"Now, when Noel and I were out, we uh, we kind of found Cian." Alistair said hesitantly, studying his sister. "I know how this sounds, and I don't know how or why, but it's him." He opened the door so she could see for herself.
"What?" Blodwen whispered, she could hardly process what she was just told. She looked at the figure on the bed, and she was starting to believe what her little brother had just told her, it did look like Cian.
"Yeah, we kind of asked ourselves that same question, but it really is him."
I looked up and Noel confirmed what my brother was saying. "He needs medical attention." Noel said. "Wherever he's been hasn't been good for him."
Blodwen nodded after it sunk in, she forced her feet to move. She would worry about all of the whys and how's later, but right now, she knew that her husband was severely injured and he needed attention. She looked at Noel and took a deep breath. "Okay, I'm going to need rubbing alcohol, antibiotic cream, some gauze, and medical tape." She listed off some things.
Hernbrother-in-law nodded. "Sure thing." He crossed the room to the closet where they kept most of the supplies.
Blodwen walked over to her husband's bed, and touched his arm lightly. Cian opened his eyes a bit. "Blodwen." He still sounded a bit weak.
She nodded. "It's me, it's okay, we'll get you taken care of." She murmured to him gently. She forced whatever tears were wanting to shed back, and tried to keep her voice from cracking.
"Was held captive." He got the words out. "Managed to escape." He said as Noel came back with the supplies, eyes widened at what he heard his brother said.
"Here." He whispered, handing her the supplies.
She gave him and nod as she took them. She looked back at Cian. "Shh, don't worry about that right now, let's get you fixed up first." After he gave a weak nod, she turned back to Noel. "I'm going to have you to help me out here." She told him. "This won't be very pleasant for him." She warned her brother-in-law, giving him a look which told him everything.
Noel nodded, knowing what she meant. "Gotcha." He went on the other side of his brother, prepared to help out in any way that he could. Blodwen took one of the gauze pads and doused it in the rubbing alcohol and dabbed it on the sores that she found. She very was relieved that he didn't make too many sounds of pain, as he was mostly out of it and let out the breath that she didn't know that she had been holding.
"Can you stop the bleeding some on some of these wounds please?" She asked Noel. "All you have to do is just apply pressure."
He nodded and did as told.
Cian had several wounds on his chest that needed cleaning and bandaging, but pretty soon, she was finished with all of the bandaging. She hated this for him, but now that his wounds were properly tended to, she had no doubt in her mind that he could start healing a lot faster now. But of course, she didn't know if he had any internal injuries though, as he was not awake to tell her.
"What's this here?" Noel asked, pointing to a red spot on his brother's arm. The alpha frowned and inspected her husband's arm gingerly.
"It looks like a wolfsbane burn." She murmured. She put some Vaseline on it, from experience, that usually helped. "Whoever held him captive must of subdued him; controlled him with it." She sighed, brushing some hair out of his face. It made her angry, about who did this to him and why. It took a few moments for her to get her mind off of that. At least he was here, with his pack, where he could get better and he was safe now.
"Makes you wonder just what happened." Noel sighed.
"I know." She shook her head. "Whatever happened, it wasn't good." She said, as she got a trash can and cleaned up the mess.
"I'm done for now, I don't know if he has any internal injuries, as he isn't able to communicate right now, but seeing as he had a wolfsbane burn, it's safe to assume that he has ingested it, so we'll know when it gets out of his system." Blodwn commented, walking back over. "He just needs rest." She added.
Noel nodded. "Listen, I think I'm going to get some sleep." He said. "It's been a long night; I'll check back in later."
Blodwen nodded. "Okay, I'll be here with him."
He nodded and left the infirmary as his alpha took a seat in a chair next to Cian's bed.
