Stand Your Ground

Chapter 17: Actual Pain

Chapter 17: Actual Pain

As Elizabeth opened her eyes, Derek noticed they had gone a violet colour which he hadn't seen in a long time. Scott had never seen her eyes stay the violet/purple colour only flickering. Deaton nodded to Elizabeth, as he went back to looking through his bag.

"It's not just a single bullet," Elizabeth said as she focused on what she could feel. "Buck-shot," Elizabeth said as small pieces of silver made their way slowly to the surface and to her hand. As the pieces slowly moved Theo's eyes changed to gold and his teeth to fangs as he roared and squirmed in pain.

"Hold him still!" Deaton said turning around as he saw Theo's legs kicking in the air. "If he moves any more something could go wrong," Scott and Liam grabbed hold of Theo's legs again and pushed them down onto the bed.

"Theo, try and stay still...I know it hurts," Elizabeth said as the pieces of the buckshot slowly flew into her hand.

Theo growled something incomprehensible and grabbed onto both Derek and Elizabeth at the same time as the final piece of buckshot came out. Elizabeth took the hand that she had gathered all the pieces of buckshot in and took a good look at it, they were silver it was a wonder he wasn't dead. Elizabeth handed them to Deaton who had gathered the necessary ingredients to formulate a form of a cure.

"Scott, what can you smell?" Deaton questioned, even he could pick up the faint aroma from the mistletoe and wolfsbane plus a third ingredient.

"Other than the mistletoe and wolfsbane, and a fruity smell," Scott said, causing the three werewolves to smell the air again. "What the hell has a fruity smell?"

"Belladonna...or deadly night-shade," Elizabeth answered, that was something that she didn't want to touch at all. "Deaton, how do I get that bullet out without touching it when it comes out?"

"If you can, do you think you can put it straight into the pan?" Deaton replied, holding up the pan that the rest of the buckshot was in and moving towards Theo to apply the cure. "We still have to burn out the wolfsbane."

"Are you sure you got all the buckshot out?" Derek questioned, Elizabeth nodded but she wasn't entirely sure that she had.

"I think so," Elizabeth replied, before she went back to concentrating on getting the bullet out and moving it to the pan with a thud.

"Ace..." Theo mumbled before Elizabeth sat on the bed beside him again. "Hurts so fucking much," Theo mumbled trying not to squirm too much.

"I know, just hold on a little bit longer," Elizabeth smiled at him, pulling him towards her as Derek, Liam and Scott let go. "Take my hand," Elizabeth held her hand to him making him take it causing him to hold it tightly as Deaton applied the cure to the open wounds on his side.

As they waited for the cure to take effect Liam walked out of the room and leaned against the wall before sliding down the floor. Scott walked out of the room to his beta and saw him sitting on the floor, so he sat beside him. Derek looked between Elizabeth and Deaton as the older man motioned for him to get a lighter to burn out the wolfsbane portion of the poison. Elizabeth kept hold of Theo the more he squirmed and tried to push her away.

"Theo, look at me," Elizabeth growled her eyes glowing red as she spoke to try and get him to calm down some. Derek returned with the lighter and started burning away at the wolfsbane.

'You'll have to tell Scott sooner or later about him,' Derek was silent as they spoke to one another so that Scott couldn't hear the conversation.

'I know, but I can't exactly go hey Scott guess what? Theo's part of the family...' Elizabeth answered as she felt Theo's body start to calm down.