Justified Salvation (Completebook 4 of The Atonement Saga)

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Carlys POV

I had never seen anyone self destruct like this before, I’d never seen anyone turn from loving and kind to a crazed, bloodthirsty, kid killer!

I was exhausted, trying my best to hold off the death of a 2 year old! A f*****g baby!

Derek and Carter help me as I try to entice his wolf out, I try to break down the wall. Bella comes running over with a medical needle and thread, she wasn’t a doctor but she was the closest thing we had to one right now.

she immediately starts to sew up his jugular. We would do anything to try to save him. He was one of us now and I won’t ever forgive myself if we lose him.

Mum was crying her heart out, we all were. Tom sat there motionless holding her dead body in his lap.

He killed his own mate to save him and that’s got to hurt. But if he dies? If he dies he killed her for nothing. He will live forever wondering if he made the right choice.

I close my eyes again and I try to focus, I had to fucus and bring forward a wolf of a f*****g 2 year old.

This was going to hurt so f*****g bad but it was this or death and I’m not letting him die.

I close my eyes and it’s like a fairground in his head, everything was loud, noisy, a typical kids head but his was louder somehow.

How he got through the day with such a busy head amazed me, 2 or not he is definitely a wild child, but a kind one. It’s no wonder he’s a little terror, jumping from one task to the other.

I rush through his mind, trying to find the wolf that resides inside him.

I need to help it along, I need him to shift so he can heal, break the spell so he can live.

I came to a wall of candy, each stone was a different bar of chocolate, the glue holding it together was all sorts of chewing gum.

I pull on the wall and gag as chewing gum sticks to my hand, I could hear a whimper on the other side of the wall so I know it’s the right one.

I turn around and grab a large lollipop, I smash it against the wall, trying to find a weak spot but all it does is shatter the lollipop and the little bits of shredded hard sugar stick to the wall.

I run to grab soda, it was cold and full of ice, I started to throw it over the wall, Carter appears beside me, he started to help me throw the water and ice over the wall, I look around trying to find something else to hit it with.

I grab another lolly, this time it looked stronger than before and when I smashed it against the wall, the bricks had started to loosen up, it wasn’t sticky anymore, it had become brittle because of the cold so it broke and shattered easier.

I continued to break down the wall as Carter threw soda and ice all over the spots where I was hitting and then finally it happened, I break through just a little.

I drop the lolly and fall to my knees in front of it, I stick my hand through and I rip the wall apart. Brick by brick until it shatters and collapses around me.

On the other side was a whimpering little black wolf with bright green eyes. I rush to him petting his ear.

“I know you're only a baby but I need your help, your human is dying and I need you to shift so you can heal. It’s going to hurt but your the only hope he has”

He whimpers and whines as I lead him up to the front of his head and out of the darkest part of his mind where the wolf was created, normally it takes a few days for the wolf to figure out how to break the wall and then another day or so to figure out how to push forward. But me telling him how to do it should make the change instant.

I point towards the orb of light at the forefront of his mind, it’s where I get in and out of, it’s how our wolves push forward. I can feel his mind slowly start to die, he had lost so much blood already so I needed to hurry.

“Come, you need to push forward and the change will happen, you need to go right now the darkness is already starting to take over”

I point to where we came from, some of the rides and lights were turning of and dissolving into the darkness, the wolf whimpers so I rush forward

“Come you need to follow me out, I’ll take as much pain as I can but it needs to be now”

As I say the last word the wolf runs, rushing for me and out the front of dexter's mind. I’m immediately thrown back into reality as dexters body starts to shake and tremble.

“Help take the pain”

I tell mum, she was crying still, blood was everywhere, I can’t believe he’s still alive. Bella had sewn up his throat but he was still bleeding from it but now it was small squirts instead of huge waves.

As his body shakes and shifts his aura changes, it grows and grows and grows, his mouth opens and a strangled scream tears through his chest as his ankles and knees break. He rolls as his skin rips and warps, healing his neck and replacing it with thicker wolf skin.

My body relaxes when I realised he has enough blood in him to survive this, he can do this. I work to take his pain but there was only so much I could do before stopping the shift and if I did that I don’t think he would live so I take bursts of pain away, leaving just enough so he can shift properly.

His spine and back stretches, ripping his clothes as hair Sprouts out of his skin, his neck breaks and his face changes until he falls on his face.

A pure black pup with bright green eyes lay there whimpering in pain. Mum sat there gasping as she watched him look around.

Mum opens her arms up for him but to my surprise he turns limping towards Gerald who had Hunter flush to his chest crying.

Dexters wolf sits at Geralds feet, pawing his leg as he looks up at hunter.

“Let him down”

I whisper, gerald looks hesitant but hunter moves in his arms, pulling away so he can look at dexter. His little face was red raw and swollen from crying. He moves in his arms

“Wet meh down daddy”

He demands not taking no for an answer, Gerald sets him on his bum beside Dexter's wolf and for just a second they just look at each other.

Hunter sniffles, wiping his face and making the wolf whine, moving onto his knee and licking his cheek before resting his head on hunters shoulder. Hunter pulls him tight closing his eyes

“It otay dexta you always got meh”

I cover my mouth, tears pooling in my eyes as the wolf whimpers and cries, hunter holding onto him with all the strength he had left in his body.

I look to Carter who just nods at me, like he was thinking the same extraordinary thing.

Mum crawls towards them both, throwing her arms around them both and for a while they just hugged.

Hunter pulls back and kisses the little wolf’s nose

“Dexta wants to chang now”

He tells nana, and just like that he crawled onto her knee and he whimpered.

she wraps her arms around him, holding him, crying into his fur, dads join them, pulling them in for a hug protectively.

Suddenly he starts to shift again and in its place was a very ill looking Dexter, he was as white as a ghost, his eyes were sunk in and he looked so weak. He needed blood and lots of it.

“Get him inside I’ll go get blood”

I tell mum wiping my face, she nods as I portal to the hospital to lift blood and a doctor. Tears continue to stream down my face as I appear in the doctors lounge.

“Luna? What happened”

“I’m not Luna anymore, a woman attacked one of the kids. He lost a lot of blood and he looks like death, can you get your s**t together and come back with me”

He jumps up, I think his name is Zack, it’s hard to remember everyone’s names.