"Carly can you hear me?" Bo repeated as he watched her. After the fluttering of her eyelids had started, she began to move her head slightly, as though she was having an unpleasant dream. As he said this he felt her fingers twitch against his hand.
"NO!" Carly screamed as her eyes flew open and she bolted upright into a sitting position.
Bo sighed in relief. After two weeks his princess was awake.
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"Carly can you hear me?" Bo repeated as he watched her. After the fluttering of her eyelids had started, she began to move her head slightly, as though she was having an unpleasant dream. As he said this he felt her fingers twitch against his hand.
"NO!" Carly screamed as her eyes flew open and she bolted upright into a sitting position. She looked around wildly trying to figure out where she was, but her eyes couldn't seem to focus on anything. Everything was blurred. She could only discern shapes and light.
Carly tried to take a deep breath to calm herself and was rewarded with nothing more than severe pain in and around her sides. It felt as if someone had place an iron corset around her and was tightening it until she couldn't breathe. At the same time she had a pounding headache and tried to fight back the sudden need to vomit.
After a moment she felt a hand on her shoulder, trying to gently push her back down into a lying position. She turned her head to see who it was but could only tell that it was a man. She couldn't make out his face. But as it was she was too weak to fight him as he gently but firmly made her lay back down. As she lay back against the pillows she felt the sensation of having the air squeezed out of her subside.
"Carly?" Bo said her name, almost in disbelief that she was awake and he was looking into her brilliant emerald eyes again.
"Bo?" Carly said trying to focus on him. She knew his voice. "Bo, is that you?"
"Yeah, it's me." His voice was full of relief. "How do you feel, Princess?"
"I feel like I've been hit with a ton of rocks."
"I'm not surprised. Marcus said you have a severe concussion and that every one of your ribs is broken or cracked." Bo was getting a bit worried by the fact that Carly's eyes didn't seem to focus on anything
"Why are you here?"
"I brought you here to take care of you."
"Where are we?"
"We're at the cabin." Bo knew something was wrong when she asked where they were.
"Cabin? What Cabin? I don't understand." A few tears gathered in her eyes. She was getting scared that she couldn't focus on anything and that Bo was talking as though she should know where they were.
"What don't you understand, Princess? We're at the cabin in the mountains above Salem?"
"I don't know what cabin you are talking about. And I don't understand why you are taking care of me." The tears spilled down her cheeks.
"Why wouldn't I take care of you, Carly?" Bo reached up and tenderly brushed her tears away.
"Because you hate me. Don't tell me you don't Bo, because I know you do."
"Why on earth would you think I hate you?"
"Oh, I don't know, Bo, I just don't see it as a declaration of love or friendship when people put a gun to my head."
"Carly what are you talking about?"
"Don't pretend you don't know or remember that you held a gun to my head at Leopold's party. Now everyone knows that I'm Katerina. You made it clear that you hated me so why are you acting like you care that I was hurt in that damned tunnel under Lawrence's villa."
Bo felt as though all the oxygen had been sucked out of the room as he listened to Carly talk.
"Carly, what's the last thing you remember?"
"The tunnel that Francois, Jennifer, Jack, and I were in collapsed." Panic flooded her features as she said this. "Francois and Jennifer, where are they?"
"They're fine, Carly" Bo said quickly. "Other than some bumps and bruises they got out fine." He watched as she visibly calmed as he said that. What really worried him was that the last thing she remembered had happened almost 20 years ago. He decided at once not to say anything about how much time had passed or about the things she didn't remember.
"I'm sorry about what I did at that party. I was angry when I found out you lied to me, but I could never hate you Carly. I don't know why, but since the moment I met you on my pier, I've felt connected to you."
"Can I ask you something, Bo?"
"Of course, you can ask me anything."
" It may sound strange but do you remember when you saved me from Lawrence in that café?"
"Yeah I remember. Why?"
"What do you remember about that night?"
"Honestly, not very much. I remember walking into the café, seeing him grab you and me and him fighting." Bo faltered for a minute thinking back to that night. "I really don't remember anything after that. The rest of the night is a blank for me, I just know I woke up the next morning in a room at a hotel just across the border and had no clue how I got there."
Carly was silent as he said this. How am I going to tell him about that night? How am I going to explain what happened? Just then another thought dawned on Carly. The baby I lost, what if he was Bo's? As she thought this another tear fell from her eye and down her cheek.
"Carly? What's wrong? Why are you asking about that night?"
"Nothing's wrong. I was just curious that's all." She smiled at the vague shape she knew to be Bo, sitting next to her.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. Now back to why are we at this cabin and why you are taking care of me. Why am I not in a hospital with doctors?"
"Well, we thought it would be safer to bring you here and let me take care of you."
"We?"
"Yeah…uh…me and Marcus, Roman, Shane, Frankie, Abe, and Justin." He left out John because he wasn't sure how he would explain that, seeing as far as she was concerned the man she knew as Roman was John.
"Shane? What's he got to do with this? He does hate me."
"No he doesn't. He just didn't trust you. But now he knows who you are and why you lied to everyone. He helped me bring you here and arranged for all the medications and stuff you needed."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why do I need to be hidden?"
"Well we thought we should hide you away from Lawrence while you were recovering."
"You think he'll come after me?"
"Well he did manage to find you in Salem and pulled off this whole thing. Kept your brother hostage to get you to cooperate, I wouldn't put anything past him at this point."
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For keeping me safe and for taking care of me. For not hating me because I lied to you. Thank you for being you and for caring about me."
Bo couldn't tell her that he did more than care about her. He wanted to tell her that he loved her but he knew it wasn't the right time.
"You're welcome, princess. Now you listen to me. Close those pretty eyes and get some sleep. I am gonna go call Marcus and your brother and let them know you're awake. And then I'm gonna call a Doctor to come up here and check you over."
"You don't need to call a doctor out here." Carly protested at once.
"Carly, I know you're stubborn but so am I. You've been unconscious for two weeks now so yes I am calling someone to make sure you are OK I'm gonna have them check your eyes too because I know you can't focus or see me."
"How did you know?" she asked quietly.
"Because you couldn't recognize me until I talked to you and I've been watching your eyes ever since you woke up and they haven't focused on anything."
Carly knew arguing with Bo wouldn't do her any good so she just nodded and closed her eyes, wondering as she drifted off to sleep if she would be reliving anymore of her memories.
