Magnum sighed. He had just got off the phone with Higgins, who had told him that Mimi had had three strong darts in her skin, barely conscious, and Damon had then unexpectedly tried to compel Higgins just to walk away, not knowing that Dresden had equipped her with a compulsion shield.
Higgins was a clever woman, knowing that Damon had fallen prey to the siren as she too recognised the smell, so she had just played along and walked away. Calling in distress and pissed off to Magnum as she couldn't help Mimi.
Magnum was aware of what gig they were up to, and probably again, Bran hadn't considered that it might be a siren behind the whole thing, whereas if Magnum had been asked in the first place, he would have raised the siren as an option, making the gig unsuitable for the men.
There were many competent women in the fleas, Mimi Higgings and Rebecca would have been the perfect trio for this but Bran being ancient-fashioned and not always seeing women working in the field as much as men, what could he do, Magnum picked up his phone and punched in Adam's number.
"Hauptmann," Adam's voice was strained, and Magnum could hear some background noise.
Magnum said, "Magnum here. Mimi is in trouble. At the gig where she and Damon were well, the werewolf liaison is a siren, and she has got Damon, Mimi alerted me by text message and I put Higgins on the spot at that hotel when she was closer. Mimi was drugged up with three darts in her skin and barely conscious, Higgins didn't have time to do anything when she called me, and then Damon came and compelled Higgins, or thought he had, but we have the magic put in place by Dresden to protect us. Higgins didn't want to end up as Damon's meal, so she'd just walked away. Siren's a fucking pain in the ass to kill, and Damon's still on the way, so..."
Adam could hear frustration in Magnum's voice, too. He grunted and said, "You did the right thing. Thanks for the heads up. They're still at the hotel, I think. "
Magnum said, "Yep, they are."
Adam hung up. He felt like he would explode from the rage that threaten to consume him. He walked outside, went over to one of the gigantic pine trees, and banged his fist on it. He was pissed. Those darts were fucking strong, and three darts. Samuel had warned that two darts would put Mimi in a coma for a long time. Adam beat the pine for a while.
Then he called Samuel, made him swear, and they thought of the perfect way to save Mimi. Whatever had been done to her. He thought for a while, then called Magnum back. He called the wizards, and they started cursing. Siren wasn't easy for them either, and they had to make some amulets to protect everyone.
After two days, the strike team was ready, so to speak. They went to the hotel, but there was no one in the room but Mimi—naked, asleep, and freezing cold. White as a sheet and Magnum had to look pretty hard to find any sign of life. Adam rushed into the room and looked through Mimi.
No one knew what had been done to Mimi, and she was now in such a critical condition that Adam grabbed as many sheets as he could, wrapped Mimi as carefully as he could, and carried her in his arms to the car. He didn't even call Samuel as he started rushing as fast as he could through congested New York. The hotel said that Damon and the woman had left a good 24 hours ago and had not returned.
Damon's clothes were gone, so Magnum concluded Mimi had gotten so sick and the couple had gone elsewhere. Magnum and Higgins went off to hunt the wolves. Bran gave the order that every one of them should be killed. Bran cursed very talentedly when he found out it was a siren. He didn't like sirens either and hated them because he was prone to them.
When Adam got to the house he had on his way alerted Samuel back to the house and he came out worried. Adam dashed out of the car and gathered Mimi into his arms. He lifted her from the car protectively, trying to control his urge to growl at Samuel as he approached to see Mimi. Adam felt his instincts to surface and really strong.
Samuel's eyes darkened. He saw Mimi's white face and her coldness, and he had to struggle to hear a heartbeat or breathing. Mimi was a deep coma, her blood pressure was nonexistent, and her temperature was extremely low. Making her system almost shut down.
Samuel opened the door, and Adam strode into the medbay. He laid her on the bed. Samuel took the stethoscope and listened first to her breathing and then to her heartbeat, which was too slow. In the medbay's light, Mimi looked even paler and about to die.
Samuel said " Miss is in such a deep fucking coma but I'm going to give her that reversal drug now but don't expect too much, the way this miss handles the drugs she's probably chopped some of it off so the reversal drug won't work but if there's any intact drugs in there this will bind them, now all we can do is put her in the incubator in the warmth, try to keep an adrenaline drip or something to keep her system a bit more on. Mimosa is also sleeping. I can't say about the duration, but we are watching her. I'll take blood tests in a couple of hours. Her temperature is too low, there is no blood pressure, so to speak. I need to get her a little more stable before I can even try to get something done. This will take time. I do not know what her blood sugar is. She has gotten no caffeine since when. There are so many fucking problems with her right now."
Adam nodded. His eyes flashed yellow, his hands formed a fist as he watched helplessly as he could not help the one he truly loved. It had taken time for him to come to realize this, but he really and truly loved Mimi. He wanted to have a future with her.
Samuel looked at his friend for a moment and said, softening his prognosis just a little. " Mimi will be fine, it'll just take time, she'll be fine."
Adam grunted. He was about to say something but then refrained.
Samuel lifted Mimi into the incubator, which was as warm as possible, put in an adrenaline drip, and fluids, and directed Adam to eat.
He said to his father in his mind, " Mimi is in a coma. Now we'd better find something for Adam to do or he'll start nesting. Well, it may not make Mimi much worse, but if Damon gets rid of the siren while Magnum and Dresden are chasing this, I don't know what will come of it if he barges in and founds Adam nesting Mimi. It could end up bloodshed."
Bran grunted and said, " Yeah, nesting is not a good option right now, not at all. I've got a couple of jobs for Adam that'll keep him busy. Don't you worry about that?"
Samuel was pleased. He was just trying to consider all the options and it could have been a terrible fight if Damon had found Adam nesting Mimi.
After a couple of hours when Mimi's temperature had risen and her blood pressure was high enough to get blood tests, he took them, as it happened the medicine had almost completely split wrongly and even though he had given her a reversal drug, it wasn't much use. Samuel knew that without Salvatore, there was nothing to do but wait and see. Watch the drug go out of her system.
It took time. Samuel took the tests every other day, and the drug was cleaving painfully slowly, but it was cleaving all the time. What Samuel didn't know was what Damon had done to Mimi and what mass was slowly growing inside her.
Similarly, the drugs that were being digested had parts of them going into the molecular store, and that was one reason the drug was digesting slowly when it was digested in a way that gave it a lot of molecules in the store. Mimi hadn't really mentioned once that she had a molecular warehouse where molecules were accumulating all the time.
After a little over four weeks, Mimi's thermoregulation was working, so there was no need for an incubator. They also moved to another house, as there were quite a few gigs in Rhode Island. So Mimi was carried asleep in the car as they drove there for a little over two hours.
There Samuel put Mimi on medbay, and now she might wake up any day. The medicine was pretty much all gone from Mimi's system. Adam had come back and was sitting next to Mimi, watching her. Mimi's color was much better. She was keeping warm, and Samuel was happy with her weight. He just didn't really know what was going on inside her.
I woke up in medbay. That's what I figured out. Then I remembered the whole horseshit gig. I didn't know how long I'd been here, but I was pregnant and about to abort. I was already in cramps, and I felt the pressure building up. It was going to be a flood, and it was going to be bad.
The cramps were already gnawing at my belly really hard, and I was moaning. I tried to get up, and I was still completely powerless. The medicine was still on somehow. I couldn't get my body to work as it should. Not at all. I heard footsteps. They were coming closer.
Adam came from somewhere and said, " Oh, you're awake at last. Luckily, Magnum was a smart enough guy to know right away that Damon wasn't right. You've been asleep for five weeks."
Five weeks. This was going to be tough. I tried to concentrate on breathing as the pain surged through my body.
Adam looked at me and said, "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
I said to Adam. "I'm pregnant. Salvatore and about to miscarry and it's going to be bad. I feel a flood coming, so it's going to smell, and it's going to be bad. "
Adam said, " Well, let's go back to bed now. Try to relax."
I could see that Adam was worried and made me lie back down. He touched my forehead, frowned, and cursed softly.
Adam said in his mind to Samuel, "Mimi is awake. Salvatore impregnated Mimi, and she's having a miscarriage, complaining of pain and she feels boiling already."
Soon Samuel came in with a frown.
"What did you say?" he asked Adam.
I said, "Damon bred me. I'm still full of Damon's sperm. Then that fucking Salvatore bit the ovulation trigger and when Reyes did what he did. I feel the pressure and I have cramps going on. I can handle it myself because this stinks and a lot of it's been stewing for five weeks."
I started shaking as the fever started to rise.
Samuel looked at me gently and said, "I'll get the medicine. You sleep and I'll cut everything out of you. We'll see how we can get rid of the sperms then, but I will not let you have an abortion."
Having said that, Samuel can be quick. He walked to the drug cabinet and made a cocktail.
Samuel said to Adam in his mind, " Keep Mimi calm. I will be right there and put her to sleep. Now, are you able to help with the operation? "
Adam said, " Yes I am able."
Samuel said, " Good, because it will not be clean or odorless, but I will not let that girl go through with it. "
Samuel quickly got the medicine and came over to me.
He said, "Well, now you go to sleep and when you wake up, you'll be fine. I wouldn't let you wake until you're fine. "
The needle was in my vein before I knew it. I fell back asleep.
Samuel went and set up the operating theatre and got Mimi there. Adam came in to help. Even though he wasn't a doctor now, he wasn't weak in the knees and helped as best he could. Mimi's uterus was full of a mass, a black, greenish mass smelling like some kind of space monster, stuck to the uterine walls.
Samuel removed the uterus and the ovaries. He didn't even open the uterus as he removed the entire eight-kilo uterus whole, put it in a metal barrel and set it on fire. He put Damon's blood in, but again, it didn't seem to calm the incipient inflammation.
Samuel suspected that Damon's sperm was to blame. Mimi's will and rage caused Mimi's body to see them as pathogens and react appropriately. Samuel and Adam flushed and removed all the organs. They were trying to reduce the amount of sperm that could be present.
Now we'd just have to watch Mimi and see what the outcome would be. Mimi grew new organs and Samuel carefully blocked the multiplication enzyme. He could say nothing about the infection. It would be pretty much up to Mimi's own will.
I woke up. I was tired, but the horrible feeling of pressure and dirtiness had gone. I was no longer cold and there was no pain. I didn't really understand Damon, but again, he had a defence. Siren. I didn't care.
Luckily, I recovered. Samuel assured me that there was no more sperm inside me. I felt it myself. I started eating again and took a shower. We were on Rhode Island. Samuel said that Bran would spare none of those wolves and Magnum was out looking for them and killing them with Higgins.
I wondered what was next. I don't know, I thought, see if I might go to medical school at some point. I sat down to dinner and thought I tried to remember the last time me and Damon had a good time together, then I realised it hadn't been for a long time. Not since Bran destroyed my pheromone and even before that, there were crises.
I was much closer to Adam than I am with Damon now, and I didn't regret it. We were a couple. We had a bond like I had with Damon, but Adam chose me. No gigs or strange women. Why should I deny myself a perfect relationship when my husband doesn't want to be with me when I don't have pheromones?
Adam and I had a pretty lovely two weeks before he left for the gigs, though. We went shopping, fucked wildly all night every night, went to concerts, movies and went out for dinner. Adam was so particular about what I could and couldn't eat. He bought me flowers; we went to a couple of clothes shops. I bought him clothes for a change. Well, yes, he bought me underwear then, and we had a very passionate time every night in bed.
After a couple of weeks, he asked me exactly every flea problem I had, and he took care of it. It seemed almost that he and Magnum were soon to be the new flea leaders. No, I wasn't in the mood for a gig. I just wanted to have some good time of my own.
I had never been to so many places; I mean concerts, or all the different food places we went to. I just found out what a relationship can be at its best, and I had never done that kind of stuff with Damon. We just fucked. That's all I did with Damon and I realized that maybe that's why he spends time with other women, takes them out, to the movies. When they deserve it, they're much more feminine than I am.