Always My Luna

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    3rd party's POV
   
    Levi wakes up and takes a deep breath.  Big mistake.  She starts coughing and trying to breath but the thick smoke is suffocating her.  'Claire?  Are you there?'
   
    'Yes, I am here."
   
    'We need to get out of here and then you need to explain to me why you scared the shit out of me with what you just did.'
   
    'Sorry Levi, but I had no time to explain.  Ok, I want you to focus.  I want you to envision us walking out of here.  The fire not being able to touch us.  Can you do that?'
   
    'I think so, but my foot is caught on something.  Oh no, Claire, It's still tied to the chair!  I think my ankle is broken'
   
    'Ok, I want you to change to me walking us out of here.  I'm going to take over and heal you at the same time.  So you do the visioning and I'll do the healing, got it?'
   
    'Yes."
   
    Levi closes her eyes and feels Claire take over and shifting into her.  Levi can see herself in her head as a beautiful white wolf, calmly walking through the fire.  The flames part ways and create a path for them to walk through.  A wood bean falls but Levi sees it freezing in mid-air, like time stood still for it.  They keep walking, Claire taking calculated steps and looking straight ahead as Levi watches the surroundings.  The door is mere inches alway and Levi takes a deep sigh of relief and that causes her to lose focus, 'No Levi, not yet!'
   
    She puts her focus back to the cabin and pushes the flames back with water that appeared in her mind.  Claire's fur is a little singed by the flames but other than that, they are unscathed.  The door finally is right in front of them.  Levi can hear Damon yelling her name, it sounds so heartbreaking.  She can feel his anguish and sorrow, she can also see her uncle and papa crying, even the Alpha of Howling Moon is crying.  Alpha Terrance and Alpha Ralph are sad, although Alpha Ralph is staring at his daughter with nothing but anger. 
   
    Levi looks over at Tamara and she is laughing hysterically.  'That's right nut job, laugh it up, because it will be my turn when you notice me'.
   
    Claire laughs and then she says, 'ok, we are about to freak the shit out of them.  You ready?'
   
    'Yes, Goddess yes.'
   
    The vision in front of Tamara is one only seen in dreams.  The doorway is engulfed in flames with smoke billowing out of it, thick, black puffs reaching for the heavens.  Tamara can see in her sick, twisted mind the body of Levi covered in flames.  Her screams being the sweetest thing Tamara has ever heard.  When they stop, she smiles cruelly, picturing Levi struggling to get her last breath, even if she got herself untied from the chair, she would never make it to the door in time.  Tamara's smile grows bigger at the thought of Levi trying to crawl to the doorway, gasping for air, tears never making it to her cheek as the heat from the fire is too intense and they evaporate before even leaving her lashes.  Tamara closes her eyes and laughs at the image of Levi collapsing on to her stomach, arms stretched out, reaching for the doorway, for salvation, for her life, sweet safety, her mate - Damon.  Unfortunately for Levi, that will never happen. 
    No. 
   
    She will experience death in the most painful of ways.  First her clothes and hair will burn, Levi will struggle with that last bit of energy and strength she has to fight off the flames, but then her clothes will start to melt to her skin.  Then her skin will start to burn, blisters will form, Levi will try to scream, but her lungs will be heavy with smoke, no air will fit in them to allow her any resemblance of a squeak let alone a scream.  Her chest will start to feel like it's burning from the inside and she will hold her hand to her chest and notice the blisters and burning skin on her hand.  Her nails will fall off from the lack of moisture keeping them on the beds of her finger tips. 
   
    Tamara can see Levi putting her hand on her head and feeling nothing but skin.  Eventually Levi loses consciousness and drops her head to the floor with her eyes looking open, but in truth, her eyelids are burned.  Levi's mouth is left open and then her entire body is ravaged by the fire,  it feasts on her soft flesh, not missing any part of her. 
   
    "Finally.  Finally, that bitch is gone.  She is no longer around to take my Damon away from me.  To take my rightful place as Luna away from me."  Tamara throws her head back and laughs a haunting, truly evil laugh.  The two warriors look at her and then at each other.  They shake their heads both mirroring each other with a frown on their faces, shivers running through their bodies at the thought that someone so truly evil exists.
   
    Then everything changes..
   
    Tamara is the first one to notice them.  The fire parting, creating a path and lowering it's intensity as if bowing to royalty.  A dark shadow is all that can be seen at first, no shape, just a slow and regally moving shadow.  Tamara immediately thinks is the spirit of Levi.  A smile crosses her face thinking there is nothing a mere spirit can do.  She will just get a witch to send her to hell, where Levi can feel the fire lick her skin for all eternity while Tamara lives the life that is rightfully hers. 
   
    Tamara's smile slowly falls as the shadow starts to take shape, a solid shape.  No longer spirit like, but a solid mass.  But how can this be?  Why are the flames parting like that?  What is going on here?  Claire gracefully walks fully out of the cabin and shakes her fur.  Tamara looks up only to see that Claire gives her a smile and wink. 
   
    No!  She should be dead, her bones brittle from the heat so that Tamara can stomp on them and turn Levi into dust.  Why?  Why is she sill alive?  Claire simply smiles and sends Tamara a mind link, 'Boo, bitch!'
   
    "How?  You walked out of the fire!  How did you walk out of the fire?"  She starts laughing and pulling at her hair.  "No!  No!  This isn't happening!  No!!  I AM THE LUNA!  ME!  NOT YOU!  ME!!  I AM THE LUNA!  I AM THE LUNA!"  The warriors walk her over to the council members and they direct them to take her to the SUV.  She's screaming that she's the Luna the entire time.
   
    Claire walks over to Damon and rubs her head along his side.  Thank Goddess that Jasper has healed Damon already, but his shirt is still torn and bloody.  He looks up and sees Claire.  "Claire?  Claire!!  Does this mean what I think it means?" Claire nods her head yes and then she goes over and tugs at Alpha Terrance's suit coat.  He takes it off and hands it to Claire.  She slowly turns and walks away.
   
    Damon gets up and starts to run after her, but Claire growls at him.  Alpha Terrance stops him, "Give her a little privacy, son.  I know you want to see her, but she will be..indecent." 
   
    Damon growls at the thought of her being naked and someone seeing her.  "Calm down, no one is over there.  She's fine son."  Damon is scowling at the warriors and counting them to make sure everyone is accounted for.  Alpha Terrance starts laughing.  "Laugh it up dad, if it were mom, would it be so funny?"  Alpha Terrance stops laughing and growls at Damon.  "That's what I thought."  Damon walks over to Levi's uncle and Papa and the Alpha of Howling Moon and tells them that Levi and Claire are ok.
   
    "But how?" Asks her uncle.
   
    Her papa knows right away and smiles. "She's a very special girl and Claire is a very special wolf.  I will let her tell you when she is ready as I am sure she didn't know before this happened.  She will need to process this first and since it's not my story to tell, it's up to her to tell it."