A War Worth Fighting For

Jinxx’s POV
I am very aware of what’s going on around me although it feels and sounds like I’m trapped in a bubble. I can’t open my eyes and I can’t speak. I also can’t will my body to move.
They think I’m giving up, I wish I could tell them that I’m not, that I am very much alive and wanting to be with them. Now CC has gone off and I can’t even tell him goodbye and good luck, and that I love him too.
And Rayne, my poor Rayne. It breaks my heart to hear her crying over me. To feel her tears spill over my chest and not be able to hold her and let her know everything is ok. It will be ok.
I can’t take any more of this state of suspension, the blackness that surrounds me. I have to fight harder. My own screams echo in my head….
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Raynes POV
I jump awake at the sound of my mate screaming. I roll over trying to shake him awake. This is the first time he’s made a noise aside from a small, incoherent mumble. “Jinxx, c’mon baby wake up!!”
“What the hell’s going on in here?”
Ash came bursting through the door of the room when the screams started. I had to yell over Jinxx, “I don’t know, he just started screaming out of nowhere!”
Andy, Jake and the girls were the next to come through the doorway in a panic. “Ray, could he be going through the same thing he did when you were captured by Lyzander?”
“No Jules, all of you listen,” Andy was screaming over him as well, “He isn’t screaming in pain or sadness, its frustration and anger. He’s trying to fight his way back!”
The little lightbulb flickered on in the back of my head, Ash noticed my expression before I could even say anything, “What are you thinking Rayne? What’s your plan?”
“Emotional Projection, give him the strength he needs to find his way back to us, and show him we love him and that we are here for him.”
We all placed our hands on him, hopefully helping him through whatever darkness he was trapped in. He’s been long healed, completely healthy for a mortal.
I try using our connection, not sure if it will work. He hasn’t been mortal for years, and we are unsure if he will remember how to use that when he awakens. “Please baby, come back to us! Fight through it!”
“My love, I’m trying. It’s like a box I can’t get out of!”
“Keep trying, find our strength and use it!”
Quickly the connection fades, and his screams of frustration become louder. His head starts tossing which can only mean he’s getting control of his body.
“C’mon guys, keep helping him fight. He’s with us.”
As if yelling to a teammate, the guys start calling to him. Then the girls.
“Rayne, we can’t keep this up much longer!”
“GODDAMNIT ANDY, KEEP GOING!! DON’T GIVE UP!!”
Like electricity coming from a power surge, energy passes through our bodies and we are thrown back against the walls, Jinxx sits straight up panting and gasping for air. Bringing his knees to his chest, hugging them tightly he looks at me with fear in his eyes, “You do still love me, even like this, wingless…right?”

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