learnt that even if it sometimes hurt, if he just stood up and kept on playing he forgot about it. This time though, all his skin stung all over, and as he tried to climb out of the leaves he'd fallen in, every time he touched them his hands burned more and more.

It took him a few seconds to stutter in a breath but after a few seconds he found his voice. "Mummy!" He wailed, big, fat, salty tears streaming down his cheeks. "Mummy!"

He heard hurried footsteps and pawsteps and for a moment he thought mummy and daddy had come to the rescue, but when he looked up he saw a lady he'd never seen before, she smelt wired, like the people he saw when mummy and daddy took him to the place with the strange dens and the lights and the noisy thingys.

She had two big wolves with her... well, he thought they were wolves... They looked weird, they were really tall and had big floppy ears but weren't as furry as mummy and daddy.

"Oh! You poor little thing!" She rushed over and reached out for him, Rhydian held out his arms, just desperate to get out of the stingy leaves, and she grabbed him, pulling him onto the dirt track.

She held him tightly and rocked him to try and calm him down but the stinging didn't go away. "Hello! Anyone?!" She called, turning frantically to see if she could see the little boy's parents. "Sweetheart, where's your mummy?" She asked him but Rhydian didn't understand the lady's words.

He sobbed and blubbered incoherently and the lady sighed. "Oh, honey I don't speak Welsh."

She bounced him for a few moments as he cried, looking around for any sign of another person. Rhydian rubbed at his arms, trying to rub the stingy feeling away. The lady placed him down gently by the funny wolves and looked towards the bushes and the nasty leaves. "Stay there, I'll get you some docking leaves for you arms." She told him, but Rhydian still didn't understand her words.

The wolves sniffed at his clothes and his hair and Rhydian sniffed them back, they didn't smell the same as mummy and daddy and the other wolves either... Rhydian inspected their ears and turned his head to the side in confusion. They kept sniffing and sniffing and he didn't like them getting so close, their heads were really heavy. He growled at them and they backed off a little. "Sit!" He told them and pointed to the floor.

The wolves shifted on their haunches and sat down in front of him. Rhydain smiled slightly and patted their muzzles gently, one of the wolves big sloppy tongues licked his face, and he giggled quietly through his tears.

The lady laughed at the little boy with her dogs, most kids were scared since they were so big. Great Danes, tended to get that reaction. She picked him back up and rubbed some leaves on his arms which made them feel better. "Come on, I'll take you to the police station, you should fit in Sean's car seat." She began to walk with him in her arms, and the wolves followed beside her... Rhydain wondered why they didn't turn back into people...

They reached a big shiny thing and the lady put Rhydian inside it in a strange chair and tied him in, he squirmed in discomfort but the chair held him in place. He whimpered when the the big shiny thing he was in made strange noises and started moving and tugged on the things she'd tied him in with. The trees were disappearing and he needed to go back to the den before mummy found out he'd wandered off.

"No!" He shouted at the lady. "Mummy! Daddy!"

"Shhh, you're alright." The lady soothed, but Rhydian ignored her.

He cried and watched as the trees disappeared completely and just as they turned the corner he saw his mummy running out of the trees with daddy beside her... Then they disappeared...

AN- Okay, who else just wants to wrap baby Rhydian up in their arms? I know I do!

The progression of this is entirely up to you! I could leave it as a one shot, but I for one am really intrigued by Ceri and Gerwyn's relationship, I originally planned making this a multiple chapter story or a series of connected oneshots, I'd cover their reaction to losing Rhydian and the break down of their relationship, up to Gerwyn leaving and Ceri finding out she's pregnant again, then if your still not sick of me, I might write Ceri going to find Rhydian, and meeting Gerwyn again and rekindling their relationship at the end of series three.

That said, I need to know I have an audience! Let me know if your interested in a Ceri/Gerwyn story!

Please review!

-EndlessMoonrise X