Logan POV
Logan was sitting in Elder Michael's house, they had been discussing Emma. Michael had come across only one situation like this in his long life, where the younger twin had tried to shift before the older twin. The older being female and the younger being male, just like Emma and Dylan. Although in that situation, the female didn't want to be alpha. She had met her mate and they wanted to explore the world, and they couldn't do that if she was alpha. The same thing happened though, when the male tried to shift first, it started to killed his sister. But they didn't have an audience and when the pain hit her, the brother stopped shifting to check on her.
Once he stopped shifting, her pain stopped. He didn't shift enough to cause any damage to his sister the way Dylan did with Emma. They also didn't know that him shifting first was what was causing it, so when he made sure his sister was ok, he started his shift again. Then the pain hit her again and he stopped, then her pain stopped. After that they realized him trying to shift was causing it. The next time, she did her shift first and was able to complete it without any pain to her brother.
After she shifted, he completed his shift. Normally an alpha wolf is much larger than a lower ranking wolf, but in their case, her wolf was not much larger than her brother's. The consulted with Michael and told him what had happened and what they needed to do to transfer the alpha from her to him. A lot of research later, Michael was able to find a solution.
There was a special ceremony that needed to be held, under the second full moon of a single month, called a blue moon. When the blue moon is at its highest peak, which is midnight, they stand together and pray to the moon goddess. The eldest prays to the moon goddess telling her that they do not wish to be alpha and give the reason why they do not want to be the alpha. After they pray to the moon goddess, they both shift at the same time. If the moon goddess hears their prayers and grants their request, she will transfer the alpha from the older sibling to the younger sibling.
When they prayed to the moon goddess, she granted their request, and once the brother received the alpha from his sister, he grew and his sister got smaller. Although the difference between them at first was only a few inches, after the transfer, he towered over his sister by almost a foot. His sister being the same size as a lower ranking wolf, which is what size her brother should have been to start with.
Michael suspected the reason he was almost as big as her to start with was because it had been meant for him to be born first and him being the true alpha and the moon goddess was just returning things back to how they were meant to be in the first place.
Logan had asked Michael what would happen if the moon goddess didn't grant the request. Michael didn't know the answer. They both spent time doing research, but couldn't find anything. Having had enough of reading, Logan closed the book and pushed it away.
"Hopefully the moon goddess will honor the mate bond more than the alpha." Logan said. "But if not, then what? Does Emma just keep the alpha and Dylan never get it, but still act as alpha?"
"Alpha Logan, I honestly don't know. Let's just pray that she grants their prayers, if not, try again on the next blue moon. Maybe keep trying every blue moon until she does." Michael replied.
Logan sighed and ran his hands down his face in exasperation.
"Don't be discouraged Alpha. I'm betting that with you and Emma both being the last of the pure Highborns, the moon goddess will grant her request." Michael told him.
"I sure hope so." Logan said, then asked him a question that has been nagging at him. "If she doesn't grant Emma's request and can't give the alpha to Dylan, then she can't be our pack's Luna and their pack's Alpha. Will I have to reject her as my mate?"
Michael thought about this for a moment before he answered. "Again, I'm not sure what will have to happen. But it is possible that you both may have to reject the mate bond if she can't give her alpha to her brother."
Logan buried his face in his hands. He silently sent up his own prayer to the moon goddess for that to not have to happen. The mate bond is a sacred bond and they aren't meant to be rejected, which is why second chances are rarely given. Surely with a sacred bond the moon goddess wouldn't force them to have to reject each other. There had to be a reason she made them mates.
Granted if him and Emma hadn't of met and become mates, she wouldn't have been sneaking out the night of Dylan's shifting ceremony and nobody would have realized she was hurt. Dylan would have completed his shift and Emma would have died. Could that have been the only reason the moon goddess made them mates? Because otherwise Emma would have died? Logan sighed again and Michael looked at him.
"Alpha? What's on your mind?" Michael asked.
"I'm just wondering if the only reason Emma and I are mates was to save her life." Logan answered.
"Do you really think that she would have died?"
"Yes, I do. The only reason Dylan's shift got stopped was everyone heard her scream outside from the side of the house. The only reason she was outside was she was sneaking down to get into my car. If we hadn't of become mates, she wouldn't have been sneaking out to my car. She would have been up in her room, with nobody around to hear her, and Dylan would have finished the shift."
It was Michael's turn to sigh. "Then it is possible that the moon goddess made you and Emma mates to save her life. But I also have faith that she fated you two together for other reasons. After all, she could have had anyone at that party be her mate. She could've mated her with a beta, then she wouldn't have to be in the position to give up her alpha. There are several different things that the moon goddess could have or could not have done. It's not up to us to question her decisions, it's just up to us to have faith in her."
"But aren't we questioning her by having Emma pray to give Dylan her alpha?" Logan asked.
"No, that isn't questioning her, just simply making a request." Michael answered.
"We still don't know what to do if the moon goddess doesn't let Emma's alpha go to Dylan. I won't reject her, I can't." Logan said.
"I will call the other pack elders and see if any of them know about any of this. Maybe one of them will have the answers we need."
"How long do we have until the next blue moon?" Logan asked.
Michael looked at the calendar he had on his desk, flipping through the months. "It looks like we have two more months before a blue moon occurs. That should be enough time to figure this out. If not, the next blue moon will be five months after."
"Let's hope we can have this figured out in two months. I don't want to have to wait seven months, and I'm sure Emma doesn't want to have to wait that long either."
"Emma and Dylan will both need to shift before the blue moon. Do you think she will be strong enough to complete her first shift before then? It will be easier for them to turn during the full moon." Michael told Logan.
"I am going to make sure she does exactly what the doctor says. As long as she does what he says, she should be. I will let Doc know when and see if he believes she will be. If not then we will have to wait, I won't chance her health or her life, even if we do have to wait seven months. We will plan on them doing their first shift during the first full moon and the ceremony the second. Just find out all you can by the first full moon and we will go from there."
"I will start making calls right away Alpha." Michael said as he began to rummage through his desk drawers looking for his phone book.
Logan was almost to the door when Michael spoke again. "And Alpha?"
Logan turned around, "Yes?"
"Have faith. Everything will work out the way they are meant to."
Logan nodded and turned and walked out. He just wished he had Michael's faith. Especially now, because he was absolutely terrified that there was a chance he could now lose his mate. He tried to push it to the back of his mind, he would worry about that if and when Michael finds out more. Right now, he just wanted to get home to his mate, while she was still his mate. He wanted to spend as much time with her as possible and take care of her and get her as strong as he can.
He got in the driver's seat of his car and pulled out his phone and dialed the number to the doctor. It went straight to voicemail. He left a message explaining everything that him and Michael talked about and asked him to call him back as soon as he could. He hung up the phone as he pulled out of Michael's driveway and headed home.
Now he just had to find the right way to break all this to Emma without getting her upset. He really just wanted to wait until he knew something for sure, but he didn't want to keep anything from her either. But he would wait until after she is off of bedrest and is able to be up and moving around. That way she could at least keep busy and keep her mind off of it. If he told her now, she wouldn't be able to do anything but lay in bed worrying about it, and he was worrying about it enough for the both of them