Smoke and the Wolf

Chapter 22

It had been 4 months since they had gotten Bella back.

"Do we have any idea when she is going to wake up?" Thierry asked Erik

"No. I wish she would open her eyes and let everyone know she's okay. I hate waiting for her smile, her hug, telling me to stop worrying. Well I can't stop worrying now." Erik looked like he hasn't gotten much sleep for a while.

"So, the doctors have no idea?" Thierry felt back for Erik, the last 4 months had taken a toll on him, on everyone.

"No. They don't know if her blood is poisoned or if she would rather stay in her current state. They say if she doesn't wake up soon, she might never." Erik's eyes stated to tear up at the last part.

"Have they tried giving her vampire blood?"

"Yeah. I even gave her some of mine mixed with Vlad's. Nothing has worked."

"They suggest finding a stronger blood mixture, but I don't know where to look for that."

"And who in the world would give her stronger blood? You and Vlad are the highest-ranking Vampires in the world, we can't get stronger blood."

"So, I can't try my blood?" Mercy walked in with a bunch of flowers. She tried to comfort Erik but as normal he shrugged it off.
"The doctors don't even know if your blood would work Mercedes." He gave her a cold stare.

"Erik wait, she may be onto something." Thierry glanced over to Erik. "Mercy is the daughter of Vlad and a Tribred....It could be worth a shot to try." Thierry said.

As much as Mercy wanted to stick out her tongue, she thought against it. "We should talk to a doctor first. I don't want Bella to die from werewolf blood in her system."

"The doctors would do tests before they did that."

"Well we should talk to one now." Erik shot up from his chair and walked towards the door. "Mercy watch your sister. I'll be back in 15 minutes."

Thierry shook his head and followed after Erik.

"Let me ask you Thierry, Was I too hard on her?" Erik knew he was hard on Mercy, but she reminded him of a "mistake" Vlad did all those years ago.

"Sometimes you are Erik." Thierry was honest, Erik was hard on Mercy.

"I don't know how to act around her. I see Vlad in her. How much she reminds me of him, and before you knew him. I don't want her to make any mistakes she might regret."

"She's smarter than that and you know it, plus she has Remmy...Even though he's a little weird."

"Yeah. I guess I better give her some slack."

"You really should." Thierry stopped when they got to the doctors.

After Bella was returned, Azee went back to taking care of Roman. A week later, she went through her first change. It was painful, but she did it. Azee's wolf was white like Mercy's, but she had a red mark that went from her head and ran down her back. She also was much larger being an adult, but not as big as her mate. The wolves in Thierry's pack highly respected not because of her being their Luna, but of the mark she bore. It was obviously important, but Azee didn't understand why. As 4 months passed, and Bella had yet to wake up, Azee grew worried. Alara, her wolf comforted Azee, but both knew that something was wrong. They remembered the strange Male who led them to her and both were going to get down to the bottom of it. As for Roman, the babe as grown quite big. He had his baby fat already and he was quite the baby talker. Azee adored him, in my leaving with Vlad, Thierry, or Mercy. She, of course, introduced Roman to pack. Showing the pack their future alpha, but for now he was still growing.