The Night Wolf novel Chapter 14

"You're joking, aren't you? Please tell me that you are."

He sighed but said nothing.

No Willow can't die now. Melody wouldn't let it. They had years ahead of them. Years to fangirl over Avengers, to watch Thanos get defeated, to find out which of the theories they've read are true, this was not happening. Not now.

The doctor then spoke up, as if trying to console her. "I'm not sure though. I've never consulted a person who was rejected. I've only read and heard of it. So there are chances that they are all false, since not many cases of rejection occurs, and they are different most of the time."

Melody felt a glimmer of hope. She knew she shouldn't, because it would only hurt her, if Willow couldn't make it.

"Should we call her mother?" Asked Jamie-Ray.

Melody froze. She didn't know how she could tell this to Willow's mother. She had just recently lost her husband, to lose her daughter too-no Melody couldn't even imagine what she'll go through.

"No," said Melody. "Not her mother. I'll take her to my house."

Jamie-Ray nodded. That is when it hit Melody.

"Can't her mate help her?" She asked.

"Her mate," said the doctor. "Yes her mate will be of help, but he won't."

"Why not?"

"He must have rejected her because he didn't want her in the first place. The only way it might be of help is if he accepts her back."

Melody looked expectantly at Jamie-Ray.

Willow had stopped writhing, but she had started shivering, her body temperature had risen. Her hand which was tightly gripped in Melody's was warm and sweaty, it had been ice cold when Melody had first touched it. Willow was sweating. Her clothes were turning damp. Soft whimpers came out of her mouth.

Jamie-Ray took his phone out when the doctor left them to themselves and in moments he was quietly talking to the person at the other end. The conversation was rushed but Melody could hear some words.

"Help".

"come quick."

"She is your mate."

"It'll kill you."

"Don't do this."

They were silent, Willow had long back stopped shivering, she still hadn't regained her consciousness but she laid there, her face showed pain no more. It was blank. She had also stopped whispering and sweating. Melody's mother had helped change Willow's clothes, since Melody couldn't do it herself. Her hand had been shaking, it had stopped now.

Melody wondered if it was wrong of her to delay informing Venice about Willow. But she shook the thought off.

She might live. She might live. She will live. She should. Melody chanted repeatedly in her head. But as she did, Melody was fighting out sleep. She felt her eyelids grow heavy. But at the same time she didn't want to sleep, she wanted to be awake if Willow wakes up. When Willow wakes. So she wouldn't sleep till Willow regains her consciousness.

"You can sleep." Said Jamie-Ray, noticing how hard it was for Melody to stay awake. "I'll wake you up when she's awake."

"Aren't you tired Jamie-Ray?"

"Call me JR," he said. "And no, I'm used to staying up at nights. It was a long day for you."

"Thank you." Said Melody, already half asleep. "JR."

The moment she shut her eyes, she heard Willow inhale loudly, as if she had been drowning and had come up to get one breath. The breath of life.

Melody's eyes snapped open, JR was already standing and he looked shocked. Melody scrambled to her feet and she too felt what JR had been feeling.

Willow was there, alright. But her eyes looked unfocused. But melody couldn't even say if it was her eyes. They were golden. Bright and gold. The room was dark, the curtains drawn there was no source if light but Willow's eyes, which looked like two balls of sun, two balls of light.