The Cursed Mate

Life and death

Millie
 Pain it was all there was. I had know pain. It has been a constant in my life since I can remember but this was different. I could feel the sharp blade then the burning agony of the silver run through my blood. Silver is poisonous to my kind and a death sentence. The only ones allowed to use it were royals. How did Collins get a silver blade? My mind screams hoping for unconscious but it won’t come. I can’t die! Star mentality smacks me.


 Star: “Focus you are a princess of royal blood and a healer, fix this, fight!” 
 I breath and focus all my energy. I slow my heartbeat down to nearly nothing to control the speed the poison is traveling through me. Breathing control is nothing new for me. I had been practicing holding my breath under water since age ten when classmates had tried to drown me. They claimed to only be playing when caught by the elders but if they only knew...perhaps they did.


“She’s gone” a voice says.


 Ha my mate killed me. No I would not give him that satisfaction. I breath slowly and intentionally as my body is rolled into the ambulance. “Wait, she took a breath.” a voice says. “Quickly”. A small sting is felt in my arm. I can’t move and I can’t fight as I feel cold liquid flow into my body. Now I really do need to pass out as my body burns and freezes at the same time. For the first time I wonder if I truly will die this time.


 Star: “Sleep Mina, I will take it from here..just sleep” I use her real name to comfort her. Mina my precious human. She has been through so much in her short life. I know this is not my first time on this earth. I know many things but I can’t share them with her..but I do give her little glimpses in her dreams.


 Beep.....Beep.....Beep


 Elizabeth was ready for the patient coming in. She had not been told who it was only that someone had been injured with silver. The whole pack knew by now and she was ready. She had sent golden essence with the EMTs as a antidote because no time could be wasted. Silver was poison and a death sentence if not caught quickly. She wrings her hands together. Who could it be.. please please moon goddess don’t let it be my child.


 Werewolves, shape shifters and most all super nature beings are nearly immortal. There are ways to kill them but very few. The only way to kill a shifter was silver. Blades and bullets made from it was a common way to end them. A normal iron weapon would cut but would heal quickly for any shifter. However iron would kill a fae. Each being had their own life ending element. For a shifter silver would enter the body and move straight through the blood attacking the whole being. When humans attacked many eons ago silver weapons were all but destroyed and the remaining silver was keep by the royals. Each pack had a small amount of silver. Chains to control wolves that went feral and a few ceremonial pieces that were displayed in cases in the great halls as a reminder.


 “How could anyone have gotten silver?” I spoke outloud. “It is unknown.” My nurse assistant speaks to me but the question was rhetorical. Soon the staff roll the victim in on a stretched. “No” my mind screams but I know I must focus. As tears run down my face I hold my only child. I give myself a moment, just one before I release her and start working. I will not allow my child to die. “Help me get her into a room, you get a second IV going to flush her system. Sweet heart stay with me...please Millie it’s only a little longer.” I want around the clock monitoring and someone inform the Alpha I need to see him immediately.” 


 *flashback*


 “Is it really the only way? I mean to place a curse on my own child?” Bonnie the witch smiles at me kindly. Some say to be a shifter is a curse and to be a witch is even worse. She looks at her companion and smiles. Or to love another female. My eyes travel between the two. I think love is something that when found you should fight for. My heart aches for my own mate. I meet his eyes, knew he was my mate, then watched the light fade from his eyes. In that one brief moment I knew love but that was long ago and this is now. It won’t hurt her will it?””No” the witch replies. “It will keep her safe until her mate can help her.”


 *end flashback* 


 Safe, the word runs through my mind as my child lays fighting for her life. I stayed with this awful pack because they kept us safe and hidden. I knew how my sweet child was treated and had tried to get the Alpha to put a stop to it. We can’t leave “they” would find us. Bonnie always sent me information about where the investigators were. Sent privately by the King to find her..and me. I thought we would be safe here. A pack so far in hardly anyone looked this direction. When I find the one who did this they are dead. 


 Grey: 
 I run to the school and watch as the ambulance drives away. I know she is in there. Please don’t be gone. Please don’t leave me. I race in my truck behind her. It is a short drive to the hospital. I park and rush inside. Elizabeth waves me in as she holds Millie’s hand. My voice breaks. “Will she be ok? Have faith in her Grey her mother replies but my heart aches and I am terrified I will loose my mate before she even knew our love.


 Elizabeth: I look at Grey. Millie’s best and only friend. He treats my daughter like a queen. I should say like the princess she is. Moon goddess please let them be mates. He speaks to me, his yes hold tears that a close to falling. “Mrs. Jones may I stay with her?” “Of course Grey. I will let your parents know.” “Thank you ma’am.” “Grey you are a good man.” I watch him smile his eyes never leave her. One day when her truth is know I hope it changes nothing between the two of them.