Different [Completed]

Chapter Twenty Four

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Inder

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I rush into the theatre, in awkward way as I'm twisting and turning trying to stop the pain. I slip about three times but I'm not going to miss the birth. I run inside.

I hear three heartbeats, three screaming babies but where's the fourth one? I listen carefully, with my improved senses. The baby is not dead. It can't be. I walk up to my mate lying in the bed peacefully. She looks peaceful even though here's a pained expression on her face. I kiss her forehead. I here the three baby cries. I walk there.

I see one larger than all the rest. He has a little tuft of black hair placed on top of his head. He's still crying. His cry is the loudest I've ever heard. His hands are balled into tiny fists. He punched the air angrily, still crying. I move to the next one.

He's slightly smaller. Just a tiny bit. He's in shape to be a Beta. He's also crying. His face is so red. His cheeks are even redder. His palms are facing the sky. I see that scar that's always been passed through my generations. They all seem to have it. It shows you are Alpha blooded. It's a diagonal line across the palm in the shape of a lightening bolt. I smile down at him. I can't touch them. They're not in incubators but they're in this glass cage of some sort. I move to my little girl.

She's so tiny. I'm afraid she's going to be ripped from my arms. I want hold her. On top of her head there's also Peridot's black hair. They all don't have my white hair. There's no resemblance to me except for the scar. I look back at my first born. My second born. My third born. My cubs.

I growl at nobody. Peridot is walking towards me. Her eyes are filled with tears. She slowly opens the cages. She picks up the first one cuddling him close to her. She puts him back in before doing the same with the others. She bursts into tears. "Inder, there's a fourth baby!" She cries into my shoulder. "I didn't hear the heartbeat. I didn't hear it cry!" She screams into my shoulder.

I stand there emotionless. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. She keeps on crying. What if it's dead? My other daughter is dead? She picks up the first born. My first son. She clears her throat.

"Duke." She said plainly. "Duke Cason Knight." She kisses his forehead as if she christened him. He puts him back into the cage. She picks up the second born.

"Cyrus." She says plainly. "Cyrus Gary Knight." She kisses his forehead. He puts him back into the little cage. She picks up my lovely daughter.

"This is Clio. Clio Florence Topaz Knight." She cuddles close to her and kisses Clio all over her face. "My baby, my little baby!" She looks towards me. Tears are still in her eyes. "Hold her, Inder, hold her." She steps forward. I take a step back. She seems as if she's going to break. "I can't, I might drop her! She's so little!" I exclaim. She holds the baby towards me. I take her in my arms. Clio snuggles up to me, rubbing her nose against me. It's her wolf instinct.

"Alpha, Luna?" Everyone turns towards the nurse. "Nurse Aileen?" I ask, impatient. "The fourth child survived." She announced. My heart stopped. My baby girl is alive. She's alive. "Come with me."

I can't leave my babies. The nurses seem to hold on to that and cart the babies with us. We follow Aileen into the baby room. I see so many babies but none of them is ours. I can feel it. We walk to a empty room. The only thing I see is wires. So many of them.

She points towards the incubator in the middle of the room. I peer in. Peri peers as well.

A tiny baby.

It's not crying. Or anything.

It's chest rises and falls.

On it's head is white hair.

Not black hair

It kicks is legs. I'm gobsmacked because that isn't what I expected. I don't see the smooth babies butt. I see a wobbling buddy. My daughter is not a daughter.

It's a son.

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Peri

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My baby boy is in the cage. That incubator. The wires. To keep him with us. He doesn't have my black hair. He has Inder's white hair.

I can't hold him, because I am afraid it will kill him. His chest rises and falls. Everyone holds their breath. He opens his eyes. He has my big, golden eyes. "Carter." I breathe. No! He can't be called an idle name such as Carter! Easton, Nicholas, Tyler!

None of them ring a bell. What is chosen is chosen. "Carter. Carter Edward Harry Knight." My cart baby.My Carter. He's just beautiful. But I thought Clio was tiny. If she was tiny then he was microscopic.

"Alpha, Luna, Carter seems to be premature." She announced. What the hell? They were all premature. "He's not premature by the week but premature as in at least three months early? He hasn't developed what needs to be developed. You see baby foetuses are created with a whole in their heart (totally true) in the nine months of pregnancy, the hole closes. He hasn't closed his yet, but also he hasn't done it in the last hour. Us wolves should take about an hour to do so if we haven't done so."

I nod. I understand. Our child hasn't done it yet. I lean into Inder shoulder. "Tomorrow, the hole should close and the babies should be able to go home today."

Us wolves these days. Our kids go home as soon as they're born.

I take little Clio into my arms. I won't let her go. My princess will be with me forever if not eternity even though they are the same thing. I walk slowly. "She's beautiful, just like you." Inder says. She opens her eyes to the sound of Inder's voice. She has silver eyes, like Inder's with a little line of gold around it. It's beautiful. They all open their mesmerising eyes. But Duke. Duke's eyes are not laced with gold. Their laced with a greyish platinum colour. Just a little darker than his eyes. He blinks cutely. I can't wait to seem them shift.

I run back to Carter's incubator, Clio still in my arms. His good eyes stare up at me. There are three rings of colour. The silver ring, a bronze ring, and a purple ring. I have never seen it before. There are four different colours. He's different as well.

His fingers open. His palms are bare. Where is it? Where is the scar? It's not there. I don't say anything. He begins to cry. Aileen comes in. "Seems we were wrong. The holes already closed." What?

I gently put Clio in her arms. She knows what I'm going to do. I pick my boy up. The wires rip away from his body gently. He kicks around. He's now wearing a nappy and a baby hat like the rest. He softly cries. I put him in my arms. He snuggles up. My wolf is content, knowing her cubs are fine.

He wriggles around. I search for his wolf's spirit. I need to know if his wolf is not absent. I can't find it. Please tell me his wolf spirit is absent.

She hands Clio back to me. Clio is in one of my arms and Carter is in my other. Clio seems much more bigger than him with clear skin. Carter is much smaller with paler skin. I smile down at them both as they kick together. Their baby booties touch.

Inder comes in. He's just like me with either one of the other boys in his arms. "They're all so beautiful." He murmurs.

"I know. I know."

This is my life.

This is my perfect beginning.

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