*WAS CRUEL SUMMER*
"The pain of it slashed through my body in nauseating waves before settling heavily in the pit of my belly. I tried to hold it together, to hold it down, but I couldn't."
{ scott mccall x fem!oc }
{ season three - six }
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
letharia vulpina
Noelle Priestley was no stranger to pain. She had felt it since was a little girl, whether it was on a big scale, like being held hostage for two years, or feeling the pain of reliving the worst night she had ever experienced, or even on a smaller scale, like when she'd fallen off of her bike as a little girl or grazed her knee playing hide and seek with her brother in the garden. Still, with all of that pain, nothing felt close to the pain she had been put through that night.
It had been two days, and still, she wasn't quite sure what had happened. How she'd gone from supporting her best friend through medical tests, to where she was now, such a big leap, it was unimaginable how much could go wrong in so little time. Her head was buried in her hands, she sat in silence, surrounded by a quiet hospital hallway beside a sleeping Allison Argent. They had been Isaac's most frequent visitors, though there had been less visiting, and more waiting, they had been denied access into the room, they weren't family.
She wasn't sure how the hospital defined family, perhaps by a blood connection, DNA, the more scientific definition of family, but for the two girls who were stuck in such a supernatural world it was hard to follow science, especially in a case like this. To them, family wasn't always just those people they shared last names with or blood or DNA, it was the people they loved, protected like a family, lived with them, couldn't bear the idea of being without them, that was family to Noelle and Allison. And that, well, that was Isaac Lahey. He was family to the two girls. Their pack was a family to them, even at times when things weren't perfect.
That was why it was so hard for the two girls to be told that no matter how much they saw Isaac as family, he simply wasn't, and until someone from his family, his real family came, they had no other choice but to sit outside, waiting for him to heal, when he could walk through those doors himself. The two girls had barely gotten a peek inside through the small window in the door, the blonde had had to pry updates out of the nurses, if not her, then her mother who was looking for a way to get her daughter and her friends into the room since the wolf had no living family. She'd been unsuccessful in the past two days, but Noelle had begged her to keep trying, to use that so-called reputation she had as a lawyer to find a loophole in the situation.
Scott and Melissa stepped out of the elevator, planning on visiting Isaac before Melissa needed to clock in. Before Scott had to go to school, it was the place Scott wanted to be with everything that was going on, but Scott had made a promise to himself and his mother that he intended to keep, and frankly it was the distraction he needed. He had put off visiting for the past two days, Noelle had been giving him updates. The first day, she was still in hospital herself, the closest to Isaac, just a few floors away from him, and then today, when she had been dismissed, told that she could go back to school, back home after some vigorous testing of her own, testing that she wasn't quite sure why she'd had, but her mother reassured her it was necessary for her health. Scott hadn't been able to bring himself to visit, either Noelle or Isaac, he hadn't shaken it all out of his head yet, the sights he'd seen that night, he wasn't sure Noelle had either, but she'd seen horrifying sights like that before, almost every night of her life she relieved something similar. It was different for him, new, traumatizing. He wasn't as strong as the blonde girl.
