Recast
Chapter 7
Sanya woke up in a cold sweat her head was pounding and she felt nauseous. The lights coming in from her window hurt her eyes so she kept them closed tightly trying to will the pain away. It was late in the morning and she wondered where Bernard had run off to. Figuring he had left she decided to at least attempt to close the blinds.
She slowly managed to work her legs over the side of the bed. Leaning heavily on a nearby chair she slowly made her way to the window and closed the blind. But the effort to get there had drained what little energy she had and she blacked out on to the floor.
Bernard stood in the kitchen debating whether or not to check in and see if his charge was awake yet or not. When he heard a small thud through the walls he figured he shouldn't have waited and rushed into the bedroom. He found her lying reaching towards the bed, he noticed she had closed the blinds and inwardly cursed himself for the oversight; remembering back to how it had been for him.
Bernard coward in his room, He had turned every light he could find off, and had pulled the drapes closed. His body ached and screamed at any movement. So he just huddled in his bed a blanket pulled closely around him.
"Bernard? … Bernard? Are you ok?" A voice asked as the door opened and light poured in, blinding light, he screamed and flung himself at the door slamming it closed.
"Leave me alone!!" He screamed, as he slid down to the floor his back to the door, completely drained.
"Bernard?" the voice asked again as it knocked lightly on the door. They didn't get any response and they found the door had been locked.
Bernard sat there for hours before giving into his bodies demanding and slid into a feverish sleep.
Bernard sat next to Sanya for as much of the day as he could stand; placing cool wet towels on her forehead in a meager attempt to help the burning fever. Occasionally she would begin to mumble something in her sleep but he could never make out what she was saying. At times he knew she was having nightmares, and he wondered what they could be about. But then again a part of him told him it was none of his business and not to worry about it. And so he did nothing to help console her. Luckily for Sanya the fever started to break rather quickly.
Sanya opened her eyes to find Bernard asleep in a chair across from her bed.
"What are you doing in here?" Sanya asked a little perturbed that he had been sleeping in her room.
Bernard jumped when he heard her voice, "What?" he asked not really having heard the question she had asked.
"I said what are you doing in here, you said you were sleeping on the couch?"
"You collapsed on the floor after foolishly closing the blinds, then you became feverish so I've been trying to keep your body temperature down." Bernard said standing. "And seeing as how your fevers broken I'll leave you to some proper rest." He turned and walked to the door. About half ways through he turned, "Oh I have some pain killer for when it sets in." and with that he turned and walked into the kitchen to get something to eat.
He knew it would be a few more hours at least before she would even feel like eating so he laid down on the couch and looked over the newspaper that had been delivered earlier that morning. Before he knew it he found his eyes slowly closing into a much needed cat nap.
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Sanya watched as Bernard left the room. If he had held back any medication for that, she knew the fact he offered it for the next…stage in her transformation, this was going to get much worse. She sighed and looked up at the ceiling glad that at least her head had stopped pounding and that the room was starting to feel comfortable again.
She drifted off and was lost to the darkness of sleep, never hearing Bernard's screams.
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Bernard lay there his fever still hadn't broken, he was enveloped in darkness. The voices outside the door had stopped; they had finally given up and left him alone. But now he wished nothing more than to hear those gentle pleas.
Suddenly he felt an excruciating pain wrack his body. He screamed out as he began convulsing on the floor. It wouldn't stop the agony seemed perpetual to him. He felt the sensation of pins and needles all over his skin and finally was able to control himself to make to the chair at his desk. The pain was still present ever so around his ears, and it deafened him, he could hear nothing. He looked into the mirror to see his ears slowly taking the shape of a true elf's. Becoming more and more painful as skin and cartilage was stretched and molded.
All of a sudden all of his senses felt an intense pain and he screamed out.
Bernard woke with a jolt; he was covered with sweat and was shaking. He looked around momentarily disoriented and not recognizing where he was. Finally regaining control over his breathing he stood and went to the bathroom to throw some water on his face. He had never had flashbacks that intense, and even the ones he had experienced had scared him.
He grabbed a sandwich from the kitchen and made his way to the bedroom. Sanya was staring of into the other corner of the room and didn't notice him approaching. He knocked on the door to get her attention, his mind made up to make this as easy for her as possible. Hoping she never had to experience it over and over again like he had for hundreds of years.
Sanya looked over at him, "what do you want?"
"I brought you some food so you can regain a little strength." Bernard held up the sandwich as he took a few steps into the room.
"Thanks," she said stoically sitting up and taking the sandwich from his hand.
"If you start to feel any pain tell me so I can give you the medicine."
Sanya just nodded without even looking at him. Bernard turned and left surprised at her demeanor towards his attempt at being nice. He figured she would welcome his attempts to at least help her, but it appeared he was wrong. He shrugged his shoulders figuring it was less energy he had to put into this whole thing then.
A/N I know its short but I updated quickly and the next should be up shortly, I just felt having everything in one chapter would be wrong.
Please review I know I'm crazy making it go this way (referring to the pain), so don't kill me.
