- Knox -

I have no way of measuring time at the moment, I've not even left the hospital room. None of us have.novelbin

I couldn't even tell you if it were day or night outside. My lungs were stale from the lack of fresh air, my stomach past the point of hunger and my throat dry.

Food and fluids have been offered to us, but we take what we need only to keep alive. None of us wanting to leave this room, just in case.

Days have passed with no change, no sign of her ever coming back to us.

How long, how long do you keep someone on life support for? How long do you make the family live in pain.

The head of emergency has broached the subject with the alphas to consider ending the life support, but it has been Doctor Abel that has been the one to block him ever since. He refused to even let him in the room. This is why I don't let anybody in, this is why I don't want people getting close to me...for me to get attached.

I can't cope with the loss all over again. I know I'm going to have to survive without her, but I'm not even sure how I would do that. I don't think I would want to even try.

It is just Jaxon and I in the room, the life support machine's noise having been turned off days ago. The constant repetitive beeping was too excessive in the early hours of the morning and it hasn't been turned back on since.

For now she looks as if she is sleeping, although she is wired up to tubes...a breathing tube taped to the corner of her mouth.

Jaxon continues to call Jace, there has been no news...no word. Yet he still tries, still keeps dialling his number.

The mood of the entire pack has changed, even I can feel it. Every time a staff member comes in with food, or to check Josie's stats...they are sombre...the walking dead.

Even the weather outside has changed. Heavy rain thrashes against the window that remains covered in blinds...it's like I am in a bubble, locked in a room with no way of escaping. There is no outside world...not one that matters anymore anyway. Hector and Kaia are outside talking to the Head of Emergency, Doctor Abel was called elsewhere, I think a plan put in place by his colleague to get him away from this ward.

The door opens, the doctor entering first as he moves towards the head of the bed, starting to touch the machines.

Both Jaxon and I don't miss his actions. I want to rip his hands off his arms for going anywhere near her.

"What's going on?" Jaxon looks up at his parents, who have moved to the end of the bed.

"We've made a decision.." Kaia's voice holding an unsteadiness to it.

"What kind of decision?" I ask out, not liking the sound of her tone.

"Did you get hold of Jace?"

"No, nothing...why?" Jacob responds...surely he wasn't this naive.

"We..." She moves alongside the bed, her hand touching her daughter's arm as she takes a deep breath in and closing her eyes.

"Still nothing." She mutters as she opens her eyes.

"You are certain?" Hector asks, his question lost on me.

"Yes, she really has gone.."

"Will someone tell me.." Jaxon's voice starts to increase in decibels from their cryptic words, his patience wearing thin.

"We have decided to turn off the life support, for her to leave us in peace." Hector utters the words I was dreading.

"No!" I'm on my feet in seconds, rushing to be by her side, my hands touching her shoulders.

"You can't, she needs longer." We were running out of time, I was running out of time.

"There's nothing Knox, I can't feel anything. I tried, I tried in the surgery to bring her back but there was nothing, there's nothing now. Not even I can bring her back."

I stare at the Red's mother, she was rambling from being sleep deprived, on the brink of insanity from the thought of losing her daughter. She made no sense. What does she mean, not even she can bring her back...

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