Friday, December 14th Pt. 5
"Severe cases of HSD will have both dissociative and defiant behavior mixed with at least one additional mental health issue. The most common being anger management but there are others that would qualify. Severe cases warrant emergency authorization to start using Silvix to sedate the inner wolf before blood work comes back.”
“What did he tell you that makes you think he’s a severe case?” Patrick asks his first question since entering the room.
“I don’t remember the girls I’ve had sex with and I don’t remember the fights.” Lucas admits softly.
“You don’t remember attacking Alpha Louis from the Clay Creek pack yesterday?”
“No sir. I know that it happened but I have no memory of what I did or why I did it.”
“What caused that, Demetri?” Patrick is getting curious.
“The exact mechanism that causes the wolf to detach from his human is unknown but what is known is that it’s protective. Whenever the individual feels threatened their wolf takes over. The problem tends to be, during adolescence, the human side’s dominance over their wolf is not firmly established and wolves are naturally feral.”
“What happens to me now? Bare my rear for punishment and pack for Wolfington?” I can hear sadness with a note of frustration in his voice as he asks.
“I’m sorry Luke. I know that describing HSD didn’t answer your question the first time you asked.” I rub his back lightly.
“With consideration towards HSD, Wolfington is out of the question. I will speak to Julie and let her know what happened so she stops bringing that up. As I explained earlier, Wolfington is a boarding school for male adolescents who have gone feral. While you are very close to feral, the fact that you came in here begging to be separated from the pack because you’re a danger to them shows that you still have the humanity needed to protect others. Now, unfortunately going back to your normal school is out as well. With yesterday’s fight being your third one in the three months since school started, you’re on a week long suspension pending expulsion. Even if you didn’t have the fight your schooling changes with this diagnosis as you and your wolf need intense therapy to overcome what happened. I will be contacting Meadow Wood’s school for traumatized youth on Monday so we can set up an appointment to get you and Jeremy started there.”
“Meadow Wood is a psychiatric hospital!” His voice is now panicked as he attempts to flee my lap.
“Don’t leave me, Luke.”
I keep my tone neutral and my volume normal as I wrap my arms around him. He fights my hold briefly before settling back down.
“That’s better son. One of the benefits of choosing to stay in my lap is my ability to help you through this.”
He shakes his head as the severity of the situation seems to finally register.
“Please dad, don’t lock me away in the psychiatric hospital. I know I was begging to go to Wolfington but I don’t want to go there either. I don’t want to hurt anyone but I don’t want to leave.”
He’s sobbing again as I pull him into me, giving him the moment he needs to process and calm his emotions.
“Luke, if your blood work comes back positive, and I’m certain it will or I would not have requested starting you on Silvix, the council has to be notified. They will be informed of your activity as well as what happened to Melody. Melody and her parents will also be informed and I will be holding meetings with the teenage females in order to tease out who you have been with as we need to know how bad this really is.”
I can feel him squirm as I talk slower than normal in an effort to gauge his ability to handle the news.
“Now because I have maintained our pack as a sanctuary pack there is no need for the council to take further action as I’m already very familiar with what needs to be done to help you. Yes, Meadow Wood is a pediatric psychiatric school. They are a day program that cares for traumatized youth ranging from three to twenty-one years old.
There are a wide range of reasons that pups go to Meadow Wood, ninety percent have PTSD in varying severity based on what happened to them. Fifty percent of the students there live on campus. The ones that live there are orphans who witnessed their parents killed, abused pups that got in trouble with the council or abused pups that have been removed from their parents and their pack wasn’t qualified to care for their mental health needs. Those students will live on campus until the council finds an appropriate foster to adopt family to transfer them to.
The other half of the students are similar to you. Most have been traumatized by a stranger or visitor to the pack who is no longer capable of continuing the abuse. The rest tend to be pups that have run into issues with drug or alcohol addiction or have problems with their mental health that has nothing to do with a singular event. No matter the reason that they are there everyone has a common goal, to get better.
Meadow Wood is also the only school that is qualified to handle giving you Silvix during school hours and the only one familiar with the side effects of the medication. You will have therapy daily and they will formulate a plan to train your wolf that you are the one in control.”
He takes several deep breaths trying to take in all the information he’s being given.
“Can you promise me that I won’t stay the night there? That you’re not getting rid of me because I’m bad?”
“Oh, Lucas.” I sigh, wrapping him tightly in my arms. “Is that why it took so long for you to tell me? He told you that you were bad and I’d get rid of you?”
“Something like that. I can’t remember exactly. I am bad, dad. I have hurt so many people without ever knowing that I was doing it. How do you apologize for that? I heard Melody tell me she wasn’t ready. I begged and fought with him to leave her alone, to go for girls that would be willing to bang the alpha’s son. I tried endlessly to tell him that he couldn’t have the younger ones anymore but it didn’t matter. None of it mattered. I knew it was wrong but I was helpless to stop it. Just like those last four nights he came into my room. He stepped inside and announced his presence ‘I am Alpha Redmen and you will submit to me.’”
I rock him gently as we both cry. While my own feelings of helplessness have commonly occurred when convincing the abused prospects to leave their homes, never have I felt that way towards helping my own family.
“I promise you I will never abandon you.”
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