Royal Blood | Complete

028 | Trouble in Paradise

Nika looks over at Ian, his chest isn't rising, and his body is hotter than usual he appears to look ill.

She shakes him lightly but he doesn't move or seem to even feel it.
A nervous panic expands in her chest.

Her emotions catch their attention.
"He's fine Nika." Gray tells her.
"But he's not breathing."

Gray sits up taking her hand and placing it on Ian's neck. She feels his slow heartbeat under the tips of her fingers. The thumping gives her relief.

"How much longer will you guys have to wait?"
"Another week." She covers her face with her hands.
"I'll take him to Label. Yeah?" Gray says and she nods.

He gets out of bed, putting on a shirt before he takes Ian.
Nika cuddles into Timothy's chest trying to relax herself but the sudden thumping downstairs makes her uneasy.

"Timothy?"
"I'll go see what that was. Just stay here." She does want to stay in the room alone but she also doesn't protest.

After a moment the thumping gets louder and her worry increases.

"What's wrong?" She jumps turning toward the voice behind her.
"I think someone else is in the house." She tells Gray.
"Okay-"
"I'm not staying in here alone."

"Fine then stay close."
She grabs his arm as they go downstairs.

There, Timothy is struggling to hold back the mutant. His strength has slowly dissipated along with theirs.
Gray kills it, checking his brother for wounds.

Timothy is just exerted rather than wounded.
"You should get to Label too then." Gray says.

They don't have time to leave before another bursts through the window.
"Damn." Gray curses.
It screeches loudly before it morphs into three.
"Damnit." Timothy pants.

The first one pounces on Gray as the other finds Timothy in a battle.
Nika bolts up the stairs to find an exit and hopefully a phone.

But it catches up to her, digging its claws into her back, she falls over the railing but catches herself.
Pain scorches through her body making her groan. It's only worse as she struggles to hold on.

It tries to grab at her to knock her down. nicking her arms in the process.
"Nika!" Gray calls for her.
"Let go." She sniffles shaking her head. The long drop scares her deathly.
"You can let go." Timothy assures her, he's beaten as well lying on the floor.

She sucks in a breathe letting go of the railing.

Gray barely catches her when she falls into his arms.
The screeching has stopped but they are all bloody and wounded now.

"Y'all okay?" They look up and Ian is now at the top of the stairs.
"Sorta." Nika mutters.
He drops the body and the mutant tumbles down the stairs just as Label comes through the doors.

"Good news. Nika you're not poisoned. You're just pregnant."
"Damit." She huffs.