Obsidian Night Pack

33

I didn't know how long I had been out, but it must have been some time because when I woke up it was dark outside. I saw the moonlight hitting the grass outside telling me that the day was over. I also knew it had been a while because Alaric was sound asleep next to me resting his head on my chest and holding me tight as if I might disappear if he let go. I looked down at my right arm and saw the IV as well as bandages wrapped around my wrist.

When I took a quick scan of the room I realized just how angry and upset Alaric had been. IT was like a tornado came through the medical ward and my bed was the eye of the storm. Nothing near me was damaged, but the chairs that sat up against the wall were either upside or broken apart and scattered across the room. There were many holes in the wall and papers were scattered everywhere. I felt sick. This was all my fault. I guess the onset of guilt had changed my heartbeat enough for Alaric to notice. He slowly came out of the fog of sleep and his bright green eyes went directly to mine. They opened wider when he realized I was awake.

"Clover!" He spoke loudly. I didn't say anything, I just wanted to look at his face, this person that I lied to so much and betrayed so easily all for my own self-interest.

"Clover... oh, thank the Moon Goddess." He breathed out and began planting small kisses on my forehead.

"Do you need anything? Should I get the pack doctor?" I shook my head and simply rolled over closer to him.

"No, just stay with me."  However, Alaric ignored my request.

"I mindlinked the pack doctor, he'll be here shortly."

"Alaric..." I didn't want the pack doctor to come, I just wanted it to be us alone. After the day I had, I didn't want someone else to come in and bringing all of my problems with them. If the pack doctor came then that meant that he would run tests and he would ask questions that I wouldn't be able to answer.

"Hey, I know you might not be feeling up to it, but I need to make sure you're alright." He kissed my forehead once more and then slowly got up from the bed.

"Alaric, what about my initiation?" I asked as I tried to sit up, to which Alaric quickly came back over and pushed me back down onto the bed.

"Plans have changed, it's alright, I've taken care of everything."

"What does that mean? And where did that man go ...." I looked around the room again as if expecting him to jump out at me and ask for more blood. Alaric sat back down on the bed and reached out for my hand.

"Everything is okay. I've postponed the ceremony, but you and I will have a private one for you to be initiated into the pack, with Ashlyn. The warriors are working around the clock to find him, he escaped from the packhouse, but we're just making sure he's not hiding somewhere in our borders." It didn't seem like he wanted to stick around in my opinion. It still worried me though that there was a possibility of him still being inside the pack.

"Who was he?" Alaric's eyes saddened when I asked the question, but lucky for him the pack doctor came in and saved him. He bowed to us both and then began explaining my condition.

"Glad to see you awake Luna, you had us worried there for a minute," the Doctor had a kind, aged face and even though he was older than Alaric it seemed like he knew him well enough to not tiptoe around any subject.

"You lost a lot of blood and there was extensive damage to your neck," he motioned with his hand, " after closing your artery and the wound you started to heal, slowly." My breath hitched as he mentioned my slow healing, a side effect of having no wolf.

"That's to be expected though with the loss of so much blood." At this time he started to peel back the bandages that were wrapped around my neck and wrist to examine them.

"Now, because Alpha Alaric stayed by your side for the entire day you seem to be healing much faster and I would say you'll be back on your feet by lunchtime tomorrow." My mouth fell open, I couldn't believe I would heal that fast... then the thought hit me. When I simply passed out when Alaric and I first met. He was extremely overprotective. I knew we had talked about this, but as I turned my head to see how Alaric was processing all this information I knew that this time would be different.

"Um, thank you doctor um...." I didn't actually know the guy's name.

"Thomas," he smiled as he bowed once more and walked over to the cupboard behind him and began digging around. I turned my attention back to Alaric.

"Alaric?" I tried to get his attention, but it seemed as if he was off in his thoughts trying to process everything. Processing the events that happened today and the injuries that I was now bedridden with. I saw him clench his fists together making them white with anger. I was about to reach out to him again, except he stood up from the bed instantly. He gazed down to me with his face completely serious.

"Things are going to change around here." He stated simply, but I knew there was more meaning behind those words and it terrified me. Again, I tried to sit up, I needed to sit up if we were about to have this conversation.

"Clover I swear to the Moon Goddess if you try to get up from that bed one more time you won't be leaving it for a week." My mouth fell open and my arms shook as they nervously eased me back down to the bed. He had changed. Completely changed his mindset in thirty seconds or less. One moment he was kissing me on my forehead and the next he was ordering me to obey him and I had nothing to say to him right now, nothing I could do or say would make him calm down.

"Security will be tightened around here and you will not leave the packhouse. If you leave our room you will have ten warriors escort you anywhere you need to be on my orders. Are we understood?" From the moonlight streaming in through the large window, I saw that Alaric's eyes were swirling in black and gold. A mix of possessive and rage. Alaric knelt down to the floor, in order to be eye level with me. He took my hand in his own and squeezed it lightly.

"Clover I asked you if you understood." Tears were streaming down my face, but Alaric didn't seem to care. As long as the message got through that there would be no way for me to leave his side, go anywhere without someone going with me, and that I would never leave the Obsidian Night pack, he didn't care.

"No, Alaric, you can't mean all this... is this about our fight last night? You're fearful of losing me? Because it won't happen, I'm not going anywhere." I whispered to him as I gazed intensity into his eyes. Alaric let go of my hand and once again stood up quickly. I hadn't realized that Dr. Thomas was still in the room until Alaric began speaking to him.

"Dr. Thomas the Luna is having trouble sleeping, please give her a sedative." I ferociously wiped away all the tears on my face as if that would help me see Alaric better, to help me understand what was going on.

"Alaric! We talked about this!" I tried to get him to see that he was just repeating his past mistakes. When he wasn't sure if he could keep me safe he locked me away in our room and now he wasn't sure if I would obey his orders so he was locking me away in my own body.

Dr. Thomas looked shocked at first as well as uncomfortable at the position Alaric had put him in. However, despite my protests, he prepared the sedative.

"Dr. Thomas please don't do this! Please just get Brett or Sander to help Alaric understand!" I begged him, but he shook his head.

"My apologies Luna, but with you this upset it will affect your healing as well as your recovery. It is best if I give this to you." He said as he injected a substance into my IV bag. I began panicking and looking around the room for a way out or a reason for me to still be awake, but I couldn't find one let alone think of one.

I reached over to my IV in my hand and started to try and pull it out, but before I could Alaric was next to me pinning both of my arms above my head in a furious rage.

"Stop this, now," he said in complete seriousness. I tried to wriggle free from his grasp, even though I knew there was no point. My eyes slowly became extremely heavy and my head lulled back and forth as I tried to fight off the inevitable. Before I fell asleep I did one last thing to try and secure some kind of help.

"Ash, please.... Help."