Tyson POV
“Tell me you saw that too” Ace asks me and I nod. Lucy’s head resting on his shoulder as she passed out from his bite.
“I saw something,” I tell him, not sure what to make of it. Lucy has never had a wolf yet her eyes flickered black like her wolf came forward for a second.
“It’s impossible, her father killed her wolf when he killed her” I tell him but Ace shakes his head.
“Avery said something to me about it, she thinks Lucy wolf is dormant, not dead”
“Then why hasn’t she come forward before?” I ask him yet if Avery believes that maybe it is possible.
“We will have to wait and see I guess, but-”
“You’re not sure if we should tell her” Ace finishes for me and he sighs but nods his head.
“You know how much she hated not being able to shift when everyone else could, how depressed she got when every other mutation shifted but her” I tell him. Lucy struggled when she was younger, all the other mutations had wolves and survived the transition, hers didn’t, making her feel more out of place because she knew she was different.
“Come on we should put her to bed” Ace says and I reach down grabbing her bag. Ace starts walking toward my bedroom but I stop by his bedroom door.
“No yours, your bed is bigger and we can all fit comfortably in it” I tell him. He stops looking at me and I push his bedroom door open. Ace also had a bigger room and I don’t think Lucy will like bed hopping.
“You’re ok with all this” Ace asks me following me inside, I flick the light on.
“Of course I am, why would you ask?”
“Because of what happened, I know this isn’t normal for brothers to share a mate and you could have had her to yourself” I nod at his words.
“Good thing we know how to share then, she is your mate too Ace, I never wanted to take her from you” I tell him, placing her bag down next to the bed. Ace gently lays her down, tucking her in while I start unpacking her bag.
Ace opens some drawers clearing them out and I hand him her clothes before finding a photo album tucked down the side of the bag. I pull it out and Ace looks over at me.
“What’s that?” He asks, sitting beside me on the edge of the bed.
“Her photo album” I tell him, opening it to see what was inside. Though I was shocked to find most of them were of us growing up together. Ace pulls a smaller one out which was full of family photos. He flicks through it but the album I was holding was mostly of us and Lucy.
There were heaps of us camping together and at the lagoon, her first day of school. Flicking further into the album I find some of when we first rescued her from the facility. How small she was and underweight. I looked over my shoulder at her sleeping, she was not this little girl anymore but a woman, yet the sadness in her eyes in these photos, the hollow look. I had seen over the last few weeks and I hated seeing that fear in her eyes again.
“I remember that day” Ace says, pointing to the picture of both of us in lab coats sitting next to Lucy in the doctor’s office. Lucy had the same fear as her mother when she first got out. Took us 6 months before she would get checked out by the pack doctor. Yet when they wanted to run tests she freaked out and refused, instead running from us. Ryker had to chase her down. Reika’s fear didn’t help though as she always waited in the car refusing to step foot in the place, she still has that fear.
“I spent two weeks learning how to take blood” Ace says and I laugh at the memory. When Lucy refused to get blood taken the doctor even tried with no lab coat on but Lucy knew what she was and refused. Ace spent two weeks off school at the pathology lab learning how to take blood samples.
We didn’t think it would work but Ryker was willing to try anything and excused him from school until he was comfortable doing it. I managed to convince her to go back to the doctor’s office, holding her down while they checked her over. When it was time for the blood tests though she freaked out again and the doctor left the office only to return with Ace in a lab coat.
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Flashback
“Lucy calm down, stop kicking” I tell her as she thrashes in my arms.
“Ok, Lucy. I won’t take your blood, Doc” tells her. Lucy slowly calms down, yet her heart was racing a million miles an hour. I drag her back up so she is sitting on my lap, my arms locked around her. Ryker hated bringing her and this time Ace and I offered to try and pin her down, seeing her scared, always angered Ryker, making him want to smack the doctors trying to help her.
“I want to go home Tyson, take me home please” Lucy cries looking up at me, we tried to explain everything, the doctor wasn’t even wearing her coat this time but nothing helped once she knew they were doctors she wanted nothing to do with them.
“They just need to do some tests Lucy, I promise they won’t hurt you” I tell her but she starts crying, shaking her head.
“No, no” She starts screaming when the doctor once again tries to approach her.
“Calm down” I tell her but she doesn’t.
“I will be back, okay. I have a surprise for you Lucy” Doc Tells her.
“I wonder what it is?” I ask her, knowing it was Ace. Lucy looked up at me but only fear shone in her mutated eyes.
“I won’t let anyone hurt you, you trust me don’t you Lucy?” She nods, chewing her nails and I kiss the side of her head.
“Do you trust Ace?” I ask her and she nods again.
“Where did Ace go?” She asks and I pull her fingers from her mouth when she starts making her nails bleed, she was terrible for it. She would chew the tips of her fingers until they bled sometimes, I don’t even think she realized she did it half the time. It was a nervous reflex she had, same as chewing on her shirt sleeves. The door opens and I hear her heart rate pick up and she starts thrashing when the figure steps into the room in a lab coat.
“Stop Luce, look it is only Ace” I tell her, holding her tighter. She stops thrashing looking over at my brother in his lab coat.
“You’re not a doctor,” Lucy laughs.
“I am, I have a badge see” He says tapping the badge on his coat that said doctor awesome. I roll my eyes at him.
“No you’re not” She giggles and the doctor steps in behind him, her eyes going to the doctor. But she sits down in her chair observing.
“I am today, I get to be your doctor” Ace tells her, pulling a stool over and sitting in front of her.
“See, it is just Ace” I tell her and she nods looking over at the doctor who hands a tray to Ace. He places it on the bed beside Lucy and she looks at it.
“So can I be your doctor today Lucy?” Asks Ace while grabbing some gloves and putting them on.
“Are you going to stab me?” She asks, looking at the needles on the tray.
“What about if I stab Tyson first to show it doesn’t hurt?” Ace asks her and I glare at him. He knew I hated needles and Ace smirks at me. Lucy nods looking up at me expectantly and I fight back a growl but Ace doesn’t wait for an answer instead shoves my shirt sleeve up and Lucy watches.
“You scream or flinch I will kick your ass” Ace mindlinks me.
“You couldn’t have volunteered doc as your test subject” I mindlink back.
“No I want to watch you sweat, now hold still, I would hate for the needle to snap off in your arm” He laughs. “Don’t worry that only happened once” He adds through the link and I turn my face away, staring at Lucy instead of what he is doing.
Surprisingly he was actually gentle, well as gentle as a needle can be.
“See, he didn’t cry and we know what a sook Tyson is” Ace tells Lucy while handing the vial of my blood to the doctor, she turns around putting a label on it while Ace tells Lucy to hold the cotton bud on my arm and she does.
“Now which band aid should Tyson have?” He asks her and she picks a little pink one. Ace sticks it on my arm.
“See, didn’t hurt, did it, Tye” Ace asks me.
“Nope, not at all” I tell her and she nods bouncing on my lap before offering her arm to Ace. He rolls her sleeve up before putting the strap on her arm and grabbing a fresh needle.
She jumps when he pushes it through her skin then relaxes before watching the small vial fill up with her blood. He took 4 vials of her blood handing each one to Doc who labelled and bagged them. When he was done he unclipped the strap and gently removed the needle placing a cotton bud on it.
“Hold that ” He tells her and she presses her thumb on it while he picks her a purple band aid. “See all done, that wasn’t so bad was it Lucy?” He asks her and she shakes her head.
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I shake the memory away. “Yeah and you stabbed me you jerk” I tell him and he laughs.
“But it worked, she got over her fear of doctors, didn’t she?” He says and I smile.
“Yes she did” Lucy got over a lot of fears, she excelled in school despite being severely behind. Everynight we helped her with her homework, and everynight Ryker would read to her and Reika before bed.
“We should tell her about her wolf she has a right to know, even if she doesn’t ever get her wolf back” I tell Ace.
“Yeah I don’t like keeping secrets from her” He agrees.
“I have pack Patrol tonight, you can take her back to your room if you want” Ace tells but I shake my head.
“No but can I move my crap in here”
“You’re serious about sharing a room” He asks, getting up and putting the last of the other things away.
“Yep, I don’t plan on sleeping without her, you?”
“Me either, If she lets me sleep near her” he says.
“She let you mark her, and she marked you” I tell him wondering why he was still second guessing her.
“Yeah I know, she may forgive me but that doesn’t mean I forgive myself” He says and I nod to him before laying back on the bed.
“I need to go but I will be back in the morning, let me know when she wakes up” He says leaning down and kissing her cheek.