Sam walked down the hall as his security team spread out to do their jobs. As he got closer to Lilliana's he smelled something familiar and it wasn't Lilliana, but couldn't place it. Eric seemed to smell it too and said "Vampire". Sam growled and followed the scent to Lilliana's room.
The room filled with growls from both sides, fangs were bared. They were about to attack when light emanated from near Lilliana but before they were able to look the three were unable to move. A loud feminine voice filled the room "You will not harm each other, am I clear." Suddenly the light dissipated and they were able to turn to see Lilliana standing next to the bed.
Her eyes filled with pain and tears as she fell to the floor. In an instant Ericka and Sam were by her side helping her back in to the hospital bed. Sam then looked at the vampire, 'was she here to protect Lilliana. But why would she feel she needed protection from me.'
Ericka moved to the other side of the bed away from Sam. She noticed the other wolf standing near the door trying to look menacing and she smirked just a little.
"Who are you?" Sam said almost growling. But before Ericka could answer Lilliana spoke instead. "This is my friend Ericka, she came when she found out I was in trouble." Lilliana's teeth were on edge, she needed them to get along at least for now until she told him. "And I guess you're Sam; I need to thank you for saving my girl here." Ericka smiled just a little, she had to try and calm the situation down, if the feelings Lilliana had for him were real, she had to try and make this work.
Sam motioned towards the man standing in the doorway. "This is Eric; he's a friend of mine." Eric came toward Lilliana and offered his hand completely ignoring Ericka. Lilliana took it with a smile, "Nice to meet you, but you might want to tell the rest of the boys to stand down." And motioned towards to hall way. There were at least five men standing there growling, "Oh, Mr. Lavash?"
Sam turned to look at the men, "Yes that's fine; tell them to go back to work." Eric walked into the hall and issued some orders. When he was done he walked back in and stood near the door as if he was guarding it.
Sam turned back towards Lilliana "What was that?" He asked.
"Well I don't know exactly, but as Ericka has informed me apparently I'm a witch. But I can't control it yet." She spoke a little nervously; she hoped Sam would accept this part of her.
Ericka spoke, "She will need time and training before she is able to control it completely. But it looks like she's already doing pretty well." Sam was looking at Ericka while she spoke but now looked back at Lilliana who still looked nervous.
He spoke in a calming voice "Relax love, you are part of a rare breed you're the first known witch in the past two hundred years. You can't get rid of me so easily." She wondered if he would say that after she told him about the vampire part of her.
"Good, what are you men doing?" she asked looking towards the door curiously. "They're setting a perimeter and putting up some surveillance. Why?" He asked reaching for her hand. "Will Ericka be safe if she walks into the hall? I need to talk to you alone, if that's ok?" she looked pleadingly at Sam. "Yes my men have been ordered to stand down when it comes to her." Then Sam motioned Eric to leave and looked to Ericka.
Lilliana looked to Ericka and mouthed please. Ericka nodded and moved towards the door but then turned to look at Sam. "Hey, just know if you hurt her you'll have to deal with me." She then turned and exited the room closing the door behind her.
Sam looked into Lilliana's eyes that were amber colored for the moment; he wondered what that meant as he moved to sit next to her on the bed. He leaned down and kissed her lovingly.
She loved the way his lips felt against hers and kissed him, trying to show how much she missed him without saying it. Finally he leaned back and in a gentle voice asked "I thought you were healed. What happened?" As he gently touched the cut above her breast, she winced at the pain from where he touched, but loved it at the same time. His touch was like crack to a crack addict, she wanted more but now wasn't the time for it.
"After you left I finished showering and just as I was getting out, all of it came back including the pain. I'm guessing it had something to do with my new found magic. But I have no idea how it works." She said as she reached out to hold his hand.
He grasped her hand and brought it to his lips, kissing it. "I need to tell you something, I'm sure you noticed from my entrance that something was amiss. I'm a werewolf and not just that but I'm the alpha of my pack." She look knowingly into his eyes, "I know you're a wolf."
"How did you know?" he asked looking confused. "I could smell it on you when we first met, just like those men who attacked me were werewolves and so were all those people you brought with you, and also all the men that held me prisoner were wolves and a couple of vampires."
"How could you smell it, most humans can't?" he still looked confused. She dropped her head now "Well that's the other thing I have to talk to you about." She took a deep breath and looked into his eyes before continuing. "Ericka isn't just my friend, she....has given me her blood, I'm not like her but with her blood my senses are heightened and my healing should be faster but for some reason it's not working." His eyes seemed to grow and turn a little red.
"I understand if you hate me now or worse, but it was my choice. Ericka only did as I asked." She sunk back into the bed and waited for his anger, when it didn't come she looked back into his eyes. He looked as if he was trying to figure something out.
Finally he spoke calmly, "Maybe your witch magic is cancelling out the blood magic."