The Moon Will Fall (Moonlight 2)

Chapter 40-We Will Try Again

The drive home had been long and winding, filled with nervousness and anticipation. We'd left early this morning after going back to the hotel last night. The staff there had been a little bemused by our disappearance, but Calum managed to make up a big long excuse for us that they ate right up. My mum had a separate room but Harry had come in with us. We'd ordered Pizza and sat around on the beds to watch a movie. No one dared bring up what had happened that night. Instead we just cracked stupid jokes and just enjoyed the fact that we were alive. Who knew what time we eventually made it to bed, but Harry had fallen asleep on Michael's lap so it was late. 

Naturally there had been a sense of relief as Ashton pulled the car into Calum's driveway. I couldn't believe that the nightmare of the past few weeks was finally over. As I looked around at the exhausted faces of my friends I had a feeling we were all feeling the same way. These past few weeks had been rough; fearing the Shadow Wolf, Calum running away, almost losing Michael, losing Emily, Harry going missing and finding out more about the past. But somehow, we'd survived all of that.

We'd dropped Harry home first and we'd had a quick chat with Ashton's mother. There had been a lot of tears, but I think she was just glad to see both her boys home.

I hopped from the car, helping my mother out as she gripped tightly onto my shoulder for support. As she began to stumble, Michael darted in taking the other side. I looked at her swollen ankle, that suggested a sprain or possibly a fracture from last night. Because of the nature of what had happened we couldn't take her to the hospital, and the hunters were so busy dealing with the aftermath that there was no one else to take her to.

Calum had raced ahead of us, flying out the car almost immediately after the ignition had stopped. I could faintly hear him being reunited with his mum and couldn't help but crack a smile.

Ashton hovered nervously behind us as we made it up the front steps awkwardly and through the front doors into Calum's hallway. Little had changed since I'd last been here.

"Just in here." Calum spoke with a smile, poking his head out of the living room.

Michael and I directed mum into the room, where Calum's mother was waiting with a medical kit already set up. The two mothers smiled warmly at one another as we helped my mum to sit down beside her.

"Boys, Pip's up in the spare room with Lewis." Calum's mother spoke turning to the four of us next, her face full of concern. "I think you should go see her."

The four of us exchanged glances, this was the part that we'd been dreading the most. Emily's sacrifice had come at a cost. We'd discussed it at length on the way home but there was still a sense of dread as the four of us climbed up the staircase. How did we tell her what had happened to someone who was basically her second mother? Calum who walked at the front, knocked on the door cautiously.

"Pip? Are you in there?" He asked biting on his lip. The three of us hovered behind him.

The door opened and Pip blinked at us. Her eyes searched behind us, her face falling as the tears began to build in her eyelids.

Pip fell sobbing into Calum's arms, "She's gone, isn't she?"

We nodded, we'd all been so scared to tell her, but I guess she'd already figured it out. My heart broke, it was hard enough thinking we were going to lose a member of our pack last night. Let alone actually losing one, and one that was so important to you. I knew there was little we could say to the small girl that would help, she was so fragile.

"I felt it." She sobbed. "Lewis and I were outside for the full moon. Then I felt the pain as if something was being ripped from my chest. When I realised I couldn't sense her anymore, I just knew she was gone. We ran for miles after that just trying to shake the feeling."