"There is no stopping it Lily, this is your gift," he told her and a scream ripped through her throat with rage and pain that kept growing and growing to impossible limits. Another scream tore through her already sore throat and she lurched against the restraints again feeling her mind become flooded with pain, she couldn't think or feel anything that wasn't pain. At some point in the distant corner of her mind, she could hear some alarm going off and Xavier cursed.
"Well looks like Andrew found us already," Xavier told her coldly. "I had planned to help you, but I am afraid I'll have to leave. I can't let them find me; I've got far too much work to do. Until we meet again Lily," he finished and left her. James and the others closed on the brick building with caution. There was nothing stopping them from approaching the building and that made him worried. Andrew opened the plain metal door, it wasn't locked. "Okay, this is just creepy dudes," Chris said obviously he shared James worry, looking around for some kind of sign of a trap or ambush. The alpha didn't seem to be concerned by the lack of activity and waved them on. All four men stopped at the sight before them.
Two human men lay dead on the floor. One lay in a pool of his own blood with a gaping hole where his throat used to be while the other had clearly died from a broken neck. "You know what I think I forgot something back home," Greg said, turning towards the door and James stopped him, giving him another "man up, dude" look.
"Who do you think did this?" Chris asked as they stepped around the blood and entered deeper into the building. All though he couldn't pick up her scent, James was sure this was Lily's handy work when he saw the pieces of clothing strewn as well across the floor. He was glad to see she wasn't going down without a fight. We're almost there, he vowed to her silently.
"Doesn't matter they are neither my daughter nor Xavier, it's them we want," Andrew told him with determination. Chris nodded silently and James pushed Greg forward, who whimpered very quietly. The building appeared to be empty as they entered in a long cement hallway. Silence dominated the building and gray metal doors with small square windows littered each side of the hallway reminding James of what a mental ward would look like.
Xavier's scent led off to their right. "How could a place like this exist right in the damn middle of my territory without my knowledge?" Andrew stated with awe in his voice. No one answered him because it was clear there was no answer for his question. James peered into one of the small windows of the closest doors. The walls, floor, and ceiling were made up of cement like the hallway. A small cot was placed at one side of the room while a sink and toilet were located on the opposite side.
Just like a prison, James thought coldly as he remembered his time there. The room where Xavier kept him for two years was exactly identical to this one. "Let's continue," Andrew demanded and they followed Xavier's scent down the hallway. Several hallways and corridors crossed their paths and if it wasn't for the scent they probably would have been horribly lost within minutes. James's nervous grew as they continued and nothing but grim silence waited for them.
This was taking too long; he thought as the turned the corner only to be greeted with yet another long gray hallway. Surely Xavier had to have known they were there already and they needed to hurry. After what James could only guess had been nearly an hour since they had gone into the brick building did they finally a corridor that didn't look like the others. It was a much wider and generally more massive hallway that ended in a set of two large black doors.
"Finally seems like we are getting somewhere," Andrew stated quietly and waved them to follow him.
"Be careful Alpha something just don't seem right," James told him and he frowned as Andrew ignored him and started down the hallway. Chris simply shrugged and Greg didn't move until James gave him a little shove. He shook his head but froze as he heard a woman scream. The sound made his blood run cold. Greg looked to him with fear and he started to tremble like he used to. He started to call the alpha, but a loud alarm began to sound.
Greg cried out clapping his hands over his ears as he fell onto his knees and James flinched covering his ears as well. The sound was like knives stabbing into his brain due to his powerful hearing but Andrew smiled with an excited expression "We must be getting close," the older werewolf called out to them his voice flooded with eagerness. James growled at the alpha's foolhardy attitude. "Alpha," he barked in a shout as he heard the scream again.
"What is it James?" the alpha asked, finally getting a concerned look on his face.
"I can hear someone screaming I think it may be Lily unless Xavier has another woman here." James explained and Andrew growled loudly.
"Hurry, she needs us now," Andrew demanded running down the hallway with Chris quickly behind him. James started to tell him to be careful, but he knew it was a waste of time. So after giving Greg another shove to get him moving, they followed the alpha. Andrew pushed the two large black doors aside and they entered the large room. James's breath caught in his throat when he saw the scene before him.
It was the room, the room where Xavier had performed all his experiments, but it wasn't James strapped down on the table now but Lily. She was screaming and pulling at the metal bands that kept her on the table. Her wrists and ankles were bloody from the struggle. Her arms were filled with several tubes all colored with different colored substances. He wanted to move and stop whatever Xavier had done to her, but he knew they were too late.
"Oh my God," Andrew explained as he ran to her side. "Lily, it's okay! I am here," he told her as he frantically he ripped out the tubes in her arms and tossed them aside. "James, help me get these things off of her," the alpha demanded as he struggled to remove the metal bands.
"You guys look for some kind of switch or something while I try to break them," James told the other two werewolves as he walked up to the alpha and his daughter. He grabbed one of the metal bands holding her ankle and tried to break it but surprisingly it resisted his strength.
"Here it is," Greg called out as he hit something on the edge of the table and the metal bands opened. Lily jerked violently and if it wasn't for Andrew and James she would have fallen on the floor.
"Lily, it's me, Andrew," the alpha told her with a soothing tone holding her down, but she didn't seem to recognize him or did his tone sooth her. Lily's eyes were clenched closed as she continued to scream and squirm against Andrew's grip. James knew how she felt and at the time he thought it was the worst thing on earth, but he was wrong. Watching her go through the pain and not being able to help her in any way was worse, much worse.
"Please," Lily panted suddenly her eyes snapping open looking at Andrew. James stared at her eyes; they weren't the same color anymore. Her once brown eyes were now a golden brown and outside the iris was a thin blood red ring. What did that mean? His eyes were never like that.
"Make it stop, please," she pleaded and Andrew gave her a helpless look. "Kill me," she said quietly and James felt those words stab him and by the look on Andrew's face, he felt the exact same way. The alpha pulled her against him as she resumed screaming.
"We're too late aren't we?" Chris asked, his face looking pasty and pale. James nodded; his voice seemed trapped in his throat.
"Yes, she is passing through the change now. It's like being injected with acid that starts eating at your insides which are set on fire. Your skin hurts as if it's burning, blistering and falling off your bones. Bones that feel as if they are being broken and jostled over and over again," Greg explained with a surprising level voice.
"That son of a bitch," Chris swore shaking his head as his gaze fell to the floor. Lily suddenly stopped screaming and her body began jerking violently so badly that James had to help Andrew hold her down.
"What's happening? What can we do to help her?" Andrew asked and James simply shrugged. He wished he knew what they could do, but he feared there was nothing that they could do. Suddenly Lily stopped jerking and fell limp. "Lily," the alpha called to her, but she didn't respond and James took a sharp intake of breath as he noticed she wasn't breathing either.
"I think she's," Chris started, but Andrew growled at him shaking his head violently.