Unexpected Arrival

**Artemis**

“What do you mean Sigi has found a random girl!?. Is he bringing her back here ?”

*” Of course he is Artemis. He said she passed out pretty much as soon as they got her in the car”*

“Was she hurt or anything. What was she doing in the uncharted lands all alone”


*” Artemis that’s not it. She said something before she passed out, a name”*

“What did she say? I bet it was Salvi wasn’t it”

My mind was going a thousand miles an hour thinking about another girl alone out there, with every day that passes my anger towards Salvi increases.

I know there is more to what she is doing that she is telling anyone, I feel it deep down. The lies she has told the damage she is doing, it doesn’t even warrant thinking about.

*It wasn’t Salvi’s name she said Artemis. It was yours”*


“Mine?”

*” Yes. Sigi said he was trying to keep her awake but she was struggling and right before she passed out she said your name”*

I feel my body go rigid as Cynthia stares at me waiting for a response, it’s her I know it is.

“Where are they ?”

Walking past Cynthia and out of the door I can hear her talking to me, answering me, but none of it sinks in.

*” Artemis will you just stop, for one freaking second”*

Her hands grip my shoulder and she forces me to face her since baby Frode’s arrival. She seems to have some superhuman mum strength.

*” You think it’s her don’t you ?”*

I could lie to her and say that it's someone else I met, I could try to play it off like I’m just concerned but my sisters know me better than any. She would see right through my lie in seconds.

“I do. I think she may have realised what’s going on and left... Or maybe she has come to try and warn us, after all, we are preparing for an attack”

*” Selene isn’t going to like this, you know that right ?”*

“Selene doesn’t get a say if it’s her, we are her family we have to look out for her”

*” You forget Selene is a Luna just like you and we are on her lands. If she chooses to lock this girl up then nothing you or I can say will change her mind. Her stubbornness did not grow out of her as she got older if you remember”*

She has a point, Selene doesn’t trust her one little bit, not since she found me in that horrible place out of the three of us she is the one most geared up for a fight. Being the Wife of an Alpha has rubbed off on her a little too much.

“We will have to talk her round Cynth, she has to see that Sekreta is not a horrible person. She has been mistreated and misled her whole life”

*” Arti. I love you with all of my heart”*

She pulls me in for a hug squeezing me tightly.

*” But if the woman Sigi has with him is Sekreta then she can rot for what she has done. In this instance I stand with Selene, I cannot forgive her for the part she played in your torture”*

With that she walks through the doors to the front of the house waiting for the arrival of the car, leaving me completely speechless.

Cynthia sides with Selene.

I thought I could convince one of them but when they are together they are even more stubborn. I’m conflicted between wishing to see Sekreta and hoping it’s not her, for her own sake.

Stepping into the rising sun the others are already waiting, Ryan has left a small gap for me to stand beside him. Although we have reconnected there is still a distance between us, he was mad from the moment he found out what Salvi had said to me.

He desperately wanted to know why I didn’t tell him when I got back, I was being honest when I said it slipped my mind. Since then things have been awkward, we fight and then we makeup and fight again, our balance with one another is all wrong.

I step into the gap alongside the others and wait for Sigi, a few moments later it comes speeding up the pathway and Sigi links all of us.

**Cynth, we need you over here now. She breathing weird I don’t know what's going on**

She rushes towards the car and I follow my legs to follow, I try my hardest to move but I can't. Everything around me seems to stop as they drag her out of the car and lay her on the floor. I can see Cynthia checking her body over, her eyes lighting up every few moments.

I can’t breathe.

It’s really her, this feels different from the first and second time we met. My need to protect her is somehow even greater. I let loose my breath when I see her eyes flutter open softly, Cynthia begins to speak to her and she responds, seemingly answering questions.

The stillness that surrounds me seems to evaporate and I take steps towards her.

“Sekreta”

Her eyes meet my own and they begin to fill with tears, crouching down to her level I brush the hair out of her face.

“Cynthia, is she going to be alright?”

*” I think she is going to be fine. She is exhausted and had a panic attack of some kind her body shut itself down in an attempt to heal”*

I’m about to respond. I want to know how long she will be in the hospital and when I will have a chance to speak to her when Selene’s voice comes from behind us.

**” Is she well enough to be moved ?”**

Cynthia and I both stand to face her.

*” Yes Selene, she is. She will need checking every now and then though”*

**” Fine. I will leave a guard with her. Take her down to the cells”**

Cynthia simply nods and begins to walk away as Sigi lifts her off the floor. Selene turns to face away from me but I grab her wrist.

“You cannot be serious right now. You’re going to lock her up, she needs help Selene”


**” She needs keeping away from everyone. She almost killed you once Artemis, I’ll be damned if I let her get another shot”**

“You think she is going to hurt me, she is weak and hurting”

**” She was helpless and alone the last time with her it means nothing”**

With that, she walks away from me following behind Sigi and Calder. I’m at a complete loss, I know they are coming from a place of love, wanting to protect me but this is just too much. Neither of them is even willing to give them a chance to explain.

Following them inside, I decide enough is enough. I am the big sister in this situation, I can't decide what's right for me. It’s about time the two of them remembered that.
I see them both ahead of me so I link them watching them both stop to turn and face me.

*We need to talk. Sisters to Sisters. Ryans office now*

Neither of them moves and it pisses me, so I decide to let Aria take over. They might be a Luna and a healer but the big sister wolf always wins.

I let my eyes glow, feeling her power. I can’t hold it for long these days but neither of them needs to know that.

*We were not talking to ourselves now move!”

Their heads drop like scalded children and they head up the stairs to the office, I follow closely behind careful not to let them see how tired that short bust of power has made me. It will only give them more ammunition.

The two of them fumble into the room and take a seat, they both have the look of defiant teenagers. It's like they are children again.

“Look I know the two of you are angry right now. I know you want to leave Sekreta to rot but this has to stop”

Selene moves in her seat and rolls her eyes.

“Don’t roll your eyes, Selene, Just say what you have to and be done with it. We are adults now”

I take a seat opposite both of them and wait for them to talk.

*” I just don’t understand your obsession with her Artemis. You cannot keep away from her I mean the woman tried to kill you, and yet here you are questioning why we want to lock her away ?”*

Selene’s eyes dart to Cynthia, I can tell the two of them are set on this.

“Have the two of you not stopped to think about why I might want to help her? Why I’m so drawn to her. Of course, not the two of you seem to only think about what is in front of your face.”

I can feel the anger inside me building, they are just so clueless sometimes.

“Don’t you see that could have been us, that could have been the two of you? Locked away like a dog in a cage”

*” Don’t be so ridiculous Arti. That would never be us”*

“You don’t know that. But for one second put yourself in her shoes, if you had been through all of that and then through whatever her own sister has put her through. Wouldn't you want someone’s help, someone to explain everything to you to guide you? Can you not understand how scared she must be, How alone she must be ?”
They say nothing, and I pray to the moon-goddess they are contemplating my words. Why can they not just see?

**”*I understand where you are coming from Artemis*”**

Cynthia reaches forward and grabs my hand in hers, smiling softly.

**”*I understand it I really do but she tried to kill you. Irrespective of what she has been through, she chose to plunge a dagger into your side. She chose to pile you with drugs and keep you sedated*”**

*” And she left you to die. Artemis, I know what you are trying to say. I agree with you on some things but she poses a danger to us all every second she is here. How do you know she isn’t just here to scope us out before big sis attacks us ?”*


“I understand that. But we should treat her with kindness at least until she is well enough to speak”

**”*We are never going to agree on this, the three of us never agree on anything*”**

Cynthia chimes in, the voice of reason as ever.

“Fine Fine. How about we come to a compromise ?”

I’m looking at Selene in this, after all, she is the one who I will have the most trouble convincing”


*” What kind of compromise ?”*

“You release her from the dungeons and into a hospital bed. You can handcuff if you want but you have to let me speak to her “

*” Deal”*

“Thank you”


I stand to leave but she speaks again.

*” On one condition, Artemis. When she wakes and you speak to her, Cynthia and I will be there “*

“Okay but I do the talking”

*” Fine.”*

Her face softens her mouth up turning into a smile.

*” Now if we are done playing Alpha sisters how about we get something to eat and wait for your little friend to wake up”*

Cynthia, Selene and I all exit the room, I am glad that in times of peril our mother taught us to always speak it out. We may not agree but that is because we are not the same person.

As we walk along the corridor, reaching almost to the end Calder links the three of us.

**You should all come. She is awake and shes talking**

We rush stairs and into the dungeons. Sekreta is sitting in the corner of the room rocking backwards and forwards.

Repeating the same thing over and over.

*” They are coming. They are coming”*


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