The Two Lunas

Chapter 11

That Wednesday Tyler came up to my room after we got home from school. "Come on. We're going to Clear Moon Pack. I worked it out with Pierce." I hesitantly followed him out of the house.

"How did this happen?" I asked cautiously.
"I told Pierce you were injured while mating and needed surgery to repair the damage. But since it's a male mate you can't go to our pride doctor because our dad would flip a lid. He knows how our dad is so he understood immediately. He asked his dad if you could get checked by their pack doctor that night. And me and him made arrangements today at school."
I teared up in relief. "Thank you Tyler. Will it matter than Aries is my mate?"
He shrugged. "I didn't tell him who your mate is, but I'm sure he'll realize it as soon as he smells you. It almost seems like his scent is getting stronger on you."
I groaned. Just what I needed. I had moved most of my stuff out of the house. I only needed to grab a couple more bags full.  Hopefully my mother and Silas would neglect me for the rest of the week so I could move everything out before they noticed.
"Do you think we could run to the bank after school tomorrow? I need to pull all my money out of the bank. If Silas notices I'm mated to Aries he'll close that account so fast..."
He nodded in agreement.

As soon as we arrived Tyler and Pierce ushered me into the clinic. "Oooh shit, Aries is your mate." Pierce exclaimed. I nodded shyly. "And his pack doctor has done the best he can. But I can't help but feel like something's really wrong with me. I'm not healing like I should, I am exhausted all the time, and I just don't feel right."

The doctor walked up to me. "Can you explain what happened?" I sighed. Great this again.
"Well, a couple weeks ago Aries and I mated. We ended up in each other's arms all night. It was great. Then we shifted into our animals and fell asleep. When we woke up his wolf/bear hybrid took over and he force mated and marked my Cheetah. It would have been fine. I would've had no problem with it, except that his wolf is at least four times the size of my Cheetah. The marking isn't that big a deal. We had just wanted to wait because my step-father will likely be furious when he finds out I have a male mate. Anyway, once Aries got his wolf under control he rushed me to his pack doctor and I needed emergency surgery.  I was ripped apart. He said I should wait a few years to have kittens, I will need to be on permanent bed rest and I may not be able to carry kittens full term. The damage to my reproductive organs are so bad. He also had to give me antibiotics because I became infected. The problem is I'm not healing like I should, it's taking way longer than normal. I am exhausted all the time and I generally feel like shit constantly. My stomach always aches and I just have a general feeling of wrongness. My brother wants me to get a second opinion and make sure I'm really okay."
He nodded."okay, I need you to strip for me so I can examine you." I nodded and carefully pulled my clothes off, making sure I didn't hurt anything. I felt a little awkward with Pierce and my brother there. But I know Were's don't generally care about nakedness. And I am sure Pierce needs to overlook this since I'm not in his pack.
"And you said this happened two weeks ago?" I nodded.
"You're right. This is healing very slowly. Let me see if I can figure out why."  He pulled out a weird instrument with a wand and rubbed it over my stomach. "That's what I was worried about. It seems your body is putting all it's efforts into keeping your babies alive." My eyes bugged, and quickly began to water. "Babies?" I choked out. "Yes, it seems you have three little babies here. I need to do more test and see how extensive the damage to your reproductive organs are." I nodded absolutely stunned. Fuck. I glanced at my brother and he looked terrified for me. I guess it's nice that he cares but his fear didn't help reassure me at all. It just caused my own fear to compound.

He began doing all sorts of doctory shit that I didn't understand at all.

"You need to go on bed rest immediately. You have extensive damage to your vaginal cavity and uterus. It will be a miracle if you carry full term. And this pregnancy very possibly will be the only one you are able to have. I suspect that this will end up damaging you beyond repair. I would suggest terminating the pregnancy if you weren't an omega and your mate wasn't an alpha. But no alpha or omega would ever agree to it. And your mate would be murderous even hearing me suggest it. You body just isn't ready to have a baby right now. There is too much damage. The best I can do it tell you to stay in bed until the babies are born. I suspect the other doctor knew you were pregnant and that's why he wasn't worried about you slow healing rate. But he also knew how bad it would be if you carried these any further and hoped it would take care of itself. If you want these babies, you need to stop everything immediately. I would also suggest holding off on sex for at least a month, possibly throughout the entire pregnancy. Sex may cause you to miscarry."
The doctor printed off the ultrasounds, which just looked like three dark spots. "Why is this black spot bigger than the others?" He looked closer and sighed. "Well, it's possible that that baby is splitting." I look up at him confused. "That baby may soon be two babies"
"Oh" what more do you say to that. "So I might have four, not three. I assume that's not great?" He shook his head with a grave expression. "You will struggle just keeping one child alive. The more children, the more pressure on your uterus. Three is already way too many."
"Oh.... Catnip. Can I still smoke catnip. Will that hurt the babies?"
His grave face never changed.  But with all this stress I would never survive the whole pregnancy without it.
"How often do you smoke?"
I bit my lip. "Daily, maybe a few times a day. I am a very nervous cat. And without it my anxiety shoots through the roof. And it helps with my stomach pain too."

"I think at this point, stress is more of a concern then catnip. If this wasn't so high-risk I would maybe suggest you quit. But you need to remain as calm as possible right now." I nodded.
"Ok"

"I would suggest you go to your mate and let him take care of you. You will need to remain in bed for the next 9 months. Don't do anything strenuous or stressful from here on out." I nodded.
"He wanted to introduce me as the new luna in a couple days. Is that a problem?"
He nodded. "Maybe. But I know how important that is to the whole pack, so have him carry you and make sure you remain seated the whole time. And smoke some catnip so you don't get stressed by the whole thing." I smirked. "I never thought I would be prescribed catnip."
He gave me a small smile.  "And it will probably be the one and only time I suggest it."

Tyler carried me to the car. I guess my bed rest was starting now. "I'm dropping you off at Aries house. I will have Ryder help me pack all your things and we'll bring them here after school. We don't have time to be secretive about this. I will make him stay silent until we have all your stuff removed from the house. Give me your bank card, I will withdrawal everything before heading over tomorrow."

I gave him a small smile while we drove. "You know, you'd make a good king. I hope Silas gives you the position."  He smiled back. "Thanks. Thank means a lot."
I dug through my wallet and found my bank card, and handed it to him. Then I pulled my phone our and let Aries know I was in my way over.

I had to give Tyler directions to Aries house. Once we got there he came around to the passenger side and picked me up, carrying me bridal style to the door.
Once Aries answered the door Tyler pushed his way in. "I'm going to lay Skyler down on your bed then we are going to talk about what's going on." Aries seemed incredibly annoyed but allowed Tyler to carry me to bed. Tyler walked out and I heard them talking in muffled voices in the living room.

It was close to an hour before I heard Tyler leave and Aries walked into the room. He sat down next to me and gently ran his fingers through my hair. "So your pregnant with three possible four kids." He said quietly. I burst into tears and nodded. "Tyler said you need to continue smoking catnip or the stress will make you miscarry." I nodded. "Where is your catnip?" I sighed. "I don't have any on me. I have a bag at home but I didn't think to bring to with me."
He nodded, then grabbed his phone and called someone. He just ran his fingers through my hair quietly. I found comfort in his presence.
Soon someone knocked on the door. Aries came back with a bag of catnip and rolling papers. I rolled a joint and began smoking. "Okay. Now that your more calm. Let's talk about this." I nodded.
"Tyler said you may never have any more kids after this, the damage will be too much for your body. " I nodded with misty eyes.
"Do you still want to carry these children to term? You could very well lose these children half way through the pregnancy, and then the damage will already be done. This will be our one chance." I nodded. "If it doesn't work, maybe we can find a surrogate mother to carry for us. But I have to try. These our my little kittens, and I would never be able to live with myself if I didn't do everything I could to save them."

He kissed my forehead and lay his hand over my stomach. "Okay. We'll try everything we can to save these babies."

I nodded and hugged Aries close. "Why did we have to have such a shitty start to our mating. I swear I have the worst luck."

"I don't know kitten. I really don't know. But we'll get through this and we'll be all the better for it. You'll see." I nodded. I really wanted to believe him. "Just remember, pressure makes diamonds. And struggles make us stronger, wiser, and more compassionate people. And if these babies make it, well love them even more because of how hard we had to fight to have them."
I knew what he said was true. But the knowledge that they very possibly wouldn't survive was heart wrenching.
But no matter what, I would have my mate standing beside me, being my strength and supporting me the whole way through.

His mother Iris came is a little later and gave me some soft food. Cooked carrots, mashed potatoes and some salmon. I was careful to chew the fish thoroughly. I was thrilled to have more than juice and soup. Finally some real meat. And the best kind in my opinion, fish.
My cat was purring in delight.