Helanie:
"How is everything going?" Norman asked as he walked beside . "Are you nervous?" he added, and I sighed, reluctantly nodding my head. I could always tell him my fears. He was the type I could put my stress and worries on and know he would find a way.
With him, I wasn’t the powerful Helanie who was the Alpha Queen of the North. Beside him, I was just a teen who only had ’lalalala’ going on in her head.
"Maximus seems healthy. Everyone has been volunteering their blood to him. Tonight will decide most of it," I said with a deep, heavy breath, walking toward the basent with him.
"The whole house has been asked to evacuate for the night," Norman added, and I nodded in appreciation. He had been working nonstop to find a way to avoid marking Maximus. He didn’t say it out loud, but I knew it.
"Norman, are you scared of marking him? Would it be trouble for our relationship?"
I finally stopped at the bottom of the stairs and turned to him, holding his hand.
"I’m scared of you getting trapped in Rune’s world. The rest, I trust you," he smiled, gently pinching my chin.
"I’ll be fine. I rember we had to destroy the roses we sniffed from in order to get out of it. Now the real issue is, how are we going to get him to sniff the rose?" I turned to Maximus, who had been extrely anxious the whole day.
The full moon was tonight, so he was growing impatient and violent. There were nights when he would bang against the walls and I would co downstairs to stay beside him for comfort.
And weirdly enough, he would calm down.
Which made my belief in marking him even stronger.
"Empty the basent, kids. We’re planning to take him for a ride," Kaye walked downstairs, purposely stepping between and Norman as he made his way to the cage.
He was holding so flowers in his hands. Behind him was Emt, who reluctantly walked between us, but we had already stepped aside to leave the path clear for them.
Kaye and Emt had been bringing him different kinds of flowers every day. They would sit and sniff those flowers in front of him most of the ti. I had no clue if it was working or not, since I didn’t spend ti with the two. But here I was, to see the result of their hard work.
As soon as Kaye reached the cage, Maximus lunged at him, snatching the bouquet out of his hands and sniffing it.
"See that, kids? This is how you save your brother. Not by stealing his mate," Kaye whispered under his breath, but made sure we all heard it.
"Kaye, behave yourself," Emt warned him before stepping to the side, checking sothing on his phone.
Norman didn’t look bothered by Kaye’s remarks, as he was usually very rock-solid, but I didn’t like it.
"The beds will be here by tonight. That’s when we’ll start the process. Hopefully, it will be over soon," Emt added as he put his phone in his pocket, then raised his head to the ceiling, closed his eyes, and sighed before looking down and stretching his neck.
I knew what he might be thinking.
He was in pain too.
His mory had gotten a lot worse. There were days when he would co downstairs and be so shocked to see a lycan in the cage. But Kaye was beside him all the ti. However, what wasn’t supposed to happen were the delusions he was getting. He didn’t speak of them out loud, but I noticed him sotis widening his eyes behind us as if he was seeing soone.
I was heavily concerned for him, so I told Norman about it, and he had decided to help Emt out next.
"Great, I’ll go grab the purple rose from the royal lockers then," Norman said, giving one last nod before heading upstairs. Kaye was busy giving Maximus blood when I reached over to Emt.
"You probably forgot, but I rember," I started talking, and he turned to look at . His hands were in his pants’ pockets.
"I rember the well. I’ll do my best to wake up in a few hours so we can help you too," I reassured him, just in case he was wondering if I had forgotten. I didn’t think he had ti until the next full moon.
"You don’t have to worry so much about ," he said, trying to comfort .
"I do. I do care about you, and I’ll be there for you tonight," I said it with much more confidence this ti. He was staring at oddly, as if he maybe didn’t rember who I was.
"Don’t just don’t co to the well for ," he muttered in a grumpy undertone, and my eyebrows scrunched. "I don’t want to see you there. If you’ve ever respected , you’ll leave alone and not co to the—well," it was like he had to force the words out.
It hurt my heart. He didn’t even want my help anymore. But he was wrong if he thought I’d forget about him.
A few hours later, the beds were delivered and set up. One inside the cage, the other just outside it, at a safe distance.
Norman ca back with the ribbons and purple roses, and Emt returned after spending so ti alone.
"Get ready for a ride to Rune’s dream prison. But rember—if he recognizes you, he’ll make it extra hard for you to get out of there," Kaye said, not even looking in the eye as I sat down on the bed.
"You don’t have to say that out loud in front of Norman. He’ll panic," I reminded him, and he finally raised his head to glare at .
"We’ll panic too. So don’t act like he’s the only one who cares. Just admit he’s the only one you fucking acknowledge," he muttered under his breath but pulled away quickly as Norman and Emt ca over to the bed.
"Best of luck. I’ll co into Rune’s dream prison if you’re delayed longer than what we agreed on," Norman said, kissing my forehead and reminding of what I already knew. Then he walked with Kaye to help Maximus sniff, which he started doing imdiately. I held the rose and sniffed it as Emt ca to for one last word.
"You have to co back. Rember—you’ll be there at the well to help out tonight. I don’t have ti," those were the last words I heard from him, and they made feel so confident. Hearing Emt put his trust in again was a good way to start this mission.
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