Part 5
To Mainstream Soveriegn: you know where VCU is? Cool do you live in the state?
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After two weeks at MCV Rowen was more than ready to leave. His doctors had seen how restless the man was and had decided to let him out under the stipulation that he take it easy. His recovery speed had been faster than normal, however the doctors didn't seem overly worried about the fact. They believed him when he said that it must have had something to do with his very good diet and exercise regiment. Rowen knew it was due to his armor, he was just glad his virtue hadn't decided to glow while he had been in the hospital.
Rowen walked out of the school and glanced up. The sky looked ready to pour, and he didn't have anything to protect him from the rain. Slipping one of his hands in his pockets he felt it brush against his orb. Someone had asked him about the 'marble' and he had come up with some excuse that his little brother had given it to him as a good luck charm. Before they could check his records and see he didn't have a little brother he had told them that his brother had been killed about a month after giving him the marble, that's why he kept it on him at all times. When the girl seemed saddened by his story he told her that the whole thing had happened when he had been seven in an attempt to brush it off. That had seemed to work, and now Rowen was left with his 'marble'. Taking his eyes from the sky and the storm that he could tell was ready to start he set off across the MCV campus to get to the pick up spot of Campus Connector.
Campus Connector was a service the university offered so students could get from the VCU campus to MCV and vice versa. Campus Connector it's self was a bus that shuttled students back and forth, it ran from one campus to the other every 10 to 20 minutes depending upon traffic. While most colleges and universities were centralized, VCU had sprawled over a large part of the city of Richmond. The campus was spread out to the point where while walking you could walk off of campus, then back on, just to get from your dorm to one of your classes. The businesses around the campus didn't seem to mind, accepting for the Hardies that had a fire last year and had yet to reopen, they were glad to get the students money. That included a 7-11 that was no more than a five minute walk for everyone.
Rowen was brought out of his musings about the school when Campus Connector stopped. Once it let its load of students off, Rowen climbed the steps and found a seat. He ignored the looks from the other students; they no doubt knew who he was. The bus wasn't crowded and so no one was forced to sit next to him. He could tell they were slightly scared of him, after all it's not everyday that a student is almost beaten to death in a dorm.
He knew he should be glad to be alive but in his heart he wished he had just died. Not only from what SHE had done to him, taken from him, but also from the way everyone was going to treat him. He knew he wouldn't be able to take it, if everyone treated him the same way as the people on the bus were treating him. They would try to pretend like they didn't know who he was, but when they thought he wasn't looking they would glance back at him. Thanks to his enhanced hearing he could hear them whisper to each other about him, who he was, what had happened to him. For some reason he had yet to hear about his rape. Maybe it was the fact that no one could tell what had happened to him. He found that had to believe, however, after all he had been nude when Tom's girlfriend had walked in. While he hadn't been awake, awake, some part of his mind had been able to keep track of what was going on around after the point that Jenny had left the room. He remembered Tom's girlfriend's scream, then the RA coming, then security, and finally a trip down the larger of the two elevators and being loaded into an ambulance. The ambulance was when he had lost consciousness.
Campus Connector stopped and Rowen was once again brought out of his musings. He got off the bus last and found himself in front of the library. Walking across a one way street he reached the side walk next to the Catholic church. Normally students would have been able to walk on the sidewalk on the other side of the street, but due to the construction of a new dining hall, a bigger version of Hibbs, the sidewalk was closed. Reaching the end of the road Rowen crossed the street and walked down to Johnson. Walking up the steps, he pulled out his ID and showed it to security after scanning it in the card scanner. He made his way to the stairs/elevator and paused to think. While he had healed, his body was still weak, normally he would just run up to the ninth floor but today he decided to take his chances with the elevators.
The elevators in most of the dorms were not to be trusted. They tended to break down, leaving the occupants trapped until the fire department could get them out. Rowen had heard of one story last year where 9 students had gotten caught in the small elevator for five hours before anyone could get them out. At most the small elevator could comfortably fit 4 people. The nine had written their names and dates in the elevator for everyone to see, and no one had painted over it. Thankfully the large elevator was the one that arrived and Rowen along with two girls got on it. The girls got off at the fifth floor, the only odd numbered girls floor in Johnson.
Arriving at the ninth floor, Rowen left the elevator and made his way to his room. He unlocked it and walked in.
"Rowen man nice to see you!" Tom said from his computer.
Tom's girlfriend, Cara, glanced up from the book she was reading on Tom's bed, "Ro they let you out."
Rowen felt himself smile. "Yeah they did," he said and sat down on his bed. He noticed someone had changed the sheets and no doubt the mattress as well.
"Oh yeah, maintenance came in and changed the whole bed and repainted the room. They moved me into the Radisson while they did it," Tom told him.
"Sorry," Rowen said and laid down on his back.
"Hey Ro man don't worry about it, some bastard attacked you, it's not your fault, you didn't ask for them to do that to you," Tom tried to assure him.
"Yeah, I know," Rowen muttered. Still he wasn't so sure himself, after all
Jenny hadn't asked that much from him had she? It had just been sex right? Maybe he was just to behind in his mind set, or maybe it was just due to being raised in Japan. Maybe he needed to think more like an American, after all he was living here now.
"You going to classes tomorrow?" Cara asked.
"Some of them, I don't think I can deal with Calculus just yet."
"Isn't Jenny in that one?" Tom asked.
"Yeah."
"You know she kept calling here to see if you were out yet, she was really worried about you."
"She did?" Rowen asked, trying to keep surprise out of his voice.
"Yeah, she wants you to call her as soon as possible." Tom passed on.
Rowen sighed, he really didn't want to talk to her just yet, if ever.
"You want the phone?" Cara asked.
"Nahh, I'm really tired. I think I'm just going to rest, I'll call her tomorrow."
Cara shrugged.
The room fell into relative silence, the only sound was Tom keying.
A sudden knock at the door startled everyone in the room. Even before anyone answered it, it swung open.
"Hey is Rowen in here?" the RA asked.
"Yeah, he's here." Tom said.
Rowen sat up.
"Hey Rowen glad to see your ok, I got someone here who wants to see you." The RA told him and moved out of the way.
"Hello Rowen." A voice said and Jenny walked into the room.
"Oh hi Jenny, I didn't get a chance to call you yet." Rowen told her and walked to her.
"Rowen I was so scared you would die." Jenny said and wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug.
"I'm fine." Rowen told her and hugged her back.
"That's good." She told him and looked up into his eyes, "I thought you where going to die, and that scared me." Tears formed in the corners of her eyes.
"Don't worry about me."
"Rowen I love you. I don't know what I would do if you died." She told him not letting him go.
Rowen didn't say anything and pulled back from her a little.
"Rowen?" Jenny asked.
"I'm just tired." He told her.
Jenny glanced up and kissed him, then pulled away. "In that case you rest." She said and left.
Rowen sighed and went back to lie down on his bed.
TBC
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A/N: The author wishes to Littledevil398 for not killing my computer while she was reading over my shoulder while I writing this chapter.
Also the event in the elevator with the nine people really happened.
To Mainstream Soveriegn: you know where VCU is? Cool do you live in the state?
**
After two weeks at MCV Rowen was more than ready to leave. His doctors had seen how restless the man was and had decided to let him out under the stipulation that he take it easy. His recovery speed had been faster than normal, however the doctors didn't seem overly worried about the fact. They believed him when he said that it must have had something to do with his very good diet and exercise regiment. Rowen knew it was due to his armor, he was just glad his virtue hadn't decided to glow while he had been in the hospital.
Rowen walked out of the school and glanced up. The sky looked ready to pour, and he didn't have anything to protect him from the rain. Slipping one of his hands in his pockets he felt it brush against his orb. Someone had asked him about the 'marble' and he had come up with some excuse that his little brother had given it to him as a good luck charm. Before they could check his records and see he didn't have a little brother he had told them that his brother had been killed about a month after giving him the marble, that's why he kept it on him at all times. When the girl seemed saddened by his story he told her that the whole thing had happened when he had been seven in an attempt to brush it off. That had seemed to work, and now Rowen was left with his 'marble'. Taking his eyes from the sky and the storm that he could tell was ready to start he set off across the MCV campus to get to the pick up spot of Campus Connector.
Campus Connector was a service the university offered so students could get from the VCU campus to MCV and vice versa. Campus Connector it's self was a bus that shuttled students back and forth, it ran from one campus to the other every 10 to 20 minutes depending upon traffic. While most colleges and universities were centralized, VCU had sprawled over a large part of the city of Richmond. The campus was spread out to the point where while walking you could walk off of campus, then back on, just to get from your dorm to one of your classes. The businesses around the campus didn't seem to mind, accepting for the Hardies that had a fire last year and had yet to reopen, they were glad to get the students money. That included a 7-11 that was no more than a five minute walk for everyone.
Rowen was brought out of his musings about the school when Campus Connector stopped. Once it let its load of students off, Rowen climbed the steps and found a seat. He ignored the looks from the other students; they no doubt knew who he was. The bus wasn't crowded and so no one was forced to sit next to him. He could tell they were slightly scared of him, after all it's not everyday that a student is almost beaten to death in a dorm.
He knew he should be glad to be alive but in his heart he wished he had just died. Not only from what SHE had done to him, taken from him, but also from the way everyone was going to treat him. He knew he wouldn't be able to take it, if everyone treated him the same way as the people on the bus were treating him. They would try to pretend like they didn't know who he was, but when they thought he wasn't looking they would glance back at him. Thanks to his enhanced hearing he could hear them whisper to each other about him, who he was, what had happened to him. For some reason he had yet to hear about his rape. Maybe it was the fact that no one could tell what had happened to him. He found that had to believe, however, after all he had been nude when Tom's girlfriend had walked in. While he hadn't been awake, awake, some part of his mind had been able to keep track of what was going on around after the point that Jenny had left the room. He remembered Tom's girlfriend's scream, then the RA coming, then security, and finally a trip down the larger of the two elevators and being loaded into an ambulance. The ambulance was when he had lost consciousness.
Campus Connector stopped and Rowen was once again brought out of his musings. He got off the bus last and found himself in front of the library. Walking across a one way street he reached the side walk next to the Catholic church. Normally students would have been able to walk on the sidewalk on the other side of the street, but due to the construction of a new dining hall, a bigger version of Hibbs, the sidewalk was closed. Reaching the end of the road Rowen crossed the street and walked down to Johnson. Walking up the steps, he pulled out his ID and showed it to security after scanning it in the card scanner. He made his way to the stairs/elevator and paused to think. While he had healed, his body was still weak, normally he would just run up to the ninth floor but today he decided to take his chances with the elevators.
The elevators in most of the dorms were not to be trusted. They tended to break down, leaving the occupants trapped until the fire department could get them out. Rowen had heard of one story last year where 9 students had gotten caught in the small elevator for five hours before anyone could get them out. At most the small elevator could comfortably fit 4 people. The nine had written their names and dates in the elevator for everyone to see, and no one had painted over it. Thankfully the large elevator was the one that arrived and Rowen along with two girls got on it. The girls got off at the fifth floor, the only odd numbered girls floor in Johnson.
Arriving at the ninth floor, Rowen left the elevator and made his way to his room. He unlocked it and walked in.
"Rowen man nice to see you!" Tom said from his computer.
Tom's girlfriend, Cara, glanced up from the book she was reading on Tom's bed, "Ro they let you out."
Rowen felt himself smile. "Yeah they did," he said and sat down on his bed. He noticed someone had changed the sheets and no doubt the mattress as well.
"Oh yeah, maintenance came in and changed the whole bed and repainted the room. They moved me into the Radisson while they did it," Tom told him.
"Sorry," Rowen said and laid down on his back.
"Hey Ro man don't worry about it, some bastard attacked you, it's not your fault, you didn't ask for them to do that to you," Tom tried to assure him.
"Yeah, I know," Rowen muttered. Still he wasn't so sure himself, after all
Jenny hadn't asked that much from him had she? It had just been sex right? Maybe he was just to behind in his mind set, or maybe it was just due to being raised in Japan. Maybe he needed to think more like an American, after all he was living here now.
"You going to classes tomorrow?" Cara asked.
"Some of them, I don't think I can deal with Calculus just yet."
"Isn't Jenny in that one?" Tom asked.
"Yeah."
"You know she kept calling here to see if you were out yet, she was really worried about you."
"She did?" Rowen asked, trying to keep surprise out of his voice.
"Yeah, she wants you to call her as soon as possible." Tom passed on.
Rowen sighed, he really didn't want to talk to her just yet, if ever.
"You want the phone?" Cara asked.
"Nahh, I'm really tired. I think I'm just going to rest, I'll call her tomorrow."
Cara shrugged.
The room fell into relative silence, the only sound was Tom keying.
A sudden knock at the door startled everyone in the room. Even before anyone answered it, it swung open.
"Hey is Rowen in here?" the RA asked.
"Yeah, he's here." Tom said.
Rowen sat up.
"Hey Rowen glad to see your ok, I got someone here who wants to see you." The RA told him and moved out of the way.
"Hello Rowen." A voice said and Jenny walked into the room.
"Oh hi Jenny, I didn't get a chance to call you yet." Rowen told her and walked to her.
"Rowen I was so scared you would die." Jenny said and wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug.
"I'm fine." Rowen told her and hugged her back.
"That's good." She told him and looked up into his eyes, "I thought you where going to die, and that scared me." Tears formed in the corners of her eyes.
"Don't worry about me."
"Rowen I love you. I don't know what I would do if you died." She told him not letting him go.
Rowen didn't say anything and pulled back from her a little.
"Rowen?" Jenny asked.
"I'm just tired." He told her.
Jenny glanced up and kissed him, then pulled away. "In that case you rest." She said and left.
Rowen sighed and went back to lie down on his bed.
TBC
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A/N: The author wishes to Littledevil398 for not killing my computer while she was reading over my shoulder while I writing this chapter.
Also the event in the elevator with the nine people really happened.
