Chapter 13: The Fight

River's POV:

A yawn escaped my mouth as I stretched trying to wake up. I dug my hand under my pillows, searching for my phone.

"Ha," I exclaimed as I did a victory dance, while still in bed "You son of a biscuit. Tryin' to hide from me huh?"

'You're so weird..." My wolf, Zander, said in my head.

"You do remember that we are the same people right?" I commented. He and I were pretty close, I mean when you have an over opinionative person constantly talking in your head twenty-four seven, you become the same people, and in my case literally.

'Whatever.' I scoffed and got out of bed, shivering at the cool air brushing against my skin. Walking around the room I entered my bathroom and took a quick shower washing of the nasty crap, that somehow gets on your body even if you just lay on the couch all day.

After drying off I wrapped a towel around my hips and trudged back into my dirty bedroom. I bent down and picked up a shirt, bringing it to my face. My nose scrunched up in disgust and I threw the brown t-shirt into the hamper across the room. As I moved on to a couple of other shirts and pants, I did the same to them. Simultaneously cleaning my room, and eventually getting dressed.

I slowly made my way down the stairs leading to the kitchen. I saw Ellie standing there, in front of the stove cooking.

"Whatcha doin'?" I asked as I slid across the island in front of her. She placed her hand over her heart and let out a loud sigh.

"You almost gave me a heart attack." She remarked, as a spatula came and hit me on the side of my head.

"Owww. What was the for?"

"For scaring me." She said as she shrugged. My eyebrows furrowed together, as my bottom lip popped out.

"That was not nice.." I whined like a kid and tried to act serious but a smile cracked across my face, and soon both of us were laughing.

"What are you cooking?" I questioned.

"Eggs and toast."

"Just for you or?" Ellie gave me a look like I was stupid but what I said next cleared things up a bit.

"I don't know about you Ellie, but I'm always hungry so that," I motioned towards her, and the stove, "Is not going to be enough. Not to mention that we are both werewolves, our appetites have increased and our metabolisms have at tripled. So let's make these eggs reproduce shall we." As I finished my lecture I grabbed the rest of the eggs out of my fridge and began cracking them over the pan.

"You're a pain you know that."

"I've been told," I replied as I chuckled.

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It was now around eleven thirty and I was sitting next to Ellie on the couch, watching Grey's Anatomy on Netflix. She was blowing bubbles with her gum, and her knee was constantly bouncing.

"Are you okay?"

"Me? O-oh yeah, I'm fine." She was stuttering, which was not normal. I was about to ask her another question when she sprung the question, I knew she was dying to find out.

"A-are you going to win this f-fight? I mean are you going to be o-okay?" The thought of her worrying about me warmed my heart, but at the same time, I wanted to make her feel like I was one hundred percent sure I would win. But the truth was I wasn't so, my only option to soothe my worried mate? Make a stupid joke which I was pretty good at.

"We'll see won't we?" I said with a smirk on my face. She looked at me with a blank expression. I dropped my head, as Zander declared my stupidity. I guess my necklace fell out of my shirt, because soon enough Ellie crawled over and onto my lap, while she picked it up in her small hands.

"What's this?"

"My dad was in the military, so these are his dog tags."

"I thought you said he was Alpha."

"He was. When he turned eighteen he went into the Marines. He got shot five times while saving fellow members of his platoon. Even with his werewolf healing, they didn't think he would survive. But he did and so he was honorably discharged, and when he came home he became Alpha. "

"Is this a ring?"

"Yeah. My mom's wedding ring."

"Do you wear it all the time?"

"Yep," I remarked while popping the p. The mood in the room turned sad, and personally I hate sadness so, it was my duty to make it go away.

I did what I always did to Bella when she asked where momma and papa were. I tickled her.  I looked into Ellie's eyes and I smiled before sticking my fingers into her sides, making her erupt into laughter and squirm in my lap.

I sucked in a large breath and my fingers stopped their motions. Ellie looked up at me with a thankful look. I gently picked her up and sat her back to her original spot and made my way towards the stairs.

"Where are you going?" She questioned.

"To take a very cold shower," I stated over my shoulder. I shook my head and once again entered my bathroom

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I was now in the clearing with Ellie waiting for my challenger to arrive. I could tell that she was nervous but she needed to calm down.

"Hey. Will you stop, your making me nervous." I pleaded.

"I have this feeling that like.. I need you to be okay. I don't know why though."

"It's the mate bond."

"That's it?" She peered up at me through her long eyelashes and I met those big blue eyes that I've grown to love.

"Yeah. Your wolf and mine have been attached so its like part of our soul is with the other person."

"Oh."  Just then the man I was going to be fighting stepped into the clearing. I started walking towards him with confidence, but the shouting of my name caused me to turn around.

Ellie ran towards me and wrapped me up in her arms and whispered "Good luck." into my ear. Then she kissed me on the cheek and sauntered back over to the rest of the pack. I stood there in shock for a minute but, quickly composed myself and continued towards my opponent.

One of the elders stepped forward and went over the 'rules'.

"You both know how this works. Fight till death or until one surrenders. " We both nodded and then shifted.

My wolf was a dark brown color, which was not a common Alpha color, they were usually black, but here I was.. and I'm brown. My opponent, Richard I believe that was his name, was a blond color.. to be honest it was boring.

He began circling me, and I mentally scoffed. That was what we taught all wolves to do; circle your enemy then attack at the moment they least expect you. This guy was using a move that I was taught to escape when I was what... ten?

Richard attacked around the seventh circle but I easily dodged. Quickly I turned around and bit deeply into his left hind leg. Now that he was injured and could feel the pain, he tried to shake me off, which was a bad idea.

'How stupid can this guy get? He's just making his injury worse.' Zander said in my head.

I let go knowing that he was tiring, and would be late on any other attacks.  All though he was bleeding, he was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.  I stepped back looking at the crazy wolf in front of me, but I made a terrible mistake.

I felt the immense pain in my flank, and I turned my head downwards only to see a growing pool of red liquid. Zander was shouting at me to let him take control, and I finally caved in. I felt him do some freaky ninja move and get out of the hold of Richard, and in one swift moment, he snapped his neck, effectively ending his life.

'You're welcome..'

'Thanks, Zander.' I replied in a monotone tone. The truth was that I was thankful that he was always with me and that he had saved my butt another time. I knew I was losing blood since the feeling of dizziness became stronger and stronger. I shifted back and laid on the shortcut grass. Alex appeared with a scared looking Ellie by his side.

A wave of pain hit me, and my back arched back.

"I know it hurts but your naked and this is nasty, not to mention your bleeding and you need help, so please I beg you put these shorts on."

I groaned as another wave of pain hit.

"Where the hell are the doctors?"

"Training another pack in the east." I hissed through my teeth.

"Your kidding right?" I shook my head.

"You owe me you know that.." Alex said while picking me up and bringing me to what I guessed was the pack infirmary.  Hearing the swoosh of the sliding doors, and the sound of many pairs of feet coming my way, I knew we had arrived.

"Alpha what is your pain on a scale of one to ten?"

"Your joking right? I'm bleeding like there's no tomorrow-- which there may not be for me if you keep asking me questions-- and you are standing here with the nerve to ask me what my pain level is?!" I exclaimed.

"I would say a ten."

"Alex shut up."

"Alex! Bring him in here," Morgan yelled. Huh, when did she start working here?

"Morgan, what are you doing here?" Alex questioned.

"You're asking me that while holding your bleeding twin, really Alex really?!" I hit the cold material of a hospital bed and then the sound of feet came my way.

"Ellie and Morgan, you both watch Grey's Anatomy right?" Ah. I knew that voice, very well. That was Lexi Peeler, she was Caden's mate. All of us had grown up together, and our parents were friends. It was expected that Caden would be her mate since he took an early liking to her and protected her from anything and everything.

"Yes."

"Yeah." They both answered her question.

"Good. You're not totally clueless."

"What do you mean?" (cue all JB fans).

"We need to stop River's bleeding and sew him back together. Not to hard right? If Meredith can be operated on in the dark so she can deliver her baby we can do this."

"What about the other nurses or whatever?"

"They are treating everyone else. A load of teenagers came in, there was a bad car accident, and they aren't healing."

"So that leaves us?"

"Correct."  Lexi began running around the room collecting supplies.

"Uh, Lexi? Where's the anesthesia?" Ellie asked.

"Well you see.. we don't have any, don't ask just ummm-" Morgan abruptly cut her off.

"The mate bond! Ellie if you go stand in front of River and talk to him maybe he'll calm down and not totally kill us. Alex can help me and Lexi, I mean he's got to be useful for something."

"Hey!"

"Get over it, Alex!"

"Okay, I can do that," Ellie said while walking towards me.

"Hey." Her voice was small and timid as if she thought I was going to hurt her. I gave her a soft smile but it turned into a grimace as I felt someone prod and poke at the tear in my stomach.

"Hey, it's gonna be okay. Okay?"

"Okay." She started to say something but I cut her off.

"Please, don't say 'Maybe okay can be our always.' Or whatever that quote thing was."

"You watched The Fault in Our Stars? Did Morgan make you?"

"No... Alex did."

"Duddddeee you promised not say anything." My idiotic twin cried out as I spilled his biggest secret.

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River and Alex are officially my spirit animals, not to mention Morgan is like my favorite character. This chapter was a filler kind of but stuff sort of happened... I have no idea what I'm saying.

I'm thinking about changing the title to Abused and Broken, comment what you think or any other titles you think would be cool.

THIS CHAPTER WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PUBLISHED UNTIL THE LAST ONE GOT 40 READS BUT SINCE THE TAR HEELS ARE IN THE FINAL FOUR... your welcome. #BEATDOOK #thatsthewayitsspelledipromise lol I have no idea

Anyways comment your favorite character.

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