The Secret They Kept

16.

I opened my eyes to see a blinding white ceiling, i turned my head to the right to see a blinding white wall except there was an IV drip beside the bed I was laying on. I was in the hospital, but the IV wasn't attached to my arm, the beeper thing wasn't beeping, it was off. I felt something on my toe so I sat up and looked down at it. It was a time of death tag, but I wasn't dead. They were going to send me to the morgue when I wasn't even dead. I took the tag off of my foot and got out of the hospital bed. I went into the bathroom to wash my face but when I looked into the mirror I noticed a strip of blood red hair on my head. I almost screamed at the sight but then I started watching it as it was starting to reach down to the green tips of my hair and it turned into a weird brown color. Before I got way too freaked out about this I started to go to the door but I stopped when I heard someone talking.

"Alpha, there was nothing we could do. Shes dead." That voice sounded so familiar but at the same time I didn't know who it was in the least bit.

"It doesn't matter, she's still dead, My mate is still dead!" That was Derek, an he sounded quite pissed off.  I couldn't let him keep getting angrier so I stepped out into the hall where they were talking.

"I'm not dead you know." I whispered quietly, almost so quite they couldn't hear but they were werewolves, so they heard me just fine. Both their heads snapped towards me, their jaws falling to the floor. Derek quickly shut his mouth and walked over to me. Quicker than I could have seen coming he slammed me against the wall hand around my throat.

"You're dead you're not  alive I heard your heart stop." He was more saying it to himself than he was to me but i responded anyway.

"I'm not even supposed to be a werewolf in the first place! I didn't even know I died, I'm not even sure that I did! A piece of my hair grew in blood fluffing red! My mate thinks I'm not me, and my eyes fluffing burn! Now for the love of whatever religion is true Derek put me down!" I didn't realize I was screaming until he put me down and his wolf involuntarily whimpered. "Thank you." Then I turned to face both of them. "So why did you think I died and why do you think part of my hair is red."

The doctor spoke up first, "Well your heart stopped for three days. Alpha Derek wouldn't let us move you. As for your hair, it might be a by product from dying."

"How long have I been here?" I demanded more than I asked.

This time it was Derek's turn to talk, "Two months, your heart stopped five times before this but after a few hours it would come back on again. It would be terribly fast but it would always calm back down after a few minutes."

"So why was this time different?" This was directed towards Derek in particular.

Derek scratched the back of his neck a nervous quirk that I picked up on. "I don't know Mel. I just I just don't know."

"Does my family know?" At this point the doctor took his leave and left us alone.

"Come on lets go into your room." Derek started to place his hand on my back and guide me into the room.

"Derek, does my family know?" 

"Your father does yes, your mother just knows that you were with me."

"Does my dad think I'm dead?" 

"No."

"Why not? Did you not tell him?"

"I did tell him, but he told me to just wait. That its been happening since you were two and you fell out of a tree. He's the one who told me I shouldn't tell your mother. He said she never knew and that he didn't want her to because she would have over reacted and never let you do anything again."

"It sounds like my mother. Why didn't my dad ever tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

"That my heart stops beating for days on end."

"According to him this was the longest you've ever been under. The longest for him was a day and a half. He thinks it has something to do with how the gene is effecting you because your parents...."

"Weren't mates. I know."

"You've heard this before?"

"Yea with everything that happens to be strange about me."

"Like?"

"Like my eyes, like how my heartbeat stops, like how my wolf isn't a complete wolf, like how I my clothes don't dissappearlike how I don't need to run, like how I have to train or I don't stay in tip top werewolf shape."

"Wait what was that one before last?"

"How i don't need to run every week."

"That's totally unfair."

"How is that unfair?"

"Because you never have to make sure that your schedule is too packed."

"I find it funny how thats the thing you decided to mention instead of the whole my wolf doesn't exactly look like a textbook style werewolf thing."

"Because I know, I've seen your wolf before."

"Its going to sound really  wei- wait what?"

"I carried you out into the woods when you turned 16. Don't you remember?"

"All I remember is the bathroom really, you came in and growled mate when at the time i had no idea what that meant. Then I woke up in my bed and had blood all over my face."

"Well I did for the record. Now come here I haven't gotten to see you awake since you left my house two months ago." I melted at his last few words and got wrapped into his arms for a good twenty minutes until he spoke up. "I love this, don't get me wrong but hospitals give me the creeps. Can we go?"

I giggled out an okay and and he took me to my car and we started driving but good things never last very long. Derek's grip got tighter on the wheel and his knuckles were turning white. "Amelia, I need you to tell me what he did. 

An angry Alpha is nothing to reckon with, worse an angry alpha who's angry because someone did something to his mate. The only thing worse is an angry Luna because at least the Luna can calm down the Alpha, all the Alpha can do is hold them back.

This will be bad, this will be very bad.

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