Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“What are the rules for coming through that door, then? Who is allowed to come in here? And I am guessing this is a magical room and not a real clearing.” That was the only thing that explained how this room made me feel, it was beautiful, but I still felt like I was inside somewhere.
“That door is warded against anyone who means to do us harm or are our enemies. Only a Fae that is a friend should be able to make it through that door.” Alloy spoke angrily as he looked at me.
“M..may..maybe she is a fri..fri..friend.” Sterling, who was laying on the ground slowly bleeding, struggled to speak.
“She’s not, she can’t be. You heard what she told us.”
“I haven’t told you anything yet.” I pointed it out to him.
“Not you.” He snapped back at me.
“Then what are you talking about?” I pressed him for more details.
“She told us that the whole castle thinks we are the ones who have been killing the other Fae. She told us that they want us dead. She tried to kill us. She wouldn’t even listen to us.” I could see the desperation in Alloy’s eyes as he looked at me.
“Who is she?” I was curious now, but I was still confused.
“Hibiscus. She said that they know that I am guilty, and that Sterling helped me.”
“When did you speak to Hibiscus?” That was a shock to me. How was she able to get out here if she was still under surveillance at her house?
“Yesterday. She came here first thing in the morning and surprised us. She had our sword that was used to kill someone. It was a silver sword that only Sterling and I are capable of wielding, or we should be the only ones capable of holding it given that silver is toxic to most Fae.”
Now this was starting to answer a few questions as well as create new ones. The reason that Alloy and Sterling were being implicated was because they should be the only ones capable of holding the sword without being injured. I am guessing gloves would help but not eliminate the issue altogether. So then, why was Hibiscus able to hold it? None of this was adding up to fit the scenario that had been presented to us.
At that moment, I heard Sterling cough. It wasn’t just one cough it was a long, wet, hacking fit of coughing that left him crying out in pain and had Alloy hovering over him frantically.
“Hang in there, Sterling. Please, don’t die on me.” There was a pleading note of love and longing in his voice as he begged the man laying on the ground to be OK.
“I don’t think I can, Alloy. I think that I am coming to an end.”
“Can I help?” I spoke up, breaking into their intimate moment. “I can heal you?”
“NO!” Alloy yelled at me. “You’re just going to finish killing him.”
“If I wanted to finish killing him, I would just sit back and let him die painfully. I don’t want him to die. I don’t want anyone to die.” I gave him my most sincere look and hoped he would believe me.
“Alloy, maybe we should trust her. What could it hurt?”
“She could kill you, Sterling. She could take you away from me.” There were tears flowing from Alloy’s eyes and down his pale cheeks. I saw that the tears were silver in color, like pure liquid silver or titanium or something.
“I will die without her help.” Sterling took Alloy’s hand and held it close.
“I will find a way. I will protect you. Just please don’t leave me.”
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I just watched the heartbreaking scene before me with tears forming in my eyes while the two men nearly wept for each other. I knew that I needed to do something, I couldn’t just sit and watch as Sterling died if I was able to stop it. Slowly, with one cautious step after another, I walked toward the two men, where they were huddling together under the tree.
Neither of them seemed to notice me until long after I was right next to them. I placed a hand on Alloy’s shoulder and spoke to him in a soft, soothing voice.
“I promise I will help him. You have my word.” I could see that he still didn’t trust me.
“Please, help me..” Sterling begged despite the hesitation from his partner.
“NO! We don’t even know who you are.” Alloy was still looking at me angrily.
“Would it help you trust me more if you know who I was first?” I looked at him with curious eyes. However, while he looked at me with those wary eyes of his I had reached out and taken Sterling’s hand. The hand that I held gripped me firmly and I could feel the pulse of his heart, weak and erratic. He truly was dying.
With my eyes still on Alloy, watching him to make sure that he wasn’t doing anything that he shouldn’t, I poured all of my magic into Sterling. I thought of what it was that I wanted that magic of mine to do. I wanted to use my abilities to heal the wounds that were threatening this man’s life.
As I looked at him in my peripheral vision, I had to wonder how it was that he had managed to get these wounds? He had a massive slash across his chest. It was long and deep, but there was something off about it as well. I don’t want to say that it looked like it was infected, but that was what it seemed like. Only, instead of a red inflammation that was spreading to the edges of the wound and into the veins, it was black.
The sick and infectious looking black flesh started just before the edges of the wound and was moving out into the veins that spread through his body. That wasn’t the only wound that he had either. I could see one on his left arm, there were two on his right arm, and several more on his legs. There were so many injuries that I couldn’t maintain eye contact with Alloy and count them in my peripheral vision at the same time.
I did everything that I could, pouring as much magic into him that I could. I started to beg and plead with Danu, Thoth, and Nehalennia for help. Finally, after what felt like a long time, my magic started to intensify. A bright shining light spread from me and into Sterling. Though it didn’t stop there, the light moved to cover Alloy as well.
“What is this? What’s going on?” Alloy started to panic when my magic overtook him.
“I feel so warm. It’s so pleasant.” He was smiling, though I could barely make it out in the brightness of the light around us.
