Arghh don't know why it had all that coding crap, anywho should be fixed now thanks for letting me know pjf4life2000, enjoy...
Over the next two weeks Regina managed to slip under the radar quite a bit and had been making excuses to stay at the office so no one noticed how poor her health was at the moment. With David living with her it was definitely harder to hide but she'd managed it quite well and didn't think he noticed her rapidly deteriorating health. Blurred vision, headaches, a sore throats and nosebleeds seemed to be a daily occurrence but Regina was doing her best to deny that anything was wrong. Never in her life had she been this ill, maybe as a child she was and she remembers two other occasions in the Enchanted Forest when she was ill but it was never this severe. Never had she had a nosebleed and it made her think something was wrong with her brain and that couldn't be good.
The hospital was always an option but then people would find out and she didn't know if it was worth it considering modern medicine might not be able to help her. Another two episodes had happened in which David had found her in the middle of the night. The first time she'd been writing in blood again on the living room wall and the second time was sat on the bathroom floor doing the same thing. This did nothing to keep David's worry at bay but Regina acted calm enough to ensure him she'd be alright while internally panicking that something was terribly wrong.
A buzzing seemed to wake her from her current position asleep with her head on the desk in her office. Rubbing her eyes Regina was still met with a blur as she looked to her phone and saw several missed calls from who she could only assume was David. Swiping across she put the phone to her ear and waited for him to answer. Almost immediately his response came as an angry, "Regina where have you been?"
Slightly confused Regina answered, "At my office, where else would I be?"
"You were supposed to pick Neal up from kindergarten over an hour ago. I've been trying to get hold of you so I repeat again, where the hell have you been?"
Suddenly wide awake Regina tried to check the time but couldn't see the numbers. Wait, when had he told her to pick up Neal? She didn't even know he was there today. Regina was wise enough not to argue when his temper was short so accepted his words. "Shit, David I'm so sorry I just lost track of time-" A coughing fit seemed to take over Regina and as she pulled back her hand she saw the blood that resided there. "I'll go now-"
"Snow already got him."
"Isn't she at work?" Regina was confused again.
"You know full well she isn't, Regina. What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, sorry, you're right. I'll make it up to both of you tonight, honestly." Regina conceded even though she had no clue what was going on. When had he told her to pick up Neal?
A sigh was heard down the phone. "Make it up tomorrow and actually pick him up, he misses you." David's tone had lost its sharp edge at his last words.
"I miss him too." Regina ran a hand across her forehead before remembering it had blood on it. She knew she hadn't been around lately, leaving before Neal woke up and going home after he'd gone to bed but it was just so he didn't see her like this.
"He's not the only one. Come home, Regina. I'll take the rest of the day off."
"David..." Regina trailed off because the thought was tempting, going home and spending time with David but she just couldn't, he couldn't see her like this.
"Please." He pleaded and Regina caved.
"Okay." She took a second to cough again.
"I'll take care of you, yeah?"
"Mhm." Regina mumbled and hung up quickly as blood started to splatter on her desk. Grabbing tissues she put them to her nose and tipped her head forwards as blood kept coming. She could feel her heart beating against her rib cage and thought it may go through it was that quick but couldn't seem to move or do anything about it at the moment. It suddenly felt as if she was constantly missing the last step and she had to shut her eyes tightly and try and keep her legs still until it passed.
Eventually she moved and got up with new tissue going to her nose seems as the other was sodden with her blood. Quickly she wiped her forehead to remove the blood she wiped there before and then, collecting her things, she made it out of her office and into her car where she sat until the nosebleed stopped. Now all she had to do was get home which wasn't very easy considering the light hurt her eyes and her vision was constantly coming in and out of focus. Finally, after a lot of stalling the car she made it home to see David's truck already on the drive. "Regina?" David stood at the door as she staggered out of the car. "Regina?" She felt him grip her under arm to keep her up as she fell into another coughing fit.
"I'm fine." She pulled her hand away quickly as she felt the blood on it.
"Come on." She heard David whisper as he guided her into the house to the couch. Putting a hand to the side of her neck he stood up. "Your hearts racing. Do you want me to call an ambulance?"
"No!" Regina opened her eyes and stated clearly but soon shut them at the intensity of the light. "Can you just turn the lights off please."
She didn't get a response but as she opened her eyes again it wasn't nearly as light and then the sofa was weighted down to her side and she knew he'd sat down. "What's going on with you?" He asked gently as he put an arm around her and kissed her head as she leaned into him. David was so immensely worried about her but one thing which eased his mind was the fact that she seemed to be putting weight back on so he hadn't called an ambulance yet.
"I just need sleep and then I'll be fine for tomorrow. And I'll definitely pick Neal up." She added feeling she needed to stamp it into her mind.
"You don't have to, Snow already said she'd get him, she'll drop him off later."
"No, I'll do it. I've not seen him in a while."
"You work too much." David snuggled closer and kissed her head again.
Sighing Regina placed an arm over his middle. "I know."
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A week later Regina stood in the bathroom looking in the mirror. Wearing her nightdress, most of her chest was bared and she could see that a rash had started to form and it only heightened her worry. "What the hell is going on?!" She slammed her hand to the sink in frustration and saw her eyes go purple in the mirror as the rash seemed to shrink slightly. "What the...?" Regina continued to look through purple orbs as it got smaller and smaller. In the end the whole rash had disappeared and her eyes were beginning to return to normal. At least she felt better.
As she moved out of the bathroom, Neal came running to her legs. Snow had come about an hour ago and dropped him off, seems as it was her day to have him, but not before having a private conversation with David which Regina was under no doubt was about her. "Hey big man." Regina picked him up and made it to his bedroom as he snuggled into her chest.
"I missed you." He announced as she was about to put him down but upon his words she decided to get into his bed with him.
"I missed you too." She spooned the boy as he told her about his week.
"...And then Philip came and sat with me instead of Freddy because he wanted to colour and I was on the slide." Neal yawned.
"As amazing as that sounds I think you need sleep." Regina drew him closer.
"I likes it when you're here. You listen better than them." His eyes started to droop and Regina smiled.
"I'm here anytime you need me." She kissed his head.
"I loves you." Neal muttered as his breath evened out and Regina's breath caught.
"I love you too, Neal." She shut her eyes and fell asleep with him in her arms.
David sat downstairs wondering what was going on with his girlfriend. Could he call her his girlfriend? Were they official? If he was honest he wasn't sure of anything anymore. Regina had definitely withdrawn herself and he feared that she was merely keeping herself at work to stop him forcing her into the hospital which he was almost at the point of doing.
Despite how much Regina thought she was hiding it, David knew better, David knew her. David loved her and he loved that she was her own person but he wished she'd let him help her when she needed it. Snow had talked to him and expressed her concern about Regina and hinted at her mistrust of Regina around Neal which he partially agreed with considering she'd done more than just forgotten him. Over the past few weeks she'd left the gas on with him in the house, forgotten Neal in the bath meaning he fell trying to get out of it and spilt tea on his leg meaning there was a trip to the hospital. But David knew what she was going through and he knew he couldn't judge her based on that but it made him wary. Neal was his son and he loved Regina so much that it'd kill David to see him hurt by her.
Shaking his head David made his way upstairs to see Neal curled into Regina as they both slept soundly. His heart hurt to see them like that and he didn't have the heart to wake Regina and take her to their room no matter how much he wished to be doing just what Neal was at that moment. Shutting the door he moved into his room and quickly fell asleep.
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Pattering was what woke David and checking the clock at the side of his bed he saw it was 2:42. In a panic David flung his bedroom door open just in time to see a purple eyed Regina teetering on the edge of the stairs with her back to them. Lunging forwards he grabbed her before she fell and took her along the corridor to the bathroom so her words didn't wake his son. Again the words made no sense but he'd come to the conclusion that they were always the same repeating of words. Always the same message she was trying to get across.
Even though this had happened before David still had no idea how to bring her episodes to an end and each one seemed to be longer and more persistent. "Regina, please." He couldn't help but tear up every time he saw her like this. It wasn't fair, he had no clue how to stop it just as he had no clue how to save Emma all those years ago. Guilt quickly rose as he continued to blame himself and Regina's words only seemed to get louder.
Turing around, Regina opened the mirror over the sink and before David could do anything she pulled out the razor and sliced her finger again. Robotically shutting the mirror she began to draw the symbols on it again and David decided to take physical action but as he went to pull her arm away from the mirror a purple blast came from Regina and shot him backwards. Instead of taking any further action David sat with tears streaming watching the woman he loved in some sort of trance until more blood started dropping into the sink and the purple glow began to dim.
"Regina?" He tried again and this time wasn't sent backwards when he put a hand on her. Removing her finger from the sink she began shaking her head.
"Shit!" Was the first thing to come out of her mouth as she summoned tissue with her magic and shoved it under her nose. "Not again." She groaned and leaned over the sink with her head resting on the bloodied mirror.
"Regina?" She spun around in complete shock.
"David, I'm so sorry. Go back to bed I'll clean this up." She tried to make him leave but he stood firm. "David please, you don't need to be seeing this."
"Only if you go to Gold about this. Your research clearly isn't working and he might know something." David grabbed her non bleeding hand and she slowly nodded. "Are you sure I can't help?"
"Please, I just need to sort this." David nodded and left but stayed by the door. Moving to the side he heard her begin to cry and it broke him. All he wanted to do was hold her and tell her it'd be alright but he didn't know that, he didn't know what was going on, what might happen.
He moved to their room and after a good hour he felt the side of the bed dip so he turned over and wrapped an arm around her.
Tomorrow was a new day.