Changer's Blood (Balancer's Soul cycle) (49 page)

When
she managed to down it properly
,
t
he sensation
he
created
went away and she
re
opened her
eyes.

Kara
was able to lift
her
head
up
just enough to see Sarah looking down.
She still looked worried and her eyes were still red. She had been crying until recently.
Her
tribulation must have been very traumatic for
Sarah
too.
Kara
said “I fulfilled my end of the agreement. Are we even?”
and her
throat felt better.

She smiled softly. “You did, but you almost didn’t.”

Kara’s
voice
began to slowly sound
even stronger. “What do you mean? I fought the entire time.”

Sarah
shook her head slowly. “No
,
you didn’t
,
Kara. Your heart stopped beating
a few hours after the infusion of Mark’s blood
.
You died on all of us.
It was your brother who helped you keep your promise
to me
.”

Kara turned her
head to look at
her brother. She
noticed that he was breathing
very
slow
ly
and deep
ly,
like when he’s beyond tired
and exhausted
. “Brother, what happened? Tell me please?”

Knowing
that he was really tired
after his shoulders slumped,
Connor
pulled a chair up and sat down
,
sighing. “I had to restart your heart. I
used my ability’s to create an
electric
al
current
like that of a d
e
fib
ril
lator
. I used up
well
over seventy
percent of my energy just to shock you twice.”

“Is that a lot?”
With Brother I bet it was
.

He nodded.
“Remember
when I fought Jack and Mark?” She
nodded slowly. “Well during that day I mi
gh
t have used at most
,
ten percent.
I seriously doubt I have enough within to do it again.”
Kara
saw that he glanced up at Sarah meaningfully.

Mark squeezed Kara’s
hand
to re
gain
her
attention. “Tell me what
you’re
feeling right now and don’t leave out any details from me.
I must know for I have been through it all.
”
She
didn’t leave a thing out as
she
explained every sensation
her body gave off
. When
she
finished he nodded
while
saying “Ok, you’re not completely finished changing, but you’re at least out of danger now.”

Mark tapped his h
ead as he looked at Connor.

Connor
closed his eyes and then nodded weak
ly. Mark released his hold on her
hands.
Mark
put his left arm under
her
unbound legs and
slid his right arm around her
upper back.
Mark
easily
and effortlessly
picked
her
up
in his powerful arms
and her
heavy head landed on his collar bone. He walked
her
over
slowly
and easily laid her
on the soft sofa
in the living room
.

He
kne
l
t
down on the ground
,
by her
heavy
head and sat on his heels. Mark’s expression stayed joyous
and relieved as he looked at her
silently. Out of the corner of
Kara’s
eye
she
saw movement in the kitchen.

Sarah glided off the table
,
taking the pillows with her
while stripping off the brown covers
. She walked around and rubbed
Connor’s
back
saying
“I’ll cook something
up
for you real quick.” He didn’t look up as he nodded. She ran into the r
oom faster than Kara
thought possible.
Kara
then discovered that
only
a few hours ago
she would have only seen a blur. Now she
was able to see
Sarah’s
movements
;
somewhat. A bright light
entered the room from the back of the cottage. “Kara
,
is that too bright for you? I need at least some light to cook.
I’m not like your brother or Mark.
”

She was like the former
Kara
.
She
too had a hard time seeing in the dark.

Kara said as loud as she
could, but it came out at a conversational tone “Its fine.” Sara
h
quickly came back in and started whipping
some
food up.

Thirty minutes later
Connor
started eating everything
that
Sarah made for him. While he ate
,
Sarah came over and checked if
either of them were hungry, but both declined. Soon Kara
could tell
her b
rother felt and looked
slightly
better after all of the food disappeared.

After
Connor
and Sarah did the dishes in the dark
,
he walked up to
Kara
.
Her
brother spoke softly. “We have all had a stressful day and I think
it best
that we should all
try to
get some rest
before sunrise
.”

No one questioned his calm order. Both Sarah and
Connor
slipped
back
to their bedroom. When
Kara
heard their door close
she
whispered to
her
boyfriend “I beat the odds. Don’t you think I deserve a small reward
?” He smiled as he caught her
drift and kissed
her
ever so
softly because
her
body
remained
very tender.

So
on after he said “Good night.” She
quickly went to sleep.

In
the comforts of
her
warm
bed,
Sarah
awoke to a shriek.

Instantly Connor flew out of
the
bed and
she
was
n’
t far behind. He used too much force
in
opening the bedroom door and ripped it
clean
off the hinges.
Sarah
barely maneuvered arou
nd it to keep it from hitting her
as it fell on the ground.

Looking in the hallway
both Mark and her
mate st
ood
s
ide by side
as they looked in
to
the opened bathroom.
The bathroom light was on.
They were still wearing their shorts from last night and their rippling muscles formed a solid
fortification
as Sarah
tried getting in
to see what happened
.

Mark
,
alarmed
,
quickly asked
“Kara
,
what is it?”

Silence
lasted for what seemed like hours, but only a few seconds passed.

“It’s… It’s…” Sarah
heard
Kara
say breathlessly
a few seconds later
.
Worried for her,
Sarah
got
her
hands around each of their
rippling
arms
,
and using a little too much
strength
, she
pried the men apart. B
efore they could register what she
did
to them
Sarah
stepped into the bathroom
to see what happen
ed
.

Kara stood in the
pristine
bathroom
,
in her
ruined
pink dress
that she bought this past weekend
.
In the bathroom window
Sarah
saw that it was just becoming light again.
S
weat
and blood
dried into her dress
,
dark
stains
made the fabric worthless now
. The tops of her dress where
Sarah
tied the straps to her shoulders still held
, but not by much
. Her
sandy blonde
hair
hung
a mess from all the flailing and sleeping she did yesterday
, but she wasn’t looking in
their
direction
. She just stood
there
,
looking
shocked
into the mirror.

She turned from the mirror and said
,
almost crying “It’s my eyes!”
Sarah
focused and saw her eyes.
Where t
hey were
once
a chocolate brown, they looked like pure silver. The silver eyes are the mark of a Changer.

Sarah
looked down and saw the cut on her chest
,
where Mark mixed his blood
,
had
completely healed. “Mark, what happened to my eyes
!
?”
S
he demanded through the
red eyed
tears.

Sarah
turned to see the two men standing side by side in the doorway. Mark
’
s worried expression softened as he sighed. “
Kara, don’t scare me like that.” He looked up at her again. “I might have forgotten to warn you about your eyes
would
look like mine
once you crossed over
.”

Kara put her hands on her hips
angrily
. She
yelled and
mocked “You Think!
Shouldn’t You Have Mentioned It At Least Once!?
”

“You’ll get used to them. Don’t forget your one of us now.” Mark said playfully. And
she
visibly
begin to
relax
after hearing this
. Her hands came off her
womanly
hips as he said
“Kara
,
look at your chest in the mirror.”

Looking confused for a moment she
did as he said and
looked at the mirror. She rubbed her regenerated chest.
She said
to herself in
amuse
ment
a
t the
reflection
“
That was quick.” She turned to
them
again. She walked up close to
Sarah
,
grabbing
her
wrist. As she pulled
Sarah
inside
Kara
closed the door saying “Girl time
!
All boys go into the kitchen and cook us some breakfast.”
She didn’t
leave any
thing to say to them that could keep them here.

Sarah
looked back to see Connor smiling. He then turned to look down at Mark. “You heard your mate. Let’s start us some breakfast. We should have enough
left
in the pantry
for
a small meal
.”