Locked Away Lycan

Chapter 4

ELIJAH'S P.O.V.

"You want to speak with an insane lycan? The one that murdered possibly thousands of rogues?" A shocked prison security guard questions for the hundredth time.

A growl escapes me. "For the last f*****g time YES!" I shout the last word more than irritated by the idiots that are somehow employed here. The power hungry new werewolf king came here in person to make some sort of offer to the female lycan and I would like to know just what the offer was and what all he told her. The council notified me about it a few days after it happened when they should have told me as soon the arrogant king came to them about making an offer with her. I'm technically her leader so everything is supposed to go through me first, so the werewolf king also should have come to me before even thinking of going to the council and the council shouldn't have let him come here without my permission.

"Excuse me sir." A male voice politely says, turning around there's a very young naive looking vampire guard standing there. "Um I'm the guard in charge of the isolation wing where Crys- I mean the female lycan is being held." I raise a brow at the fact that he started to say her name so causually when he should never refer to a prisoner by name but I don't question it and let him finish talking. "I'll take you to a visitation room then go get her."

I raise a hand silencing him. "No, I don't want to wait for her to be dragged up here, just take me to her. I have some urgent matters I need to speak with her about." He nods then motions for me to follow him through a gated door.

After who knows how many twists and turns through this large depressing building he informs me that we are almost there as we begin to descend yet another stair case, from as many stairs we've walked down this area must be pretty far underground. Reaching the bottom there's a solid metal door with enchantments that prevents it from being knocked down by any supernatural, the vampire looks confused as he mumbles something about guards should be standing there making me raise a brow at the lazy guards that should always be at their station cause this place is for the most dangerous criminals. Pulling a identification key card out of his pocket he swipes it into the pad on the door followed by a series of pass codes. The door clicks and the vampire opens it then holds it open for me to pass through first, as soon as we step into the dimmly lit hallway the strong stench of blood hits both of us along with female screams and male grunting.

"f**k!" The vampire starts running at full speed with a very worried expression, I run as well quickly passing him, if there's any major threat I would be able to handle it much easier than him. When several figures come into view my blood starts to boil when I see four male guards holding a small woman in place as she frantically kicks at a large fifth guard, there is blood everywhere on all six of the beings. I'm horrified and disgusted as I watch the large guard catch and painfully break the woman's ankle then pulls out a knife after she kicks him in the face effectively breaking his nose. As blood flows down his face he advances on her like he's stalking prey ignoring all the powerful blows to his body holding that deadly silver knife more than ready to stab it into her, not able to handle what's going on I yell out in anger. "STOP!"

All six people stop what they are doing, the guards all freeze in place and go pale as they face me in unison, the woman however is obviously the lycan I came to talk to and a strong one at that since my power hasn't affected her nearly as much as the others. Realizing exactly who I am the guards have lost focus on the prisoner but still keep their tight hold on her arms, I watch in fascination as she siezes the opportunity to toss them across the hall into the wall like they were nothing but limp dolls immediately knocking them all out as cracks form on the concrete wall. Then she viciously snarls like a wild animal starting to lunge at the other guard, as much as I would to see what she would do to him I speak up again once again knowing I can't let her harm the guard.

"I said stop!" I don't yell this time only direct the command straight to the female lycan as I walk forward getting closer to the six beings. She actually listens taking a few steps away from the man, I smirk at how she keeps her canines barred and glares daggers at the guard in front of her. Crystal Rose is her name, her parents were the alpha and luna of the lycan Rose pack. All those with alpha blood use the pack name as their last name and not only does she have lycan blood but she's a pure blood making her one of the most powerful lycans, her beauty is absolutely captivating even though she's covered in blood, clothes torn and long black hair is wildly all over the place.

Walking even closer I stop right in front of the guard whose name tag says Larry giving him a harsh glare of my own at his unacceptable behavior. As I'm about to address him Crystal's scent hits my nose and I can't explain what it does to me, it's the most delicious scent I've ever smelt something I could smell all day everyday, my heart starts racing as a warm happy feeling goes all through my body, I feel an invisible force tug at me wanting me to go to her. Ah s**t! I just met my f*****g mate and it has to be a crazy woman. Everything in me is wanting to go straight to her and mark her but I refrain from doing so, right now is definitely not the time for that plus my mate would probably try to gut me if I even attempted to touch her. Trying to focus I put my attention once again on the terrified guard who looks like he's about to pass out from fear of being caught for his actions by someone like me.

"S-sir! I-it's an ho-honor to me-meet yo-you." Larry stutters out, hearing his voice makes my lycan and I want to rip his tongue out, we just saw this man harm our mate so we aren't just mad, we are seething with fury wanting his blood.

"I came here to ask a prisoner some questions however I never in my wildest dreams imagined I'd see four guards hold a woman in place so another guard could beat her." My voice sounds cold with a hint of anger lacing it, sweat starts forming on Larry's face as my face contorts into disdain.

His trembling form starts shaking even harder. "This is a crazed beast not a woman and she attacked me first." How dare he call her a beast! I didn't even call her a beast since I was informed of her being the serial killer fifty years ago, she lost a mate something our kind can't handle making her go crazy not turn into a f*****g beast! He's also lying about her attacking first, this was obviously something he decided to do and she fought back in self defense.

I snort and cross my arms over my chest scaring him even more. "That's one of the worst lies I've ever heard, considering these cells are supposed to remain locked and never opened so how would she attack you first? What really happened?" Out of the corner of my eye I notice my mate shiver at the sound of my voice making me internally smirk at the effect I had on her.

"Sir this monster lies and tries to seduce new guards so she can lure them into a trap to brutally kill them, I wanted to teach her not to mess with the new guard she's been trying to trick." My lycan is clawing in my head wanting to be let out, I feel my eyes flicker gold, closing my eyes I take a couple deep breaths to try to hold back my enraged lycan. When I have enough control I stare straight into Larry's fear filled eyes.

"If someone is stupid enough to listen to a prisoner to the point they can be lured into their prison cell then they shouldn't work here. For your actions you and the four others are fired." He falls to his knees as his eyes widen so much it's surprising they didn't pop out of his skull. "That's not all, for the crime of assault on a lycan you will receive a short jail sentence." Harming a lycan is a huge crime even if it's just one little punch and I know this kind of thing has probably happened more than once so I want him punished to the full extent I can, which is more than just a 'short jail sentence' as I told him. Being the leader of a dying race I will not tolerate any of my lycans being hurt. Larry will recieve around 20-60 years depending on how many times this has happened and if there's evidence of it, to get evidence all that will have to be done is search through the security footage around the times when a new guard was hired. If he's done this more than five times then he gets life imprisonment.

My body instinctively tenses as I feel my mate's gaze on me, my eyes flick to her and my heart nearly drops at the sight of those bright blue eyes that are inspecting every inch of me. Being a prisoner no one has ever stood up for her and given these guards the punishment they deserve for what they've done so she's surprised that I stepped up. When her beautiful orbs go to my face I start to freak out on the inside, she hasn't figured out we're mates yet and nobody knows what will happen when does find out, second mates are incredibly rare but a lycan has never had a second mate because they usually die shortly after their mate does either from suicide or doing something as stupid as starting a fight that will have to result in their own death. Honestly our kind has always thought we don't get a second mate, it's something we deemed as impossible. When Crystal finally looks into my eyes her blue eyes widen in panic, her face morphs into one of pure terror, she immediately starts backing away, my lycan and I don't really feel hurt by her reaction when we should because we understand what a shock it must be to her and know she'll need space and time to think.

Her expression goes from panic and terror to pain as she lets out a heartbreaking whimper then falls to the floor on her knees clutching at her chest. I've heard of this before, when you're mate dies a large part of your soul is ripped away leaving you with a void inside, if you're lucky enough to have a second mate you go through the excruciating pain of your soul trying to piece itself back together so it can connect with it's mate.

Seeing her in such horrible pain I go towards her in hopes of maybe trying to ease it but she starts frantically slashing at me with the hand that's not on her chest cutting into my arms, I take a step back hoping to make her calm down a little. Instead of calming down she scurries into her cell leaving a trail of blood in her wake then slams the heavy metal door shut. My heart breaks as I watch her go into a corner putting hands on her head and rocking back and forth, she's absolutely terrified of having a mate again. She had a mate who was rumored to love her even more than his pack then he was killed before they were fully mated. Due to the dead of her mate as well as family her lycan went crazy not being able to deal with the sudden loss, slowly making her go insane as well. For sixty years this pitiful lycan has been striped of most of her humanity and now there's a chance to get it back but she knows there's also the risk of losing a mate once again which she for sure wouldn't survive. Soft whimpers come from her followed by the smell of salty tears, I feel useless cause there's nothing I can for her right now.

"Crystal." The young vampire softly calls out to her, she stiffens a little letting him know she's listening. He tries to push me out of the way, I hold back a growl and just take two steps over making sure I can still look at her through the small barred window. He then bends down and opens up a slot in the door, furrowing my brows in confusion I watch as he slides a couple candy bars in the slot then closes it. What the f**k? Candy bars? Why the hell is he giving her candy bars? That's the stupidest thing I've ever saw.

Sighing he doesn't take his eyes off her huddled up form. "There's not really anything we can do for her except for this, whenever she has emotional days someone gives her junk food. I read somewhere that chocolate has endorphins in it and dark chocolate has serotonin in it which is an antidepressant so it'll help her mood a little. I figured I should always carry around dark chocolate with me just in case she has a bad day." He doesn't meet my eyes as he says this, it's highly frowned upon for a guard to show any interest in a prisoner much less always carrying a type of food that'll make them feel better but I'm actually grateful that this guy is a guard at the moment and has a sliver of humanity to the prisoners not treating them like they are dirt.

"Mate's hurt and her heart is in pain." My lycan whines.

"Her injuries need to be treated." I state as I stare at my beautiful mate. From what little of her I can see she has several cuts and bruises along with the broken ankle, there's stuff in the prison food that weakens beings so she won't be able to heal quickly.

The vampire purse his lips and furrows his brows trying to think of what to do. "Be right back." He runs as fast as he can to the door at the end of the hallway and starts rummaging through a cabinet I didn't notice before. With arms full of stuff he runs back careful not to drop anything. "Technically she shouldn't be allowed to have these things..." He trails off looking at me silently asking for permission to give the medical supplies to her.

"This is a unique circumstance." I state bending down to open the door slot for him. Smiling gratefully at me he quickly places a splint, antiseptic, bandages, numbing syringe and pain killers in the slot then closes it.

"Sorry but I don't think you'll be able to ask her any questions today." I just nod in agreement. Looks like I'll have to give her some time to calm down, I'll think of what to do with her and how to handle her before I return. I have a dangerous unstable mate that will have to be treated with extreme caution cause she's a ticking time bomb and completely unpredictable.