Making it home

Vins pov.

"She's freaking out and I don't know what to do" Damon yells at me as she struggles to get out of his arms and off the bed.

" let her go then and see what she wants" I tell him with a sigh.

She doesn't speak much it's more like she doesn't know how to or something she isn't used to doing. The way her body language is it's just not making sense. He let's her go she clumsily gets off the bed with a look and smell of fear looking around. I watch waving the others to give her space. She stumbles over to our fers and lays herself down letting out a sigh closing her eyes and falling asleep.

" well know we know what was up and it makes sense now from what I found" Damon sighs rubbing his face.

" what do you mean" I ask.

" I should have seen it before but I was so focused on healing her wounds that I didn't consider the old ones" he says I feel his sadness thru our bond.

" speak clearly" Dan states not impressed with the riddle but I think I get it a sick feeling fills me.

" She's covered in scars and one of them is from a shackle on her ankle. She freaked out when she noticed that she was on a bed" he answered looking at me.

I can feel the blood draining from my face as I understand what he is getting at our mates has been abused for years. It takes years for that type of scar to happen and to be that afraid of the bed says that is where the worst things happened.

" okay I will get rid of the beds in her room and get as many fers as possible" I tell him as I watch her sleep.

" it can't look like a bed at all so make it look like a nest or something. There may be other triggers we will need to look out for but I think we are lucky enough that she can feel a bit of the bond with us without the claim" he tells me.

" how do you know that she can feel it" I ask confused.

" She doesn't freak out when we touched her if anything she melted into the touch. Someone who has survived that wouldn't let anyone touching them" he tells me with a smile.

" I don't know about that. Any way let's pack up now that the medicine has started to work we don't have much time and I don't want her to feel the pain of travelling now that she is stable" I say pack up.

We are definitely going to have to get a bigger storage space now that we have our female. God's this is going to be the hardest thing ever. I have found my female mate but we may never be fully bonded we are going to need help with our needs a way to cope. I hope she doesn't hate us for this.

"I will go get the prey and take it to the pack cells so she doesn't have to see it again and I will get rid of the bed and prepare for her" Dan says with a nod shifting his size getting larger as he leaves.

" oh he's going to full size he's really pissed off. I would feel sorry for it but I really don't Dan is just lucky he gets to release some of his anger" Damon says with a huff.

He carefully picks her up with her back to his chest as taking her onto my back we walk out. I start to shift stepping back in between there legs I start to grow to full size which is twice my height in human form. I should be the alpha of the pack but I don't want it as I'm not the first born and it's just to much work for me to care about. I much prefer to travel with my mates and learning how the different packs live. Having my mates laying on my back as we run through the forest is a beautiful thing I just wish she was awake to enjoy this. Feeling her heart beating against my back the tingling feelings of her breath on my fer it wasn't supposed to be like this. I should be hearing her giggling feeling her happiness as we run through the forest, not worried if she is in pain from being whipped near to death. I let my thoughts drift away trying to calm myself down and concentrate on her and getting to where we need to be before she wakes up.

" let us down she is starting to wake up and she is going to need her pain relief as soon as she can take it. I will carry her the rest of the way home" Damon says pulling me out of my trance I didn't even realise we were at the edge of the pack.

She's crying before she is even awake but not making a sound giving her it is not easy but she doesn't fight us as she holds on to Damon.

" will she go back to sleep with this" I ask him as I pull my clothes on.

" yes but not as deeply I wasn't going to give her this one but after rubbing against her back for hours I can smell her blood strongly so I know she is going to be in a bad way again. She doesn't heal the way the rest of us do I've never seen someone heal this slowly before. " he tells me and I can feel his fear.

" what are you afraid of " I ask him.

" I I don't think she has a beast side. I don't know if she was born this way or something that was done to her. I'm afraid for her she is so weak and small. " he says as he cradles her head against his neck with her sitting on his other arm.

" it's not possible for that to be done she must have been born that way. She looks like she has only just come of age if that is so her powers may only just be starting to wake up. She may never have been able to learn what to do or feel time will tell." I tell him as we enter the village something feels a bit off.