The Secret She Never Knew

Some Secrets Relieved

Casey’s POV

Sam askes for the bandages for my hands that I have all but forgot about and I just shake my head and point in the direction of the bathroom where he can find everything he needs.  He goes and gets the things he needs comes back to the couch and motions for me to join him.  I set on the couch while he takes one hand and whips it clean, then he applies the salve and wraps my hands in bandages.    While we are setting here, I tell him I want to ask questions that I hope he will answer for me, he nods in agreement.

He replies, “only one question at a time please.”

 I nod in agreement with his request.  Then start with my first question, “What are you if not human?”

He looks at me then, lowers his head in disappointment, “I want to tell you, but I do not want to scare you.  When I tell you a lot of your other questions will be answered with your own knowledge of our species.”

I look at him every concerned then say something I think shocks him.   I trust that you will not do anything to hurt me, but if you need to show me, I understand and I am more then, willing to hear you out or watch or whatever else I need to do.  I know you would never hurt me or put me in danger so if you want to show me, I will watch but I understand if you do not want to either.

He clears his throat and, “yes this may get uncomfortable for you but trust me when I say it is the way it has to be.  I will have to go outside, and I will have to get naked.  If you think you will be able to see in the dark, that is?”

I nod and stand heading for the door looking at him and say, “that I understand and will do whatever he needs me to do.”

He stands and follows me to the door once outside he starts taking off his clothes before he finishes he says, “you need to know that I will never hurt you and I need you to keep eye contact the whole time.  I will also not be able to talk to you.  Do you understand what I am saying to you?”

I nod in agreement and say, “I will remain here and never look away.”

He drops his shorts and walks out into the field in front of the house looks at me.  Making sure I can see him his body start contorting in funny directions and then I see hair start to sprout all over his body he drops to his knees then shifts into a wolf.  I never look away like instructed I did not realize it, but I was slowly moving toward the wolf in front of me.  The closer I got the wolfs ears went back he never growled but was not happy that I was getting closer.  I raised my hands up showing surrender the wolf twisted his head and took a few steps towards me.  When we finally met, I looked into his eyes and saw Sam the Sam that I know.  The wolf lowered his head so I could place mt hand on his head.  After placing my hand on his head, he leaned into my touch, I felt his soft skin and warming feelings the same safety that I felt with the Sam that I had come to know.  Then he shifts just as quickly back to a man that I knew.  He asked me for his shorts, with a shy smile I give them back as I turn away to give him privacy.  I felt his hand on my shoulder and did not react for fear of how he would take it.

He then says, “little doc are you ok?  You can turn around if you want, I am decent well at least dressed, lol.”

I giggled lightly as turned to see is head down from what I can only guess as shame.  I looked under his head to meet his eyes with a smile on my face I tell him, “that was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.  So, I am guessing you are a werewolf, now a lot of things in my life are making since.  Now I understand why there were so many wolves that needed my help.  Does that mean that one guy thinks I am his wife?  Oh, Sam this just gives me more questions not fewer, I am sorry.”

Sam lifts his head smiling at me and says, “only you nugget.  I just showed you that I was a wolf and instead of running away or screaming you smile and say I am beautiful.   I will answer all of your questions to the best of my ability and knowledge.  I want you to understand so you can make the best decision for yourself.”

You know my next question then, “who was that man and what did he want with me?  Ok, I know that is more than one, but they are about the same thing.”

He smiles at me saying, “let’s get you inside first you are shivering, as we walk, I will tell you what I know ok.”  I nod as we walk.   He starts, “that man was Liam Black, he is from one of the strongest wolf bloodlines there is.  His father and grandfather served under the queen of all supernatural creatures.  They were her guard they kept her safe and fought next to her.  Or at least that is what they were supposed to do you.  There has always been a queen and each queen picks what supernatural creatures she wants to help her.  I do not know much about the queen since the last queen was about 100 years ago.  She abused her power and position so bad the council of the supernatural decided not to have another queen for the damage she can cause.  As far as Liam he is nothing short of a monster, he kills with no remorse never leaving survivors.  He fears no one, has tracking and hunting skills like no other and is the brother to the Luna I served before you came along that is.  He believes that you are his mate, or wife, as you call it.  He wants you to go back to his territory and live with him and his pack to be his Luna/wife of the pack.  He will find you; you need to know that it may take him awhile but, he will find you.  As wolves we have what is called a mate bond that pulls us towards are mate.  Since he has found you and your scent his wolf will be going crazy, he will be in a great amount of pain until he finds you too.  He will not take care for himself like he should, and his violent side will only get worse.  Until he finds you, he will only get worse and never stop his hunt until he has you.”

I looked at his face and saw the pain he has in his eyes, so I think I need to get him to smile.  I reply he may not want me when he finds me, I am a bed hog and leave the cap off the tooth paste then I giggle.  He looks at me shaking his head with a frown on his facing saying that is not how the mate bond works and you know it missy.  As he chases me through the house to the kitchen.  I tell him I am hungry and want to start cooking and ask him if he wants to help.  He says of course there will be food involved lol.  We stand in the kitchen play fighting with flour ending up all over my counters and floor, then he tried to ruin my food by putting ketchup on everything.  As we clean up the kitchen, I tell him I plan on making an online order for food and supplies, I ask if there is anything he may need. 

He replies, “everything but I have no money so whatever you want to get me will work.”  I tell him to come to my room when he is done cleaning himself up.”  He nods his head as he heads to his room, while I head upstairs, I drop my clothes in the floor walking into the bathroom for my shower to get the flour out of my hair.  While in the shower I start thinking about things I have not thought of in years.  My parents who are they where are they at?  Why did they leave me at the horrible orphanage, was I really not worth keeping?  Would this Liam leave me the same way my parents did on some doorstep to be beaten again, or would he be the one beating me like everyone else does.  As I walk out of the shower in my own head forgetting that I told Sam to come to me room.  I walked out into my room to hear hey, hey where are your clothes just because I got naked in front of you does not mean I want to see you naked I have a mate you know who is missing me every day.

I shack my head and say s**t I forgot I told you to come to my room and run into my closet grabbing something to throw on not paying attention to what I grab I have a pair of short shorts and a tight tank top.  After seeing myself dressed I freak out saying oh my god I am not wear something like this he said why not you have a nice body that no one ever gets to see underneath all those clothes.  You are at your own home you should not have to hide here there is no light no one is watching you will be ok.  Now why did you call me to your room?  If it was to just see your naked then we need to talk about are friendship cause I do not want those kinds of friends, he says with a big smile on his face.

I reach over and smack his arm saying, “that’s not fair I never wanted you to see me like that I wanted you here to know what you needed.  I have never shopped for a guy before, but after what you saw and what you are saying now, I think I should make you deal without you butt head.  He grins saying, “at least I got to see you naked before Liam that will really piss him off to know when he finds that out.”

By the way, the reason I am not ok with these clothes is I do not like the way my body looks, and I do not want anyone to see my scars.  Now get up here next to me so we can order you what you need.  I do not want you stretching out all my clothes, lol.  Besides my baby blue shorty shorts will not go with your skin complexion.  I laugh at him rolling all over the bed.  He jumps up looking shocked then jumps on the bed tickling me.  I jump up to get away from him and end up running down the stairs out the front door not knowing the sun was up at its highest.  My whole body started smoking and flames are starting on parts of my arms and legs.  Sam came running out the door in time to see my whole arm on fire the other arm had flames over half of it, both of my legs had flames running up them burning my clothes on the way to my core.  There were tears running down my face when I saw the flames I was running toward the house.  Sam yells what do I do open the door I yell back I run inside straight up to the bathroom to put myself out, straight into the shower with what clothes I have left after the fire is out Sam is standing in the bathroom worried to death about me.  I peek out of the shower worried he would be there, and I was greeted by a look of horror on his usually warm face.  I looked at him ready to say something when he said out now, I need to see how bad it is.  I look at him and shack my head no.  He says to me, “I will not ask again get out here I need to see how bad you are. I looked down at the floor ashamed of what he would see I could feel it so I knew, but I did not want him to worry I knew I would heal I always did.  I just had to convince him that I would, any other time that I got burnt within a couple of days I would be just as good as new the only thing that never went away was the scars from the torture.  What I was not ok with was the tone he had decided to take with me.  I was not his he could not control me.  The burns were part of my XP the flames on the other hand no Dr had ever seen that.  They did not even believe me until I showed them on that day at an appointment that I had.  Before I stopped going to the Dr because I did not think that they could do anything to help me anymore.  By the way showing those Dr was a mistake all freaked out and for a few months I became a science project or maybe a science experiment I am not sure which.  I just know that what is out there cannot help me anymore my problem is bigger than they could handle.  The 3 months they experiment on me and with me was enough for me to know that they knew nothing of what was wrong with more or how to fix it.

Sam yelled, “NOW Casey get out I need to see your burns I cannot help if you hide in the shower.”

I jumped from his tone and coward on the floor scared of what he would do next.  He saw me jump back and slide down the wall into a ball to make myself small to hide.  When he realized what he was doing he changed his attitude and said my queen I am so sorry I am just worried about you I need to know you are ok come out when you are ready I will be waiting. Please do not leave me I have sacrificed everything for you.  I left my home, my wife, my unborn child, and even my own brother for you.  Do not make it all in vein, please come out so I can help you my queen.

I hear Sam and the pain in his voice I have to go to him to help him.  Something inside of me is pulling me to help him.  I exit the shower very slowly as the bottom of my feet are burned.  I see he has backed out to my room, so I leave the room and see him on the bed only to see him crying and a complete mess.  Then he looked up at me and in a state of shock whimpered a little while looking at me.

I look at his face and put my hands up for him to stay where he is, he understands and does not move.  I say I have to tell you something that you may not understand but you need to trust me when I say it is the truth.  He nods again I am guessing scared to use his words.  I quickly say I can heal faster than most.  The burns on my hands where gone before I even went outside this will take time but in a few days the burns will be gone leaving nothing behind but the scares from the torture will reappear.  I know you do not believe me, but I can promise if in three days you do not see a difference then I will let you take me to the hospital.  Do you agree to the terms? If you do that means for the next few days, I will need your help.  I will need to eat a lot of protein every couple of hours and a lot of sleep regrowing skin is very painful. Now will you please go fix me the biggest steak I have; I would like to the steak to be medium well please again thank you.

Sam jumps up saying, “is that all you need?  Do you want me to help you change clothes I say no I am fine I just need meat do not worry about bring anything else either the meat will be enough?”

I look at him and say just get the meat do not worry about me I will be changed by the time you get back here with meat if not you can help me ok.

Sam’s POV

I go down to the kitchen not sure why I am letting her talk me into staying and not going to the hospital.  I have to trust my queen I know she would never lie to me.  I get her meat cooking it just like she ask I just hope that everything will be ok, and she will be healed in the next few days.  I cook the meat to her preference, take it up to her and find her changed with her arms looking slightly better.  Ok maybe she does know what she is talking about she is not completely healed but I see her skin starting to pinken.  I say, “queen you meal is ready she looks at me with a smile patting the bed wanting me to set.  I look at her worried that my pressure on the bed will make her uncomfortable.

She say, “Sam I am not glass I will not break please set down so we can talk ok.” I nod and do as she says.  Once stetted I look at her and ask, “what she needs now.”

She lets out a little chuckle saying, “just the man that was my friend back.  I am really not in the mood for a father today.”  

I say to her, “you are not funny I thought I had lost you.  How can you be this ok with burning to death?  I have just found you.  Your mate is out there killing god knows who to get to you.  If he finds out I burned you alive before he gets here, I will never get to meet my child and I cannot leave an orphan seeing as I was one first, I know those struggles all too well.” 

She laughs again saying, “no one is dying she is a doctor, and it is her job to keep everyone safe.  She has never lost anyone yet and does not plan to anytime soon either.”  Letting out the biggest yawn I have ever seen.  I look down at the plate to see that it is empty, and she is laying back to rest.  I know I will not be able to rest as long as she looks like this.  I guess I had better get comfy on the couch cause I am not going anywhere at least today.  I will just have to see how she looks when she wakes up. 

About 6 hours later she wakes up long enough to eat another big steak and back to sleep she goes.  The next 48 hours goes like this sleeping for 6 to 8 hours at a time only waking long enough to eat.  On the third day I am about to get help when I see her stir in the bed she sets up walks to the shower yells please fix me something green to eat a salad with chicken or something simple like that please when I get out I will come down to the kitchen to help you finish up if you are not done.’’

I turn my head in confusion, but do as she asks in the kitchen I hear her enter the room scared to turn around and see just how bad she really is I feel her hand on my arm wanting me to turn around.  So, I do ever so slowly but to my surprise there are no burns on her body at all just the scares like she said.  I turned my head to one side not knowing what to say to her I see her just smile at me.

“I told you so, this is not the first time I have been this bad one time before I even burned off my hair.  By the way growing hair back sucks bad, I would not recommend that anyone do it.” Casey says with a small laugh.

“I am a healer in more ways than one.  I cannot only heal you, but I can heal myself as well, so I am not completely useless,” she says.

She tells me, “that is what the shower is for to wash all the dead skin away.  The new skin grows under the old and just needs whipped way.  There is no pain or smell it is just like a paper towel when you get it to wet then try to use it.”

I set with her at the bar just watching as she eats her salad asking me if I am ready to go get our supplies off the mainland so I can shower with my own soap and change my clothes, lol.  I tell her that I am ready for whatever she wants to do.  She has just proved to me that I just need to set back and do as I am told.  She says that is something she could get used to, hearing her laugh again is music to my ears.  I truly thought I would never hear it again.  I have to make sure she is more careful this time.  I have to protect her my life depends on hers now.  Next thing I know she is telling me to get ready in about 15 min her boat will be departing for the mainland.  I looked at her and set waiting to see if she was really or not.  Then she says are you going to wait all day or what. 

I looked at her and say, “the sun is still out you cannot go out after you accident you skin is to sensitive the light will set you a fire again.” 

Casey says, “no it will not I will cover up every part of me.  We can only met the delivery man at 5pm, if we are not there, we do not get our packages.  I want my stuff, so we are going understand.”

I tell her, “ok I am ready lets head out, I would like a shower anyways, with real man’s soap not your girly stuff anymore, lol.”

We climb on to the boat she is completely covered from head to toe.  No skin showing at all she sails to the mainland she goes to get out of the cabin I stop her saying let me please it is the least I can do. She nods her head I exit the cabin walk over to the dock master give him the order form.  He points to the boxes I load them on the boat, I say thanks to a few guys that help me.  Then I climb into the cab of the boat and tell her I am done, and we can head home she looks at me and say no I have to run somewhere really quick you want to come with me.  I look at her very strangely she says, “what could you possible go wrong shaggy, lol”

“Scooby Doo your, going to use Scooby Doo against me right now really,” I say with a small chuckle.  I open the door to the cabin as she follows me out, I get off the boat and offer my hand to help her get ashore.  Once on shore I follow her down a street where she goes into a little shop and the lady behind the counter comes out and wraps her arms around the little doc.  I step forwards to stop her but before I can some little human child runs by me and grabs her legs holding her tight and says something that shocks me to my core, “mommy you are home, I missed you so much tell me about you trip did you save the little puppy.  You was gone a long-time mommy grandma had to take me to see the elders without you I was so scared, but I was a big girl mommy just like you told me to be.  Can I go home with you this time on the boat or do I have to stay with grandma more.  Mommy I miss you grandma doesn’t tell good stories please mommy please.”

Then a young man walks in about 15 comes up behind the little Dr and wraps his arms around her I go to let out a low growl but a look from her tells me not to.  She says, “hey Lukas how is everything going.”

He replies,” fine the crazy old lady is keeping us alive he smiles,” at her while the old woman frowns at him mumbling something under her breath. 

“If you take them, I can get some of my ceremonies finished before the summer is over, I need about three days.” Says Reta (the old lady).

Casey looked at her and said, “I have company at my house that is what I come to tell you that there are people looking for me so.” 

She said, “fine take the children I will go to the woods and stay where I cannot be found.  These are the woods of my people I will be safe there.” 

The little Dr said, “no, the woods is the worst place you could hide.  Let’s just say they have great tracking skill and that would be the easiest place for them to find you.”

Reta replies, “what did you get yourself into now my queen?  You know you have to tell the council that you are being tracked we cannot help you if you do not tell us what is going on.” 

The doc replies, “this is my problem I cannot ask you to put yourselves in danger for me I am no one that needs your protection.  I have made this mistake I must be the one to clean up my mess.  Tell no one nothing he will only come for me I will make him swear to leave you all if he wants me alive.”

She looks at the queen and says something that I do not understand she says, “I will have whoever comes sent to the island with no questions asked.  I will tell them all the answers are there.” 

The little Dr says, “thank you Reta I will keep the kids for 3 days to allow time for you ceremonies.  I miss them anyways and my bed is lonely without them.”