Heartbeat
Dom/Rose – Heartbeat
For: Connect the Weasleys Challenge
Don't own any of it
If you let me feel your pulse we can be one
Again the older girl had found her way to the hospital, and the family was crowded around.
All except Rose.
She was tired of it; every time Dom's heartbeat would stop and there'd be a moment of overshadowing fear before everything would be fine again.
Her mother dragged her inside, and crammed her between Lucy and James. She sighed and pretended to be concerned.
Then Dominique's eyes fluttered open.
They were a pale grey – not the usual brilliant electric blue. And Rose realized something was wrong the moment her gaze settled on the other girl's eyes. This was no result of a drunken stumble into a gutter.
Dominique had tried to stop her own heartbeat.
They locked eyes and Dominique's heart stopped again, for a second time. Rose held her hand but found her fingers creeping up to the girl's wrists, sliding under the medical bracelets, and she felt something.
Blood.
Another whole not patched up, not covered. And she pushed down on the bloody cut, all the resentment and anger she had ever felt towards the attention-seeking brat that lay in the bed bubbled and burst. And she pushed harder, and eventually Dominique rose again.
But Rose knew that the others didn't realize there was one hole left, and Rose stared into the slush pits of Dominique. And then, hesitantly, she pushed down again, and the blood stopped flowing. Her finger was covered in an inky red and she removed her hand, obsessively watching the blood trickle down from the tip of her finger. When it had run into her sleeves, she stared at the medical bracelets. And she touched Dominique's arm again, which was now slick with blood but hidden in the sheets. She wasn't meant to kill her cousin, it wasn't meant to be like this, but Dominique was the one who'd ruined Rose's life, and she was determined to get revenge.