And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

“What is it? I will do anything to make sure that I have my mate back,” I replied with desperation.

“We will need to close this gate once more. That way, no one can come back through who isn’t supposed

to be here. It was done before, but it will need to be done again,” he replied as he looked at Frigga. “As

much as we would love to be able to come and go…. we cannot. It isn’t safe for the human realm to

mingle with our kind.”

I realized what he’s saying. There was too much power in the realm of where they lived for the mortal

realm to be able to withstand it. We had our own issues here, and while the Council members who had

come here were now dead-we weren’t safe.

There were now packs without Alpha’s and wolves without mates.

Retaliation would more than likely come one day, and when it did, We would have to be ready. We would

have to realize that standing together would be our only way to survive.

“I understand. As soon as you leave, I will close the portal and seal it from our world.”

Nodding his head, he turned back to the shimmering portal in the air. Loki had been cast back and was

now their problem to bear. I, however, was left with nothing but kind words from Frigga before her and

Odin, and those who had come with them disappeared from our sight.

Closing my eyes, I let my celestial orbs take in the shimmering portal, and with a wave of my hand, I

closed and sealed it forever. Never again would their realm walk amongst ours. At least, not while I was

alive.

Turning my eyes back toward Damian, a sob escaped my throat as I came closer and brushed the hair

from his face. “My love, I know that you can hear me. Odin said that you were here with me in spirit, and

I want you to know that I need you. We all do. It doesn’t matter to me if you think that you’re incomplete

because in my eyes, you’re not. You are everything to me.”

“Ivy, if we’re going to do this, we need to do it soon,” Hale said softly as he knelt down at my side, staring

at his brother, who lay lifeless on the ground.

I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to bring him back, but somewhere deep inside me, I felt like there was

an answer.

I felt like there was something that I could use to give him life.

“I’m not sure what’s going to happen to us, but it could be painful. I just need you to bear with me… this

is for Damian.”

Each of them nodded in agreement. They were well aware of what was being asked of them. “To give

life, I must take life. I must replace the mortality of four for the life of one.”

Closing my eyes, I searched deep within myself. The darkness that had once been laying under my skin

floated freely, and within that darkness, I found a speck of light.

Pulling the images of what our family had been before Damian had gone missing, I used it to pull the

light towards me. How I felt about him, the love that I had for him and his brothers, I pulled every ounce

of it forward and pushed it into Damien.

As my eyes flew open, I saw the swirling mass of blue and white auras coming from my mates and I. The

essence of our being. The life force for which we were celestial.

The only life that we had to give Damian to bring him back was that of our immortality.

Our Celestial connections would save him… and bind him to use once more.

“I love you, Damian.”

The more I pushed, the louder my screams of pain echoed from my throat. The pain was unlike anything

I had ever felt before, and with one final, death-stricken scream, I shove the last of what I had straight at

Damian watching his body glow with a light I had never seen before.

As the light brightened, darkness swirled around me. I wasn’t sure if I was dying or if this was simply

something else, but slowly slipped into the darkness. Watching Damian’s body fade from my sight like

the closing of a movie.

“Please, Damian… come back to me. I can’t do this without you.”

*****

Hale.

Never once had seen such immense power as I did from Ivy. She had poured everything she had and

pulled every ounce of power we had out of us and into her before pushing it, projecting it into Damian. It

was like the life had been almost sucked out of me, and in a way, it had been.

Our Lycans had been stripped of us, and we were left as simple shifters.

Our wolves were now free in our minds, no longer hiding from the Lycan beasts that had always sat in

the forefront. “What the fuck?”

As soon as Ivy collapsed, I watched Damien’s eyes flutter open. A glimmer of hope radiated through me

and through the link that I had with my brothers.

She had done it. Ivy had brought him back, but not without her own cost.

She laid on the ground, her hair no longer its white coloring, but had returned to the reddish brown she

had before. I couldn’t help but wonder if this meant she was human again, or perhaps was she

something else?

“Damian?” I stammered quickly as I rushed to him. Talon and James right by my side as he coughed and

sputtered trying to understand what was going on.

“What happened?” He croaked out.

“Dude.” James choked out with a laugh. “You fucking died, man. Can we try not to do that again?”

The three of us laughed at James’s comment, and though Damian had a hard time moving, he still

laughed, which ended up causing him to wince in pain. “Perhaps you should relax, man,” I said to him,

shaking my head.

“Where’s Ivy?” he said through a strained voice as he looked around, searching for her. My eyes lifted

from his and turned toward where she was laying.

“It took everything out of her, but she isn’t dead.”

“I need her,” he said, trying to move, but Talon and James held him back.

“No, we need to get both of you back to the pack house. The

wounded are being treated at the hospital.”

“Wounded. Did I miss the battle?” Damian smirked. “I was hoping to kill someone for messing up my

hair.”

Talon laughed and reached over, messing Damian’s hair up further. “Yeah, man, you missed the fucking

battle, that’s for sure. You should have seen Ivy. She kicked some serious ass out there.”

As James picked up Ivy in his arms, Talon and I helped Damien to his feet as we attempted to make our

way back towards the pack house. It wasn’t as easy as it looked, but I will take on any difficulty life had to

throw at me to make sure I had my brothers and Ivy by my side.

“Did she have the babies?” Damian asked softly. His eyes reached mine with guilt.

“She did, and wait till you see them. You have a lot to make up for.”

It would take a while for things to get back to normal, and I knew more than anything, but if that meant I

still had to stay as alpha for the time being, then I was fine with that. I did not have a problem helping my

brother out.

The only thing that mattered to me was that he was alive and Ivy was alive, and the twins were safe,

which meant that our family could be whole again.

Our family could move past what had happened and try to rebuild our home.