Chapitre 71: 31. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.
Damon said, "I betrayed Mimi. We've been separated for over a year. I know she's in terrible shape and won't accept treatment. But what can I do? "
Mariella said, " Honey, the puppies need to be fed."
They'd had their first litter a couple of months ago, and Damon had been trying to think of things to do to keep his mind off Mimi, in jelly, alone and numb. It had not been easy for him. He had felt himself so awful as husband and mate. And he was once again an ostrich, hiding, not able to face her, not able to help her, and instead there they were having a happy family life when one of them was going through something so awful.
Damon knew how hard it would be for Mimi, and now she had run away somewhere to recover alone. It was just like in the past, she would go hiding, to be alone and not come out unless she would be okay. This whole mess was more or less his fault, and he knew it. They all knew it.
And if he hadn't reacted so badly, Mimi might be okay. Everything would have been perfect, and now again. Not so perfect. He went to tend to the puppies; these would be the last ones, and he wanted to help Mimi. He did, but he had no right. He had no right to interfere with her, even if he wanted to.
Mariella came up to him and said, " Now the puppies are going to the magic house, and we are going in a pack to nurse and help Mimi. One Chaos cat told us that the lady is in Bhutan, weighing 15 kilos."
Damon gulped. It certainly wasn't a weight where the lady should be up to, let alone moving. She was a walking skeleton, worse than even that.
Charles came to the door of the room and said, "Me and Adam will go first. We'll see what's going on because, from what Samuel told us, the lady is in such a rage she's almost telekinetic again. We'll let you know."
Damon wiped his face and said wearily, " Fine, go. Let's see what we do then."
Charles said to Adam, " Are you ready? The lady needs us and only us. I said Salvatore, and we'll let you know, but I didn't say a time or place. This could take time, and we need to be extra careful. Despite her frail appearance, she will be very unpredictable, and until I get her secured in my arms and we get those crystals working, we need to be really careful."
Adam nodded. He had rage-absorbing crystals hidden with spells.
They teleported to Bhutan's house and investigated. " Honey, where are you? Me and Adam came to help you. There is no one else. Come on, honey. Let us help you." Charles kept his voice low, and calm, his movements slow and his senses ready.
I said, "I'll be fine; now I don't want to be patient. Do you know what it was like six months in that numbing jelly, shit constantly pushing through my skin, all the medicine came right off? Nothing worked. I felt everything. Every god damn ache and pain."
Charles said, " Honey, I'm here. We're coming to you now, and we're just going to hold you close. We're not doing anything else yet but keeping you safe."
I looked at the door, and Charles was already there. I was very insecure, very vulnerable, and as full of rage as I could be. I used my will and sling one lamp at the door, making Charles stop.
He did not phase but took a few steps, murmuring to me softly. "Come on, honey, shh. No worry, everything gonna be just fine..."
Charles came into the room, approached the bed, and said, "Honey, I'm going to come in and take you in my arms, wrapped in a blanket, and then we're just going to sit on the couch. Adam will come in next to us and help, too."
I was sitting wearing a loose nightgown, with my knees drawn to my chest and hugging them, shaking ever so slightly, looking at him very suspiciously. I did not feel very stable, at all.
He slowly approached and came over to me, wrapped me in a blanket, and lifted me into his arms. I shook in his arms, feeling somehow trapped as he had bundled me up. He walked calmly back to the lounge nearby.
He said, "I'm not going to bed just yet because you're so scared. First, we'll just sit here on the sofa; you see, there's nothing to worry about. Everything is all right."
He sat down, took me better in his arms, and made sure that I could hear his heartbeat.
Adam sat next to him, letting his scent be quite open too, so Mimi would smell him. He kept the rage crystal hidden, and let it slowly absorb all the rage from Mimi. It oozed from her, and Adam kept his cool. He had a lot of crystals reserved. Her inner Beast was awake too. Salvatores had not pushed it down or put any stop to it as they had gone fucking.
Listening to Charles's heartbeat, I was in his arms, and he was taking care of me. I sighed and closed my eyes. I was safe. I had someone. He stroked me, and I could feel Adam touching me as well. I could feel their auras surrounding me, sheltering me, caring for me.
When the skeleton sighed and fell asleep in Charles' arms, he didn't move anywhere but gave a very mild energy boost the whole time. Mimi's body could not take the strong one, and this had to be done slowly. Her body was so depleted of every damn resource so this was only first aid, she would need heavy feeding and probably a few months even as it was difficult to get her homeostasis balanced that way that everything absorbed and levels would be perfect, but they had time.
Charles understood Damon hadn't been able to go to Mimi when he had felt he had no right, but it would have helped so damn much with Mimi's sense of security. She would have maybe tolerated that better but Salvatore being who he was, it was just what it was. Maybe someday things would be different.
But now they would begin their recovery and rehabilitation, and he and Adam would always be there to help. With Salvatore's head being what it was, they were a better option for this job, a much better option because now you'd have to be tenacious, always ready to help, and your head would have to be in it. There was no time to fuck or have a jealous woman lurking around like Mariella tended to be. Charles loved her in his own way but he and Adam could see her faults too.
Two weeks later, when Adam asked Mariella to come to Bhutan for a while, he wanted to give her those full crystals and nothing more. Damon went along. They arrived, and Adam met them. He was carrying a heavy basket full of rage crystals. There were about 50 enormous crystals filled with the blackest rage, a testament to Mimi's mental state.
He handed Mariella the basket and said, " There, we can manage now. These are so potent that I thought it would be better to hand them to you personally so you can secure them. We still have some stones left. If needed, but this will take time so you can go on holiday or whatnot."
Damon sighed and said, "I want to see her."
His voice was quiet. But determined. He had missed her terribly, and he wanted to see her so badly.
Adam looked at him for a moment and said, " You don't want to. She sleeps on Charles's lap all the time. Not in bed, as Charles sits on the couch with Mimi on his lap, and she gets a little energy boost all the time. We've already gained three kilos from Miss. This is going to take time. Her complete system is a mess and she will need feeding in the medbay incubator at some point, but she is just barely nodding. She wakes up relatively easily, and she is terrified still. This will take time really. Her inner beast is partialy awake too and our pheromones are keeping it calm."
Damon said softly. "Yes, I can take it, and I know you two are extremely protective of Mimi, but so am I. I am her husband, her biological half, and I haven't seen her in over a year. "
Adam sighed and then walked ahead of them. They came to a large room, another one Mimi had once made for her and himself. Damon could see it plain as day. Now was no time to be jealous or let his emotions run rampant.
Charles was sitting on the couch, a skeleton wrapped in a blanket on his lap. A thick, warm blanket hid her fully, but her head was next to Charles's chest. He had the shirt on and he stroked Mimi. Bundle moved slightly, causing Charles to murmur to her softly until the movement stopped. Damon couldn't even see a drop of Mimi yet, and she was wrapped up like that. Damon moved closer and saw Charles gather Mimi more tightly in his arms.
He walked over to sit next to Charles and said, "Let me see. Give her a minute, and I'll see if my energy goes any better. After all, I am her biological half now completely. Let me try. I won't hurt her, not anymore. I've learned. Maybe I can get her to sleep a little deeper. I see if I can push the darkness deeper and this time do this right."
His voice was almost pleading. He saw Mimi's brows furrowing in her light sleep, meaning she did not feel herself fully safe yet.
Charles gently lifted the sleeping scroll from his lap to Damon. She moved restlessly, trying to squirm and move. Damon felt Mimi's every bone, even though she was in the thick blankets. He pulled his wife tighter against him and put her head on his neck. He opened his soothing pheromones and put his protector power on, too. Soon Mimi's wiggling subsided and Mimi just sighed and went back to sleep.
Damon gave his pheromones a steady stream, as well as energy, as fast as Mimi's body could absorb, but the lady would have to be put on a drip and fed at some point. He could see from his radar that energy would not be enough, not in a long shot, but it would be a start. But the sense of security was now first and foremost.
I was awake now and then, and I didn't understand why I was so suddenly in Damon's arms—and apparently had been for quite a while because we were lying in bed. He was against me, holding me close to him and stroking me. I could smell his pheromone, and I didn't understand. I tried to move and open my eyes, to get some sense of this situation.
He didn't want me anymore, didn't believe in me anymore. I tried to move. It made him murmur softly in my ear and keep me still tightly against him. I could feel his protector's power as well.
He whispered, " Shh, baby, it's alright. Just be there, feel the energy I'm giving you all the time, try to take it in, and relax. Good, that's it. We're going to get you a little bit better. I have now secured your darkness away again. We will do a few little security measures for it a little later."
I was still trying to relax. I felt the energy flowing into me. I tried to let it come. I wanted so badly to get better already, to be fit, to be able to do everything. I was so damn tired of being this weak, not able to act or even live properly.
Damon stroked me and said, "I don't know if I'll ever ask you for forgiveness. That room, baby. And I reacted all wrong. I'll understand if you can't. I haven't changed as much as I thought I had. But I'm trying. I did it again, played ostrich, and went into hiding when I should have been with you, helped you get through those six months, and figured out a way to make that mercury come faster. And if I'd been who I thought I was, you wouldn't have gotten into this mess. I'd sure felt what you would have been willing to do, maybe someday, baby."
He kept repeating the same thing, almost begging me to pardon him, but I was so damn tired I didn't even know the time. I was mostly sleeping, awake from time to time, but so damn tired and listless. I needed to sleep, but it was not good sleep. My mind was so damn tired and I just had no energy to fight.
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