Damon gently placed Mimi's body in the backseat. Then he started to drive. Thump. Damon looked ahead of him, trying to figure out how he was going to get through this, Thump. The sound repeated itself. Damon wondered what had been done to Mimi, what they would find out when they examined the body from, THUMP. That sound, it was like a heartbeat. Damon began to wait to see if it would come again, Thump. He pulled the car to a stop and went over to Mimi's body and put his ear to her chest, THUMP. Mimi's heart was beating! It was beating but very rarely and at the same time Damon felt a very light rush of air on his cheek, Mimi was breathing but barely. " Hold on Baby, hold on baby, hold on fucking baby!" Damon called Samuel and told him the condition he had found Mimi in. Samuel told Damon to drive straight to the Chicago house as fast as he could.

For two hours Damon had been driving like a madman. He had wiped the memory of his speeding on several police patrols, now he was there, and Samuel was already waiting outside. He got in the car to check. Damon said " Soon, put your ear to that and your cheek and wait " Thump and a breath.

Samuel stood up and nodded " Bring her in, this is going to take time. "Damon carried Mimi inside. Samuel had already drawn another bath of sorts for Mimi. Since Mimi was so dehydrated, Samuel hoped that Mimi's skin would absorb the liquid too. Samuel said, "This may be raw, but I have to start with the brain. I need to wake them up first. And I'm going to open Mimi's head. "Damon nodded. Samuel knew it would take Damon a while to get himself into doctor mode.

Samuel, on the other hand, was also very curious because he'd never seen Mimi hibernate. Samuel worked efficiently soon he had removed Mimi's scalp and exposed the withered, brownish brain. Samuel drew a thick liquid into a syringe and dripped a drop onto the surface of the brain. At first, nothing happened but then the drop began to be slowly absorbed. The second drop was also absorbed more quickly. After 10 minutes, there was a clear difference in the brain. The drop had already moistened the brain, which had already grown.

Samuel and Damon both took their own parts of the brain and started to moisten it. It always took 10 minutes to get one spot right. Damon then always gave his own blood on top of it. Three days later, Samuel was satisfied. Mimi's brain was now almost normal size and had now absorbed the nutrient solution very well. Mimi's skin was a little more moist and now Mimi was breathing once every five minutes and her heart once a minute.

Damon and Samuel went for a bite to eat while Colin came in to continue with Adam. They would try to get a vascular connection first by resuscitating the heart more. They continued tirelessly, getting the heart beating and the fluids flowing. Slowly, Mimi's body began to come out of hibernation.

It took 8 weeks until the hibernation was completely reversed. Damon's teeth had now made several liters of anti hibernation fluid, it didn't take more than 5ml but Samuel said Damon's teeth were having a stress reaction. Mimi's inflammation was also activated and they were able to treat it. For some reason, they kept Mimi under anesthesia, although on the other hand, Damon would have liked to see Mimi open her eyes.

I woke up in my bedroom downstairs in Chicago. The last thing I remembered was finding the cave and going to sleep. Somehow I knew it had been months. I sighed and sat up, feeling somewhat normal and now feeling really dirty. I remembered all the mating, the miscarriages. Now I had to take a shower. I went to the bathroom and stripped naked and got under the shower.

I started scrubbing myself and it became a kind of stress reaction that I couldn't stop washing myself. My skin was already bleeding and everything was just pouring out on me. I collapsed on the shower floor and started crying uncontrollably. I felt someone touch me and I lifted my head. Mimosa. She sat next to me and said "I know Mimi, it was just awful, go ahead. No one can hear you." But I wouldn't have minded if someone had heard. Then I felt someone put the water away from the spout and helped me to stand. My crying didn't stop and I rubbed my hands all over myself.

Determined hands took hold of my hands and I felt Damon wrap himself around me and stroke me even though I was soaked, bloody, and hysterical. He took me to the bed and started to dry me off. Adam was there too and Damon held me in his arms and controlled my hands and Adam dried and spread the bump on my skin. Adam helped me into my nightgown and the three of us walked to the bed. My crying wouldn't stop and I felt the sting in my arm and fell asleep with my eyes wet finally against Damon with Adam still stroking my back.

Damon held Mimi against him even though the strong medicine had already put her into a deep sleep. Now he understood. Mimi had to go through terrible things and then go into a cave and go into hibernation, knowing that probably no one would ever find her there. Mimosa had told them a lot of what had happened, Mimosa had jumped out of Mimi's head as soon as they had turned the hibernation over.

Damon and Adam knew that now Mimi needed to be safe and at peace. So they went nesting again. Samuel gave them the nest and sat in a chair, unobservant, watching how the nest was built and what would and wouldn't fit in it. Now Damon didn't even reserve much medicine because he knew how to purr the calming and anesthetic purr so that Mimi would then stay asleep. He watched as the nest was made for a week and Mimi was purred all the time to keep her asleep.

Then they took Mimi to the nest and let her stay awake for a while, feeding her a bump and feeding her a mixture of nutrients, and letting her drink their blood. Samuel didn't know how long he should be allowed to nest and their nesting pheromone had no effect on him. It only affected all four. They had taken Mimosa into the nest and she too slept and was purring.

I was safe, I was fine and nothing bad was going to happen. I lay against Damon and felt him purring now in a way that didn't put me to sleep, it just kept me perfectly calm and content. This wasn't the nightmarish calming feeling that the hellish jelly had caused, this was contentment, happiness. I didn't want this to end just yet and I certainly didn't want to go through all the memories and I felt them trying to bubble to the surface.

But the purring helped and once I felt where the memories were and how bad they were, the purring made the memories push away, and hide, it lessened their impact and soon I was no longer scared by them. Then the tone of the spinning became wetter, more choppy and I refreshed in quite a new way. The mimosa had come back into my head when it was released. Adam also mastered this Eternal Flame purr and this nest of calm, gentleness began to turn into a pretty fierce fucking session.

Samuel noticed the change in the nest and left the room. He had received a lot of material and he wanted to go through it carefully. Well, he had time for that now. In good time, those two would be having sex so enthusiastically that Mimi would give herself a rutting time. And a hot one at that. Although Samuel was a man and virile, he was also a scientist and now this perusal of nesting material was more interesting than a period of heat.

We were horny, uninhibited, and wild. Nothing was enough for the three of us again and it showed. After two weeks of power sex, I got myself a real rutting session. Damon bit me with a strong long-acting contraceptive and then the three of us let go. It was intense, hard, and demanding. The smells and sounds of our sex saturated the room and it's a good thing the house wasn't too. Damon fucked me hard, hot dominantly, and didn't let my wildcat come in for any play. He looked at me and growled " Don't you even try, young lady. I've got that side under control. Now you'd better be a good girl if you don't want a flank." I didn't, so I didn't push the wildcat out any further.

The heat had been on for three weeks when Damon's phone wouldn't stop ringing and he went outside to talk. Soon he said in my head " Baby, I really have to go but I'll be back as soon as I can. Adam will help you. I'll leave my phone in the hall." Of course.

Well, we continued with Adam and didn't his phone ring and he went out to meet some lady and never came back in. He'd put his phone down and I knew I was fucked. The heat was on full blast and both carers disappeared. Samuel had gone to somewhere in Indo-China again where there were no phone lines and Bran was somewhere in Japan negotiating with Alpha. I called Colin and told him the situation. He gave me an address in Idaho where he was. It was a tough drive but I got there.

Colin had a clinic there and was busy. He took care of my heat just enough to somehow finish it. Three weeks. After that job, I decided I wouldn't get heat because I never get heat. No way. I texted Adam too, in case he opened his phone at some point. Colin had been very matter-of-fact and had almost fingered me every time and played Eternal Flame to get me out of there quickly. It pretty much took the heat out of the whole thing because I was a real pain in the arse.

Then when Adam called a week later, I was already at the gigs and I just explained very dryly and matter-of-factly that I wouldn't get any more heat unless I absolutely had to. Adam was silent and didn't even seem too upset. He was rescuing werewolf girls from sex slavery and they needed a place to be. They would go to Iowa's house. Adam talked a bit along the lines of, "It would be okay if I didn't go there. I wasn't even going.

Now it was time for me to go to the hospital for training and to show what I was going to be. Damon was there to help the girls and, lo and behold, they were often in heat. One had a heat and it was spreading daily and with three or forty girls, the boys had their work cut out for them.

It didn't bother me. I went to New York to a big hospital for training and then in the evening, I started doing sniping with a Murdock. I was pretty much fed up with the medical establishment again and decided to turn my attention back to it a bit. Murdoc was all over me as I explained in as much detail as possible what they were doing to me there. Murdoc was a man in the sense that he didn't like it when women were mistreated.

He was a damn good teacher and we went through all my weapons and there were small but important changes. I felt that I was at a turning point in my life where I actually wanted to be. I had money to buy new guns and oh that I had an enthusiastic co-buyer. It was actually fun to get to talk guns and exchange information.

Maybe I was just a little hooked, as I was studying at the same time so I started to learn to want information and lots of it. Not just about pharmaceuticals and gigs but just about everything. When I talked about this with Jarod he said "It's the pretender side of you that's curious and wants to learn new things. I've actually never been a sharpshooter. I wonder if I should try it too." Might be a little too much for Damon and Adam.

I told Damon in my head what I was doing and with whom. Oh, that came back with a gift of fucked up feelings. I was content, happy now I'd made as much progress as possible. This was so perfectly lovely. The training, or rather my show went pretty damn well and I was in the operating room for my first official surgery in less than three weeks. I knew I was going to be a surgeon. Jarod found the whole study fascinating and he himself was always wondering what he could study. I sent him to see Dexter. That's a very good subject for research.

I was always telling Damon what surgery I was doing, what kind of colleagues I had, and everything. I had to share with my husband how much I was enjoying it. Oh, the couple of times I hinted at how wonderful it would have been to do this together. Damon said to me " You know what darling, I would so love to come and see my wife who might have problems with her blood sugar every now and then."

Oh, dear. I said " I suppose you can have cravings, you've made it your priority. It's funny how the heats of strange women are so much more important, but it was my heat that you ran away from and I don't understand why. Yes, Colin got through it, but I will never get in heat unless I have to, because my heat so far has pretty much been bullshit." Damon was silent and I could feel him gone away again.

We also did an undercover gig with the fleas. I always had black short hair and a couple of three female fleas with me. They were also under Murdock's tutelage at the same time. We were lurking and exploring. Nobody looks twice at three women who are drinking and almost drunk and wearing make-up. No no, our specialty was still to talk quite loudly, supposedly in whispers, to criticize men. I had been silent now with the pack for eight weeks. I was more than halfway through my internship and it looked like I was going to have two titles, trauma surgeon and neurosurgeon, because when operating on the brain, wolf's eyes are a fucking big help, you can see the borders of tumors, and do real precision surgery.

We were in another bar when Damon walked in. We were actually shadowing one of the biggest pharmaceutical company bosses and cloning his phone and laptop. This was a fucking important gig, so I said to Damon in my head "Don't fucking Salvatore this gig, you understand, you don't know me and you don't know me. There's a very important target here and I'm working." Miraculously, Salvatore listened.

Although I was still somewhat pissed off about the whole heat treatment, so we did the normal thing and I let it go while I criticized Damon. I said " Look at that, he thinks he's a godsend to women. That motherfucker must be three. No, not guys like that, they're just vain idiots who can't even satisfy a woman in general. That guy probably makes women suck his dick in a toilet somewhere. I wouldn't go to bed with that guy if I was paid." The girls giggled. Neither of them knew who Damon was, they had never met and so we had a pretty heated discussion. Some college boys came into the bar and oh how I complimented and flirted with them, supposedly half drunk. Damon drank a triple bourbon and walked away. That's what I get for that, my man.

We did the gig almost every night after that, killing sprees or stakeouts. Murdoc would teach us every now and then. I had full days. 10 hours of training, and two or three hours of rest and washing, and another 10 hours of doing gigs and gathering information. I'd now been gigging for almost 5 months and I was coming to the end of my training in two weeks.

I was now by myself at the bar in one of the bars when Bran came up to me in disguise and said "I think it's about time you went home too, don't you?" My disguise was a pretty young girl, almost a teenager, and Bran was obviously playing some kind of private eye or something. He didn't want to spoil my disguise. I looked at my glass with the remnants of a tequila sunrise in it and said " What am I doing there when no one wants me there? Just leave me alone. I'll be fine, in case you haven't noticed."

I got up and walked away, over to Murdock and we went outside. Murdoc said, " Who was that?" I looked at him and said "Bran Cornick, Marrok. He has the ability to be unobtrusive, ordinary. " Murdoc smiled and said " Good to know, so I can watch my back. Normally I wouldn't have even registered that guy's existence. "We headed back to our base. I had set up new bases for us that no one in the pack knew about. Even the fleas, only a small number of them, because these were very secret places and such that you could only find out about them if you were in such a tight spot.