Chapter 102: Rhys
I paced the small room waiting anxiously for Grace to come back with Maizie. What was taking so long? We needed to know what was going on with Sawyer. The Doctors kept saying he was zapped and drained and that they had never seen it, but they didn’t even think to ask us if we knew anything about it. The girl was Lycan so that meant anything could be the cause of this. I didn’t know what they were capable of, and I hated it. I wanted to hate the whole species, but that would mean hating Grace. And I could never hate Grace.
“Rhys?” Sawyer’s voice brought me out of my head. It was so weak, so hoarse. It terrified me.
“Hey buddy,” I pushed a doctor out of the way, moving closer to my brother.
“The girl, did you hurt her?” Sawyer asked.
I stepped back in surprise. What? Why was he worried about someone he didn’t know? I hadn’t hurt her, but I didn’t understand, but was saved by the bell, when the door opened, and Maizie walked in followed by, not Grace but Alana.
I furrowed my brow and stared at them. I didn’t understand.
“Where’s Grace?” I asked.
“She’s asked me to bring her,” Alana answered, but she was refusing to meet my eyes. Was she hiding something?
“Sir, you asked to see me?” Maizie asked, her nerves evident on her face.
“Yes,” I answered, and Alana backed herself out of the room, slowly. “You aren’t in trouble, but I wanted to know what you did to my brother?”
“I’m sorry?”
“He was ‘drained’ or ‘zapped’. We’ve never seen it before. Do you know what happened?”
Maizie paled. Her eyes widened in fear, and it was the first time her tough girl act seemed to slip a little. She was a child. I had to remember that. She was sent here to die. That was traumatic enough.
“Rhys,” Sawyer said with a warning in his tone.
“I-” Maizie hesitated, “I don’t know exactly. I’ve never channeled before.”
“Channeled?”
“Yea, I don’t know if it’s every Lycan, but everyone in the program I was in channeled... I guess another way to explain it would be that every Lycan had abilities that usually show around 18... My birthday isn’t for a few more weeks, so I’ve never channeled, but I’ve been training for it... If I did something, I’m sorry, I don’t know how I did it.”
“Every Lycan can do it?” I asked.
“I don’t know. I didn’t interact with many people outside of my program.” She answered uneasily.
“Do you know what your ability will be before you get it?” I asked, ignoring Sawyer’s confusion as I fished for any sort of information.
I didn’t think her face could go any paler, but it did, and I felt bad... But this was important. We needed to know what we were up against. We needed to know everything.
“Yes.” She said, her voice barely above a whisper. “I mean, they can influence it kind of. I don’t know exactly how it works. Maybe there are signs ahead of time, but I really don’t know. There are three groups that I know of: Energy Manipulators, Physical Attributes, and Mentality Readers, who are quite rare, at least as far as I can tell.”
“And you were trained as an Energy Manipulator?” I asked, my heart sinking a bit with this new information that really was leading to a whole lot of new questions.
“Yes,” She breathed. “I’m so sorry. I wasn’t trying to use my abilities!”
“I know, Maizie,” I answered tiredly. “I just – I needed to know what happened. Did you shock him or drain him or what do you think happened?”
“I probably stole his energy.” She was fighting back tears now. She knew my reputation and she was growing more confused by the moment that I haven’t killed her yet. But the truth was, I was cruel, but I was fair. She was placed in a bad situation, and now we were all paying the price.
“You stole my energy?” Sawyer croaked out.
“I can give it back!” She cried out, lunging for him, but I wrapped my arm around her waist holding her back, causing Sawyer to growl at me.
“Just wait!” I used my Alpha voice to stop everything, causing Maizie to all but collapse in my arms with a whimper.
“Rhys!” Sawyer growled angrily.
“Just wait.” I bit it out. “Do you even know how to use your abilities? Because I don’t want you touching my brother if you don’t.”
“I mean, no, I’ve never done it before, but I was trained to know. It can’t be that hard if I did it on accident before. I’m sure I can figure it out.”
That was the most teenage thing I had ever heard.
“You were running on adrenaline and fear before, and they can make you do crazy things. You are not touching him right now. We will have to find a new way to test things out for you.”
“But I know I can do it if I just try-” She pleaded, begging me to understand something that I didn’t.
Sawyer didn’t look good. His face was pale with little beads of sweat on his forehead, and I felt sure that he was going to pass out again any minute now, but I wasn’t risking him for anything.
“No.”
“Rhys... Let her.” Sawyer tried,
“No. Just rest, and I’m sure when you wake up again you will feel better.”
“Rhys.” He said again. “Let her.”
I rolled my eyes but released Maizie. If he wanted it that bad, then he was the one to deal with consequences when the terrified kid messed up or realized she couldn’t do it.
She sat next to him on the bed and placed her hands in his. She closed her eyes and began to focus on something. I probably wouldn’t have believed anything was happening but there was a faint golden glow from where their hands were touching. Slowly, Sawyer’s coloring began to improve, and I realized she did it. Then I noticed her own face paling.
“That’s enough.” I pulled her away from him.
“I wasn’t done!” She argued, but she swayed where she stood, forcing me to steady her.
“You were going to drain your own self dry. No thank you.” I retorted.
“He needs it.” She answered.
“And the kids in that room need you functioning, so what’s it going to be?”
The reminder that she was the elected leader of a bunch of kids brought her right back to reality. “I need to get back to them.” She said, panic suddenly in her voice.
“You can rest for a bit, and then I’ll take you back.” I answered, waving her off. “They’ll be okay without you for a little while longer.”
“No.” She answered with an urgency that she hadn’t had a few minutes ago, already moving toward the door. “You don’t understand. I have to get back to them. Now.”
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