Luna’s two colors

My worst nightmare

When we got out from the hospital Tom put me down. I wrapped the cloth he gave me around me like a towel after the shower. "What on Earth are you doing here? I thought you would come like tomorrow or the day after that?", I asked him angrily. He started laughing.

"First of all, you are welcome my Lapphund. If it wasn't me, you would come out in a casket and not on your own two little feet", Tom mocks me.

"I was doing fine all by myself, thank you very much", I said sarcastically the thank you part. "But seriously, how are you here?"

"Jackson phoned me. He told me that you guys are under attack and you were defending the hospital. So I jumped on my car and came here", he answered.

"But it's like 3 hours drive, how fast were you driving?", I asked.

"Well.. Maybe it's better that you do not know that. But hey I'm here now and you are safe. It's all that matters", he says and wraps his arma around me. I didn't want to argue with him. I was so happy he came and is here with me. Home feels more like a home again. "What about the Alpha of yours? He knows that you just took off?"

"Yeah I mind linked him on the way. He was almost surprised that I left because of you, but he is used to it by now", Tom smirks.

Suddenly I hear a wind twirling and Tom stops walking. I turn to ask him what is going on, but then I see an arrow on his stomach. He just says: "Fuc*k" and falls on his back. I scream "Sniper!" to everyone around us and people dodge to safety. I don't even care how they know what sniper is, because in werewolf world we don't use guns, we are the guns. I kneel over Tom and Jackson and Jones run to me. Arrows start flying around us but I don't care. I sit beside of Tom and try to protect him of getting anymore hits.

Jones notices that those arrows are flying from the tower of the museum. It's so far away, it is hard to get a hit on anybody. The shooter might have followed me and Tom for awhile to get that kind of a hit. Warriors storm to the tower and the shooter gets thrown out from there. I just here a thump on the ground and I know the shooter is dead. A bypasser comes and tries to take the arrow off Tom's chest. "Do not touch that!", I scream at him. Even Kuura is growling at him. I know he was trying to help, but I can't helpo myself. Jackson has called nurses to come and help and they come with pairs. They lift Tom on it and start to carry him back to the hospital. I run beside him until Jones catches me. "Let them do their job. You just saved them, they'll do everything they can for you", Jones says and hugs me tightly. I start to cry in a way I regocnize. Last time I cried like that was when my father died.

Alissa arrives and takes me from Jones's hands. She hugs me and gently caresses my hair. "Let's go inside. You need to shower and eat something. You know what they do to Tom?". I try to think and tell her yes. They will examinate him throughly and then he goes to surgery. It might take hours. Alissa leads me inside and takes me to nurses rest room. Diana comes to me and hugs me. She reminds me how important it is to be clean when Tom comes back from the surgery and hands me a towel and guides me to the showers. I throw away the cloth that now has stains from Tom's blood. When I turn on the shower head I just stand there. I don't know what I'm doing if he dies. He can not die. After 20 minutes Diana comes to knock on the door. I quickly turn off the shower and ask if she has heard from Tom. Diana tells me that he now in the surgery and the arrow has missed most of the vital organs. I heard the word 'most' but I'm too afraid to ask anymore questions. I head back to the shower and wash my hair with a shampoo. It smells like flowers and it makes me sick. I throw up but because I ate today only an ice cream nothing comes out. I turn off the shower and shiver. It has been an awful day and I have no energy left. Diana has left me some clean clothes. A white t-shirt, college trousers and wool socks. She is seriously the only one who uses wool socks in Summer. But actually it's quite warming and soft on my feet and I head out to the surgeries's waiting area.

Jackson comes to me and asks me if I want to call to Tom's parents or the Alpha of that pack. He says he would make the call himself but he knows how close I am with his parents.

"I have seen the Alpha once when we were like 9 years old. And I can't call his parents. What if they blame me for what happened to him? He was here because of me and was with me and.."

"I will make the call. I'll call to the Alpha myself, it happened on my ground so if anyone is to blame it is me. I told everyone it is safe to come out before we checked every inch. It is my fault, not yours and I hope that you don't hate me because of it", Jackson tells me and I just stare at him without blinking.

"Of course I don't hate you and it is not your fault. If we were to wait you guys to check every inch, they would be hiding for the next two weeks", I tell him.

Jackson softly smiles at me and whispers 'thank you' and left to make the call. I sit on the bench and lower my head and lean on my hands on my thighs. Alissa comes to sit next to me and puts her hand and my back. She starts to draw something on my back with her finger. We sit there quietly and I have lost the time.

Tom and I met at a pups' summer camp. I was 9 years old and my parents thought that it would do me good to have my last wolfless summer with other pups. Honestly I think that I was so hyperactive that they wanted me out of their hands for a little while. Now that I've seen how Alissa's pups Sam and Lily are, I really understand them. But there I was. Left on the camp with other pups their parents wanted to get rid of for a month. I had a room with a girl I don't even remember the name anymore. She was annoyed that she was put in the same room with me and not with her best friends. She never spent any time with me and even in the evenings when the lights went out and I heard snickering and laughing from other rooms, she just rolled over and started to lightly snore. I have never been so lonely. But then we had the best activity ever! It was a hot summer day and we went swimming. I loved swimming lakes and I was like a fish in the water. I played shark and scared the girls who ignored me. I really was very lovable then. And then I saw a boy standing on the beach and staring at water. He was skinny and shorter than me and had light brown hair, green eyes and freckles.

"Hi, my name is Alina, but you can call me Al! My friends call me that, but I don't have any friends here", I introduced myself to the skinny boy. He looked at me like a was a toad.

"My name is Tom. Everybody calls me that. And I have friends at home and here"

"So why are you standing here all by yourself, if you have friends here?", I ask.

"Because.. Because the water is so cold and swimming is dumb", skinny Tom replied.

"It's not cold and we are werewolves, it doesn't affect on us that much", I said and splashed some water on him.

"DON'T! That's annoying stop it!", he yelled at me.

"Come and make me", I winked at him and started to move deeper. Tom lookes at me nervously and got in the water. He slowly came after me and I kept splashing water on him.

"Are you even a werewolf because you are so slow?", I asked and swam away. Tom's nose was barely on the surface and all of a sudden he disappeared under the water. At first I thought he was joking but then I realised he should have come back to surface already. I dived and it was so hard to see anything. Then something touched my leg and I pulled him up. He was struggling and coughing and the camp counselors ran to help me with Tom. It is surprisingly hard to swim and keep a persons head above the water. They drag Tom ashore and he started to scream that I tried to kill him.

"How was I supposed to know he can't swim? We are nine aren't we all supposed to know how to swim?", I exclaimed. And then they called my parents.

My parents came to the camp and mother was fuming. "What on Earth were you thinking? He could have died!", she screamed at me. I was stunned, she usually acted a lot better than this. "I saved him and his sorry as*s! If he couldn't swim why did he come to water then, huh?", I screamed back. Father was trying to defend me: "She really did save him. She is getting strong, it is not easy to save some one from drowning". I smiled at my dad, and he winked his eye at me. And then came Tom's parents.

I was escorted from the room and the parents stayed there and talked. I heard my mother apologize on my behalf many times. I sat next to the head camp counselors door and sighed. Tom saw me and came to me.

"I'm sorry I got you in trouble", He told me.

"It's okay. I hope you know I would have never lured you in to the water if I had known", I told him silently.

"I know. I didn't want to tell you because it's embarrasing. It was not your fault".

"Let's make a deal! If I teach you how to swim, you have to teach me something I can't do", I propose him.

"It's a deal! Okay, do you know how to fish?", he asks.

"No! My dad was supposed to teach me but he is always so busy, being an Alpha and all".

"Great! My dad is a Gamma and he is also very busy all the time. That's why I'm at the camp for summer", Tom told me. We shake hands and waited for our parents to make their peace with eachother.