Starting Over

Chapter 28

Marie woke up and saw that the room was empty, the spot beside her was cold. Was it all a dream? She thought as she sat up. She swung her feet around and tried to stand. She felt tired so she sat back down and burst into tears.

"Hey what's the matter Pookie?" Sean asked coming into the room and to her instantly.

"All alone," She sobbed and Sean wrapped her in a hug.
"I'm so sorry Pookie, they left to take showers and get food, we thought you would sleep some more," he tried to explain as he rubbed her back.

She started hitting him and trying to push him away, "you left me all alone! You left me! You don't love me, you want nothing to do with me!"

"That's not true Pookie," Sean tried to explain.

"What's going on?" Owen asked as the rest of the group came in.

"Mood swings," Sean sighed.

"What?" She glared at him. "How dare you say I'm PMSing!" She threw a pillow at him.

"That's not what I'm saying at all Pookie," Sean said catching the pillow easily.

"Yes it is!" She screamed, "Just get out! You already left me, just go and stay away!" She threw the other pillow at them. She burst into tears and curled up on the bed. Silas went over to her and started rubbing her back. "Don't touch me!" She swung at him.

"Stop it right now!" Owen said calmly and with so much sternness she froze in shock besides an occasional sniffle while her tears still painted her face. He took a deep breath and slowly let it out. "Now what is going on?"

She turned her back to them and curled up even tighter even though her body was screaming at her not to. Sean sighed again and ran his fingers through his hair, "I came in to check on her and found her crying. She thought we left her because no one was here when she woke up. I tried telling her that we thought she would sleep longer, and everyone left to take showers and get food, but she didn't believe me. She thinks we want nothing to do with her and is angry at us for leaving her alone but also sad because she thinks we don't want her anymore. It's not her fault her moods are all out of whack, we can't take it personally."

Victor nodded, "One of us should have stayed here just in case she did wake up, we should have thought about the possibility. It's our fault for not thinking about it, especially with her recent hallucinations of us leaving her."

"We are so sorry Baby," North said going and kneeling in front of her.

"Just go ahead and leave," she whispered closing her eyes.

"No Peanut," Nathan shook his head and sat down. "We aren't leaving you."

"Yeah Trouble, you are stuck with us," Gabriel said sitting down by her bed. "Remember Mr. B said you're grounded forever so you can't leave us and we can't leave you."

"Whatever," she whispered as she drifted off to sleep.

The group looked at Sean who was removing a needle out of her IV, "She will wake up in a better mood hopefully, don't take it personally guys, it's just from all the medicines."

"Can you really blame her though?" Marc asked. "We did leave her alone even though we thought she would stay asleep until we got back."

"It won't happen again," Axel said.
"Agreed," they said in unison.

Marie opened her eyes and sat up. She looked around and saw that she was in her room at their new house. "Good afternoon Cupcake," Luke yawned as he sat up.

"Always?" she asked confused. She started to reach out then froze halfway. "You left me, my mind is fucking with me again," She barely whispered and shook her head.

"Oh Cupcake," Luke sighed and pulled her to him making her squeal in surprise. "We didn't leave you, well we did but it was only because we had to take showers and get something to eat. We are so sorry Cupcake, we weren't leaving you forever."

"I woke up all alone," she burst into tears.

"Oh Cupcake," he whispered as he held her tighter. He wrapped her legs around his waist and just held her while she sobbed. "It won't happen again, I promise."

"Promise?" she sobbed.
"Promise promise Darling," Owen said coming into the room.

"Owen," she held her arms out and he took her from Luke.

"Calm down Darling, you are still recovering," he soothed her.

"But I'm home," She sniffled confused.

"Yes, but remember I told you if you did well that I would talk to Dr. Green about bringing you home to finish treatment?" he asked as he pushed some hair out of her face. She shook her head, "Well I did and you didn't mess with your cannulas so once you showed signs of recovering he felt you were well enough to come home and finish recovering."

"Oh," she whispered as she buried herself into him even more. "I don't remember, sorry."

"It's okay Darling," he said as he rubbed her back. "Do you think you are hungry? You have been asleep for two days now." She shook her head. "Can you try and eat something small?"

"Stay with me?" She barely whispered scared of his answer.

"Of course Darling," he gave her his special smile just for her. He picked her up and carried her down the stairs with Luke following behind. "Look who has woken up everyone," Owen called out as he reached the top of the stairs.

"Baby!"

"Trouble!"

"Princess!"

"Peanut!"

"Ten!"

"Pookie!"

"Doll!"

"Babe!"

"Beautiful!"

"Sunshine!"

"Kitten!"
She smiled softly and once Owen carried her downstairs she hugged all of them. "Darling needs to eat," Owen said as he carried her into the dining room.

"Perfect timing Beautiful lunch is ready," Marc smiled as he put a plate of his chicken club sandwich in front of her.

She sat in Owen's lap and nibbled while watching everyone eat. "What are you thinking Darling?" Owen whispered in her ear.
"If this is a dream I don't want to wake up," she whispered back as she leaned back into his grasp. "This is perfect, I feel this where I'm suppose to be."

"You are Darling, you are ours now and forever," Owen whispered as he kissed below her ear and chuckling at the shiver that went down her spine.