She heard the sound in her mind.
'A howl?'
It seemed mournful to her, but then again, most howls sounded like they were in mourning. She had always tried to follow whatever it was that lurked within her and she felt at peace when she caught glimpses. It had never shown itself or made a sound until now. She felt consciousness start to come back as she faded from inside her mind. Before she fully came to, she heard another sorrowful howl.
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Catie came to in a hospital-like setting. She was hooked up to a blood pressure and ECG machine and recognized the beeps coming from it as being her own heart. She listened as the beeping picked up from the adrenaline rush that she now felt. '
Where am I?'
She started to feel panicky. The last thing she remembered before she had passed out was the black wolf. What had happened since then?
She decided to calm herself by taking in her surroundings and focused on breathing slower while she did so. The bed she was on wasn't a typical hospital type bed. It was much more comfortable. Her battered body was thankful for the comfort after the rock she had slept on. She was covered in a soft, white blanket and noted that someone had put a hospital gown on her. The room was small but cozy. It reminded her of her mom's house. The walls were a light brown color and there was a window to her left. The blinds were drawn and she decided to try and get up to open them. She tossed off her blanket and started to move to get off the bed. As she went to move her right leg, she almost screamed from the pain. She looked down to see that her shin was very darkly bruised and upon touching it, she cringed and this time cried out some.
To her surprise, a second later, a man and woman burst through the door which caused her to yelp in surprise. She couldn't help but stare at them as they stared back at her. "What the fuck is going on here?" she yelled at them. These were the ones that picked up Luka from the clinic the other day.
"Get out of the way. Let me see her," she heard a female voice say. They moved out of her way and in came a shorter but equally pretty blonde lady. She was wearing dark blue scrubs and had short bobbed hair. She had a no nonsense stance about her. "Please go get Kaine," she said without even looking at them with her pale brown eyes. Without saying a word, they both quickly turned and left as the lady went and looked at the ECG machine and started jotting down notes.
"Who are you?" Catie slowly said as she stared bewildered at the woman.
"I'm Dr. Trina Adams. Just try and relax, Catie. The "owner" of this mansion asked me to come take care of you. His word is law around here, so you are safe. I heard you were in quite the predicament."
Catie just nodded her head. Dr. Adams came up to Catie's left side and held out a thermometer. She took it into her mouth and waited for the doctor to finish taking her vitals. The thermometer was then removed and Dr. Adams started examining her.
"How are you feeling this morning, sweetie?"
"Could you please call me Catie? I don't know how to feel. I feel numb and my leg hurts."
"That's to be expected. Could you please take off the gown? Do you need my help?" Catie shook her head no and removed the ugly green hospital gown. Dr. Adams looked over the entire front half of her. She took note of the various bruises and marks that were on her. She then started looking at her legs. She felt her left leg first and felt no problems with it. Then she started looking at and moving the right one. Catie tensed when she touched her thighs, but as soon as she touched her shin, she screamed.
Just then a man burst through the door, "What the fuck happened?" He was tall and very muscular. His hair was dark and his eyes were blue. Almost as blue as the black wolf's. Catie stared bewildered at the fact that another man was seeing her naked. Unannounced tears then started rolling down her face. At the sight of her crying, he immediately ran to her side and took her into his arms and held her tightly to his chest.
"Kaine!! Let go of her! That's not helping any!" Dr. Adams yelled at him and crossed her arms around her chest.
He released her and noticed that she had started crying harder. "I'm so sorry," he said. Through her tears, Catie thought that she saw shame cross his face. He turned on his heel and quickly walked out closing the door behind him.
"Sorry Catie. That's Kaine. He's the one who brought you here along with the rest. I know he didn't mean to scare you. We may need to think about putting a cast on that leg. We'll get x-rays taken later on though," Catie just nodded and wiped the tears from her face and eyes. "I need to examine the rest of you. I hate to ask this of you, but did they rape you?" She couldn't face the doctor. She felt dirty and wrong. She slowly and painfully nodded her head yes. After her admission, she felt slightly better.
"Ok," was all she said before she left the room. Catie watched her leave and wrapped the blanket around herself. She thought about what was going to happen next and about how strangely some of these people were acting towards her. The doctor seemed to be normal enough, but she was confused about the rest of them. A couple of minutes later, Dr. Adams came back into the room carrying a black case. "Catie, I'm sorry to put you through this, but I need to examine you thoroughly."
Catie understood what was going to happen and shook her head yes. She wanted to be rid of those fuckers and would gladly go through anything to do so. Dr. Adams held out her hand to Catie and in the palm was a small blue pill. "Please take this. It'll help expel any semen that may be inside of you, then I'll do the rest." She took the pill out of her hand and quickly swallowed it and laid back. She closed her eyes, threw off the blanket, and waited for the rest.
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Kaine left the room distraught. He hadn't meant to cause her anymore mental harm, but he had to see what had happened since he felt her broadcast again. He had to face the fact that she was hurting in more ways than one and would have difficulty coming to terms with things. There was hope though. She had been calm to his wolf and had relaxed with him. However, he was puzzled. His wolf was very protective of this human. Similarly to Luka? Or maybe it was something else that attracted his wolf to her. He'd have to think on it some more before he came to any conclusions. Maybe he'd talk to Jake about it.
He decided to walk down to the wing that Luka was kept in and check on him. Along the way, he thought about the girl and wondered if there'd be anyway to help her. He pushed the thought aside. Of course there would be. It would just take time.
When he reached the hybrid hospital ward, he walked into the holding area where Luka was. He was still lying on the bed of blankets that had been made for him in his cage. Zoey had kept him heavily sedated to help him heal and keep him from searching out Catie. She was the veterinarian that was on staff for the hybrids. She was going to be the one to take out Luka's eye, but an emergency had come up with her mother. Now that things were well again, she was back on duty.
"How's he doing, Zoey?"
"He's stable, but I've had to sedate him more. His rib injuries need time to heal and he was starting to come out of the sedation that I had him under. He was mentally screaming 'Cadence.' Is that the girl?"
Kaine nodded his head yes and walked up to the cage that the sleeping hybrid was in. With his advanced eyes, he could see the Luka was breathing slowly and painfully. He had 5 broken ribs on his right side and an injured shoulder. He would heal quickly due to what he was, but he needed to be kept calm. Zoey had him hooked up to IV fluids and laced with morphine to keep him resting.
Kaine placed his hand on Luka's head and felt him stir some.
It's ok, Luka. I just saw her. Your master is with her and is taking care of her. Don't worry and just continue resting. As soon as you're well enough, you can go see her.
He felt a calmness wash over the sleeping hybrid at his words.
You did very well, Luka.
He patted his head a couple more times before getting up and heading out of the wing.
He continued on until he walked up the steps to reach the first floor of the mansion. He passed by the hospital wing that Catie was kept in. Curiosity begged him to go in, but respect for the girl kept him out. He walked out of that hallway into the main entrance of the mansion. He passed by several of his pack who nodded at him before continuing what they were doing. Finally, he reached the outside doors. He removed all of his clothing and threw them onto the porch. Someone else would get them later. Then he shifted. He felt the wolf come to the surface and finally take over. Once the shift was done, he took off running into the woods. After the stress of what had happened, the wolf needed to get rid of some extra steam. Also, they both needed to think. He then felt others running with him. His pack felt the stress and they too needed to run.
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Once the doctor was done and had left, Catie allowed herself to cry some more. Dr. Adams said that she saw evidence of trauma, but that Catie looked ok. She would heal and be fine, at least physically. Mentally would take time. Catie had been cleaned out and scrubbed more than she'd like to admit and was thankfully not pregnant by her attackers. She continued to cry until she fell back asleep.
An hour later, she was awakened by her grumbling stomach. She was starving! Catie got up the courage to get up and slowly hobbled to the window. She opened up the blinds and was met by a beautiful sunset. She guessed that she was on the first floor and looked off into the distance at the forest. She felt a sense of awe at the sight and was happy that she was still alive. There were moments that she had thought that she would die down in that basement. She had hoped for it even.
She continued to stare out the window and watched the sun start to sink lower. Suddenly, she gasped in shock at what she saw coming out of the forest. On the horizon running back towards the manor, was a pack of wolves, led by none other than a black wolf. As they got closer, she swore that the black wolf leading the pack was the one that had saved her. She felt herself getting woozy and quickly hobbled back to the bed to lay down. She tightly wrapped the blanket around herself and wrapped her arms around her knees. She started to slowly rock herself on the bed.
'What the fuck is going on here?'
