Two Worlds Collide

Eliza's POV:

It was so heartbreaking to find out that I wouldn't make it past 30. My mom as well was so heartbroken sometimes she couldn't look at me, but it's not her fault that she lost my father and now she's losing me. I first got diagnosed with a terminal illness when I was 10, I'm 18 now trying to live my life the best I can.

"Eat them." My mom set a plate of eggs, bacon, and hashbrowns but I frowned. "Sweetie you need to." She told me as she did the dishes. I ate about half the plate then teared up, "low oxygen?" I nodded while crying as she changed the tank.

"Mom, why is there no cure?" I asked as I looked at my lap.

"Because right now there isn't one." She told me as she finished washing the dishes.

"Mom, are werewolves real?" I asked, her body tensed, and she dropped the fork in her hand.

"Don't ask that again." She told me, "go get your backpack, you'll miss the bus." I got up and then went to my room grabbing my backpack.

"But mom, I hate school." It's true, the kids bullied me for the oxygen when they shouldn't because it's real.

"Just go please." She told me with sadness in her eyes. I left the house sighing softly then got on the bus dreading the ride there. I knew that it was my first year here but I've been going for 2 months already and the bullies won't stop.

Midus's POV:

"Alpha, please." My beta Earnest said, "you're 20 years old."

"This is the last year I promise." I looked at the mirror sighing heavily. "I just want to find her."

"I get that alpha, I do, but some of our wolves are growing concerned." Earnest spoke, "I'm surprised you didn't go for the first 2 months though."

"I had to handle the rogues, you know that." I came out of the bathroom, sat on the bed, grabbed my shoes then put them on. "We had too many just to ignore." I tied my shoelaces and then ran a hand through my hair.

"Back to the wolves, they are concerned that you're just looking in one spot and not everywhere else." Earnest told me sitting on the bed with me. "I worry though that she may be human."

"It doesn't matter her species." I told him, "she's my mate and I'll love her no matter what." I stood up and then grabbed my backpack. "I'm running late though so, you can handle stuff here?" I asked him leaving the room and then heading to the front door.

"Like always, just find her okay." Earnest told me as I left the house, once I got to the forest I took off my clothes and then put them in my backpack shifting once I did so. It was quicker than a bus or a car since I was the strongest in the country but below my father. Once I got to the school grounds I shifted back before the woods ended and put my clothes back on. Of course, this was the part that I hated, every year girls surround me wanting me to be theirs only but I'm only interested in one girl, my mate.

Eliza's POV:

As I walked down the hallway the stares wouldn't stop, it made my depression from bad to worse, as it always did. I went to my first class but before I sat down my backpack was taken from my hand.

"You know people like you just need to stay in the hospital and never come back." My main bully Cass said she had blonde hair and blue eyes, looked fake, and probably was. I fixed my nasal tubes as one fell from my ear then swallowed back tears. "Of course when you stay you'll die there too." The words stung hard as tears formed.

"I think it's wrong." A male voice I've never heard of say, when my vision cleared I saw this male of pure beauty. He had brown hair, and blue eyes, and even though he was huge he seemed like a cuddle bear. "Wrong for you to bully people like this." He glared at Cass while holding my backpack in his hand.

"Midus, my apologies." Cass went to her desk leaving us alone, he came up to me handing the backpack to me. I gladly took it but for a brief moment our hands touched and a tingle went down my arm but it was a good tingle, not a bad one.

"I hate people like that." It was like he didn't feel it cause he stood up straight looking towards Cass. "They think they can belittle the weak making them seem strong." He sighed heavily as he crossed his arms. He then looked at me and then it seemed like he looked me up and down before heading to his seat which was behind me. I wanted to say something but I couldn't.

Midus's POV:

I could smell her from the hallway before I went in, her scent was a mixture of jasmine, oak, and then a third one that made my heart hurt hard, the smell of death. As I opened the door to the classroom my eyes locked on a ginger-haired, green-eyed girl with an oxygen tank hooked up. My whole being, even my wolf whimpered as I watched her deal with Cass.

"Bad news and good news which first." I linked Earnest which in turn he linked back.

"I guess bad." I watched her tense, tears springing to her eyes.

"One minute." I linked him back and went over to Cass grabbing the backpack out of her hands. "I think it's wrong." I could feel my mate's eyes on me looking me over as I stood over both of them. "Wrong for you to bully people like this."

"Midus, my apologies." Cass walked away towards her desk. I then handed the backpack to my mate, our hands touching, my wolf howling in my head wanting more touch. I pulled my hand then looked towards Cass making sure she wasn't coming back.

"I hate people like that." I told my mate but then looked at her. "They think they can belittle the weak making them seem strong." I spoke as I looked her up and down. I was right, she was skinny, fragile it hurt. I went to my seat which I saw a frown form on her face, I couldn't keep my eyes off of her as she sat down and the class started.

"Alpha you there?" Earnest linked me. "You said something about good news and bad news."

"Right sorry, I found my mate but she's ill, something inside her is killing her." I told him through our link.

"We could turn her." He suggested.

"Not without her approval, plus she's human, she probably doesn't know what we are." I admitted, my wolf whimpered.

"Now what?" He asked.

"We be patient. Slowly bring her into our lives, that's if she accepts me." I told him as I looked at her ginger hair.

"Yeah if, listen pack is fine but one of the guards needs to talk to me so see you when you get home." He told me, then I saw green eyes looking into mine realizing it was hers.

"Thank you by the way." She spoke softly, her tube falling from her ear. I reached out, making her flinch but she didn't move back or move away as I put her tube back behind her ear.

"No problem, if you don't mind me asking is it terminal?" I asked her.

"Unfortunately, I have about 12 years left." My body froze at her words. "Or at least that's what the doctors say."

"I apologize for moving your tube behind your ear," I spoke gently, she smiled softly.

"It's okay. I've been bullied for 2 months so I flinch," she looked at her lap.

"What, because they think it's not real, that you're not ill." I could feel her sadness as she nodded. "Well I believe you." I told her, her eyes lit up a little as she looked at me.

"Thank you." She touched my hand with hers, she looked at my hand then at my eyes. "You're not human are you?" She whispered.

"Of course I'm human." I chuckled nervously.

"Then the tingles are just a weird thing right?" She raised an eyebrow. "A werewolf killed my father, if your a werewolf then I need to know so I can keep my distance." I swallowed hard then bit my bottom lip not wanting her to be distant at all.

"I..." She started laughing but coughed a little.

"I'm joking." She smiled, her laugh was so beautiful. "Even if you were I don't care, it's my mom that would not like you if you were."

"I'm not a werewolf promise." I had to lie for now, and I might have to keep from touching her skin but it's worth it.

"Okay." She smiled, "I'm Eliza by the way."

"Midus." I smiled back as she then looked towards Cass, I frowned. "Eliza don't worry about her, I'll protect you from now on."

"Thank you." She looked back at me into my eyes. "I am happy I met you."

"Me as well." I told her.