The Abused Mate

Chapter 7

Jasper's Pov

"That bastard...", I was going nuts inside my head. I wanted to kill him, and maybe I will next time we meet.

"But I'm fine now, it didn't take too long to heal, even with the Wolf's Bane. It's in the past so don't worry", she smiled but I could tell there was a hint of horror or fear hidden in it, bring all this up must bring back some horrible memories. I should of been there for her, I should've found her sooner, I should've stopped her that day in the doctor's room before she ran off, maybe she would've been happier.

I wasn't even fully paying attention when she was talking to Nathan, I caught her asking him for his name, he answered but I didn't catch it, my head was filled with thoughts and I was whisking through them. What did snap me from my thoughts was what came out of her mouth next. My head snapped up to look at her and I realized then that I was looking at the ground till just then.

"I'm sorry, I'm a nuisance aren't I? Always getting in the way, getting injured, being a waste of space, being the reason for so many injured people today all because of my dad and my pack. Maybe I should just go back, then I wouldn't cause anyone any trouble and they would stop hurting people,...", she kept talking saying horrible things that set me into a mood I've never been in before, feeling things I've never felt like this before...

She can't be serious about this! But as she kept talking I noticed something about the way she started talking. She wasn't with us anymore, not fully like just before. She's shutting off, her body and mind are shutting off! No I can't let this happen, not now, not ever. If she shuts off, she might not come back.

I moved fast and was out of my seat in an instant shaking her shoulders. She was cold under my fingers...

"Don't do that! You're going to hurt her like that!" Nathan screamed at me like I was a mad man, and maybe I was but not about what I was doing right now.

"We're losing her Nathan! She's shutting off, her mind, her body. All of it. And if we don't snap her out of it she might not come back from this! I won't be able to handle that! I can't handle that! You'll be bloody lucky if this room makes it through this in one piece if she shuts off", he shut up after that and looked at her to see for himself, after that he didn't say a thing as I carried on.

I was yelling, screaming for her to snap out of it, loud enough that probably people outside could hear me. She didn't respond to anything, I tried everything I could think off, but one thing...

The door swung open behind me but I didn't turn around to see who it was, I didn't care who it was or if they saw. I stopped screaming and shaking her, and as tears fell down my cheeks I leaned in and kissed her. Hoping that the warmth was enough to snap her out of wherever she was heading off to inside herself.

I vaguely heard gasps behind and beside me from everyone that was in the room, but I didn't care, they could say what they wanted, tease me for all I care, but if this brought her back to me then I could deal with it.

I moved slightly to sit down close to her, my hands moved to cup both sides of her head kissing her again, when I kissed her that time I felt her kiss me back slightly so I deepened the kiss bit by bit as I felt her slowly move again, and her skin was getting warmer under my skin.

She was coming back.

Claire's Pov

Warmth was coming back to my skin, my body was slowly feeling things again like whatever was on my face and lips, sound was slowly seeping into my ears, and I could see the light through all the darkness in front of me.

How was this happening?

I swear Sage was purring, why the hell is she purring?

My vision slowly became clear and I could see in front of me, well they need to focus as there was something really close to my face. Wait, it was someone really close to my face.

Everything that was happening, I figured it out and realized I was being kissed, and it was getting deeper and deeper by the second.

Jasper was kissing me! Jasper was..! My mind went blank in a way it has never done before and I didn't know what to do, I moved a millimeter back from his face, well tried to anyway. He just followed.

When he finally pulled back we were both breathing heavily, trying to get as much air into our lungs, I looked at him and my face went a very deep shade of red when what I could remember of what just happened played over and over in my head, my hands instantly flew up to my face to cover it. Then I heard voices that weren't Jasper's or the doctor Nathan.

"Geez man, what the hell was all that for?! And as I come to see what was going on I see something my eyes did not need to see...", I think that was Leo speaking, there was two other scents there too other than Leo who were behind Jasper. Jasper got up and spun around to face his friends.

"Shut up man, you don't even know why I did it. She needed something to snap her out of what she was doing alright?!", when those words were said I froze for a moment, any embarrassment left my face. 

He didn't actually want to do that to begin with? Does he not actually love me? Lots of things flew through my head about what he just said, and I couldn't breath, it was getting to tight in here and I needed to get out, now!.

Leo's tone of voice changed.

"Did you really just say that? What the hell man?!"

"Leo I'm sure it didn't mean anything in the way you're taking it", someone I haven't meet I guess, someone who knew Jasper.

"I'm sure my son meant no ill meanings when he said that", his mother was here too?!

"Oh really, think it over Jasper. And think hard about how other people could take what you're saying", Leo's voice didn't change.

"I have no idea what you're getting at Leo. I kissed her to snap her out of her panic attack", I had heard enough, I ran. I jumped off the bed and ran out wearing nothing but the pants I was wearing before the fight and some bandages around my torso, as I ran out the door I bumped into Leo and kept running. 

He didn't even want to kiss me, then what the hell was the last month and half about?! Being around me, kissing me goodbye on my forehead or cheek when he leaves the house, everything!

I ran and ran until I reached a clearing somewhere in the forest, but I didn't care where it was as long as I was away. I dropped to my knees and started balling my eyes out at the aching pain in my chest, over my sobbing I could hear someone calling my name.

"Claire!", it was Leo. What was he doing here? I didn't care, I just cried even when he dropped down in front of me.