Hi guys, sorry it took so long to update, I know it's not much of an excuse but I've had so many assessments to prepare for, that you'd think that they were all I did! Anyway, heres chapter 10 and 11 hope you like them. Please follow and fave!
Chapter 10
Cathy's point of view
When we finally decide to come out of the hospital canteen, only Lily, Xavier and Mr De Solace are keeping up the conversation. With me occasionally contributing; but not often. Uncle Jack hasn't said anything, and he's wearing a semi-permanent frown. He's the one who finally takes me back to where I should be, in my horrible hospital bed. "Cathy, I've been thinking, and I know, I know you're not going to like it, just please just hear me out" Now it's just the two of us and it seems to be really awkward, I don't like the way he's asking, he's making it seem as though I don't have a choice in the matter. "I'm not going to make any promises, if I don't like what you have to say, I'm not going to agree to anything, but I'll allow you to speak about what's on your mind, if that's good enough" He frowns, sees me looking, and smiles gratefully, but it seems a bit forced.
"Well, erm, I was thinking that maybe, as England is always really dangerous for you, that you should perhaps, when I go back to work that is, that you should-" My uncle is cowering under his hands that he has folded above his head, as if I might suddenly freak out and throw something at him, I keep my face unreadable. "So let me get this straight, you want me to abandon my life here, to leave everything I have worked really hard to get, to leave the rest of my family, to go to Australia with you, simply because I was… In a mugging gone wrong? What about Lily, eh? It could have easily been her in this hospital bed and if I'm not here, who's going to protect her, who's to stop this happening to her?" My face may be unreadable, but my voice is getting louder, so loud in fact that I notice that the rest of the ward has gone silent. "Yes" he says quietly, keeping his head down. I bite back my temper with great difficulty, and speak in an equally quiet voice; the rest of the room is still silent. "I have listened to what you had to say, uncle, but I really don't want to go, I can't afford to go, if nothing else, I've got my work-"
"Everything okay here?" Xavier has popped his head around the curtain surrounding my bed, however, before I have a chance to reply, an engraved dragon silver knife had cut through the air towards me from the opposite direction that Xavier was in. It hit the wall 2cm above my head. My breathing is heavy for obvious reasons. "Hello mum" I say exasperatedly.