Goodnight

18

"How is she?" Mirabel, the gentlest of the teenagers asks. Bade had told Seth, Mac and Lila to keep Mirabel in the dark about Zev's condition.

"Fine" Bade always was a good liar but today his lies get to be too much.

"Fine! She has been unconscious for over a day! If that's fine, I'd love to see what terrible is" Seth doesn't normally care this much but when it is one of them, a skinwalker, friend and someone who means the world to his girlfriend, he can't help but care just a little too much.

"What do you suppose we do then!" It wasn't his fault. Bade didn't sign up for the position of leader in this situation clean-up-crew.

"Well we can't starve her anymore. She was right, she's dying and this whole detox thing isn't working" Lila has always been the cool headed one, up for whatever was suggested but able to manage the situations that made the others fall apart.

"So, we need to feed her? With what?" Mirabel is cautious about this question, not wanting to hear about what Zev has already done.

"You know we can't feed her...that, we need to give her something smaller. Mirabel you work in that pet-shop..." Lila's words trail off, knowing that the best suggestion would be the hardest for Mirabel.

"I can't! How would I pick which bunny or guinea pig to condemn to death?" The mere thought of such a thing makes Mirabel shake with nerves.

Seth crosses the room to Mirabel, looking her in the eyes and telling the honest truth because it is for her own good. Even if the truth is the hardest thing to hear. "Mirabel, it's them or her. You can't save one without killing the other." Mirabel begins to tremble then, tears escaping her soft hazel eyes. Seth pulls her into a hug, he seems to be doing this a lot lately.

Mac enters the room, looks shakily at the others gathered there and tries his hardest to keep his voice level. "We need to do something fast, Zev just changed and she didn't even move"