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Story: Three Mates & A Tribrid
Rose's POV
"Rose? Rose? Rose?!" I opened my eyes looking around the room. Except I wasn't in the concrete room anymore, but back in the log cabin. "Roe, thank god." I looked behind me as Atticus stood, looking relieved.
I furrowed my eyebrows. "Atticus? What-What's going on? Where are we?" I asked, looking around at the familiar surroundings but it was almost like it was covered in a fog or mist.
"In a dreamscape." I raised an eyebrow at him. "I've practiced it since I was younger. Me and my brother would infiltrate the rest of the coven's dreams and mess around with them," He said chuckling. "This isn't real, you're still asleep, but we're able to talk freely here."
I looked at him sadly and whispered, "I miss you guys."
"Trust me, baby. We miss you more," Atticus said looking at me with love in his eyes. "Do you know where you are?"
I nodded my head. "Yeah. They brought me to the council experimental unit of the headquarters." Atticus looked slightly scared. "It's weird though. They're treating me better than last time. I don't know what their end game is but it can't be good."
"Okay, can you tell me where this headquarters is at?"
I nodded my head. "I remember it from when I escaped last time. It's in the outer regions of all three of the species' territories." I shook my head, trying to remember the street name. "Grey building on Highland Street."
"Okay, hang in there, Roe. We're coming for you," He said, before backing up and disappearing into the mist.
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I woke up to another strange day where the same old lady would come in, bringing me breakfast. "Excuse me, ma'am?" I asked the lady who returned me a brightening smile.
"Yes, dear?"
"Umm, what's going on?" It's as if the question just went over her head as she smiled at me, not moving a muscle.
She blinked her eyes, snapping her out of her trance. "I hope that you enjoy the food."
I looked warily at the door that she just walked out of. What the actual fuck is going on here?
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Atticus's POV
After visiting Rose in the dreamscape, I wake up immediately.
Both Everett and Axel were sitting next to me as I looked at them and smiled.
"She said she's on Highland Street, the grey building.
" I was so proud of my girl for figuring this bit of information out.
It already completed one part of the problem.
The other, is how the hell do we get in there?
"We have to ask for help from our people," Axel said, saying the one answer that I was slightly dreading.
I nodded my head in agreement. "We have to overthrow the council. Rose was not in the wrong when killing the alphas. The council is obviously doing unethical experiments on their prisoners."
"They can't get away with it. Who knows how many other people they're doing this too," Everett said, looking concerned.
I was beyond scared for Rose. I know that she's a tough chick but that doesn't mean that I'm not worried about her. Who knows what they'll do to her. We packed our stuff up as we teleported to my coven since they'll be the hardest to convince.
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"We need your help," I said to my people that were gathered around.
"My mate and the mate of the other two alphas of the vampires and werewolves has been taken.
" There was an audible gasp throughout the room.
Even though Rose hasn't been introduced to my people yet, it doesn't mean that they don't know about her.
I told them everything, figuring that it was best, to be honest about her.
"She was detained by the council for the death of my father." Everyone looked around, shocked. Some upset and some not phased at all. "My father wasn't fit to run this coven. He and the other two alphas were murdered for harboring and experimenting on an underage girl. My mate."
Everyone looked taken aback by that statement. "Now, I don't believe that she was in the wrong in the situation, it was self-defense."
"And what do you want us to do?" Asked one of my closest allies in the coven.
I looked out at the crowd gathered here. "I want us to combine with the other two species as we form a plan of action to stop the council."
There were protests among my people. "Why would we do that? We can't go against the council."
"Because they're taking prisoners with no proof of the crime.
They are unethically experimenting on them for their own gain.
We were restrained from interfering when they took our mate away from us.
We can't let them get away with this!" I yelled as my coven began to let that idea sink into their heads.
"Now, I won't force anyone to participate or help out if they don't want to. I'm not my father, I run things differently now. But I do need as many people as possible," I said, looking as my coven stood one by one, pledging their loyalty to the coven, to me, and to my mate.
By the end of our rounds speaking to each of our species, we finally had an army. We just needed a plan.
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Rose's POV
Hours passed before I heard the door unlock again. I watched as men and women wheeled tables and machines into the room as someone walked in with a cloak and hood on. "Well, I knew it wouldn't be long before I was shown the great hospitality of the council."
Everyone ignored me as they set up the machines and tables. Damon came over, taking my chains and pulling me over to one of the tables. "What's going on?" I asked him. He looked at me, clenching his jaw in anger. I was taken aback by his change in attitude.
I was laid onto the table as straps went around my chest, arms, and legs. The only thing that I could move was my head, fingers, and toes at this point. Needles and tubes were hooked up to me as I laid back, wondering when this would be over. I was dreading the pain that they would put me through.
"This is going to be cold," A middle-aged woman said as she lifted my shirt and squirted a liquid gel substance onto my belly. What the hell?
She rubbed a device across my stomach as she looked at a screen. Now don't get me wrong, this seems a lot like an ultrasound but why would they do that? I couldn't get pregnant. It's even been confirmed by doctors.
My eyes widened as I looked at the screen. "What-What is that?" I asked in disbelief at what I saw.
The woman glanced at me. "It's your babies, of course. See?" She said, pointing at a figure on the screen. I've heard that supernaturals have a shorter birth time, but I didn't realize that it would be this fast.
"That can't be possible. I can't have kids," I said, not believing what I see. Is this my next test? To be broken down with heartbreak by losing a fake child?
The woman huffed. "Well, obviously that's not true because there they are."
"They?" I asked, looking at the grainy image of the small fetuses.
I didn't even know what to feel. Happy? Sad?
I had no clue. On one hand, I wouldn't mind having children with my mates but on the other hand, why was I here and how did they know I was pregnant.
I looked the exact same as I did weeks ago.
The woman looked at the other people in the room as they scribbled on clipboards.
"Babies are healthy. One girl and two boys.
" The woman sounded pleased with the news.
She looked over at the hooded figure still standing in the room.
"The possibility of the three of them being tribrids is very good. "
That snapped me out of my thoughts as I realized that they were using me to get to my babies. Who's to say that they wouldn't just lock me up after I gave birth? The thought made my wolf growl in protectiveness.
The hooded figure nodded it's head as it walked out of the room without ever saying a word. I was beyond confused at this point. I had no idea what the council was going to do with me or my babies.
Soon after, I was alone in my room to be left with my thoughts.
I can't believe that I just found out that I was pregnant.
And not with one but three babies. I felt my stomach, smiling on the inside so that the council members couldn't see how happy I was about the news.
They'll just take that happiness away from me.
I rolled over, facing the wall as I closed my eyes. I let the darkness take over me as I hoped to see Atticus in my dreamscape again to give him the news. But he didn't come...he didn't come for a long time...