The true mate

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Matthew's POV

After I went through the hotel entrance Brendan walked to me and lead me to William's room on 20th floor. As soon as we came inside his room he welcomed us and shook hands with us. We sat down on a couch facing a TV with a webcam. On the screen there was a was older lady, maybe in her 50's, with black hair, a few wrinkles on her face, but other than that she looked really beautiful and youthful.

„Good evening. My name is Laila, I'm Alpha William's healer, Brendan remembers me I'm sure, I healed your father years ago.“ She has a very nice and pleasant voice. She's smiling at us with ease and talking some more. „Let's get to the business tho.“, her face changes completely, she's very serious now. „Alpha William told me that your mate might be a witch, judging by your experience and what you felt. Also your brother told me, that something happened today when you met, tell me more.“

I told her everything from the beginning, from the moment I met her a year ago, until today morning.

„It's very unusual for a witch without training to be able to get into contact with a werewolf's wolf, or even get through and communicate by just using her mind... Here's what I'm gonna do. I can connect to her life and magical energy through you, as her mate. You as mates have the same energy because you are destined to be together, you are, as you know, half of each other's soul. Everyone has an energy inside them, it's like our own fingerprint. Thanks to that I can connect to her. But there is one thing. I need her to be asleep, I'm not there with her or you, which means that it's gonna be harder to reach her if she's fully conscious, if she's a witch and fully aware of her powers she could resist me or completely cut me off, but while sleeping her minds is resting.“

„She's working tomorrow, I don't think she's gonna stay up late.“

„Alright. I can also cast a spell on her to feel more worn out. I basically take a bit of her energy, that will help me with connecting with her later, but you will feel it too, because it's your energy as well, Matthew.“

We waited for a few minutes, Laila made everything ready in her room. She's using some crystals, she said that witches use these to channel their energy and for communication with different realms. While she's getting ready I text Lizzy to find out how she is. She responded that she's tired and going to bed.

„Ok, she's going to bed. What should I do?“

„Just get comfortable, you'll be glad for that later.“

I decide to lay down on a couch and just try to relax. She said it will have an effect on me too. What will I feel?

„Laila. Can you tell me what's gonna happen? She could see my wolf, even made contact with him, she talked to him. Will she be able to see you or me?“

„For her it's just a dream, we don't exist in those memories, we are just unbiased watchers. I really doubt she's gonna be able to even remember it. It's gonna be like reliving her life, but I will navigate the whole dream. I'll go through her life and we, because you'll be connected as well, will be able to see the fragments that have magical print in them. Alright, get ready, it's gonna be a busy night.“

After a few minutes when I relaxed she began. I'm really trying not to think about it too much, but I'm kind of scared of what we might find out. Liala starts to talk in an unknown language and the TV is all fuzzy, it's like her talking is interfering the signal. God, I feel sleepy, I feel like my whole body is floating, but my legs and arms are heavy. It's a strange feeling, I've never left anything like that. I can hear a voice, it's calling. But I don't recognize it. I open my eyes and I'm in an unknown room. There is a whitewood bed, a white closet and a table. I look around and I see another bed on the other side of the room, and closet, but this time it's wihte with red. The walls are blue and the carpet is blue with flowers. It looks like a children's bedroom.

„We should be in her childhood. Looks like this might be her room.“, I look behind me and see Liala, she's trying to concentrate real hard. „She's coming.“

I hear a little girl laugh and fast footsteps. I look at the door and I see a blond hair girl coming in and after her a small brown hair girl with a wide smile and hazel eyes full of enjoyment. This is my beloved mate. She's so happy, so innocent. She's talking to the other girl, playing with dolls.

„I want this one.!“, the blond girl takes the doll from Lizy and starts to play with it.

„But... I just got it for my birthday yesterday. I haven't played with it yet and it's mine.“

„But I want it! I want it!“

„It's mine, you have your doll here and it's even nicer.“

„But I want this one!“

„I'll lend it to you later, Can you give her to me, please?“ Liz is stretching her little hand towards the blond girl, who just hit her and stands with the doll.

„NO! I want her! I. WANT. HER!“, the girl starts to cry and scream.

Liz looks pissed off, but I can see she's trying to stay calm.

„Sussy, give me my doll, please.“

„NO! NOOOOO!“

Just by one look at my younger mate's version my body gets covered with cold sweat, I've never seen anyone so angry yet so calm. Liz stands up and grabs the girl's wrist, jerks her closer to her and speaks with a calm but dark voice. „Give it to me“, her eyes are light purple and I can feel the air around me get heavy. The blond girl throws the doll at Liz and starts to cry and whine. We can hear hurried footsteps and some adults run to the room.

„Sussy sweety what is it?“

„She won't let me play with her doll... she grabbed my hand! It hurts mommy“!, the girls shows her hand to her mom, I can see a light mark from the grab.

„What do you think you're doing, Elizabeth?!“

The scene dissolves and we're standing in the same room, but this time it's dark. I look in the direction where I hear a movement. Liz is laying in her bed, she's a bit older, maybe 8, it's middle of the night, but she's not sleeping. She looking at the ceiling and all of a sudden sits up. She's looking at the door. She's pale in her face, her eyes are big and there's nothing but a fear in them. I look at Laila, who's as pale as Liz, so I look in the same direction where they're both looking. I see a tall person, if you can call it that, I don't see a face, only a tall figure all in white, it seems like it's looking straight at Liz and she can see it too. The figure then moves to the door that is partly glass and goes through it, the figure stops at the hall for a few seconds and then continues to float to the right and disappears. Liz only lays quickly down and turns on her side, she's shaking, she's so scared and I'm sure confused.

„What the hell was that?!“ I scream whisper to Liala.

„That was a human spirit, looks like it moved to the other realm, it came to her, because she is the closet source of magic... I'm sure that if wanted she could have talked to it.“, Laila tries to talk calmly, but I see that she's really concerned. I don't blame her, most of the witches that are left usually don't use their powers on such a big scale, some of them can only heal or cast small spells after years of training, but this is different.

Laila looks at Liz with a soft expression and thinks about something. But then she turns to the direction of a window that's on the opposite side of the room. The moon comes from behind a cloud and shines in the room. It shines on the bed and Liz looks at it. Her frightened face softens and she just stares at the moon for several minutes, her breathing gets even and she starts to fall asleep.

Again, the room changes. This time we're in a different place, it's a different house. We're in what looks like a living room, it's small, there is a white couch, some furniture and TV, a dining table is on the other side of the room, and then two doors leading to two bedrooms on one side and a third door that is closed. I don't feel good here, I feel like something's watching me. Laila's breath gets caught in her chest and she tries to even it.

„This place, it's so heavy.“

The door that's closed open and Liz comes out with a laptop in her hand. She's adult now, beautiful just like today when we were at the park. She walks around me and sits on the couch. I move to a different spot so that I can see her better. She is writing something on her laptop and suddenly stops. The air in the room gets even heavier and she look behind her. She turns back and writes again, but the expression on her face is worried.

Laila comes to stand with me, breathing heavily. „Something's not right. I've never felt anything like this. And she can feel it too, but tries to stay calm, but look at her.“

I look at my mate and wish I could hold her in my arms. Her hands are shaking, she's looking around her, trying to stay cool and not to show that she's scared. But then her head shoots up and she's staring in front of her. Her whole body is shaking, she's not moving. I kneel in front of her and hold her hand. This is just a memory, nothing can happen to her. She looks so scared, what is going on? She turns her head a bit as if trying to look behind her, but doesn't dare to finish the movement. I look behind her and see nothing, but Laila whines and curses under breath. I look at her and she is shaking as much as my beloved mate.

„Laila what is it? I don't see anything.“

Laila only closes her eyes and points infront of her. I look at Liz and she's saying something with a small voice, I hear names Michael and Rafael. She's praying, but why? And then I see it. Behind her, standing close to the wall is a figure, but this time all black, inhumanely tall, taller than the ceiling, with black cape over the head and body. I've never felt fear, until now. I feel nothing but cold, hunger and aggression coming from that thing. It's staring at my mate, but it's not moving, it's just there. Liz is still praying, but after some time she shakes her head and says „Get out.“, she takes a deep breath and says again „get. out.“, the thing growls, but slowly disappears.

Liz stands up and takes her laptop with her and goes in a different room, she comes back immediately and is holding a deck of cards. She sits back down on the couch and starts to shuffle the cards. They look old, they were used before for many years.

„She can communicate with entities by using cards, they are probably as old as she is. I can feel very loving and nostalgic energy from them. She must have been using them for a long time.“

Liz is not spreading the cards on the couch and moving her left hand above them, she stops for a second and picks up a card. Ace of hearts. She's looking at the cards, puts it down and looks at it again. „That is not it. I did not pick this card, it's wrong, it was a card with bad omen.“, she sits up straight looking at her cards and then shoots her head up looking right at me.

„Matthew?“

„That is not possible.“, Laila is as shocked as I am. „she should not be able to see us.“

„Who is this? What is going on? What are you doing in my house?“

Laila is trying to leave the dream, but Liz comes to her and holds her hands.

„Who are you and what are you doing here?“

Laila looks at Liz, jerks her hands out of her grasp and puts them on Liz's temples. She's talking in that strange language again, but Liz only grabs her hands again and stares at her.

„Liz, baby, it's ok.“ I come to her, I want to help her, she must be confused, but she's not even reacting to me. She's still holding Laila's hands until Laila opens her eyes and looks at Liz with fear in them. Her eyes are light purple again, Laila puts her hands down and Liz pushes her towards the wall. I try to catch Laila but the wall behind her smashes and Laila falls in a dark hole. The whole room crashes and all the pieces fall under our feet into darkness. Lizz is looking around her panicking, I come to her and hug her. She hugs me back, holding my tshirt in her fists.

„It's ok baby, it's just a dream, it's just a dream.“

„Matthew, I don't know what is going on.“

„It's ok, I got you.“ I still hug her and lightly rock her, to help her calm down. „It's just a dream. I don't know what that thing was, but I promise I will protect you from anything. I promise you that. I will protect my mate.“

„Mate?“

„I will explain everything soon, I promise.“

I feel that something is pulling me away from her. Laila must be calling off the spell. Liz is trying to hold onto me, to pull me back to her, but I know she won't be able to do it.

„Matthew!“

„I tell you everything soon, my love.“, with that everything disappears and I'm back in the hotel room. I sit up quickly looking around and then on the TV. Laila looks very tired, like all her energy has been sucked out of her.

„Your mate is part of The Moon Temple coven. She was not raised as one of them, I'm not even sure there are any left, but her magic and everything she does is pure instinct to her. She needs training tho, or that thing we saw, and other things could try to get her. Witches from her coven were known for strong powers. You know, all witches, just like you werewolves worship the Moon Goddess, you are her children, her creations, witches are her messengers on Earth. There are stories of witches being able to communicate with her, mostly The Moon Temple coven witches, but some of them turned against her, against nature and tend to the dark side of magic, they were very powerful, but it was not enough for them. They knew they had potential and were tempted by dark entities, which was their downfall. You can hide yourself as a normal witch, but not as a witch with dark magic. The temptation to show and use the power is too much. Your mate is strong, I don't believe that she would get on the dark side, but she needs training. You have to tell her, as soon as possible.“

I tug my fingers in my hair and just stay like that for a moment. This is bigger than I thought. „I know... I will tell her everything soon... Laila. Do you think she will remember seeing us?“

„That is hard to tell, to her it was all a dream. You know when you wake up and your dreams get hazy, it could be the same for her.“

„Alright. Thank you so much for doing this. I hope you're ok.“

„No problem, good luck Matthew.“

After our session ended I told everything to Brendan and William. Both of them were shocked, they didn't know what to say. After I told them everything Brendan and I stood up and we both thanked Alpha William.

Brendan turned to me a bit tired, but smiling „Now the harder part... telling her... and the hardest part, telling our parents.“

„Shit! I forgot... mom is gonna be furious.“