Chapter 35 - The hospital

***Callums pov***

I want to tear my heart out when I look at Hopes injuries..her jaw is red and has started to swell and I can see her shoulder is bleeding. Beacon is growling in my head, hating me for hurting our mate. He told me over and over to back down, he even tried to take my senses away so I wouldn't be able to hear or feel her but, I told him it wasn’t fair to her, she wanted a real fight to prove to the people around us she could do this. And she could, I know she had Luna helping her, I could feel her and they gave me a hell of a fight.
I sit up and pull Hope in to my arms, inhaling her scent, making both me and Beacon calm down.
“I’m sorry…are you ok? You are bleeding..”I couldn’t quite get the words out, I keep roaming my hands over her body, looking for any reactions of pain.
“I’m fine Callum..” She answers, looking exhausted and I figured Luna was back to sleep.
“Aaww, I bet the waterworks will start in a few seconds” I heard Olivia whisper to Tom beside her.
“Like I said..weak..”he chuckled back to her. I feel Hope tense up so I know she heard them to and I am ready to jump up and tear both their heads off but she place her hand on my chest, showing me not to react.
She took her cane and helped her self up, linking up to Tom.
Leaning on her cane in front of him she look him in the eyes, probably debating with her self whether or not she should say something. Before anyone had the time to even flinch, her cane left the ground and flew up between Toms legs, hitting him hard in the balls, making him fall down on his hands and knees.
“You look quiet good on all fours as well” She said before turning to Olivia
“If I ever hear you talk about my mate in a disrespectful way again, I will personal drag you to the border by your tail and serve you up as a vampire snack..”
Olivia didn't bare her neck so I know, this is all Hope and my heart swells with pride. Hope is standing her ground and Olivia is the one who breaks the eye contact and look down on the grass.
I watch Hope walk away towards the pack house. It takes another fight with Beacon to not run after her. He wants to carry her up to our room and tend to her wounds and honestly, I do to, but Hope wouldn't want it, at least not after showing Olivia and Tom to back off. So I just watch her leave.

Reece steps forward in front of the group
“Ok, break is over, team up and start.” He says, blowing up his beta aura and they all do as he says. They have a lot of respect for him, after me, he is the strongest wolf in the pack and Chase can be real sca ry if he wants to.
He pairs him self with Tom and I chuckle. Hope may not let me fight her battles, that doesn’t mean Reece will let it pass.
“Alpha!” I hear Gretas voice in my head.
“Yes Greta?”
“You better hurry inside, miss Hope collapsed in the hallway.”
My hole body turns cold and my legs start moving. I’m at the house in a few seconds and when I open the door Greta is sitting on the floor, holding Hope, unconscious and bloody.

Her body is limp in my arms as I carry her towards the clinic, I can feel her blood soaking my t-shirt and she is looking pale.
“Fuck fuck fuck..please Hope, hold on!” I say to her and opens a link to everyone I can think of at the clinic.
“I need help! Now! I shout, showing them pictures of Hope in my arms”
When I arrive just a few minutes later several nurses are waiting ready to take over.
“You can put her down on the bed Alpha, we take her to the doctor” one of them say and points to the bed with some kind of latex mattress on it.
“Please Alpha, we need to take her” she tries again when she notice I wont let go of Hope.
“She is human...her shoulder..she is bleeding”..I hand Hope over to the nurses and see them push the bed away.

I’m pacing the clinic hallway. Hope is in surgery. Beacon is growling and whining in my head playing the same things on repeat..The feeling when my cane hits her jaw, her legs,her knuckles her shoulder, the smell of her blood, the sound of her strained breathing..My hands goes through my hair, pulling it..my insides are cold and my mouth dry..how did I get here? What was I thinking?

“Callum!..Callum!”.. I hear Cathy call my name as she comes running down the hall, Reece is right behind her.
“What the fuck did you do??” She screams at me with tears in her eyes and push me against the wall.
“She is still human! How can you be so fucking stupid you mate beating piece of shit!” she continue screaming when Reece grab her to pull her off me.
“Hey hey, easy..calm down!” I hear him say, dragging her away to the opposite wall. I don't need to look at her, I can feel her glaring at me and I deserve everything she just said so I don't mind.
As Beacon press repeat again I slide down against the wall and bury my face in my hands. The world around me seems to fade away as I endure his torture.

“Alpha..” Reece is patting my back.
“They are bringing her back from surgery” He says and I see the doctor and two nurses come walking in the corridor, pulling on Hope’s bed.
I stand up and the doctor approach me while the nurses takes Hope to her room with Cathy hot on their trails.
“How does it look, is she ok?” I ask him
The doctor, Dr Edmund, is a man in his sixties and I've known him for my hole life.
“She will be fine, she lost a lot of blood due to the ruptured artery in her shoulder, she has some minor cracks in two ribs on her left side, other than it is a couple of bruises and exhaustion,” he explains and pats my shoulder.
“I’m not a human doctor, so I’m not sure when she will wake up, but she will, so don't you worry about that Alpha”, he says before walking away down the hall.
I feel numb, Beacon is playing the part were the cane hits Hopes ribs and he is making sure I can hear them crack..over and over again.

I walk in to Hopes room. Reece leans against the wall and Cathy is sitting in a chair beside Hope's bed, holding her hand with eyes red from crying.
“Get out!”..it wasn’t me demanding it, it is Beacon so they both stand up and walk towards the door. Cathy stops beside me and give me a kiss on the cheek.
“I’m sorry”..she whispers before leaving the room.
I walk up to the bed, standing at the foot end. Her hair is spread on the pillow, framing her face, she is pale, her normally pink lips now has a shade of blue, the left side of her face is bruised and swollen from her jaw up to her eye. Her right shoulder is bandaged after the surgery.
I walk up on that side and sit in the chair Cathy left, taking Hope's hand in mine..her knuckles red and raw. I bend down and kiss every one of them.
“I’m so sorry Hope..” The lump in my throat finally burst and my body start to shake violently as the tears flowing down my cheeks and I cry for the first time since our parents died. Beacon backed away in my head, leaving me alone.
My tears continue flowing as I comb her hair with my fingers, telling her how much I love her, when I kiss her eyelids and pray for them to open and as I try to inhale her scent only to find it mixed with the hospitals sanitizer. I link Reece who I know is still standing outside and ask him to bring me a sponge and supplies to wash her, a few minutes later he knocks on the door.
“Here you go buddy” he hands me a tray, a new t-shirt and a pair of sweatpants before leaving the room again.
I change my clothes before I fill the bowl on the tray with water.
I start with her hairline, her cheeks, very light on the bruised one, continue down the neck, her arms and hands. I use the sponge to massage her cold body with the warm water.
There is a small knock on the door and a nurse comes in to change her intravenous drip.
“The Doctor said he wanted her to have one more unit of blood, it will take a few hours for it to go in” She says, connecting the dark red bag to the tube going in to Hopes arm and then leaves the room.
*“Do you trust me Hope?”*
*“You know I do…”*
Memories of our words this morning is playing in my head..not by Beacon though.
I sit in the chair and put my head on her belly, carefully hugging her waist. Her scent is coming back and is slowly filling the room, making me relax and I slowly drift of to sleep.