Christian
I don't think there are any words possible to describe what it feels like to see the one you love the most die right in front of your eyes. Your dreams, your hopes, your future, with them. It all disappears.
I didn't move, unable to force myself to care anymore. A blur of movement flashed past me as Justin lunged at Nate who grabbed him by the neck and flung him against the wall. I moved slowly, ignoring the both of them to shuffle next to Juliet. I dropped to my knees and tears rocketed out my eyes as I grabbed Juliet's limp hand.
A flash of light streaked towards Nate and I turned my head to see Alex and Mason standing in the doorway, Alex's wand raised.
"Stay the hell away from my brother, you son of a –"
"Alex," Mason cut her off and put his hand over hers as he caught sight of me on the ground.
Alex tended to Justin, kicking Nate's frozen body aside. Mason bent down next to me, his brown eyes boring into mine.
"I'm sorry Chris," he whispered, holding on to my shoulders.
I broke down into his chest, something I'd never done before. I'd never cried in front of my brother, had him hold me like I was fragile little child. It was supposed to be the other way around. As Mason held me, I reached across and closed Juliet's eyes.
Alex
I helped up Justin up, seeing the immense tears building in his eyes.
"She's gone," he said emptily and I hugged him.
He let me but didn't hug back, and I had the feeling he was staring at Juliet's dead body over my shoulder.
I let go of him and turned to see Mason who was staring helplessly at me. As if to say 'What the hell do we do?'
I heard footsteps outside and raised my wand only to see Daniel in the doorway. He took in the sight remorsefully, a hint of guilt flickering in his eyes. My earlier doubts confirmed themselves.
"You set us up," I said quietly, meeting his eyes. "You were working with Nate. The whole time warp thing was a trick."
"I had to," he said, pleading for me to believe his excuse. "He kidnapped my Dad and said I had to help him kill you. What was I supposed to do?"
"You could have come to us for help, rather than betray your so-called friends," Mason said angrily from the floor, still holding on to Christian.
"Maybe….maybe you can fix this."
"How do we fix this?" Justin screamed, looking to Juliet.
Daniel turned to me. "The time portal, you have it?"
I felt around in my pockets, sure I'd picked it up before Mason rushed me out of the hotel.
I pulled it out and examined the shiny innocent looking locket.
"Will it work?" I asked dubiously, not looking forward to another trip through time.
"It's still only a prototype but I can try and make it work."
I handed it to him and he fiddled around with it for a few minutes. I went over to Mason and together we pried Christian away from Juliet's dead body.
"I'll go," I said to no one in particular, stepping forward.
"We'll go," Mason corrected, slipping his hand in mine. I squeezed it gratefully as Daniel opened the portal for us.
Together we stepped through once again into the unknown.
We lurched back into reality seconds later it seemed but I knew better; it was 30 minutes ago. We were still in the same room as before except there were two other werewolves besides Nate we didn't recognize plus our respective brothers rolling around on the floor. One was watching the fight between Justin and Christian eagerly and the other was holding Juliet. None of them seemed to notice us until it was too late. Mason pushed himself into full wolf mode, launching himself at Nate and the blonde haired guy. In seconds, the blonde was dismantled but Nate was quicker, turning himself into his wolf self and engaging in a brawl with Mason.
I tried to use the neat spell I'd used on Nate before but the realised I hadn't pulled down the magic safeguard protecting the house. Muttering a few choice words, I felt the restriction on magic lift once more and promptly turned Micah into a live Popsicle before he could even blink. Juliet looked extremely surprised but grateful all the same when she saw me there. I grabbed her by the hand and pulled her out of harms way, where Justin and Christian followed suit.
"Where the hell did you come from?" Christian asked, hugging Juliet close.
"Never mind," I said nonchalantly, too exhausted to get into long winded stories; some things were better left unsaid.
Justin tried hard to wipe the envious look on his face as he watched Christian and Juliet embrace. Careful to erase all signs of bitterness before he spoke, Justin held out his hand for Christian to shake.
"Thanks," he said stiffly. "For not killing me."
Christian laughed softly and shook Justin's hand. I smiled briefly at the show of camaraderie before focusing on Mason who was trying to rip into Nate's neck. But Nate was stronger, overpowering Mason. I raised my wand but Justin smacked my hand away.
"If you misfire, you could hurt Mason."
He had a point. It was almost impossible to tell the two apart. But I had an idea. A reckless idea, but an idea nonetheless.
"Anyone got a knife, weapon of any sort?" I asked urgently.
To my surprise, Christian pulled out a large serrated blade. "This okay?"
I nodded, pushing past my mild surprise to take the knife from him. I moved towards the clash of werewolves.
I'll kill if this gets out but….okay I've read Twilight.
So yeah, I know I hate reading and all that but Harper would not stop pestering me about how romantic the story was so I caved to shut her up. Plus it had werewolves in it so I thought it couldn't be all bad.
I circled them slowly, remembering a part in the third book, where Bella cut her arm to distract the evil redhead vampire. The blood was a big enough distraction so that Edward could kill her.
I know it worked with vampires but I was hoping werewolves liked blood as well as human meat. After all, I couldn't exactly cut off my elbow and offer it up for dinner.
I rolled up my sleeves and dragged the blade slowly down my forearm, ignoring the searing pain. I heard the gasps emitted behind me and let out one of my own. I blinked back tears that formed as blood dripped down my fingers and onto the floor.
One of the werewolves stopped, tongue lolling on the side of his mouth. The other wolf moved in quick, savagely rupturing the other's skin.
"Stop!" I commanded.
Mason stopped and let go of Nate who drooped to the floor. "Alex, what are you doing?"
"We shouldn't kill him," I said strongly.
"Why not? He kidnapped your brother and tried to kill all of us. Why does he deserve pity?"
"No, she's right," Christian said, pulling a familiar looking syringe out of his pocket, one I hadn't seen in a long time. "He deserves a fate he considers worse than death."
He threw it to Mason who caught it in his furry claws and in a fluid motion, sunk it down into Nate's chest.
I didn't watch, instead stumbling over to the wall where I collapsed on the floor.
"Alex, you all right?" Justin asked worriedly.
"Yeah," I replied softly. I looked down to my bleeding arm which made me woozy just staring at it.
"We're going to get out of here now," called Mason's voice, sounding far away.
Justin helped me up and I saw Christian and Mason had picked up a fur-less Nate.
"Get us out of here Justin," Juliet's voice said from behind us.
Justin got his wand out without letting go of me and in seconds, we were gone.
