“You want us to what?” Leeteuk looks up at Boa in disbelief.

“I want you to contact Jessa’s old Clan leader and ask her for assistance to wake Jessa up.” Boa responds calmly to Leeteuk’s outburst, fully expecting the older Alpha to protest immediately to the request.

“Kyuhyun won’t let anyone other than the Pack near her, what makes you think he’ll allow some strange old druid near her?” Leeteuk asks, baffled.

“We’ll have to distract him. I know ever since Jessa was moved from Donghae’s office to her new room, he’s barely left the Pack grounds.” Boa replies.

“Yeah, he was a pain in my before we got to move her.” Leeteuk grumbled, relaxing his fingers from their tight grip on the couch cushions. As it is, he’s gonna get an earful from Ryeowook about the new rip in the seams that wasn’t there earlier.

He’d get a stress ball, but being a werewolf means his strength is higher than that of a humans, especially as an Alpha, so Leeteuk’s refrained from buying them. He knows he’d break them instantly. Boa hums to his statement, having already heard that Donghae nearly had to force sedation upon Kyuhyun when they’d moved Jessa nearly a year ago after having to spend their savings on expanding the house to accommodate for Jessa’s new room, and extra rooms for the pups they were fostering from the Northern border of their kind’s territory.

Boa sighs finally, fingers absentmindedly rubbing the cushion of the chair she is sitting in. “Let me be frank here, Leeteuk.” She leans forward. “Bloodsuckers have shown up on the northern border of the territory, terrorizing the smaller Packs up there, and stealing pups from a couple Packs.”

Leeteuk in a breath at the news. “But I though the wards were still intact?”

“One of them cracked on the day Jessa fell unconscious, a fact no one up North relayed to us until recently.” Boa responds. “No one thought to check the records to see who the last one was that had been up there to strengthen them.”

“You don’t mean….?” Leeteuk whistles, eyebrows raised as he puts the pieces of the puzzle together.

Boa nods. “I think Jessa was the last one up that way to reinforce the wards to keep the bloodsuckers contained in North Korea.”

Leeteuk sighs, and reaches for the phone by his side. “I’ll call Bree and have her find someone capable enough to revive Jessa.” He says as he finds the woman’s name in his phonebook.

Leeteuk leaves a message on Bree’s voice mail, not surprised in the least bit that the Clan leader didn’t answer her phone. The time difference between Ireland and South Korea make it hard to communicate anything in real time with the other person.

Boa takes her time to finish the tea that Ryeowook made for the Head Alpha, and goes in to sit quietly next to Jessa’s unconscious body for a bit, ushering Donghae out after helping him shift the druid’s body in to a different position.

Donghae had wanted a more hospital like bed with an air mattress designed to help prevent bed sores, but Kyuhyun had insisted on a larger, more traditional bed when he had come to his senses, claiming his right as her mate to sleep beside her and help her heal.

No one else in the Pack knows Jessa’s half werewolf. Even Kyuhyun doesn’t know, and Leeteuk intends for the druid to be the one to tell her mate when she wakes up permanently.

Being the Head Alpha has its perks, and Boa’s quick to repeat her actions from 2 years ago to delve into Jessa’s mind while she slumbers to reach the wolf spirit.

**

Boa stumbles out of Jessa’s room a few hours later, pale, shaking and sweating slightly even though the temperature in the house is cool enough to be comfortable.

“She, she’s not the one who strengthened the wards.” Boa whispers as Leeteuk guides his spent Head Alpha to the chair she’d occupied earlier.

“She’s not?” Leeteuk glances in surprise at her.

“Her wolf said it was not their job to maintain the wards, and that the druid who was tasked with that mission lived in the area to monitor them.” Boa says, raising a hand to her forehead.

“Do I need to call for Donghae?” Leeteuk asks, concern lacing his face as Boa continues to rest her head.

“No. I’ll be fine. Delving into the minds of my wolves is not an easy task.” Boa replies. “Let me rest a bit and then we can get back to business, ok?”

It takes a couple hours for Boa to feel like she is able to resume things and is about to tell Ryeowook to go fetch his Alpha for her when a shout is heard from the direction of Jessa’s room.

Ryeowook startles as he’s picking up the empty tea pot, dropping it onto the carpet as his eyes grow wide and his natural motherly Omega scent suddenly is covered by excitement. “What’s going on?” Boa asks, spotting the fact that Ryeowook is gripping the tray tightly between his hands.

The Omega doesn’t answer her though, and Boa has to take a deep breath in order to restrain herself from using her Head Alpha dominance over the younger shifter.

The front door of the house slams open, and Boa winces as the crack of wood upon plaster. “Hey, stop! Kyuhyun!”

A flash of a dark colored human sprinting back towards Jessa’s room can only mean one thing.

Jessa is finally awake.

A/N: Sorry everyone for being so behind in posting this chapter. My mother in law showed up for Mother's day and stayed the entire week after, and FINALLY left yesterday. To put it bluntly, her and I are not getting along right now mostly due to her inability to stop giving advice that she has 'learned' from nearly 35 years ago that is horribly inaccurate or disproven by science (example: she thinks bean sprouts are a wonderful creation that helps restore enamel on her teeth for a few days). To put it bluntly, she got permafried by some drug in the late 60's and she's what most people would call the crazy old hippie lady who talks to herself and makes funny noises or jestures. 

Sadly it was more stress and tension having her here and on top of that, the hubby is down sick with a horrid cough that not only leaves him sleep deprived, but myself as well, which made writing pretty much nonexistant. I plan on working hard to get a few chapters ahead, and try to get a couple chapters up before the 29th. The hubby and I are going hiking through the southern Colorado/Utah national park areas for a week and will be bringing bare minimum of tech, so I may not be able to write much.

Anyway, let me know what you think! and HI to all the new subscribers!!