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Chapter 7 – Good and Bad news

At the hospital, Rose was being examined by a doctor, while Jack, Ruth, Fabrizio, and Nathan were in the waiting room. Finally a doctor came into the room.

"Mrs. Dewitt Bukater?" she asked.

"Yes," Ruth said as both her and Jack sprang to their feet.

"I'm Dr. Scott, I've been examining your daughter, Rose," she told her.

"How is she?" Jack blurted out, before Ruth was able to say anything.

"Well there is good news and there is bad news," Dr. Scott started, "the bad news is she was severely raped and it is unlikely that Rose will be able to have children of her own."

Ruth gasped as she put a hand to her mouth. She couldn't believe it, not her Rose. She loved children and she was always waiting for the day that she was able to have her own, now she couldn't.

"What's the good news?" Jack asked, noticing that Ruth was in too much shock to say anything.

"The good news is that Rose will recover from this and that she is awake. She wants to see you Mrs. Dewitt Bukater," Dr. Scott told her.

Jack put a hand on Ruth's back, gently pushing her toward Rose's hospital door. Jack let her go alone, and went to sit down next to Fabrizio and Nathan.

Ruth walked into her daughter's hospital room, and saw Rose watching something on TV. Rose looked over through two very swollen green eyes and smiled.

"Hi momma," she whispered.

"Hey baby," Ruth said, walking over to Rose and sitting down, taking her hand.

"How you feeling?" Ruth asked.

"I'm okay, I guess," Rose paused as her eyes started tearing up, "Mom, it hurts."

"I know baby," Ruth replied, bring her cautiously into a hug, not wanting to further any of her injuries.

Ruth brought Rose's face to hers and looked into her eyes.

"Rose, I am so sorry. This is all my fault…"

"No it isn't mom," Rose interrupted her.

"Yes it is. If I hadn't forced you into this engagement, this would have never happened," Ruth said, sobbing as guilt overtook her body.

"It's okay mom. I'm fine, I'm alive, it's alright," Rose assured her.

"You are, you are alive," Ruth said, mostly for herself to hear it, as she kissed her forehead.

"Mom?" Rose asked.

"Yes, honey?"

"Do you remember that guy from earlier today?"

"Jack?" Ruth asked.

"Yeah," she said, "have you seen him?"

"He's in the waiting room," Ruth told her.

Rose's eyes lit up, "He is?"

"Yeah, I'll get him," she replied as she walked to the door.

"Thank you mom," Rose said.

Ruth turned around and smiled as she exited the room. She walked back into the waiting room and saw Jack just staring at the ground beneath his feet.

"Jack," Ruth whispered.

Jack's head shot up and he had a look of extreme worry upon his face.

"She wants to see you."

Jack smiled as he got up from his chair. He started walking to the door, when he stopped and looked back at Ruth. She just sat there and gave him a reassuring smile.

Jack entered the room, not knowing what to expect.

"Jack," Rose whispered.

"Hey babe," he whispered back.

Jack sat down next to her; not touching her out of respect of what she had just went through.

Rose reached out her hand for him, "Its okay Jack."

He smiled as he took her hand, intertwining their fingers.

"The doctors told me," Rose said, looking over at Jack.

"I'm so sorry, Rose," he told her.

"Are you going to leave me now that I can't have you children?" she asked, tears welling up in her swollen eyes.

"No Rose, don't ever think that. I have only known you for a couple days, but I feel like I have known you forever. Rose, just because you aren't able to have children, doesn't stop me from loving you. It's not your fault this happened; I'm not going to leave just because some asshole took your innocence away from you. Rose, I love you. "

Rose was soaked in tears now, feeling love from a man for once in her life.

"Jack, you're a godsend, I love you too," she whispered.

They both smiled and Jack moved the chair closer to the bed. He stayed with her, until she finally fell asleep.


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