SMOKE & FIRE

6| Smoke & Fire

|SIX|

                          VANICA flutter her eyes open to a mild light blinding her. She groans slightly turning on her side to see a red hair girl seated in a wooden chair asleep she assume until she flutter her own eyes open too. She could smell her tiger from where she lay.

She only remembers once when she was a child, she played with one until she had to leave.

But she could feel that she was guarding her.

"Your awake." She stated cheerfully as a elder man walked into the room with couple blankets and towels. She sniffs his scent and the flare if an healer erupt into her senses as she spurt up to examine herself. So why was an healer watching over her, last night was still a blur to her. She felt that her witch side have been aroused. She hasn't used that side of her power in a long time due to be humanizing in the Assassin Academy. The last time her witch side arouse she was on the run from some rogue warlocks on the northern side of the continent.

"How are you feeling Vanica?" The elder man asked, with hair as white as snow, Eyes as black as midnight. His slender built was slight crooked which probably cause him walk with a wooden stick that had engravings on it. It seems Ancient but was beautifully carved into the wooden stick.

"How do you know my name?" She asked, sitting up in the wooden bed.

"Your wolf have been quiet chatty with your mate." He chuckled, pulling a chair behind him as he sits on it.

"Seriously Freya," she stated sarcastic to her wolf.

"He's too charming, I couldn't resist." She replies.

"Where am I?" She asked.

"Alaska, Black Hill. To most specific." He answered.

"I thought no one could enter black hill, it's a dead end." She inquires.

"I will let Alpha Cion explain that part I just want to check your vitals. They have prepare breakfast for you Brianne, it's down in the lounge." Brianne glance at me.

"She will be fine, as long as we don't get her angry." He said, reluctantly she got up and vacate the little hospital room. Vanica watch as Brianne left the room and started to take in her surrounding.

It had a window by the corner that shows the afternoon beaming through the satin curtain. A medium size table was to the center of the wall that held medical utensils, A chair was beside the desk that had a couple files, like someone was sitting there viewing while watching her. The small bed that she now stood up in had a white fitted seat on the mattress while the flat sheet was discarded to the floor, she must have kicked it off during her long sleep. She never really enjoyed been covered. It was small and had her scent circulating through it.

"Your scent has Silver lace with it, How is that possible?" He asked, feeling her forehead before dotting something down on the paper he had on a clip board.

"I was born that way ,must have inherited from one of my parents I guess." She shrugged her shoulders and let the man do what he does best.

"Do you remember the last few days?" he asked.

"Why?" She raised her brows wanting to know what happen while her powers were unbalanced while she tried to heal herself. Within her sleep she felt her brother. She hasn't felt him in so long.

Could he be living among the wolves?

"She's awake?" A deep husky voice spoke, startling everything inside her, she shift her gaze to a tall caramel skin man, starring at her. His eyes were what stood out beyond his robust built. One eye was the bluest she ever seen while the other was as white as snow.

"Yes, I was going to notify you once I finish checking her vitals and stuff since she fainted after the whole ordeal." He address the man standing with such power.

"No problem, I smell the moment I came back from Patrol." He said walking towards her.

"Cion Grant, Alpha of The Gifted" He introduce himself to his her.

"Vanica, Just Vanica" she stated starring at him as he held out his hand. She took it, letting the electrics surge through her body, sending a calming feeling through out her heated body. "How you feeling?" he asked, caressing her slender hand, that felt tiny against his own.

"Like a storm brewing inside my head." she answered honestly, using her free hand to touch the side of her head. "You must be feeling the aftermath after she was founded that night." The elder man said, writing something down on his clip board. "We'll get you something to eat, to take along with the aspirin." he said, still caressing her hand, which she pulled away. She pushed her legs to side of the, riding the hospital cotton like dress to her thighs.

"Let me help you." he offered.

"I am a big girl," she snap, she didn't do well with people babying her. The elder man chuckled lightly as he step away, she pulled the hem to cover thigh, before she slowly rise from the bed as a guy walk into the room. He was dress in a wash out colored blue Jeans, A plain Grey T-shirt. His hair was disheveled and his face held a frustrated expression as he held onto his hand.

"Alpha-" he stop midway in his sentence when he saw her.

"You got a busted vein there, I see you got a taste of invading my shield." she stated, using her hand to push back a strand of hair that was falling into her face. "I met one of your kind two years ago. he taught I was a vampire by my smell." she stated.

"He was being to cocky and trying to boss me around." she grin.

"Did you let him die?" the elder man asked.

"Maybe." she eyed him.

"He was getting on my nerve, I should have let him die." she gritted, remembering the asshole that tried to rape her in the hut behind the sanctuary. Luckily she was born with gifts she handle it way she could. "It's really painful can you get it back to normal." he almost whined. She shut her eyes and recite "Lord of Nature, we are One, cease the pain and make there none." Within a moment, they all watch as the guy arm, shivered back to normal.

"Did you just recite a spell on hand?" the elder man asked, stepping towards her.

She nodded as a pelting pain emerge to her head. "Yeah but it hurt when does, haven't used my witches powers in ages." she stated honestly. "Could fool us, you went full witch last night when you save us from a vampire attack." The guy blurted out, in his Beta tone.

"Well that's a first. My powers must have been escalating again." she uttered almost to herself as she sat on the bed.

"Is there anyway you can heal my brother? He's badly wounded after rushing into your shield.

"Take me to him." she said, getting off the bed, as she suddenly felt weak again, as pelting pain emerge into her head again as the smell of her brother swirls around her. She shrugged it off, as Cion lift her up bridal style. She decline saying anything to him due to the way he was suddenly calming the pain and heat that was brewing inside her.

Just a few seconds they push a familiar door to hers open to a guy laying on his back, bandage wrapped around his head, is chest rip open showing muscle being ripped apart, his wolf scent flare into her nostrils. Cion slowly slip her to the ground, near the bed.

She touched his leg as she release heated flame onto him, the sound of bones cracking into places filled the atmosphere a long with blood dripping to the ground. "I have healed him but I can't remove the silver from his body." she stated, gazing at the robust guy laying in pain on the bed.

"What you mean you can't remove the silver?" A brunette hair girl storm in furious but the elder man stop her using his walking stick. "I can't because-" she began as a gush of white appear to the other side of the room.

"Because she only can suppressed it out." a silky familiar voice stated, they all look up to see Venroy standing in the room with two vampires by his side. "I told you I was coming but you being stubborn, never get old nica. he said calling her by the nickname she hasn't heard in years.

She glare at him with fire in her eyes.