~Still Wes's P.O.V.~
I walk through the school, following her scent to the front doors, when I find another guy on his phone muttering something until I finally hear him yell out
"Damn it Violet pick up the damn phone! Call me back would you? That's it, I'm coming to your apartment, if you've done anything.... Fuck. Please just call me back Vi." His voice went from frustrated to worried as he spoke into his phone before slipping it back into his pocket.
I quickly ran up to him, "hey, you were just calling Violet?" I ask him.
"Yeah, I was, who are you and why do you want to know?" He eyes me cautiously.
"I'm Wes, Violet is my mate... I just met her this morning... Okay are you Max?" I said while running a hand through my hair as I thought about the situation and what he said at the end of his message.
"Yeah, I'm Max, wow you're her mate, well it's nice to meet you but look I've got to go check on her... She hasn't been in classes all morning I'm worried..." He trailed off.
"Yeah I...something happened when I found her and I'm worried as well... Can I come with you? I'll follow you if you just drive there... Please I need to know she's okay."
"Okay okay calm down I'll show you the way and let you in with me just come on I wanna hurry up."
We hurried out the front doors of the school and out to the parking lot, were he got in his jeep and I quickly got on my black Harley. He sped out of the parking lot and I followed close behind him. Soon enough we pulled into the parking lot of a tall apartment building and rushed inside. While in the elevator I saw him pull his keys out of his pocket and hold one out ready, and I stared at it, confused.
"I have a key to her apartment, she gave it to me a while back for specific reasons... It's not really my place to tell you. Don't think anything bad though, she's my best friend, the key was only in case of emergencies which...seem to happen more often than you'd think..." He mumbled the last part but I still heard him.
I nodded as the elevator stopped and we rushed towards a door, he unlocked it and we walked in.
Immediately her scent hit me, and I looked around, seeing the trail of her stuff that we followed to her bathroom door. When Max opened the door my heart dropped and tears rose to my eyes.
My beautiful mate was slouched against the wall, razor blade in her small palm, blood streaming from countless open cuts on her delicate wrists, and tears staining her perfect face.
He dropped to the ground in front of her quickly, snatching the blade out of her hand and throwing it across the bathroom.
"Damn it Vi... You promised me.. What pushed you this far? You didn't even text me when you left school... You could've just came and talked to me, but you didn't... Why? Why Violet?" He was yelling by the end of it.
I still stood frozen in the doorway, until he got up and snapped in my face.
"You just gonna stand there or are you gonna help me help your mate?"
"I- I'm sorry, I-uh yeah um I'll help you yeah yeah sorry I just-" I stuttered as I ran a hand through my hair but he cut me off before I could continue.
"I understand it's fine okay I know how hard it is to see her like this especially for the first time just come on and help me alright?"
"Okay yeah what do you need me to do?"
"Well first of all we need to wrap up her arms but I don't think that's gonna be enough this time we need to take her to the pack doctor..." He trailed off as he looked at her again.
"Okay well I can wrap her arms if you call the pack doctor so they can be ready for us when they get there I just need you to tell me where the gauze is so I have something to wrap around her wrists."
"Um third drawer down on the far right." He mumbled as he pulled out his phone.
Sure enough, there was a large thing of gauze in there. I grabbed it and quickly got to work, tears welling up in my eyes as I gently wrapped my poor mate's wrists with gauze, just wishing she'd waited for me at school rather than leaving and doing this to herself... Shit. This is all my fault.
"What the hell do you mean you won't help her? I'm your soon to be alpha you have to listen to me.
Is that so?
She's a member of the pack damn it why won't you help her?
She's not fucking worthless don't you dare talk about her like that ever again.
Damn it!" Max yelled as he slammed his phone down on the counter during his last sentence.
"What the hell was all that about? I asked as I finished wrapping her wrists and gently pulled her into my arms.
"Not only will they not help her, but they hung up on me." He growled.
"Let's take her to my pack then they won't refuse me they'll help her."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I'm sure my pack doctor is willing to help anyone who deserves it."
"Alright let's go. Do you want to ride in the Jeep with me? You can sit in the back with her and just make sure she keeps breathing and be there to calm her down if she wakes up on our way there."
"Yes I'll do it do you know how to get to the Nightstalkers pack?"
"It just so happens that I do come on we need to hurry."
"Alright lead the way I'm right behind you I'll carry her."
He nodded and left the bathroom as I gently picked Violet up and cradled her in my arms, holding her close to my body protectively. We left her apartment and got into the elevator, and ran out of the building as soon as the doors opened. Max opened the back door of his car for me and got in the front seat, starting it as I got in, careful not to shake Violet up to much or to let her bump into anything. As he drove I held her in my lap with her head against my chest and my arms wrapped tightly around her, keeping her steady. I pressed a soft kiss to her forehead as I wiped away some of the tears that still stained her cheeks and one stray tear fell down mine. I quickly wiped it away and blinked the rest back.
Finally we arrived at my pack house and I mind linked my pack doctor to be ready for us as we got out of the car and I led the way. I rushed her to the hospital wing of our large pack house and when I got there they were waiting for us at the doors with a bed prepped for her that I gently laid her in and they asked me all kinds of questions about what happened to her and I answered every single one while I followed them back to wherever they were taking her and they quickly took her into a room where they hooked her up to an IV, put a mask over her face to help her breathe, and removed the gauze from her wrists and I saw a couple of the doctors cringe at what they saw but they quickly got to work on her. I had no clue what they were doing.
"What's going on what are you doing to her?" I asked trying to get close to my mate so I could hold her hand and make sure she was okay but a nurse quickly pushed me away.
"Alpha you need to leave the room."
"She's my mate I won't leave her!" I growled out trying to get past her but she wouldn't get out of my way.
"Alpha if you stay in here you'll only get in the way and it will take us longer to help your mate and get her all fixed up okay so I'm going to need you to wait outside." She said pushing me out of the room and this time I didn't fight back because I just wanted my mate to be okay as soon as possible.
I slid down the wall and put my head in my hands, the only thing on my mind was my mate. I was so worried about her, I just want for her to be alright, if she's not then I don't know what I'll do. I can't lose her, I barely just got her... I wish I had done something that would've prevented this, I don't know what but I just wish I had done something.
~Violet's P.O.V.~
I woke up and tried to open my eyes but as soon as I did the light above me practically blinded me so I quickly closed them again and went to clench my fist but instead just squeezed a hand..after my realization I quickly recognized it as Wes's hand by the tingles that I felt running up my arm. I felt his thumb stroking the side of my thumb and hand and he stopped once he felt me squeeze his hand.
"Violet? Are you awake?" He said as he leaned over me, mostly blocking the light and I took that as my opportunity to slightly open my eyes.
"Oh my gosh you're awake thank fuck. Violet I was so worried I'm so sorry for all of this its all my fault that you did this. I-" Wes rushed out but I silenced him by reaching my opposite hand up and putting my finger against his lips, telling him to stop talking without even opening my mouth but I quickly dropped my arm back down as it felt very weak.
I looked down to see that I was in a hospital bed and looked at the gauze that covered each of my arms from my wrists all the way up to my elbows and it all came rushing back to me, what happened and what I did.
Tears came to my eyes and I slowly turned back to look at Wes. He saw the tears and his eyes immediately softened, he put his hand on my cheek and gently stroked his thumb back and forth against it.
"Violet...darling please don't cry. Please I've already wiped away your tears once since we've met even though you weren't awake when it happened but please don't make me have to do it again. Please babygirl I don't think I can handle it." He says softly and I almost break down from his words alone.
"I'm sorry.." I try to say but it comes out really quiet and scratchy and Wes quickly hands me a cup of water.
I quickly drink every last drop of water in the cup and clear my throat before trying to talk again.
"I-I'm s-sorry Wes...I u-understand if you r-reject m-me I don't b-blame you j-just make it quick s-so maybe it'll h-hurt l-less." I say as a few tears manage to escape and slide down my cheeks and even though I want to wipe them away, I can't because my arms hurt too much.
I feel so weak and pathetic, maybe because I am.
"Violet I'm not going to reject you."
"I underst- wait w-what? Y-you're n-not? I don't understand..."
"What do you not understand darling? I'm not rejecting you, I'm not going to let you go not now not ever. Why in the world would you think I'm going to reject you? I thought we already established that I wasn't going to in that bathroom when we met?"
"I-I'm s-sorry it's just th-that I've already put you through s-so m-much and I-I'm ugly and fat and I have s-scars and you could do so much b-better I just d-don't understand w-why you'd want m-me I mean n-nobody else d-does, n-not even my p-parents." I stuttered quietly.
"Violet please don't ever say those things about yourself again, you're beautiful and perfect in every single way and you're not fat. Your scars are beautiful let's just not make more of them okay babygirl? And I couldn't have any better than you, because you're the best there is there isn't anyone better. And I want you, I'll always want you. Please don't hurt yourself or put yourself down anymore Violet. You're perfect and I just want to make you happy." He said without breaking eye contact with me.
"I'm s-sorry." I said looking away, wishing I could wipe my tears and pretend they weren't there so I'd seem stronger than I am but I can't and I hate it.
"For what darling?"
"For saying all those things and c-crying like you asked me not t-to and for being so w-weak and pathetic that I can't even wipe the tears off my face." My voice cracked at the end and I hated it.
"Oh baby...no...you're not weak or pathetic...you lost a lot of blood so it's harder for you to do these things right now...that's all...that doesn't make you weak or pathetic. And I know I asked you not to cry but that's just because it hurts me to see you cry, it hurts me to see you like this too. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to be upset or anything like that if you do cry. And look, it's okay if you can't wipe your tears, because I can do it for you." He says and reaches up and softly brushes away the tears underneath my eyes.
My eyelids started to get heavy and I suddenly felt really tired. I went to say something to Wes before I fell asleep but he stopped me.
"Shh it's okay just go to sleep babygirl. I'll be here for you when you wake up." He said and softly kissed my forehead as I slipped into sleep.
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