Chapter 34: I don’t want to be a werewolf!
Sitting in one of the rooms waiting for the doctor to see them, she was sitting on the big bed looking around. This was the nicest doctor’s room she has ever been in, though maybe the coldest. She wrapped the blanket tighter around her and tried to hold off a shiver. Kane wrapped his arms around her and she sank into his warmth. A tall man walked into the room, he had salt and pepper hair and brown eyes, his smile was friendly, but Dax has never had great encounters with doctors, she shrank back into Kane’s arms farther.
“Good evening Alpha Kane, Luna! How can we help you today?” He said, bowing his head. Kane carefully turned her around and showed her back to the doctor. His eyes widened as he saw the big bruise.
“She fell out of bed this morning, I only thought she bumped her head, but this started forming throughout the day. Fix it!” Kane all but growled at the doctor. The doctor moved closer to the bed to start his examination of her back, he touched the top of the bruise causing her to whimper and pull away from him. Kane was standing in front of her, he held onto her hands but he wanted to hold her. She whimpered again, causing Kane to release a growl. The doctor looked at him apologetically, he listened to her lungs instructing her to try and take deep breaths but it was painful and she would hiss when she tried to breath in deep.
“A bruise should not be causing that much tenderness, I will need to take a CT scan to be certain. But my best guess right now is she may have fractured a rib or two.” Gathering a hospital gown he handed it to Kane, to help her change into so she could get the scan done. He helped her pull her arms out of the shirt and was about to take it off, when she stopped him, shaking her head. He tilted his head to the side questioning her. She looked over her shoulder at the doctor, and covered her chest, he smiled. He pulled the back of her shirt over her shoulders so it covered her front and held up the hospital gown. She slipped her arms through the arm holes and he went to fasten it behind her. Pulling her shirt out of the neck and off her head, he helped her off the bed, when they both noticed a problem. The gown touched the floor and even tied the tightest it was too big for her and gaped at the back.
“I don’t think it fits,” she whispered, grinning at him.
“Is there a smaller size?” Kane asked the doctor, trying not to laugh. The doctor turned around and his mouth dropped. He didn’t realize exactly how small she was, when he handed over the gown. He had heard others talking, but it was something you had to see for yourself.
“I will see if I can find something” he said and walked out of the room. He came back 20 minutes later with a child size hospital gown that had rainbows on it. He turned around once more, and Kane helped her change the gown. This one fit much better, as it fell to her knees.
The doctor led them down the hall to a big door that read radiology, and she looked up at Kane. She’s had a few CT scans in the past, she wasn’t a fan of them. Lying on a table in a small space for 30 minutes while some big machine whirred and clicked around you. They followed him into the room, and a chill went through her, why are hospitals always freezing? Would it kill them to turn the heat on?
“Have you had a CT scan before?” The doctor asked, her
“Yes!” Her voice was small, she knew that machine would tell all her secrets, it would give them a road map to her painful past. She was not looking forward to this at all. She bit her lip and ran her fingers along the scar on her ear.
“So you are familiar with this procedure?” He asked
“Yes, lie in the bed and stay still,” she said. The doctor chuckled, pretty much summed it up. She took out her earrings and her hair tie allowing her hair to cascade around her shoulders, giving them to Kane, it upset him a little that she knew what to do. The doctor led her to the bed and Kane helped her onto it, positioning her in the middle. She lied back, controlling her breathing, she hated the machine. The doctor strapped her down seeing how she was small, it was a precaution to prevent her body from moving too much. Kane was growing more upset at the situation, she should not be familiar with this at all. Kane and the doctor stepped into another room, to start up the machine.
“Ok, try to remain as still as possible” the doctor spoke to her through the speaker
“Uh huh!” Came her reply, she had her eyes closed, she just wanted it to be over. The machine whirred to life around her, rotating and clicking, scanning over her body. No hiding anything now! Her subconscious said.
“What are you looking for?” Kane asked.
“Essentially black lines in the bones” the doctor replied as the first images started to come in on the monitors.
“What are those?” Kane asked, looking at all the white marks.
“Oh Goddess!!” Was all the doctor said.
“What? What are they?” Kane was getting concerned.
“Previous injuries!” The doctor looked at her through the window, he had never seen anything like this, there were so many. Kane looked at her as well, lying in that bed as this giant machine swallowed her. Ky pushed to the surface, he was agitated by this discovery. A low growl sounded around the room, forcing the doctor to look at him.
“You can talk to her,” he said, turning on the mic.
“Baby, how are you doing?” Kane asked, trying to maintain control of Ky.
“I’d like to be done now,” she said, Kane looked at the doctor who shook his head. It had only been a few minutes.
“Soon baby, soon! You’re doing so good!” Kane was fighting himself.
“I’m hungry” she said,
“What do you want?” Talking to her was helping.
“Brownies….ice cream….and….cookies” she was testing him, if he says yes then he saw and he is extremely upset, if he says no, then there is a chance he still saw, but he expected this.
“Absolutely!” Fuck! She thought, if he’s upset, then Ky is pissed.
“You saw didn’t you!” She asked,
“I need you to hold your breath till the count of ten” the doctor interrupted. She did, but she only got to four before she released it.
“I can’t, I….it hurts,” she whimpered, the doctor turned to Kane, turning off the mic.
“This is important, she needs to hold her breath for a ten count so I can get an accurate scan.” He flipped back on the mic.
“Ok Baby, I need you to try one more time, I know it hurts, just once more for me, please” he begged her, his grip was tightening on the chair he was sitting in
“Ok” she hissed, this was getting quite uncomfortable now. Her back was really hurting the more she stayed in this position. But she held her breath, and Kane counted, looking at the doctor, when the doctor nodded.
“Breathe baby, breathe” Kane was gripping the chair, he could feel her pain, she stifled a scream, it hurt so bad tears were streaming down her cheeks.
“Did Ky see?” She whimpered out trying to take her mind off the pain.
“Yeah! He saw” Kane’s eyes were still azure blue and he was still fighting to remain in control, but with the pain she was feeling, he was losing. More growls were filling the room, Ky was making his displeasure at this known to everyone.
“Ky” she called out to him.
“Mate!” He called back, a minute or two later her voice filled the room, she was singing Little Red Riding Hood by Dr. Hook. She would falter when a bolt of pain would shoot through her, but she didn’t stop singing. She was in an immense amount of pain, but she was singing to tame his beast, it was working he could feel Ky relaxing listening to her voice. The growling in the room quieted down, and Ky just stared at her lying in that bed transfixed on her voice coming through the speaker. He was on his feet the second the doctor turned off the machine, he had to get to her.
“She needs to sit up slowly and take slow deep breaths” the doctor called after him. Kane back in full control he was in the room with the machine and he was undoing the straps that held her down. He slowly helped her up, she was gasping which was causing more pain. He wrapped his arms around her hips, seemed the safest spot to touch, helping her slow her breathing.
“You did so good, baby” he kissed her forehead. She nodded burying her face into his chest waiting for the pain that was shooting through her back to subside.
They were led back to the room they were in before to wait for the doctor. It didn’t take too long, maybe 20 minutes, but by then she was getting tired, and she was starving. The doctor entered the room with some films and placed them on the light board to show Kane.
“She has 4 fractures, from the fall off the bed” he started pointing them out. Three were vertical, but the fourth one was horizontal along the bone. “You will need to take it easy, no strenuous physical activity, no heavy lifting. As to not put too much pressure on your back, try sleeping in an upright position. Use ice daily around the area. Try to take 10 slow deep breaths every few hours, and go for walks. If the pain gets bad, take two ibuprofen or acetaminophen.” He said to her, she nodded.
“No physical activity?” Kane looked at her, she bit back a grin,
“No, afraid not, could cause more damage to those ribs” the doctor was writing something in her medical chart.
“Uh, for how long?” Kane rubbed the back of his head,
“6 weeks maybe more” Kane’s face fell. Well fuck! It’s gonna be hard to keep his hands off her for 6 weeks. “Nothing that will compress her ribs, you want her to be able to take deep breaths. I will see you every two weeks” the doctor added, looking at her with a smile. She nodded her head, and he left the room so she could get changed. He untied the back of the hospital gown, and knowing that the only thing that stood between him and her right now were her red lacy panties. He groaned when he saw them, his hands slid down her sides to her hips pulling her into him. He was right, red looked really good on her.
“How the fuck do I keep my hands off you for 6 weeks?” He kissed down her neck as his hands slid around to her stomach, her skin heating up as he caressed it. One hand moving higher, one moving lower.
“You’re not trying very hard” she moaned when his thumb grazed the bottom of her breast. One pull of that hospital gown and she’ll pretty much be naked in his arms.
“Stop wearing suggestive panties” he nipped her ear.
“They are not suggestive, they have nothing on them” she protested.
“They are red, and they are lace. They are very suggestive. I told you I liked red” his hand skimming across the fabric.
“I am not having sex in a hospital room” she went to reach for her shirt, when his low growl stopped her and he pulled her back into him.
“Your mouth may say no, but I can make your body betray you” he started to slip down the gown slowly kissing each inch of skin he exposed, starting at her shoulders. He would smile when a moan would escape her. Making sure her lower half was pressed tight to him so she could feel him against her.
“For someone not having sex in a hospital room, you’re not doing anything to stop me” he whispered, as his hands continued to caress her body.
“Mmm….I don’t have to stop you….you’ll realize soon enough….mmm…. that anyone could walk in here….mmmmm….and see me naked.” She smiled when his hands stilled on her body. He looked over at the door with no lock.
“FUCK!” That took the wind out of his sails. He grabbed her shirt and slipped it over her head, still holding the hospital gown to her chest. She took her arms out of the sleeves, he guided them through the sleeves of her shirt and she pulled down her shirt and the gown at the same time. Back in her own clothes she went to walk out the room.
“Um, where do you think you’re going?” He asked looking her up and down
“I’m not staying here, I’m leaving” she said confused,
“You’re also not wearing pants” he held up the blanket. She walked back across the room and wrapped the blanket around her, so her lower half was covered.
“That’s your fault” she said and walked back towards the door.
They were walking back through the house, when she took the opportunity to look around she had only seen the entrance and Kane’s room, which was their room now. The rest of the house was a mystery to her, she didn’t even know where the kitchen was.
“Tomorrow, I’ll take you on a tour of the house,” he said, pulling her closer to him.
“You’re not going to let me go to work tomorrow are you?” She said, looking at him. As much as he would love to keep her here with him all day, he knew she would be miserable with that.
“How about a compromise? A half day, home by noon” he could be reasonable. She looked at him in disbelief, she was sure it would be an outright fuck no!
“Yes, ok a half day!” She accepted immediately before he could change his mind. “Where’s the kitchen, I’m starving and you promised me brownies, ice cream and cookies” he laughed, he was hoping she would have forgotten about that, but clearly she didn’t. He brought her to the kitchen and her eyes went wide. It was huge, 8 burner gas stove, 4 double wall ovens, 3 double door fridges, two walk in pantries and two walk in freezers. Enough counter space for 6 people to work at and a massive island in the middle, with bar stools along one side.
“There are a lot of mouths to feed, and the cooks needed the space and the equipment” Kane explained watching her take in the space. The same dark slate tiles were on the floor of the kitchen that are in their bathroom, light grey quartz countertops, oak cabinetry the same colour as the hard wood that runs through the whole house.
“You have cooks? Do you have maids?” She asked, taking in more of the room.
“We have 8 cooks, and 10 housekeepers. Everyone in the pack pulls their weight. They work here or they work in town. They also go through rigorous training. Everyone can fight to protect the pack.” She mouthed the word housekeepers, she didn’t like the idea of having someone in her personal space.
“They only clean the common areas and nothing more, we are not complete animals, unlike some packs our members clean their own rooms and bathrooms and do their own laundry. The laundry facilities are in the basement” he pointed to a door on the other side of the room. Good to know, now she knows where she can do her laundry. “Except for higher ranking members, we have laundry facilities on our floors”
“Ooo aren’t we special!” She stood in front of him. He threaded his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him.
“Sometimes it’s good to be the king” he kissed her hard, his hand slipping under the blanket to her bottom. She broke the kiss before he could start something.
“No way mister! Cookies and brownies first” he growled into the side of her neck. “Besides you heard the doctor, no physical activity for 6 weeks” another growl followed by a whimper.
“But I know what you’re wearing under that blanket,” he groaned, but she was right, he did promise her. The doctor however was an idiot though, no way in hell was he gonna keep his hands off her for 6 weeks. They would just have to be….imaginative.
One of the cooks found out she has a love of desserts and made sure there would be some in the kitchen for her. So gathering her snack, they headed back to their room, she had more presents to open and he couldn’t wait to get his hands on her and finish what was started in the hospital room. She ditched the blanket from around her waist and sat in front of the coffee table with her snack. He put strawberries on her plate and told her she had to eat them. Strawberries and brownies were yummy together, who knew? He moved the gifts closer to her, she would point to the one she wanted to open and he would place it in front of her. She opened the crate of oils and was quite excited about all the delicious scents she would get to try. Lydia made the best oils, but no bathtub meant she never got to try them. Next she opened a small box that had wall hooks in it and she looked at him questioningly.
“We have blank walls, I want you to design some art for us that we can hang up and enjoy.” He said, smiling at her. He really thought about all these gifts. She opened more slipper socks and a big fluffy blanket. Two full size bottles of lilac and cherry blossom oil. A tote bag, big enough to put her tablet, phone and camera in, so she wouldn’t have to carry multiple items. A crate of bubble bath, followed by two full size bottles of winter pine, and a rain bubble bath. With only 4 more to go, she took a little break. She wanted to smell all the oils and the bubble baths and enjoy her other gifts first. He sat on the floor beside her and watched her enjoy the different scents of the oils and the bubbles. She wrapped the fluffy blanket around them and they cuddled for a bit, while they finished her snack. The strawberries had stained her lips a light red colour and he couldn’t help himself, he brushed his lips against hers tasting the strawberries on them, she straddled his lap and pressed into him. Seems she might have issues keeping her hands off him for 6 weeks as well. His hands under her shirt on her lower back she wrapped her arms around his neck and ran her fingers through his hair gently tugging, she moved her hips into him. Oh they needed to figure this out, his little mouse was becoming quite the sex kitten.
Their clothes off and a bit of grumbling and growling later they found a position that didn’t hurt her back and was comfortable for him. Using the couch to rest his back against, she was straddling his lap one hand on his shoulder the other lower on his side. She controlled the speed, the movement and the depth of him, with one arm around her shoulders and one around her hips supporting her back, she moved her hips alternating between slow rotations to draw out the pleasures and quicker ones to build it. How she could move just her hips and not her back he didn’t know, but Goddess he was grateful, his grip on her hips would tighten when she would build him up.
“Fuck! Don’t stop, baby, don’t fucking stop” tightening his hand around her hips again, he was getting close, she was getting close as well. He pulled her closer to him and tightened his arm around her shoulder so she couldn’t arch her back too far when she reached her peak. Moving in a steady rhythm he gripped her hard and pushed into her, she gasped and tightened around him, sending him over with her. Riding out their release, he held her to him, turning their hard breathing into slow deep breaths, she settled into his arms. Stupid doctor, the fuck did he know! Kane thought.
She opened the last four remaining gifts, the camera and the IPad Pro she said she couldn’t accept, they were too much, but she wouldn’t give them up either. Now she understood the tablet sleeve and the tote bag. She opened the anklet and it immediately went around her ankle with the moon in the front over the top of her foot, but when she opened the necklace, her breath caught and she cried. He placed it around her neck making her promise to never take it off.
“Never” she said and kissed him hard starting round two.
“Holy fuck!” He breathed out, falling back against the couch when they were done. Breathing hard, she started to laugh but had to stop when pain shot through her back. She whimpered and stiffened against him, riding out the pain. Ok that round might have been a bit too physical for her. He held her close to him, rubbing small circles on her lower back and kissing her forehead. Ok maybe the doctor might have been a little right.
“Sorry baby, I’m so sorry” he whispered as he held her. Dax shook her head as she rode out the pain. It wasn’t his fault, at least not entirely his fault. When the pain finally subsided for the most part she looked up at him.
“Thank you! Thank you very much for my presents. I love them all” she said, running her fingers over the pendant. He kissed her, brushing her hair out of her face.
“You’re very welcome,” he smiled at her. “Maybe we should ice your back a little before we go to bed?” He added after. She just nodded, the pain hadn’t fully passed, but she could move a little. He helped put her shirt back on, and watching how stiff her body was, he questioned whether or not she should go to work tomorrow. They might have made a deal, but she wasn’t moving so well at the moment. After putting on his jeans he told her to go wait in the bed and he would be back with some ice for her.
When he left the room, she slowly made her way to the bathroom, cleaned herself up and brushed her teeth and got ready for bed. She looked at herself in the mirror and was seriously questioning if it was a good idea to go to work tomorrow. Her back hurt, really bad and she was not sure how much sleep she was going to get tonight. She would decide in the morning, if it hurt too much or she was tired she wouldn’t go. She crawled into bed and waited for him to return, she didn’t have to wait long, he came back with a towel and a bag of ice. She laid on her stomach and he lifted her shirt, laying the towel across her back he placed the ice on it. She whimpered a bit at the pressure but let the ice sit there. Listening to the doctor he adjusted her pillows so she would be sitting a little more upright, though he doubted she would sleep much.
“Can you become a werewolf?” She asked,
“Uh….yeah! A bite from an Alpha can turn someone into a werewolf” he answered. She touched the mark on her neck and looked at him a little concerned.
“No, not that bite, that is something different. That is the mark of a mate, and should only be done at the peak of one’s passion. In order for an Alpha to turn someone, it’s a bite that comes from the beast side, I would have to give control to Ky and then bite someone. Then they would have to survive it.” He explained,
“Survive?” She looked at him.
“There is a chance they could reject the bite, then it would act like a poison. One of the reasons why we don’t just run around turning people.” He said.
“Have you ever turned someone?” She asked,
“No! I watched an Alpha bite someone once….it didn’t end well” he said,
“What happened?” She stared at him wide eyed. He laid down on the bed beside her.
“It was an Alpha from a neighbouring pack, his mate was human like you, but she wanted to be a werewolf. He wanted her to be one as well, so they had this big ceremony and invited all their alliances. My father was Alpha at the time, he tried to talk him out of it, but the man’s mind was set. So they were standing on the stage and he shifted giving control to his wolf and he bit her. At first nothing happened, then she started screaming. My father ordered my mother to take me and my sister away, she covered Lacey’s eyes and pulled me away, but not before I saw her writhing on the ground coughing up black blood.” He looked at her, she looked horrified.
“What happened to the Alpha and the pack?”
“The Alpha died a week later, it’s one thing to lose your mate, something different for them to die by your hands. The rumours that spread didn’t help, some of the elders thought she was too weak to be a werewolf, others thought the Moon Goddess rejected her, if she was suppose to be a werewolf then she would have been born one, some thought he did it wrong, and without an Alpha, the pack was lost, my father accepted as many members that wanted to join, while the rest disappeared.” He stared at the roof.
“I don’t want to be a werewolf” she blurted out, he rolled onto his side and looked at her. “I-I can barely be human, my emotions are a roller coaster on the best of days, can you imagine me as a werewolf? I’d be a little ball of fury with fur” She added. He laughed, but nodded, though she would be sexy as hell covered in fur.
“Humankind is much safer with you as a human” he laughed,
“Werewolf kind too” she agreed, trying not to laugh “Ow! Don’t make me laugh, it hurts.”
“Sorry baby” he said smiling and kissed her. He removed the ice from her back and gave her two acetaminophen and a glass of water. She hissed when she had to move, but she managed to get to her side of the bed. He tucked her in and kissed her good night, telling her to try and get some sleep and they would see how she was feeling in the morning.
That was easier said than done, Dax would just start to drift off and then she would move causing pain to shoot across her back, so she would shift positions and the same thing would happen. She was tired, she could feel her body wanting to go to sleep, her mind wanted to go to sleep. But nope she was awake, she closed her eyes again, willing herself to sleep, willing her back to just give it up and stop hurting….nope. Fuck! Now what, the doctor said to walk, so quietly as she could she slid out of bed and walked around the room, it sort of helped. She gently crawled back into bed and laid down, closing her eyes. She slept for maybe an hour when she woke up again. Fuck off! She thought.
She looked over at Kane, he was sound asleep, she thought about poking him just so he would be awake with her, but that was cruel, she couldn’t do that to him, he deserved to sleep. So again she got out of bed and walked around the room, it didn’t help this time. She sat on the couch, nope not helping. She tried lying down on the couch, nope. Sighing, she set up her new IPad downloading all the apps she was going to need and setting up her account so she was ready for work in a few hours and when that was done, she walked around the room some more.
Once more crawling back into the bed she tried lying down, and counting. Sometimes when she was little she would count as high as she could and she would fall asleep, she got to 326 before she fell asleep only to wake up an hour later. She was so tired she wanted to cry, she looked over at Kane again, one arm thrown above his head, his other across his chest, she slid over in the bed and cuddled up next to him, his arm instinctively went around her and his hand rested on her hip, pulling her closer to him. She found herself drifting off immediately into a deep sleep.