Sick

"Elizabeth my darling," my grandmother walked into the room. "I've brought you some soup my girl," she said. "It's an old family recipe and it's been proven by your great grandmother to help scare off illnesses."

"Grandmother I'm ok," I said trying to sit up. "You've been babying me for a week now," I protested.

"Stay down," my mother shrieked getting up from her chair and shoving me back onto my pillows.

"Mom I'm ok," I said before breaking out into a coughing fit.

"I'm here Mrs. Gilles," a Avan's voice broke the air as he entered my room.

"Ah the boyfriend," my grandfather said from his seat on the chair in my room.

"Are you ok?" his eyes held worry. My coughing continued and I grasped my chest in pain. I shook my head as tears pricked my eyes and I began coughing up blood. "Perhaps a hospital is in order," I offered gently.

"Grandmother is against them," Ana said clenching her fists as tears entered her own eyes.

Beck looked over at my mother with a look of disturbance on his face. He walked over to my side and took my hand in his. He violently wrenched it from where it lay before my mouth and shoved it at my grandmother's face. "You would let her die over a superstition!" he boiled over with anger.

"It is not a superstition. Elizabeth will be fine she only needs time my dear boy."

He swept his fingers across my palm and as it passed over it his fingers collected blood. "People who cough up blood don't miraculously heal! They need doctors and help! They need medication, and if you refuse to get Elizabeth to a place where she can receive these things then it is my responsibility to do so." Avan's strong arms lifted my worsening body and he carried me to his car. I coughed still as Avan drove. The coughing wouldn't stop and neither would the blood. Tears accompanied the blood and through the pain I worried about staining Avan's car.

Avan's POV

"She's going to need extensive medical treatment," a doctor told me walking out. "She'll be in solitary until she's fully recovered. I need to ask but why wasn't she brought in earlier? Her skin had almost no color to it and she's lost a great amount of blood."

"I wasn't able to visit her for the past two days and she wasn't this ill the last time I was at her house." The doctor nodded though his face was still perturbed. "Her grandmother seems to have a thing against hospitals as I picked up."

"I see unfortunately we have that problem with many of the elderly."

"Doctor is there really no way I could see her?"

"Unfortunately not, she will heal best in solitary. She is in a glass room though and you're welcome to go visit her that way." I nodded and went to the glass room where Elizabeth was laid up in bed. I looked through the glass and saw her sleeping form. She finally looked peaceful and healthy. I noted that her skin was a healthy color once again and it made me smile softly.

As I stared at her my phone buzzed. I picked it from my pocket and answered softly, thinking that somehow if I spoke too loudly that I may wake Elizabeth. "Avan!" Victoria's annoying voice came from the phone. "Where are you? You're late!" she snapped.

"What do you mean," I asked quickly looking at my watch and cussing. "Sorry, sorry, I lost track of time. I'm at the hospital I'll be at your place in ten minutes I promise." I hung up before she had the chance to retort and perhaps bite my head off.

I sighed as I shoved the phone back in my pocket. I walked away from the glass room and went to my car. I traveled the short distance to Victoria's and frowned as I exited my vehicle.

No One's POV

"She's in a what?" Elizabeth's grandmother yelled.

"Calm down ma'am I assure you people are put into medical comas every day and the vast majority of them wake up feeling better than when they were put in." The doctor tried to calm the hysterical grandmother.

"My granddaughter was in perfect health when she was in my care. Now you wretched doctors have sentenced my heir into a coma."

"Mother please be calm," Donavan tried to sooth his seething mother.

"Don't tell me to be calm," she swatted at his hand.

Suddenly the beeping from the glass room came to a halt and the group turned their head to see Elizabeth standing weakly. She leaned on the movable carrier that her IV was hooked to. "Grand-mother," she struggled "please, don't, worry," her voice was weak as she slumped onto the glass.

The doctors rushed into the room trying to get the fainted girl back into her bed. Nurses came in as well and put some medicine on the hole in her arm where she had ripped some cords out. Elizabeth laid in her bed and didn't fight the doctors as they came to her aid. She looked at her family standing there. Mom, dad, grandma, grandpa…where was Avan?

Elizabeth didn't ask yet she only stayed silent and tried to cooperate. She looked at her grandmother and mustered a smile to calm her nerves. "I'll be ok," she smiled and fought back a cough that tried to break free.

Her family looked worried but she tried to smile to encourage them. "Can you call Avan?" she asked threw the glass.

Her mother was the one who took out her cell phone and dialed the number her daughter dictated to her. "He said he's tied up right now but he'll be back to see you as soon as he can." Her mother told her putting away her old, low tech phone.

Elizabeth nodded and frowned wishing that he was here with her. She could use one normal person amongst all of the freaks that were her family.

AN: I know that this is kind of a filler chapter but next chapter there will be drama! I promise that in the next chapter Elizabeth will confront Avan about Victoria and the ensuing conversation will be…dramatic. Anything you guys want to see? Review please.