Devastating Smile

Changing

Cameron smothered me into his chest. His arms wrapping around my shoulders and keeping me from rolling on the ground in pain.

Slowly my vision darkened, blackness cascading around me as pain came to the forefront of my mind. Pain overcame all my other senses. I couldn't concentrate enough to even feel his arms on me anymore. Nothing else was there, just pain. Thankfully, the pain was gone before I had to be tormented for too much longer. I slipped out of what can barely be called consciousness due to the fact that all it had been was blackness. I wasn't aware of anything, but it's not as if I had fallen asleep... just out of it.

Cam's POV

Jade quivered in my arms. Her cries of pain filled my ears as panic hit me like a truck. Why is she in so much pain? It... it didn't hurt this much for me. What's happening?!

Kaigen whimpered in my head, desperate to help his mate and cease the intense pain we could feel through our marked bond. 'She's human, her body wasn't built to reform the same way yours is.'

It was my turn to whimper cause I couldn't help her, I laid us in the grass and covered her with my body. Her squirming got more rapid and and shallow, before I know it she wasn't  writhing in pain, she was shaking, vibrating.

'Back up idiot! It's about to start!' Kaigen barked at me. I was confused on what exactly to do. I reluctantly pulled back as I heard the first bone snap, I couldn't help but whimper loudly at her scream of agony. I watched with a growing pain in my chest at the realization that I couldn't help her in the slightest. She's in pain because of my mark.

With another snap her leg bent at an odd angle, her breath was coming in short gasps as her body naturally turned to roll onto her hands and knees. Her head fell as she struggled to control her pain. More screams escaped her as more and more bones broke.

I wasn't willing to close off our link. As much as the pain and torture she was going through passed onto me through the link I knew it was numbed. The link doesn't give you the whole thing, just gives you a lesser version to alert you that your mate is, in fact, in pain. With the knowledge that this was nothing compared to what she felt evident in my mind I couldn't bring myself to be selfish enough to shut it off, not when she didn't have that option.

The pain grew, slower than anyone could tolerate. The pain was at the forefront of both of our minds until it stopped. Somewhere along the way watching her in so much pain became too much for me. I ended up in a ball, my head in between my knees, turning into a small child with no way to help the people around them. Barely able to help themselves. Standing alone amongst chaos, adults scrambling to help in anyway they can as the child stands horrified and useless. That's what I'd been reduced to. Useless.

In this moment Kaigen and I experienced so much. An unimaginable protectiveness, an unspoken claim that she was forever ours, and amongst all the well and good feelings... fear. Fear for we didn't know what to do. We were still relatively new to the whole werewolf thing, we're kinda playing it be ear. How are we supposed to take care of her and help her if we can't even help ourselves. Useless child.