Hours have passed, maybe even days and we still haven't seen Conner come back. I was starting to worry about him, was he dead?

I couldn't live with myself if he died for my mistake. "Sleep little wolf, he will be fine." Jordan begged of me, I knew he was worried as well.

We didn't know what they could be doing to him right now.

"But-" I tried to argue with him, but he cut me off with a low throaty growl. "Just sleep little wolf, you need it."

I tried to do what I was told, but I was never good at that and I can never sleep in this cage, not for long anyway. Eventually I fell into a torturous nightmare filled sleep.

The rattling of the cage next to me had awaked me, they had finally brought Conner back. For a moment I was filled with relief he was alive and he was back. That relief was only for a fleeting moment, I looked over him as well as I could in this darkness. He was black and purple all over completely bruised and broken. He seemed as if he was beyond repair.

He was barely even alive.

I couldn't look at Conner, I wasn't able to face him. All of this happened because of me. I silently started to sob, the realisation hit me this time.

I would be the cause of both of my brother's deaths. They both will willingly die to protect me.

I could hear Conner attempting to breathe, it was shallow and strained I think he has a broken rib or a few broken ribs. A broken rib, which is now pushing down on his lungs. Causing great difficultly for him to breathe.

It wouldn't be too concerning if we were back home, if he wasn't drugged to heal with silver and wolfsbane flowing through his system. If he were able to heal properly he would be fine in a few hours, a day at tops.

But now I worry for his survival, for all of us.

We need a way out.

I cant bring myself to look at either of my brothers, it pains me too much to see them suffering and wasting away while I am allowed to fair better then the both of them.

All because of one stupid promise made well before all of this shit happened. A promise to our parents, that they would never let anything happen to me.

That they would protect me until they were no longer able to.

A promise that doesn't even matter anymore, I can't even remember our parents. Not there names not even what they looked like.

Our parents are nothing but a ghost of a memory to me.

And so they should be, they just got up and left us one day. They left us on a hunch that something was happening.

A hunch that they were never able to return from.

Glancing over at both of my brothers, I liked to close my eyes and pretend. Pretend that we were back home at our pack. We would all be sitting on one of the hillsides that over looked the pack.

I would be sitting on the ground crossed legged in the long grass picking at it, throwing it up and letting the wind take it somewhere else. The grass would lick and tickle my legs while I crawled in search for the prefect daisies.

I would search and search for them to make flower crowns for all of us to wear. They hated them and they would always detest to wearing them.

But they would always relent and place them on there heads for me. They knew that I would pout until they did, and all they wanted was for a smile to be on my face.

I would always watch them in the warm afternoon sun. They would play fight, push and test the limits of the other.

Trying to make the other stronger. My two big brothers were a hell of a team.

But most importantly, while in this cage I would pretend that we were all back home, laughing and happy without a care in the world. Maybe I was young and naïve bit that is what I remember.

I would close my eyes and see them how they were, both strong juvenile wolves full of growing muscle with sun kissed tanned skin. We spent all of our time outside in the sun. I would always sit back and watch them, admiring the way that they sun would soak into Jordan's shinny golden blonde hair, it would somehow always make it lighter, while for Conner, the sun would reflect off his jet black hair it would bounce off his hair as if no light was allowed to touch it.

I would close my eyes even tighter and pretend I was laughing at Conner and how frustrated and annoyed he would get when the sun would mess up his apparent 'perfectly tousled hair' which I always thought just looked like a mop on top of his head.

I would remember how Jordan would laugh back at him and tell him that he should care about what his hair looked like and should have hair like him. Jordan always had long almost shoulder length hair, it was straight eith a slight wave in it bit it always held a permanent kink in it from his hair tie.

He would always wear his hair in a low ponytail. Some days when he was in a really good mood he would let me braid it or put it into pigtails.

He would do anything to hear my laugh, he always said that I had a contagious and musical laugh that would light up the room.

I liked to remember them that way and pretend that we were still like this. Not reduced to nothing bit skin and bone, their skin, well every wolf in this room. We all looked sick, greenish even like we weren't far away from death.

Not to say that we aren't far away from death, we could all die at any moment now. We have all seen wolves come and go more often then anyone would like to admit.

We all know that we will eventually die in this place.

Even if we aren't ready to admit it to ourselves yet.

More tears escaped my eyes as it hit me, the moon doesn't hear our prayers, and she won't help us. She wont come and save us from this place.

We are on our own with no one to rely on but the other wolves in this room.

"Don't cry little wolf, everything will be okay." Conner was barely whispered to me without coughing.

Again I smelt blood, he is living on borrowed time now.

How can I believe that when he is dying right before my eyes.

Nothing will ever be okay again.

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