Luna’s two colors

Mate

I enter the hospital and I can see it's quite busy there. Nurses are walking here and there and some of them I recognize from yesterday. They walk past me and give me a tired smile. Goddness, have they been here all night? I feel like I'd need to go help them, but I don't know if I would be that much help. Ambulances are my work territory, not hospitals. I come to the Tom's room's door and knock three times. I hear Tom's voice calling: "Come in, I'm decent". I rush in and see him sitting on his bed with a wide smile on his face.

"I was thinking when you'd come", he says and I run to hug him. He hugs me back and wipes my hair from my face. "You know when I was out, I heard you. I have been told that you guarded my body after the first shot. You are a good Lapphund", he smirks and I almost hit him.

"It's your luck that you got hit. Otherwise I would kick your as*s. And I should kick your as*s anyway! Who the hel*l you think you are almost leaving me?", I raise me voice a little. Tom just laughs and stops laughing because it hurts him so much.

I sit on the bench next to him and ask: "does it hurt?". "What, dropping from the sky like an angel?", he winks at me but continues: "yeah, it hurts. But that's life. We get hurt and then we rise up". I look at him and see behind his wiseassnes.

"I really thought that I'd loose you. I have never been so scared in my life. Well maybe except when..".

"I know my dear Lapphund. I was scared too. I should learn to tell you these things straight away and not after you almost get me killed". We look at eachother with a serious faces untill we both start to laugh. We talk about everything and I scooch next to him on his bed. I show him some silly animal videos what comes to my feed on t****k.

His parents knock on the door and come in. They see us both and smile widely.

"Are you alright my dear?", Tom's mother asks. "I'm glad you got rested and look so much healthier now".

I tell her I'm good now when Tom is awake and his father hands us some sweets. "The hospital food is usually carbage, so I thought I would cheer you up a bit". We thank him and keep chatting, his father tells us stories about our childhood and how much stress we caused him.

"Aye Tom, did you know that Nathan was here yesterday?", his father asks him.

"No, it must have been when I was still out. Where is he now?", Tom asks. I tense up. It could have not been the man from yesterday.

"Yeah it was then. He left short after Ali left. Must have been a hell of a day for him too. He got a room from the pack house, I think he is on the Alpha's floor". His father continues: "He has a meeting with Ali's Alpha today, I think it will end soon and then he'll be here".

I try to rise up, but Tom catches me and holds me still. "Ali you are finally meeting Nathan. You remember how you used to put toads in his drawer? Hahah or when you let crickets to our room at night. We couldn't sleep at all that night", Tom laughs and stops laughing because of the pain.

"Oh it was you?", comes a sound from the door. It was a low almost like a bass voice. And then the smell and the warmth hit me. I almost felt guilty being in same bed with Tom.

"Nat, this is Ali, the reason why I'm on a sick leave. But don't scold her too much, she is definitely worth every pain", Tom informs him. Nathan walks closer and gives me his hand to shake.

"Nathan, Tom's Alpha and clearly we have met before", he introduces himself.

"Alina. And yes we have met", I smile at him. Sparks are flying and I don't want to let go of his hand.

"So what other pranks you have made for me that I didn't know about", Nathan smiles and Tom starts to rat me out. At first I was mad at him, but I didn't even remeber all of them. Tom's parents tells Nathan all the stuff we did after the summer camp and I can't help but to laugh with them. I can see Nathan watching closely me and Tom and he sometimes clenches his fist when Tom rubs my back or takes me closer to him.

I had been there for over four hours and I needed to leave. I kissed Tom on his forehead and told him I'll be back tomorrow. I hugged Tom's mother and father and told them to come to visit me to the pack house later. Nathan got up and asked if he could walk back with me. I hesitated but told it's okay and we left. We got outside and I started to tell him about our sightseeings like the museum and was telling about the market square when he stopped me.

"This is a nice pack with nice houses and you can tell me all about them later. But now, what is going on? You do know we are mates don't you?", Nathan asks me. I'm stunned and start to look a get away route, but he graps my hand. I can feel the sparks and try to shake my hand away, but he has a strong grip.

"I know. But we can't talk about it here. Not now. Maybe not ever", I tell him and I can see the hurt in his eyes.

"And why is that? Is it because of Tom? He always talks about you. He always leaves because of you. I had a feeling you are the one behind all those pranks when we were kids, but he always denied it. Are.. Are you in love?", he plurts out.

"I. Yes I did the pranks then because you were so annoying. But ash. We need to talk about this later. I almost lost Tom yesterday and this.. You are not what I need right now", I take my hand back and start to walk back to the pack house. He takes a few hurried steps and is next to me.

"You can't deny it. You guys being in love. He adores you. His parents adore you. Why aren't you Chosen mates?", he demands to know. I stop right on my track.

"I know mates can be possessive, but you sir need to step down a little. What Tom and I have doesn't concern you. Like I said, we will talk about this later!", I almost scream at him. People are starting to stare and I'm fully aware of that. Nathan looks at me with so much anger and sadness that I regret of being mean to him. "Fine", he says and walks towards the museum. Good, I think myself.

Not good you imbesill.

"Oh shut up you. I know what I'm doing".

You remember I feel your feelings and hear your thoughts. This is way out of your control.

I shut Kuura out. I do not need this right now. I need to call to Jessica and have a break. I avoid Alissa and Jackson and run to my room. I should start to carry my phone with me. There are 5 missed calls from and 13 voice mails from Jessica.

I call her and she is mad but calms down when I tell her that we will go out tonight. She yelps and we start to plan what we are going to wear. I hear a knock on my door and tell the person to come on in. It was Henry.

"Hey what's up? Is everything alright?", I ask. Henry comes in and stands nervously.

"I wanted to check on you. You had a rough day yesterday and then what happened to Tom..", Henry speaks more to his hands then to me.

I get up from my sofa and go to him. "Henry, you know what I do for a living. I've seen things and felt people's sadness and loss before. And this wasn't my first fight with rogues either. I'm fine and Tom will be fine. You should go see him. He might be even more annoying then before, now when he has some battle wounds", I smile to Henry.

I can see how he relaxes and gives me a hint of a smile back. "Are you dressing up? Where are you going?", henry asks. "Jessica heard about a new night club. I thought I'll go let some steams out, you know?", I tell him and regret instantly. He is so going to tell Tom. And Tom tells to Nathan. "Don't worry, it's a humans' night club, so if someone tries to grap my as*s, he is going to loose his hand". Henry looks like he is thinking if I'm serious or not.

"Just be careful out there. And I'll order some one to drive you there and back. I've heard about your nights out before and let's just say, they have not been so pretty in the mornings". I throw a pillow at him but he closed the door before it hit him.

This is going to be a bad idea.

"I'm not going to do anything stupid. I just need to let go of some air".

Yeah right.