I coughed as more smoke filled my lungs. All I could hear was that loud ringing noise in my ears. Lincoln was moving his mouth but I'm not sure what he was saying. He pulled me up and carried me out of the smoke filled office and into the hallway. There was fire everywhere out here. Luckily Erin and Jake were in the pack hospital but I wasn't sure about Brent. No one else should have been in here at this time not even the Omegas or chefs. I hung onto Lincoln for dear life as he dodged falling pieces of the ceiling. He finally got us out of the house and gently placed me on the ground.

His mouth began moving again but I still couldn't hear much, everything was muffled. He then ran back into the house leaving me lying on the front lawn.

James suddenly filled my view, I tried to sit up but he gently pushed me back down.

"Where?" That's all I could make out. I went to yank at my hair not sure why Nothing was working with me right now and when I saw my hands they were completely covered in blood. James looked away from me and at the house. Before I could stop him he ran into the house. Why were they all running into the fire? I groaned as I felt a wave of dizziness wash through me. I needed to go help them.

I slowly got up and began limping into the house. The smell of smoke filled my lungs again making me cough uncontrollably as my eyes burned. I pushed through the hallway nearly tripping over a wood beam that fell from the ceiling. I was coughing like crazy right now but I had to find Lincoln and James. I needed to know that they were okay.

I found a staircase and started making my way up. Once I got to the top I began walking towards our room. The building was a complete disaster. I needed to find them soon before this whole place falls to the ground. I suddenly heard someone calling my name. I turned to see James running towards me. He was sprinting towards me and yelling something I couldn't quite make out when all of a sudden a wood beam fell down landing right on him. I screamed and ran over to him. There was fire everywhere in this hallway now, I fell to the ground and tried to pull it off of him but it was barely moving. I cried out in pain as the wood beam burnt my hands from being so hot. He was groaning on the ground as blood was spilling onto the floor in a puddle next to him. I examined it further and saw that a giant wooden spike that must have fallen with the ceiling impaled his stomach. I raised my hands prepared to cast a spell but nothing was happening.

"No! No! No!"

"James hold on." I spoke. I used my werewolf strength and tried to get the beam up but it wasn't even budging.

"Help! Someone help!" I screamed as tears streamed down my face.

"I..am...very...proud.......of you" he coughed out blood dribbling down his chin from his mouth.

"Help!" I looked down at James and his eyes were closing. "No! No! No! Keep your eyes open!" I cried as I tried to shake his shoulders. I stuck my hands under the beam and tried to cover his wound to stop him from bleeding.

"Help!" I tried again. I reached up to his neck to feel for a pulse and when I didn't feel one I lost it. I began shoving at the beam burning my arms further.

"Brielle I heard you yelling where are you!" Said Lincoln through the mind-link.

"Help! Help! Help! It's James upstairs!" I screamed through the link.

Within minutes Lincoln was upstairs and looking at the horrifying scene in front of us. I continued to shake James trying to wake him up.

"No no no no I can't lose you too!" I screamed at his limp body. I heard more creaking from the ceiling but didn't care. Lincoln tore his eyes away from the devastating scene and grabbed ahold of me, sprinting down the stairs. Once we got outside he laid me down next to Brent. I was wiggling in his grasp and screaming as tears flowed down my cheeks.

He's gone. He's gone. He's gone. He's gone.

"Lana treat them." It was Jake I think. My vision was blurry from all of the tears. I couldn't lose James. He was my best friend.

I curled up into a ball ignoring the pain as I cried my heart out.

"Luna I need to look at you." Spoke Lana trying to get me out of my ball.

When she realized she was getting no where with me she went to Brent and began assessing his burns. I felt a hand touch my arm making me flinch. Jake was trying to get me to roll over but I didn't want to move. I wanted the ground to swallow me whole right now.

"Brielle!" Growled Jake. "Cmon you are bleeding like crazy." I just ignored him. I didn't care.

I felt a needle poke into my arm catching me off guard. My eyes suddenly began getting droopy and soon darkness clouded over my vision.

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I woke up to an annoying beeping noise. Everything hurt. I slowly leaned up but then started to cough violently.

"Hey look whose awake." I looked to my left to see Brent covered in bandages.

"I feel better than I look." He laughed seeing my face.

James is gone. James is gone. Where is Lincoln?

"Brent? Where is Lincoln?" I asked starting to panic.

"He's probably at the pack house trying to stop the fires. He wouldn't let the doctors bring him back here."

I slowly scooted my legs off of the bed.

"Stop it Brielle! You are in no condition to get out of that bed!" I ignored him and gripped onto the thin mattress hoping my legs wouldn't give out.

"James is... I need to go see if he's okay." I groaned as I felt a searing pain flow through my head.

"What? What happened to James?" He asked.

"He's dead." I cried.

I limped out of the room and towards the exit ignoring the nurses that were calling for me. I got to the pack-house within about twenty minutes with my slow poke speed. Pack members were spraying our house with hoses as Lincoln stood in the front of it in the same
spot I last saw him. I waddled over and he didn't even realize that I was there, I stood next to him and squeezed his hand but he yanked it away like he just touched silver.

"Lincoln? Why don't you come with me so you can see the pack doctor?" I said to him noticing blood running down his arm.

"Lincoln?" I tried again, but he was so out of it.

"Lincoln can you hear me?" I mumbled. He glanced down at me with so much hatred I had
to place a hand over my heart at what it was feeling right now.

"You're the reason he's dead." He growled before walking away from me.

A/N
😭😭😭 James is dead.....
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