Chapter 18: Hospital
Nessie's POV
"This is the teenage girl that you said had multiple lacerations to the face, arms, legs, and chest?" was the first thing I remembered hearing.
"Yes. It was a gruesome sight-"
"Where are the lacerations now? She does not appear to have any new wounds. Her injuries look like they are weeks, if not months old,"
"I know. I do not understand it doctor. She was bleeding out so much when the paramedics pulled her out of her car. Now her wounds-I do not understand what is going on,"
"Just put her in the ICU for now. We will figure out what is going on with her later. Right now the other accident victims need to be attended to as well,"
I kept my eyes clothes but just by the smell, and from what I was hearing, I was in the hospital. I could smell the antiseptic everywhere. I could smell the sick, injured, and dying people. Most of all though I could smell the blood. There was blood everywhere. My throat burned again much the same way that it had last night when I lost control and attacked that poor innocent man.
I wanted that blood again. I wanted it badly. The smell of that blood was clouding my mind again. I was too weak though to get up and go look for it. No! What was I thinking?! I didn't want blood and I didn't want to hurt anyone ever again. But it smelled oh, oh so good. Human blood was the sweetest, most delicious thing that I had ever tasted before in my entire life.
I resisted the urge to scream out loud when I made the mistake of moving. I was in pain. A lot of pain. I opened my eyes and found myself being wheeled down the hallway quickly. Nobody even noticed that I was awake until we had arrived at the ICU. The doctor stared at my eyes in shocked silence. That was when I remembered the red color they had been this morning. No doubt the frightening color was still there present in my eyes.
"Are you in pain Renesmee? How are you feeling?"
"Pain," I muttered. "I'm in pain,"
"I'm not surprised," she said. "You had multiple bone fractures throughout your body. The paramedics said you also had multiple lacerations to your face, chest, arms, legs, and torso. Although there is no evidence that you sustained those wounds at all. You've got all the doctors here completely baffled kid," she informed me as she setup an IV and gave me medicine for the pain. It didn't take long before I started feeling the drug's effects.
"What happened? I remembered a car accident and after that nothing,"
"It was a pretty bad accident kid. Five car pileup. We don't know how it happened yet or if alcohol was involved in any way,"
"I was not drunk. I can promise you that,"
"Your blood test will reveal that if you're telling the truth,"
"You took samples of my blood?" I asked. "Why?"
"It's protocol. Every time we have a car accident that results in serious injury or death a blood test must be done to determine if alcohol or drugs were a factor,"
I took a deep breath. Memories of the conversation I had with those kidnappers flooded my mind and infuriated me all over again. I called them 'kidnappers' because in my opinion what they had done was no better than actually stealing me from my real family. I closed my eyes and sighed when I thought about the ensuing car accident. Even though I had not been under the influence of any kind of alcohol or drugs the crash was still my fault. I should not have been driving around as upset as I was. Especially when it was still dark out and raining. All I could do was hope and pray that everyone else who had been injured would be okay.
"Renesmee who should I call?"
"No one," I said a little too harshly.
"What about your parents? What is a good phone number that I should call?"
"I don't want to see my parents. They are the reason that I was not home this morning. I do not want to see them right now. So please stop asking,"
"Renesmee your family needs to know what happened to you. As a minor you need to have your parents here to make medical decisions for you?"
I fought the sudden urge to scream out loud that those imposters, those kidnappers, were not my parents. I wanted to scream out to the whole world what they had done. As far as I was concerned they should not have any rights over me whatsoever. I couldn't say that though. At least not yet.
"I don't want to see them. Okay? At least not right now,"
"Alright kid. I'll leave you alone to rest for now,"
I knew that this was not going to be the end of that conversation. I knew that they were going to keep asking until I finally cracked and told them. I knew that eventually I would not have a choice. As much as the idea of seeing those imposters again sickened and infuriated me I did not have a choice. However, I would put off that meeting as long as I could.
Eventually I got bored of just lying there in bed. So I got out of bed slowly and carefully. I was surprised that I didn't feel any pain. Maybe the pain medication was just that strong. I walked with little difficulty despite the fact that I had multiple broken bones. I made it out of the ICU without anyone noticing anything. I paused outside of a door when I heard someone say my name.
"There is something seriously strange in her blood sample,"
"Is she clean?" I heard another voice ask.
"Yes. Her blood tested negative for alcohol and drugs. There is something else wrong with her blood. It's different from normal human blood. Maybe with more tests we can figure out what it is,"
I kept on walking, not interested in anymore of their conversation. Then I smelled it again. I smelled blood. Blood. Suddenly it was all that I could think about. Blood and the fact that my throat was suddenly on fire again. I walked off in the direction that the smell was coming from. The smell led me all the way back to the emergency room. There was a man in there bleeding nonstop. He was surrounded by doctors who were trying to get his bleeding under control. Nobody even realized that I was there.
I crouched down like an animal ready to attack. Nothing was going to get in my way of me and my blood. Not even those doctors. I'd get rid of them one way or another. Just as I was about to attack someone grabbed me and yanked me backward. I growled viciously only for my captor to cover my mouth with his hand. I fought as hard as I could to get free. I even bit his hand in desperation. I was being kept from my blood!
"Nessie stop it right now! I'm much stronger than you. You're just going to hurt yourself if you keep trying to fight me!" My rational mind came back to me the second I recognized Carlisle's voice.
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