~Kylie~
BEEP… BEEP... BEEP…
What is that noise? Why won’t my eyes bloody open?
CRASH… BANG… SMASH…
If I could flinch I probably would. What is all the commotion? It's so loud.
“Dravon! You need to Calm down!” Dravon? Is he making all that noise? Why?
“She needs to fucking wake up! Speak to me! Something! Anything!” I feel those beautiful tingles, and then my shoulders are being shaken slightly, but I still can’t open my eyes. “JUST WAKE UP! COME BACK TO ME... PLEASE, DRAGONFLY!... If you don’t wake up I’ll… I’ll… I’ll leave and won’t come back. DO YOU HEAR ME!!... Please, wake up!” He yells at me in despair. Even though his words hurt a little, I tell myself it’s OK. That he doesn’t really mean it. If I could wake up I would. I try to link to him and tell him I’m here, but it’s not going through. Then I feel his hands being ripped away from my shoulders, and the sounds of a struggle.
“That’s enough, Dravon! Don’t you think we’re all feeling the same way? Well, you’re taking it too fucking far. It’s not her fault.” Keelan growls at him as I continue to hear the sounds of a scuffle. “Hurry Doc!” He calls out. Then I hear someone rushing forward, their fast footsteps getting closer and closer.
“Get off of me right now!” Dravon growls. There’s grunting and then a menacing growl before weaker scuffing sounds reach my ears.
“And… There… We… Go… It shouldn’t take long now. That should last about an hour or two.” The Doctor mutters with a sigh. What should last that long? What has she done to my dragon!?
“She… se ass ta.. comeack. Se-se tied…. a lee me.” Why is he talking like that? He’s not making any sense. What did they do to him?
“Aaaand… He’s out. Thank fuck! I guess I’ll start cleaning up this mess. What are we going to do with him?” That sounds like Blake maybe, but I’m not sure. I didn’t really hear them speak a lot before Alpha found me to be able to differentiate.
“Leave him there, Blake. Actually, maybe take him out of here and not let him back in. Not after what he just did!” Keelan growls. They can’t do that! Fuck, wake up! Arrggghhhh! Mum, you said I had to come back… What’s going on?… I wait to hear her voice, but she doesn’t answer me. Damn it!
“It’s not his fault, Prince Keelan. It’s the bond and his grief, mixed in with all his pent-up emotions and stress. It’s making him angry at her. Which is completely normal. I’m surprised Prince Zander hasn’t been this way yet, but he doesn’t have the bond connecting them the same way. It’s their animal’s making them feel everything more. Prince Zander is taking his anger out on Thomas, Prince Dravon has been bottling it up and has no outlet. So, he was bound to do this sooner or later. Though I was expecting it sooner. I’ve been expecting it for some time and I’ve had that sedative on me for at least a week! Let me check her over to make sure nothing came loose.”
“I get that, but it doesn’t make it right! Thanks, Doc.” Keelan replies, and I feel hands touching my wrist.
“No, I suppose it doesn’t, but with a partial bond in place, he can’t quite control it. He and Zander have beasts to contend with and at the end of the day, they are animals who have an intelligence that their wild counterparts do not. He’s essentially gone feral. So, though it doesn’t make it right, it doesn’t make it his fault either. You can’t hold him accountable for his actions. If you were in his position you would be the same. Consider yourself lucky that you aren’t.” She tells him. Hearing her explain it that way makes me feel less hurt by what he was yelling at me, and I hope the others don’t hold it against him. I try for a few more seconds to wake up, but my mind just goes blank.
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The next time I have a coherent thought, I hear Blake singing a lullaby to me. I so desperately want to wake up and watch him sing to me. It’s sweet and beautiful, and… Just wake up already! I keep trying but it’s not happening.
Where are Caleb and Sebastian anyway? I haven’t heard their voices yet. I can feel sparks up my right side and from the scent filling my nose, I know it’s Dravon. I feel him nuzzling into my neck which tickles, but I still can’t move. Mum said I had to come back due to time! So why haven’t I woken up yet?
I have no concept of time, and hearing them talk to me or sing, happens a few more times. I even have my Dad come visit me, and he chats away like he knows I can hear him. He tells me it’s time to wake up, and that mum told him I would any time now. When and how did he speak to Mum though? Even if he did, that’s what she said to me too, but I’m still asleep!
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I’m thinking about when I wake up and how they’re all going to react, especially after the way Dravon has been. I also think about how I’m a little mad that Caleb and Sebastian haven’t been to see me. A little while later I have Zander explaining where they are, and that they said hi and to hurry and wake up. It’s like he could tell I was mad at them, so he explained it so I wasn’t.
Then the thought of waking scares me. The Doctor may have said that the way Dravon acted was normal behaviour because of his animal and what have you, but I’m scared they will all still be mad at me. I didn’t try to take my life because I didn’t want to be with them, I do want to be with them and get to know them, even if I don’t feel like I deserve them. I did it because I couldn’t take it any more, and I never thought for a second that they would find me. I understand that my actions hurt them, but it wasn’t intentional. They have to know that. Right? How did they find me anyway?
I can feel that my mind is on the verge of going blank yet again, and Dravon is still wrapped around one side of me, his slow steady breathing in my ear. I mean it has to be him, as every time I wake he’s there, along with these fiery tingles. I can also feel an arm across my chest, a hand on my leg and a head resting on my hip, with a hand in mine. I feel the tingles and sparks everywhere, but weirdly, each one has a different… feel to it.
That’s one thing I’m looking forward to. Figuring out which one belongs to whom. I’ll soon know them by touch alone as I plan to memorise everything about them, and as it’s silent they must all be asleep. Eventually, their smooth even breathing is what lulls me to sleep just before the darkness can take me.
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I hear a mesmerising voice pulling me from my slumber. His Deep, soothing, magnetic hum lures me closer to waking than I’ve ever felt before.
“Come on, Dragonfly. Open those beautiful eyes for me.” I so badly want to respond, but my eyes just won’t open. This is fucking frustrating! Next, I feel his nose brushing up my neck causing the sparks to ignite deep in my centre as he brushes his lips over his mark, and my heart rate on the monitor starts beeping faster, making him chuckle.
“GUYS!” He shouts. It was so bloody loud in my ear, it made me flinch and wince. Oh my god! I felt my face move!
“Sorry for shouting, but come on, Dragonfly, let me see your beautiful eyes. I know you want to open them for me.” I feel his lips brush my ear, and hear the footsteps of several people entering the room.
“Quick, go get Caleb and Sebastian.” Dravon orders.
“I’ll grab them,” Blake replies, and then the sound of sparks fills the room.
“It’s time to come back to me… Please, Dragonfly. Just follow my voice.” Dravon whispers desperately in my ear. The monitor is going crazy with my heartbeat and it’s getting faster. I’m gathering as much strength as I can to open my goddamn eyes! Then that spark noise cuts off.
“I thought you said -” Caleb starts, but one of the others shhh him. Caleb and Sebastian are here! Open your eyes damn it!
“That’s it Dragonfly, we’re all here now. Come back to us.” He says, trailing his lips from my ear, down my neck, right to my mark again, but this time he seal’s his lips around it and starts sucking! He’s not being fair, but it has my eyes finally popping open, and as a gasp leaves my lips, his lips come down on mine in a possessive kiss.
I moan into him and slip my fingers into his hair, pulling him closer. Then he pulls away smiling as I take him in. He’s lost a little weight and has some serious beard going on. I was wondering what was tickling me, and I noticed the dark circles around his eyes and the longer hair. He looks rugged and tired. I need to make sure he gets some well-needed rest.
“I’m so fucking - I’m sorry. I should have noticed your distress… Told them to back off, but I was… I’m sorry, Dragonfly.” Dravon fumbles, holding my face in his hands.
“You have nothing to be sorry for. I’m sorry. I forgot you could hear me, and if I had just said something, you could have done something about it. I’m sorry I ran. I promise to never run from any of you again! You all need to just… Not come at me at once. Remember that it’s not something I can help right now.” I say sitting up and biting my lip.
“Can you tell us why?” Dravon asks, and I look down at my lap not wanting to see their faces when they hear this.
“I panicked… Back at the Mansion, they used to come at me together… Easier and quicker to subdue me, I guess. I always fought against them, and they learned the quickest way to overpower me and stop me attacking them, was to outnumber me. I always fought with everything I had, but… I’m sorry.” No one says or does anything, so I look up and they’re all staring at me.
“Are they just gonna stand there?” I ask Dravon who’s sitting so close to me, I’m itching to pull him to me and close the distance again. “I was expecting them to kind of throw themselves at me… Not in that way, but you get what I mean, right!?” He snorts a laugh, so I look at him in confusion.
“What?!”
“Well, you just said about them not coming at you all together, so they all stopped in their tracks to come over one at a time. Realising they all stopped they all took a step and all stopped again. They’re now internally arguing on who gets to ‘throw themselves at you’ first.” Dravon smirks, and he moves me forward and climbs on the bed behind me.
“Wait. I’m Confused. Did you tell them? Because I didn’t see you move your lips!” I ask as he pulls me back into his arms and nuzzles into my neck. Then they all laugh.
“What!? Someone better let me in on this joke! Because I’m not finding any of this funny!” I snap and move forward to stop Dravon from distracting me.
“I opened a link, so they could hear you.” He growls, pulling me back against his chest, and then he kisses my neck.
“Yeah, we can’t hear your voice properly though, which is weird. It comes out distorted. Unless you sound like a Dalek? You don’t, right?” Zander chuckles. They’re all looking at me like it can’t be true.
“So what if I do?” I scoff, a little offended, crossing my arms with a huff.
“Oh… Well… I… Uuum… Anyone wanna help me out here?” He fumbles over his words as he eyes them all, but they’re all suppressing a laugh.
“Nope. You’re on your own, Zan.” Keelan laughs, popping the P, which has everyone else laughing too, and now he looks sad. Like someone’s killed his puppy or something, and I don’t like that.
“I was only joking! I don’t sound like a Dalek obviously. No need to look like I just killed your favourite pet!… Now, are you all gonna stand there still, or…” I end with a smile, as I feel hands engulf my face, and lips pressed to mine.
I feel an instant connection as I felt with Zander and Dravon when they first kissed me. Then another and another as they each take turns to kiss me, always making sure to go slow, and one at a time. I have to push down my tiny bit of panic, but find it easy as it's them. I do blush scarlet though, because I was not expecting that, and much to my chagrin, they all look at me with varying degrees of amusement.
“What’s a girl gotta do to get some food around here? I’m starving!” I say rolling my eyes and making all of them laugh.