SORRY SORRY SORRY! I am forgetful. This should have been up over a week ago! Sorry!

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"Magnus? Are you awake?" a soft voice asked.

She didn't reply.

"I... You need to eat something. Henry and Erica cooked this for you, he said it was your favourite."

The words washed over her but again they had no effect.

The newcomer sighed.

"Look, Doc," the voice said and Helen felt the side of her bed dip with the other person's weight. "I know... I get this must be hard. All of it, from Ashley through to what happened with Rose bu-"

"What happened with Rose?" Helen asked softly. She had created a barrier between herself and the rest of the world when it came to that first name but Rose... Something within her stirred, a memory perhaps. No, this was stronger. This was like a tiny voice, telling her to smile, to breathe, to get out of bed. But why was it coming from inside her?

"Don't you remember, Doc?" the person asked. Helen turned her head just enough so that her scratchy eyes could make out Kate's figure beside her. "We were in the garden."

-a cool night, the stars are out-

"You woke up part way through..."

-pain, sharp, blood-

"But Rose..."

-light-

"Don't you remember?"

She did. She remembered pain. And loss. And death. And light. Not necessarily in that order but she remembered something.

Instead of continuing to think on it, Helen simply turned her head back to face the window. Rain was still sliding down the glass in little rivulets that seemed to be racing one another.

She heard Kate sigh heavily, placing a tray of something on her bedside before slipping out of the room quietly.


Dear Guest 2! John only stabbed Helen but Rose was poisoned (and then killed) by ingesting 'vampire' blood from Helen and John. I had this thing in my head where Rose and her 'kind' can heal one another and, as discussed in one of the previous stories, Helen and Rose share some DNA (which, in my version of canon, is why Helen only got immortality, rather than becoming a vampire like Nikola in that the two bloods are fighting for the upper hand within her body). Also, maybe some Kate/Ashley scenes but I dunno yet. Leave it with me and/or pester me with suggestions until I do it. And it'll be another maybe to the alternate Rose stories :P I have a few in my head (some rather naked-y ones too) but I don't know if I'll get around to writing them :P

Hope that answers your questions :)