COUNTDOWN: 2 DAYS TO FULL MOON #3

                Kai was scared, scared enough that he’d claimed to be sick to get some alone time, and was now locked in one of the two bathroom’s on the second floor.

                He had to be alone. He couldn’t let them see. He couldn’t let them see the shivering that had nothing to do with the tiles he was sat on or the thin pyjama bottoms he was wearing. Shivering that had nothing to do with his fake illness.

                An impatience. A rush. A desire.

                A fear.

                He could feel his magic pulsing through him, and he was doing everything he could to keep it calm so Kita wouldn’t find out. But there was something else at play, something much more dangerous.

                Because his wolf was clawing at the surface of him, so close it could practically breathe its freedom.

                He wanted it to stop, he wanted peace. He wanted Kita.

                He wanted the sense of her magic to calm him, but more than that, he wanted her presence. He wanted her to his hair and tell him that it’ll be ok, that she’d help him fix this mess. He wanted her to rest in his arms without the fear that he’d rip her to shreds. 

                Because there was a problem, and it was that his wolf wanted her too. But the wolf was confused in how it wanted her, and it was this confusion that made it even more angry and sent it into a frenzy. Part of it wanted her to pay for sealing it, to use her as a representative of the fey and sink it’s teeth into her until her blood stained the grass and seeped into the earth of their magical forest, as a prequel to what he’d do to the rest of them-. But the wolf, it also wanted Kita, it needed Kita. It set his insides burning when he thought of her, the desire to possess her, the raw animalistic-

                “Kai? I brought soup.” D.O.’s voice was muffled on the other side of the door, but Kai was grateful that someone had pulled him out of the spiral his thoughts had been heading into. Sluggishly, he unlocked the bathroom door and slumped back down. D.O. came in, placed a mug of soup on the counter, locked the bathroom door back up, and bent down to place his hand on Kai’s forehead. “You don’t look so good.”

                Kai forced a grin, “Damn, I’ve got a modelling contest tomorrow.”

                “I’m serious Kai, you haven’t been this bad in a long time.” He pursed his lips, weighing his options before jumping in head first. “I know about your wolf.” Kai’s face turned serious, so D.O. continued, “I don’t think the others can feel it yet, but I can.”

                Kai was quiet, how on earth could he talk about this to his packbrother? A packbrother that would be dutybound to report everything he said to an Alpha? He was lucky D.O. hadn’t told Kris already.

                “Could you get Kita?” Kai mumbled, taking every effort to restrain his shivering.

                D.O. looked upset, but nodded nonetheless. “She’ll be up in a minute.”

                It was the longest minute of his life, trying to force his wolf back down, the wolf that knew the Fey was heading their way.

                “Woah Kai, you really are sick.” She mumbled, rushing forwards the minute she was in the bathroom. Kai waved her off, not sure what his wolf would do if she made contact.

                “Yeah, it’ll go away soon enough.” In 2 days, after the Full Moon.

                “D.O. said you needed me?”

                Need you in a way you have no idea. “Just wanted the company, got a bit boring up here by myself.”

                She smiled, sliding down the bathroom door and folding her legs beneath her.

                He was content to sit like that in silence, until another idea wriggled into his mind. “Iron stops the Fey right?”

                She furrowed her brows, “well it hurts us a lot more than everything else, but it can’t kill us. The Fey heal too quickly for anything to really kill us. Why…?”

                “I’ve just been curious.” Kai said hurriedly, “monsters are carrying iron weapons now and I wanted to know how much damage they could cause in case we weren’t there one day.” He paused to let it seem like this was natural conversation progression. “You know what hurts wolves?”

                “It’s silver, isn’t it?”

                “Silver can kill us, but only when used in large amounts, other than that it’ll just leave an injury that takes a long time to heal. And hurts a lot more too. But there’s wolfsbane too, it’s a plant, I saw a picture of it in one of your books downstairs. It won’t kill us in any dosage, but it’s extremely painful, it can slow down a werewolf, and incapacitate them for a long time.”

                “Right….? And why are you telling me this?”

                He shrugged, squeezing his thumb to stop his wolf, that wanted to sink its jaws into . He let his head fall back against the wall as he closed his eyes, “just interesting conversation to keep my mind occupied.”

                Please, Kita.

                Be ready.