TRISTANS POV.

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We, or I was discharged from the clinic which is really a mini-hospital, but we are back at the pack house and in Hunters room. I've been mainly silent all day even though it is only noon but Hunter hasn't been with me most of the day besides helping me back to the house.

He helped me get back in bed because it still hurts to walk and then his dad linked him that he needs Hunter in a few meetings.

Because it is summer, Hunters dad, pulls him into more alpha type of things just in case something would happen to his dad; he wants Hunter pre-paired and all. And I am guessing it's gonna be a lot of meetings cause Hunter is graduated and all.

I am stuck in this giant room for another couple hours alone, with Netflix. Which isn't such a bad thing because I can watch the Office and that is my favorite show as of now.

But I can't walk anywhere Unless I need to go to the bathroom and If anything remotely close to what happened pops in my head I panic and it triggers all these feelings, giving me panic attacks.

But, me being alone now ends when Hunter walks in and flops on the bed before growling and letting out a frustrated sigh.

"E-Everything o-okay?"

"No. Meetings suck ass."

I smile lightly at his answer and lay back down next to him in my back. "What happened?"

"We are not hunting down this man."

"He endangered our pack!"

"He is not on our territory and we have no reason to send party's out and get permission from other packs to get on their land."

"Fuck that! Send out a search warrant or something! Get the packs to look out for him! He's a danger to everyone!"

"Hunter. Sit down. We understand everyone's points and concerns. Yes if he ever gets on our land we will get him, and we will keep a watch for him. But we will not worry other packs unless we Deam it neccicary. You all are dismissed. Thank you for your time."

As everyone besides hunter flows out of the office Dean sits next to Hunter and sighs.

"Dad. You know tHis isn't right. He needs to be found, after what Tristan's been through with that man! Who knows what else is going on with him!"

"I know Hunter. But we have to look out for everyone else too. And not just ours and our packs, but the benefit of the other packs too. If I feel he would come after other packs, I would have told them about this situation and asked for help a long time ago. But now that we know what he is, we don't know the extent of his powers. We can't attack if we don't know what he is capable of Hunter."

"I know. I just want Tristan to be safe. I want everyone to be safe and not have to worry about this man!"

"I know Hunter. And that is what makes you a good kid. And you'll be an amazing leader because you are thinking of He overall picture in side the small one. Go to Tristan, he's been alone all day and he should have someone with him."

"Yeah."

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"I don't wanna talk about it." Hunter mumbles into the bed sheets. He looks up and watches the Tv for a minute before looking at me and smiling.

"How are you?" He asks.

"Better I g-guess."

"How's your foot?"

"Not better."

"We should re-wrap it and get some ice on it."

"Later." I say rolling over so I'm on my stomach next to Hunter. I turn my head so I'm looking at him again and he opens his baby blue eyes at me.

"I never s-said thank you for getting me, s-so thank you for getting me out of there." I whisper as he sits up and scrunches his face as I finish.

"You...you don't have to thank me Trist. I said I would make sure your dad doesn't get you again and he did. I got you out of there cause your my mate and I said I would protect you." I look away from his eyes and pick at the seams on the blanket.

"I know. But still. You stayed with me at the clinic and your here with me now, you could have been doing so many other things with your life Hunter. But you stayed with me so, thank you."

"Tristan. Do not thank me. I wouldn't have walked out on you when you were in there and you know I would rather be with you. You don't have to thank me."

"I just haven't ever had that before." And that's the truth. I've never really had that in my life before. I've had Sarah and she's been with me, but I only saw her during school and she really didn't know the half of what I went through at home cause I never really wanted to talk about it. She was there for me and I would get beat up and shit for being gay and all. But that's when I had her.

And now I have Hunter. And this is all new to me. Having not knowing about anything about his world and life a month ago, and then being saved and brought into his life; learning about all this werewolf stuff and being accepted into his family and by him.

To learn that I'm his mate and just having someone, much less so many other people now care about my well being and care about my life....that's so new to me and I love it.

And much less learning that I'm now a werewolf too. I still don't know how I feel about all of it but Hunter said his parents can come up and explain everything to me better about the transitions and such because I never went through them as a kid.

The fact that I was never told or knew about this is scary. That fact that my dad is a warlock and I never knew is scary. That fact that I have a wolf and he's suppressed in me still and that my dad had that much power to get rid of him scares me.

So if you can't tell, I'm terrified. I'm terrified of what is going on. And I think you can tell. But, I also love what is going on.

Hunter pulls me up into his lap gently and looks down at me as my head lays down on his shoulder. "Well now you do. And you better get used to it cause it's only gonna get better from here. Okay?"

I slowly nod as I lay into him and shrink into my own world again. I feel super safe right now and I can't explain why. I feel like this is right and I just want to be here with him forever.

I don't know why, but I just wanna be here with him.

His head lays on mine and I hold his hand, interlocking our fingers and lightly squeezing. I can feel how calm Hunter is and I don't think he's been like this for a long time. He's super calm and happy and I know he has a hard time with both of those things.

Staying in the comfortable silence that surrounds us we just sit here together and relax, which is another thing neither of us has had in a while either. Hunter moves my hair out of my face and kisses my head making me blush a bit.

I like it when he does that too, I like everything he does...only around a month. One month ago was when I found out we were mates, when he saved me, when we connected, when I forgave him...and one month later I like him doing these things to me.

"Your cute when you blush." He whispers making me nuzzle into him more to hide my blush. "Don't hide it."

"Stop it." I whine out softly hiding into him.

"Why? Your just too cute." He says softly rubbing my back.

"I know I am but you don't have to flirt that hard." I say looking up at him.

"Gosh call me out will you?" He laughs out as I start to laugh too at what just happened. Soon we're laughing like there's no tomorrow on the bed: hunters on his back on the bed and I'm using his chest as support to hold my self up as we laugh. My gut starts to hurt but we literally just can't stop.

Soon there's a knock on the door, like always, and we hear Mary's voice threw it.

"You boys doing okay?"

"Y-Yeah mom. We're doing good."

"Okay I'll bring you guys some food in an hour or so."

"Okay. Thanks."

When Mary's fully away I look down at hunter and smile, trying to Not laugh but hunter gives in and lets out a small chuckle making me laugh a small bit too. My gut hurts now and I can't stop smiling.

"Well that happened." Hunter lets out as we sit there, or I sit on him and he lays down.

"Y-Yeah." I say looking down and smiling at him. His hands rest on my hips and his thumbs rub small circles on them, but I don't notice until now and I look down at them. Hunter moves his hands and mumbles words. I make out an 'I'm sorry' but I move his hands back on my hips and kiss his cheek.

"It's fine Hunter. I trust you." I whisper against his skin and kiss him again on his cheek. My head rests next to his and once again we are in silence as Hunters thumbs rub against my hips.

"We should do something." I say after a few minutes again.

"Your on bed rest Tristan. Your not doing anything."

"Please?"

"No. And everyone would kill me if I let you walk around the house after what just happened. So no. Your foot needs to finish healing." I pout for a moment and Sigh.

"I'm gonna get fat, and it's going to be your fault." I mumble making Hunter let out a chuckle. I sit up wards and groan as I now notice how we don't have much to do.

"What's going on up in that head of yours?" Hunter asks tapping in between my eyes, making me go cross eyed. He smiles at me as I look down at him again, shrugging.

"Nothing much." I say back. Hunter raises one of his eye brows and his smile drops. "Really, I mean. I'm....i'm trying my best not to think about it. I don't wanna think about what happened last weekend and I know that no one really expected this. So I don't want to think about it and feel awful about my self anymore. But, I can't help it, things trigger me and I and-I feel that enough and I've thought about that too much. I don't wanna feel that way anymore. And every time I play back in my head about one thing that happened I just get more and more in my head from the past years and I can't..." I stop to take a breath and Hunter just looks at me.

"I just don't want to feel guilty and scared about this and I don't want anyone else to feel guilty either. I don't want to think about what he did to me or what he can do to anyone else. What's scary about it when I am thinking about it now, is that he wasn't drunk. That scares me because I only know my dad drunk and he wasn't. He was so much worse Hunter. I...and now i'm thinking about it. He saw you, He saw how protective you were of me, what if he comes for you? I can't lose you, I can't use anyone. I'm scared Hunter. I don't want to lose you, you're good. Your really good, and I like that you're good."

I start to break and hyperventilate as the thoughts of my dad getting a hold of Hunter run through my head.

"Hey, hey hey. Shh." Hunter sits up with me still in his lap facing him as he holds my arms and looks me in the eyes as I freak out. "Tristan. He's not going to get me. And I know I've said this already, but I am going to make sure he doesn't hurt you again Tristan. Okay? I'm gonna make sure no one dose. And I am pretty good at keeping my promises, most of the time." I bite my lip and look down as I start to nod. Tears threaten my eyes and Hunter sees that.

"I'm sorry you have to be brought into this. That now a lot of people are brought into this. You guys should have never had to deal with this, ever."

"Hey. Out of anyone, I'm glad I was brought into this. You don't deserve this, let alone deserve to go through this by your self." I hug hunter and he runs a hand through my hair and down my back as I melt into him. I start to tense up and I hiss in pain as my body, all at the same time tenses up and I feel like I can't move again.

"H-Hunt-" I'm cut off by waves of pain shooting through me. I clutch Hunters shirt and shake as My body heats up and I barley can breath. Hunter looks at me as I tense up and He doesn't know what to do.

"Shit." Hunter lays me down as I shake and Pain rips through every inch of me. Tears slip down my face as Hunter calls someone and sit next to me picking me up again in his lap. I close my eyes as everything hits me and I bite my lip to hold in a scream that wants to come out of me.

I grip onto hunters arm as someone walks in and come up to us. I can hear them but I can't see, My eyes are glued shut in pain and I don't want to see anything right now.

"tristan, it's doctor Martin. I know that this is very painful but you need to calm down, this is only going to hurt more if you tense up and freak out, okay. Hunter with you right now, and he can help you. Because he's your mate he can help. I need you to focus on him okay? Just try to picture him and just think about Hunter."

My body shakes and tenses up again as another wave hit's me. I try to focus on Hunter. I focus on my head in his shirt and I can smell strawberry's and coffee and his shirt had to be torn up, or at least super old. His hand is rubbing against my spine and it is really warm too. His chest is heaving up and down and His heart beat is crazy, just like mine.

My mind wanders to everything about Hunter and everything slowls down. I feel really light headed and everything feels so numb. Inside and out, I lose my grip ona I can barley feel anything now.

"Tristan?" Hunter rubs my back and I hear the door shut as Hunters eyes stare at me. I start to open my eyes and I can barley get them to, like I said I can barley feel anything, let alone control myself. "hey, I'm right here okay?"

I try to nod but I think my head flops against his chest and it stays there. "Can you try to open your eyes for me?" I start to force them open and huff when I do get them open enough to see things clearly.

"W-what just....happened?"

"i think your wolf was trying to get out again." Hunter whispers as his eyes start to show gold.

"The doctor and my parents want to talk to you about this." I try to nod and sit up, but I ended up needing help from Hunter and he helps me sit up right on the bed, holding me up with his hands as my feel dangle off the bed.

I entirely depend on Hunter for support right now as I still can't feel anything. The door opens and four people walk in. I lean against Hunter as I need it and everyone sits down somewhere.

"okay, well, we figured this would happen soon and it did. Your wolf is just trying to make it's presents and it's trying to force you to shift. Like we said yesterday, we don't know when you will actually shift. We can always push your shift if you just want to get it over with but you would still have a force shift and you would probably stay as a wolf for a few days at the least until both of your bodies are healed from the first shift."

I try to nod but I think I fail and I just look at Hunter weirdly and he smiles making me smile a tad bit.

"We'll let you rest a bit, be careful Tristan."

"I'll make sure he will."

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