Another fairly long chapter to follow up the last one...it WAS kinda short..._ This one was a really fast update...^_^
Ivan finally drops Ed and walks out.
"Eduard!" I sob. "Please be okay. I'm sorry, I'm soooo sorry. Please be alright." I grab the phone on the floor and call Toris, he should know what to do. "Pleasepickuppleasepickuppleasepickup." I mutter. He finally answers.
"Hello?"
"TORIS!!" I'm hysterical, he's so still. He looks dead. It scars me. "It's Eduard…I don't know what happened! Ivan was…and then…he's not moving! Help me!! I'm so sorry!!!" I speak so quickly I'm not sure that he will understand me.
"Calm down! Where are you?" His calm voice does very little to comfort me.
"I'm at Ed's house, Ivan left. AND EDUARD ISN'T MOVING!!" I'm hyperventilating, this is my worst nightmare. "Oh please don't let him be dead."
"I'm coming over. Don't worry. It takes a lot to kill one of us." I hear him talk to Feliks. "I'm going out! I'll be right back!" He hangs up.
"Okay." I say too late for him to hear. I lay my head on Eduard's chest and cry, listening to his steady heart. What if Toris doesn't come in time? What if that heart stops beating while I'm laying here listening? There comes a knock on the door, and I open it, scared that it might be Ivan coming back to hurt Eduard again.
I knock on the door, and Yekaterina opens it, her breath is fast and halting, there are tears leaking from her wide, fearful eyes.
"Ukraine! Calmdown, we've been through a lot, I'm sure he's fine…" I place my hand on her shoulder and try to comfort her.
"He's not moving, and Ivan just laughed, and…and-" She gestures wildly with one arm, still panicked, while her left arm swings limp and mangled at her side.
"It's okay. It's going to be fine." I follow her into the house, to where Ed is. I look upon him and I'm shocked. Ivan has really hurt him badly. I can't even tell the specific injuries…she's just covered in blood. "Oh, Ed…"
"Is he okay?" She's still crying her eyes out. "He's not dead –hic- is he?"
"No." I listen to his heartbeat. "He's definetly breathing," I say as his breath tickles my ear.
"Good…can we take him to a hospital?"
"Yes, that's a good idea. I'm afraid to move him so I'll call an ambulance."
"Yes, yes. Just help him." She bends down and hugs Ed with her good arm. I pick up the phone and call the ambulance, the emergency worker says it will be here soon.
"Wait a moment…" I run up to Ed's bathroom and search through his things. I finally find a spare pair of glasses. I run back down and carefully perch them on his nose. He doesn't look right without glasses. Katyusha hasn't stopped crying.
"Why did Ivan do this? Why?" I put my arm around her quivering shoulders.
"I don't know…I really don't."
"E-eduard…he was moving un-until Ivan told him to be quiet-" Her voice breaks into a sob of agony. "He tried to defend me, I'm such a coward."
"No. You can't ever blame yourself for the things Ivan does."
"B-but I might've been able to stop him. And now Ed's hurt and it's all my fault."
"Don't be silly." I mumble. The ambulance arrives and Ed is loaded up. We are both allowed to ride with him.
"I-I'm not. I'm sure Ivan wouldn't have hurt him if I had been there…" Doesn't she remember that she did come and he did hurt her.
"Stop blaming yourself."
"Are we almost to the hospital? I don't want him to be like this!" She worries about him, but I can't say her fears are ungrounded. I haven't seen him hurt this badly ever.
"We're almost there. Calm down." She looks at me, out of tears, with eyes full of genuine concern. Just then, Eduard stirs and mumbles something about Ivan and Katya.
"EDUARD!!" She screams, it's a wonder she doesn't disturb the driver. "Ed…it's me."
"Hnrgh?" He slowly opens his eyes, not really seeing anything.
"E-e-eduard? Are you alright?" Her finers are lightly resting on his arm, but he doesn't seem to realize.
"Wh-who?" He blinks groggily as if awakening from a nightmare.
"UKRAINE?" He tries to sit up, but she pushes him right back down.
"Don't. You'll make it worse…"
"I-I…" He seems lost for words. "Toris?" Ed finally notices me, and I wave.
"What hap- Your arm!"
Katyusha continues answering, clueless about how worried he is. "Ivan hurt you, you weren't moving…so I called Toris. He came, and we're taking you to the hospital."
"Your arm…" He turns to me, "Ivan hurt her arm…the one with the cast." He expects me to help him take care of her.
I nod. "Already taken care of. One of the paramedics wrapped it."
"I'm fine!" she insits. "B-but look at you!! He hurt you before I could come…"
"Don't worry, I'll be fine."
"A-alright. I'm not going to let this happen again!"
I'm so bored! Toris hasn't, like, called in, like, hours! He said he was, like totally going out for just, like, a minute. But now he's, like, completely gone! I frown, where could he have gone? He's been gone for, like ages, in the past two days, and I only, like, just moved in. I decide to call Elizaveta. She picks up after, like, the first ring.
"Like, hey!:
"Hey Feliks!"
"Like, you wanna have a sleepover? It should totally be, like, tonight!"
"Sure, my house or yours?"
"Let's go to your house, Toris isn't home. But he should, like, be home pretty soon."
"Okay! Just give me a few minutes to clean up." I can hear a big crash and then she, like, comes back to the phone.
"Kay! You can come over now!"
"This is, like, gonna be totally awesome!" Okay, so maybe I don't, like, need Liet to come home anytime soon. I can totally entertain myself. Besides, it's been, like, ages since I've gone over to Lizzy's house.
Woah…Ivan was prety mean to Al. I may have wanted to go kick him for teasing me about Yekaterina, but I didn't want him hurt! I mean, even the worst Natalia did was cut off Nantucket. And all her assassination attempts failed. He told me about all the other things Ivan did too! Poor Yekaterina…she was so happy for a little while. I hope Ivan doesn't do anything more to her, or to Estonia (but only because she loves him). It's not about my happiness…it's about hers.
Not exactly a cliffhanger this time...just a suspenseful ending...Please read and review...thanks!! XD