The Lycan Queen

Everything happened so suddenly, but all Thea could process was the blood. Astrid placed a calm hand to Thea’s forehead before escorting her to the packhouse’s nurse. Thea could feel all of the energy being sucked out of her body, but she couldn’t move, her feet just wouldn’t move. Astrid gently tugged on her arm, pulling her carefully behind her. Thea knew it was too soon. “Get my sister!” “Your sister isn’t here. You know that. I need you to focus on your breathing, in and out. We’re almost there. Just keep breathing!” Astrid turned a corner, her bare feet echoing on the cold hardwood floor. “We need to get someone in here now! It’s an emergency!” “She’s not part of our pack,” the nurse whispered. “You have to do something to help her!” The nurse looked at the blood that was pouring from her lower regions and inhaled, “There’s nothing we can do. She’ll be okay, but there was nothing we could have done.” Thea looked at the nurse, holding her breath. “How is he?” “Thea, you need to rest. Don’t think about it.” “Thea, of the Halfcrest pack?” Astrid nodded and the nurse’s face was grave. “We’ll get this sorted out,” she whispered before stepping out of the room. Astrid watched the seventeen year old’s tears spill down her face. All she could feel was sympathy, but she knew that that wouldn’t be any help to Thea in the state she was in. Astrid inhaled, the smell of blood lingered in the air. A single tear ran down Astrid’s face. Pulling out her phone, Astrid pressed the call button, wiping the tear from her face. “It’s done,” Astrid whispered into the phone, hanging up after making the statement. Thea’s face was covered in sweat, the blood unending. “We have to do emergency surgery,” the nurse whispered. “Don’t you need a surgeon?” Astrid questioned. “I don’t have that option right now! Just help me prep her!” Thea lay motionless, her head spinning. Everything within her told her to give in, but Astrid’s voice kept her eyes barely open. The nurse pulled off her pants. The next thing Thea knew, a cold rod was being placed within her genitalia. Thea tried to jerk away, but Astrid put all of her weight on Thea’s body. The nurse continued with the procedure ensuring that all the tissue within was removed carefully. “There. We’re done. She should be ready to leave soon. I know her mother will want her back. I’m going to draw some blood and run some tests,” the nurse said. Astrid nodded, “Just fill us in when the labs come back. I’m not sure she’s ready to hear about all this.” “I think she should rest and take things easy. She’s young, she’ll bounce back fairly quick,” the nurse answered. Astrid sighed and left the room to make the call to Thea’s parents. Thea tried to sit up, but the pain was too great. The lights in the room burned her eyes, but for some reason she couldn’t look away. Thea ran her hand through her hair, rubbing her temples. “I need to go home,” she whispered, standing carefully and picking up her pants. Thea pulled her pants over her thighs. Deep down Thea knew she had lost him, but she couldn’t process it, she wasn’t sure how to process any of it. Thunder broke the silence in the room. Astrid returned with the nurse, both ushering her back on the small bed. Thea couldn’t think, she couldn’t breathe, every part of her felt disgusted with her body. She did everything right, but in the end she had lost the one thing that she had fallen in love with completely. “Your mother wants you to stay here for a month. She wants to make sure you’re okay to travel. Is that okay with you?” Thea just nodded, her eyes glued to the marbling of the wooden floor. She had never realized how beautiful something so natural was, nor how eager things were to destroy it. Nothing felt right to her at that moment. Thea closed her eyes and imagined walking among the trees back home, skinny dipping in the river with Arius. All things she longed to do once again. But she hadn’t talked to Arius since the day she left. A pain in her chest, like a scab being pulled off, began as she thought about him and what being with him had meant to her. Thea thought about her mother’s orders, to keep this a secret, she had and it cost her the one relationship she could ever want. Thea shook her head, needing a distraction from her thoughts. We aren’t mates, so it doesn’t matter, she thought to herself, but the pain remained both mentally and physically.