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Do Not Allow Fear to Guide Your Reactions - Solo by Harper

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” — James Stephens

The morning had gotten away from me. I may not have been running late as I parked my bug in my spot. However, the fact that I liked to be at the practice with at least an hour to go over the day and plan for any unforeseen call outs, had not taken place this morning.

#Jenna and #Kenz had called to have breakfast together, things had gotten busy for me again with setting everything up for practice sharing with the #DiazFamily. And having #Juan in town I was sure would add another element of difficulties with my time. So, having my friends on a screen call gave me something to smile about.

#Carl had pushed out his first tooth #Jenna told me. #Kenz added that the baby boy liked to test the tooth out by biting his uncle #Seth as often as he could. They missed me, and I in turn missed them so much too.

Without knowing #Juan or seeing him they had jumped on the ‘We don’t like him’, train. However, I had to stop that and nip it in the bud. Reminding them that in the long run this deal would be of help to the community of La Push. The bigger picture was most certainly going to be a well needed achievement.

Or so I kept reminding myself as I pushed the door to the practice open to find madness taking place.

“Stop… Everyone… Please stop.” I kept my voice calm and collected, the shouting stopped, and the pulling stopped, and more so it gave time for the frightened soul before me ran to hide under the first set of chairs it could find.

‘There he goes again.’ A short man with light blonde hair huffed rushing over towards the chairs and started to pull on the lead. While the woman with him faffed around like a lost chicken. There was a mix of emotions palpable in our waiting area.

“Stop. Please don’t do that.” I told him setting my bag down beside the door and holding my hands up. “Jessica?” I asked her for some kind of explanation.

She rushed over to my side filling me in. The man and woman were Mr and Mrs Reeds. The poor scared soul was Prince Harry II. This was his first visit with us, after he hadn’t done well with another vet.

‘I’m sorry, we don’t know why he is like this. We don’t know what we are going to do if he keeps up this way.’ Mrs Reeds said rubbing her forehead.

“There is nothing wrong with him.” I told the woman. “He is feeding off the energy around him.” My eyes were on the man. “If we all calm down and let him be. Maybe you can both step away…” I pointed to the chairs to the far side of the waiting room. “Maybe even go take a seat over there.”

It wasn’t a request and Mrs Reeds could tell. She slowly started to step backwards, but Mr Reeds hadn’t let go of the lead. “Listen, you have come here to me. So, have faith I know what I am doing and talking about.” I told him.

Once Mr Reeds finally let the lead fall and stepped away. I shrugged out of my jacket and went to sit on the ground by the wall where the puppy was hiding. I could only see his body from where I had placed myself and seeing him trembling broke my heart.

‘Now what?’ Mr Reeds grumbled, and I had the right mind to tell him he could leave. But when I looked past the anger on his face, I saw that he was scared too.

I kept my voice as calm and low as I could. “Now we talk, and we wait for your puppy to feel safe.”

The couple explained that the puppy had a bad experience with their vet, some child had let off fireworks just as they had taken him out of their truck. That he had changed ever since, and they couldn’t even get him vaccinated.

As the two spoke to me, #Jessica gave them something hot to drink. Mrs Reeds leant into her husband and started to cry. I could see they weren’t bad owners; they were just unprepared.

I asked Jessica to bring me out some toys and the jar of peanut butter, as well as the first vaccines for the puppy. All the time I asked no one to speak to him or look at him. With a tug toy and a ball in my hand, I sat with my legs wide open on the ground. Throwing them around and playing with them. Slowly out the side of my eye I could see he started to show some interest in what was happening. But he was still shaking.

I explained to the couple that he was still young, and that they needed to rebuild his trust in them. The sounds of the fireworks and then I was sure their reactions had fed this fear into him.

Slowly the puppy moved his nose out from under the chair, I kept my attention off him, but at the same time watched him out the corner of my eye. He was a beautiful white husky puppy, with the most breath-taking ice blue eyes.

Mr and Mrs Reeds explained how they had wanted to get one for years, however their house had been too small. Now they had their forever home, they had the space to give their husky baby the right place to call home.

I rolled the ball out, but before I could stop it, it had rolled to the door of the practice where it was stopped by a foot. With my eyes moving up the leg and body, I stopped myself from groaning when I found #JuanDiaz grinning back at me.

He didn’t make any comments which I had been expecting. ( The look on his face told me he’d been watching me on the ground for a while and I hadn’t even noticed him. ) He set his bag and helmet down to the side, shrugged out of his jacket, and went to sit on the floor opposite to me. Rolling the ball slowly back.

As much as I really did not wish to, I could see the reactions from Ms Reeds and Jessica as he took his place.

‘What’s up Buttercup?’ He asked motioning for the ball. ‘I didn’t take you for a lay about on the job.’ He teased.

I rolled the ball back to him, and I saw how Prince Harry II pushed forward, his paw tapping the ground trying to play with the ball from afar.

“That name is not going to stick.” I told him, keeping a professional smile on my features. I threw the tug toy towards him, showing the puppy how we were playing.

#Juan rolled the ball back towards me, then caught the tug toy. ‘Oh, I feel like it’s already there.’ Throwing the toy back as I rolled the ball over to him again.

“Looks like someone wants to come out to play.” I smiled over to the couple who were watching #Juan closely. “This is Dr Diaz from Port Angeles; he will be here from time to time helping, with out of hours coverage and supporting the community.” I told them.

#Juan said his hellos and then told me the puppy had moved to my side. ‘He likes you.’

‘All the animals love Dr Jenkins.’ #Jessica told him.

I felt a paw on my thigh as the ball came rolling back towards me. I moved slowly to dab my finger into the peanut butter, but Prince Harry II didn’t trust me to take it. I played with pushing the ball towards him now, and he barked, it was playful. He was still shaking; however, it had reduced significantly.

‘Oh my god, he’s not played like this in weeks.’ Mrs Reeds told us. #Juan asked her to remain seated and not to move just now, which she did.

Slowly the puppy started to jump over my legs, using them as an obstacle. He was clumsy with his legs and feet, but when he finally came and licked the peanut butter from my finger, I could have cried. The poor thing was telling me that he was putting his trust in me.

By the time we were done, Prince Harry II had been jumping all over #Juan, rolling and tumbling over him and making him laugh ( and starting to make the annoying man look a little more human ). We had vaccinated the puppy, we had checked him over, we had even managed to make it a game to weigh him.

As #Jessica, #Juan and I stood in the doorway waving the Reeds off, I smiled to myself. This had been part of the reason I had taken a leap into this vocation.

‘Not a bad start to the day, even if I say so myself.’ When I glanced at #Juan, he looked pleased with himself too.

“No, not a bad start at all.” I agreed.

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