The dragon within

11

                          ~Leon~

I'm laying here in bed staring at the ceiling thinking about how much my life has been turned upside down and still not quite sure how to get my Joslin out. I mean i don't want to see what happens when Gage is finally able to get to her. Don't get me wrong I'm super proud of her for standing up for herself but why did she do it seeing as how he had already forced himself on her numerous times? I shutter remembering her eyes the first time I witnessed it and began growing angry. No not yet I tell myself I can't lose control being under the same roof as my mom and sister but I can feel the heat rising. I try calming myself down but nothing is working. I throw the covers off me and head down stairs and start for the door passing by the kitchen that my mother was in.  "Hey love you should really get some sleep." She starts to say until she realizes what's going on. "Go deep into the woods most everyone is asleep but stay clear of the trees we don't want you burning down the town. I can't leave Kayla sleeping here by herself love." 

   I can't manage to open my mouth to speak in fear it might come out in a scream. I can feel my bones start to break and this isn't the same as my wolf but I nod my head. I take off running stumbling around trying to stay hidden when I come across a field with a creek running through it. The area is beautiful and I decide this is about a far as i can go as I feel some more breakage. I yell into the darkness from the pain that's coursing through my body. It doesn't feel like it's just breaking but I feel like I'm also being stretched. "What is happening to me!?!" I ask myself.

   "You summoned me" i hear a powerful voice say. I quickly realize that it's Castille he must be trying to come forward. 

   "Castille I need you to stop. If we transition our cover is blown and Joslin is loose to us forever. "I inform him. I feel the pain subsiding a little as I calm down. I'm now doubled over panting trying to catch my breath. "You're no fun" I hear him say. After about 30 minutes of me collecting myself I remember something he was saying earlier. "Castille what were you talking about when you said if she dies we die?" There was a silent pause and I thought he wasn't going to talk anymore until I heard him sigh. 

   "So wolves have mates and if one dies it can be detrimental right?" He asks 

   "Yes" I'm nodding my head and then I feel silly knowing the fact that he can't see me. 

   "Well once a dragon finds what you all call a mate they become what us dragons call our heart." He sighs in frustration because he knows I'm still confused. "When we meet the one we are destined for our heart transfers to our other half that's why people think we are indestructible. In order to kill a dragon you must stab them through the heart... which is their what you would call a mate."

   "But Drakel... the one who took my mother was literally stabbed through the heart and my mother is still alive." I say feeling like I'm being lied to. I know my mother may have his the truth but she would never lie to me. 

   "That's because he may have been captivated by your mother but she was not his heart." Castille explained. "He must had never found his heart that may had been why he was a mean as he was. If we don't find them by a certain age we become angry all the time. We must find them but in order to make everything final we must mate to give our heart fully to our beloved." 

   "Oh" is the only word I can muster up because after what he said I only have one thing on my mind and I don't want him knowing where my thoughts are. 

   "You know I'm inside you right? So I don't need you to say anything but I must say i do like the way you think boy." I feel my face become hot after Castille points out the obvious. 

   I become quiet after feeling another presence close by and feel my heart begin to race. If we are caught we're done for. I get in the creek trying to hide and mask my sent watching into the way where I heard a sick break. 

   "I see you've gotten into touch with your dragon." Comes an old voice.  Great I got soaked for no reason. He began to laugh at me as I stood up. "Your mother sent me to check on you she is worried sick." I climb out of the creek sopping wet and Otis just laughs that much harder passing me on the back. "I do say boy that I'm glad at least your hearing works." 

   We finally get back to our house and I'm exhausted physically and mentally. I just want to go to bed. I reach the porch getting ready to go inside when my mom stops me "Don't you dare! I know you're tired and dealing with some tough stuff but you are not walking through my house like that!" She says while Otis is snickering beside me "You can strip down to your underwear and head upstairs." I start stripping while I mumble under my breath and Otis loses it. He starts laughing walking down the porch. "Where do you think you're going?" She then turns her gaze to Otis who finally stops laughing. "You get inside you're not going back into town right now it's too risky" she says. 

   Otis drops his jaw and i give him a smirk. That's what he gets. "Maam with all do respect I know my way home" Otis starts to say but he's interrupted by mom "Otis you have nobody but your mother to get back to and i already let her know what's going on. I have the hide-a- bed pulled out with fresh sheets on you can go back first thing in the morning." Mom crossed her arms which is her way of saying she's not changing her mind so we both go in grumbling under our breath. When I finally get to my room I look at the clock and it says 1:58 in the morning. At least I'll get about 4 hours of sleep. I strip my underwear off so I didn't get my bed wet laid down and went straight to sleep dreaming about the day i give my beautiful Joslin my heart.