The Calm before the Storm

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Waverly's POV

I am in a dark void, I don’t know long I have been here but it feels like a lifetime. Maybe this is what death is like, instead of heaven or hell you are just lost in a void, in oblivion. I walk aimlessly around this black void, sometimes I can hear voices around me, but whenever I feel like I am getting closer to the source it starts to fade away again. I walk and walk until I am tired, when I can't go on I simply curl up in small ball and try to sleep a little. Every time I do this I am sucked further away and I pray when I do wake again it isn't the black void. These hopes are always in vain.

"Do you know when she will wake up? We have a lot of questions for her?" I jolted up right looking around. That voice was much clearer than the other times. Looking around disappointment fills me once more as I am still stuck in the void, nothing but the darkness of a room I fear I will never escape. I am standing waiting for the person to talk again, to say anything that way I can follow it like all the other times. It's all I have here, I am determined to find the exit one way or another. The voice isn't like the one that makes me yearn to see who it belongs to. That voice is always a whisper, it speaks of sweet nothings and begs me to come back to them. It's is the one that makes me search for the exit. Unfortunately I haven't heard the whispering voice in a while, I really do miss it and I don't even know why.

I sigh after a while, the voice probably isn't coming back for a while I guess, without a direction to head in I just sat back down. Sighing to myself again, I started to just close my eyes and rest when I heard them again. "Officer, I am not sure when she will wake up, or if at all. Her head injury was the worst of the wounds we found on her body. At this point it is up to her to come back or not." this voice was more feminine and based off what she said she must be a doctor. "Well we will just have to see if we can get a court order to wake her long enough to speak to her." the man's voice said to the lady. "Officer you can't do that. Forcing her to wake in her condition, if she ever wakes at all could damage her more than she already is. Also she will wake up in extreme pain due to her wounds, this will be a shock to her system. I as a doctor cannot allow this." the lady seemed mad, really mad.

Hmmm… so I am not dead. I thought to myself, but I could be if I don’t decide to stay. I think that is what she meant. Why was that officer talking to her? I can't remember why I ended up here in this void to start with or how my head would've gotten hurt. When I try to think my head hurts and things become fuzzy. Hell now that I am thinking about it I don't know my name. How can I forget that. I got up and headed toward where I thought the lady's voice came from. "Well, I do hope she does wake up and we will have an officer here at all hours making sure whoever killed Waverly's family and friends doesn't come back to finish her off." his words stopped me dead in my tracks. My family and friends are dead? Wait my name, he called me Waverly.

As soon as those thoughts hit me I could feel my heart rate pickup and like a movie reel playing in the dark flashes of memories filled the void I was standing in. From a small child to the horrific scenes of my friends screams, a man trying to kill Tommy, my father and step mother's bodies dead at our house. The explosions at the cabin and the house, a man with glowing eyes staring down at me from atop of a slope. The gun shots before I fell down the slope, jumping from the waterfall and washing ashore. Then those eyes of the most handsome man I have ever seen, that was the last memory before I was surrounded by the dark void again. I dropped to my knees, my breathing ragged as my heart screamed in pain from the losses I have suffered, huge sobs coming out echoing in the void all around me. I had forgotten the voices and soon succumbed to sleep as my body gave out from my crying.

Back in the real world….

Xavier's POV

We successfully transferred Waverly to the hospital in the human city to avoid any unwanted attention from the police. During this time the police have been coming to see her everyday just about in hopes that she will wake up soon. They were pretty pissed that the hospital didn’t notify them she was here for a whole week, but she wasn't stable enough to be moved and we easily covered it up by saying that her injuries prevented them from matching her up to the photo they had been sent out to them once the Amber Alert was initiated. After that they seemed to be convinced and haven't questioned anyone further. The only thing I don’t like is that I can't be there with her, at least not right now. I wonder if she heard me during that week she was here in the pack hospital. I would sit there and talk to her, whispering sweet nothings when her heart rate spiked and begging her to come back to me. She has been here at the hospital for a week, so it has been 2 weeks since we found her washed up on the river back.

Ring…. Ring…

"Uhhhh…" I groaned while looking over at my phone on my night stand. I haven't slept good since I found my mate, my Waverly and just as I was starting to get to sleep the damn phone is ringing. Picking it up and looking at the caller id I noticed it was Dr. Anna. That woke me up and I fumbled trying to answer the. "Damn it, umm… Hello, Doc?" "Is everything alright Alpha?" she asked she must've heard me cuss when I dropped the phone while finally answering it. "Yeah just dropped the phone, now what is going on there?" I asked quickly I didn’t want to delay any longer something must be wrong for her to all call me at such an hour. "Well Alpha, we have a slight problem?" she was hesitant to tell me this I could hear her nervousness. "What is the problem?" I was standing at this point grabbing clothes I was going to go down there if she didn’t hurry up. "The officers want us to bring her out of her coma, to ask her questions. I have told them multiple times that doings this will harm her more than helping them. Also if I were to do this I could end up damaging her brain more than it already is. She still has swelling and they want to get a court order to wake her up. We need to do something fast!" she was still panicking. They can't do that especially if it will end up hurting her more, I can’t have that. "I am on my way down there now! We will come up with something."

"Yes Alpha, I will be waiting for up at the back of the hospital." After that she hung up and I took off out of the pack house to head to my mate and make sure no one tries to harm her, even those stupid human police officers.