I struggled against different hands, my breath coming out in a ragged gasp as my eyes flew open and tried to make sense of the scene in front of me.
Doc was directly above me, his brown eyes filled with tears as he worked to clean the cuts on my chest.
Storm and Wren were the hands holding me down and both were also crying as they kept me from sitting up.
The sound of Rex’s voice came from somewhere behind my head and it was pinched with rage. “You dirty motherfucker, you couldn’t leave us alone and now look at you!” I heard several hard thuds followed by a tortured moan.
“Rex, that’senough.” Doc turned to glare at the alpha. “He’s already half-dead and that’s not going to bring her back. Now get the fuck over here. Podcast is awake.”
The thudding noise stopped and Rex suddenly filled my still blurry vision. He looked more wild than I’d ever seen him, his blue eyes wide with worry. His emotions flooded unchecked through the bond and I nearly gasped with the rawness of them.
“PC, god I’m so glad you’re awake.” His voice was hoarse as he leaned down to press the softest of kisses to my lips. “I’m so sorry,” he whispered as he pulled away and scrubbed a hand over his face.
I frowned up at him, confusion filling my body as the alphas continued to talk quietly above me.
“The cuts aren’t very deep, but it’ll probably scar still,” Doc said as he pulled rolls of gauze out of his bag. “I’m going to wrap the wound, where’s Bat?”
“He’s out there helping Silas, ah, clean up,” Wren murmured, her fingers brushing my hair out of my face as she spoke.
“Shit, we better go out there before he murders someone in the bar, I do not feel like disposing of bodies tonight. Not after everything that’s happened.” Doc’s jaw tightened as he sighed heavily, like the weight of the entire world was on his shoulders.
“They fucking deserve it,” Rex bit out, his eyes cold.
I’d had enough of everyone talking around me like I was still unconscious. I didn’t understand anything that they were saying. What had happened while I was passed out that had changed our luck?
I lifted a shaky hand and waved it until I had their attention.‘What the fuck happened?’I asked and sat up with some difficulty, the cuts on my chest burning. I gave them a quick glance and immediately wished I hadn’t.
Orpheus had managed to get half of his name on my chest, getting halfway through the E before something stopped him.
“PC, we…” Rex began, the anger draining out of his eyes as he tried to find the words to explain. “We were stuck in the bar, but Juneau wasn’t. She came back here to save you.”
My lips pulled up into a smirk. Orpheus hadn’t been counting on my firecracker of an omega coming to my rescue. I hoped she lit his ass on fire. I glanced around looking for her, surprised she hadn’t been right next to me when I awoke.
Doc cursed quietly under his breath as he began to wind the gauze around my chest and I turned to look at him. His expression wasn’t happy. It was the opposite in fact.
‘Where is Juneau?’I asked Rex, searching for her scent in the air and finding only the barest hint.
Rex’s jaw clenched and he shook his head. “She jumped on Orpheus to get him away from you, melted half of his face off in the process, but…” He trailed off like he couldn’t finish.
So Storm took over, his face scrunched as he cried. “She accidentally fell back through the mirror, Podcast. She’s gone back to her own time.”
I stared at him, my entire brain rebelling against his words. I pulled away from the hands and turned to where the mirror was. It still stood leaned against the wall, but the glass had been shattered leaving only the wooden backing.
Shards of glass covered the floor, surrounding the crumpled form of Orpheus on the ground. His face was burned so badly that he looked unrecognizable now.
My chest twisted in panic as I looked between the alpha that had been the subject of my nightmares for years, and the broken mirror.
I finally understood what Rex’s emotions in the bond were. Alphas weren’t supposed to live without their omegas, and one of Rex’s was a hundred years in the past.
‘She’s coming back,’I signed, unsure of if it was more for myself or for the pack.
“Podcast…” Doc began but I cut him off.
‘No. She is going to come back, I believe in her.’
I was adamant about it and I could see that my alphas weren’t so sure.
Juneau had to come back to us. I wasn’t sure if I could live in a world she wasn't in.
