Let's Get These Two Hearts Beating Faster
Teddy Anders Loves Skhyler
Chapter Two
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Rukia was shocked into submission. Her hand dropped. "I wasn't the one seducing in this relationship".
"Orihime insinuated that you used your body and the birth of my son to trick me into this marriage. Is it true?" He demanded.
What could she say, for it was true! She grit her teeth, but she knew she was denying something that was true all along. "We did get married because I was pregnant with Kyuuka, but it was no trap. I didn't get pregnant on purpose."
Ichigo frowned as if he couldn't believe it. Ichigo had always believed in her, even when she told him she was pregnant, he never questioned that it wasn't his and he always treated her with respect and love and attention to show she mattered. Not more than the yakuuza, but she was use to second place.
"You love your son", she said.
"I'm aware of that. It is one of the reasons that I still remember him." Sharp talons of pains shot at her heart and she wondered if she could stand anymore of this.
He seemed to acknowledge it. "But I thank you for giving birth to such a wonderful child."
It only seemed to hurt her more when he said that. She didn't need his thanks. She just wanted his love.
She stood up. It was a mistake to come after all. She grabbed her coat. "You don't have to thank me, I love our son just as much as you do." She turned to put it on.
He seized her arm to stop her. "Where do you think your going?"
"Back to the hotel. It's obvious that my company had no use." She hated the weakness she heard in her voice. She needed to get out of there.
"Like hell! You're my wife and this if the first time you decided to visit me in 3 days. You can't walk out after we've only been talking for 5 minuets."
"You didn't want me to come!" She couldn't stop the hot tears from filling her eyes, but she tried to blink them back. "Y-you told the doctor".
"And that upset you?" He asked with supreme lack of emotion.
"Well duh!" How could he be so cruel? Even if he didn't remember her was he totally insensitive to what a woman in her situation was going through. "I love you. How could that not upset me?"
"You love me?" he asked with derision she did not deserve. "The evidence is not in your favor. You were nowhere around when I was in my coma. No one told you to stay away."
"I had my own hospital bed to stay in!"
"With a small concussion. If you loved me, you would have had both our beds together hoping for my awakening."
Rukia never imagined the lack of her appearance from his bed would affect him. But somehow he took this as proof that she was a bad wife. She couldn't care less at that moment. What difference did it make? He obviously had never wanted to marry her in the first place.
But no matter how mad she was, apart of her wanted to explain herself about the beds and the baby, but James had told her not to reveal anything to Ichigo until the knew what was wrong and what had caused it.
She wondered if it would make a difference. She didn't think so.
"I didn't think about that." She admitted with pained honesty, just wanting to leave.
"Maybe you should have."
"Apparently, but we all aren't powerful, swindling yakuuza leaders who can still think of logical answers while in the hospital bed."
Ichigo grumbled. "I don't appreciate your sarcasm."
"I know, but you don't seem to appreciate anything about me now. And let's face it…you didn't exactly miss me. You forgot my existence!"
"You make it sound like I did it on purpose."
"Didn't you?"
"Maybe I had a reason."
"Is that what Orihime told you? That I'm a demon sent from hell that tormented you where you had to forget me?"
His silence said it all.
"And you believed her?"
"Everything pointed to you. Why would I want to forget you unless I wanted to because I found you intolerable and suffocating?"
He didn't sound convinced but the words damaged her.
"That's a big assumption." She forced out to him in stiff lips cold with shock at his revelation.
"Maybe you wanted to forget you had a wife. Before I had Kyuuka, you didn't want any commitment with me." She voiced out her suspicion.
"I'm not weak." But she could tell that an image of him did not suit him.
"Maybe there's no reason for your amnesia. Maybe its one of those medical things that just happens sometimes."
He shook his head, rejecting her thought. "I don't think so. The doctor can't find any physical damage for selective amnesia."
"Did James say that you wanted to forget me?"
"James?"
"Doctor James."
Ichigo's eyes narrowed dangerously. "I find it odd that my wife is on first name terms with my doctor."
"He was my doctor to me too. While you were in coma, he knew how upset I was and as kind to me."
"Well even your good friend the doctor says the amnesia is psychological."
Rukia fumed under the 'good friend', but let it pass.
"But that doesn't make me a bad wife. I know your too smart than to let yourself into a marriage that you didn't want."
"I wonder if our marriage was the only way you would give me power in my son's life."
"You think I use Kyuuka to blackmail you?"
He shrugged. "if it is, I'm surprised I fell for it when I watched the Queen of scams do it to my uncle. The love of a child can make any man stupid."
Rukia stumbled back and hit the chair. "You think I'm like the Queen of scams?" She asked horrified.
It was the worst kind of insult to compare her to the woman who had nearly destroyed the Kurosaki family, who was selfish, money and power hungry. It was amazing such a woman could birth Misa who was kind and gentle. Misa and Kaien's love seemed to be one of the eight wonders of the world.
James walked in and frowned when he took in her tear streaked face and Ichigo's frustrated one. "Rukia, I wasn't aware that your husband asked for you?"
She was silent. "He didn't"
"My wife does not need an invitation to visit me", Ichigo glared at the doctor. "Nor do I like to the familiarity you address her."
"I'm sorry it offends you, but this kind of upset isn't good for your condition," He said indicating the both of them.
"My condition is stable with minor injuries." Ichigo said in a freezing tone. "By having your wife here, she should be bale to jog my memory, not harm it."
"She's in tears."
"I noticed. If you leave I can take care of that."
The doctor's brow rose at his arrogance and nodded. "That might be best. This can't be easy on you two. I'll come back to discuss your release."
Rukia scrambled to her feet, wiping her cheeks, embarrassed and hurting so much she found it hard to breathe. "Don't leave James. It's okay, I'm going."
"Like hell you are!" Ichigo growled.
She tried to pull her coat from Ichigo's grip but he wouldn't let go.
"Let go".
"I told you. I won't let you leave so quickly".
She had enough. He probably wanted the doctor to leave so he could hurt her more with ugly words, but she wasn't sticking around. She let her coat go and rushed toward the door.
