Astrid’s POV
I feel something shaking me, I wake up and I’m still in Alec arms, “I’m so tired, can’t I just sleep?” I whisper “No baby, you have to stay awake! I am so sorry. I never wanted this!” he hangs his head. “Enough talking, we need to help her.” Kassy barks at him. Alec looks at her, “We can’t help her here, we need to move her.” He thinks for a second, “Blayne clear the table!” Blayne nods and shoves everything off the table. I groan when Alec picks me up and lays me on the table.
“Blayne, can you stitch her up?” Alec asks him. I whine at the thought of being stitched up but they ignore me. “Yeah I can but I’m going to need alcohol, gauze, a needle and strong thread. Oh and something to wrap around her body after the wound is closed.” Kassy nods and goes to find everything, she is back in a few minutes. “Got it all, I hope vodka works.” Blayne laughs a little, “it will.”
“Can I sleep now?” I ask. “No baby you have to stay awake.” Alec tells me. I groan, this is going to hurt like hell. “Alec I need you to carefully remove her shirt.” Blayne tells him. Alec nods and carefully rips the shirt so Blayne could see the wound clearly. “This is gonna hurt Astrid.” he tells me right before he pours the alcohol all over the wound. I scream, it burns so bad I almost black out “Sorry, but the wound has to be clean so it won’t get infected.” he says apologetically. “Stop talking and get it over with!” I snarl.
He looks at Alec, “I am going to remove the knife, once I do use the gauze and apply pressure to help slow the bleeding.” Alec nods and grabs the gauze. I felt a painful tug on my stomach and whimpered as the knife was pulled out. Alec places the gauze as soon as it’s out. Blayne drops the knife and then prepares the needle and thread. I just laid there mentally preparing myself to be stitched, ughh. “Alec hold her hand, this is gonna hurt.” He comes over to me and grabs my hand, I give him a small smile. Blayne begins to stitch my stomach and I scream. I knew it would hurt but I never thought it would hurt this bad! Remind me to never be this stupid again.
My grip tightens on Alec's hand and I hear his bones cracking. I look at him, “I'm sorry!” I whisper. He shakes his head, not wanting me to worry. Blayne takes advantage of me not paying attention to dump more alcohol on my wound. I scream and growled at him. “I’m sorry! But I need to make sure it stays clean.” he glares at me before finishing up the stitches.. “Help her sit up Alec, I am going to wrap her waist.” He nods and lifts me up supporting my body as Blayne placed a clean gauze and wrapped the wound so it was covered. After a few minutes, “we are done!” Blayne says.
Blayne’s POV
“Can I sleep now?” she asks for the third time. Alec chuckles and nods. I watch as her picks up and takes her upstairs. After a couple minutes he’s back downstairs. “Did she fall asleep?” I asks. Alec laughs, “as soon as she laid down she was out cold.” I laugh and look at him, he look upset and stressed out.
“She’s gonna be fine Alec, she needs to sleep and let her body heal.” I tell him. “I know but I feel awful, I was just so mad. I never meant to say that.” Alec hangs his head and sighs. “We all do things in the heat of the moment that we end up regretting, the only thing to do is learn from it and move forward.” Alec nods and laughs a little. After they both clean the kitchen they went into the living room and relaxed for a few hours.
Astrid’s POV
I wake up and look at the clock, I’ve only slept for 4 hours. I groan and get out of bed and walk downstairs. Alec notices me first, “Astrid! How are you feeling?” he asks. “Very sore.” My wound isn’t healing like it should be, but I don’t want to cause another fuss. Kassy came into the living room, she was surprised to see me, “I didn’t think you would be awake so soon.” she says. “I am still tired, but I was getting restless so I gave up on trying to sleep.” she nods like she understands. “I’m going to go for a walk.” I tell them, a nice walk always clears my mind and it will help me relax.
“Can I come?” Kassy asks. I sigh, “Even if I said no you would still come anyway.” She laughs and says I was right. We leave and start walking through the woods, we walk in silence enjoying the night air. I realized we are being followed. I freeze and look around. “What’s wrong Astrid, why are your eyes black?” Kassy asks me. “We are being followed.” I hear someone chuckle behind me and I whip around, I feel blazing pain on my stomach but I ignore it. “You have good senses, no one ever notices me.” she says
Kassy moves closer to me, “who are you?” I continue to stare at the girl, she is short, has red hair and green eyes. I feel the air getting colder around us. “I’m Akira.” she answers. “Why were you following us?” Kassy questions. “I saw you walking through the woods and sense it’s the middle of the night, I thought it seemed a little strange.” I narrow my eyes, “That doesn’t explain why you followed us.” I say coldly.
She rolls her eyes. “I was curious! I don’t see a lot of people walking through the woods. I wanted to know whether you were human or not.” I just stare at her, not sure how I feel about her. She laughs quietly, “No need to stare at me with those black eyes, I’m not gonna hurt you. I just want to be friends.” she says as she stares at me. “Why?” She sighs, “Cause I am like you, and I have a hard time making friends.” Kassy looks over at her, “What are you then?”
Akira looks a little surprised by the sudden question but still answers, “I am an angel and a witch.” She looks at us for a minute, “So can I know your names?” she laughs. Kassy and I look at each other then back at her and introduce ourselves. I notice her relax a little when my eyes shift back to icey blue. Akira looks over to Kassy, “what are you?” she asks
“Same as you actually,” Kassy laughs. She looks at me, “and you?” I just stare at her, “Powerful.” I really don’t feel like telling her but kept pestering me to answer, “Please, tell me!” I sigh and finally give in, “I’m a hybrid, and a witch with an affinity for all 4 elements.” She was surprised, “you weren’t kidding when you said powerful. That explains your eye color and the change in temperature earlier.” I nod.
We walk a little more and find a meadow covered in moonlight. I look up at the moon for a minute thinking about something and then look at Akira. “Could you give me wings?” She looks startled for a second but nods. “Come over here and lay on your stomach,”she tells me. I laid down, and felt something wet and sticky, fuck I must have started bleeding again. I should have fed but I just can’t! “This is going to hurt,” Akira warns me. I feel her hand on my shoulder blades, I suddenly feel a sharp pain and something grows out of my back. I grit my teeth to stop from screaming. The pain suddenly stops, I get up feeling a little dizzy.
I look at my wing and gasp, they are black! I look at Akira, “are black wings normal?” I ask her. “No not really. Wings are supposed to be white, but there are records of people with black wings. It’s just very rare.” she answers. “What does it mean?” Kassy asks. “That she will have powers.”
I look at her again, “How many?’ I look away and cough, I feel something wet hit my hands. I look at them and there is blood….fuckkkk! “You will have 2 powereful gifts, one I know for sure it is the ability to freeze things and the other I am not so sure about. I will do some research.” she tells me. I start to shake and everything around me starts to fade, “Kassy..” I cough up more blood and collapse on the ground. They both look at me in shock, “Astrid!” Kassy kneels next to me, “what’s wrong?” she asks, looking worried. ”I need to go home,” I manage to say before losing consciousness.
Kassy’s P.O.V
I lift Astrids shirt and see blood everywhere, “Shit, her wound never healed. She’s been bleeding out this whole time!”
“What do we do?” Akira asks. “We need to get her home so her brother can help her. Pick her up, I will lead you to the house.” Akira carefully picks her up and we run back to the house. We burst through the front door and went to the kitchen, “Alec! Blayne!” I yell. They run into the kitchen, Alec nearly falls over when he sees her, “What the hell happened?” he asks. I look at him, “her wound never healed, she has been bleeding out since she woke up!”
Astrid’s P.O.V
I wake up and look at everyone. “She should be healing.” Blayne says, he notices I am awake and narrows his eyes, “When was the last time you fed? I look away, “I don’t remember.”
He sighs, “Astrid, you are half vampire you have to feed!” he yells at me. “I know that!” I growled. “Why don’t you feed then?” Alec asks me. I don’t look him in the eyes, “I lose control anytime I feed.” Alec was about to say something but Blayne inturpets him, “She needs to feed now, or she won’t heal.” Alec comes over to me and sits by my side, “feed from me.” I hesitate but give in, I’m absolutely starving.
I pull him closer to me, I feel my fang grow and I sink them into his neck and start drinking. After a couple minutes I tighten my hold on him causing him to flinch. “Astrid, stop.” I couldn’t stop, the blood was too good!! I push him down, pinning him so he can’t move while I drink. I feel him wrap his arms around me, “baby..stop,” he whispers. I come back to my senses and jump off of him, “I’m so sorry Alec!” I feel tears streaming down my face.
He looks at me with a sad expression, “don’t cry Astrid, it’s okay.” he says. He hugs me and then leaves. I just stand there not knowing what to do. Arabella comes into the room and looks around. “By the way, I’m Akira.” Akira introduces herself. They all say hi to her.
“Did I miss something?” Arabella asks, looking confused. I look at her, “You missed a lot, but have someone else fill you in. I’m going back to bed, Akira could you help me upstairs please.” I am still sore and very tired. She nods and helps me walk up the stairs and she leaves after I lay down. After a little while I sit up in bed, oh yeah I have wings!! I walked towards the window and jumped out, causing the window to shatter, but I didn’t care, nothing seems to matter as much anymore. I floated there, flapping my wings and basking in the moonlight, while thinking about everything. I feel like such a burden to everyone, would it be better if I disappeared forever?
Downstairs
After Akria walks back downstairs she starts talking to everyone. “Where did Alec go? Why isn’t he with Astrid?” Arabella asks. “I don’t know, he looked really sad when he left though,” Kassy tells her. All of a sudden they heard something shatter upstairs. They all look up to the second floor.
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