Howl discussion

Cora walked in and walked around, she was so glad Rule was able to talk his aunt into letting her keep her internship here. She was tasked with making copies, and answering the phone. All of her co-workers went to breakfast since they weren't busy. She didn't mind though, she was hoping Renee would be meeting her here soon. They had a lot to talk about.

Renee drove into the parking lot in her glistening Mercedes Benz, still making sure she recorded a reminder that Nathaniel had to fix the motorcycle he totaled. She had only eaten a bar but her stomach, thanks to previous events, was not in the mood to deal with anymore. Renee Forest threw on a yellow tank, something nice to contrast with her hair and blue capris. She had her flats on, knowing even with this, she couldn't get away with her favorite boots. A navy vest completed the ensemble.

Entering the clinic, she could smell wounds, fresh bandages, clean water, and cleaning alcohol. She wrinkled her nose, never liking the smell but knowing she could deal. From memory, Renee went to where Cora worked, smiling at the workers who recognized her.

Cora's eye lit up when she seen her best friend, and she ran over to hug her. "I'm so sorry about last night, but I promise to make it up to you...starting now!" Cora pulled out a plate of Renee's favorite food, knowing that she probably hadn't ate in her rush to get here. She walked them over to a table in the worker's lounge, she was currently on break.

Renee sat down, but couldn't help her eyebrows as they rose in surprise. Sure, she knew Cora had a conscious but now this was getting scary. "Yay?" Renee Forest asked cautiously, eyes narrowed. What did Cora have up her sleeve? Leave it to Renee to suspect her best friend was up to some plan.

"Stop that! I don't have anything planned, I just feel like I haven't been there for you like I should here lately. It makes me feel terrible, I just want you to know that even though I've found my mate, that I will always be there for you." Cora laughed at the first part, Renee might be good at hiding her emotions to everyone else but not to her. When she got to the last part, the guilt of not being there for Renee was eating at her again.

Renee Forest knew the guilt Cora was feeling was about her parents' death. The Rouge invasion. The day she turned evil. Renee made herself smile, if not for her sake, for Cora's. "I'm fine, it's nothing really." To change subject, she took a bite of her favorite breakfast, an egg omelet in a bagel, strawberries on the side. "It's delicious." Her tone was full of genuine truth, but even if the food was good, Renee couldn't bring herself to eat, the after effects of wolfsbane having been in her.

((Okay here's what happened. Envy has been kidnapped, Cora, Finn, and Rule are at the pack house ((Shadow)) and we'll just say that Renee came with Cora.))

Cora froze, Envy was gone...she couldn't feel her anymore. "I can't feel her, I can't feel Envy...Renee...somethings wrong." Cora jumped up and ran for her car.

Dash walked into the clinic with a scowl, he didn't want to be here, this was a waste of his time. So the Shadowfield pack found an injured rogue on their lands, kill him. Dash hated rogues. He believed that the Silvermoon pack had the right idea. Rogues were dangerous, they were mindless killing machines. He huffed in annoyance, the alpha had become more lax towards rogues as of late. Dash couldn't fathom why, but that wasn't his job. His job was to follow orders. Even if, like he did now, he hated the orders that he was given. Protect the rogue.

Tamaris frowned feeling dizzy. She slumped against Sebastian as she is carried in his arms. She didn't notice the young man in the room. She looked like a child in a parent's arms. "Where are we?.....I'm sorry for making you carry me...."She groaned."I'm not heavy, am I?"She closed her eyes breathing slowly."I feel sick." Her caramel skin was paler now.

Dash glanced up at the sound of a voice, it was the most heavenly voice he had ever heard. His gaze traveled to a Shadowfield wolf, Sebastian a sentinel just like him. Great. A rogue and a shadow...his day had just gotten so much better. He walked over to Sebastian, nodding at him in respect. Dash's alpha told him to be nice, so he would. He glanced down at the rogue, his look of disdain froze...a she-wolf? The rogue was a she-wolf? What was the world coming to? He felt his wolf on edge, wanting to rip Sebastian's face off...that was odd. And inadvisable. Dash had heard about the prowess of this sentinel and had no intentions of getting into a fight with him. Sure, Dash was strong, and they were...probably even matched, but if he didn't have to fight him he wasn't going to.

Tamaris felt another presence near her. Her wolf felt a bit calmer. She would have found it strange but she wasn't able to focus much. She turned her head to look at the man. She gave him a weak smile but closed her eyes. Her heart rate was slowing down. Was she going to die? "Am I dying?"She asked with a raspy voice. It wasn't really directed at anyone. Her breath was drastically slow as her blood pressure dropped. If she wasn't attended to quickly, she'd faint again.

"No, your not going to die." Dash told her softly, he wanted to call Cora and beg her to come heal this rogue. He had no idea why. The thought of her dying made is wolf howl in pain, Dash was confused. His wolf had never acted this way before, not even when his sister died. He frowned at the memory, turning to a nurse, "She needs to be looked at now, she is to be put in the suite." The suite was the part of the clinic that the werewolves were taken to. The nurse nodded, leaving to make the arrangements quickly.

Tamaris kept her eyes closed. His voice was so soothing. Why? He felt like home. Well his prescence none the less. His words were becoming muffled to her ears though. Her hearing could be shot as her wolf whined, wanting to hear this stranger's voice. It would growl pawing the floor of her mind wanting to stay with this man. She remembered reading about blood loss. How it would mess with the hearing, the slowing heart rate and fainting. The most fatal result being death itself. Strangely she believed his last words she could hear but she fell back into the darkness of unconsciousness. You could hear the deafening heartbeat as she lay there on the seats of the waiting room..

Sebastian was about to comment, tell her she was not heavy, fearing that perhaps this was one of those girl moments in which she would feel accused of being considered overweight -- not that she was; she was relatively light in his opinion. Sebastian's nares tingled at the scent of the sentinel in the room, the redolence of the opposing enemy making him feel on end, albeit he did nothing, only blinked slowly to acknowledge the male just as the male had gave him a respective nod; if this male could control himself, then he deserved all the respect Sebastian could give -- even if that was little. Glancing about the room, he set Tamaris down in a chair, knowing some unfathomable bond has sprouted; he could tell by the urgency in the male's voice; in no way did Sebastian want to get entangled in a situation with a male bent on protecting his only emotional salvation. "I'm just going to depart now." With a sideways glance toward the rogue, he whispered one more thing. "You'll be alright." He had no doubt Dash would take care of her. With that, he left.

Dash was starting to freak out, he had no idea why he cared about this rogue so much. All he knew was that she had to live, where in the hell was that nurse! He snarled, she was taking too long, much too long. I need a healer at the Emergency Clinic now! his jaw dropped at what he had just done. He just unknowingly called his whole pack for a healer...for this girl. It slipped his knowledge that he had stopped referring her to rogue. He walked over to her, she looked so broken...blood and bruises covered her completely, his wolf whimpered. The nurse finally came back, her and a few male nurses lifted the rogue on a bed and rolled away with her. Dash tried to follow, they tried stopped him, he just pushed them out of the way. Nothing was going to keep him from her side.

Tamaris' breathing was going away as the nurse checked for her pulse. There was barely any movement of her blood pressure. Her body was getting colder. The nurses didn't bother now to usher Dash away as they realized the girl was going through cardiac arrest. Her heart was about to flatline any minuted. They brought a defillbrator and took off her sweatshirt to place the pads on her chest. Her wounds were gone but there was bruising. She was given a blood transfusion and the nurses moved away as she was sent a electric shock to restart her heart. All they could do was wait now for her heart to start. A few seven minutes later, her heart monitor began to beat normally. "She should wake up in a few hours, sir."One of the nurses said seeing that Dash had been there with them the whole time."Please call us once she does. She's lucky usually from her status she'd have internal bleeding." That was all thanks to Linger though, she had repaired the severe damage to Tamaris. The nurse was unsure if he had heard him but he pulled up a chair next to Tamaris' sleeping form and left the room.

((I'm not really good at medical stuff when its roleplay :/ .))

((Ehh it's all good, neither am I lol))

Dash couldn't breath, the whole time she was dead it was like his life was over as well. Every laugh, every smile, every word that she would never say to him flashed before his eyes. Ripping his heart into tinier and tinier pieces...she couldn't be his mate could she? There was no other explanation, none. She had to be. He was unaware of the hot tear streaming down his face, the mere thought of losing his mate left him dark and hollow inside. How could the Goddess be so cruel? Showing her to him, yet threatening to take her away before he even knew her name. He walked over to her, softly pushing the hair from her face, the sparks as their skin brushed confirmed it. She was his, she was his mate.

As the nurse had said after a couple of hours, Tamaris' eyes fluttered open confused. She looked around taking in her surrounding, the white walls, the bed, the heart monitor then her eyes fell on Dash. Her wolf barked in joy in her head. She found her voice after clearing her dry throat."Hi....where am I?"She noticed that he was dishevelled here but she couldn't have figured out why. Her wolf was starting to annoy her a little as it jumped for joy to be reunited with him. Realization struck her that he was the man who reassured her.

((I'm going to school but i'll reply once i get back from the torture of it ;) ))

Dash's eyes shot to her, "You're...you're awake...I was beginning to fear the worst..." He rushed to her side, wanting nothing more than to pull her in his arms and never let her go. But he refrained. For one, she was in too much pain, and he didn't want to hurt her further. And for two, though he knew they were mates she did not, and he didn't want to scare her. "Oh how stupid of me, you must be thirsty, here you go," He grabbed a cup of water and put it up to her lips, "You're at the Emergency Clinic, the Shadowfield ...Sebastian got you here just in time..."

Tamaris brought her lips to drink slowly. "Thanks...I was supposed to be asking the Alpha of the Shadowfield pack if I may join."She bit her lip trying to think. She found herself easily talking to him but why exactly."...since my pack is all dead." She frowned still not used to the fact that her family and friends were gone. "It's still a bit of a shock."

Dash frowned, her words made his heartbreak, "You can't join the Shadowfield pack! You and I..." He stopped, cutting off his words. He didn't want her to find out that way, not after what she had just told him. As a rogue and his mate, she was obligated to join the Silvermoon pack for them to be able to be together. But if she wanted to join Shadowfield pack, she couldn't know that they were mates, at least not until after she joined his rival pack. He didn't want to force her into his pack if she didn't want to join it. So he would hide that they were mates, no matter how much it killed him to do so.

Tamaris lifted a brow as he stopped midsentence."You and I what? There's another pack too." She winced when she sat up. Her chest hurt where the electric shock had gotten her. She took a breath. "Oh I'm Tamaris." She said finding it rude that she never even said her name. She kept her eyes at eye level with his. If she wasn't constantly thinking of how she was now, she would have to admit that he was handsome.

Dash cleared his throat, he had almost slipped up...that was not good. "Yes, there is another pack...the pack that I am from, the Silvermoon pack. I'm Dashiell...but you can call me Dash." He couldn't help but to be drawn to her incredible eyes. They seemed to be an ordinary brown, but they were really looked like light chocolate mixed with rich honey. They left him in awe, like her, he was proud of the strength that his mate possessed. A lesser wolf would have died, he was thankful that she did not.

"Dash...."Tamaris liked how his name rolled off her tongue. She closed her eyes and whimpered though when she thought of her family. "..I should have saved them. My pack was killed by rogues." There was a slight bitterness in her voice when she mentioned the last word. "That's why I want to join a pack....to not share the same title as them."She swallowed feeling her chest tighten. "They made me watch them as they tore my parents, everyone I loved apart. I'm sorry, you just met me. It must be strange hearing some pitiful story from a rogue."She hated that word. It made bile rise in her throat.

"Don't. Don't call yourself that! You don't deserve to be under the same title as them!" He growled, not at her, but at the rogues that dared to hurt his mate. He wanted to find them and tear them apart...he sighed, he needed to calm down. Tamaris wouldn't understand why he was acting the way he was, and he didn't want to frighten her. "You can tell me anything Tamaris, anything, your story and you are not pitiful to me."

Tamaris would have found it strange in his current actions but she was too hurt emotionally to care. "You barely know me....." She still felt like she could believe him. She pinched the bridge of her nose trying to calm herself. It was a habit of hers to do when she was upset. When he said her name though, the heart monitor beeped a little faster; she hadn't been listen to it though. It could have been easily mistaken for the sadness she felt from another observer. "I was the Beta of the Nightthorn pack in southern part of California. "She smiled a little."I wouldn't let my father place me there unless I earned it. Eventually I did too."

"That doesn't matter...because it's the truth." He wanted to grab her hand and comfort her, but he couldn't. Then she would know that they were mates, a mate was the last thing she needed right now. She had just lost her entire family, she didn't need him confusing her feelings. He sighed, this was going to be the hardest thing he ever had to do. "A beta? That is impressive, I'm a sentinel..." He was once again in awe of his mate, she was beautiful and powerful. Dash was indeed a lucky man. If he could ever tell her, that is. He had never heard of anyone fighting the mating bond, it was like hell, so he had heard anyways. But he would do it for her.

"A sentinel."Tamaris couldn't help but keep her smile."I always admired them. To protect a pack."She balled her fist though. She couldn't keep the flashes of memory out for so long; her nails digged into her palms. "I know it wasn't my priority as Beta, but I helped train those who wanted to be sentinels to the best of my ability, of course." She ran her hands through her hair. Even raising her arms hurt a little, they were sore. "Ow." It didn't hurt that much but it was a reflex to say the word. She wondered though why she kept admitting to him so easily of her past. It didn't make sense to her.

Dash stepped forward to comfort her, only to stop short. He couldn't, not yet. He growled...this was killing him, literally his personal hell on Earth. To have his mate, injured in front of him, it tore at him. What kind of mate was he? A horrible one. He was letting his mate suffer, knowing that he could help ease her pain. He cursed, his hatred for himself growing more and more at each passing moment. He closed his eyes, forcing himself to focus before he lost it, "Yes, a sentinel. I would have loved the chance to be taught by you. Maybe one day I can...?" He added hoping that she had no plans to leave this town...to leave him.

"Sure..I'm always up for that sort of thing."Tamaris frowned though easily noticing his distress."Are you okay?" She moved to place her hand on his but let it waver not sure if she should. She didn't know him that well and neither did he know her. Her compassion for others gets the better of her though. "You don't seem okay."Funny how she was the one in a hospital bed but she didn't care. She hated seeing people in any shape or form hurt.

"I'm...I'm fine...just worried about you," Dash's eyes widened as he seen her hand reach for his. He should pull back, he really should...but he didn't want to. His wolf was trying to take over, to force him to go to her side. He didn't know what to do...he was lost, would she even want him? Could she even trust him after everything that she had been through? He was thankful that it was the Shadowfield pack that had found her, he doubted his pack would have killed her since she had been so close to death. But they might have left her there...depending on who it was anyways.

Tamaris bit her lip when she just remembered. Her fingertips almost brushed against his as she let it rest beside his but not touching. If only moved a little, she would know their true fate together."I never wanted to be alone. My best friend and well I guess you could say exboyfriend since he's dead...Asher....He would always be there with me. He's the one who was able to get me free from the rogues until he was overtaken. He told me to run. Now I have no home,family or ....clothes for that matter."She frowned. It hurt to think about."If it weren't for him and that Shadowfield members Linger and Sebastian, I'd be with the rest of them." She closed her eyes feeling tears threatening to show.

Boyfriend. The word pounded through his skull, leaving a varied range emotions in it's wake. Anger, jealousy, sadness, fear...that he would never compare to the memory of the ex that she so obviously loved. He felt as if he had been punched in the gut, the air in his lungs had turned against him, choking him into despair. He stepped back, unable to ruin her memory and replace it with the confusion of the mating bond. Dash wanted her to love him because she wanted to, not because of some damned mating bond. "I will take care of whatever you need..." His voice was emotionless, he turned them off, he couldn't bare to make her suffer even more.

Tamaris's ears picked up his movement. "You're being so nice to me. You must really care for others if you'd do that." She didn't see that his kindness for her was more than what her knowldge was currently. She pulled her legs to her chest not caring that it hurt. Before they could continue talking, a doctor walked. "Ah, I see out patient is awake." She tensed not used to doctors. She never really needed one since she always had healers handy back in California.

Dash forced himself not to snarl at the doctor that had caused his mate to flinch. "Yes, doctor." Dash's tone had an under current of a threat, the meaning was clear. You hurt or scare her, and you're dead. Honestly, Dash was so on edge he needed to hunt, he would do it when he left. Rather a deer, or an elk than a human. Not that he had ever or would ever kill a human, he was just on the verge of losing control.

The doctor checked her vital signs though Tamaris didn't want to comply. She wouldn't when he touched her chest for her heartbeat due to the cold metal and she wouldn't sit still when he put the light in your eyes. "Well Ms. Mariette, it seems you have healed up better then our usual patients here. Your eyes though are having trouble adjusting. I'll have to prescirbe you some medicine to help with that. You'll have to have someone with you at all times to get you on your feet. Mostly likely you'll be in a wheelchair for about a week."She couldn't help but scowl at the word wheelchair. She didn't want to be confine. "Is there anyone you can stay with?"Tamaris bit her lip looking at Dash. She really didn't have a place to say unless it was the local shelter if they even have one."I'm not particularly sure."The doctor watched the two."Well you don't have to be released yet."

"Yes, she can stay with me...if she wants to...I mean." Dash corrected himself, remembering that she still didn't know that they were mates. It was going to be difficult trying to keep it from her if she moved in with him. Maybe he could wear sweat suits all the time? He hated that his mate was going to be confined to a wheelchair, but maybe this was his chance. His chance to try to make her fall in love with him, for him. "I have a big house...you would have your own bedroom, bathroom, and anything else you needed..." He hoped that she said yes, in fact he was praying that she would say yes.

Tamaris thought for abit. She did feel safe with him for unknown reasons. She didn't know this guy that much though, but if Sebastian trusted this guy enough to leave her with him, he must be trustworthy."..there you go then. I'm staying with him."The doctor nodded scribbling down some information. "You can be released then. Your clothes are in the closet over there." Tamaris frowned. Blood still covered the clothes; she didn't feel quite comfortable wearing those."But there's blood.....on them."She almost choked out. She tried to push the pain and grief down though.

"I've got a t-shirt and a pair of sweats out in my car, they're clean...and you're more than welcome to them, if you want." Dash was trying not to walk over to her and pull her into his arms. He didn't like the sadness in her voice. He hated it, but mostly he hated the fact that he could do nothing about it. Not until she knew they were mates anyways. He began to doubt his decision to keep her in the dark. Was it truly wise, or was he making the biggest mistake of his life?

The doctor had left to get her the wheelchair without the two noticing. I've got to get clothes of my own eventually.Tamaris thought since this would be the second time she's borrowed clothes. She cleared her throat,"Yes, very much." She then began to play with her hair trying to think of anything else. Her wolf was fighting with jumping for joy to be with this man or grieve of its fallen loved ones. "I don't know how I can ever repay you." A light blush flowered against her cheeks from her embarrassment. Her feelings were confusing her too. Even the heart monitor beeped a little faster but it just sounded like an echo to her ears..

"I don't expect you to Tamaris, I'm doing this because I want to. You don't ever have to repay me..." He saw her blush, and cleared his throat, the effect the a simple blush had on him baffled him completely. "Um, I'm going to go get those sweats for you...will you be okay alone or do you want me to have someone wait in here with you?" Dash had called for a few of his packmates to keep an eye on the clinic while his mate was here. He didn't want any surprises while her life was in the balance.

"I'm fine here...I think."Tamaris said looking down. Her blush was still evident. "Don't be long though please."She didn't like the thought of being alone, but it was just a little trip to his car right? Why was she even thinking this? She questioned it herself. Her wolf growled running in circles in her mind. It wanted him to stay and was getting a little agitated of the thought of him being gone hurt her.

"I wouldn't dream of it," Dash promised her before keeping true to his name and dashing out the door. He cheated, he had one of his packmates meet him with his clothes. He walked back in her room less than five minutes later. "I'm back..." He gave her a smile, before panicking, no one was here to help her to the bathroom but him. He would have to touch her, and she would find out about them being mates.

"Thank you."Tamaris found it starnge that he got there so fast but took the clothes gratefully. She bit her lip though. She wasn't allowed to walk but she didn't want to have to trouble him to carry her into the bathroom."Well maybe you could go get my wheelchair while I change?"She suggested since the doctor was taking awhile."I might need help though, putting on the sweats."The thought of it increased her embarrassment. There wasn't really a way though for her to put on the pants. She wasn't even wearing panties either. The thought of it made her face heat up more.

"You don't have any underwear, do you?" He noticed her increased blushing and guessed at what was on her mind. Well this was awkward, there was no way in the world that he could help her put the sweats on without underwear. He wouldn't be able to...well he just didn't trust himself. "I'm uh, going to go see about getting you some, uh...yeah." He blushed and walked out the door. "I'll be back..." Dash added as an afterthought.

Tamaris didn't want to add a bra into the question too. She made a note to go to a Victoria's Secret with Linger. She chewed the inside of her cheek. She wondered why it took Linger so long. She'd have to ask Dash about her so she could talk to her later.

She took a shaky breath. Being with Dash already made her feel safer, but she couldn't shake the feeling that there was something maybe more? It was too much to process for her for these turn of events. She still felt a hollow from the death of her loved ones. She knew she would never be the same again.

Dash came back out 20 minutes later, he hated taking so long but he had problems trying to find the stuff she needed. "Um...here is...well here you go." He handed her a bag it had a few bras, and panties in it. He asked an omega to get his mate some stuff from the mall. It also contained some lotion, shampoo, and conditioner. He assumed that she would want a shower once she got to his house.

"You don't have to help me, if it's too awkward for you."Tamaris said looking at him. Though most guys would be jumping to the chance to help a girl with her clothes, he didn't seem like that to her at least. She placed the bag on her lap, picking up a pair of a black lace thong with a matching bra. "Did you pick these out yourself?" She cocked a brow as she moving the things around. She didn't mind what was in there but a little teasing could break the tension of her still being in this clinic. She would wince though when she would move her body. The soreness of the limbs would creep up.

Dash forced himself to stand still when she flinched he hated seeing her in pain. "As much as I would love to help you get dressed, I'm not sure it would be right for me to. I can have someone come to help you, a female someone." He added the last part quickly, not liking the thought of another male's hands on her. He laughed at her question, "Umm no, I sent an omega to the mall for it. Do you like them....or would like different ones?"