Chapter 4

When I awoke the next morning I was feeling completely rested, probably one of the best night's sleep I'd had in quite a long time. I rolled over and it took me a couple of seconds to realise this wasn't my room. I could still smell Dimitri's aftershave and realised he wasn't here, I saw the doorknob turn and I quickly tried to fix my bedhead. Dimitri walked in fully dressed with a coffee in his hand.

"Oh you're awake, I would have woken you up earlier but you looked so peaceful. Drooling away on my pillow." He said while passing me the mug.

I'd never turned my head so quickly in my life and checked the pillow, there were no drool marks. It took me another full second to realise he was messing with me.

"Oh haha, very funny! Thank you for the coffee. What time is it?" I asked while taking a sip.

"It's 9am." He said while collecting clothes off the floor and putting books in his shelf.

"9am! I slept well over 12 hours." I said shocked. I then realised how truly hungry I was since missing dinner. I jumped out of Dimitri's bed and went into the kitchen to prepare something for breakfast "Would you like anything to eat?" I asked Dimitri politely hoping that the awkward tension in the room would disappear.

"No that's fine, I already ate. About last night…" I interrupted him before he could say anymore and no doubt along the lines of 'I was exhausted and didn't know what I was thinking."

"It's okay, I understand you were overly tired and probably weren't thinking straight, we can just forget about it if you like." Even if it was nice and probably the best night's sleep I'd had in god knows how long.

"No…I mean yes I was extremely tired but I understand that it was completely inappropriate of me to ask something like that of you. I apologise and it won't happen again."

I felt my heart sink.

"Oh, yeah don't worry. If I felt uncomfortable with the request I wouldn't have agreed to it, sometimes a women just needs company as well." I said using his words back on him.

"There's something you should probably know about me…" He started. He was awkwardly leaning up against the kitchens door frame as I made some cereal. My ears perked up immediately, perhaps this had something to do with what the nurse was telling me yesterday and his little outburst after the patient died?

However I didn't get to find out because Mason walked in and interrupted our conversation.

"Oi Rosie where's the cooked breakfast?" He said with a smirk.

I was pouring the milk into my cereal and looked up, Dimitri had left and Mason was standing there like an idiot.

GOD DAMN IT MASON. I hit him for two reasons; 1. He called me Rosie and 2. He interrupted a very intriguing conversation between Dimitri and I and god knows when I'll get the chance to get him alone again. "OW!" he yelled as he rubbed his arm that I'd punched as hard as I could.

"What was that for?" He continued to cuss and rub his arm.

"That was for calling me Rosie, no one calls me that and gets away with it." I said while giving him my ultimate bitch face.

"Jeez, someone woke up on the menstrual side of the bed this morning."

I put my fingers together an inch apart to show him how much patience I'd had with him, I hope he caught on as a warning.

I spent the majority of the day cleaning, I'd bumped into Dimitri in the foyer and he briefly asked if he could have a lift to work this afternoon since we were both working the night shift and his car was still at the hospital.

I obliged and we stood there in an awkward silence.

"So what were you saying before Mason rudely interrupted?" I asked nonchalantly.

"Perhaps I'll tell you another time, maybe over dinner?" He looked confident when asking me this.

Oh sweet baby jesus was he asking me out on a date? I must have delayed for too long because he started to shift uncomfortable on his feet.

"Sure, if you'd like." I said while trying not to show how excited I truly was.

I drove Dimitri to work and it was a comfortable silence, I was more concentration on driving properly. My mind was still buzzing after he'd asked me out on a date. A date with this glorious looking man! Lucky me.

Once in the handover room the shift nurse was explaining about a girl that was brought in after being severely beaten by her now hopefully ex-boyfriend. I felt sorry for her, I hadn't seen many domestic abuse cases and it made me incredibly sad. I saw Dimitri tighten his fists and an anger burning in his eyes. I watched him take a deep breath and he soon calmed himself down, now I really was suspecting that he might possibly have some anger issues but I also suspected there was more to it. I was assigned to keep an eye on the girl, there was policeman stationed out the front of her door throughout the night as her the boy had not been caught yet. I felt a little sorry for those officers as I saw how tired they were, I offered to watch over her while they went to go get a coffee.

I was sitting in the chair beside her bed and watching her sleep calmly, she had been given sedatives to help her sleep and for the pain. I looked at the bruises on her face and my heart broke a little for her, no one deserved this.

I hear a door shut behind me and the lock click as all of a sudden I feel a hand clam around my mouth, I jumped in shock and attempted to struggle out of my attackers embrace. My mind was rushing with adrenaline and realised that it must be her ex-boyfriend.

"Shut up and don't struggle, then I'll let you leave this room unharmed. I just want to talk to her." He said all in a rush while he held a knife to my throat.

Fuck fuck fuck. Why did I let the officers get a coffee!

I realised with horror that she'd woken up with all the commotion and I don't think I could ever forget the look of horror on her face.

She was too terrified to even scream. "You think you can just hide behind police officers and I won't come to you? You stupid bitch, you belong to me! If I can't have you then no one will!" He screamed while still holding a knife to my neck.

How had no one come by now? I heard the door rattling and a voice, he threw me to the ground and used any furniture in the room too barricade the door.

The girl was shivering in fear on the bed and I got up and rushed to her. I wasn't foolish enough to scream for help, whoever was behind that door would know by now that something was extremely wrong. I really hoped it was Dimitri.

I stood between them, which was probably a foolish thing to do but there was no way I was going to let him kill her. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let that happen.

My brain was going crazy with adrenaline, I didn't know how to react to this situation. I could tell he was high on crack, his pupils were wide and he was breathing heavily. His movements were unpredictable and fast.

"Move out of the way bitch!" He screamed at me.

I tried negotiating with him.

"Any minute NOW those cops are going to beat down that door and you'll be put away for a long time. Do you really want to add murder to that? Just put down the knife." I said calmly with my arms outstretched and still protecting the girl who was trembling and crying behind me.

"Please don't let him kill me." She repeated over and over.

"I DON'T CARE, FUCKING MOVE OR I WILL KILL BOTH OF YOU. IT'S YOUR CHOICE BITCH." He screamed as the door was being beaten down.

You know those moments when something happens that is so unbelievable that you don't think it's really happened? That your mind shoots straight to denial and imagines it's just a scene in a movie that you've seen? Well that's what happened in this case I suppose. So many things happened at once, the door was broken down, the boy lurched forward with the knife and I felt several things at once.

Relief – relief that the door had been broken down and I could see Dimitri with them.

Denial – denial that they were too late

Pain – red hot fiery pain as I felt the knife pierce my skin and go through my abdomen and be pulled out.

Relief again – I was on the ground, Dimitri had me in his arms and was yelling orders. I could briefly see around me that the cops had the boy on the ground. He was screaming and yelling profanities. Another nurse was trying to comfort the girl.

My mind kicked back into overdrive as the pain hit me, I gasped and held onto Dimitri's shirt as time got back to me and everything stopped being in slow motion.

"Dimitri?" I asked.

"Rose, oh god. It'll be okay, I've got you. We still need to go on that date remember?" He said while finding anything around him to stop the bleeding.

I could feel the life pouring out of me and thinking that at least I was able to save that girl and at least I got to see the face of an angel before darkness took me under.

First of all i want to apologize this is so late! Secondly I want to apologize that it's such a rushed chapter. Tomorrow I shall upload the next chapter and it will be longer with a D.P.O.V of what's happened in this chapter and more!

Happy New Years everyone! Don't forget to review for me I love them!

xxSezaxx