It's been a, very, very long week and Tristan is still in the clinic. We got him off of oxygen thankfully a few hours after he woke up and somehow out for our graduation.

He really wanted to go for some reason. Overall, I can proudly say we have graduated high school and summer has started, Tristan is getting better really fast surprisingly.

three or four weeks ago a bruise for him healed within a week or two, but almost all cuts and cruises are fully healed.

I've been at the clinic with him the whole time and he hasn't really talked much. We just sit there. I wouldn't expect anything else really right now, but It doesn't sit easy knowing that he is trapped inside his own head right now, and with the pills that they are giving him to help the healing process go faster are not helping his mental state at all.

Things are locking down in his head, he can't break down, or he wont. He hasn't had any nightmares and break downs, which is not good, it is, but it isn't. He's keeping everything in and he wont talk to me, and we agreed on not having things kept in.

Our doctor just left a few minutes ago with some of Tristan's blood for testing and I'm holding his hand as he lays on the bed and my head rests on the bed by his chest as I sit in the chair.

"Hey. Nurse said you could can leave this place tomorrow, but you have to stay on bed rest for a few more days." Tristan opens his eyes and nods at me before staring off. "You wanna talk about something?" I ask and He just stays staring off and doesn't move.

"Tristan?" Nothing.

"Alright, Tristan, say something. I haven't heard your voice sense you woke up and I miss it. I am worried sick about you because you are trapped in your head. You have no idea how much I freaked when you were gone and I can not imagine what you went through in those hours, but these meds that they are giving you are not good for you mentally and I think that you know that. I need you to talk to me Tristan. Please..."

He makes eye contact with me squeezes my hand as we look at each other. I sigh and look down as my parents come in and walk to us.

"Hey boys."

"Tristan, how are you feeling?" He avoids eye contact with them and looks down. "Hunter can we talk to you outside for a moment?" I look at Tristan and nod as My parents shut the door.

"I'll be back okay?" I make contact with his brown eyes and get up knowing that it's all I am going to get from him. Closing the door when I get into the hall way My parents are talking to the doctor again and they look really worried.

"What's going on?" My mom jumps at my voice and turns around with my dad and they just stand there. "Really? What?"

"W-Well we did the blood work to make sure everything was out of Tristans body and such, and all the tests came back good besides one that we ran on accident."

"Which is?"

"Well, Tristan was injected with Wolves-bane."

"Why the hell would he be injected with that crap?"

"Well That's what we thought too, so I ran some more test on his blood and it might be a few more minutes for the for sure answer...But, Hunter, There is a good chance that Tristan is a werewolf." The doctor explains to me as I just stare at him.

"Thats..."

"We will know for sure in a few minutes but it is a possibility. If his father was a...warlock you said?" He asks my parents as my dad nods. "Well if his father is a warlock there is a possibility that he had Tristan with a werewolf and those genes are more prominent among others."

"You really think that this could be...a thing?" I ask my parents.

"You never know Hunter. I mean, he is your mate, and the quick healing from what he just went through. I mean He was ten times as worse when we found him."

"Aren't those the pills that we are giving him?"

"Well, yes. But they should not be working that fast, they can't actually." The doctor adds into the conversation. Well enough, a small woman comes out and hands the doctor a piece of paper and runs off as soon as she does. We sit there as He reads the paper over and over, leaving us all hanging on.

"What?" My mom asks quickly and he nods.

"Tristan does carry the gene. He's a wolf." I back up and start walking to the room.

"Hunter!"

"Stay out of the room." I mutter knowing that they hear me just fine as I open the door and close it making Tristan look up. I lean against the door and take a deep breath while closing my eyes.

I have no idea what to think about this. Should I be happy? Does he know about this? what the hell is really going on? First his dad is a fucking warlock of some sorts and now my mate is a Wolf like me.

This is good, right?

"grey! Did you know about this?"

'No idea.'

"What do we do?"

'Why are you asking me? Just ask him if he knew, and if he doesn't talk to him. Make sure he understands you.'

walking over and standing above Tristans bed I look down on him and he just looks at me. I nod to myself and let out a breath.

"Tristan. Did you know?" He looks up and fear takes over him as his chest starts moving up and down faster. The heart monitor beeps louder and faster than before and I can only look at him, "Tristan. Answer me. Now." I feel That alpha-instinct kick in and I can't control myself from raising my voice a bit.

He looks away from me as tears fall from him and I break. He did know. Sitting on the bed next to him I pull him into my lap gently and stroke his bandaged back as he cry's.

"Tristan, when did you find out?"

"W-W-when h-he had me...h-he told me. I didn't w-want to b-believe him." He gets out in between sobs. "He..he's just c-crazy, right?"

"Shhh."

"A-a-are you m-mad?" he whispers while he cries.

"No. No no no, I'm not mad. Don't ever think that."

"b-But how did y-you know?"

"The doctor ran some tests, they found some things in your blood and figured some things out." I whisper as calm as I can as I try to calm him down.It's not working. "hey it's okay."

"B-but I don't kn-know how to b-be a wo-wolf." I can't help but smile at him as I make him look at me, trying to not make as much contact with him as I can, trying to calm him down.

"Hey, that's okay. We'll work at it one step at a time babe." He try's to stop his sobs as he looks at me. His whole body is shaking right now. "It's okay." I whisper.

"A-Are you positive th-that i'm a...you know?" His voice is broken and torn form the past few days, I break my own heart hearing it.

"Pretty sure." He stops crying and he wipes his tears as he looks down.

"Hey, look at me-" I say getting his attention back on me hoping he will open up. "-I want you to talk to me. Don't stay trapped in that head of yours Tristan, I'm here and I need you to be here too." He nods and hugs me as tightly as he can, wrapping his arms around my neck and resting his head on my shoulder. I sigh and hug him back as we sit there together. God I missed this, just being there for him.

Does that sound selfish?

"I-I miss you s-so much and I d-don't want to go back. I n-never w-want to see that man a-again. Please don't let me go. I-I can't take it." He sobs out again.

"I am never letting you go Tristan. This was a mistake and I'm never letting that happen again, I promise you are never going through that ever again as long as I can help it. I'm going to do my best to make sure it wont happen." He nods into me as I hold him tighter. Pulling away and wipes his eyes once more as I brush hair out of his face.

"I-I...want to go home Hunter." My eyes widen a Bit as he looks me dead in the eyes.

"We will." I say making Tristan smile for the first time in days, which makes me smile. "You should sleep for a bit before the doctor comes in." I whisper to him, seeing how his energy is so drained just from crying for a few minutes.

"I-I don't think I can."

"Why?"

"I-I don't want to have night mares."

"I'll be here Okay? But you need to sleep for a few minutes for me Okay?"

"But what if-?"

"If you have a dream I'll wake you up and we'll get through it. Okay?" He nods before moving him self so his back is against my chest and he can snuggle into me. I lay back with him as he easily drifts to sleep in my arms.

How did no one suspect this? That he was a wolf?

I mean the signs are there, but none of us noticed. The fact that we are mated, that he heals quick, the strange instincts to be around each other, and the fact that he and Grey got along so well!

I mean Grey doesn't like to be around humans cause of his temper and what those people don't know. But he must have sensed something when they meet without telling me.

And I didn't even think twice about it.

My phone rings and I pick it up trying to not wake Tristan. He's still clutching my hand but he's sleeping and not stirring, which means he's not dreaming.

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"Hello?"

"Hey Hunter, is everything alright?"

"Yeah, well kinda, why?"

"Cause Luna linked me to get to the clinic when ever I can. What's going on? Is Tristan okay?"

"Kinda. It's hard to explain I guess."

"Just tell me, I get off of guard in an hour I'll be there soon but I think I should know what's going on."

"We ran some test in Tristan's blood, he was injected with a shit ton of wolves-ban."

"So, that shouldn't hurt him at all."

"Well it did, cause he's a wolf." I say as I play with Tristan's hair, moving it out of his face to distract me. "Hello? Sarah?"

"H-How is he? When did this?"

"His mom must have been a werewolf, and he didn't know because she died. His dad kept it from him until now and the test confirmed it."

"But, How has he not known? I mean what about his wolf?"

"I don't know, maybe because he never knew he could suppress his wolf?"

"Or his dad did that for him."

"Yeah..."

"I'll be there as soon as I can."

"Okay. And hey, Tristan's talking to me right now so heads up if he talks to you too, just don't be to startled or anything like that. Try to keep the conversations soft and light though, he....he is breaking easily right now."

I hang up and set my phone down before anyone else can talk To me. Closing my eyes for a small moment I start to doze off and feel like I'm going to pass out.

I haven't slept right for the past four or five days either, with me being focused on getting Tristan back and staying with him here I've maybe slept five hours for the past few days.

I've been taking little naps to keep me going. I'm not taking care of myself again which sucks but I'm more focused on Tristans well being then mine. And I do see that.

I can't open my eyes. I'm so fucking tired, I can't do it. I need a million Red Bull's right now. I feel Tristan move in my arms but I can't do anything.

"Hunter?"

"Hmm?" I try to open my eyes but they barley open. Tristan's moves so he's facing me but still laying down.

"When did you sleep last?" He whispers out looking down at the bedding.

"A few hours ago."

"But that was only a short nap."

"It was still sleep."

"Get some sleep, I'll be fine." He mumbles, tears pricking at his eyes.

"No I'm fine." I say forcing my eyes open. Tristan's sad eyes look at me and I sigh closing them again. "Only let me sleep for an hour Okay! I promise I'll be good from then on."

"Okay." Tristan barley moves, but he pulls a blanket over us an he snuggles back into me as I pass out and lose all focus.

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"Boys?" I groan as Tristan stirs in my arms.

"Hunter?" The door cracks open a bit and my moms head pokes in from what I can see, which is barley anything. I'm still so tired, I can barley open my eyes.

"Are you boys alright?"

"Yeah we're fine."

"Well, the doctor wants to talk to Tristan in a few hours once he's done with some others."

"Okay." I look down at Tristan who is sleeping, as she closes the door and I close my eyes again, I run hand up and down Tristans back, its calming to me. After a few minutes I feel something tracing patterns in my chest.

Opening my eyes I see Tristan with his eyes looking at my chest as he traces little things on my shirt. I smile as he focused on his patterns. I close my eyes and breathe as everything is so calm.

"What Time is it?" I ask Tristan, who looks up and shrugs before resting his head again. I look at my phone and see a bunch of messages from some of my friends in the pack, and don't worry, they don't go to the school I do and they have no idea who Tristan is. Well I mean they do now but they only know him as the "human" but, I guess that is out the door.

Sarah's blown up my phone on how sorry she is and that she can't make it today because some things came up. I look at the time finally and see that it's almost seven. SEVEN! We fell asleep around two or three. We slept for four hours!

"We slept for hours!" I say shutting my phone off.

"That's not a bad thing I guess." he whispers to me, still talking so softly.

"Yeah but I shouldn't have slept for that long. Something could have happened." I say looking at Tristan, who is content on my chest right now, I think this is the most peaceful I've seen him in days.

"You needed it."

"No I didn't. If anything you did. Did you at least sleep Okay?"

"Stop it. You need to take care of yourself just as much as your taking care of me. And you can't do that if you don't take care of your self. You need this so calm down please. And you need to eat something tonight too, cause your not doing that either." He lets out softly, almost at a whisper, still laying on my chest.We stay silent and everything just sits there. "Sorry. I didn't mean to sound mean. I just don't like to see you like this either." He whispers.

I rub his back and say it's alright and that he's right.

And he is.

He is right. I need to take care of myself too and I can't beat myself up for sleeping. That easy.

"I will eat if you eat Tristan. You don't do that either and Even if it is so small, I'll take care of myself again." I tell him, he just sits there. Yeah, I'm bribing him right now.

once again we just cuddle like this in silence for a good hour, sometimes saying a few words but mainly just cuddling. But as soon as the hour was up there is another knock at the door and the doctor steps in, along with my parents, Lou, and surprisingly Sarah.

"Is it alright if we are all in here?"

I look down at Tristan and he nods before sitting up, but still laying against my chest. Everyone sits down and the doctor comes over and writes a few things down in Tristan's chart.

"Hey, I think I know where this is going and your gonna have to talk to us okay? Just until we figure things out but we need your input." I whisper in his ear.

He nods and I kiss him on the cheek making him blush a bit in front of everyone. Cute.

"Alright. Well good news is you can leave tomorrow morning and We'll take you off these pills. We'll get you on some new ones for your PTSD too, seeing as your still seventeen Alpha has signed off on it as your guardian. You can choose once your eighteen if you want to continue the medication of course but I highly suggest if they work for you to stay on them. We can get those bandages off tonight and if we want we can get new once for you. Everything is checked out besides your one blood test.-"

"-Which leaves me to the next topic. We ran some tests and we found wolves-bane in your blood system. Which shouldn't be harmful if you were a human. I am assuming you and Hunter have talked a bit about it all and You are a werewolf Tristan. The amount of wolves-bane that we found in you is still very dangerous, even though for you right now the levels are low, none of us would survive the amount you have in your system still. So you are going to be very weak for the next week or two until everything drains down."

"w-why did I-I survive t-the levels if I'm a...?"

"Well, we believe that it is because you've never shifted before. Basically your wolf has been suppressed for years somehow and you've never experienced anything like this."

"h-how did...was my um...suppressed." Tristan asks, uneasy saying 'my wolf'. I mean I understand why, he's nervous about it. He's just finding out he has a wolf and he's like us and he's never been through anything like this.

"Well, I looked into it and went to your dads place. When I got to the door I felt my wolf fading away Tristan. I think, because your dad is a warlock, that he did something to the house to add suppressants to the house and that's how you've never been through the process." Sarah adds into the conversation explaining it.

"I think she's right. I felt the same thing when Tristan and I were there to get his things." I add as he shudders.

"Well if that is true you would be experiencing some things here. Being away from the suppressants would start moving the process."

"What do you mean the process?"

"The shifting process. have you had any full body pains or anything like that?"

Tristans heart rate picks up and he stares at the bed. I grab his hand and rub it as he nods slowly.

"Well that would be your wolf coming out. Most wolves if not suppressed come into the mind but yours must becoming out body- wise first. Your probably not going to meet your wolf until you have your first shift. We wont be able to tell when you will have your shift but as the pains continue you'll most likely get close to it." Tristan nods and continues to look down at the bed as the room get quiet.

"I know this must be quite a bit for you to take in Honey. But if you have any questions about anything you come to us and we will try to make everything out as easy as we can." My mom adds after a few minutes. Once again we are covered in silence.

"hey Luna, why don't I take Lou back to the house and watch her for a bit so you guys can talk if you need. Just a bit more privacy." Sarah says getting up and taking Lou from my mom, who is sleeping.

"Bye Tristan." He looks at the door as it closes.

"I-is there anyway...that you could...never mind."

"No honey what is it?"

"Is there a-anyway that you c-could figure out who...who my mom is? Or where she's from at least?" I look at my parents who are looking at the doctor who is looking at Tristan who is look at the wall.

"Yes we can, we can try." Everyone's head goes up to the doctor as he smiles at us. "It will take a few weeks but I am sure we can find a few things." Tristan nods and relaxes into my chest as the room settles again.

"Alright well we need to get going to cover a few meetings. Tristan, we will see you soon and you boys get some sleep." My dad says getting my mom up and leaving.

"Well if you boys are okay and don't have anymore questions, I will get a nurse in here in a little bit for the bandages and we will see you boys in the morning." And with that said our doctor is out and it's just us again. Tristan grabs my hand and holds it tightly, still staring at the wall.

"Hey."

"hi."

"How are you holding up?"

"I d-don't ...know."

"Well, what's on your mind?" I ask.

"h-how am I suppose t-to d-deal with this?" He whispers.