Love Goes On
Chapter 38: Recovery
It took Hana four hours to help my mum. In those four hours, she stitched up all the welts on my mum's back, put some healing cream on them to try and heal them as well as she could, re-bandaged them, put a bruise balm on all the bruises, put a burn balm on the burns, disinfected, stitched and bandaged all the other small cuts, and attached her to several drips. Those drips were for nutrients, pain reliever serum, and blood because she had lost so much of it and was rather pale. She also examined my mum's uterus, with all the miscarriage serums, which were all stronger than the typical miscarriage/abortion serums, there was a chance that it was damaged. And it was. My mum won't be able to have any more children, if she wanted to anyway. If she did get pregnant then it was very likely the pregnancy wouldn't last. She also examined some of her other organs, etc. to see if they had been affected by the amount of serums, or the beatings that my mum was subjected to. They were okay, by the looks of it anyway.
And then she was done. Now it is just my mum and myself in the room, but she's still sleeping. I am still sitting in the chair beside her bed, holding her hand. Watching her pale, skinny form sleep. Listening to the beeping of the heart monitor Hana also attached her to, telling me that she is alive. She is here. with me.
I don't know how long I'm sitting there, holding her hand in the relative silence, for. But eventually she starts to stir. Then her eyes open and she finds me. She smiles gently at me. And I smile gently at her.
"Beatrice." She whispers.
"Hey, how are you feeling?"
"Better. How are you feeling?"
"I'm not the one in the hospital bed. I'm fine. Glad to have you back with me."
"I'm glad to be back. I'm sorry I've missed so much of your life." She says as tears fill her eyes.
"Mum, it's not your fault. I should have gone to you after you were shot. I should have helped you. Then maybe things would have been better."
"It's not your fault either, Beatrice. What happened, during the war I mean?"
"Well, after you were shot… I killed one of my best friends because he was going to kill me. I found dad and Caleb in the safe house. We went to Dauntless with Marcus to stop the simulation. Dad was shot on the way to the control room. I had to fight my boyfriend because he was under the simulation, but he remembered me before he was meant to kill me. We stopped the simulation and went to Amity because the leaders of Dauntless and Erudite were after us. We spent some time in Amity, working to earn our sanctuary, but the Dauntless leaders found us there so we had to run. We then ended up in the Factionless headquarters with Tobias' mother, who is actually alive, she just ran away from Marcus, faking her death, because he was abusive. Though that led to him abusing Tobias. Then we went to Candor where our friends and the loyal Dauntless were. My best friend hated me for a while because I killed her boyfriend, he was the best friend I killed after you were shot. But they found us there too after injecting everyone with a simulation serum which they can control so that only certain people are under the simulation at a time. Then we went back to Dauntless after we killed Eric, one of the Dauntless leaders which we managed to capture. But Jeanine used the simulation serum to get three people up on the roof, my best friend had forgiven me by that point and we found them. They said that if I wasn't handed over to Erudite then this would happen every night. We saved two of them, but our friend Marlene died from jumping off the roof in the simulation. After that I went to Erudite, on my own. Caleb was working for Jeanine, he left us when we were going to Candor. In Erudite they tested a bunch of fear serums on me, but none of them worked and Jeanine got angry. She tried to kill me but Peter, who was in initiation with me, switched the death serum for paralysis serum, so it looked like I was dead but I wasn't. Tobias had come to Erudite by that point, handing himself in too because he didn't want to lose me. Peter took me to Tobias and he helped us get out. We then went to Abnegation, where our friends were waiting. We planned to storm Erudite and show the video of Edith Prior to the world, because we knew that was what Abnegation wanted to do but Erudite stole the video. It worked, Jeanine was killed and we showed the video. My friends were dying along the way, and one of my friends got paralysed, but she's okay now, one of our Erudite friends created a serum to reverse paralysis. Then we went to the Bureau, we didn't know you were there, though. When we were there we found out the David was planning on dropping memory serum on Chicago. To stop him Caleb went into the weapons lab to spread memory serum throughout the Bureau, though we were given the serum that allows it not to affect us. That is when Caleb died. We thought it had worked on everyone. We didn't know David still remembered. We came back to the city and tried to get on with our lives. You know pretty much everything else."
"You've been through so much. You're so young."
"Not so young anymore, mum. I'm nineteen. But I feel older than that."
"You didn't deserve to go through all of that. You're so brave."
"I don't feel brave when I'm having a nightmare, or a panic attack, or at all really. But you didn't deserve to go through all that you did either, you're brave too."
"What is the city like now?"
"Well, there's still Factions, and initiation and all that. But we're allowed to integrate more. We can go to other Factions to visit family and whatnot. We aren't bound by 'Faction before blood' anymore. It's nice."
"It sounds nice."
"Tobias is getting a room in our apartment ready for you. For when you're out of here. You can stay with us for as long as you want. And he's buying you some clothes and shoes as well, since you have nothing to wear."
"That sounds great. That way we can catch up. And I can get to know my daughter again. But he doesn't have to buy me anything."
"He's a leader, it's fine. We have the points. Well, he has the points since I no longer earn anything. But he doesn't mind. We have enough. And Hana is going with him so that she can show him stuff you might like, and she knows your size, I told her since you're the same size as me. Though, because of how skinny you are you might need a size lower for now."
"You have a good man."
"I know. He's amazing. He treats me so well, and he's always there for me when I need him."
"That's good. At least I know someone has been taking care of my daughter for me."
I smile. "Hana's been great as well. So have my friends. You can meet them some time."
"That sounds great." She says before yawning.
"Get some sleep. I'll still be here when you wake up again."
"So long as you get some rest yourself."
"I will. Goodnight, mum. I love you."
"Goodnight, Beatrice. I love you, too."
Then she's asleep, and it's not long before I'm asleep as well.
Hiya, sorry for the wait again.
Just to let you know, I have a blog now. If you want to check it out then the link is in my bio on my page, just copy and paste it into the search bar. It isn't that great at the moment since I'm still working out how to do things and whatnot, and there is also only one blog post so far, but I will post another one soon. But it will get better, I promise.
I have also been thinking of turning Love at Divergent High into an original story by changing the title and most of the names, etc. and putting it onto Kobo as an eBook because I need the money. I do have a short story on there by the way, if you're interested, information about that is in my bio. But until my original novel is finished, which will be a while from now because I am super busy, I won't have anything else to sell, so I thought of this idea last night. Would you guys be interested if I were to do that. It will be fully edited, so there won't be any mistakes or whatever, and it will be like reading an original story, though it will be the same basic plot as Love at Divergent High.
Anyhow, let me know what you think of that idea in your review.
I will update again when I can.