Jay-la POV
She walked into the pack hospital, just as Abbey the Alpha’s sister was leaving it. She smiled right at Jay-la Welcome back’ she said through the mind-link, a slight smirk on her face, and then continued on her way past her.
Kora pushed forward and turned to look at her, smelled her scent and almost growled at her.
What is it Kora?
Don’t like her. Something is wrong. Go to Vera now.
Jay-la would not ignore Kora’s instincts, but they could come back to it later, she guessed, they both wanted to see her mother. Vera was still sleeping, as expected.
Jay-la questioned the evening nurse, a girl she’d actually gone to school with, Rebecca, a pretty red head, very tall and athletic. She had been completely shocked to see Jay-la. She guessed the wide-eyed stares were going to have to be something she would have to get used to for now.
The whole pack Would have been aware of her banishment, and likely the reason as well. She didn’t really need that attention at all but was probably going to be stared at a lot.
They were indeed expecting her mother to wake up tomorrow at some point, possibly during the early hours of the morning, they would inform her father the minute Vera was awake. Her wounds were being treated as per wound protocol due to lvy not being present, and there were no signs of infection in any of the wounds. Which was good.
Jay-la returned to her mother’s side. Kora pushed forward right away to the very surface and peered down at her through their shared eyes, then leaned down and smelled her, a growl came from her and she shoved Jay-la to the back of her own mind in full control of her human body, shocking Jay-la.
‘What is it?’ she asked, but didn’t try to take back control, she knew Kora’s instincts had kicked in and she could sense something that Jay-la could not, something that Kora was obviously not happy about.
Kora leaned right down and smelled Vera’s wounds, several of them. Her head whipped around as the door opened and Jackson appeared before her, he was carrying two cups of steaming coffee, his whole body stilled at the sight of Kora being in full control of Jay-la’s body.
Kora didn’t perceive him as a threat to her and turned her attention back to Vera, ignoring him completely. The scent was itching at her, very faint, woodsy, definitely female, the scent was old and, seeing as the wounds had been cleaned, already distorted.
“What are you doing?” Jackson asked out loud.
Kora ignored him, pulled off a dressing on Vera’s chest and pressed herself close to it closing her eyes to block out everything other than her sense of smell and inhaled deeply, to try and catch the actual scent. It took only a few seconds before her eyes snapped open anda very aggressive snarl erupted from her.
‘Alpha scent in the wound…’
Jay-la was completely shocked by this Kora.. did the Alpha… do this?’ Anger was tinging her thoughts, if he hurt her mother, he would pay.
Female Alpha scent…Abbey. she growled loudly, finally recognising the scent. Vera had been injured by one of her own pack members, by the Alpha family themselves, the very people who were in-charge of protecting the pack members.
Jay-la? Jackson’s voice queried through the mind-link, worry lacing his voice.
Kora turned and glared at him, then shot past him at full wolf speed. He was knocked completely out of the way with the full force of her strength, not something he would have been expecting. She heard him swear and get up yelling after her. He was going to be giving chase, but he would never catch Kora, never could and she was much stronger and faster now.
He was using the mind-link to tell her to calm down, to tell him what was wrong, asking what was going on. She ignored him, Kora and her mind were in sync. Abbey had nearly killed her mother. For whatever reason she didn’t know, was she as pissed off with her as the current Alpha was. Is that what that smirk had been about?
Did Abbey think that Kora wouldn’t be able to pick up her scent? Did Abbey think it was okay to attack a pack member and severely injure them, nearly kill them? Kora and she were not going to stand for that, no matter what she herself had done in the past her family was off limits. Her family should not be punished for her actions.
Kora was in complete control of their human body. running through the heaving falling snow, heading for the pack house. Rage filled her, her claws were already out. Their family was off limits. Jackson, she knew, was still giving chase, but they were much faster than him and Kora was running at full speed. Only an Alpha could catch her now. And apparently he wasn’t here.
Alpha blood or not, Kora and Jay-la were going to make Abbey pay for what she had done, if the woman wanted a fight. She could have one. How dare she take on a pack wolf with no warrior standing? Her mother ran the pack crèche and would not be a match for Abbey, who had alpha blood coursing through her veins. But Jay-la and Kora, were a bloody good match for the female alpha.
Let’s see you pick on someone who can fight back, someone who trained all their lives with the Alpha Unit, was once the head warrior’s daughter. Oh Abbey was going to pay.
She could hear not only Jackson now through the mind-link, but Stephen and Ethan were all pushing thoughts at her, yelling at her to calm down. She ignored all of them, severing the link to them altogether with a violent tearing feeling. Her rage was not going to be dissolved by them, Kora’s blood lust and need for revenge at this time was the same as Jay-la’s.
They were in complete agreement over what needed to happen, what they were about to do. Kora shot through the pack house front door, an enormous growl ripped out of her as she smelled Abbey’s scent fresh and strong, she was close by. They caught movement on their left and her eyes shot to it.
Abbey was running up the stairs, Kora was off at once after her. The girl at least knew that she was in trouble, running Scared and she was scared Kora could smell the woman’s fear. She should be scared, and was about to be taught a lesson, one she would not forget in a long time. One that would make her think twice before acting next time.
Kora was gaining rapidly on Abbey. She could hear Abbey screaming in fear, for Jackson, for Johnny, her mate, both Beta-blooded wolves, to come and help her.
She ran onto the Beta floor landing and Kora was in hot pursuit, snarling and growling, her intent fully on display for the woman fleeing for her life before her. They were almost on her just a few more seconds and they would have her, dragging her down to punish her.
Johnny appeared from a doorway just down the hallway and shot forward with all his Beta strength and speed to protect his Mate, Kora and Jay-la in complete sync when it came to fighting in human form, let him come at his top speed and dropped into a slide as he was about to launch himself at her, taking him by complete surprise, and took out his legs, he tumbled over the top of her and landed on the floor behind her.
They were up instantly, not deterred from their prey, they hadn’t even taken their eyes off of Abbey. No-one else mattered to them at this point. She could hear actual yelling.
The Alpha Unit was coming, but it would be too late. Kora’s body slammed Abbey into the wall, bringing the both of them to a stop. They both hit the wall and bounced off. Abbey screamed in pain and staggered about, clutching at her abdomen. Kora was up instantly and on her, a hand around her throat and squeezing as their other hand struck out at her, slashing at her all claws out, ripping through the skin on her upper arms. Abbey wasn’t even trying to fight back and was using her arms to cover her body. Did she think not fighting back was going to save her, she was very wrong.
Kora had Abbey pinned up against the Beta hallway wall with one hand around her throat, not trying to strangle her, just keep her in place for her beating, she would suffer as many wounds that she had inflicted upon their mother. Kora slashed again, tearing through the skin on her chest. The wounds were not deep enough to cause permanent injury but enough for her to know her lesson.
She could see tears welling up in Abbey’s eyes, fear was pouring out of the girl, and well it should be. Please, I’m sorry’ she begged.
Jay-la and Kora didn’t care, their pain and anger over their mothers current state was all they could feel You’ll pay.
Kora and Jay-la snarled at her in union, allowing Abbey to know that she and her wolf were both of the same mind, and in-sync.
“I’m pregnant. Abbey screamed out “please don’t.”
Kora halted the savage blow they were about to land across the girls abdomen. Her breathing was heavy and fast, they could not hurt an unborn child, they too were a mother.
Before she could react to the news and back away she was violently slammed into the ground and Kora reacted on instinct and shifted completely to her massive wolf form and retaliated without much thought, biting down on the man who had attacked her. It was Johnny, he’d gotten up and had come to the aid of his injured mate. His grey and black wolf burst out of him in response and turned to attack her back.
His wolf was noticeably smaller than Kora, but was raged and needed to protect his mate.
Kora shot towards him with her front paws all claws out.
She shoved his wolf down without much effort at all and tore into his side with her teeth, yanking a large chunk of flesh off of his wolf who howled in pain, a large aggressive growl came from down the hall, gaining Kora’s attention. It was threatening her, it was Apollo in all his grey and white glory and he was not alone. Rafe a large reddish-brown wolf, and Thorn, a black and grey wolf, the smallest of the trio, were right there next to him, all of them stalking towards her coming down the hallway.
Johnny had shifted back to his human form, his injury appeared quite severe. He was bleeding heavily from his rib cage area, he was holding on to his wound as he moved towards Abbey, his Mate. Kora’s eyes moved to him, he was watching her and stilled instantly when she snarled at him.
Jay-la, call her of. Jackson pushed through the mind-link using his Beta tone. She knew he was talking about Kora.
lt was Abbey who attacked my mother, not a rogue. She grated out angrily ‘Kora could smell it, smell Abbey in mum’s wounds.’
‘Okay’ he acknowledged, though his wolf and the others were still stalking down the hallway towards her ‘unless you and Kora want to take us all on, you need to stop her.
‘Can’t she is very angry’ Jay-la shot back at him So am I!
‘Calm down Jay-la…Honey: Stephen’s voice purred through the mind-link with that southern drawl that showed he was using his Gamma Charm on her. She and Kora watched him step over Johnny and then shift to his human form. His hands were out in a gesture of peace, he hunkered himself down right in front of Kora, and spoke softly to them.
Kora sweetie, calm down. Give Jay-la back control please.
Both she and Kora could feel his Gamma Charm washing over them in full force. Kora backed up a step and then two more. Stephen came forward ‘Come on Kora sweetie, listen to me…you know you want to…calm down, let go.
Kora bowed her head and started to lay down, the effect of his goddess given gift making her submit to him, having the desired effect on her wolf, calming her down and ridding her of her rage ‘shift back now’ He told her once she was all the way down and wanting to comply with his every word.
She shifted back, leaving Jay-la lying naked on the floor in the middle of the hallway. She watched as both Jackson and Ethan also shifted back. Ethan moved off to help Johnny up and assisted him into his room along with Abbey.
The minute Abbey moved from the wall, a growl ripped out of her in response to the woman being moved away from them and the punishment she so deserved.
Kora sweetie…relax, ‘we can talk about it later, just stay calm’.
Kora was calm on the outside, obeying his every word, but on the inside she was still being fuelled by Jay-la’s anger, they were a boiling pot of rage on the inside. This was not over, not by a long shot. For the moment, they were under the Gamma’s control, but he’d have to let it go sooner or later.
Jackson disappeared through a door and came back with clothes. He’d already pulled on his pants, tossed a pair to Stephen and was moving towards her with a shirt in his hand. He held it out to her.
“Come on Jay-la, put this on and let’s talk rationally about what happened,” rationally’ she thought, the whole damned Alpha family was out to get her, first the Alpha himself, then his brother and now his sister. What the hell is rational about that?
What’s rational about that?’ Kora huffed ‘take the shirt, we’ll finish this later. they could not however, Stephen had yet to release them. It took him a minute before he realized he was still forcing her to submit, and released her from his aura. Jay-la reached out and took the shirt and pulled it on before standing up to stare at them.
Stephen sighed “Okay, let’s all stay calm and go downstairs.” he motioned for them all to move down the hall.
Jay-la, however, did not move, his Charm had lifted and her anger was filling her and pouring out of her again. This whole pack was starting to feel rotten, she could not let her babies grow up here, become like all of the alpha’s in this family, angry and resentful. She watched as Stephen and Ethan moved to go down the hallway.
Jackson, on the other hand, had yet to move at all, not a single inch, he appeared tense as he stood less than an arms length away, his body was completely still, his eyes directly on her. He was not fooled at all.
Jay-la snapped the palm of her hand out and directly into his solar plexus. There was a sharp intake of breath from him but he managed to dodge out of the way of the round house kick that came his way. She was crashed to the floor by Ethan as her foot landed on the ground, and instantly started to fight him, punched and kicked at him, fighting like she had been trained all her life to do, with everything she had, he was mostly defending and redirecting her attacks, not really trying to hit her back, just subdue her she thought.
It took the three of them to force her over and onto her stomach so that they could pin her down and hold her down.
“Stephen, for the love of the Goddess get control of her” Jackson snapped.
Jay-la was screaming at them to get off of her, but they would not, they did not think she would calm down and they were right not to. Stephen appeared right in front of her, his Gamma Charm flowing out of him and directly onto her. “
Jay-la…honey calm down..listen to me..stop fighting’ he was throwing everything at her and wouldn’t let up until she was lying there with tears brimming in her eyes, how she hated his Gamma Charm, one day she would make herself strong enough not to listen to it.
She was picked up off the floor by both Jackson and Ethan and, with Stephen still using his Gamma Charm, she was marched up the stairs to the Alpha’s floor and force-ably put into the Luna Suite. They let go of her, but not Stephen.
He was still using his gift to get her to comply and go inside and stay there. Everyone left the room but her. The door was locked behind them and Stephen finally released her from his gift.
She staggered a little as she was released from his aura and Jay-la, with Kora’s strength attacked the door to the suite, trying to get it open. It was locked from the other side, she kicked and punched it, lashing out with all they had.
Trying to force it open.
“It’s reinforced Jay-la, you’re not getting out of there unless I or the Alpha let you out, so just calm down. I am not opening it while you’re so angry.” he shot at her through the mind-link. He sounded angry and annoyed with her.
“Let me out,” she screamed right back at him through the link he had established, her fight renewed at the thought of the Alpha coming for her while she was locked in here.
“No” he stated firmly The Alpha will be here soon, he can deal with that temper of yours.”
Jay-la stepped away from the door, backed away from it, she had to find away out of this room, before he came for her. Her punishment would be even worse now. She had just attacked his pregnant sister, and though she had not originally known the woman was pregnant, she was and that was something he would never stand for. None of them would, this was bad.
We’ll go out fighting Jay-la. Kora huffed, also annoyed that they were trapped in this room.
We just need to stop him from coming in, to have a chance to get away’ Jay-la turned and looked around the room, then started moving furniture. She used Kora’s strength to pick up and throw a chair at the door, then a table, and then the small couch.
Making as much noise as she could to make it like she was throwing a tantrum.
“it’s not use Jay-la, the door will not budge,” Jackson sighed at her through the link.
Jay-la put every bit of furniture she could move up against that door. It opened inward, good luck getting it open now, she thought. Then she walked from room to room, trying to find away out, in the bedroom was the balcony, she pushed on the handles and the doors swung open, snow swirled around her instantly.
