Virals Pack: Reborn

Chapter 105: An Act of Desperation (Part 3)

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Oh no. She's bleeding. She's hurt. She saved us.

I stand, an utterly useless distance away and gape as she lurches towards the ground. I freeze, knowing I can't reach her in time and yet preparing to launch myself toward her anyways.

Thankfully, Ben catches her, and I race over to help. Before I know it, Tory takes my shirt and uses it to cover the horrifying wound ripping across Katrina's body. She yells at Shelton to call an ambulance, then directs me to hold pressure on the makeshift bandage while she gets Ben.

I sit there in silence, too stunned to say anything as I try my best to help hold off the flow of blood seeping out of those terrible claw marks. It all happened so fast, my brain was barely processing it even now as I sit in the aftermath.

All I could remember with startling clarity was the moment where Katrina pushed herself between the bear and Tory and bellowed back at it. That terrifying heartbeat of a moment where we all froze in fear and watched her put herself in harm's way to protect us. She went head to head with a bear to defend our pack, and she damn near did it all singlehandedly. It was all I could do to hurl rocks in a panicked rush after watching Ben do the same to draw the bear's attention away from Katrina after it...after she...

Tory's back by my side now. She's cutting up Katrina's already ruined shirt? Oh, she's tying the bandage pad (my shirt) around her side. She's telling me something now. We have to move her, get her back to the car to meet the ambulance. They need my help, she needs my help. I assist in lifting her onto Ben's shoulders. I am told to watch her and make sure she doesn't slide off, or that her bandage doesn't come undone.

I take a deep breath and follow orders as instructed. We have to get her back to safety. We have to get her help so she doesn't...she can't just...