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The Return to Crimson Dawn Friday, October 18th Pt. 9
“Take my hand Cole.” I reach out towards him. He slips his hand into mine but it’s impossible to miss the tremble. “Do you know what I’m looking for?” He nods, I wait. “The pain is easier to tolerate now that I know where it comes from. I’m scared Dr. Leroux. The pain is intense and I’m only getting part of it.” I nod. “I’m sorry, Cole. It will get worse before it gets better but her will to live is the biggest factor.” He nods as I let his hand go and pick up her arm. I run my fingers lightly down her forearm looking for the best vein to use. She flinches with my touch but no longer has the energy to even pull away. “Are you still awake, Jessa?” “Barely.” She whispers. “I need to run a lot of blood tests before I give you the medication that will start the dumping process so I will be giving you a multivitamin with iron to help with anemia. Are you aware of any panels that were done at Crimson Dawn?” “I will contact Angela in the morning and have her medical records sent to yo
The Return to Crimson Dawn Friday, October 18th Pt. 10
“I’m sorry for the intrusive nature of the question. The only medical school exclusive to werewolves on the east coast is the Greater Council for Supernatural Medicine. I researched them as I had an interest in paying for Jessa to go but found that while the werewolves that were admitted there did very well, there was a very low death rate for a learning hospital, they have a strict punishment policy. One that I felt is far too harsh considering how many empaths are abused.” I nod my head. “The guilt of her death wasn’t enough. I was placed on a four week probation where I was not allowed to interact with the patients until the case had been reviewed by the elders in charge of the hospital. We weren’t aware at the time of my enrollment the full extent of their rules and they reserve the right to discontinue your education if someone dies no matter how sick they are. The morning after her death I was called to the dean’s office, informed of my probation and what the expectations were
The Return to Crimson Dawn Friday, October 18th Pt. 11
“Use the twenty gauge to draw 2.5 ml don’t worry about air. Once drawn you need to switch to the twenty-eight gauge, reinsert into the vial and push any air and extra medication back into the bottle. You want 2ml with no air bubbles.” She whines sharply and quickly turns away from watching Demetri draw the medication. “Is this given like the Vicodin or like the antiemetic?” He asks. It seems he’s sped up the process not wanting to give her a chance to change her mind. “Like the Vicodin. No breaks. It will take about fifteen minutes for her to start feeling the medication in her arm. The pain will slowly spread out into the rest of her body as it’s designed to penetrate every muscle and organ before it reaches her wolf. You and I will need to assist in taking on the pain during the most painful hour as Cole’s pain level is already a lot higher than I want it to be.” He nods his head as he prepares the shot as I instructed. “Jessa, this is saline to clear the line. It may feel a l
The Return to Crimson Dawn Friday, October 18th Pt. 12
I state quietly as I look at my watch. It’s been nearly two hours since they’ve arrived and this is going to be one of the most difficult things she will have to go through. Her face contorts with the pain as she brings her hand to her chest. Placing the medication into the muscle of her arm results in it hitting her heart and lungs first. This is the most intense pain that she will experience muting out the rest of her body feeling the same. It hits first and leaves last. “I’m sorry sweetie. I promise this is the worst. You will feel the effects of silver tomorrow but once I get a sample of what your wolf is holding I can start giving you the appropriate binders that will flush it out of your system.” I explained softly as I take her hand in mine. She squeezes me hard as she resists moving away from her chest. While I have never had the discomfort of feeling this medication in my body I detoxed enough empaths during my training that I know all their reactions. Clawing at their che
The Return to Crimson Dawn Friday, October 18th Pt. 13
“Jessa found you. Talked to alpha before I lost battle.” “You didn’t make her sick on purpose? I thought for certain that this was a cry for help. You just can’t hold back the silver anymore.” “Tell master I sorry I failed.” “No ma’am. I won’t tell her that.” “Please. You must.” “No ma’am. You must understand that you didn’t fail her. You have held onto this silver for far too long. Now that she’s in the safety of Alpha Demetri it’s time to let go. You’ve kept it hidden away, allowed it to weaken you in an effort to keep her safe. You just said your alpha is strict but fair. That he doesn’t allow abuse to occur. Do you not feel safe with him? With the decisions that he has made regarding your care?” I want to get to the bottom of her thinking before I leave her as she’s a critical part of healing Jessa. “I don’t know him well. Too sick to surface.” “But you trust Jessa and Jessa obviously trusts him.” “Yes she does.” She admits softly. “Now is the time my dear. You are safe.
The Return to Crimson Dawn Friday, October 18th Pt. 14
(Cole’s POV)I sit on the edge of my bed petting the side of my mate’s head. I haven’t been able to talk much since she arrived. The mix of emotions coursing through my mind is unreal to say the least. I knew from my nightly conversations with her that she was bad and getting worse by the day but I could never have prepared myself for her to be so close to death. It doesn’t matter what Dr. Leroux believes, I know what I feel. The horrid sickening feeling you get in the pit of your stomach that tells you something bad is going to happen has haunted me for nearly a week. What Deven doesn’t know is that I’ve had to force myself to eat dinner each night with Cassius, Arianna and Charlotte. It’s the only meal that we eat together as Cassius has been trying to give me more freedom. If he was tracking me on Big Brother then he would have noticed that’s the only meal I’ve been eating and it’s been only a quarter of what I ate previously. As nerve wracking as it is to have her in my bed leav
The Return to Crimson Dawn Friday, October 18th Pt. 15
Speaking it out loud has diminished the way I feel about myself and I’m struggling to place why. I move slowly from his grasp, whimpering quietly as I wrap my arm around my stomach. I hear the door to the room shut just as I reach the door to the en-suite bathroom. I enter the large room and shut the door. With my room being a modified care room the bathroom is set up to accommodate individuals with a variety of needs. The room itself is twice as long as it is wide with a large, two person soaking tub seemingly out of place in the middle of the floor. Only the end where the spigot resides is connected to the wall. The other three sides are open. My best guess is this set up allows the most access to someone who can’t get out once they get in. In the far northeast corner is a toilet and next to it is the six foot by four foot shower stall. From the moment I admitted my understanding of sex my stomach cramped up and it will be only a matter of minutes before I start throwing up bile.
The Return to Crimson Dawn Friday, October 18th Pt. 16
(Demetri’s POV)I close the door to the bathroom with a sigh. I knew he was struggling before Deven even spoke to me. I had started making my way across the living room to his room just as Deven came out. We spoke briefly, giving me an idea of what I would find but nothing prepared me for what I walked into. I check on Jessa first. She whines subtly as I stroke her hair tenderly out of her face. “Are you okay?” I ask near her ear as I slowly slide my hand onto her neck. She shifts uncomfortably but her pain level is too low, if she has any at all, for me to detect. She is the first adult that I have ever purposely tried to take pain from outside of my own mate. I’ve been able to do it with children for years. I’ll have to do some research to find out if other intuitives have been able to achieve the same thing. I wait until she settles again before I leave her and start opening drawers. I quickly find what he asked for and head back to the bathroom. As I promised, I keep my noise
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“It was during his return that things became more active in his case. Alpha Demetri made the trip with his mate to the Shadowlands pack. Turns out she’s an empath and was very sick with silver poisoning. They were able to save her and to the best of my knowledge he returned to Crimson Dawn around the beginning of the year.”“He did it? He made it home?”His face lights up like a child on Christmas day.“Yes, he is with his mate in the protections of Alpha Demetri Black. Unfortunately, his amnesia has not yet resolved and as a precaution, in order to obtain custody of Cole, Alpha Black had to agree to restrict his movements until his mental health improves.”“He’s a prisoner there?”I had a feeling he would take this part hard.“Not necessarily. Considering what little I know about the hell he lived through next door and his encounter with the alpha of Purple Mountain, I don’t see where he’ll have the desire to leave that territory any time soon.”He nods his head a little more relaxed
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The Return to Crimson Dawn Tuesday, December 31st Pt. 10
“I threw a fit. Charles waited until I was outside the courtroom to start punishing me for embarrassing him. He punched me in the face several times before I fell to the ground, then he started kicking me. He kept me on the ground until he was certain Heather and Marcus had left. Even though I had driven my own car to court he dragged me to his. He drove me home, only he didn’t go to the garage. No, he went to the back of the west wing where the room he modified for Cole is. I’ve only been in that room a handful of times when participating in my brother’s torture.” I stop as the memories of wrapping the silver belt around his leg and the condition he was in when I rescued him eight months ago blend together in a confusing mess. Murmurs float around the room, commenting on my unprompted confession. “Breathe, Andre. That was a very difficult truth to admit to. No comments will be made.” I know he’s addressing the pack as I continue to struggle. “You knew what was going to happen to
The Return to Crimson Dawn Tuesday, December 31st Pt. 9
“I’m concerned about you Andre.” Julius now has my attention only he has crouched down to my level. “While your statement seems to have helped Hayden it gave me the clue I was looking for.” “A clue to what?” “The true reason behind the terror you have in gaining custody of your kids. While any other wolf in this pack saying such a thing would be passed off as simply being very serious about their statement, you stating that you nearly died once to fight for them is something I take very seriously. What happened the last time they were taken from you?” I shake my head hard, holding my breath as I fight against the flashbacks trying to invade my thoughts. “Andre?” He tries again but all I can do is shake my head slowly. “Papa Redmen hit him. He made him bleed.” The innocent voice of my daughter breaks through. “You saw it?” Abe seems shocked that it would be done in front of her. I watch as she nods her head. “Mommy spanked me for crying.” She whines hard before laying against h
The Return to Crimson Dawn Tuesday, December 31st Pt. 8
(Andre’s POV) Stepping into the pack house is surreal at best. My head is spinning out of control with thoughts I had desperately tried to put behind me. I had relinquished all hope of ever having my kids just for the full force of the unpredictably of my life to cripple me when I need to be my strongest. The house is silent as I pick my way through the crowd. Julius is carrying Harper and Abe is trailing behind the two of us. It seems Julius wants as much of a barrier as he can create between Hayden and any escape route he may manage to find. I’m more concerned about him getting lost inside the pack house than him getting outside it. This place has proven to be a maze to me despite living here full time for the last six months. The house is completely silent except for the television quietly counting down the seconds until the new year. I can only hope that this year is different. That the New Year will actually be the change I’ve needed for years. Shamefully, I feel the dread tha
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“To show him the effects that abuse has on others. To prove to him once and for all that what his father taught him is wrong. Besides, Charles has been extremely cruel to Andre as well.” “How so?” “Well, I just learned tonight that Alpha Redmen gave each of his sons permission to have sex, to even rape, at the age of sixteen but lied about the penalty for getting the lady pregnant. Andre has been beaten multiple times for pregnancies. The first two were not his, yet he was mercilessly beaten three times during both of those pregnancies. He was forgiven a fourth when the pups came back not his. The beatings got worse when he got three others pregnant just to be denied the ability to be their father. The two older ones with two different ladies are in better packs than Red Fang but the two with him now. Well, their mother isn’t much of a mother.” I state sadly as I pull into the garage, turning off the motor as the door closes behind me. “I need your help. These pups are terrified a
The Return to Crimson Dawn Tuesday, December 31st Pt. 6
(Julius’s POV)It’s an hour's drive to get from Red General to the Red Moon pack house. Since Charles has been removed, moving through the Red Fang territory has become easier as the borders are completely open while the council is here. The bad news is, it’s gotten a lot more dangerous. While open borders allows the pack members to come and go, even move out if they please, it also allows rogues to infiltrate the territory. I’ve had to up my own guards on the border to account for the vulnerability it’s created for my own pack. The council hasn’t been happy with me accompanying Andre to and from the territory. They felt that, as the coronated heir, he should be able to handle this himself. I took the opportunity of his consistent meltdowns to save the fallout from such visits showing the council exactly how severe his abuse has been. I cringe every time I hear him speak about his brother, Cole. How has Cole even survived if his analogy of the situation is true? That Cole’s suffering
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“It’s quite alright. We are used to this type of reaction from children who come in abused. I can tell by the way he’s calmed that you are his biological father. We’ve been waiting for you.” I’m stunned when a voice comes from behind me instead of the nurse in front of me. I turn to see an unfamiliar woman in the doorway in front of Julius and Alex. Something about her unnerves deeply and my immediate reaction is to step back. “Easy Andre, she’s here to help.” Julius tries to calm me. We study each other silently as I sway gently. “I understand that you have had a very rough time with the council’s family court. I promise it is different this time. Take a seat so we can talk. Are you okay with me sitting on Harper’s bed?” I nod slowly without moving. “Mr. Redmen, do you think you can get him to take this?” The nurse hands me a little cup of purple liquid. “What is it?” “Tylenol 3. It has a small amount of codeine in it. Humans won’t give it to children this young but it has be
The Return to Crimson Dawn Tuesday, December 31st Pt. 4
I wake up yelping, screaming and fighting from the fitful dream I fell into during the ride to Red General. I cling hard to the back of Alpha Julius’s shirt as he silently embraces me. I had no idea how hard dad had been on me until I went to Blister Ridge. I had to harden up while I was back at Red Fang which has not only delayed my ability to process what has happened but it has added to the trauma I’m already struggling with. Josh has diagnosed me with complex PTSD, he did shortly after I moved into this pack after Cole disappeared. He simplified the description as being multiple traumatic events instead of just one causing the post trauma anxiety. Julius waits patiently for me to get myself together as going into the hospital with my own PTSD on full display won’t help me with my kids. I lift myself from his shoulder slowly, taking several deep breaths with my eyes still closed. It’s only as I open them and look into his blue-green eyes that he speaks. “Are you ready?” His voic
