PETRICHOR

.22.

I woke up the next day feeling very uneasy and sick. I never felt this horrible early in the morning. I felt like vomiting I put my hand on my mouth and went to the bathroom in a rush.
Elias is following me worried.

Elias looked very concerned, "Do you feel better ?" He rubbed my back soothing me after I had just vomited.
I shook my head, I vomiting didn't ease the sickness I had.

"You have to eat. You didn't even eat anything since yesterday Skylar." He pointed our still trying to soothe me.
" I have no appetite, Silas." I realised that I got his name wrong but we both couldn't care less.

I held my stomach tightly as a wave of pain hit me. I held back a cry, I was in a lot of pain. Elias tried to comfort me as he put back my hair in place. I cleaned up my mouth and sat on the floor next to the toilet afraid I'll vomit again.

"Are your period cramps always this bad ?" He asked genuinely concerned. I shook my head, it was never this bad. This was my first time going through such painful cramps.

He stayed quiet for a moment before standing up suddenly. "Come on. We are heading to the hospital. Let me help you." He held me up, handling me with so much care.

I tried to smile, "I'll be okay Elias, it's just some period cramps and PMS." I tried to reason with him "But you're in so much pain, you even said it's not normal for you." He placed both his arms next to me on the couch so that I was between them. He was close to me, a frown evident on his face.

I clenched my fists as I felt more pain.
"Come on, I'll carry you to the car." He gave me no time to argue back. Honestly, I couldn't even argue back.
He carried me to his car, careful not to hurt me in any way●●●

We reached the hospital and he took me to the emergency room. I couldn't even concentrate on what was happening but he seemed to be taking care of things very well.

A nurse came over to where I sat and guided me to a bed in the emergency room. Elias followed us and watched me as the nurse carefully started to examine me and run some tests. Once she was done she proceeded to ask me some questions was I replied by shaking my head and nodding.

She turned to Elias, " Sir what's your relationship with her ?"

He didn't hesitate as he replied ."I'm her husband." I was a bit taken back, I had forgotten that we were still technically undercover as husband and wife.

Husband.

"Okay. Please follow me briefly to fill some papers. The doctor will be here in a second to further examine her." She politely spoke to Elias.

He hesitated for a bit, he seemed to be in a dilemma. "If it's okay can I fill them next to her or later ?"

" Of course. I'll be right back. "

The doctor came and checked my state and spoke to the nurse about the tests she ran on me earlier on. Waves of pain would just randomly hit me and I'd whimper holding Elias's hand tightly. Elias on the right hand was caressing my cheeks and smoothing my hair back.

One thing that kept me very occupied during all this was when he said I'm his wife. Undercover I was his wife, but when we aren't, what was our relationship? We never officially said anything and I can't just assume we are dating.

I was brought back to reality when the doctor cleared his throat. "okay so I'll be prescribing pain killers and some vitamins to have. You need to take care of your nutrition and stress. You seem to be under a lot of stress lately. Overall there's nothing to worry about, but if you get more PMS or the pain gets bad you'll have to see a gynaecologist just to be safe."

I nodded in understanding, "thank you"

"You're welcome. The nurse will give you some painkillers and check up on you in a bit. If everything is okay you'll be discharged." He instructed the nurse to deal with me accordingly.

Some time went by after I was given the pills and time to rest. Elias sat next to me as I rested on the bed. I tried to sleep my thoughts off but I couldn't. I wanted to clear this up with him.

"Do you not feel well ?"

I pursed my lips and shook my head lightly. "I'm fine." I avoided looking into his eyes.

He stood up and closed the currents around us securely and then took his seat. "I'm listening, what's wrong?" He eyed me curiously as he came closer resting both his arms on the bed.

I fixed myself up a bit and looked at him. "Elias, what's our relationship? Where do we stand ?" I tried to be straightforward and just ask him. He looked at me silently trying to read my expression.

"What do you want us to be Skylar?" He replied quietly.

I didn't know how to reply. I stared at him not uttering a word. "It's obvious that we are more than friends. Yet you never asked me out officially nor did we ever mention it. When you said I'm your wife- undercover that is- it just got me thinking that's all..." I trailed.

He slowly reached for my hands intertwining his hands with mine. I looked at our hands then looked back at him. " I was planning to ask you out when everything is settled. When everything goes back to normal for you and you get your life back. I didn't want to be out of line, it seemed to me like really bad timing."

I smiled softly and bent forward to plant a kiss on kiss soft lips. He just watched me his eyes not leaving my lips. "I understand, but if you do ask me out, I won't say no or feel like it's bad timing. " I watched him as his lips curved a little.

"Well even tho the timing is horrible and there's a mad serial killer on the run; will you be my girlfriend Skylar ?" He asked a bit nervous even tho this was nothing.

I hugged him tightly, "Of course." I whispered with a chuckle. Our situation right now was horrible. We just had to make the best of it. No regrets.

Elias's phone rang breaking us apart, I looked at his phone curious to see who called him up. It was John, I hoped that whatever news he delivered will be good ones. I looked at Elias curiously.
His expression changed and he looked at me with a troubled look on his face.
His hand ran through his hair and let out a deep breath. He ended the call not even saying anything.

It got me worried, I just hoped there are no more victims. It can't be anyways, it wasn't how the culprit carried his crimes. It hasn't been a month even.

"Elias, what's wrong?"

"Come on we better get going now!" He quickly gathered our stuff. He took my hands in his.

My other hand touched him, "Tell me what's wrong !" My tone was demanding and louder than usual.

"Martin- scorpi0n- is dead."