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Damien p.o.v.

We all wait outside the ER room for the doctor to tell us what's going on with Eros. He's been in there for more than 24 hours now and they won't tell us what's going on. It should just take some healing magic, but they've been taking things that aren't for healing. Nurses keep telling us to not disturb them, because one second could be the difference between life and death. The nurses don't seem to know what's going on, but they do know it's serious.

"This is all your fault," JJ yells at me. I turn to him and see him glaring at me. Freya has her hand around his shoulder, trying to calm him down. "If you did better job, protecting him, we wouldn't be here right now." He is about to charge at me, but Ryder and Derek get in the way, holding him back.

This leads into a huge out screaming match by almost everyone in the room: Hebe, the Castillo kids, the Helios, my parents, my friends. All either defending me or blaming me. I just sat there, not paying attention to them as they fight. No matter what they say, it won't affect how bad I feel right now.

I couldn't defend Eros. I couldn't defend him the one time he actually needed me. He instead jumped in the way and protected me. How am I suppose to defend others if I can't defend one person? How am I suppose to not look at him and not feel guilty? What am I going to do if he doesn't live? Oh God, if he dies I will never get over it.

"Everybody shut the fuck up," I hear Kara yell loudly. This makes everyone stop immediately. We all turn to her and see her fuming, literally. There was smoke coming out of her eyes that would have been comedic if it was any other situation. "M-my s-son is in there fighting for his life and I would much appreciate it if you guys don't yell," she cries. Some tears fall from her face as she looks at us. She falls to her knees and starts sobbing on the ground over Eros. Her mate gets down and wraps his arms around her, trying to comfort her.

I look at everybody and see that everybody is wreck. They've been crying for hours and haven't gotten any sleep since he got checked in. Even little Kai was a mess. Nick tired to cheer him up but Kai would just yell at him and throw stuff at him. Nick being the understanding kid he is, let him. Every once in a while Kai would get guilty and start crying on his shoulder and saying sorry.

"Asher Castillo's family," a doctor says, making us all turn to him. We all basically yelled yes at him, making the doc jump. He fixes his glasses and organizes himself. "Very well. What happened to Asher is very serious, but we have been able to stabilize him...for now."

"What do you mean by, 'for now'," Gabby asks.

"Well the knife that cut him had a curse on it that has no cure. We've been able to subdue the curse, but it will eventually kill him. It has already damaged his mind. We've got our best healing castors on the job and the best telepath. We think they will be able to fix his mind, but it will take time and it won't be as it use to," the doctor explains. This makes everyone gasp and Scarlett to faint.

Everyone stays quiet as we take time to process what happened. We all look at each other, waiting for one of us to say something.

"Can we see him," Kai finally asks. The doctor nods his head and tells us where to go.

'Dame are you there' I hear my uncle Aragon ask in my mind.

'Where else would I be? It is my mind' I answer sarcastically. I'm not in the mood to talk to him.

'I inspected the blade that cut him and I have some great news' he says. I gave him the blade since he's a powerful warrior Castor.

'Uncle there isn't anything we can do. He's--'

'I know. The doctor told me, but all hope is not lost. I checked the cursed blade and found that there might be a cure.'

My eyes go wide at the news. 'What? How? The doctor said there isn't a cure.'

'There isn't an official cure, but there might be an alternative way to cure him.'

'How? I'll try anything.'

'The Blade was created by an Aztec warrior, to try to kill their king. He was able to cut the King, but before he could die, a priest called for help from the gods. One of those gods showed him the spell to cure the King. The priest saved the king and wrote down the cure in the Aztec book of songs.'

'Then let's go get the pages' I was ready to bolt out of that place and go find that spell, but my uncle stopped me.

'The pages that are left are protected by clans and old magical curses and spells. We can't just go grab them. Besides nobody has been able to crack them and even if we were, there isn't any guarantee that the spell is there'

I shake my head. This is the only chance we have to save him and I'll do anything. 'We have to try'

The whole group makes it over to Eros room and we all walk in. His room is a huge mess with things broken, everything's scattered, scorch marks. Eros is laying in bed, asleep, with a nurse attending him. The nurse explains that they had to put him to sleep since he was casting spells and attacking them. She explains that his mind is shattered and everything is confusing him and nothing makes sense to him. Though she said that because of his ability to still use magic is good sign.

She walks out of the room to give us time to see Eros. Kara pushes some of Eros's hair from his face as she looks at him. Everybody takes turn to talk to Eros as if he was awake. Almost everybody cried at one point as they stare at him. They all felt guilty for not being able to protect him.

When it was my turn, I walk over to him and try not to cry. I don't understand why I feel like this. I've never felt this sad in my entire life. I've lost some family members before, but they never made me feel like this. "I don't know what to say Eros. Other than you better not die too soon or else I'm going to kick your butt," I say earning a couple laughs. I sigh as I look at him. "I'm sorry for putting you into this position, but I promise I'll try to save you in any way I can." I put my hand on his shoulder and something weird happens.

I feel a strange jolt before everything disappears around me and I end up in the river place I heard Eros sing. I look around, trying to find out how I got here. I don't have the power to teleport myself here and there wasn't portal opened.

"Damien," I hear a voice say. I turn around and see Eros riding a griffin. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I felt a couple tears start to show, but I blink them away. Eros flies over and lands next to me. He gets off the Griffin and gives me a big hug.

I hug him back and hold him close. I never wanted this moment to end. I felt like I could protect him like this and no harm would ever come to him. "How did I get here," I ask him.

He lets go of me and looks around with a smile. "This is my mind." My eyes go wide. They said that his mind was a mess, but this place doesn't look like a mess. "When I felt the curse trying to destroy my mind, I hid myself in a little part of my mind."

"How?" I've heard of people doing things like this, but it takes time. He created this in a couple of minutes.

"I had a lot of mental blocks in my mind. When I felt the curse, I used them to trap me here. Now the curse can't get to my mind, but I also can't get out," he explains. "How did you get here though?"

I shrug my shoulders. "I just got in here," I say.

He nods his head. "Give me your hand." I do as he says and give him my arm. He starts drawing something on my forearm with his finger. The drawing is glowing purple on my skin. It doesn't hurt at all, but it does feel weird. "There."

I take my hand back and see a number two with a crescent on the top part of the two. "Thanks?"

He rolls his eyes. "That will give you complete access to my grimoires. There is a lot of information in them that might help me get out of here." I bite my lip as I debate whether or not to tell him, he might die. "Hey what's wrong?"

I shake my head. "Nothing. I'm just wondering if I will ever get out of here though," I lie. He opens his mouth to say something, when I feel the same sensation again through my body. Eros disappears and I end up back in the hospital room, where nothing seems to have changed.

I frown as I think about what just happened to me. Was it a daydream, a vision, a hallucination. I then feel a little stinging on my forearm.

I look at it and I see a tattooed two with a crescent on the top.

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