Okay so this chapter is a big mishmash of a bunch of stuff and probably not my best work but well hope you still want to know what is going on in the story even if i can't seem to make it flow well... but anyway hope you like it anyway ENJOY always love the reviews and faves and alerts Thanks again for reading...:)
I scan the area quickly and make a hasty decision to look outside of the woods cause if he wanted to take off on his own in the woods wouldn't he have done so in wolf form. I sprint out of the trees and glance around hoping beyond everything that he is just impatient to get back to the council building. Yeah, right why would he want to go there, he has been there for days with limited human contact. I screwed up is all I can think as I swiftly walk towards where I think I smell him, ewww I can smell Drake. My nose scrunches up as I start to jog towards the asshole, standing there talking to Walker and some other guy. I can't quite place the other guy but he sure looks like he graduated a few years ago.
"Hey, Drake." I call out and the scowl on Walker's face is anything but friendly.
I come to a halt a few feet from the small group and nod at the other two guys in greeting, not sure exactly what to say, Drake and me may have been getting along but his friends are another story.
"Is this who you have been hanging with Drake, never thought you to be a turncoat hanging out with La Push scum." The older guy laughs. Drake looks torn, hell I couldn't just drop my friends that easily either.
"Yeah, right you think I would hang out with this idiot by choice, I'm supervising his community service and his break is about over unless you want to add another 30 hours onto that tally." I say doing my best to sound like a freaking junior council geek.
"Community service huh? What you do this time Drake? Haven't seen ya since Friday night." Walker asks raising an eyebrow and dismissing my presence obviously buying the cover.
"I guess you know then since I was two sheets to the wind." Drake chuckles and shrugs his shoulders.
"Come on Drake the old man is gonna go ape shit if we don't get back soon." I am surprised when Drake says his goodbyes and follows me back towards the council building.
Once we are out of earshot, "I know I shouldn't have left but…" He starts to explain.
"Just stop, I don't need excuses…"
"Thanks, I mean you didn't have to cover for me and all with them." He says sheepishly.
"Yeah, well Walker's your best friend an you don't need to lose his friendship over something stupid." I say as my thoughts trail towards Arden and Emry, but mostly Arden cause Emry is a follower and is probably just along for the ride not wanting to rock the boat.
"Oh yeah, I never though I would see the day where you and Black weren't friends."
"It's really tearing his little sis up, Lil has probably been there for me more than I deserve."
"You sure like em young huh?"
"Lil is like a sister to me, Drake and Sadie is something else entirely, don't think you've exactly heard about all the specifics about imprints yet have you."
"No, not entirely, but I'm sure you will fill me in." Sarcasm leaking through in his voice.
"When and if you find yours you won't be able to stay away from her, your imprint is your soulmate and the feeling is totally all encompassing." I smile at his expression as we head into the back door of the council building.
"Hey, boys your are finally back, Tal you need to head over to the clinic Breydic is asking for you."
"Shit that is good to hear." I smile, "I'll see ya tomorrow Drake." I clap him on the back and turn to go out the door.
I can't get to the clinic fast enough, my legs bring me there despite the fact that my mind checked out the second I left the council building. Racing thoughts of how Brey looks and how he is feeling take over and my lapse of common sense shows as I try three times to pull the push open door at the clinic.
I head straight towards Brey's room my eyes not locking on anything other than the doors that will lead me to my friend. It is my own fault that I do not see him and it is only when his arm firmly grasps my upper arm that my feet actually come to a halt. My eye cast upwards to the small group of friendly faces before me though the hand on my arm could only belong to one person, Quil, the only member of the small group with enough strength to halt my forward motion. The others include a couple doctors I don't know along with the local doc.
"Hey, Talin the doc would like to have a word with you before you go in to see him." Quil's voice is quiet and almost calming to my torrent thoughts. I glance at him hesitantly, nod my head, and look to the doc expectantly.
"Talin, I don't want you to excite him or remind him of what happened. He has been awake and responsive for only about an hour and we are not out of the woods yet, son."
I nod my head again not sure if words would actually be able to be formed at the moment. I need to pull myself together and be coherent, shit I am not sure I can handle this be calm in the face of all the emotional and life threatening situations I am bound to handle in the near future.
I hear a few more jumbled words some from the doc detailing the specifics of Brey's condition but I can't listen and keep myself level headed at the same time. I just nod and look around the hallway nervously waiting for the all clear to go see my friend. The droning of the doc's voice comes to a halt and I guess that means I can go inside the room now. My feet can't get me to move fast enough for my brain but some how I manage a speedy walk to the door.
His face is no longer pale and forlorn looking against the white bedspread, his eyes are brighter than when I last saw them and all and all he is actually starting to look like a living breathing human, well not quite human per se. His breathing is shallow and his eyes lock onto me the second I walk into the room. The click of his door as I shut it behind me seems to startle him a bit, but other than that he looks happy to see me.
"Hey Brey." I smile and take the last remaining steps to close the distance between us.
"Talin." He says in a hoarse voice. I run my hand through my hair and take a seat beside his bed.
"Glad you are awake, man."
"Yeah, me too." He mumbles.
"Have your mom and sister been in to see you yet?"
"No, doc said tomorrow."
"You gonna get outa here soon then?" I ask not remembering if the doc told me or not.
"Yeah I hope so, not quite sure how I ended up here to begin with, think you could clue me in?"
Shit, not suppose to go there.
"Uh, we'll have to talk about that later the doc didn't want me to stay long."
"Kay."
"Hang in there man, you gave us all quite a scare…Sadie and your mom well nevermind you're getting better now that is all that matters."
I sit beside him about a while longer after we stopped talking, his eyes slowly start to close as he drifts off to sleep. Sleep, that is all it is, he will be better tomorrow and better still the day after that.
I dodge everyone as I leave the clinic and head back out into the night air. The deep breath in my lungs seems to have the desired affect and calms me. I start the walk back to my house, where my cranky mother is probably waiting up for me after leaving her fuming this morning. She never calls me my whole name unless she is really pissed at me.
I slam the door behind me just to let her know I am home and hear the woman call from the front room for me to get in there. Yeah, another wonderful day at the Grey house, I roll my eyes and head towards what I know will not end well. She is sitting on the sofa, her eyes are narrow, and her lips are thin and pressed strongly together as if she is biting them to stop herself from talking. I stop just inside the threshold and just wait.
"Talin, what on earth have you been doing all day?" It is a rhetorical question cause from the look on her face she has somehow gotten a detailed report of my daily activities. I open my mouth but her voice stops mine from talking, "Don't even deny it I know exactly who you have been with and what you have been doing down to the most explicit detail." She stands and steps forward a few feet.
"You are gonna make it so we have to leave town, have you even heard the talk around town about you. Hanging out with that older man from the University, screwing around with little girls not only Sadie but Lil now too—your best friend's little sisters. How could you? Not to mention your little scuffle with Drake and his lovely gang in the middle of town, What were you doing buying drugs? In less than a week you have taken the Grey name and run it into the ground, How is your little sister going to be able to show her face? How am I going to face my friends Thursday night during bunko?"
"Sorry." I spit out and make a hasty get away without another word, my hands are trembling, and my will power all but spent. If I don't want to pop into a giant wolf in front of my mother I have to calm the fuck down.
My fist hitting the wall of my bedroom sends rivets of pain through my arm a slight bit of blood but my self-induced wounds heal swiftly taking away the pain and some of my anger. The hole in the wall well that will have to stay there until I have time to patch it, I scan my room for a suitable disguise for the poor wall. A worn poster hanging by a little piece of tape is the lucky culprit, a new piece of tape later and the hole is no longer an issue. Me popping into a wolf also no longer an issue but pure exhaustion surely needs taken care of, sleep I curl up on my bed and hope sleep finds me soon.