It had been a few days, Alexia could not understand why everything had happened. She knew her father was dangerous, but she did not think that he would try something like this. She heard someone come into her room, she was feeling a lot better and was sitting up, even though she should take it slow it frustrated her to lie like this doing nothing. She turned her head and saw the guy who saved her, she smiled at him he smiled back and walked further in, he was still scared she might freak out if he came too close to her. She laughed a little, "I won't bite" she said softly, her throat was still tender, but she was a strong person and did not say anything about it.
Owen smiled and walked to her bedside and sat down , "How are you feeling?" he asked her, she still looked fragile, but better than a few days ago. He had been so busy he barely came to visit her, and he appologized but she only said it was fine, she understands .
Alexia smiled again "I am good, feeling much better, no need to worry" she said and took a sip of water, she smiled again at him, he was an interesting person and she wanted to get to know him better. Not just because he saved her life, but because she felt this weird feeling, like she wanted to be close to him. She heard someone drop something outside in the hall and she got startled, she closed her eyes and shook her head, she was scared that her father might find her, might find out that she was alive.
Owen saw that she was jumpy he frowned, "What happened the night of the accident?" he asked, he wanted to know why the man did what he did. But he had a feeling that it has something to do with her father, because the first night he came to check up on her after she had awoken she was having a nightmare and was saying father no the whole time.
Alexia turned her head and looked back at him, she had a frown on her face. She did not know if she should tell him, one of her biggest problems, her worst fear. She took a deep breath, and then started telling him about her father being a mafia leader, she finding out stuff that she should not have, and he trying to kill her. The night of the accident she had took some money and ran, she got into his car and drove. She drove as fast as she could, as far as she could. She did not expect her father to send someone after her so fast, she thought she had a little bit of time. But obviously she was wrong.
Owen listened to her story, he frowned, he did not expect this to be what happened. He put two and two together, "So if he found out that you are still alive he will kill you" he said, he stood up and poured her some more water into her glass before sitting down again, but this time next to her on her bed by her feet. He pointed at the pair of dog tags on the bedside table, "Tell me how you got there" he asked her. He knew he was being nosey but he wanted to find out as much as he can about her. She intrigued him.
Alexia nodded at his first question and then she turned her head to look at the dog tags that lay on the bedside table, she picked it up and held it in her hands looking at them before she looked at him again, "I joined when I was 18, I always wanted to be a doctor, I had many options, a lot of Universities begged me to go and study with them, but I also knew I had to make a difference" she said and paused for a moment and then went further, "I knew what my father was since I was 15, but at that stage it did not bother me, untill I got older. Then the guilt got me, i had heard a lot of stories being told about him killing people when he did not get his money, and I knew from then that I wanted to be different, I wanted to help people, so I joined the army" she said and smiled slightly, "I know it sounds silly, and childish, but I worked my way up, finished my medical degree, then two months ago I came back, I had been injured during my last tour and was send home untill further notice." she stopped for a moment and drank some of the water.
She sighed, "That is when I knew something was wrong, something was different. I hid away in my room a lot, trying to stay out of my fathers way, only sitting down for breakfast and dinner" she hesitated, "One evening I was going to the kitchen to get some water when I passed my father's study, and I heard them talking about killing people and drug money and other stuff, I just slowly took a step back and went back to my room, i thought they did not see me but I was wrong" she said and then she put the dog tags around her neck looking up at him again.
Owen frowned and listened, he did not expect her to open up to him, he took her hand in his and smiled, "Thank you for telling me your story" he said, then his pager went off, he looked at it and sighed softly, "I need to go, I am sorry, I will be back to check up on you as soon as I can" he said and then went out.