Rescue

All 4 children were knocked unconscious. There was a tree branch piercing Kelly’s chest and pinning her to the seat, she was alive, just about, but also out cold. The car was a wreck, clearly written off.

It’s going to need to the cut apart to get everyone out. Currently resting on the drivers side.

Mark, unsurprisingly, was the first to come round. He found Micah and rest of the operation rescue the luna crew, it was Xaviers name for them, prying open the boot to pull Ashlyn free of the car. He knew he had to stay, he had to carry on at the hospital regardless of how much he wanted to quit, to see what they do about Ashlyn being missing.

Mark managed to drag himself from the car and onto the floor of the forest. The rain hitting his body pretty hard, he groaned loudly, his clothes getting heavier with the water. This is the part of the plan where Mark is supposed to wait for them to get Ashlyn out and then try to call for help.

“Don’t forget to snap her belt. Make it look like she flew out” he groaned, coughing, trying to pull himself to his feet, checking that his phone is in his pocket. It was but there was no signal down here. He started to climb up the hill, limping for now, it was slow progress, he would come back to help the others when he had called for help, that was the human reaction.

When Mark looked back down at them from half way up the hill, Micah was wrapping his arms around Ashlyn and carefully pulling her free. Once she was cradled into Micah’s chest, her injuries were clearer.

There was blood pouring from a wound on her scalp, her wrist was swelling, her hands were cut, there was already a large lump forming on her forehead, above her right eye, her top was ripped and hanging from her body now, her ribs which were already pretty badly bruised seem to be developing new bruises already, along with large red marks over her stomach and shoulder, likely from her seatbelt, her torso also appears to be littered with scratches.

There were rips in her jeans showing scratches and red marks under. Her head lolled onto Micahs shoulders, her body limp. Everyone could see Micah’s body relax, he was holding his mate, their future Luna, he finally had her now the real battle would begin.

Mark wished that he could be there to support Ashlyn when she found out about the world around them but they didn’t know if she would want him around. He knew that Micah wouldn’t hurt her deliberately, and wouldn’t let her out of his sight, but they didn’t know her properly.

Micah carried Ashlyn up the hill like she was made of glass. Someone had a blanket laid out in the back of a car, Micah laid Ashlyn down on it and wrapped her up, trying to keep her warm. He handed off his bike keys to one of the wolves, newly transformed back to his human form, Micah didn’t even see who it was, merely growled “look after it” at him, not taking his eyes off Ashlyn.

Sliding into the seat next to her, he pulled her against his chest once more. He was in the back of the borrowed 4x4 that he drove down in all those days ago, Oliver was driving now.

Ashlyn was unconscious the whole drive home. Micah murmured softly to her occasionally, stroking her hair and holding her tightly. Willing her to wake up soon, begging her to be ok, telling her how much he loved her already and how much his pack loved her, he swore he would never hurt her again and that she would never be locked up again if he could help it.

As they pulled into pack lands, through the high walls and up the winding road that lead through the maze of buildings that made up the majority of the pack, there were houses scattered around, along with businesses run by various pack members. A general, corner shop that carries groceries to tide you over, a clothes shop that sells handmade clothes, a cafe and a bar amongst others.

There was a park roughly in the middle with a field, usually used by the young boys to play football and then the teenagers to drink. The schools use it for sporting events and classes too. There was play equipment for younger children. Currently none of it was being used. Oliver took the car around to the pack house.

“No, the hospital Oliver, she still isn’t waking” Micah said as Oliver was about to pull into the parking reserved at the front of the pack house. The house itself was the second largest building on pack lands, only the school was bigger, it housed the Alpha and Beta families, the few orphans that the pack had and there were rooms for the staff who were on duty or early shifts.

There were rooms for visiting Alphas in the house along with the common rooms, the library, the large games room, the pool and gym in the cellar, the kitchens and dining rooms and huge garden space.

The building was custom built, it looked reminiscent of some of the old manor houses you see in the country side sometimes, where the rich families would have lived once, though it was considerably larger there were 7 floors including an attic, where Micahs suite was, he had 4 bedrooms though before Ashlyn only one was used, a large bathroom, a sitting room, a small kitchen that has been used twice since Micah put his rooms in the attic, a box room which may have been intended as an office but Micah couldn’t stand the room so it was just storage and he had an office on the Alpha floor now, and the cellar.

The floor below was the rooms for the Alpha family, then the Beta floor, then the visitors rooms, the common rooms, library and games room, with a lounge and tv room on the ground floor with the kitchen and dining rooms.

The hospital was smaller, it had only 50 beds but had rarely had to use all of them, occasionally after a bad attack, there were 50 wolves who needed medical help at the same time, but the pack was rarely attacked, let alone badly enough to injure warriors enough that they need hospitalising. The hospital was well equipped and staffed with trained pack members.

There was one doctor who was on call 24/7. He also ran an online clinic for rich humans to supplement his income. And a small team of nurses, most of who worked at clinics and hospitals just off pack lands or as mobile careers, they too were aware that they may be needed to get back to the hospital at a moments notice, and they somehow managed to arrange their other work so that there was always at-least 2 or 3 of them available to the pack hospital.