Chapter 17
“And your human form?”
“Ever now and again it pinches but it doesn’t last long. Why you ask?”
“It’s about your appointment the other day,” he said, taking a seat in the chair on the other end of the room. The x–ray we took shows that the sliver is still in your body and growing.”
“I see,” Margaret sighed in disappointment.
Five years ago, when Margaret was shot with the silver bullet, it was shown that it was not just any silver bullet. It was a strange new bullet that was able to liquify and explore throughout her entire body that nearly killed her in a span of just two months after being shot. Even with the bullet safely out of her shoulder all those years ago, the silver was still inside her, and it was able to grow like a disease. Only now it wasn’t inside her bloodstream but in fact inside her bones..
“How long
how long do I have to live.”
“Margaret, we can try another-”
“How long!” she yelled throwing herself out of her chair.
“I
don’t know for sure, but my guess is two weeks,” he whispered.
“Two…two weeks. That’s all I have?”
He nodded his head, “The silver is growing rapidly than before. I don’t know why it is.”
“Does anyone else know about this?” she asked.
“No, I thought about telling the Alpha-
“Don’t” she spoke quickly, “don’t tell anyone.” She couldn’t believe what she was hearing, just two
weeks.
“Margaret, we can find a way around this,” The doctor said placing a hand on her bare shoulder.
Margaret wanted to cry, yell, scream to the ends of the Earth. “What… for the past five years, I’ve
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been in and out of this place I’ve been going through surgery after surgery, to get the sliver out of my body and you haven’t done one successful damn operation on me!” she furiously yelled, turning away from the doctor, she held her tears in, “I can’t keep doing this doc. My brother, the Alpha, I can’t keep hiding this.” Margaret took a deep breath before looking at the doctor, “I thought for sure we were in the clear but this is the reality, right.”
“Margaret ”
“Don’t bother doc, I dort need your words of hope.
“Margaret there may well be away, but it could, well, you may not like it.”
“What doc, what do I have to lose at this point.” Margaret looked into the dark blue eyes of the
doctor before her.
Nodding his head, “Very well. You heard of the story of the Moon Goddess, the one of Everlasting.”
“A child’s tale,” she waved a hand, “The Everlasting aren’t real.” Margaret sneered.
The Everlasting was a tale of Twelve Guardians who held a piece of the Moon Goddess within them, making them immortal. The Everlasting werewolves that sacrificed everything to the Goddess including their own lives. Like the Moon Goddess, they shared her appearances, white hair, pure ice blue eyes, pale fair skin, and the mark of the moon. Rumor had it that the Everlasting held strange powers in order to protect the twelve packs. But those were only stories that parents told to their young. Even Margaret’s own mother told the tales of the great Moon Warriors, known as the Everlasting.
“The Everlasting are as real as you and I are.”
“And you want me to believe that the Everlasting are going to save me from the sliver.”
“No,” he said in all sincerity, “You can be an Everlasting.”
Margaret couldn’t believe the doctor, he was crazy to even think that a child’s tale would save her.
“And how do you suppose one can become an Everlasting. Everyone knows the tales that the Everlasting were chosen since the day they were born and they had to do something of great sacrifice or die to even awaken the Moon Goddess gift. Meaning there is a chance I’m not even an Everlasting also meaning there is a fifty–fifty chance that I’ll die anyway.
“It’s all we have at this point. What do you have to lose?” He asked mimicking her from before.
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“Everything.” She replied in a whisper.
Margaret escaped home after leaving the infirmary. The first thing she did was march up the stairs and blessed herself with a nice hot bath. She stripped her new bloody clothes on the white tile floor and turned the water on before jumping in.
Tilted her head back to wash her face from the rogue’s blood that filled her senses. Turning around she placed her hair under the water, running her hands through it to clean off what was left of the
rogues.
With a little sigh, she ran her hands down her neck and down to the scare that was on her shoulder. Closing her eyes, her heart ached. And she cried. Margaret crouched down, hugging her knees close
to her chest.
She didn’t know how much more she could take. How much more she could keep going. Even if there was a chance she could survive, there was still that chance she was going to die. Rubbing her face with her hands, she already knew she was living dangerously just being a Bate and throwing herself at every possible moment that could lead her to her death.
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