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Chapter13:

Beep… beep… beep… beep… boy that noise was annoying! I thought but I couldn't help but to repeat this sound pattern in my head over and over again. Beep beep beep…. Such an odd dream I thought.

After a little while, I realized that this beeping sound was keeping pace with my heart rate.

This isn't good! I thought as my heart rate accelerated at the same time than the beeps.

"Rosemarie?" I heard a voice coming from very close beside me, but it was very hard to concentrate, and it was also almost impossible to open my eyes. It seemed that my eye lids were weighting a thousand pounds.

"Rosemarie can you hear me?" I heard again, this time with urgency in the voice.

Dr. Olendzki? I thought surprised. What the hell is happening here?

"Rosemarie, sweetie, squeeze my hand if you can hear me." She added putting a hand on my forehead and putting the other one under my own hand for me to squeeze.

What does she want that for? I thought as I now used all my strength to open my eyes. I finally managed to open them up just a little bit. It was like when I gave my super narrow stare but the brightness of the light bulb was still blinding me.

I groaned man! How long have I been asleep for? I thought, but when I tried to word that thought out, it stayed stuck in my throat that was painful and dry.

"Oh Rosemarie!" She said her voice full of relief as she leaned down so her face was just above mine. "You are really strong! One of a kind" she said with actual admiration.

Admiration from Olendzki?! It was like expecting a declaration of love from Stan Alto! I thought trying to swallow but it was too painful, I winced.

"Do you want some water?" She asked reaching for a jug of water and pouring a glass for me.

I nodded.

She helped me to half sit putting an arm behind my back to steady me as I was so stiff and brought the glass to my lips.

I brought my hand up to try to reach for the glass but I felt a big bandage on the right side of my face, just under my jaw.

How did I get hurt? I wondered trying to wake up my memory as I felt that my brain was in a haze. The water felt so good down my throat it was like living again.

At this instant I opened my eyes wide. Dimitri! Tualatin! He hurt me but….I couldn't remember what I did next, but I remembered who showed up exactly when I needed it.

"Lissa…" I whispered. "Is she ok?" I asked with pleading eyes.

Doctor Olendzki smiled. "Yeah she is just fine," she said with a soothing tone. "She left about 30 minutes ago." She looked at the watch "you know except for maybe two hours per day you were never alone." She said nicely stroking my hair without even thinking about it. "They didn't want you to wake up alone." She chuckled "They slightly messed up there but they will be mad at me since I'm the one imposing an hour the morning and one hour in the afternoon for medical purposes."

"How…" I drank a bit more and she helped me back on the pillow, but lifted the bed for me to be on a more comfortable slightly sat position.. "How long have I been here?" I asked sounding like a chain smoker.

"It has been two weeks Rose." she said uncomfortably.

"Two…Weeks!?!" I said the last word in such a high voice that it sounded like a squeal.

"You were really badly hurt Rose." She said seriously "both physically and mentally." She added sitting down in the chair beside me taking my hand. "You made it at the hospital just in time. It's almost a miracle you survived with all the blood you've lost, the brain haemorrhage-"

I knew that! I thought with some pride then feeling silly to be happy that I guessed that I actually did suffer from a brain haemorrhage. You really are damaged! I thought.

"The injury on your neck was really serious too you know. It almost severed your artery." She added all doctor like.

"Why am I here?" I asked as it didn't make sense. I was not a member of the academy anymore.

She carefully placed a glass of water into my hand and I noticed the IV in the back of it.

"Once they stabilized you well..." She shrugged "you were in a coma but it was only partially due to your injuries themselves. It was also," she cleared her throat. "Sometime it's your brain you see… When it had enough, when it just can't deal anymore well it just turn off for a while, to rest" She said still stroking my hand mechanically.

"Huh… like a Brain strike?" I asked.

"Yeah" she chuckled. "Something like that. It can last a day but some… Some people never come back." she added and I saw in her eyes that she feared that would be the case for me without actually wording it out loud.

"Your friends didn't want to leave you behind. I think they needed you and knew that you needed them too so, once you were stable enough and not in need to so much medical care anymore, we brought you back here." She counted mentally. "You've been here for 10 days now and as I said you were almost never alone."

I nodded but couldn't help but ask myself why Lissa didn't heal me, physically at least. Was she just too mad at me to do so?

"You know you are pretty lucky to have so many people who care about you and they just love you so much," she said sincerely. "They were so, so worried. This experience changed everyone." She added.

I knew there was much more under that little statement but I decided to drop it for now. I would probably find out soon enough.

"They never left my side?" I asked with tears in my eyes. But I did leave them!! Of course I did!! I thought as guilt showed up again… geez I surely didn't miss that feeling.

Doctor Olendzki nodded. "Yeah… one at the time, keeping you company. Talking, reading, just being there…" She cocked her head to the side. "Princess Vasilisa, Mr. Ivashkov, Mr. Oreza, Your mother,…" She added shooting me a sideway glance and then continued "Guardian Castile -"

"What?" I asked cutting her off surprised. "Eddie's dad kept me company?" I asked frowning. Eddie was one of the rare dhampir to have a Moroi for mother and a dhampir for a father but I didn't know his father. "That's….nice?" I said in a tone that sounded like a question as I didn't know what to think.

She laughed. "No not Eddie's Father." She shook her head. "Eddie Himself" she said. She probably saw the confused look on my face. "Well when you…left." She said uncomfortably "They made him graduate early and assigned him to the Princess with your mother you know... Just for now."

I nodded even if I knew that I will not reprise the spot even if they actually did offer it to me. I didn't feel like a guardian anymore. This part of me died. And I was happy that Eddie was Lissa's guardian because he was really taking his responsibilities to heart and he truly cared about her too, he was probably the best out there for her.

"Graduations are next Wednesday, so a week from tomorrow" she said as she thought I would be interested. "Well..." She padded my hand. "I will let you rest for now." She looked at the clock. "Your next friend will be here in 18 minutes" she said so seriously that I wondered what kind of weird routine they did set up while I was out.

I just hope it's not an annoying one like Christian or- I started to think

"It's Mr. Ivashkov turn" she added standing up.

Of course it was Adrian!! Who else huh? Karma is a bitch! I thought annoyed.

As I saw her opening the door I decided to ask her for a favor.

"Is it possible for you to keep that to yourself? Just a little while longer. I... I just need to think." I asked louder than before as the water helped a lot.

"Well…. I guess…" She said not happy about that. "But I will not be able to keep Mr. Ivashkov from the room. He is a mess since you came back and believe me I would be too scared to try and stop him! He could actually bite my head off." She added, and I could see, when she shivered, that she was only slightly exaggerating.

"Don't worry I can handle Adrian" I said calmly. "Just please don't go around advertising. Not just yet." I added pleading.

She sighed in rendition, nodded and left the room.

I took a deep breath and turned my face to concentrate my attention to the heart monitoring system. Following the ECG pattern helped me to stay calm and focused.

I knew that the strigoi attack would change things it was when… 7 weeks ago? Wow… it seemed that it was another lifetime.

Could everything change in so little time? I thought incredulous. I knew it took a lot less for a person to change; it took me less than 5 minutes to change…. Seeing the strigoi taking Dimitri down the cave…it was like yesterday. The beeping sound became much faster at once

I sighed and my heart rated decreased slowly. Yeah Rose. Calm down. I thought. You just woke up. You'll know everything. You just need time.

I was lost in my thought when I heard the door opening. I turned my head to face it and that's when my eyes connected with Adrian's.

"Oh!" He shouted and it looked like he was about to faint under the surprise and relief.

I stayed frozen as his eyes slowly filled up with tears.

"Oh Rose…" He whispered his voice strangled trying to hold back the sobs.

"It's only been 5 weeks since I left." I said with a small smile as I hated myself for hurting them. "You already forgot how I look like huh?" but he looked so different, older somehow, and the dark purple circles under his eyes showed his agitation and lack of sleep.

He threw the book he was holding in a chair as he ran to my side, putting his hands delicately on each side of my face and scrutinizing my eyes as to make sure it wasn't a dream.

"Oh Rose…".He sighed closing his eyes and resting his forehead against mine. "I knew you would come back but they doubted… but I knew. I knew if someone could pull out of it, it was you." He added opening his eyes again to look into mine. "So strong, you're so, so strong." he added in a whisper.

I started to feel a little bit uncomfortable with Adrian that close of me, to share what was such an intimate moment with a man who, unfortunately, didn't own my heart. His words were the one's I've heard what seemed a century ago by the man who still owned my heart and probably would till my last breathe.

Adrian probably felt my discomfort as he pulled away, gently kissed my forehead and sat beside me, taking my hand in both of his.

"You've never been more beautiful." He said sincerely kissing my palm and brought my hand on his cheek like he had a vital need of this contact, he leaned on it.

"You are a real gentleman." I said trying to joke and consequently reducing the intimacy of this reunion. "I'm sure I look like shit." I said trying to pat my hair which was clearly a haystack on top of my head. "Have you seen the 'night of the living dead'?" I asked rhetorically. "I'm pretty sure I'll be the one the zombies would run away from." I snorted.

He smiled at me. "From you? Never! You always look like an angel." He said smiling kindly while keeping my hand on his face.

"So you brought a book huh?" I asked pointing at the book doing my best to change the subject.

"Yeah…" he said letting go of my hand reluctantly to retrieve the book. He sat back as I discreetly brought both my hands on my chest. "I was reading to you" he added uncomfortably.

Could he get even more considerate? I thought surprised. That man is really full of surprises.

"I heard it's good to read to people in a Coma." He shrugged "no big deal you know." He added trying to sound detached.

It's a big deal to me. I thought. "And what were you reading me?" I asked curiously.

He looked down at the book and slightly blushed. "'War and Peace' by Tolstoy" he finally said. "It's one of my favorite books."

I was taken aback for a second. Adrian and Tolstoy?? That was shocking! I laughed. "Man that is such a book…." I shook my head. "Were you actually trying to keep me in a Coma?"

He laughed his throaty laugh that I realized I actually missed a lot. "Nah!" He shook his head. "I hoped it would irritate you so much that you would wake up just to tell me to 'shut the hell up'!" he said bringing his hand to my cheek and brushing my cheekbone softly with the back of his hand.

"Huh…." I started deciding to ignore this tender gesture. "It was pretty smart actually it could have worked." I added laughing but it was really uncomfortable with the big bandage on my neck.

"Are you okay?" He asked worried seeing me wince. "You want me to call Olendzki?" He added standing up.

"Hey, hey! Calm down!" I said with a soothing tone seeing the panic in his eyes. I really was lucky to be cared about that much. "It's all good I promise."

"Sure?" He asked walking back to stand beside me.

"Yeah it's just the tape," I said with a shrug. "It's pretty uncomfortable but no pain I swear." I said with the biggest smile I could handle.

"Uh…" he said. "Be right back" he said kissing my forehead quickly.

He came back about 10 minutes later.

"Ok I checked out with the doc," he said sitting beside me again. "She'll come a bit later to remove the bandages. You don't need them anymore."

I brought my hand to the bandage on my temple as I almost forgot about this injury.

"OK don't get me wrong, but-" I felt a lot more comfortable to ask this question to him than Lissa. I was sure I would chicken out if it was her. "You came to get me right?" I asked trying to sound very calm.

"Yeah we did." He said with a smile brushing some hair from my face. "Lissa, Christian, Me, Eddie, your mother and…. and Christian's guardian Ben."

Christian has a guardian now? I thought surprised but I was pretty sure I'll get to ask about that later. I had more important thing to ask now.

"Ok well…" it was pretty uncomfortable as I was scared to sound ungrateful or so. "Why… Why didn't you try to heal me?" I asked blushing.

"Oh!" He said raising his eyebrows in surprise as he clearly didn't expect that question. "Well…" he looked down at his fiddling hands probably trying to hide his uneasiness. "Well we did try after… But…" he shook his head. "We didn't have enough energy left and then," he shrugged "we're not even fully effective yet."

"Not fully effe---" I stopped. "Oh…" I just added understanding only too well. They both tried to save Dimitri but if it did work he would have been beside me right now that was sure. Nobody would have been able to keep him away from me. Not now! I thought sadly. "Oh." I just repeated stupidly nodding. "I get it…" I added not able to hide the immense sadness and despair in my voice.

At that moment Doctor Olendzki came in and asked Adrian to leave us some time as she wanted to remove my bandages.

We both expected Adrian to argue but he just nodded saying he was going to wait for Lissa to finish her class and tell her the wonderful news. It was like he was happy to go which was so not Adrian's style.

After he left, the doctor removed the bandages and seemed pretty pleased with the scars. She promised that if I kept doing that well she would take the IV off tomorrow.

She gave me a small mirror before leaving pretty fast.

"Man… that ugly huh?" I whispered to myself.

I looked at my temple scar first. It was pretty small which was surprising with the amount of blood I've lost but it was true that the head injuries were pretty impressive usually. Many, many blood vessels, lots of blood. That scar was shaped as a small lighting.

I'm Harry Potter's long lost sister!! I thought giggling to myself. Dorky much? I loved those movies…. Guilty pleasure like Narnia… Prince Caspian was pretty hot. I shook my head with a smile

But that smile faded as soon as I saw the scar under my jaw. It was not that long nor even that ugly and I was pretty sure that in a short time nobody would even notice it anymore but it was permanent I thought sadly bringing my hand to it.

A permanent reminder of the fact that the love of my life did try to kill me.

The permanent reminder that I travelled for three weeks to kill the only man I ever loved.

"Like I had a chance to ever forget." I murmured with a sighed.

I heard a light knock on the door and plastered a big smile on my face.

Act… Pretend well for Lissa. She deserves peace! I thought looking at the door.

"Come in!" I said on the cheeriest tone I could manage. "Hey Li-" I started to say but then stopped as a man stepped into my room with a wide smile on his face.