I woke up with tubes sticking out of my arms and beeping noises. I looked up to see Walter busy with something across the room. I returned the attention to myself. Most of my body was covered in gauze and stitches. I tried to remember what happened to me last but it only made my head spin. I shifted my position to semi sitting. Big mistake. A surge of pain rain up my spine. "Ugh." I made a face.
"You shouldn't be moving." Alucard said from behind me. I glared but didn't turn around.
"And you shouldn't be hovering." I said slightly ticked. I can do whatever I want! I turned to get up, fighting the pain. Trying my best to keep my face calm. If I was right it was almost night and it was a full moon tonight. "What happened?" I cringed knowing Alucard would rub it in.
"You were fighting with Shadow and you crashed into the ground after jumping off a building with him. You were already beat up." He paused and seemed slightly confused. "Even so you healed fast."
"How fast?" I gave him a look.
"Considering the extent of your injuries, you should have died. And if you didn't then you should have been hospitalized for several months."
"And how long was a asleep for?"
"A few days." He made a face.
"And that surprises you? I mean I'm not human and I'm not fragile. Plus werewolves heal fast. Tonight is a full moon and I will be completely healed." I started to rip off the gauze when he interrupted me.
"How did you know it was a full moon and day time?" I didn't look up from my work.
"Well for one my kind has a excellent sense of time. Two we get stronger during a full moon. And three you look more sluggish then usually, so its day time." He gave me a hard stare then sat on a sofa nearby. I heard a chuckle from behind us and remember Walter was here too.
As I ripped off some bandages I knocked some stitches open and warm blood started to roll down my arm. Absently I wiped it off my arm then remember who my company was. I smirked, now I could have some fun. He seemed to know what I was up to. I walked over to him and held my hand right in front of his face. "You want it, but you can't have it! You want to lick my hand, but you can't! Ha ha!" He snarled and went to lunge at me. I saw wires flash in front of me and then Walter was there.
"You know better than that Alucard." He turned to me. "And you let him be." I don't know why but I felt more afraid of Walter at that moment than Alucard. I just nodded and walked out of the room.
I wondered down the hall till I found myself in the kitchen. Well it's not a bathroom but it'll do. Carefully unwrapping the gauze I went over to the sink. I turned the the knob and painfully cool water rained down onto my cuts. Slowly the water warmed up and it rinsed away all traces of blood from my arm. Slowly I swung my arm to let it air dry. After a minute or two I stopped and grabbed the gauze. Urgh I hate this stuff. In vain I tried to reapply it to my sore arm. Sadly I lack the medical expertise that Walter has so it ended up looking like a blind monkey had done it.
"You need to go back and lay down." The low assertive voice came from only a foot behind me. How had I not noticed him earlier? His materializing powers are highly annoying.
I turned around to face him; unfortunately he has over a head on me. Having to literally look up at people bothers me. Yet another thing to go on my 'Reasons to hate Alucard list'. "Leave me alone." I said icily. It was hard to deal with him when I was well, but being hurt cuts my patience in half.
"At least go and lay down till the full moon. I'll wake you when it's in its apex." He looked solemn and honest. How dare he calm my anger? None the less it worked.
"All right but not a minute longer." I averted my gaze. I couldn't look him in the eyes. I'm bitter because I lost and now I'm taking it out on him. He doesn't deserve it. At least not this time. He put his hand on my shoulder and we both vanished only to reappear in the room I was just in. Reluctantly I sat back down onto the bed and let Walter proceed to hook all of the tubes and wires back onto me. The bed was comfortable and sleep came quickly...as did the nightmares.
Alucard stood hovering over the bed. She went to sleep fairly quickly, but not soon after she started to tremble. It might have been from the pain, but then little gasps came from her. "Walter why didn't she have these fits earlier?" Now she was having a full blown nightmare.
"Before she was in an unconscious sleep, she wasn't thinking at all. Now her mind is free to wonder." Alucard looked down at her fussing in the bed. Perhaps?... His mind reached out to her, probing her mind to find what was troubling the poor werewolf. All of a sudden a impenetrable wall came down. He tried to find any way of getting through, but it was as sturdy as lead.
"She could not do this when she was awake so how can she do it in her sleep?" Considering how most things went his way this was extremely frustrating.
Judging by his face Walter guessed that she had put up a mental wall to keep people out. "Perhaps what she is seeing is personal. It's something traumatic that she doesn't want anyone to see. Most likely she has no clue she's even doing it." Now this peeked the vampire's interest. Seeing now that he was not going to let sleeping dogs lie. (No pun intended) Walter left the room to go attend to the chores.
Curious as to the reason of her adamant discomfort Alucard walked closer and placed his hand on her forehead, trying again to read her mind. The wall was still up, however at his touch she noticeably calmed down. He placed his other hand over hers and her trembling ceased. So physical contact soothes her, he thought to himself. He grabbed a chair and placed it next to her bed. After finding a comfortable position he laid his palm over her arm and decided to rest till the full moon.
If you read these on Deviantart, then yes I combined chapters 4 and 5. :) Wanted to make them longer.
