I'm a weirdo. I went to dinner and neither man was in the house anymore. I had heard them driving away half an hour earlier. Fine doesn't bother me. My next show wouldn't be for a few weeks and then I'd have to start studying to be a doctor. After I had eaten I went back to my reading. I heard the door open and voices coming from inside. Bran and some strangers. Fine, I won't come out. Bran came and opened my door. He said " Come on Mimi, let's have a little chat, I hope you've learned your lesson and don't attack any more of your pack members so wildly. Won't you.? We've got guests. This is not a request then." Fine put the book aside and followed Bran. Suddenly strong hands grabbed my arms and the men pushed me into a chair with spiked handcuffs and put them on. They tied some kind of belt around me and put my legs in shackles. One of the men came and put a cannula in my elbow. Bran sat opposite me and said " Now it's Mimi your time to share your contacts and information. I have very strong drugs at my disposal and now I will start interrogating you with them. These men are loyal to me and will help me. This will be quick and painless if you start telling me everything I want to know." Oh fuck. fine. I know how to keep quiet when I'm told to. I don't talk.

Bran started asking questions and pushing drugs. He was right that they were strong, but I kept quiet. He used a lot of different drugs. Some locally. He injected something into my breasts that made them really sore and then he let the men touch them. Sometimes I was untied from the chair and taken to one of the rooms to recover, so more or less anesthetized, and then they would go on again. I didn't say a word. I had a nasogastric tube through which liquids flowed, something intoxicating, of course. My breasts now hurt all the time and were red and hot. Bran said " Now in this petri dish, there is a very contagious streptococcus. We'll start with your throat. Now these men are about to open your mouth and I'm going to use a little scraper like this to break the lining of your throat while infecting this bacteria in it. Now Samuel has been in the clinics for a long time with this particular germ because it infects werewolves so effectively. if the throat doesn't help, then the ears, the eyes, the skin. Have you ever had erysipelas? Rose? Now it can get pretty bad pretty fast and if I scratched those breasts of yours with this stick, you'd know what the pain was. But, as you can see, I have an excellent rage management tool, funny that you are so susceptible to fear demons. You can't do anything, let's get started."

The men opened my mouth with the spreader and Bran scratched my throat long and hard so that it actually remained tender. He had already stripped me naked earlier and bitten off all signs of Damon. He hadn't left his own. But once Damon saw that my marks wouldn't last he would be more prone to go to strangers for the time it would take to interrogate me forever in the future. Then he scratched my breasts with that fucking stick so hard they started to compress and I got pretty fucking cold.

But I wouldn't talk, not for anything. Then after a week of treatment, Bran had a problem when Adam and Damon came back. Thankfully, Bran had sent the fear demon away. It had been at my door every night so I was just shaking in my bed with fear and medication. now I was shaking with a fever. I didn't know where Bran thought this treatment would get him, anywhere but my very bad books. I sensed my fear demon was pretty close.

Bran came into my room and sat on the edge of the bed. He said "I don't always like doing Mimi to you these tricks but when you give me no choice. Now if Damon comes into the room, play sleeping and you better be believable or that fear demon will have called his friends and they will take the two steps forward that it takes for you to know them. And then I'm going to give you the anesthetic. Not so strong that you're in a full coma, but so strong that you're in a nightmare. You are a strong being with incredible willpower. Now I am going to tame that willpower for my own use and you will learn how much easier your life will be when you obey me without question. You'll also discover that I can be really nice company if I'm not annoyed in the wrong way. You will be a very good mate for me. It will be a credit to this pack that I took a mate from this pack. "Oh, that guy's crazy. But I'm screwed. What am I supposed to do now?

Damon said in my head, reassuringly " Baby, you're not doing anything while you're playing along, I'll handle this. Oh, that or fear demons and you're prone to them. I just happen to be hungry. I'll get those demons out first and then I'll come to see you, you've probably got yourself infected again, but guess what, I'm not going to let you crawl around on the floor again. Don't even think about doing anything to that extent." Then Damon's presence disappeared from my head. I just tried to be still. I was cold. My throat was burning, and even breathing hurt. My breasts were pure agony and the slightest movement sent arrows of pain from my chest all the way up my spine. I thought with an amused pissed-off expression that I should be fucking immortal and I am, but I'm not invulnerable, it would be a lesson that I might have to learn and get my own head around one day but I wasn't going to study it anymore as I was pissed off with the whole fucking Bran.

The door opened and Damon came in. He sat down on the bed and said " Don't try to talk, let me just feel you through lightly. I've already got a syringe with me so you'll be pain-free and comatose for about. You're so medicated and most of it I don't even know. Oh fuck some of these drugs are the ones that make you panic, the pharmaceutical ones, but don't worry if I can't get them out any other way, I can always knock your teeth into your neck and give you a dental. ' Damon took the covers off my head, all the while soothing and almost brushing through me. I screamed as he touched my breasts. And then it hurt my throat again. For a moment, I was in so much pain, I couldn't think. I felt the needle sink into my lung between my ribs and I felt the drug in my lungs. It helped a little with the pain but didn't cloud my head, or maybe some medicine had already clouded my head so I didn't pay that much attention. Damon looked at me for a moment with furrowed brows and gave me another shot. This one was stronger and I could feel my eyelids starting to get heavy. He stroked the hair from my forehead and said " Go to sleep, just give up, it's ok, everything will be fine. Go to sleep." I fell asleep.

Damon carried unconscious Mimi downstairs to the medbay where yellow-eyed Samuel was. Samuel was very rarely so pissed off that he let his wolf get that far out in the open but Damon couldn't blame him, he was pretty much at the same point himself and wanted so badly to show Bran, but the little coward had run away when Damon had come in and told him he knew everything. Bran had actually looked at him for a moment, hoping he would give his blessing or be involved in the whole thing. When Damon had calmly told him how he was now going to eat the two fear demons that were outside and had been pestering Mim then Bran had quickly driven off. It wasn't a good thing in itself that Mimi was vulnerable to fear demons, but it would be very difficult to do anything about that.

Damon knew that some people had sometimes been able to tolerate fear demons, but after he'd eaten and discovered how weak they were and still got a bad grip on Mimi, Damon somehow guessed that Mimi would probably never be able to face a fear demon without freezing in terror, at least not without drugs. Now Damon was able to come up with 12 substances, 12 flankers, that would put Mimi in a state where the fear demon couldn't get into her head. Samuel began examining Mimi and gave Damon a tube of Mimi's blood in case Damon's teeth, even if they found solutions to things. Mimi was running a fever, the infection was a bit everywhere and Samuel knew the signs all too well. This would be another fucking fight for Mimi and she'd have to be kept in a coma or they'd be picking her off the floor for the next month. A normal werewolf with this bug would take months before it was cured. At least. No matter what antibiotic Samuel used. But Mimi. If the infection had been any milder and Mimi had been less medicated and abused then maybe. Maybe she would have been able to shake off the bug sooner. But now Samuel really couldn't say. Damon was already in the cupboard getting fever medicine and some antibiotics and nutritional solutions.

They had now been working on Mimi for 48 hours, stabilizing her, keeping the fever down, and giving her nourishment. Mimi's metabolism was again alarmingly high due to the fever and nutrition seemed to be disappearing into thin air. Then Bran entered the medbay and Samuel almost attacked. Bran looked at Samuel for a moment and said, his Marrok power on full display, "You are not attacking me. In fact, you are going to Bangladesh at the moment and will be in clinics there for a month and will not make any contact here regarding Mimi. You will be in contact with me if you need to." Samuel gave his father a murderous look, his eyes yellow, and then walked away. He was not yet strong enough to resist the Marrok force but maybe one day.

Bran came over to Damon and handed him a pocket flask, sipping from it himself first. Damon didn't even think as he sipped. The vampire potion flooded Damon's system and put all his worries behind him. Bran said kindly " How about you let Mimi wake up and we'll go to Montana and get a real party going. Mimi's fine, it's just a little bug. Your teeth didn't do anything either. Let's wait until Mimi wakes up and then we'll tell her that she can do what she wants again, it's time for us to get some rest too. ' Damon nodded and looked at the now anesthetized Mimi emotionlessly. He then went and removed all the medication from Mimi's vein and put the drugs in the locked cabinet and put the key in his pocket. He carried Mimi upstairs to the bedroom and they were already starting to call Montana for food and drinks. They would fly there in a pack plane as soon as Mimi was awake enough to fully understand what was going on.

I woke up and I was still cold and felt really sick. But I wasn't in the medbay, Bran, and Damon were obviously in this room because I smelled a wet dog and heard Bran on the phone. I opened my eyes and Damon looked at me like a piece of meat and said " It's about time you woke up already Baby. Bran and I are going to Montana to have a real wild party, so don't think baby that I'm going to run to you right now. Now we need to get fucking and drinking without any ties." Damon walked out. Bran came over to the bedside and sat down. he looked at me coldly and said " See, vampire potion, gets Damon out of doctor mode right away into a much better mode. Now you get to recover on your own. Samuel has been sent away and he won't return your calls. He won't talk to anyone but me. Medbay's lockers are locked so you can't get any meds from there. go to your precious's fleas and see if they can help you since you are so protective of them. If you'd just given me something, even a few names, I wouldn't have had to do this, but as I already know you, you make everything so fucking hard." Bran stood up and walked away. After a while, I heard cars pull out of the driveway. I lay in bed shaking for I don't know how long as I smelled Adam coming into the house. I was so weak and my throat was just incredibly sore I couldn't even get a sniffle out.

The only thing I could come up with was our mating bond. I put it down to my feelings, how sick I was and soon Adam was talking in my head "Mimi, where the hell are you, and what the hell has been done to you?" I was surprised. I thought back " Right in my own bedroom in Chicago. They've done all sorts of things to me, but the culprit is Bran. I need medical attention and Bran took Samuel and Damon away and you can't get either of them back right away. He infected me with strep and I haven't had enough antibiotics or anything. I have a cold, my throat and my breasts are on fire, I don't know how much longer I can take it. What if I go into hibernation? What is that even like? Does it hurt? Am I aware of anything?"

' The door opened and Adam rushed in, his eyes yellow. He scooped me up in his arms and we went straight to the car. He put me in the back seat and drove off without saying a word. I could feel how on edge he was and how close he was to losing the last shred of self-control he had. We went to the Chicago base and I was very happy to see Colin there. Let's just say he wasn't as happy to see me there. He came to me and said " Now you go back to sleep and I'll take you to Ireland to my clinic. I'll get you sorted out there so Bran doesn't have an easy time getting at you. I've got some pretty good drugs after working with Damon. I've also been studying your enzymes now and my theory is that they are needed for shape-shifting at least. But more on that later. Now comes sleep." He had inserted a needle into my vein as he spoke and was pressing the plunger. I fell asleep and was very grateful that the pain and sickness were far behind me.