APUI: Volume 1 - My Life as a Werewolf

Chapter 30: Maybe That Wasn't Such a Good Idea

< 🔥 J POV 🔥 >

Holy shit!
I couldn't believe that Bella was falling! Why the fuck did Luke do that? He obviously startled her and she was falling of a cliff for the second time this fortnight.

I ran towards the base of the cliff and Bella landed on top of me. I managed to catch and cushion her torso's landing but her right leg impacted the ground and I heard an audible snap. Fuck! I thought as I heard the bone shatter. It now was a compact fracture, meaning that it would take a normal werewolf at least two days to heal it, with the help of pins to hold the bone in place, and a week with the absence of pins. However, I was well aware that Bella was not at the strongest that a werewolf could be, mainly due to my rejection effectively eating her from the inside out.

To restore her to her former strength she would have to accept the bond between us and even then she wouldn't receive the complete strength she had before until she marked me. The reason I knew this was because I was also experiencing the adverse effects of my rejection even though they had lessened now I had accepted the bond my accidentally marking Bella. For some reason, my marking of her still hadn't overridden my rejection of her and that was still and option for her.

Desperate to do something I picked Bella up and ran with her back to the pack house. I mindlinked the pack doctor informing him of the medical emergency we had on our hands.

The bad news came quickly after I told him the full extent of the situation. 'W-we ca-an't treat that here Alpha' the doctor said. 'You need to take her to the human hospital!' I mentally growled at him (dear god I'm punny) but turned right and ran in the direction of the closest human hospital.

In between laboured breaths, I gasped out "I, Jackson Collins, withdraw my rejection of you, Isabella Stanley" I could feel Bella strengthen slightly through the bond but due to her being unconscious, it wasn't possible for my non-rejection to actually be registered by her wolf.

In my head, Luke was distraught. 'I didn't mean to!' He kept repeating. He felt guilty and entirely responsible for Bella's current state and was begging her wolf for forgiveness, even though her wolf was unconscious, along with herself. 'For gods sake!' I screamed at him. 'she can't hear you! If you really wanted to do something helpful, concentrating on carrying your mate to the hospital where she can get actual medical would be really fricking useful!' Lucas cowered back slightly at my words but he knew that I was right and that his begging for forgiveness of someone whom was not even conscious was an obvious lost cause.

Eventually, we reached the hospital and I barrelled in the ER. There were a few other people waiting. The first person was standing there, clutching where his thumb should have been, with his friend was holding a plastic bag of water that had another thumb-containing plastic bag inside. The next patient was holding their arm while a doctor talked to them. I briefly heard the words "you're not a priority" which I thought was cruel for a human, then again, it only appeared to be a minor fracture - either a hairline or a greenstick. There was a child, looking rather green, and being comforted by whom seemed to be their elder sister and finally I reached the commotion.

Near the front of the waiting room was a teenage boy, sprawled out across the floor, spasming. "He just said he had a headache" his mother was screaming, extremely distraught. "We knew he hit his head earlier but I had no idea in was a concussion" she broke into tears. "The only reason we were here in the first place was because of Jenny's illness" whispered the woman as she gestured to the girl and her sister.

"Coming through" I called as the people began moving out of the way. I reached the middle of the circle of people and saw there were two doctors tending to the boy. "Excuse me" I said and the doctor looked up briefly. "Mmm" he asked. "I'm sorry to interrupt but my girlfriend is injured..." I trailed off. He looked up at me fully this time, noticed Bella in my arms and glared at my face. "If you didn't already notice boy, but we are already tending to a casualty who looks a lot worse than your girl does. She's probably just sore from the hard sex you kids are into now days" he laughed bitterly. When he said that I joined in with him laughing, bitterly but lighter. "She fell off a cliff" I deadpanned. "And I know full well that you can't do anything for that boy while he's having a seizure" "If your girlfriend is sooooo hurt, why didn't you call an ambulance?" The stupid obnoxious doctor jeered. "For fucks sake!" I screamed. "MY GIRL FELL OF A TWENTY METRE HIGH CLIFF AND I DON'T SEE ANY OF THOSE 'ROUND HERE OR NEAR ROADS SO ITS PRETTY DARN OBVIOUS THAT IT WASN'T AMBULANCE ACCESSIBLE! WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING FOREST AND I RAN THE WHOLE WAY HERE. CAN YOU PLEASE JUST TREAT HER BEFORE SHE DIES"

The guy behind me, holding the thumb, tapped me on the shoulder and whispered "don't waste your shit with him man, just go" and gestured to door to the actual ER. Thanking him, I used my butt to push open the door and heard the doctor say "hey" as I left.

"My girlfriend fell off a cliff" I shouted into the room. The hustle and bustle stopped, and everyone just stared at me before a doctor ran over and the movement started again. "Why are you in here alon... holy shit" he said when he noticed Bella.

He quickly gestured me over to a bed with a teenage girl with a broken arm. "I'm sorry" he said to the girl "but this patient is in a critical condition and she needs a bed to avoid further bone displacement." The girl smiled happily and got off the bed. I thanked her and laid Bella down, noticing the multiple fractures in her leg and her unconscious state. The doctor shouted something and glanced around. Turning to me, he said "follow the signs to ICU and tell them Dr Damien sent you" before nudging me towards the bed that now contained Bella.

I pushed the bed down the corridor and followed the signs to intensive care. When I got there, I told them Dr Damien sent me and they immediately transferred Bella to a bed and began plugging and stabbing things into and onto her. To do damage assessment they took her to the X-ray room which I was stuck standing outside. One of the doctors kindly told me to sit in the waiting area but I adamantly told them that I was not leaving Bella's side. I was sat in the chair next to Bella's hospital bed, rubbing her hand with my own and listening to the heartbeat monitor. Luke was screaming in my head that he was so so so sorry.

After ten minutes, a nurse came back and asked me to follow her into a X-ray viewing room where a doctor was waiting for me. "Are you her next of kin?" He asked me "I am an the closet thing she's got within 8 hours" I said "and technically she's her own next of kin". He nodded and stood in a professional manner and began gesturing to the X-ray.

"The fall caused multiple injuries. The most obvious being her broken right leg. It is a compact fracture and will need surgery to insert multiple metal pins into her bone to scaffold correct healing." He stopped before turning back to me and asking "you're werewolves aren't you?" I nodded and he smiled. "Explains a lot." He said "The increased temperature and heart rate, you carrying her all the way here and refusing to leave her side..." He shook his head and reapplied his professional manner.

"She also sustained considerable bruising to her internal organs although her wolf is attempting to heal this before her leg. Is there something wrong with her?" I winced and he gasped. "You rejected her didn't you?" I nodded feebly. He smiled, and patted me on the back "It'll work out" he reassured me even though he had no idea about Bella and my reservations or situations. "Anyway, she also has small injuries, a few cracked ribs and probably a mild concussion. There also may be other injuries. Now to the surgery?"

He went through the logistics of the surgery and told me I would have to wait outside. When we went back to Bella I kissed her on the forehead and watched as the doctors wheeled away my mate, going to put her under the knife.

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A/N

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