Stargaze Pack

Pain of a Warrior

As Lucifer and Asher made their way home, Asher was congratulated by pack members. Asher accepted all with gratitude and beamed with accomplishment. When they reached the house they were greeted by Felix. 

"Lucifer, Asher," Felix bowed his head to the two young men, "Alpha Dean will be delighted to see you." with that Felix hurried away from the mansion. 

Asher and Lucifer walked into the house and made their way to their father's office. They turned through many halls and up many stairwells until they were met with a big red door. Lucifer lightly knocked on it. 

"Come in!"

They walked inside the grey office space. Bookshelves lined the walls, a fireplace was to one side, a fire gleaming, a desk sat in the middle. Alpha Dean looked up from his desk and smiled. 

"I heard you beat the man to a pulp, Ash. This is tremendous!" Alpha Dean exclaimed. Asher blushed with much embarrassment.

"Father, he did great! Nick won't be able to walk for a week!! And he got offered a position with the Elite Trackers from Jackson!" Lucifer beamed.

Alpha stood up immediately, his face serious, "What!?? Asher," he turned towards Asher, "this is perfect! This'll be good for you!" Asher looked away from Alpha Dean's green gaze.

"He said he had to think about. He wanted to ask you first, father." Lucifer jumped in. Alpha Dean stood shocked and then he understood why. Asher wanted to know if he could still prove his "worth" to the pack.

"Asher, this is something that will prove you are a good wolf. Many aren't offered Elite Tracker positions, let alone by Jackson himself. Jackson is a mighty wolf and he wouldn't be offering you this position without some careful consideration, he believes you are worth it." Alpha Dean explained wisely. 

"He's right, Ash... you know the Elite Trackers are legendary..." Skie added in.

"If you don't want to, that's okay. You can always help out the pack and stay a warrior. Anything you pick will be worth it." Alpha Dean added.

"I still don't know.. I'm tired and need some rest to think about this.." Asher yawned. 

Alpha Dean and Lucifer looked at one another and understood that Asher had taken a beating today. 

"Head to bed then, but I will be sending Dr. Young up to check your wounds." Alpha Dean said. Asher nodded and made his way to his room. As he stepped in he tripped over book on the floor and face-planted into the the hard wood floor. Blood gushed from his nose and he quickly grabbed a t-shirt up, covering his nose. The yellow cloth soon turned a dark red and began dripping itself. 

Asher dropped the t-shirt and more blood gushed out. He became dizzy at the sight of so much blood. He knew something was wrong. He stumbled up from the floor and ran into his bathroom. He fell onto the sink and looked in mirror. A few drops of blood were dripping from his nose, but the real wound was above his eyebrow. Above his eyebrow a large gash was prominent. 

"Shit, shit, shit!!" Asher cursed. He grabbed a towel from a hook and held it up to his eye. 

Asher then mind-linked Alpha Dean and Lucifer, "Dad! Lucifer!! I fell and there's blood gushing everywhere!!"

Alpha Dean immediately answered, "Audrey's already on her way."

Then, Lucifer, "I'm coming!"

Asher stood waiting in the bathroom, but soon became dizzy and sunk onto the bathroom's tile floor. He heard loud footsteps and Audrey dashed into the bathroom. Her face was flustered and her eyes locked onto Asher. 

"Where's the wound??" she asked. Asher pointed to his left eyebrow, a towel covering it. There were more loud footsteps and Lucifer entered the room.

"Ash!?!" he yelled.

"He's in here Luc!" Audrey yelled back. Lucifer rushed into the bathroom and looked down at Asher. His face held concern as he paced the bathroom. 

Alpha Dean burst into the room and into the bathroom, "Asher?!" 

Audrey looked up at the two men and scolded them, "He's FINE! Give me space to fix him!! Unless, you want him to pass out from you to calling for him constantly!! NOW GET OUT!!" Alpha Dean and Lucifer stared at her shocked. "NOW!!" They scrambled out of the overcrowded bathroom and into Asher's bedroom.

Asher looked at Audrey wide-eyed. She rolled her eyes as she said, "They need to learn some boundaries... jesus... Now what happened exactly?" She uncovered the towel to reveal a fairly large gash above Asher's eyebrow. 

"I-I... I tripped over a book on the floor and landed.. landed on my face..." he stuttered. 

"A book? Hmm," she asked as she examined his wound, "It will heal, but there will be a faint scar.." Asher slowly nodded and kept his hand by his eyebrow, she gently set it down and looked to Asher, "Don't touch it." She began cleaning, stitching, and bandaging his wound.

Once it was bandaged she began checking his previous wounds. As soon as she touched his left hand he yelped in pain. She pulled away and placed her hands on his stomach and began lightly pushing, he gasped and she explained, "Your left hand is broken and will heal in a few days with your werewolf healing. Your ribs were cracked and will heal in maybe a few hours. You'll live." She bandaged his injured hand and wrapped his ribs up. "Take it easy for a few days until everything is healed. Do NOT touch my bandaging, I will be here first thing in the morning to change your bandages." with that she left Asher in the bathroom and informed Alpha Dean and Lucifer.

"You're and idiot." Skie stated.

"No, I'm not! How was I supposed to know there was book right in front of my door! That was not there when I left!!" 

"Still, you're an idiot."

"Whatever.."

Lucifer entered the bathroom with a loud sigh, "I thought you really screwed yourself up and dad was worried the whole time. How did you trip on a book?" Lucifer shook his head, but Asher knew Lucifer wasn't mad nor Alpha Dean. "Dad left and is going to be filling out some type of paperwork. I'm going to go change and come back here to sleep on your couch-"

"But-"

"No buts, it's a done deal. It was either me or dad and he needed to get some work done. Audrey said she will be here tomorrow morning so let's get to bed." Lucifer helped Asher up and led him to the bed. Asher eased into the soft blankets with a soft sigh. As soon as he rolled over darkness overtook him.