Chapter Eighteen: The Ending
Opening her eyes, she, once again, saw the familiar hospital room and the usual person who was asleep at her side, holding onto her hand- Scott. Leaning up against the pillows, she watched the doctor come inside, checking his clipboard before he started to talk.
"Rose, glad you are awake. Your boyfriend was protective of you during surgery." The doctor said, looking back on his clipboard as she began to become confused.
"Surgery?" Rose asked, confused on why she needed surgery and on what had happened.
"You were shot in the shoulder, and, to be honest with you, you are lucky for making it out without having to have your arm put in a cast, believe it or not." He told her, bidding her a goodbye before he continued on his routine with his other patients.
"Scott," She whispered, shaking his hand before she slipped her hand out from under his, hoping that he would explain. "Scott."
"Rose?" Scott's voice sounded sad, lonely, and just a bit afraid as he looked up to see her staring at him, the confusion in her eyes.
"What happened?" She asked him as he looked at her, standing up to hug her as she hugged back before the door opened once again.
"That's what I'd like to know." Sheriff Stilinski said, hearing what she said as he walked inside with two other officers behind him.
"Before you start questioning me, I should tell you that I don't know what happened." Rose quickly said as she reached for Scott's hand, not wanting to do through an interrogation.
"We still need to ask you questions." Sheriff Stilinski replied, sitting in the other chair next to Rose as he watched Rose squeeze Scott's hand.
"If we are going to do this, we do it my way," Rose looked from the officers to Scott as she continued, looking back to Sheriff Stilinski. "And Scott get's to stay with me, by my side."
"I understand. First question; Do you remember what happened before you vanished five months ago?" He asked, going through the usual questions as he looked at Rose.
"No." She simply said, answering with a few yes's and no's, hoping no explanation questions came along as she answered the first seven questions.
"Last question; Do you know why you vanished and who took you?" As he said his last question, Rose started to feel intense pain in her stomach, squeezing Scott's hand as she felt another pain.
"Can you please leave-" Before she could continue, she felt the pain grow and grow, suddenly pulling her hand from Scott as she put both her hands on her stomach.
"Scratch that- Can somebody get a doctor? I don't think this is how I'm supposed to feel," She shifted her legs, letting out a quick scream as she shook her her head, saying, "It's definitely not supposed to feel like this."
"What's happening?" Scott asked as one of the officer's ran to get a doctor, understanding why she was in such pain.
"Scott, you know I love you, but shut up." Rose whispered as calmly as she could, gripping his hand again as she felt a kick in her stomach, staring at the door as a doctor came rushing in.
Watching the doctor come running in to her side, she began to blur out, fading as she heard someone shout, "She is going into labor," before she completely blacked out.
"Excuse me," A voice came into her mind as she opened her eyes, the sudden urge to cry as the sadness in the room overwhelmed her. "Excuse me."
With a tear slipping down her cheek as she laid in her hospital bed, she panicked before setting eyes on the doctor that was above her.
"I'm sorry to give you the news, but we lost your twins." He told her as she stared from his eyes to the hallway that she could see from the door being opened, a nurse telling Scott something as he looked like a wreck, completely upset.
The voice came back, suddenly shaking her from her dreams as she opened her eyes, looking around the classroom that she was in only to stare up at the teacher in front of her.
"This may be your first day, but I will not allow you to fall asleep in my class." The teacher in front of her said, earning a few laughs from the class as the teacher returned to the front of the class.
Looking next to her, she saw Scott writing down some notes as he looked over to her to ask, "Is something bothering you?"
"No, not at all." Looking around, she saw the clock which had 8:35 on it, her head quickly turning to pull out her phone to see the date, the same date that she had on her first day.
The relationship with Scott, the life with him, the twins, her vanishing- it was all just a dream. Rose knew one thing- Mary Anne Rose Summers and Scott McCall would never be a couple.