Title: Fireworks
Fandom: N/A
Characters: Maggie, Paul, Wolfgang
Universe: Wolves in Eden
Prompt: 69. Thunder
Word Count: 179
Date finished: 06/03/2006
Rating: PG
Summary: Fourth of July in Eden
Author's Notes: Randomness - It was just something that crossed my mind when I thought of Thunder - and Maggie's first Independence Day in a small town.
Disclaimer: All mine, no takey!

Fireworks

Fireworks thundered around them; Maggie had never been this close before, and it was amazing. It was the best July Fourth she'd ever had.

She leaned over to Wolfgang. "Where's your family?" she asked.

He smirked. "They don't like fireworks. It's one night I get to myself."

"They don't like fireworks?" Maggie's father said lazily from the other side of her. "How unpatriotic of them."

"Loyalty to something outside the pack is… foreign to them," Wolfgang said, picking his words with care.

"Which is why you've been leaving your homework with Maggie," her father said. "You fall outside the pack."

"Unless they choose otherwise," Wolfgang said with some bitterness, then oohed as a particularly spectacular firework thundered over them. "And when they do, I'm not inclined to want to be a part of them."

Maggie's father snorted softly. "You sound like a majority of teenagers," he said.

"Hey!" Maggie protested, pulled up some grass, and threw it at him. It started a grass war that was still going, if half-heartedly, by the time the fireworks were over.

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