Roman's Angel

Chapter 12

When Dean finally came to, he noticed that his surroundings were different. He was not in the school bathroom anymore, but was lying on a hospital bed, and also in the same room with him was Roman and Seth. He sat up slowly, letting out a groan of pain. His body still hurt after being beaten up badly by his stepdad and being forcefully taken by him. The other two noticed that he was awake and were relieved at this. Roman got up from his chair, getting much more closer to him. He gently grabbed Dean's face, his fingers rubbing over the bruise on his cheek.

"Dean, you're finally awake."

"R-Roman...How did I get here?"

"Don't you remember? You called me, telling me where you were. Me and Seth found you passed out in the bathroom."

"G-Great...So now your friend gets to see how beaten and bloodied I am."

Seth spoke up from where he was sitting. "It doesn't matter to me how bad you look, because I was worried about you too when I saw you in the bathroom."

Dean shook his head, laying his head back down on the pillow. "Fuck...it still hurts. Everything fucking hurts!"

"You'll be okay." Roman said, smoothing back some of Dean's curls. "The doctor will give you some pain meds to help with that."

"Yeah..." He turned over on his side, trying to find a comfortable position to lay in. "So, did anyone else see? How fucked up I looked?"

"Yeah, they saw." Seth replied. "Roman tried his best to get you out of there, but a lot of the others saw you."

"I bet Baron was among them. Oh, he's gonna find this funny, I just know it. He'll never let me hear the end of it."

The doctor who had helped in taking care of Dean, when Roman and Seth brought him to the hospital stepped into the room. "Ah, Mr. Ambrose. Its good to see that you're awake."

"Yep. And still in pain."

"Don't worry, we'll give you something to help with that. Well, the only thing we have taken care of is stitching you up. You had some internal bleeding."

Dean hid his face behind Roman's arm, feeling embarrassed that a few nurses and the doctor had to see him like that.

"Don't worry about being embarrassed. Its something that had to be done. Now, I'm going to recommend that you stay here for a day or so, then once you leave I would suggest you go to therapy. For what happened to you today and whatever else you've been dealing with."

Dean rolled his eyes at this. Of course he knew this was coming. He knew what the people would say when they found out about his situation at home. An abused teen at home, almost raped by his own stepdad, and he also hurts himself and talks about wanting to take his own life. He didn't want to go through with this, having others feeling sorry for him. He could deal with it from Roman and wasn't reminded about it from him about his fucked up life.

"I don't know if I'll go, doc...I could try, I guess." He said, shrugging his shoulders. "But I don't know if it'll fix anything."

"Just know it'll be the best thing you can do for yourself. You need to get some help, talk to someone, and I'll be happy to suggest a good therapist for you. Also, we have some news about your step-father, Nate Bowers."

Dean's blood ran cold at this. Was the asshole still alive? Even after he had stabbed him multiple times, enough to almost kill him. "I-Is he here?"

The doctor nodded his head. "Yes, he's here. They're treating his injuries right now."

"They shouldn't." Roman spoke up, making Dean look up at him. "That son a of bitch abused Dean and tried to rape him. He could have almost killed Dean and you're going to save his life?"