Hurting~2

[Romulus]

Romulus walked into the Hospital Wing and laid Laurette down on one of the beds, his jacket still wrapped around her. "Madam Papavera?" he called to the nurse, walking back to the end of the ward where her office was located. "Madam Papavera, we have a crisis out here!"

Looking flustered, Madam Papavera came out and took one look at Laurette and exclaimed, "My goodness! What happened to her?"

"I'm not sure, and she's barely in any condition to tell us at the moment..."

[Laurette Jesper]

Laurette lie there on the bed. She heard the voices of Romulus and the nurse. She tried to open her eyes but she couldn't manage it. She sighed a sigh that deffenatly told you she was hurting badly.

[Mistress Lucenta Nefas]

Headmistress Nefas was taking a stroll around the school when she happened to pass the Hospital Wing. She poked her head in to give Madam Flora Papavera a little wave, and her eyes fell upon a vampire girl on a bed, and a werewolf boy explaining to the nurse. Shocked, she stepped in and said, "It's barely the first week of school and already there's fights between students?"

"'Twasn't this boy, ma'am," Madam Papavera explained. "He brought her up just a moment ago, and I guess she's saying it was her father t'what did this to her."

"And who is her father?"

The nurse looked uncomfortable. "Headmistress, meet Romulus Giles, and... Laurette Jesper."

The surname clicked into her mind. "Daughter of André Jesper?" The nurse nodded. "Hmm, this is not good, not good at all..."

[Laurette Jesper]

Laurette heard another voice and struggled to open her eyes. It hurt badly to open them because of the open wounds on her face. Her breathing was raspy. She looked first to Romulus with a look that meant thanks for bringing me here. Then she looked to the Headmistress. Laurette had tears in her eyes because she was in so much pain.

[Mistress Lucenta Nefas]

"Do you know any reason why André would attack his own daughter this badly?" she asked the nurse, who shrugged before going to tend to the injured vampire. The headmistress looked over at Romulus suspiciously.

[Romulus]

Romulus held up his hands palm forward in a way to say 'I'm innocent.' "I didn't do this, I swear... But I do think I know a reason why André would do this..." He trailed off a moment, looking to the floor and sighing. "To start, basically all of the Jesper family is after me, because four years ago I killed one of them out of self-defense for myself and my younger brother. It actually happened right in the Impermissus Forest. Well, Laurette and I are... dating one another since quite recently, and maybe André figured that since I'm a werewolf, and probably his family's worst enemy, that he should disown Laurette and then that would indirectly hurt me... She's not wearing her family crest," he pointed out. "It's missing, I think he took it."

[Laurette Jesper]

The nurse had propped Laurette up and given her paper to write what she wanted to say down. Seeing as she couldn't exactly say the words thanks to the bleeding. She wrote on the paper;

He didn't do this to me. My family hates me because I was born on Valentines day. My father did this. He always said I was one of the only ones who stood in his way.

Laurette winced as the nurse was wrapping her wounds. "ow." she managed to say weakly.

[Mistress Lucenta Nefas]

"Hmm," she said, having listened to Romulus' hunch and reading Laurette's paper. She looked thoughtful. "I'll go talk to the teachers and the groundsmen about tightening security so none of my students have to worry about André coming and harming any of them." She smiled slightly. "I'm sorry to seem less than sorry about your injuries, but I'm just so glad that werewolves and vampires are able to get along within my school." Still grinning, she said, "Get well soon, I'm off to go talk to the professors. Toodles!" The Headmistress then left, humming a little to herself.

[Romulus]

Romulus breathed a sigh of relief that the Headmistress believed the truth. He hovered where he was for a moment until Madam Papavera finished cleaning and dressing Laurette's wounds, which had started to heal with the mixture of her being a vampire and the potions the nurse was adding to them. "You'll be just fine tomorrow, but you might have some scars," the nurse said before walking off to her office, telling them if she needed them to just knock.

Romulus walked over and sat on the side of her bed and took her hand in his. "You doing better?"

[Laurette Jesper]

Laurette sighed. "A-a little. I'm still sore." she said softly. Barely even a whisper. Just then her stomach growled.

[Romulus]

Romulus chuckled. "Ah, you seem hungry as well. Want me to ask the nurse if she has any, ah, blood?" It was a little awkward for him to say that in reference to food, but he'd get used to it eventually.

[Laurette Jesper]

"No its ok." Laurette said. She noticed that her bag was in the hospital wing. So she looked over at it and useing her new found trick of telekenisis forced the small vial of blood to her hand. It felt weird feeding infront of a werewolf but she would soon get used to it. She would have to. Laurette drank a sip of it. It wasn't sheeps blood this time but blood from a goat. If she couldn't have human then that would work for her. It was her favorite anyway. Human blood was way to salty.

[Romulus]

Romulus carefully let go of her hand and repositioned himself to be able to put his arm around her, doing so slowly to give her a chance to tell him if we was hurting her or making her uncomfortable. He gently kissed her temple as she finished the vial. "You probably need rest, maybe I should go..."

[Laurette Jesper]

"No I'm fine. Romulus you can stay." Laurette insisted.

[Romulus]

"Alright," he agreed somewhat reluctantly. Not having anything else to say, he sighed and just hugged her to him softly so as not to hurt her. He stared off at nothing over her head, having a very odd feeling as if something were wrong. Well duh, he thought. There's a maniac vampire after me and every other non-vampire, and that killer just happens to be my girlfriend's father... Of course I'm gonna feel like something's wrong. Laurette seemed to be almost sleeping when someone walked into the ward. Romulus recognized it as his father, and he looked scared and worried as hell. Romulus looked at him curiously.

"Romulus, your brother, he... Who is this?" Being ever close to the full moon, his father's senses were incredibly strong, more so than usual, and he could sense the vampire quite easily.

"My girlfriend," Romulus admitted shamelessly. "Now, what about Remus?"

His father kept his eye on Laurette, but continued to speak. "He's been attacked, by... a vampire. We found this laying nearby." He held up the Jesper Family Crest Bracelet that Laurette had once worn.

Romulus stared at it. "Crap, André," he murmured.

"Yeah," his father replied. "Remus isn't doing so good, he's in critical care at St. Ignacio's. He's unconcious, and he... lost a lot of blood." Romulus took his hesitance to know that André had taken most of Remus's blood, but left him enough to suffer for a while.

"Not again," Romulus murmured into Laurette's hair.