A/N I got my tooth pulled; now it's just a giant gaping hole.-_-' Anyway, here's chapter 5. :)

IMPORTANT! Read it!:D I noticed that I totally screwed up the time line. -_-' In the first chapter, Madeline said that Roderich's been in Hungary for 3 days. At the beginning of chapter 4, it said that it's been 4 days since Elizabeta met Roderich. (So if you do the math that would be 7 days or 1 week) But then, somewhere in the middle of the chapter, it said that Roderich's been in Hungary for almost 2 weeks (by that I meant 12 days)… Can you say 'screwed up time line' or what? ^_^' So for now on, we'll just say that Roderich's been in Hungary for 2weeks. Ok, that's it. :D

Elizabeta woke up to see that she was still in the living room. 'Dammit! Way to go Liz! You failed waking back up to watch the rest of the freakin' movie!' Her mind screamed. She got of bed and went to the kitchen. When she pushed the door open, the sight almost startled her.

"Well it's good to see you up this morning." Roderich said flipping over a blueberry pancake.

"You're making breakfast?" She asked. Roderich looked up from the frying pan and nodded.

"I thought it would be a good way to repay you." He said smiling.

"Well we will just see about that Edelstein." Elizabeta said picking up a blueberry pancake. She bit into the pancake and smiled. It. Was. Amazing. 'So soft. So sweet.' She thought.

"Your debt is paid." She said to him. Roderich smiled.

"So I'm guessing you like them?" He asked.

"Love them." She said smiling.

"So," Roderich said changing the subject, "I couldn't help but notice your lovely collection of frying pans."

"Oh yeah. They're great for when someone tries to break in your house." Elizabeta said.

Roderich nodded. "I'll be sure to keep that in mind when someone tries to break in my house." He said with a little chuckle.

Elizabeta held up a thumbs up sign. "That's the way to go." She said laughing. However, her laugh was shortly replaced with a cough.

"Elizabeta are you ok? That's some cough you have there." Roderich said with a worried voice.

"I'm fine. I'm just—" Her sentence could not be finished due to a sneeze. "God bless you." Roderich said. But her sneezes didn't stop. Each time she sneezed, Roderich would say God Bless You. After her 10th sneeze, she finally stopped. "Maybe you should lie down Elizabeta. You don't look so good." Roderich said.

"Roderich, there's nothing wrong with me. I'm perfectly fine." Elizabeta said. But Roderich was right. She looked pale; she had bags under her eyes, not to mention her coughing and sneezing.

Suddenly, Roderich grabbed her face and put her forehead on his. "Roderich what the hell are you doing?" Elizabeta yelled.

"Taking your temperature. You're burning up." He said simply.

"So are you implying…" Elizabeta started.

Roderich nodded. "Apparently that small run in the rain last night affected you. You're sick." Elizabeta chucked. "I don't get sick Roderich."

"But you are sick Elizabeta."

"No I'm not." She said. Elizabeta knew he was right, but that meant that she would have to be in the house all by herself sick and bored.

"Elizabeta, you're sick. You have pale skin, bags under your eyes, a high temperature, a horrible cough, and uncontrollable sneezing. How could you not say you're sick?" Roderich said.

"But—" Elizabeta started.

"No buts. You have to go lay down if you want to feel better in a few days. I know you're an independent woman and I know you would never listen to a man, but I am telling you what's right. I'll bring you breakfast to your bedroom, I'll run down to the drug store and pick up some medicine for you, I'll even stay here all day if you want me too, just please. Go. Lie. Down." Roderich said in a soft voice.

Elizabeta sighed. "Fine. I'll go lie down." She said turning around to leave the kitchen. Roderich eyes widened. "Wait. You're really going to go lie down?" He asked. He didn't think what he said would actually work.

"Yeah, I mean you were right after all. I do feel a little under the weather." She said walking out of the kitchen with a smile on her face.

Roderich sighed. "Well if you knew you were sick Elizabeta why did we even have this conversation?" He asked her as she kept walking down the hallway. She stopped at her bedroom door and shrugged. "I don't know. But it was fun." She said. And with that, she opened the door and closed it behind her.

Roderich smiled. "Indeed it was enjoyable." He said to himself and continued making breakfast.

After making breakfast, Roderich cleaned up the kitchen back up. After doing that, he piled on a small stack of pancakes, two eggs sunny-side up, and two sausages on a plate. He grabbed the plate and walked down the hallway to Elizabeta's room. He knocked on the door with his free hand.

"Come in." Elizabeta said inside. Roderich opened the door to see Elizabeta sitting up watching television. "Here's your breakfast." He said handing her the plate.

"Thank you Roderich." She said and started eating.

"While you're having breakfast, I'll go get you some medicine. I'll be back in about 10 minutes tops, I promise." Roderich said.

"Well take the keys to the house. There on the kitchen table. It's the pink breast cancer key." Elizabeta said.

"Supporter?" Roderich asked. Elizabeta nodded. "For the past 10 years." She said proudly.

Roderich smiled. "Amazing…Well I must get going if I want to get back quickly." He said.

"Right. Make sure to get something for the cough, something for my headache—

"Elizabeta?" Roderich interjected.

"What?"

"I know what to get. Don't worry." He said chuckling a bit.

"Oh…" She said a little embarrassed. "Well I'm off." He said turning around to the door.

"And Roderich?" Elizabeta called out at the last minute.

"Yes?"

"Please be careful." She said in a soft voice.

Roderich smiled softly at her. "I will Elizabeta. I promise." He said.

Elizabeta just nodded. She wasn't really sure why she was worried about him. Besides he said he promised, and form what she's learned about him so far is that his really good at keeping his promises.

When Roderich came back from the store, he poured out all the things he had gotten from the store. "Let's see here. I've got cough drops, chamomile tea, and Aspirin that will help with your fever."

"Do you mind making me a cup of tea?" Elizabeta asked.

Roderich smiled. "Not at all." He said grabbing the cough drops. And with that, he left the room.

Five minutes later, Roderich came back with a hot cup of chamomile tea.

"I put 2 cough drops in there also." Roderich said handing her the tea. Elizabeta nodded and slowly downed the tea. As soon as she was done with the cup, the tea instantly started working. Elizabeta yawned and laid down.

"Roderich?" Elizabeta said softly to Roderich who was now sitting down in a chair next to Elizabeta's bed.

"Yes Elizabeta?"

"I'm not really sure if I said this or not…I'm too tired to think right now but… thank you for taking care of me today. I really appreciate it." She said in a soft sleepy voice and drifted off to sleep.

"You're welcome Elizabeta." Roderich said to her sleeping form.

When Elizabeta woke up, she looked at her alarm clock which read 10:15 p.m. She had been asleep all day. Elizabeta tried to move but something heavy was preventing her from doing so. She looked down to see Roderich asleep with his glasses still on. 'Had he fallen asleep watching me?' She thought. Absent mindlessly, Elizabeta started stroking Roderich's soft, silky, black hair.

Three Years.

It's been three years since Elizabeta depended on a man for something. It's been three years since Elizabeta didn't have to do something on her own. Never during those three years had a man took care of her and she felt so grateful for him doing so. Had her independence slipped away from her today? Has it been slipping all along? When did it even start slipping away?

The last time she remembered when her independence was as solid as a rock was when she was walking home from a coffee shop with a cappuccino in her hand and her favorite white blouse on. Then all of a sudden, her blouse was ruined by someone who wasn't watching where they were going…

Of course that was day she met Roderich; the day her independence started slipping away.

It was Roderich.

Roderich was getting in the way in the way of her independence. But…Roderich? Really? He seemed like such a nice and caring guy. Elizabeta felt very happy—scratch that. She felt very blessed to have such a person like Roderich in her life... Was she starting to like Roderich?

'Of course not.' Elizabeta thought to herself, 'I'm still independent. I'm just not as uptight as I used to be. Yeah, that's it.'

"Elizabeta?" Roderich said, starting to wake up. Elizabeta untangled her hand from her hair.

"Good evening Roderich." She greeted. "I'm sorry, I fell asleep watching over you. How are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling a bit better. But I guess I could go for another cup of tea though." Elizabeta answered truthfully.

"Do you want me to make you another cup?" Roderich asked.

"No I can do it. You've been doing things for me all day." Elizabeta said. She threw of the covers and got out of bed. However, when she took her first steps, Elizabeta started feeling dizzy. Maybe she wasn't as better as she thought. Elizabeta started swaying back and forth on her feet and fell backwards.

In a fluid motion, Roderich caught her and held her close. "Are you still sure you want to make your own tea?" Roderich said with a small smile.

"Ok, maybe you should make the tea." Elizabeta said matching Roderich's smile with her own. Roderich wasn't sure, but he could have sworn he saw a little blush on her face; unless her face was flushed from her fever. They seemed to stay in that position for forever, eyes locked on each other; until Roderich helped her up and back into bed.

"I'll be right back with your tea." Roderich said and left out of the room.

A/N I guess I could leave it right there. For those who caught the breast cancer thing, awesome job!:) (I put that in there for breast cancer awareness month which is in October. And because I have a breast cancer key too! :3) Sorry it took so long to update. As I said before, School. :/ Anyway, I really hope you guys liked it! And don't forget to review! :D