Dreams & Seers

“Take the girl and run,” Xander, my Dad ordered.
“What about you?” Mom, Sarah asked.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen after today but you have to go. The Alpha might be overthrown and we face battle. I want you to be safe.”
Mom held a sleeping baby snuggled up in warm blankets. She stared at baby Layla with fear.
“I’m a warrior too, Xander.”
He placed a hand on her shoulder. “This fight isn’t worth dying for. Protect Layla. I love you both.”
It was night time and the pack was quiet. Despite my mother’s fear of leaving her home and her husband, she turned around, forbidding the tears from falling she ran into the field, passing the meadow I loved so much. The baby woke and cried weakly.
“Layla,” she whispered.
Mom placed her palm on my forehead and looked around. “Her temperature isn’t dropping.”
Suddenly the baby stopped crying and her eyes closed. I couldn’t get closer in the dream. I was pulled by my Mother’s actions. She knelt down and attempted to wake the baby but she wouldn’t wake.
“Layla, you can’t do this now.”
Baby Layla wouldn’t wake up.
“We’re far from all the healers.”
Tears filled her eyes. She picked up the baby and ran. Not back to the pack but deeper into the forest until she came to the opening of an underground cave.
“I don’t know how the hell I’m going to do this,” she yelled.
She reached for the purple stone and snatched it off its mantel. She put the baby down and placed the stone beside her.
“Heal my baby! This stupid stone’s worth so many good people’s lives but it won’t heal one baby! It’s not worth protecting.”
My mother yelled and beat the ground. My heart rate spiked at the same time the stone shone and illuminated the sleeping baby’s face. My mother’s head was buried in the ground to see the magic pass from stone to baby.
The baby woke and cried with the strength of a new born. Mom sat up and gasped. The baby’s eyes had gone purple and the moon stone turned as dark as charcoal.
“Layla,” Mom said.
I found myself at the pack under the cover of night watching my Mom return home with a baby in her arms. Dad opened the door before she reached it.
“What are you doing here? I told you to leave?”
Mom smiled and shook her head. “Everything’s going to be fine. No one will ever get the stone and Layla’s going to live.”
Mom handed me to my father. He received me and stared into my eyes. Two purple irises stared back at him.
***
I woke with a racing heart and a sweaty forehead. I sat up though Dean wasn’t in bed with me. I didn’t want to assume he was feeding because we still had a ball to prepare for. I pulled my knees to my chest and attempted to steady my heart.
So that was how they did it. It wasn’t to protect the moonstone it was to save my life. I assumed when I stopped crying and Mom couldn’t wake me that I was close to death. She saved my life. That’s why my healing power was dominant.
If my life was saved, then Dean’s could be too. I only needed to figure out how to control my powers. I needed a healer for that.
I got dressed and went downstairs. I employed Ginger to help me plan the ball. She loved decorating and parties were more her territory. I could plan a bonfire easily but party dresses and correct colour shades were foreign to me.
“We have to the town to see the venue. I haven’t been there but I assume it’s huge.”
Town was the perfect place to find a healer.
“I’ll go. You can stay here and do the checklist.”
I needed someone to drive me. There was Lyle and Dec but they were loyal to a fault and would rat me out to Dean. On my way out I spotted Avery toying with the flowers on the table in the foyer. It was a little weird but she was the only other person I could think of.
“Avery!”
She jumped. “Luna.”
“Oh, call me Layla. Can you drive?”
“Yeah for a while now.” She sniffled.
Her eyes were puffy and her nose was read. A banished my plan for a second.
“Is someone bothering you?”
“What? No, I’m fine. I was thinking of replacing the flowers they’re a little dry.”
They were fresh out of the ground.
“We can grab fresher ones at the store in town. Will you drive me?”
“Sure,” she said almost too eagerly. “Sounds good. I’ll just change.”
I snatched Dean’s truck keys from the kitchen. One of the first things I did as Luna was get rid of the hideous outfits the omegas wore. Now they had the option of pants or skirts and plain black T-shirts.
“Can’t believe I’m driving the Alpha’s truck. This is amazing!”
She brought the car to life and before anyone noticed we were driving down the mountain.
“Perfect!” I said.
“Now, we’re not going to town to buy flowers are we?”
“The same way you weren’t crying?”
We stared at each other for a brief second.
“Fine. What are you looking for? Maybe I can help.”
“A healer…”
“My aunt’s a Seer and a Healer. You can see her, but I assumed the Alpha was connected to all sorts of healers.”
I nodded. “This is private.”
She nodded understanding that this adventure stayed between us. Minutes later we pulled into a neighbourhood with identical houses. Avery parked in front of a home with a rainbow of flowers on the front porch. I followed her to the front door.
We were welcomed by ten cats. The woman with grey hair and brown eyes held a black cat with white mittens in her arms.
“You’ve brought me a visitor, Avery,” she said warmly.
“Sorry, I didn’t call Aunt Ada. It’s urgent.”
Ada shut the door and locked it. She motioned to the living room where there were more cats.
“Your energy is very colourful. I don’t see why you need a healer,” Ada said settling on a chair with her cat.
“I want… to help someone. I don’t know how.”
“Dean?” She raised a brow. “The price of his freedom is a high price to pay. Are you willing to die for him?”
“Yes.”
“You’re a great tool in ending the war with the Dare pack. Might I add, there are advancing quickly.”
I swallowed I knew the threat wasn’t gone. “The pack needs an Alpha…” and I need my mate.
“Your powers aren’t strong enough to break the curse. The curse wants blood.”
“Why is even cursed?” I asked more to myself than her.
Ada’s features softened. She set her feline down. “His mother cursed him. She was a breeder and gave him two sons. But the firstborn carried the deadly curse. A cap on his life to punish his Father for the life he made her live.”
She’s a Seer so the information much come naturally.
“That’s it? I have to accept that Dean’s going to die?”
Ada smiled weakly. “There are loopholes for everything except this. I’m sorry.”
I sighed heavily. “We should go Avery. Thanks anyway.”
We stood to leave when Ada called me.
“Use your power swiftly and decisively. There’s a dark cloud over your head.”