Identical Alpha Twins and Silver Shackles

Chapter 18

The nightmares were all consuming but very different from what I had ever experienced before. These were bloody, gory and very violent. I woke up feeling exhausted and sore in the middle of the night. I was still bleary from sleep but I knew something was wrong, my emotions were haywire and I could smell EVERYTHING, antiseptic, metal, plants, sweat,
feet, cotton and overwhelmingly blood. I tried to calm myself, talking myself through what was going on and why. I have a wolf now, I reminded myself, our sense of smell is better and we are in a hospital so of course the smells are weird and naturally you can smell blood,
everything is ok, there is no need to freak out, we are ok. I took a few deep breaths to try to calm my heart but the inhaled breaths were just making the smell of blood more overwhelming, it smelt like wet rust or metal but more concerningly it smelt like it was on me. I tried to move without waking the boys who were once again dangling off the edges off the bed. Rogan shifted in his sleep as I moved and immediately woke up sniffing the air
“Are you bleeding?”
He sounded concerned and confused but he jumped into action straight away, he grabbed my arms to check them and held my arms above my head as he checked my waist. The way he held my arms by the wrists above my head while his eyes scanned my body caused my stomach to flip over as a wave of desire swept over me and heated my face. Seconds later it
was completely extinguished when Rogan yelled ‘BLOOD’ and his parents burst into the room already in doctor mode. Lights went on around us, temporarily blinding me as I tried to watch Lissa putting on a pair of medical gloves and Marcus hooking me up to machinery again. I looked at myself concerned, as everywhere from my lower stomach down was
drenched in blood including Rogan and Rio’s legs which had been entwined with mine while we slept. I began to panic but Lissa was standing still, sniffing the air, she looked oddly calm as she cleared her throat quite loudly
“Boys could you please go to the other room and get cleaned up, Marcus go with them”
I’d never heard Lissa use her command tone before and Rogan and Rio both looked angry that they were being sent away but she gave them a look and they stopped protesting. All three of them walked out of the room looking like they had just been scolded. Lissa turned to me with a very sympathetic smile, she sat on an area of the bed that didn’t have blood on it and asked if she could hold my hand. She seemed very calm which seemed odd to me since I appeared to be bleeding to death.
“That magic really did do the trick didn’t it”
She said it more to herself but Angel chuckled and nodded in the back of my mind. I looked down at myself and then back to Lissa
“Seriously! This is a period, I look like I’ve bathed in blood!”
I was so angry, after everything I had gone through I was now being subjected to a period which was currently making me feel like someone had attacked my stomach with an axe. Lissa was trying to look sympathetic but the effect was being slightly ruined by the fact that she also looked like she was trying not to laugh
“At least you know you’ll be able to have pups when the time comes”
I know she was trying to make me feel better and deep down what she had said had actually made me smile but for right now all I could do was roll my eyes at her as pain struck me. It felt like acknowledging my period made all the symptoms worse and that very much included the pain. Lissa offered ‘helpful’ suggestions as I rocked in pain but the only one that sounded
even half-way appealing was a warm shower, she had specifically warned against a hot shower and I wasn’t sure I was ready to know why. I stood in the warm water and couldn’t help but notice all the new things about myself. The scars were what they were but there
were other things, like my belly button, I’d never known if I had an innie or an outie and I had a little belly pouch, just a slight bump below my belly button. My hair, now that it was properly clean, was really long and quite dark, almost black, shade of brown. It probably desperately needed a cut but I couldn’t stop touching it. My fingernails were too long but they were there,
I had fingernails that weren’t chipped, cracked or broken. One of my biggest surprises were my eyes, thanks to the wolfsbane they had always looked adult silver/grey colour but they weren’t, I wasn’t really sure what colour you would call them but there were areas of brown, green and blue, the brown wasn’t as nice a colour as the boys shade of brown, it wasn’t as rich or deep but with the blue and green alongside it, it did have a nice shine to it. I had never looked in a mirror much before, aside from a passing glance occasionally but now I was just standing absorbing all the little changes that had happened. Another thing that had definitely changed was my hunger, I wasn’t expecting to be so hungry and evidently neither had Lissa but my stomach seemed determined to eat 16 years worth of food, possibly in one sitting. Lissa knocked on the door and brought me out of my ruminating. She came into the bathroom as I was wrapping a towel around my chest ( trying not to stare at my newly developed boobs). She spent half an hour or so explaining pads and tampons and what they do and how to use them before leaving me alone again with fresh, new clothes and a decision to make about what sanitary product I wanted to use. I emerged shortly after feeling
sore and a little awkward but better than I had ever felt before. The boys were all but breaking the door down when their mum allowed them back into the room
“Be gentle with her”
She warned, glaring at her sons as she left the room. Rogan and Rio exchanged looks of concern with each other before coming over and giving me some gentle hugs.
“I’m fine, I’m just a woman now, at least that's what my mum said to my sisters when it happened to them”
They realised what I was getting at, at roughly the same time, they looked sheepishly away from me and asked me if I needed anything, I just laughed at them and asked for more cuddles so I could get back to sleeping.