Don't Burn Out (Currently Editing)

One

Trigger Warning//: Abuse, blood

His foot flies into my chest, deep and hard. My ribs make an explosion like fireworks going off on the fourth: crackle, crack, boom.

The stench of blood fills the air.

My blood. It drips from my lips and onto the dark concrete floor.

He goes again this time, kneeing me in the face. I screamed and wailed. He wanted a show. He wanted to teach the little ones what happened when a woman, a black woman especially, left her place. I pray to Luna my show would inspire the children to just listen to to him, so they would not end up like so many people I have known.

"See girls! This is what happens when you speak when not spoken to! This what happens when you leave the kitchen." His fists and steel toe boots connected with my face and stomach over and over again.

"Please.." I beg looking over him to the girls. 'Just follow his rules.' I want to add.

He chuckles darkly. "Begging for mercy eh n*gger?"

"You weak, whore." His foot flies into my face and I feel my nose shatter. "You never could've been an Alpha. You're just a weak little girl your place is in the kitchen or pleasing someone in bed." I lower my head and focus on my labored breathing as he stopped hitting me.

He takes two steps back and forces my chin up. I look anywhere, but his eyes. "You aren't pretty enough for sex though."

"Are you?"

Blood has filled my ears, my body sways and my eyelids droop. If I pass out he will punish me when I wake.

I try to speak, but my lips go limp.

"Ah ya sleepy? Lazy slut. I got something for you!"

Athena, my wolf, sobs as he pulls a syringe of yellowing liquid from his pocket.

Wolfsbane.

Oh Luna please no.

I lie utterly helpless as he uncaps the needle and plunges it deep into my arm. A searing sensation explodes in my veins. Fire fills my body. I scream, and this time not for show.

My body twists and convulses without my consent. Tears soak my face and mix with blood still streaming from my lips. I wail out loud and beg Luna to just take it all away.

"Now whore I asked you a question." His boot slams down on my chest holding me still.

"Yes Alpha! I am much too ugly for sex."

"That's right, whore." Then his foot slams into my face for the last time today. My head bounced against the gray wall behind me and I tumble into a black abyss.

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Tiffany Athena Bristol. Seventeen years old.

I was just five when I experienced their hellish bigotry for the first time.

It was 2001 three thirty a.m. when our Etas finally succumbed to their ruthless war tactics. My mother ran into my room blood dripped from her satin nightgown.

"Get your sister and hide." She said as she got me to scurry out of bed. I hid as well as a five year old could, but of course we were found.

Their Eta lead my sister and I outside to where our parents held each other tight. Alpha Nathan Capers screaming in our father's face. "A stupid little slut could never have the power of an alpha."

Beyond our parents all one hundred and twenty of our people sat on their knees waiting for death. I felt every last one of them leave through the bound.

Lastly he made us watch as he burned down our pack house.

It was quite a welcoming to hell.

"Tiffany... Tiffany ya gotta get up, baby."

I cracked my eyes open, just a bit then cringed at the harsh light on my sore eyes. My head span and I had the urge to vomit everything I have ever eaten.

"I know baby, I know." My mother says as she dims the lights.

The lip of something taps my chin. I assume it is a trash can, but at this point my nausea was too great to even care.

I puked up all I had, then some. My throat blistering, hot tears burn down my cheeks.

"It's gon' be alright, sweetheart. Let it all out." Mother said rubbing my back as she held my hair back. "It'll all be fine soon."

'It'll all be fine soon?' Athena questioned.

I had not an idea what mother meant by that but I was not in the mood to decode her words. I released all my stomach held then fell into a deep and uneasy slumber.

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Hello!

This was the first of many re-revised chapters! I know y'all probably hate me constantly changing this story, but I promise I'm trying to make it better. I promise the plot and story will all be the same, just better.

Remember, if you think someone is being abused please contact the police.

All the love xx

- Ashley

Revised June 25, 2016