Christmas looks down at her wife as she laid under her. She was straddling her waist and massaging her breasts. She knew Julia was upset that their son had been harassed and handcuff by people she trusted.

She decided to give Julia a massage to calm her down. She didn’t like what Julia told her, but she was better at remaining calm than her wife was.

“Are you feeling better, sweetie?” Christmas looks into Julia’s brown eyes as she stared into them.

“I’ve calmed down. I’m just wondering why these officers are acting like assholes and going after minorities.” Julia knew most of the officers she works with are decent people.

“I have a feeling that a lot of this has to do with the current environment in Washington D.C. and the fact that a virus from China is loose in the United States.” Christmas has been following the news lately.

“What do you mean the current environment in Washington D.C. and what virus?” Julie looks at her wife with a confused look on her face.

“You haven’t heard yet?” Christmas could see Julia was confused.

“No. What haven’t I heard?”

“There’s been an uptick of white supremacist groups coming out of the woodwork. Most of it is due to our current president not doing anything to stop it and senator Lewis Tester and our governor not stopping these groups forming in our state. As for the virus, it’s called COVID 19, and it's affecting New York and several other big cities hard right now.”

“How so?” Julia heard a little bit about the virus, but nothing else.

“It’s killing people. There’s no cure or effective treatment for it.” Christmas was scared.

“Has it hit our state?” Julia saw how scared Christmas was.

“Yes, but the governor isn’t going to close us down yet. However, I’ve been told by the director of the school, we might have to close the school.” Christmas doesn’t know what she was going to do if they close the school.

Julia saw the concern in her wife’s eyes. She reaches for her oily hands and holds them “look if it happens. We’ll arrange something so you can keep on teaching your students.”

“What would I do without you?” Christmas leans down and kisses Julia.

Christmas and Julia finally fall asleep. Before they do, Julia sets her alarm clock to wake her for her meeting with Sergeant Alice Bishop tomorrow morning. Sphinx jumps up on the bed and curls up at Julia’s feet.

Julia smacks her phone when the alarm goes off. She felt Christmas holding her and didn’t want to leave the safety of her wife’s arms. The alarm goes off a second time.

“Fine, I’m up.” Julia gets up and heads towards the bathroom.

While she is in the shower, she thinks about everything her wife said to her last night. Why hasn’t a bulletin been issued at work about the uptick of groups forming in Montana? Also, what was with her new Captain?

Julia finishes her shower and walks back into her bedroom and starts getting dressed. She notices her wife was still asleep. Once Julia is dressed, she places a kiss on Christmas cheek and heads downstairs.

Before Julia leaves the house, she fixes a cup of coffee and grabs a banana to eat. As she is about to leave the house, Sphinx comes walking downstairs and into the kitchen.

“Sorry, boy. You can’t come with me today.” Julia knew how protective Sphinx was of her.

Sphinx just looks at his human. He has protected her since she was younger. He walks over and nudges her “I know, I wish you could come with me, sweetie.”

Julia hugs him and walks out of the house with the keys to her truck and her purse. Her gun was tucked in a holster behind her back and her other gun was in her purse. She gets in her truck and heads towards Sergeant Bishop’s office.

While she is on the highway heading towards the exit she needs to take. A box truck passes her and then pulls right in front of her. The back door of the truck lifts and several men with rifles start riddling the front of her truck. She tries to make herself as small as possible as bullets penetrate her windshield.

The next thing Julia knows is her truck blowing a tire from being struck by a bullet and sending her sideways into the path of an eighteen-wheeler. The eighteen-wheeler tries to stop but hits the front of Julia’s pick-up head-on. She flips upside down as the front of her truck is ripped off.

Julia feels several bullets hit her body before the box truck speeds off. She manages to squeeze the wolf head on her necklace that looks like Sphinx before she passes out from the trauma.

The Bounty’s House:
Debbie had gotten up and took care of the twins and sent her other daughters off to school. Alyona had taken her sister and niece with her. Selina was in the kitchen fixing breakfast for herself and Debbie.

Debbie and Selina are sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast and watching the morning news. The television switches over to the computer screen and the lights start flashing red. Both women are caught off guard, as Selina gets up and rushes over to the television set in the kitchen. She notices that Julia’s emergency signal had been activated and she wasn’t too far from the property.

“What has happened?” Debbie rushes towards the front door and grabs her rifle from the hidden gun rack and her truck keys.

“Chaos! Cowboy! Come!”

Chaos and Cowboy come running from the back of the house. Both wolves jump up and into the back of Debbie’s pick-up.

“Selina, can you get in touch with Julia?” Debbie was worried about her daughter.

“No, I can’t remote into her cellphone.” Selina was trying to remote into Julia’s cellphone, but nothing was happening. She was also frustrated because there wasn’t a satellite overhead that she could use her access to access.

She does spot Alex and Robert heading towards Julia’s location. She watches as their indicators change direction towards Julia’s. They were closer than Debbie.

“Deb, Alex, and Robert are on their way to Julia. They will get to her before you do.”

“Alright, find out from them what is going on.” Debbie was turning down the side road that ran parallel with the highway near their home.

Alex and Robert had left at the same time after dropping their daughter off at the babysitter. Alex had gotten the emergency signal from Julia, and he knew so had Robert. Both of them arrive at the same time on the opposite side of the highway. They pull over on the shoulder and run across the median to see what happened.

They spot Julia’s normal pick-up upside down. There was an eighteen-wheeler pulled onto the shoulder of the road as well. The front of it looked smashed in.

“I’ll check the driver.” Robert runs towards the eighteen-wheeler to check on the driver and find out what happened.

“Alright, I’ll check on Julia.” Alex runs towards Julia’s truck and finds her sitting upside down in what was left of the front of her truck.

Her face and the front of her body were covered in blood. The front windshield was smashed and looked like a bunch of bullets had gone through it.

“Oh, please don’t be dead.” Alex carefully crawls in through the driver-side broken window and check for a pulse.

He manages to find one, but it was very weak. He tries not to move Julia, just in case she has neck or spinal injuries. He hears his cellphone beep and knows it was Selina.

He presses accept “how is she, Alex?”

Selina was worried about Julia. She didn’t have any way of seeing how she was.

“She’s in bad shape, Selina. She needs to be flown out of here right away.” Alex knew it was going to take the paramedics too long to get to
their location.

“Alright, I’m contacting Air Medical right now.”

Air Medical:
Kathlyn had just started her shift when an emergency call comes over the company’s private line. She presses the accept button on her console “Air Medical, Kathlyn speaking, what is your emergency.”

“I need for you to send a medivac to these coordinates.” Selina starts rattling off the GPS coordinates she had for Julia.

Kathlyn punches the coordinates into her system and notices she could get a medivac to the location right away. She transfers the information to the pilots waiting out on the airfield. She also sends the emergency signal to the medical team as well.

“What is your membership account name, ma’am?” Kathlyn had to enter the information into the system for billing purposes.

“Jack Bounty.” Selina knew Air Medical was one of the companies Jack owns.

He bought the company when the girls were little just in case, they were out somewhere horseback riding and got injured. He also leased the company out to the hospitals as well. The company made a medium profit after all the expenses.

Kathlyn saw the billing information that was in the system. It had Jack Bounty down as the owner of the company.

“The chopper is on the way, ma’am.” Kathlyn saw the call log and he has only used them a few times, but nothing lately.

“Thank you.” Selina relays that information to Alex and Robert.

Crash Site:
Two Montana Highway Patrol vehicles had been dispatched to the crash location. They arrived a few minutes before Debbie did. They were rushing towards the crash site but were passed by two huge dogs. Alex turns to see who was coming towards him and Julia.

He recognizes Chaos, but the other wolf he had no idea who it was. They stop when they get close to him “she’s hurt, Chaos.”

Alex recognizes the two Montana Highway officers. He helped train one of them.

“What, happened?” Sgt. Walker recognized Alex. He had been a Montana Highway Patrol officer but retired.

“It looks like someone attacked my niece.” Alex stands up.

“How do you know that?” Sgt. Walker wonders how he knew that.

“Look at the damage to the vehicle. Someone shot at my niece with an assault gun.”

“He’s right about that.” Robert comes walking back to everyone. He spots Chaos and the other wolf.

He looks past everyone and notices Debbie running towards them. He could tell she looked worried.

“You gentlemen might want to move. The she-wolf is here, and she doesn’t look happy.” Robert intercepts Debbie before she could get closer.

“Robert, get out of my way. I want to see Julia now.” Debbie wanted to see how badly her daughter was hurt.

“Debbie, she’s in critical condition right now. She needs to get to a hospital right away.” Robert knew how deeply Debbie felt for the girls. She may not have given birth to them, but they were her babies.

“What happened to her, Robert?” Debbie wanted to see Julia for herself.

“According to what the truck driver told me. He spotted a dirty box truck pull in front of her and several guys in the back of the truck opened fire on Julia. She lost control of her truck and came right into his lane. He had no time to stop and ripped the front of her truck off after it had
flipped.”

“What happened to the box truck?” Debbie wanted those bastards.

“It sped away. Robert and I were the first ones here.”

“Is anyone else hurt?” Debbie looks at all the cars that had stopped.

“A few cars got damage from stray bullets, but no one else was hurt. The truck driver might have been whiplashed from hitting Julia’s truck.”

“How bad is she, Alex?” Debbie wanted to see her baby.

“She’s been shot several times and she has a nasty gash on her head. I don’t know if she has any spinal or neck injuries.” Alex is worried about Julia as well. He also knows this will get Jack’s attention.

As they are standing around, they hear fire trucks and more police cars. After they show up, the Medical Vac shows up to transport Julia to the nearest hospital. Debbie and Alex trade vehicles, so she can be by Julia’s side and he can take the wolves home.