Pillar's POV
I kept myself plastered to Aiden's side. "He's crazy. He was upstairs in my room! Holding my hand!" The guy had his hands still up in a defensive manner.
"Because I'm your boyfriend!" He looked over at this smaller guy. "What did they do to her?" I looked around at everybody, and I only recognized three of these people. Colin, Derek, and Aiden. Then I noticed that I was in my old house. In Beacon Hills. Where were my parents?
I looked over at Derek, knowing that he would give me the truth. "How did I get here, D? Are mom and dad okay?" I looked around, but everything seemed to be in place. My head felt cloudy though.
"They're fine. Caterpillar?" Derek was using a soft tone. The type of tone he would use if trying to get near a stray dog. "What's the last thing you remember?" He cocked his head to the side, and Aiden pulled me in closer, protectively closer.
I looked up at him and smiled. "We were in our spot, and you told me...you told me that you loved me." Aiden's eyes went wide like he had seen a ghost and then a faint smile crept across his lips.
"Oh for the love of...you've got to be kidding me!" The guy that was under the impression that he was my boyfriend was kind of blowing up. He pointed to Aiden had bared his teeth. "You did this!" I wasn't really surprised to see that he was a werewolf. But I instinctively stepped in front of Aiden.
"He didn't do anything you crazy person." Colin was laughing and we all turned around to glare at him. "This isn't funny!"
"Jeremy!" He ignored me, and called a small boy up to stand with us. "What was she seeing when you did your little mind trick thing?" Colin was acting like he wasn't even remotely worried about this.
"What mind trick thingy? And how did I get here? Derek?" He looked over at me sympathetically.
"I don't know what he is talking about. But you've been here for a little over six months Caterpillar." Six months! "I know this is going to be hard for you to understand, but you have been here for six months. And Isaac is your boyfriend, not Aiden." I shook my head profusely. He had to be lying.
"Lies. I've never seen him a day in my life." I looked over at the guy, Isaac, and saw that there was a great sadness and frustration in his eyes. I could almost feel it.
"Jeremy!" Colin regained the boy's attention. He closed his eyes and held them shut so tightly that there were crinkly lines around his eyes.
"She was with Aiden. Just like she said. They were taking pictures and looking the ocean...there's some hills?...I think they were sitting on a blanket..." He was grinding the words out. When he opened them, he let out a huge breath. "That's all I can remember from her mind. I'm sorry."
"You're sorry!? You did this. Now fix it!" Isaac was blowing up again, and I got a weird feeling of gratitude. I didn't even know this guy, but he seemed to care so much.
"I..can't!" Isaac picked the boy up and held him at his throat against the wall.
"Get your hands off of him!" A girl, I don't know where she came from, appeared by Isaac's side. He didn't look at her though. She grabbed a knife and stabbed him in the ribs. I cried out, but I didn't know why. I still had no clue who he was but he didn't deserve to be stabbed.
"What the hell are you doing?" The words left my lips before I even knew that they were there.
She looked over at me and pulled the knife out. The kid dropped to the floor, and rubbed his neck. Isaac held his side and started to go after the girl. He grabbed her and pinned her to wall next. He brought up his one hand and the claws extended from his nails and he brought his hand up to strike her. "Stop!" He stopped only centimeters away from her face. He turned to look at me. "Please...just stop." He dropped to his knees and I saw his nails retract and his breathing was slowing. I had stepped out of Aiden's hold and was now standing close to Isaac.
I looked over at Derek, then Colin, and then finally to Aiden. Colin was acting as if this wasn't as crazy as it really was, and Derek still seemed really confused. I wasn't so sure about what was going on here, but maybe they were all telling the truth.
I looked over at Isaac, and he dropped his head. "I'm not crazy..." The sadness in his voice put a ping of guilt in my heart.
"Okay." I looked over at Derek, who still had the same expression on his face. And then I looked over at Colin, who seemed to have a theory about what all is going on. "You two want to tell me what is going on?"
We had walked into the other room and Colin and Derek broke down everything that had happened.
"He can plant memories in my head?" I refused to focus on everything else that they had informed me about. I didn't have the heart to deal with it all right now.
"Kind of. We haven't really figured out what he does. But you were drugged, and he told you to think of a happy memory. He touched your temples, and you just passed out, like a light. We put you in your bed, and Isaac stayed by your side the whole time. Then you woke up and well, you know the rest." Colin had told me most of what happened recently.
"And Isaac and I are..."
"Together. You have been for months now. Well, you broke up and then got back together. But you were never really apart." Colin seemed amused by this, and I felt like I was missing out on something.
"So, how do we get my memories back?" I looked over at Derek, who looked to Colin.
"Jeremy!" The boy from earlier came into my room, and he looked a little nervous and a bit skittish. "This is Jeremy. You love him, and he did this. But he didn't do it intentionally." Jeremy came by and stood next to Colin.
"I'm really really sorry. I don't know how...I mean this...This just hasn't happened before." He seemed just as flustered as I was, and he wasn't the one who lost his memory.
"Okay, well let's just think about this." Being angry about what happened obviously was not going to go well with this kid. He reminded me of a puppy, and puppies needed love and attention. "You put me in a...bubble...is what it sounded like. A bubble that held that memory?" He seemed to relax with my softer tone of voice.
"Yes. But I don't know what went wrong. It was just supposed to put you in a like...dream sequence. That memory plays over and over in her head, taking you away from the pain you were feeling in the real world. I did it once with Riley. After...well, after..." He looked up at me, and pressed his lips together. "After you hurt her so badly in the woods." I hurt her? I looked over to Colin, who said he'd been with me every step of the way since Aiden's...gosh. I couldn't even say it in my thoughts. Colin nodded his head.
I reached over and put my hand in Jeremy's. "I'm truly sorry I hurt her like that." And I was. He gave me a small smile.
"I'm going to figure out what happened. And I'm going to fix it. I promise." His words had an edge to them, and I could tell that he was blaming himself.
"I know you will." I patted his hand and then sat back against my headboard.
"You okay Caterpillar?" Derek sounded a lot concerned and I couldn't even answer his question. I had no idea if I was alright.
"Can I talk to Colin for a few minutes?" I had some questions about Aiden, and I didn't want to talk about that in front of a crowd. Both Jeremy and Derek got up and left my room.
I looked over at Colin as he scooted to sit next to me on the bed. "He...died. But not really, we just thought he did?" It was so hard to wrap my head around it.
"Yes ma'am. It was really a hard year, for us both. Then Derek sent word that family stuff was going down here in Beacon Hills. You came to his rescue, of course. Then your mother asked me to come down and look after you." He put his arm around my shoulder and drew me in.
"And this...Isaac. We really are together?" I let his image come to my mind. He wasn't ugly by any means, actually quite the opposite. It was just too weird. This whole situation is just too weird.
"Oh yeah. Like beyond together. He can barely keep you off of him." He laughed when I smacked his stomach. "I'm being serious. You two are like love struck puppies. Constantly touching each other."
"Was...or I guess am I happy with him?" He seemed to be weighing on what he should say.
"You are very happy. And you'll get your memories back. Jeremy will figure it out." His voice was sturdy, but his pulse wasn't. I decided not to call him out on it though. I needed someone acting like they knew what was going.
"Well, we better get back down stairs. Try and clean up some of this mess." I got up from the bed and went downstairs.
Everybody was sitting in what seemed like a very awkward silence. Jeremy and Riley sat in the kitchen, Jeremy looking through a book. Aiden sat down on the love seat, and Derek and Isaac were sitting on the couch. I thought that they were all going to stand up. Like in Jane Austin novels, where the males stand up out of respect whenever a lady enters the room.
Derek did stand up though, and walked at a fast pace over to me. He dropped his voice to a low whisper when he spoke. "You don't have to confront them right now. I can send them away if that's what you want." Derek was always looking after me, and I appreciated that. But I've been looking after myself for quite some time now.
"Thanks dear cousin, but I've got this." I stepped around him and looked over at Aiden.
I felt like I had a lump in my throat, which was going to make speaking difficult. "Colin told me everything." I looked over at Isaac. "Everything." I took a deep breath. "But that doesn't mean that I have coped with everything. I need some time, and luckily for all of us, we have that. Jeremy" I motioned over at him, "Is looking for a fix right now. I am going to go upstairs and try and sleep off this mugginess in my head. When I wake up, we'll try and figure it all out." I turned without a word and went up to my room. I needed the sleep, and honestly I needed the time. The time to try and sort out a year and a half's worth of memories that was just force fed to me.
I turned around and went down the stairs. I looked at Isaac. "This is nothing personal. Really. It isn't. And I'm sure that I wouldn't do this, if I was my normal self. But if you care about me, like Colin and Derek have told me you do, then I hope you'll respect that I need this." I turned to Aiden. "Will you come and hold me. Just until I fall asleep?" I knew that I was being a horrible person, but I didn't want to be alone. At right now, Aiden is the only thing that makes sense to me. The only thing that I do know.
Aiden stood up and walked over to me, and I glanced at Isaac. He looked like a guy that had been hit by a car, knocked onto railroad tracks, and then hit again. And that absolutely broke my heart. I walked over to him and leaned down to kiss his cheek. The minute that my lips touched his skin, a feeling like fire washed over me. I pulled back and looked at him and saw that he was grinning. He pulled me back down and kissed me hard on the lips. When I pushed him back and slapped his cheek, he did nothing but still wear that grin.
"How dare you..." I was in shock that he would do that. But then again, I was also in shock that I liked it so much.
"You can be mad at me KP, and you can go upstairs and cuddle up next to this guy. But you can't deny that you felt that." I turned on my heels and ran up the stairs. I was afraid that my cheeks were red, and I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of being right. And he was.
Aiden had followed me and closed the door behind me. "You okay?" He reached for my hands, "Isaac was out of line to do that." He sounded upset, but from what Colin said, we weren't together. So why was he acting like we were?
"He's my boyfriend, so I guess he was within the lines. But he shouldn't have done that." I sat on the bed and Aiden joined me. "I'm okay. I just need to sleep." I slipped off my shoes and slid under my covers. I looked up at him, "Can you just stay until I fall asleep?" He nodded once, and leaned down and kissed my forehead.
I closed my eyes when I felt his arms wrap around me. And I was instantly in a dream world.
Colin's POV
"We are supposed to make her feel comfortable, not scare her you idiot." I was watching Isaac rub his hands together, and then he looked up at me.
"She doesn't even remember who I am...I was just thinking that maybe..." He was really taking this hard. Couldn't say that I blame the guy.
"You weren't thinking. If we are going to get her back, well, to her normal self. Then we are going to need her mind to be completely open and for her to believe us. That's not going to happen if you attack her like that." Derek was the one to speak up this time. I expected him to kind of blow up when he saw what Jeremy did. However, he surprised me by keeping his cool. Maybe he was cut out for this alpha business after all.
"I think we should call Stiles." Derek, Isaac, and myself all looked over to Jeremy. His voice surprised us all.
"Why?" Derek wasn't doubting Jeremy's decision, but like me was curious as to the reason.
"Because if I am going to try and un-do what I did, I am going to need all the variables from the when I first entered her mind. Me, Pillar, Colin, and Stiles were the only ones in the room. We were all touching her, and I just think that it would be the smarter thing to do." He stuttered some of his words, and he didn't really look at any of us besides Riley. The kid was scared to death.
"You're probably right. Do you know how to fix it?" Derek had an authoritative voice, but it was scary. And I was thankful, because I wasn't sure that the kid could handle an intimidating right now. He looked like he was on the verge of breaking as it was.
Jeremy flipped through a book, and let out a frazzled sigh. "Not yet. Like I said, nothing like this has ever happened before. I could experiment and play around in her mind and try to figure it out, but I don't want to cause more damage." He slammed the book down on the table and I think we all jumped a little.
"Whoa there tiger..." I walked over to the kitchen and turned the water boiler on. This kid needed some nerve calming fluid. I don't think any of us expected him to lose his temper.
"I can't believe I did that to her!" Riley went to grab his hand, but he pulled away. "I don't need you to coddle me Ry. I need to be alone. I need to think." He dashed up the stairs before any of us could stop him.
Riley got up and went to go after him but Derek put out a hand to stop her. "Leave him be. He's the only one that can fix this." Derek looked over at me. "Take my car, and go get Stiles." He looked back at Riley and grinned. "Take Riley with you."
I turned the water boiler off, and grabbed his keys off the counter. "Can do boss." Riley followed me out of the door, and away to get Stiles we went.
Isaac's POV
"It's been three hours." Derek was sitting next to me, and we had a game on, but none of us were really paying it any attention.
"She's just sleeping." Derek said passively.
"Just sleeping. How can you be so calm about this. She's your cousin, your blood, and she's upstairs with this guy who is probably doing..."
"What? A guy who is probably doing what?" I looked up and shut my mouth when Aiden started walking down the stairs.
"Is she okay?" I stood up from the couch. I hated that she wanted Aiden there. And I hated it even more that he went. But all I really cared about was her safety.
"She's still asleep. Soundly so." Aiden looked over at Derek when he spoke, completely ignoring that I was here.
"You were only supposed to stay until she fell asleep. I've never heard of it taking someone three hours to fall asleep before." I knew I was being a jerk, but I couldn't help myself. Not when it came to him.
Aiden turned to face me, with a look in his eyes that was anything but friendly. "You think that because you have been with her for what? A few months? That you have some kind of claim on her?"
"No, I think that since she is my girlfriend and that we are binded gives me a right to set some boundaries for you. She might not remember me, or know the truth, but you do." I stood my ground, Aiden might have a few inches on me, but I wasn't going to back down. Not when it came to Pillar.
"All I know is that I was held captive for a year. For one year I was beaten and starved and tortured. And the only thing that kept my will to live present, was that girl." He pointed to the stairs and his words felt like the edge of a sword. Like he was ready to attack. "Then when I am finally reunited with her, I find out she is with some kid who thinks he knows what it takes to be a werewolf."
"I'm not some kid, and yes, you might be some huge Irish wolf with badass ninja skills. But I love her and I'm not letting you take her away." He came up to me, so close that our noses were practically touching.
"You have no idea who she really is. You say you love her, but you've only know her for a little over half of a year. I was with her for two years. And I knew her for a whole year before that. I know who she is, and I know what it means to be in love with her." His voice dropped a little lower as he finished his sentence.
"Oh you know her?" He shook his head yes as I looked up at him and grinned. What I said next was probably going to bite me in the ass, and it was not the right thing to do, but it came out before I realized what I was saying. "That's where you're wrong. Because if you did, you would know that she slept with your brother a few months after she thought you were dead. I guess she didn't really love you after all." I was flying in the air and hit the wall before I was able to say something else.
"That's enough! My cousin is not a painting at an auction. She's not something that you can win or claim." Derek was using the alpha voice, and I had no choice but to coward away.
Aiden stormed off down to the basement and I looked over at Derek.
"I'm going to go up there and sitting with her." I looked over at Derek for permission, but I think he knew I was going with or without it. He nodded his head yes.
"I think that's a good idea. It'll keep you busy while we figure out how to reverse what Jeremy did." I ran up the stairs and paused before I reached her for her door knob.
I crept the door open, and quietly entered the room. She didn't stir, and I was able to slink down into her desk chair.
Pillar's POV
I woke up in a cold sweat. I was actually kind of gross. I through the cover's off of me, and stood up. When I saw him sitting in the chair, asleep, I nearly screamed. But I caught myself and went back to sitting on the bed. He was kind of adorable looking when he was asleep. I didn't know how long he had been here, but I did know that I needed a shower. I tried really hard to creep out of my room without waking him up.
The shower felt beyond refreshing. I didn't have to think about anything, but the water running down my body. I wasn't sure how long I was in the shower, but it must have been long enough for me to forget that Isaac was in my room. When I opened the door, he shot up from the seat.
I stifled a laugh when I closed the door. "Sorry... I didn't mean to wake you up." I motioned to the chair he was just sleeping in. "You looked so damn comfortable in that chair."
"Are you making fun of me?" He was acting like he was serious, but I saw him fighting back a grin.
"Just a little bit." I walked over to the dresser and opened up a drawer looking for a shirt, but I wasn't finding them. Just a whole bunch of jeans.
"T-shirts are in the very bottom right drawer, and your sweats, well my sweats, are on the top shelf in your closet." I turned around and he was laying down on my bed.
"Your sweats?" Did I really have his clothes here? Were we that type of couple? I reached up into my closet and pulled out the sweats. Then I got the t-shirt. I turned around to face him again. "How did you know where my clothes were?"
He leaned up on his elbows and smiled. "Because we've been dating for six months K.P. And yes, my sweats. I can't keep them at my place, you steal them all." He winked at me and then went to lay back down on the bed and put his hands over his eyes. "You can go ahead and get dressed. Promise to be a gentleman and not look."
I slipped on the sweatpants. "Did you call me K.P.? As in Kim Possible?" I pulled the t-shirt over my head and both saw and heard him laughing. "Are you making fun of me?" I mimicked him from earlier and this time he sat up completely.
"No, no. It's just that you said the exact same thing the first time I called you that." He smiled at me like I was a piece of art in a gallery that he couldn't figure out.
I walked over and sat down next to him on the bed. "So can I ask you some questions?" I was really curious about this relationship that I had no recollection about.
"You can ask me anything you want." I smiled over at him.
"Who asked who out?" He did that same laugh from before when I ask him that question.
"That's kind of complicated to answer." I sat there and looked at him expectantly. "Okay. Well, uh.. I don't know if Colin and Derek told you, but we are binded." My heart fell. I couldn't have heard him right. That was only a myth, or at least I thought it was a myth. But now he was trying to tell me it wasn't. "Yeah... I can see what you are thinking. It's not a myth. Even though you were pretty damn determined to prove it was." He grinned at me, and I hated this feeling of missing out on everything.
"Is that why when earlier...?" He nodded his head yes.
"When I kissed you, it felt like fire? Yeah...that never has really gone away." I knew what being binded meant.
"So do we actually like each other, or is it just because we are binded that we are together?" I saw in his eyes that he looked hurt, but it was an honest question.
"For a while there, you thought it was just because we were binded that we were attracted to each other. But then we both realized that we had a lot in common actually. Well, I was always interested in you. It took some major convincing on my behalf to get you to see that you like me too." I laughed this time because I could see myself being that stubborn.
"What my favorite movies?"
He threw his hand up and started knocking them off by his fingers. "Top Gun. Hercules. Nightmare Before Christmas. Boondock Saints. Twister." He was completely right, and I would be lying if I wasn't surprised. "But your favorite movie trilogies or series, in order are. Star Wars Episodes IV-VI. Lord of the Rings. Harry Potter. then Star Wars I-III." Right again. "You're favorite color is green. Your favorite band is Fall Out Boy, album, infinity on high. You love listening to violins. Favorite sport is baseball. Favorite team is the Braves. Your favorite food is chocolate chip pomegranate pancakes." I looked up at him and tried to get him to stop. But he opened his mouth to continue. I had to literally put my hand over his mouth. When I was sure he wouldn't talk again I let my hand up. "And your biggest dream is to be a writer." He smiled triumphantly. "You see, I know you Katerina Pillar."
I guess he did. I was a little too shocked to say anything though. When I looked back up at him, my door flew open. There was a smaller guy with a buzz cut standing in my door way. "And who is this one?"
"Holy shit. You really don't remember. They were telling the truth." He stood there like a deer in the head lights. "You might want to get down here. I like Aiden is going to kill Colin." He was out of breath and then we all heard something break.
I decided to trust what he was saying, and I started to go down the stairs. "I'm Stiles. We're actually really good friends. We even dated." I stopped in my tracks and stared at him. I dated him? What kind of girl did I turn into? "Right. Another time. We'll talk later." I started to run back to where the noises were coming from. Downstairs.
When I reached the bottom of the stairs I saw Colin being thrown into the wall and Aiden picking up round weights to throw at him. "Hey! What the hell is going on here?" Derek was trying to hold Aiden back, but Aiden was full wolf mode and completely pissed.
Colin saw Isaac and then started to lunge at him. "You told him? Are you insane!?" Colin growled as he pinned Isaac to the ground.
"You told him what?" Everything was going on too fast, I couldn't keep up with you was after who.
"That you and I slept together!" Another growl, and I could barely understand what he was saying. The words registered in my head, and I was appalled.
"We did not...sleep together!" I would have remembered that. Right?
Aiden ripped his claws down Colin's back. Causing him to collapse on Isaac. I felt this huge burst of energy run through my body, and then it exited through my mouth. "STOP!" Then entire room fell silent. Everybody was staring at me. Including Derek.
"I told you." Jeremy spoke from the stairs. He told me what?
"How the hell did you just do that?" Derek sounded so shocked. How did I do what? "You just gave an alpha command. I knew you could ignore them, but how the hell can you give them?" He sounded disgusted, but I didn't know what he was talking about.
"I know how." We all turned to Jeremy, who was smiling.
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