And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

I wasn't sure how I was supposed to bring him back, but somewhere deep inside me, I felt like there was an answer.

I felt like there was something that I could use to give him life.

"I'm not sure what's going to happen to us, but it could be painful. I just need you to bear with me... this is for Damian."

Each of them nodded in agreement. They were well aware of what was being asked of them. "To give life, I must take life. I must replace the mortality of four for the life of one."

Closing my eyes, I searched deep within myself. The darkness that had once been laying under my skin floated freely, and within that darkness, I found a speck of light.

Pulling the images of what our family had been before Damian had gone missing, I used it to pull the light towards me. How I felt about him, the love that I had for him and his brothers, I pulled every ounce of it forward and pushed it into Damien.

As my eyes flew open, I saw the swirling mass of blue and white auras coming from my mates and I. The essence of our being. The life force for which we were celestial.

The only life that we had to give Damian to bring him back was that of our immortality.

Our Celestial connections would save him... and bind him to use once more.

"I love you, Damian."

The more I pushed, the louder my screams of pain echoed from my throat. The pain was unlike anything I had ever felt before, and with one final, death-stricken scream, I shove the last of what I had straight at Damian watching his body glow with a light I had never seen before.

As the light brightened, darkness swirled around me. I wasn't sure if I was dying or if this was simply something else, but slowly I slipped into the darkness. Watching Damian's body fade from my sight like the closing of a movie.

"Please, Damian... come back to me. I can't do this without you."

*****

Hale.

Never once had I seen such immense power as I did from Ivy. She had poured everything she had and pulled every ounce of power we had out of us and into her before pushing it, projecting it into Damian. It was like the life had been almost sucked out of me, and in a way, it had been.

Our Lycans had been stripped of us, and we were left as simple shifters.

Our wolves were now free in our minds, no longer hiding from the Lycan beasts that had always sat in the forefront. "What the fuck?"

As soon as Ivy collapsed, I watched Damien's eyes flutter open. A glimmer of hope radiated through me and through the link that I had with my brothers.

She had done it. Ivy had brought him back, but not without her own cost.

She laid on the ground, her hair no

longer its white coloring, but had returned to the reddish brown she had before. I couldn't help but

wonder if this meant she was

human again, or perhaps was she

something else?

"Damian?" I stammered quickly as I rushed to him. Talon and James right by my side as he coughed and sputtered trying to understand what was going on.

"What happened?" He croaked out.

"Dude." James choked out with a laugh. "You fucking died, man. Can we try not to do that again?"

The three of us laughed at James's comment, and though Damian had a hard time moving, he still laughed, which ended up causing him to wince in pain. "Perhaps you should relax, man," I said to him, shaking my head. "Where's Ivy?" he said through a strained voice as he looked around, searching for her. My eyes lifted from his and turned toward where she was laying.

"It took everything out of her, but she isn't dead."

"I need her-" he said, trying to move, but Talon and James held him back.

"No, we need to get both of you back to the pack house. The wounded are being treated at the hospital."

"Wounded. Did I miss the battle?" Damian smirked. "I was hoping to kill someone for messing up my hair."

Talon laughed and reached over, messing Damian's hair up further. "Yeah, man, you missed the fucking battle, that's for sure. You should have seen Ivy. She kicked some serious ass out there."

As James picked up Ivy in his arms,

Talon and I helped Damien to his feet as we attempted to make our way back towards the pack house. It wasn't as easy as it looked, but I will take on any difficulty life had to throw at me to make sure Khad my brothers and Ivy by my side.

"Did she have the babies?" Damian asked softly. His eyes reached mine with guilt. "She did, and wait till you see them. You have a lot to make up for."

It would take a while for things to get back to normal, and I knew more than anything, but if that meant I stil had to stay as alpha for the time being then I was fine with that I did not have a problem helping my brother out.

The only thing that mattered to me was that he was alive and Ivy was alive, and the twins were safe, which meant that our family could be whole again. Our family could move past what had happened and try to rebuild our home.