Something about the way
They’d be in this room for twenty minutes trying to find book that could help them decide what was going on with Jamie, and time and time again they had gotten nothing and nowhere. Not even remotely close.
Even telling Owen and Hannah had gotten them nowhere because no one had known such a thing to happen. It wasn’t until one night as they laid in bed, tangle in the sheets, laying so close to one another that there wasn’t a single whisper of space between, did Jamie have an idea of what to do.
Dani was still awake looking directly at Jamie who had been awake with questions floating around in her mind like a snow storm.
Jamie, who’s fingers played with Dani’s hair and smoothed over her face, cheeks and forehead as she took in the beautiful features of her lover with everything that she had.
And Dani, who’s fingers played with the muscles and skin of the tattoo surrounding Jamie’s arm. Mapping out the lines and shapes and individual colors that had been brought together to make a single image. Her eyes searching for the defined muscles that lay on the skin on Jamie’s back and abdomen, arms, hands and legs.
“I’ve been thinking.”
“Don’t do that that’s dangerous.”
Jamie made a playful slap to Dani’s arm as the blonde played with her fingers. Stroking delicate patterns and taking time with each individual one.
“I have an idea….and…I don’t know if it’s going to work….but I guess it’s worth a try.”
“Okay, what is this idea? Talk to me.”
“There’s a person I know that…deals…with werewolves and things that can happen to them, from magic to demon possession to losing control, I think they might be able to help.It’s kind of as a last resort but….”
“You think it might work?” Dani looked inside her hazel eyes, she was worried that maybe it wouldn’t help Jamie and it would just make things worse.
Dani wanted to do everything she possibly could be Jamie. Jamie had always helped her and was willing to do just about anything in order to help her and make her feel safe and happy so of course she wanted to return the favor of helping her girlfriend out.
Jamie considered that this was pretty much her last option left, if this didn’t work, she didn’t know what she was going to do. She’d heard of legends of course, but that didn’t shine a lot of light on the subject, every book they’d read had all the information except about their glowing eyes and she was suddenly beginning to feel like maybe there really was something wrong with her.
“I think it’s my last option of something to do in order to find out, which scares me, I don’t know what else to try….”
“There’s something else isn’t there, something you’re not telling me, you know you can tell me anything , right, I’m not gonna judge.”
“Poppins, what….what if….if…um….what if it’s something wrong with me, that’s why my eyes are glowing, what if there’s something wrong with me and not the wolf?”
“Baby, there’s nothing wrong with you, nothing could possibly be wrong with you. We need to make sure that everything else is crossed over the list before we jump to those kinds of conclusions. And even if there is something wrong, I’ll love you regardless.”
Jamie was on the verge of tears at this point still debating what else it could possibly be, Dani could sense this and began kissing her cheeks before kissing her forehead lightly. Dani hated seeing her girlfriend this torn over something that maybe Dani couldn’t even solve, her magic could do everything from healing to killing but the one thing it couldn’t do was turn into a werewolf x-ray machine to find out what the problem was and help her.
It was later decided that in the morning they would head off to the person that Jamie thought could help her, they’d take a few days to drive to their location see what the problem was and then take a day for themselves, a little time away from everything.
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Jamie had thrown their bags in the boot of her jeep before then saying goodbye to Hannah and Owen and announcing when they would return, at least the two of them would get some privacy.
Jamie put the truck into gear and began driving, Dani placing her hand on top of Jamie’s at certain times to calm her and also ruffling her hair at certain times.
Dani always though of Jamie as perfect, she was just the right amount of everything you Ould ever need, she wasn’t too protective or too nice, or too caring, she wasn’t too reckless or too sarcastic, she was Jamie and she was perfect in every way that Dani needed her to be.
At some point Jamie had noticed the Dani had fallen asleep, her careful breaths slow and steady reassuring Jamie that she was okay, her chest rising and falling with her oxygen intake, her hair haloed around her face and the moonlight making her looking like an ethereal angel.
Jamie pulled up just outside of a cabin, grabbing and throwing their possessions into the cabin and the required rooms. She opened the passenger side door and carried the sleeping blonde into the cabin using her foot to close the various doors behind them, she then made her way over to the bed slowly sliding Dani under the covers so that she could sleep a little more.
The brunette changed into something a little more comfortable before then strutting her way into the kitchen and pouring water into the kettle to boil and make some tea. She wasn’t exactly tired so tea was her last saving grace at possibly being able to get some.
After making the tea and being sure not to burn herself on the hot condensation, Jamie made her way over to the bed and slipped inside it, willing herself to sleep.
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Dani had woken during the night and it was still dark out, the stars shining brightly outside making Jamie glow more than she usually did at Bly.
Jamie had said something about coming here when she was a child and she could only imagine a little Jamie running around the cabin, chasing a squirrel or something outside.
She walked to the window to look outside, embracing herself in the quiet atmosphere before strong hands wrapped around her from behind, planting her chiseled face into the soft skin of Dani’s neck. Placing various kisses in the spot.
“How long have you been awake?” Dani leaned in, nuzzling towards the touch that Jamie was giving her.
“Not long, saw you standing here and thought you looked like a beautiful angel, then I needed a hug.”
Dani wrapped her left arm around Jamie’s head, keeping her in place, offering an embrace back which Jamie eagerly accepted. The blonde flexing her fingers within Jamie’s thick brown curls, hearing the soft content hums flying through her ear.
Everything was perfect, the whole domesticity of it all, being surrounded in everything that was each other. Both women wrapped in warmth and passion for each other.
The way their bodies were molded perfectly for each other, Dani pressing her body further into Jamie, keeping the warmth between them.
“Do you want to come back to bed or do you want me to carry you?” Jamie pressed a kiss to the skin just under the blonde’s ear making her shiver lightly.
“Either way, I end up where you want me.” Dani wrapping a leg around Jamie’s, as the brunette pressed further into the blonde.
“And where is that exactly?”
The blonde took the opportunity to press herself further into Jamie as she could comfortable get. Jamie moaning at the friction in which she had caused, feeling herself getting harder by the minute.
Jamie turned her around and lifted her off the ground, the blonde’s legs wrapping around Jamie’s waist by instinct, a second nature, the brunette walked them both to the bed before gently placing her down.
Laying several kisses on her neck and forehead before they let themselves loose into throws of passion.
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Jamie was the first to rise as normal, grabbing her clothes and throwing them so not to disturb the sleeping blonde who looked peaceful. Running to the kitchen to check that everything was how it was supposed to be before carefully treading outside to cut some firewood.
It was during this moment that Dani had woken up and heard the sound of the axe outside making impact with the stable platform. She made her way over to the platform to see what was going on. Watching her girlfriend doing things had become one of her favorite things, whether it was watching her plant another tree or flower, drink tea, read a book, fixing something around the manor….or chopping wood.
It still amazed Dani how strong the brunette was, even when she used the strength on the blood, Dani was still in awe of how each of the muscles were flexing and assisting in whatever activity she was doing making it look effortlessly easy.
The American hadn’t even realised that she’d walked in until she heard a voice from down the hall.
“Oh, you’re awake, I thought I’d be able to bring you tea in bed.” Jamie dropped her head slightly lower in a saddened manner.
“You weren’t in bed when I woke up, I was getting lonely, then I saw you chopping wood…anyways, what time are we doing this?”
Jamie remembered the plan of finding the person that could help with her glowing eyes issue. Her parents had often asked for their help hence how she knew to come here, but then she had to find the person and hope that they could help her in the same way that they had helped her parents many times before.
“We should take some time to eat and get dressed into something comfortable, I don’t know how long we could be there for.”
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Jamie walked in to the old study knowing that her parents would always come into this room before going to find the werewolf helper. Looking through boxes and books and towers of paperwork and cork boards, she found a map which had a red circle not far from the cabin.
Taking the map she looked at the coordinates, it was closer enough to walk but what if she couldn’t be helped, suddenly all of the worries she could have in the world haunted her, she remembered Dani’s comment like a mantra “Rule out the other options before jumping to conclusions.”
They both strapped themselves into the truck before Jamie pushed it into gear and began following the map. It wasn’t long before they found a driveway which lead directly to the house but it was nicely hidden by vines and trees strategically planted to hide it.
The gardener in Jamie was almost jealous at how well planned it was. There were a few lights on, indicating that someone was possibly still in. Hopping out of the car, the Brit walked up to the entrance and knocked on the door waiting for a response.
“Jamie Taylor, welcome.”
How the hell does it know my name? Am I expected? So many thoughts were running through Jamie’s mind and that’s when Dani noticed the hesitation and worry, bringing her hand down to Jamie’s to show her that it was okay and she was by her side.
The two of them walked into the cabin in the woods and waited for someone to step forward.
It was quiet almost too quiet as someone stepped forward, a young man, mid length black hair, glasses and two different coloured eyes, one extremely blue, so blue the sky had no comparison, and the other so brown that it could be mistaken for melted chocolate. The guy dressed in a waistcoat, shirt and tie with a slight overcoat approached them, looking Jamie head to toe as if assessing her.
“You must be Jamie Taylor, I’m Skylar Hawkins, please call me Sky. If you’ll follow me I believe you have some questions, I shall see what I can do for you.”
Dani and Jamie looked at the other before nodding their assurances to one another. They followed the man through the building until getting seated in front of a fireplace, the man’s chair was surrounded with books and bottles and potions and various items needed to perform spells, Dani recognized most of the items within seconds of seeing them.
“Who are you exactly? I know I’ve met you before when I was younger but something feels different.” Jamie approached the subject with care. Certain people weren’t okay with revealing who they were.
“I’m what you would call a Hybrid, or a Tribrid if you will, I work mainly with magic and being a werewolf myself but the only vampire ability I can’t control is the inability to grow old and thus I don’t look different from the last time you saw me. I believe however that you have a problem f your own.”
“How did you know?”
“You see, one of my many abilities is being able to sense other people’s magic. You see, each supernatural creature has what we call a magical essence. Which is how witches can use other beings to channel their spells. You can sense when something is wrong with another creature with years of practise, it only gets easier the closer they are to you. Which is how I can tell that there’s a problem that you are unsure of and you think that I can help, which is why you’re here is it not?” The man smiles trying to gauge a reaction from the werewolf.
“There was a certain situation in which my eyes glowed. I’ve never known it to happen at least not to myself, but under the situation in which it happened I wanted to make sure that someone who knew what they were doing would take a look to make are that there isn’t ‘anything wrong’ so to speak.”
The tribrid looked them over, mentally assessing them, looking at things that could give a tell to what he feared could be the issue.He saw no signs that could be the result of what he thought or even the cause. Mentally ticking that off the list, he looked for things that didn’t seem right, bite marks, scars, rashes or marks.
He looked Dani over checking for things that could be linked. Some wolves were known to get extremely overprotective over people or creatures, things that held sentimental value. Which was when he saw the mating mark on the blonde’s neck. Well that explains it. He thought to himself.
“I have good news and somewhat bad news. Good news is that I know what the problem is and it isn’t that something is wrong with you in fact its quite the opposite. The somewhat bad news is that it can’t be cured but it can be trained. You see, Dani is your mate, the bite mark gave the away, dear and the way that you haven’t left each others side since you walked in here. Your wolf now feels protective over Dani due to the bite mark, this effects everything from Dani being in danger to sexually desire to sensing Dani’s discomfort with something. I am assuming that the situation you keep referring to when the glowing eyes happened to occur happened during a somewhat sexual moment in your relationship?”
Jamie looked at Dani before smirking and nodding slightly. She never would have guessed that this was the reason why this would have happened but it felt better knowing that it wasn’t something dangerous or something wrong with her. If anything it eased her mind knowing that perhaps it wasn’t her fault, that is could be contained and used for the better.
Sky nodded before clearing his throat knowing that what he could say next would be a surprise to everyone in the room including himself. He looked at Dani before flicking his eyes back at Jamie, taking his glasses off and placing them on the table next to his seat.
“I guessed as much. Now, like I said, it can’t be cured, your wolf has claimed Dani as the mate and therefore it’s taking your body a little bit to adapt, however it can be trained and somewhat controlled, you don’t have to control it but it will make certain things harder, for example, Dani will pretty much be able to guess when you are ‘turned on’ so to say as your eyes will glow, if Dani gets into trouble whether it’s immediate or happening in a month or so, you will know, your wolf will feel it with every inch of it’s being. However in some cases it can be worse, you won’t be able to control your instincts, you can become feral, hard to control, perhaps possessive. Like I said you can control this but of course it won’t be a straight away working thing. It can take from weeks to years.”
Jamie was taking all of this information in, she had never wanted to be possessive, Dani didn’t belong to her, she wasn’t her gatekeeper, she was her own person, she didn’t want her wolf to be in control of herself, she wanted to live and know that she wasn’t going to hurt Dani accidentally because her wolf couldn’t contain itself. However it was a boost to the ego that the wolf liked Dani so much that it helped her protect Dani.
Some of the options seem bearable, maybe not Dani being able to know when she desired her mot as the places that it happened weren’t always private and that could cause a few scenes, but she was willing to control and contain whatever she could.
“Okay, what does controlling it involve me doing?” Jamie wanted to know all of her options before deciding anything.
Sky tilted his head to the left and the right weighing out the options and considering how to word it. “One of the options that you could take is a liquid substance that mixes with a beverage in order to calm the wolf down, helps ease it into the process, the reason your wolf is reacting is because it isn’t used to the feeling and probably because of how much you want each other…”
Jamie smirked again looking at Dani who knew exactly what she was thinking. And was tempted to shake her head.
“However taking that option does include side effects, you’ll become slightly restless, your wolf will want to run in order to tire itself out, it’s safe to do things that will tire the wolf out under the influence of the substance just don’t hurt yourself. The other option is turn into your wolf around Dani in order to get yourself used to being in that form, however this can become dangerous very quickly as it can get out of control if the wrong thing happens or the wolf feels fear within something. This option isn’t always the most efficient or safest option and more people have been hurt from this option than the first option. Another option is to distance yourself from each other but it can become difficult from the wolf and it will attempt fight back so that’s probably not the best choice either. I think your last option is probably the most dangerous of all….”
Sky looked down knowing that the people who have heard of this option had never survived through the end of it.
“I need to know every option that I have, good or bad, I need to ensure that I’m making the right decision for both of our safety.” Jamie looked Sky dead in the eyes waiting for a response.
“There’s a spell that can get the wolf to control itself over night….but the side effects are very sever and almost 99% of the time it kills the wolf and you along with it.”
“Safe to say that option has been crossed off the list.”
Dani looked at Jamie, she could have guessed that this had something to do with it, but she didn’t want it to be something that neither of them could control. Dani’s love for Jamie was for better or for worse until death do they part. She was never going to let anything get in the way of that.
She loved Jamie for who she was and in whatever form she was, the wolf was a part of her too and therefore she loved the wolf in its entirety. But she didn’t want Jamie to hurt just because her love for Dani was so strong that it effected her wolf.
What happened if they were to be ambushed and Jamie got her because she was in danger and she was worried about Dani? She would never forgive herself if that were to happen.
“What do you want to do, what do you feel safe doing?” Dani looked Jamie in the eyes needing to know where they both stood on this subject.
“I’d say out of all those options the first one is most likely to work and less painful.”
Dani took Jamie’s hand in hers and began stroking a gentle pattern into it. Sky could notice that they were different that anyone he’s met in this situation. He’s known werewolf mates go crazy with their desire for one another so much so that they end up hurting one another and having to part ways, pairs of mates that couldn’t control their protectiveness over one another, but Jamie and Dani were different, he noticed, they were perfect for each other, they both cared for one another, protected each other and wanted to help one another, they came t get help when something seemed wrong, they weren’t too protective over one another, they didn’t eat to get out of the situation straight away they were willing to wait and ensure that they were both okay.
“I’ll make some of the potion up, Dani, I’ll give you recipe with ingredients and the method of how to make it and how often to give it. You may want to wait outside for this, the brewing process can be a little much for werewolves.”
Jamie sniffed the air and something inside her realised what he was referring to, she stood up from the chair and carefully walked outside walking towards the truck. Dani decided it would be better if she waited outside with her, considering the wolf was still protective she figured that all of this information was probably a lot for her to completely comprehend.
The blonde headed outside and propped herself up against the drivers side door of the truck, looking at a despair filled Jamie who was slightly pacing with concern and hopelessness over the whole situation still trying to process it.
“Hey, come here.” Jamie looked up at the blonde who had just spoken. She swiftly but cautiously walked over to Dani who extended her arms to embrace Jamie who gladly accepted the hug and nuzzled her face into Dani’s neck.
“I’m okay and you’re okay, we’re safe, we have time. Relax.”
“I thought there was something wrong with me. I thought that it was my fault, I thought that maybe I’d hurt you…I…” Before she even had the chance to realize, tears had already started forming and dripping down her face.
Dani reached up to her cheek pressing a thumb and smoothing it under her eyes to catch the tears and wipe them away.
“It’s okay. You didn’t hurt me and even if there was something wrong with you, I’d still love you. However, I guess I have the wolf to thank for you being so strong and protective.”
Jamie smiled at the comment, the tears easing and slowly stopping, the brunette’s hands coming to rest and wrap around the blonde’s waist. Dani’s hands sliding up Jamie’s ribs, arms, chest and shoulders before wrapping themselves around Jamie and resting on her neck.
“Poppins, you haven’t even seen strong and protective yet.” Jamie pressed a kiss to the underside of Dani’s jaw.
“Oh is that a threat?” Dani pulled Jamie in closer, holding her tighter.
“No, Poppins, that’s a promise.”
Jamie pressing herself further into Dani, pinning her against the truck door, hands either side of Dani’s head as Dani pulled her in closer and closer and further until there wasn’t an inch of space between them.
There was something about the way that she always knew what to say or do, something about what she said and what she did, something about the way the little things made her who she was. There was always something about her.