Mindy
"NO!" Alex was screaming struggling to hold Victor up but I could see it was a losing battle and I wanted to help her but I was frozen I could not seem to get myself moving. Everything was moving in slow motion and I stood watching as Victor fell back pulling Alex along with him where she landed sprawled across his chest trying to hold the blood in his open chest wound. "Vic! Victor! Please." Alex sobbed desperately.
"Tommy Call the Pack." Kieran said entirely too calm.
"Yes ma'am." Tommy answered and also too calm pulled out his phone.
"Someone call 911!" Alex screamed as Kieran pulled her off of Victor.
"We will … now rest. You are injured." Kieran smiled at Alex then covered Alex`s mouth and nose till she passed out, and to my shock tommy clapped his hand over my nose and mouth till the world went dark.
Alex
Where am I? I wondered everything is hazy, that smell is so familiar disinfectant laced cold air and what is that beeping? "Alex?" I heard Joey say in a concerned voice.
"Joe… Victor where is he?" I asked my voice was barely more than a squeak.
"I don`t know sweetie… they only found Mindy and you." Joey was holding my hand tightly, "You have to tell me what happened how did you get shot?"
"Jake… Jake shot Vic," I had to force the words out. "Where is Vic Joe?"
"Jake? That undead fuck shot you!" Joey was surprised and infuriated.
"Don`t worry I think he is dead." I groaned.
"But I never … where is my phone I need to call Victor or Tommy. I need to know he is okay." I said and Joey`s face fell. "Joe…?"
"I want you to listen carefully to me, Mindy told me what she witnessed and those monster`s you call the pack suffocated you till you blacked out with a bleeding chest wound and left you to bleed to death, when she came too and called the emt`s you and her were the only ones left in that yard. She seems pretty sure Victor was dead when she was knocked out." Joey was blunt but careful in his wording.
"That can`t be right!" I shouted sitting up in my hospital bed.
"Alexandria! Calm down before you pull your stitches." Joey said trying to hold me back into the bed.
Mindy
I walked into Alex`s room to see her struggling franticly under the hands of two orderlies and three nurses and Joey. "Someone call Tommy!" Alex was begging as they shot her up with a tranquilizer. I looked around as her struggles became weaker by the second to see a stony face on Joey and Amber Had tears running down her face in torrents as she watched her sister in law fading under the administered drugs. They knew everything including items that Alex may not know, and they knew everything I knew because I told them it all. The only thing we were waiting for now was Chris to give us the details of Were death rituals.
"Where is the baby?" I asked to break the silence.
"I left her with Sara at the rental." Amber answered carefully and sniffled then continued, "Still no answer from Tommy?" now that Alex was out completely.
"No… and I honestly don`t expect one..." I answered still more than alittle pissed at Tommy.
"You are giving up on them already?" Amber asked quietly.
"Why aren`t you?" I asked carefully.
"If she`s lost him and Jake no matter who did what it will destroy her, We`ll all just be waiting to bury her too." Amber answered softly.
"I didn`t think of that we need to watch her…" I was stunned.
"Now you understand why we are not telling her that we can`t get confirmation that he is dead or that every blood test we have the hospital run is showing she is not pregnant. Joe is holding out hope that the idea that she might be pregnant will save her but I`m not so optimistic…" Amber let a few more tears run down her face.
"I`ll keep trying Tommy but I left him more than a dozen messages I expect they are cutting ties." I speculated. "We need Chris to find some answers."
"Yeah, if all fails that may help." Amber sighed and rubbed her face.
Alex
The fuzzy blackness in my head was fading on the edges and this time I would keep it together so I wouldn`t be put under again. I needed some answers now not later. I could hear Joe and Chris talking over me. "No Joe they burn the body and scatter the ashes over their hunting ground…" Chris said quietly but not quietly and I tried to ignore the statement so I would be able to keep a handle on my emotions.
"Do you think they would at least include her?" Joey asked.
"No… She is not in the pack." Chris argued.
"He`s gone…" I felt myself speak the words but could not hear them.
"Alex?" Joe and Chris blurted out at the same time.
"Hi… please don`t knock me out anymore…" I asked as calm as I could be but I could feel the hot tears running down my face.
"How are you feeling? Are you in pain?" Joey was terrified.
"I`m … ah … the wound does not hurt… Joe, have we heard from the pack at all?" I was amazed that my voice was even.
"No we`ve been calling but we may have to talk about the fact that they may not contact us in any case." Joey answered carefully.
"How long have I been here?" I asked.
"Thirteen days" Joey cringed.
"Have they done blood tests?" I was hoping they had.
"Yes and no they haven`t had a positive test yet but it's still very early." Joey said trying to give me a bright side.
"Alright … Is there anything else I need to know?" I was fighting to stay in complete control.
"No, I don`t think so." Joey answered.
"Good then can I get out of this place?" I said sitting up.
"I`ll go get the doctor…" Chris scurried away on his self-assigned mission.
"Alexandria, Look at me" Joey spoke sternly.
"What?" I met his eyes.
"You will wait to have any dramatic outbursts till we know for sure you are not going to have a baby. I do not want to find you dead in the morning when there was hope at the end of the tunnel."
"Joe … what business is it of yours?"
"Just promise me… He would not want you to hurt yourself."
"How do you know … But I will promise this you won`t find me dead." I snapped at him and closed myself in the bathroom.
