Hunter and hunted

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Therin P.O.V

What is this place? Why does it smell of lilacs? I'm in a white room floating as if I'm in space but I can breathe like I'm on the ground, this is completely crazy, I'm floating closer and closer to what looks like a bench with a rather gorgous woman, she's got porcelain like skin, white hair, and piercing blue eyes who is she? I start freaking out because there is a giant wolf laying next to her. She smile becconing me towards her. "Hello Therin, do you know who I am?" I shake my head, "I am the moon Goddess, and I have a…task…for you." At this point I am completely confused one hundred percent and she sees it on my face." When you wake , you will be in a place you've never been before, you are not to worry about where you are but know you are safe, but no matter what you cannot tell anyone we spoke" I nod "also you will meet someone very special to me, you will know them by the look in their eyes, do you understand?" Again I nod "good now it's time for you to go back" she says with a smile. I start floating away and I turn, after a moment or two I feel a pull in my gut and speed across the light everything fades to black.

BEEP* BEEP* BEEP*

my eyes slowly open and I'm surrounded by medical personnel, and the two guys I had seen earlier, I can also smell the same lilacs from my dream, it's faint but still there. Smiles from the medical people but stern faces on the two guys, I'm in a room that is blue and white, it looks like a bedroom, I struggle to sit up. Not taking my eyes off the two guys. Two of the nurses help me sit up, the guy that my father had locked to the killing post was looking at me with murder in his eyes, I hear a door open and smell the stronger scent of lilacs, I break my gaze and look around but not seeing any flowers a confused look spreads across my face.

I look back and see the other guy trying to hold back a girl no older than I am. Without thinking I slip out of the bed and start walking to her, everything feels as if it is in slow motion, I am six feet from her when the first guy plants his hand onto my chest, I stare at her, smelling her scent, everything is telling me to get to her, but I am unable to move past the guy as if I have no strength at all. She is pushing against the other guy but she is getting nowhere as if she has no traction, he finally gets her out of the room and I stop pushing while time seems to speed back up and this man pushes me back onto the bed, the IV had been ripped out of my arm but when the nurse looks there is only blood, no puncture, no rip, nothing.

I look at the man that put me back on the bed, I open my mouth to speak but no words come. He looks at me with a look of contempt. He opens his mouth as we hear banging on the door, trying to ignore it "I have two questions, first who are you, and second why are you here?" I regain my composure "my name is Therin Wilcox son of Brian Wilcox leader of the hunter guild, and honestly I don't know what I'm doing here, I know it was the two of you that my father had captured, but for some reason I knew as soon as I saw her," I nodded towards the door "that I couldn't harm her for any reason, I know there is no reason to believe me or keep me around, but I knew I had to find her…now can I ask you something?" He raised his eyebrow "why do I smell lilacs?" He goes to open his mouth but stops, turns, and exits the bedroom.

Zachary P.O.V

after hearing his explanation of who he is and his question I leave the room going to my office "FOLLOW" using my alpha tone, Amanda wouldn't have listened to me any other way. We get into my office and I close the door behind Reggie, I go to my desk and sit down, both Amanda and Reggie wait for me to be seated before following, we usually don't follow protocol but since I was using my Alpha Aura they had to, I wasn't purposefully using it but it was the only way to get her to listen right now. "Amanda?, Do you recognize him?" She slightly sinks into the couch "not really, well I don't recognize his face but his scent I do." I nod "I know this may be hard to hear but he and his father were the ones who had us captured, I recognize his face from when we were chained to that post." Her face contorted, "so you're saying he's a murderer?" An unsure look in my eye "that part I'm not sure, he doesn't have the scent of a murderer, but I saw him with that silver sword that night." She then asks me something I should have expected but I was taken aback "can we give him the benefit of the doubt?"