Bitten Witch

Chapter 14

Stag bursts into the room followed with everyone else, I raise an eyebrow and Scalia laughs.

"You look like you've been mauled by a bear," I comment leaning against the bars, still very aware of the blood dripping from my hand.

"Ha, you see...," Stag starts.

"He was." Finishes Logan from behind him, "This idiot thought it'd be a good idea to chase a rabbit into a bear cave, but in the end, he got mauled, lost the rabbit and we instead got dear blood."

I snort as Adrian speaks, "Dammit Stag we've talked about this!"

"I'm OK, I was just excited is all."

"What are you... a five-year-old on their first hunt?" Lilith asks standing close to Dean.

"It's fine, it was funny, he came out looking like he'd just been neutered," Logan says.

Everyone laughs and I simply smile, then Logan comes over and gives me a plastic water bottle filled with dark red liquid. My stomach turns at the thought of drinking it but I know I don't really have a choice, popping the lid I give a careful sniff. Everyone watches me closely, I watch them out of the corner of my eye and chug the liquid. Everyone holds their breath, I finish the bottle in about three seconds and then lick my lips.

"It's good." Everyone lets out a breath of relief.

"That's good, for a while you'll need to have some every day but eventually you'll only need it about once a week or so," Scalia says.

"Cool," I say screwing the cap back on.

I look around and notice that Envy isn't around, Scalia must have noticed as well because she asks, "Hey where's Envy?"

"Oh he was coming down but he walked past us with a pissed off look on his face when we were coming down," Lilith says looking worried.

Scalia's eyes go wide in horror, "Is this room soundproof?"

"From upstairs yes but if you stand behind the door you'll hear everything," Eve says tilting her head.

"Fuck." She whispers and bolts from the room.

Envy must have been standing outside the door, I wonder how long he was there and how much he heard. But right now I think it's best to leave him alone.

"Am I allowed out of the cage now?" I ask.

"Oh yes, if you want you, should go out with one of the boys and get a few days' worth of blood."

Dean comes over and unlocks the bars as I'm walking past him he whispers softly, "Thank you."

I smile and wink at him and give Lilith a slap on the shoulder that actually makes her wince. I jog upstairs and grab a cookie munching on it while I wait for everyone to head back upstairs. Stag and Logan head to the bathroom to clean up his wounds, Lilith and Dean head into town and the others just kind of disperse, except Adrian.

"I guess you'll have to deal with me for now." I give him a smile.

"That's cool, I'm pretty good at hunting so I guess it won't take too long."

"Yeah, you're better than I am that's for sure. You want to grab some bottles and then we'll head out?"

"Alrighty just give me a sec," he says.

He returns the smile and runs off to grab a bag, I eat another cookie while I wait and let my thoughts wander. That dream last night was strange it took me a little while to remember it, it felt like I was actually in the past, maybe I was just seeing what I wanted to see but the thing is I've never seen my Dad, not even a picture and I don't remember my childhood. I wonder what those shadows were as well, didn't Scalia mention something about my Dad's coven dealing with dark magic, were those shadow things connected to the coven? How come my Mum never told me anything, I understand it must hurt to lose someone you love but ever since I could remember she's buried herself in work and refused to talk about him.