The fairy, the witch and the wolf

Chapter 2 - The Firecracker

 *Him*

Nicholas felt the warm sunshine on his face and his fingers twitched on the stiff blanket. He slowly opened his eyes and awoke to the sound of an annoying beeping sound, only to realise the humans had hooked him up to a heart monitor. He tore all the cables off in frustration, his head was pounding. Alvaro was trying to say something but All Nicholas could concentrate on was the pounding in his head. He pushed the nurse call button. Hopefully he will be able to get some pain killers. He tried to recall what happened but all he could remember was that he was dropping his daughter off at her mother's. "What did that b***h do to me..." He turned his face towards the window as he tried to recollect what happened to him. 

*14 hours earlier...*

It was going onto 5 pm as he looked in his rear view mirror. His daughter Persephone looked back at him with her big green eyes. Her black curly hair is done up in cute pigtails. She got her green eyes from her father and her mother's Raven black hair. Nicholas couldn't tie hair so he always had to have Persephone's babysitter do it for him. He loved his little girl. After all she was his pup, and according to her mother, did not have any witch blood in her and he was thankful for that. He pulled up to Vera's driveway. He got out to help Persephone out of her carseat. As he kissed her head and told her "Be good for mummy Perry". Vera came out her front door, lit a cigarette and rolled her eyes. "Mummy" Persephone squealed as she hugged her mother's legs. "Yes yes, don't make a fuss" Vera said as she pushed Persephone towards the door. "You're 5 minutes late, Nicholas."

Vera hissed as she blew cigarette smoke in his face. As she inhaled again the smoke curled around her fingers. "So...She's here isn't she? I did bring her back" Nicholas spat. Vera blanched, She did not like being challenged. "I'm just warning you." She spat back. Nicholas clenched his fists. He had to leave before Alvaro broke free. As they were in human territory he couldn't have that. He stormed off to his car. Nearly breaking the door he climbed in. He looked in his rearview mirror and his eyes were black. He had to do some deep breaths to calm Alvaro down. It was so frustrating cause his curse stopped him from killing Vera because in doing that he'd kill himself. He started the car and pulled away from the driveway. As he drove off he didn't see Vera put a hex on his car.....

He hated being amongst the humans sometimes. To make sure Persephone had a somewhat normal life, everything was done the human way. That included going to human court and getting divorced from Vera. Over the years her control over Nicholas was fading. His curse was getting weaker. This may be on account that Vera's' time was mostly spent with her mother and her coven or with her new toyboy warlock. Nicholas' only concern was for his daughter. 

Unfortunately because of his curse and because of his traveling work for his Alpha mate, Nicholas couldn't provide a stable home environment. This just frustrated him because he knew Vera didn't love their daughter, Persephone was just a little pawn in her twisted little power game, to both keep him with her and to prevent her mothers interference in her life. In the years that he's been with Vera, her mother never liked Nicholas. She treated him like a stone in her shoe. 

Everything Vera's mother did, was only for the benefit of their coven. Vera was shunned from her coven for taking up with a werewolf, therefore she had to live amongst the humans. "Damn that woman to hell." Nicholas slammed his hand on the steering wheel as he cursed. He sighed. He took his eyes off the road for a few seconds to turn on the radio to tune out his frustrations and as he looked up there was a black cat in the middle of the road, as he swerved to avoid it, his car found a ditch and flipped twice. 

His black jeep wrangler was totalled. The front windscreen was all smashed in and the body was all twisted metal. Nicholas' head smashed against the side window the last thing he could hear were the ambulance sirens in the distance before he was knocked out cold.

*Present time* 

The remaining bits and pieces he could remember was blood pouring from his head, a cut arm from glass and random conversations with the ambulance drivers. The next he knew he was here at the hospital. The cut to his arm had already healed, and he was hanging for a cigarette. He pushed the button to call the nurse. After ten minutes there was a knock at the door. Nicholas croaked "come in, my freaking head is pounding so be bloody quiet as you work." 

He was holding his head and trying to sit up when he smelled the most heavenly scent of orchids. Alvaro started to yap and roll around like a puppy adding to Nicholas' headache. Then he soon knew why. She walked into the room and Alvaro cooed with affection. The nurse smiled at him and in her sing song voice said "Hi I'm Calista, I'm your......" 

"MATE!" 

The word reverberated around the room as Alvaro yelled in excitement. Calista set her eyes on the patient in front of her and in a calm voice said "Excuse me?" Nicholas cleared his throat and said "Nothing...I'm sorry, my head is killing me any chance I could get something for this headache?" Calista reached for his bedside charts. She eyed him as she said "Mr Braveheart, you're not allergic to anything are you?" 

"Just you..." Alvaro chirped in his head. "No nothing and you can call me Nick." Calista eyed him again. "Ok, just be patient and I'll bring you something in soon." She left with his charts but not before mumbling "This is going to be a long day..." She left the room and Alvaro was still yapping like a puppy. "Mate is beautiful." Nicholas smiled. "Yes she is, but are you certain it's her this time?" Alvaro scoffed at his human. "i***t! of course don't you feel it?" and frustrated he closed their mindlink. Nicholas sighed to himself. 

"What do I do now?" He has been looking for her for months and never thought about what he would do when he found her. She was his ticket to freeing himself and his daughter from that evil women. He had to tread carefully. "Ah shit." Nicholas thought to himself 

"At least she did me a favour, I now know the face of my mate and have the chance at freedom from her evil clutches. I hate being attached to that vile woman..."