And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

I wasn't sure how I was supposed to bring him back, but somewhere deep inside me, I felt like there was an answer.

I felt like there was something that I could use to give him life.

"I'm not sure what's going to happen to us, but it could be painful. I just need you to bear with me... this is for Damian."

Each of them nodded in agreement. They were well aware of what was being asked of them. "To give life, I must take life. I must replace the mortality of four for the life of one."

Closing my eyes, I searched deep within myself. The darkness that had once been laying under my skin floated freely, and within that darkness, I found a speck of light.

Pulling the images of what our family had been before Damian had gone missing, I used it to pull the light towards me. How I felt about him, the love that I had for him and his brothers, I pulled every ounce of it forward and pushed it into Damien.

As my eyes flew open, I saw the swirling mass of blue and white auras coming from my mates and I. The essence of our being. The life force for which we were celestial.

The only life that we had to give Damian to bring him back was that of our immortality.

Our Celestial connections would save him... and bind him to use once more.

"I love you, Damian."

The more I pushed, the louder my screams of pain echoed from my throat. The pain was unlike anything I had ever felt before, and with one final, death-stricken scream, I shove the last of what I had straight at Damian watching his body glow with a light I had never seen before.

was dying or if this was simply something else, but slowly I slipped into the darkness. Watching Damian's body fade from my sight like the closing of

back to me. I can't do this

*****

Hale.

did from Ivy. She had poured everything she had and pulled every ounce of power we had out of us and into her before pushing it, projecting it into Damian. It was like the life had been almost sucked out of

stripped of us, and we

from the Lycan beasts that

soon as Ivy collapsed, I watched Damien's eyes flutter open. A glimmer of hope radiated through me and through

done it. Ivy had brought him back, but not without

on the ground, her

white coloring, but had returned to the reddish

if this

again, or perhaps

something else?

I stammered quickly as I rushed to him. Talon and James right by my side as

He croaked

fucking died, man. Can we

up causing him to wince in pain. "Perhaps you should relax, man," I said to him,