Chapter 4

"Sit down." Duchess ordered. Kenzi sat down in the chair in front of her desk , obeying her. As long as she was helping, she would listen. Tatiana had rejoined them for this part of the visit, Kenzi was happy to see a friendly face.

"Wolves are born of blood, pain, and sex. Unfortunately for you they are healed the same way. All Fae feed and heal by taking from others, wolves are no different. I'm going to take this knife and I'm going to stab you right here." she touched the knife to Kenzi's thigh. Kenzi swallowed hard and shuddered.

"The blood can't just come from a simple cut, it has to come from a wound that is one of the most painful the person has ever felt. That's the blood and pain part." She grinned and continued, "I'm going to take some blood which will be used to help heal your friend. Then I'll make sure you don't bleed to death by using this iron to cauterize your wound. Tatiana, hold her." Duchess said. Tatiana wrapped a hand around each of Kenzi's shoulders and pushed her down into the seat.

"Good luck." Duchess said. Kenzi took a deep breath as Duchess lifted the knife over her thigh. She closed her eyes and tried her hardest to breathe. A scream erupted from her throat as pain tore through her leg. She wanted to jerk away but she knew it would only hurt her more. Duchess pulled back, quickly removing the knife, Kenzi screamed again, tears stinging her eyes. She opened them and looked down as blood ran from her wound down the chair. Duchess lifted the bowl as Kenzi gasped in pain, she held it next to Kenzi's thigh, allowing it to fill to the brim with Kenzi's blood.

"Hold still sweetie." Duchess was being a lot calmer with her now, maybe because she was in pain. When she turned, she sat the bowl down and lifted the iron. She had flipped it on as soon as she started talking, so now the iron was bright red, burning.

"Deep breath ok?" Duchess said.

"You're almost there little human." Tatiana whispered. Her hands tightened as Duchess came down with the iron. White hot pain ripped through Kenzi's leg and all she heard was her own screech and the sizzling of skin. Duchess pulled the iron back but Kenzi still whimpered, she was sweating and crying now, her whole body shaking.

"I think she's going into shock." Tatiana said, releasing Kenzi's shoulders. She didn't know what was happening, she was shaking and she felt like she was about to die. Duchess latched onto her chin and jerked her head down. Her green eyes bore into Kenzi's blue ones.

"Focus on him. Focus on your friend. You're doing this for him, come on sweetie." Duchess shouted. Kenzi grabbed on to her voice and tried to focus, she was doing this for Dyson, he was all that matter right now. Her body stopped shaking and she stopped gasping for breath.

"That's good, good girl." Tatiana said. Kenzi nodded, tears still running down her cheeks. She was calming though. Her leg was still burning with pain, but she had made it.

"You're going to be ok." Duchess said calmly. Kenzi ground her teeth, trying not to cry out or moan in pain.

"This is his blood right?" Duchess asked, gesturing to her bloody clothes.

"Yes." Kenzi said.

"Tatiana go and get these items." Duchess handed her the book and Tatiana rushed away. Kenzi nursed her leg, taking the weight off of it by lifting it some, which just hurt more. Kenzi watched her intently as she came back at her with the knife.

"This won't hurt, promise." Duchess said. Kenzi watched as she bent down and scraped the dried blood on Kenzi's hands, skirt, and legs, into the same bowl as Kenzi's blood. Tatiana came back in with small pouches as well as some vials and she sat them down on Duchess' desk. Duchess lifted two of the pouches and opened them, she sprinkled a small amount of whatever was in them, into the bowl with Kenzi and Dyson's blood. Duchess lifted the bowl in her hands and looked down at the combination, she closed her eyes and mumbled words under her breath, words that Kenzi had never heard before. In that moment Kenzi wondered just what kind of Fae they were. She'd never been around any that looked like them, and she didn't really care to ask. Kenzi watched in awe as the bowl fizzled and purple smoke billowed from it. Duchess smiled and waved the smoke up and into her nose. Kenzi stared, opened mouth as she did so.

"Hand me a vial Tatiana." Duchess said. Tatiana did as she was told and Duchess poured some of the now bright purple concoction into a vial. She sat it down on the table and then quickly grabbed up two vials with what looked like leaves in them. She emptied them into the bowl followed by sprinkling some more powder from one of the pouches in. Her hands gripped the bowl even tighter this time, her knuckles turning bright white, even whiter than her almost translucent skin. Her head fell forward and the words were louder, less subtle, more yelled. Kenzi tried to listen but the words were spoken so fast she couldn't catch them. A loud pop caught her attention and once again the bowl fizzled, but this time bright red smoke billowed out.

"Drink." Duchess said quickly, pushing the bowl up to Kenzi's face. Normally she would turn away and shove the bowl to the ground, but this was for Dyson. She took the bowl in her hands and turned it up. It was disgusting and she wanted to throw it right back up, but she held it down and finished it off.

"Good girl." Duchess tossed the bowl away and put the vial into Kenzi hands.

"The second part is easy. You go home and you put this on the wounds that are external. Just pour it over them." she said making sure Kenzi's hands wrapped around the vial tightly.

"The third part is not easy. In order to heal himself your wolf has to take from someone else. I've given you what you need to heal him, but he has to take it from you." Duchess said. Kenzi was completely confused, she had no clue what Duchess was talking about. Duchess must have picked up on the look Kenzi was giving her.

"You've got to have sex with him. I told you they are born and healed the same way. If you want to heal your wolf then you've got to have sex with him. He will bite you and take what he needs to heal himself, if you don't let him, then I can guarantee he will die. You don't have much time, go now." Duchess said hauling Kenzi upward. Her thigh cried out in pain but she was so dumbfounded by what she'd just found out that she couldn't even form a straight thought.

"Good luck human. And if this works, you will owe me one favor. Getting you one potion was Tamsin's favor, the other is yours. By the way you're the bravest human I've ever met." Duchess smiled and shoved her into Tatiana's arms. As Tatiana led her back out of the house all Kenzi could do was stare ahead blankly. She always helped her friends when they were in need just like they always helped her, but she didn't know if she could do this, Dyson had always been strictly Bo's and Kenzi would not let herself go after him even though he was amazingly gorgeous and a perfect example of everything a man should be. This wasn't about a relationship though, this was about healing and without this Dyson was not going to live much longer. Kenzi was always a fan of the saying 'you gotta do what you gotta do' and this was one of those times. She had to do what she had to do. Dyson had saved her boney ass on more than one occasion, hell he'd come to her rescue whenever she'd needed him. Now it was her turn, it was her turn to save him, she was going to repay him for all the times he'd saved her and she was going to save him.