29. Do You Know?

As Damon held his dying wife in his arms, digging his fangs into her neck vein, draining desperately substance in there, trying to help her stay alive, he almost prayed in his mind. 

Knowing that this would need pack effort and maybe Mariella's savior substances could help, Damon said to Mariella in his mind, through their bond, " Darling, Mimi is poisoned. Damien poisoned her badly. She has at this moment six straps and I'm going to get a good fight to keep them up with the help of Mimosa's miracle drug. She is in my arms, dying, and I am not sure if I can help her. She also smells like drugs and she has been jellied and badly too. We're on our way to Minnesota. I'll teleport us in just a minute and we'll see if we can keep the lady's straps."

Mariella was startled, it's already a dangerous poison if you can get Mimi's straps off so mimo's stuff won't work. Need to think of a solution. Well easy, she and Mimosa will start maintaining Mimi's straps as soon as Damon teleports here and then both of Damons can start combat the poison and make the strap bags drip. also, Charles and Adam have to be here too. They can cannulate her, and the more hands on deck, the better. She delivered the news to Mimosa, who started to swear in her mind, and soon the wolf teleported to Mariella, her fur all frizzled up. 

Mariella replied to Damon, keeping her voice steady despite adrenaline flooding her veins, "As soon as you get here, I and Mimosa will start to strap Mimi, and you and two will examine the poison. Adam and Charles will cannulate her and put strap bags to go. You take a tube of blood so I can sniff too if you don't come up with a solution right away, but probably Damon, you'll have to have your teeth around Mimi's neck now. Maybe poison needs chopping right away as soon you can identify it and it might take time for the machine to make it."

Damon said, "Fine, no problem."

He was relieved when Mariella gave him a solution to how to move forward. He was surprised by his own reaction to this too, but this had just been too much for him. To see, and feel her dying in his arms and that time when she had been dead had come so vividly in his mind and despite the assurances that Faes had given, he could not be certain that she could not die again. He did not want to take the chance.

Mariella felt his distress over Mimi and she knew that despite their relationship, there was genuine love between those two, and having his wife dying in his arms had made Damon almost panic. She was certain that there was a story behind this too and maybe several too, but now it was time to focus. She was already doing that miracle substance, feeling it filling her fangs, readying her to be the savior. This was not easy time for any one of them and she needed to be full on this. 

After talking with Mariella, Damon instructed other pack members. Men were still on fairgrounds and he needed everyone to move to Minnesota, and fast.

He said to the other men, "Mimi is poisoned, and the strap problem. Now everyone moves to Minnesota, and let's see if we can get this poison out. As soon as we get there, Adam and Charles, you two cannulate Mimi and hang strap bags to drip, Mariella and Mimosa will strap her with their teeth until those bags start to work, two, we have to identify to poison and get rid of it, as soon as possible and hope that it is not harmful to others. "

The men did as they were told. Teleportation to Minnesota did not take long, and they went to cabinets in the medbay to get supplies, so they were ready as soon as Damon would deliver her. 

Damon kept Mimi's straps barely in ten. He had a few more straps for this one, too. Ten weak straps and he had to focus on everything he had all the time. Damon teleported them to the medbay and still had to concentrate the whole time to hold on to the 8-10 straps that were still there weakened. He felt he was fighting against an enemy, invisible, merciless enemy and this would take so much out of him. 

He laid Mimi down on the bed, keeping his fangs in her neck and draining the substance. He felt Mariella doing spells and undressing Mimi's lower body. Feeling her cooled, naked skin in his grip made his desperation even worse. He felt when the wolf and woman climbed into bed and moved Mimi's legs; he let Mariella and Mimosa search Mimi's femoral arteries. They soon positioned themselves and sank their fangs into her arteries, strapping her.

Then Mariella told Damon, " We're working. Just let go. Start to get rid of this poison."

Damon unhooked his fangs from Mimi's neck vein and watched her with his teeth out for a moment longer to see if the straps would hold. His heart seemed to try to beat for her and he realized it was because she was his vampire wife. Their heart would beat in unison and his heart was trying to help hers. Those fickle straps, they held. They did and even got a little stronger.

Damon went to the cupboard, took the bags of straps, and handed them to Charles, who had already cannulated Mimi. Adam had started the machine that could synthesize their dental substances, most of them. He was ready to put formula there if salvatores could find one that would neutralize the poison.

Next, Damon took one open blood tube and needle. He went to her, dug her arm out, took a tube of Mimi's blood from the crook of her elbow, and sniffed. He cursed harshly in his mind. This would not be easily chopped out. The poison was complicated, and he gave the tube to Mariella when it was clear that Mimi's straps were stable and the bags were dripping. Mimosa kept her fangs in her femoral artery, but Mariella could take hers out. Damon was not happy. Now, he had to get the poison out of harm's way quickly.

Mariella sniffed the tube for a moment and said, "That formula, now for starters, will break down that poison so that it doesn't affect the straps. We can handle the other consequences. If we need to replace her organs, we can do that. That poison is hard for her kidneys and liver. So she might need surgery."

Adam got the formula programmed into the machine and it would not take more than a few hours first batch to be ready. They did the stuff, and Damon put the collectors in his teeth because he wanted to work. He got the first bag in less than fifteen minutes and he put in her cannula to drip. They soon got to make more. It was quick to make, as number two made it too as well as Mariella, and within 24 hours, the poison was harmless to her straps but still might harm her organs. 

Men took the rest of the clothes off from her and checked her body. But Mimi was asleep. Damon had smelled at least ten different anesthetics, and sedatives, in huge doses and strong concentrations, so Mimi would be asleep for a long time. They operated on her 48 hours later when that poison was fully chopped off and replaced her organs. All the jelly had been absorbed already. 

He didn't understand why Damien would have wanted to put Mimi so deeply to sleep until they looked up the vest that she had worn, Damon realized Damien had controlled the amount of the drug and when the escape had come, he had stuffed all the drugs away.

And the drugs had been absorbed because they had to get the poison out. The poison had now completely paralyzed Mimi's reproductive system, and neither Damon nor Mariella could say how long it would be before another litter of puppies came along. The poison had destroyed her ovaries and wombs, and she had not yet grown new ones. 

Sedatives were their problem, but for now, Damon just watched his comatose wife, desperately sniffing her blood, taking tube after tube, and cursing in his mind when he couldn't smell a thing. The medicine was in the blood in such small amounts, and even though they had made all kinds of substances to help.

Mimi kept going through the various binders and mockers that everyone had been doing, but Mimi wouldn't wake up. It was always seeping from somewhere in her blood and keeping her in a coma, despite how hard he put choppers in her blood. Concentration was too high, and he knew that he would have to find where the drugs had been accumulated in order to get awake. 

There was too much medicine, and Damon didn't know where or how it was absorbed. Somewhere in between, he could be like Sark and start taking tissue samples and see if there was a solution, but right now, he needed to decompress. Damien had escaped. He was feeling too much, and he had to find a way to get this feeling less.

He needed to fuck himself in shape, and he hated himself because of it. He hated his weakness. Once again, he would have abandoned her, not be a scientist and find those drugs but be a fucking machine and go to The Azores to continue fucking vacation. 

Adam and Charles had gone to the fleas to handle the interrogations. Damon wanted some victims for himself, but the men went in mostly to put an end to that. But they did not get a list of the victims and they were not sure that they knew every victim that had been kidnapped. Indian man was not on the list nor in any places that they visited, fleas who knew about that operation, assumed that he was dead.

Damon knew that he might want to talk with Mimi once she was awake, but then again, she had been working and she had been a flea, not a pack member, so he was a little unsure how to handle it. He just wanted her to wake up, to open her eyes so he could tell her that he loved her too, but she was in a coma and Damon just could not help her. 

Damon went to Mariella and Two, and they went to the Azores for a while longer. Mariella knew this had to be done because, for a week now, Damon hadn't come to bed after sitting next to Mimi's bed, taking her blood, sniffing it. Damon had to get unloaded, and now he had to do it away from Mimi.

Mariella felt his despair and knew that in a perfect world, Damon could have worked and found where that drug was, but this was not a perfect world and she wanted him to recover and deal with this. Sex was the way and despite that, Mariella felt they were abandoning Mimi, a pack member. This was a must-have thing to happen.

Mariella also told Adam and Charles that they could move Mimi somewhere, and Damon didn't have to be told. Because Mariella couldn't stand to watch Damon's desperation any longer, it was as if Damon had to have Mimi cured. It was a soap opera, this pack life of theirs. She had no idea what Mimi had told Damon before drugs had taken her. She did not know about her professing her love for him, so she did what she thought was best: take Damon to herself and make him immerse himself in sex. 

Charles and Adam took Mimi to a new ranch in Australia that Charles had just gained through the fleas. Someone there knew that this was one ranch that Mimi had thought of buying. He'd told Damon about it, but he didn't mind Charles buying it. They went back and took care of Mimi, be with her if in any way she sensed or sensed that they were close. They would hold her, keep her with them, and maybe she would react at some point a bit. Only time would tell what to do and when she would awaken.