Flames in water

Part 12 "Why?"

A couple of weeks have passed by abd you've adapted to your rank in the pack pretty well. Sarah, you and the rest of the scouts were basically up all day for the past week. There were loads of rougues coming into your territory for some reason. Whenever you asked where they came from none of them answered, but some of the gestured towards the mountains. Every time it would remind you of your dream, but it wasn't reoccurring back, you didn't have any more nightmares. Luke has been there with the scouts all along, same with Michael, Calum was called in a couple of times, but that was it. You didn't spend much time with anyone, you and Calum haven't been in your special place for a week and a half, you were too tired to stay up late. It's almost like you had one day for vacation which was the waterfall and after that nonstop work. Mali has moved in with you and Sarah actually, she had to watch over Sarah as her inner wolf was getting used too much. While the humans' tales of werewolves shifting at night weren't totally true you can't stay in your other form all day or too much, it can be quite exhausting for your body and your inner animal. Luke would come around whenever you finished the job for the day to check on Sarah, have a little talk with Mali and you then he would leave. Michael would come too, every two days, since Luke forced him to stay up later to help the guardians just in case, Diego stayed up with Mike, they would manage to squeeze in some practice if they weren't too worn out.  Calum would come rarely and when he did, you two didn't speak a lot, just a simple hi, bye, or what's up, but nothing more. You weren't sure what was going on with your friendship, why is this situation taking such a toll on it. Michael and you were allowed to leave as well if you wanted, Calum made that clear when this started happening, but you're not going to leave everyone on their own, not now. Noone knows why these things happend, Mali told you that there were never these many rougues here, ever. Nothing like this has happened since, well, since never, it was so abnormal for your friends imagine how you felt.

That lead up to so laying on the couch with Sarah's legs on your lap as she sleeps tightly, Mali was laying on the floor, reading something, her back stood against the couch so she was leaning against it and everything was quiet, all you could hear were Sarah's little snores.

"Since when did our lives become this exhausting?" you question Mali, sighing, your legs hurt so much you couldn't even stand up straight.

"I don't know Willow, it would be good if we knew where these rougues were coming from, they all look around twenty to thirty years old, mostly males with some females, it's really strange" she answers sighing as well, she flick a page of her book, focusing back to that.

"Wanna help me carry Sarah to her bed?" you question, struggling to walk properly yourself, let alone carry someone, she nods getting up. You take Sarah to her room and tuck her in, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Luke should come by any minute now" you say, not directly to Mali, but she nods anyway.

"Would you mind checking up on my brother please, I haven't talked to him since yesterday, we were at the different sides of the territory. I'm kinda worried about him to be honest with you" Mali says, concern evident in her eyes.

"Of course, you stay here" you tell her reassuringly. She smiles at you and you head downstairs to the door. Wait, you had to check up on Calum, but you haven't talked to him properly for a while, you didn't think this through, but you were going to do it anyway. You just hope he's okay, cause none of you were right now.

***

You knock on the door, waiting impatiently for Calum to open it. You were more nervous now than the first time you met him, you didn't even know why. Why must you be so hard to be friends with Calum Hood, why? Noone was opening the door for a few minutes, so you checked if it was unlocked and it was, you enter slowly in the house, being cautious. There was glass shattered on the floor, everything was a mess, the pillows were thrown everywhere but the couch and Calum was nowhere to be seen. 'What the hell happend here...?' you mutter to yourself. You look around cautiously, jumping over anything sharp, your eyes scanning the room for Calum, your heart was beating fast and you were very worried. Did he do all of this? Once you checked everything downstairs you went upstairs, of course. The bathroom doors were open, but he wasn't in them, so you thought that he is in his room. The door was closed, but you heard muffled noises, you're staring to get serious worried now. You grabbed the door handle, slowly opening the door with an intake of a sharp breath. It revealed something you would never forget, a scene that broke you, you saw a person that helped you the most since you came here, he was absolutely torn. Calum was curled up in the corner, you couldn't tell if he was crying or not, his knuckles were bloody, his blanket was thrown somewhere, there was glass on the floor and when you traced where it came form you saw a mirror with a hole. You looked at the black curly haired boy, who was smiling and laughing two weeks ago. His head was on his knees, his arms shielding it, you could hear sniffles and your heart broke. What did he do, did somebody do this to him? No that's Impossible.