Chapter 5

Jacen POV.

I tried to open the bathroom door but it was locked. "Selene!" I called again. She was in there and I knew that for a fact. She wasn't answering me. "Selene." I called for the tenth time. "I'm going to kick in the damn door if you don't open it right now Sel." I said. My voice wasn't as strong as it should have been but I was to worried to care. I backed up and trust my foot at the door. The door flew open as soon as my foot made contact with it. I walked in slowly and saw Selene lying on the floor with a big puddle of blood by her body. I looked around and there was blood everywhere. Selene was lying there as still as day. I bent down to her body. Her breath was raspy but she was still breathing. I checked her heart beat and it was faint and slow but it to was still there. "Selene." I said her name again and there was no movement. I pulled out my phone and called 911.

"911 Whats you emergency?" The operator picked up.

"M-m-my Selene hurt, blood everywhere." I said through my tears and broken voice. "House of Night."

"Okay sir an ambulance will be there right away." The lady said then hung up. I dialed Zoey's number next.

"Jacen?" She said.

"Help." I said then hung up the phone. I called Kay and as soon as she answered I spoke. "Help Selene." I said then hung up. I heard the door fly open and Kaylee, Zoey and Stark all appeared in the bathroom.

"Oh dear goddess." Zoey said putting her hand over her mouth.

"Why would she do this?" Stark said.

"I think I know." Kaylee said walking over to Sel's body. I saw her pick up a piece of paper that I hadn't noticed was there. She read it out for all of us to hear:

"Selene,

I look up and the sky is gray. The clouds are fading in and out. There is a downfall of heavy showers. I ask myself why it has been raining all year long and the only answer I can come up with is that it's a rainy day when you're not around. I watch as the rainy Selene less days go by. I get older everyday but I love you even more everyday. I walked around England for weeks until a wise man told me: Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. I wondered for a whole month what that means until it hit me like a lighting bolt. I age every day that I am away from you but when your near me and you love me I have eternal youth. Those are two very special things I have learned in the year that we've been apart. I see you in every passing face. I walk the streets and all I see is you. You haunt me in every way possible. I try to forget you like you asked but I can't do it if your everywhere I look. I guess I am cursed and blessed to love you everyday for the rest of my life Selene. I'll love you till the cows come home because I don't have cows.

Erik Night.

PS: I know I shouldn't ask anything of you but I'm going to anyway. A smile to put you on high... A kiss to set your soul alright...Would it be alright if I spent tonight being loved by you?

Love Erik Night."

Kaylee finished reading what was on the paper.

"Why is she bleeding so much?" Zoey asked coming to sit beside me. I turned over Selene's hands. Zoey stumbled back at the sight of all the self hate, stress and Nyx knows what else cuts on her hands. "Oh Nyx." Zoey said.

"Look." Stark said kneeling beside his sisters body. He lifted up her shirt but not enough that you could see anything. I held my heart there were cuts all over her stomach too. Was she really hurting that much? Why didn't I see it all before.? And where the hell is EMS?

"Why would she do this?" I asked Kaylee and Zoey because they were the last people who I knew for a fact had been with Selene other than Erik.

"She was mad at Lo and I was mad at her." Zoey said through tears. "Its all my fault." She sobbed. Stark was giving her the same WTF did you do look I was. "I just-" Kaylee interrupted her.

"Jase just read my fucking mind." She said. I was in her mind and I was seeing the big blow up that had happened with Lotus. I saw Selene giving Kaylee a look that would make you fear your life if you dare spoke up against her. What was Selene thinking? I stroked back her hair away from her face. She was so beautiful and I would give her the world but I could never help her with this cutting thing. I would try but I doubt I could help her. "Your the only one she wants helping her." Kaylee said obviously reading my mind. "Sorry." She said and I tried to smile because this was Kaylee we always read each others minds without even trying.

"Its fine. Where are those human EMS workers?" I asked and everyone shrugged there shoulders.

"Hello? We got a call saying there was an emergency." Someone called from the door.

"Where in here." Stark called and the Ems guy followed by a guy with a stretcher walked into the bathroom.

"Oh dear sweet Michael." The guy with the stretcher said. "I know you vampires like blood and all but this is just crazy. Killing your own for your own needs." He said looking only at me and Stark.

"Don't talk to us like that." Stark said getting in the guys face. "Your hear to help my sister and that's what your going to do or we will show you what vampires lust for blood is like." Stark said baring his teeth and emphasizing the word sister.

"I'm sorry for his bad behavior." The other EMS guy said. He bent over a lifted my Selene up and put her on the stretcher. "Who would like to ride with us?" He asked.

"Me." We all said at the same time.

"Stark go with her." I said because Stark was her brother after all and she loved him so much. He gave me a grateful look and I just nodded. "We'll meet you there." I said and they left.

"Jase you should stay here." Kaylee said. "You may upset her when she wakes up." I nodded because she was probably right.

"Okay but Kay keep her safe." I said.

"Always." She came over and hugged me. "Clean this up and take a shower." I nodded and Kay and Z left the room.

Zoey POV.

We were in the car driving to Tulsa hospital. Kaylee was driving like a maniac. We got to the hospital very quickly because it was just right up the road. We parked the car and ran up the stairs to the lobby. "May I help you?" One of the doctors asked.

"Vamp. Girl came in with serious cuts." Kaylee said panting from all the stair we had just climbed.

"Oh yes the cutter." The doctor said shaking his head. "Its a real shame she was such a pretty girl to." He was talking about her like she was dead.

"Is she alright?" I asked him.

"I'm sorry I can only give that information out to her family and as far as I can tell she only has a brother." The doctor said walking away.

"Wait." Kaylee called after him. She picked the doctor up off of the ground. "We are her family and your going to tell us where our sister is or your going to need a doctor." She said showing him her extra sharp teeth.

"Room four twenty five." The doctor said his voice was so low and he sounded scared.

"Thank you." Kay said in a sweet voice before dropping the doctor. We raced down the hall until we found the room. Stark was sitting by Sel's side. Kaylee walked over to the bed and sat in one of the chairs and I sat in the chair beside Stark.

"Whats wrong?" I asked Stark.

Stark POV.

"She lost a lot of blood." I said taking my only sisters hand in my own. She was so cold. Her skin was pale, her breathing was very slow and sounded so painful and her heart beat was either to slow or to fast sometimes.

"Is she going to make it?" Kaylee asked me.

"I don't really know." I said and took a deep breath. "The doctors gave her blood and covered the cuts but they say even though she is a vamp. Goddess and what not she might not make." I said my voice shaking at the might not make it part. I felt Zoey's arms go around me and I kissed her hand. We all sat in silence.

"Visiting hours are over." The nurse said from the door.

"Can we just have a couple more minutes?" I asked her.

"Sorry sugar I can't allow that but you call all come back tomorrow at six like everyone else." She said and we all got up and left the hospital.

Erik POV.

"Hello?" I answered my phone.

"Erik its Lo Selene's in the hospital." Lo said her voice was a faint whisper.

"What? How?" I asked her. I was stunned. Why was Selene in the hospital.

"She cut herself Erik. I'm here you can come they all left." Lo said. I didn't think twice I hoped into my car and drove to the hospital. When I found the room Lo was siting at S's bedside. "What took you so long?" She said.

"I got here as fast as I could." I said sitting next to her.

"Its all my fault." She said resting her head on my shoulder.

"Why is it all your fault Lo?" I asked her.

"Because I wouldn't let you give up on her. I kept pushing you two together when she doesn't even want you. She was right I tried so hard for something that was almost impossible." Lo said. I felt her hot tears rolling down onto my shirt.

"Its not your fault Lo. I would have come back for her anyway." I said. She gave me a look that said really? "Really," I said.

"I have to go Apollo's waiting for me." She said and I nodded. She hugged me then turned to S. "Get better fast because I love you Sel, your my sister and I am sorry for hurting you." Lo said holding Selene's hand. "Night bro." She said.

"Night." and then Lo left. "Why would you do this?" I asked the body of the woman I loved lying very still and almost dead in a hospital bed. "Is it my fault?" I asked her but she stayed silent. I flipped her hands over and I saw all the cuts the doctors had to cover up. Then I lifted her shirt and there were more on her stomach. "Oh sweet Selene." I said. "How could you do this?" I sat there in the same same chair waiting for her to awaken from her comatose state. I held her hand tightly in both of my own. I fell asleep eight hours later.

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