SELENE.
"You have to get something to eat, Selene" I heard Derrick say beside me, but I didn't bother replying to him and he sighed heavily, "come on it's been hours, Selene, nothing is going to happen to him if you go down to the cafeteria and eat for a few minutes"
"You don't know that" I retorted immediately, without even dragging my gaze away from Drystan.
Derrick let out a breath and placed a hand on my shoulder, "I'll be here with him, please go and eat something. He'll be fine" he assured me and I closed my eyes and exhaled loudly.
"I'm not moving an inch from this spot" I stated and glanced at him before I turned back to Drystan.
My words seemed to have struck a nerve and he immediately stood in front of me with a frown on his face, "it's an order, Selene" he growled and I scoffed.
"You don't control me, Derrick" I spat out and he sighed in resignation, then plopped down on one of the chairs in the room, "I just can't, okay? I can't! I have to be here watching him and that's the only way I can be at peace! What if I go out and come back to...." The words died down in my mouth and tears welled up in my eyes.
I can't believe I was about to say that, but I'm scared. He's been laying on that bed unmoving for hours, his pulse could barely be felt and he didn't look like he was breathing unless you paid close attention and it was scary. It was very scary how dead he looked at the moment and I couldn't help but think the worse.
"Drystan is a fighter, he'll recover from this" Derrick assured but I shook my head, almost in denial.
"What if he..." I paused and took a deep breath, "what if he doesn't?" I voiced out and from the corner of my eye, I saw Derrick shake his head.
"He will, this isn't the first nor second time" I immediately whipped my head towards him with a frown when he said that, but his gaze was now fixed on Drystan "but this is the worse so far, but I know he'll make it out," he said with confidence and then looked at me with a pleasant smile.
"This has been happening to him?"
He nodded, "For as long as I can remember, sometimes he blacks out for days and suffers constant nightmares when in that state, but the nightmares never draw him out of it. Other times, it ends in a moment and some other times he gets pretty violent" he explained and I glanced at Drystan and then back at Derrick.
"Why? Why does this happen to him?" I asked and he shrugged.
"No one knows, I don't think even he knows," he said, "but don't worry too much about it, I know he's going to be okay"
I gulped and bobbed my head stiffly, before I turned back to Drystan and grabbed his hand in mine "You've got to wake up this time, Mister. It's not a plea, it's an order" I whispered and placed a kiss on his hand, "You have to!" I repeated trying to keep my emotions in check, but a teardrop rolled down my cheek and onto his hand.
At first, I thought talking to him like I did the last time would help but after I had spent an hour talking to him the moment I got here and he didn't respond, I had lost hope and just watched him mutely for hours but I couldn't help it anymore, I felt helpless and the only thing I could do right now was to talk to him, even if he doesn't respond, I'll keep talking.
So I tightened my grip on his hand and inhaled sharply, "listen to me, Drystan. You just have to wake up or I'm going to talk your ear off, for hours nonstop! I'll talk, I'll yell and I'll bring you back from whatever dimension you're stuck in because that's not where you are meant to be"
"You are meant to be with me here, okay? I don't care how long this has been going on, but you really have to end it today. So please..." My voice cracked and I sniffled and paused for a moment before I continued, "please come back to me, okay? You have to, please" I sobbed and placed my forehead on his hand.
"I hate it you cry" a familiar voice crooked beside me and I immediately snapped my head up, and Drystan was staring at me with hooded eyes.
I breathed out a laugh and turned to Derrick who was already standing beside me with a smile on his face, then I turned back to Drystan and tears spilled from my eyes, "You're awake" I whispered, almost unsure, and sniffled, "you're awake" I repeated, this time louder, and immediately engulfed him in a hug.
He grunted when I placed my weight on him and I immediately wanted to drawback, but he wrapped his arms tightly around me and held me still, "just stay here" he whispered and I bobbed my head.
"I'm going to stay here as long as you want me to, just never scare me like that again" I sobbed into his chest and hugged him even tighter, "never do that again"
"He might not want to do that again, but if you keep pressing against him like that, he just might" Derrick teased after I had laid on him for a few moments, and I immediately sprouted up from his chest with wide eyes.
"Was I suffocating you? Oh my God, I'm so sorry!" I blurted out and he stared at me in amusement before he slowly shook his head.
"You weren't, Derrick was just teasing you," he said and I turned to Derrick and saw him holding in a laugh, I glared at him before I turned back to Drystan with a smile and he smiled back at me, "please, get me water" he requested
I immediately poured a glass of water and with the help of Derrick, helped him sit up and passed him the water, "I'm glad you are alright now man, you got me scared there for a second" Derrick said the moment Drystan passed the empty glass back to me, and he shot him an apologetic smile.
"I'm sorry about that"
"Please don't embarrass me by apologizing," he said and waved his hand across his face, "I'm going to inform Clarissa that you are awake, so rest up, and Selene," he called and I looked up at him, "don't kill him with the questions," he said and patted my shoulder before he walked out of the hospital room.
Silence loomed over us after Derrick left and we just stared at each other, unsure what to say till I blurted out "I'm scared that if I look away, you'll be back on the bed looking lifeless" in a low voice, and Drystan's lips tugged up in a smile, and he opened his arms for me. I immediately shot up from my chair and snuggled into his arms.
"I'm sorry I let you go through that" he apologized and I shook my head but didn't utter a word, he paused for a while and sighed "I know you have a lot of questions running through your mind right now, and I promise I'll answer them whenever you choose to ask, but please, not today so please, don't ask," he pleaded and I looked at him with a frown.
I debated with myself on what to say and after a while, I beamed at him and nodded, "The answers can wait, I just want to be with you" I said and placed my head back on his chest with a smile on my face.
He heaved a sigh of relief and pulled me even closer, "Thank you" he breathed out and I nodded. "Would you love to hear the Wolf-boy story now?"
"Is this one of those things where you give me or tell me something I've been longing to hear, then die on me?" I asked and he burst into laughter.
"I assure you that it's not, I just feel like telling you the story. "
"If that's the case, I'm ready," I said with a grin and he placed a kiss on my forehead.
"Here goes nothing."