The Only Alpha Luna

Poison

"I can't believe that I didn't notice it. I can't believe that I thought your dosage was lethal." It was the pack doctor's voice I heard.

"There's no way that you could have known." Tom's voice I tried to reach out to grab a hand, his arm, anything, something, I wanted the comfort of his touch and his voice. "I thought I was dying, she thought I was dying. She did what you would have done if it was your mate or child dying on the floor in front of you. She'll be fine when she wakes up."

"I'm not so sure. I can't identify the poison that was in both of your bloodstreams. In fact it's not even listed in the registry of identified poisons, viruses, or bacteria both from the CDC and our own databases. She could very well not even remember her own name when she wakes up." The doctor sounded exhausted, confused, and worried.

"Doctor, I must insist, go home, go to bed, I'll call you if anything changes." Tom says quietly as though he had moved to be next to the doctor when he spoke.

"I.." His voice drifted probably cut off by the stare that all of us Alpha's have. The one that says you're gonna listen to me, and you're gonna like it. It was the look that we gave to the wolves that were below us when we wanted them to feel as though they had some choice in the matter even though there was none. "I guess I'll go home. Don't think the looks original though, she uses it all the time when I'm overly invested in one case and refuse to sleep." I chuckled, yet I didn't hear any real noise only the sound of what it would sound like in my head. Why was nothing moving? Why was nothing working the way that I was sure it was supposed?

I heard the door close, and then the sound of the plush black leather armchair in the right corner of the room. It was as though I could feel the stare of Tom's eyes on me. Questioning and probing my mind, even though he wasn't going to get an answer since we had done none of the mating process.

"Why? Why did you choose to save me instead of yourself? What happened? I watched what you ate and drank like a hawk, the people that you were with all night long. Making sure that they never made a move too flirtatious, or too threatening. How could I have been oblivious to this, me I get. You... it must have been someone you trusted, someone that you were with for the few moments that I was outside after you said goodbye. I couldn't handle those words. The rage that they brought within me was like nothing that I had ever felt before, I was afraid my wolf was going to hurt you. Yet, here I am now hurting because I let someone else hurt you. At least with me it would have been controlled. Now, I don't even know what I'm supposed to do. I lied to the doctor I knew the dose that I had was lethal the moment you walked in. I knew that I was going to die soon yet you and him saved me.

"What am I supposed to say to you? How can I thank you? Even before I had my near death experience I knew that I couldn't live without you. Now, I know that I can't live without you. It's been a week since that day. I've been going back and forth from this room to your pack meetings. Harry making me temporary Alpha, the whole pack accepting me for who I am to you. Yet, you're not here to see it. It breaks my heart. Since these moments are the ones that I've wanted to spend with you. I want to lead both of our packs together, getting and receiving advice from each other. Yet, all I see day in and day out is your lifeless body as it lies in front of me.

"I can't sleep, can't eat, and when I do it's being forced down my throat by the nurses and the doctor himself. Please, Lucy, please, wake up." Tom's voice broke then as he got out of the chair and grabbed my hand. I felt a small wet droplet touch my hand and then another. "I love you, I want you, no I need you in my life. I know that both of our people need you to be okay. So please, please, wake up. Wake up and remember me, and who you are, and all the people that love you." The droplets continued to fall on my hand, and as much as I wanted to wake up I couldn't. Darkness, complete darkness soon overcame me, there were no lights in front of my eyes, not even the circles that you sometimes see when you shut your eyes too tight.