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Roelynn is a shy girl around 5 years old. She is an orphan and lives at the all girls orphanage of Small-Heath. Never in her life would she talk to strangers, but when a certain family of gangsters start to fund the orphanage. Little Roely...
(Tommy's P.O.V.) I ran through the hallway of the hospital while carrying Roe in my arms. "Move away!" I ordered a couple of nurses in front of me. "Where is the doctor!" I screamed as I arrived in the corridor, "no! I need a doctor" I snapped at the nurses who approached me. A doctor soon arrived after hearing me angrily scream at the nurses "Mr Shelby" he said and motioned for me to hand Roe over to him. He turned around and walked away. "I need to be with her" I said and followed behind. But some male nurses prevented me from doing so. I grew more angry as I didn't want to leave Roe alone in a scary place.
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"Let him through" the doctor said sternly towards the two nurses. They nodded and stepped aside. Angrily I pushed past them and followed behind the doctor. He laid her down on a bed before turning to me to ask a quick question "what is her name?". "Eh Roe... Roelynn" I said still feeling anger and panic flowing through my veins. He nodded and turned back. "What happened?" He asked while cutting her clothes away. "I... I shot her" I told him. Him and the other nurses all gave me the same look, like I was a monster, an animal. I couldn't blame them, after all, who would shoot their own child. I sat beside Roe's hospital bed. The doctor had explained that she had lost a lot of blood. After giving her a blood transfusion, he told me Roelynn was slowly getting stable by every passing hour but she was still in the danger zone. I leaned forward and pushed a strand of her behind her ears. Her chest was slowly rising up and down and sometimes you could hear a faint painfull breath. She had trouble breathing but the doctor was glad that she was atleast breathing. My hand went down to grab her tiny hand in my own. "I...." I began but stopped for a moment to take a deep breath, "I always feared that you would grow up to fast for me. So I wished I could stop time. Then I could still carry you in my arms, read you another bedtime story, let you sleep on my shoulder. But now" I said and looked up to her pale face, "now I discovered a new fear. A fear of not seeing you grow up". A breath choked in my throat and I had trouble speaking "and.... that's because of me". "Can I talk with you" I heard Polly's voice from behind me. I turned around to see her walk inside the room. I nodded and stood up before following her out of the room "you need to stop blaming yourself for this. It isn't helping anyone" she told me "It is my fault. I was the one who pulled the gun and if I hadn't-". Polly cut me off "and if Alfie just had stepped aside so you could get Roelynn instead of playing Saving Grace, she wouldn't be here. Or if you and Alfie hadn't fought each other for that fucking gun, it wouldn't have been triggered. If Roe had listened and went to you, this also would not have happened". "So yes, you are to blame for this. But not more or less than Alfie" she harsly said while pointing at me. Although it didn't calm my raging mind that was full with blame, it did make the guilt feel a bit smaller. We stayed still in the hallway for a couple more moments. Then suddenly coughing came from behind the door. My brain hadn't registered that it was Roe at first, but once it did I was beside the bed in no time. "Nurse! Doctor!" Polly had called out before following me in the room. I squatted down beside the bed and brushed my hand through her hair that was sticking to her forehead. "Hello, my sweet girl" I whispered softly at her, "where are we?" She asked with a hoarse and groggy voice as she looked up at me. "We're at the hospital" Polly said as she stepped closer. Roe nodded as her breathing had quickened. The doctor and nurses showed up and went ahead to check on her. "It hurts" she cried out and she looked at me with a pouting lip and painfilled eyes. Guilt struck my heart "I know, Sweetheart". I could tell she was getting more uncomfortable. "Wh..where.. I... is .. Mr Mo..nty..." she asked about her bear while gasping for a breath between each word. "He... he'll... g..get... scared on his... own" she said while heaving. "He'll be alright. He's home but we can bring him tomorrow" Polly promised, "no... he.. needs... me n-" Roe didn't finish her sentence and just looked ahead. "What's happening?" Polly asked as she also realized the non-responsive look in Roe's eyes. "Roelynn?" I asked immediatly reaching for her small hand. Then suddenly her body started to jerk. My instinct kicked in and I went to hold her down. It didn't take long before two of the nurses pulled me back away from my child. Angrily I screamed at them. "Mr Shelby, it's a seizure!" the doctor told me while Roe was still jerking her arms and legs. "You can't stop it!?" I asked while still trying to make the nurses let me go. It looked so painfull and uncomfortable. "If you or anyone would hold her down it could hurt her. She just has to go through it" he explained. I stopped resisting against the nurses and they let go of me. Polly wrapped her arms around me in a comforting manner while I watched the horrible scene in front of me in helplessness. It felt like an eternity before she stopped jerking. A breath left my lips as soon as Roe stopped jerking and laid limp on the bed. The doctor checked her blood pressure and nodded "her blood pressure spiked due to stress on the body". I looked at him, he didn't have to hear me speak to know what I was asking. "She needs to rest or sleep. We drop in blood pressure when we are asleep and while sleeping stress is also decreased" he offered us. I turned to Polly "we need Mr Monty". She nodded as she understood that Roe would be calm or calmer when she has Mr Monty close by. I turned back to look at Roe again and saw her eyes flutter open. I could tell she was still tired but she was still expierencing fear because I could see her panic again. "Mr Shelby, her blood pressure is rising again" the doctor informed me as Roe began to squirm again. I learned from my first mistake and stood uo to take a step away. Don't touch or hold a person who is going to expierence or is expierencing a seizure. But yet, this didn't seem like the first one. She was concious and was reaching out for me. It looked more like she was just shaking from fear. I didn't know what to do and looked at the doctor for help. He watched Roe closely trying to see if she would go unconcious and start to jerk. But she never did, she only shook like she was cold while reaching her hands out to me. "Did she ever fall asleep while you held her?" He questioned me. I nodded and looked back down at Roe. "Take a seat, Mr Shelby" the doctor said motioning to a chair. I didn't really understood why he wanted me to take a seat but I did none the less. I watched him unhook some of Roelynn's medical cords before he carefully picked her up. "Being held by a parent reduces stress for most children" he said walking towards me. At first I didn't want to hold her for fear of hurting her, but I had pushed that aside knowing stress could lead to high blood pressure and that could lead to another seizure. And I never wanted her to expierence that again. I opened my arms and he placed Roe against my chest and I carefully, as to not hurt her, wrapped my arms around her. I felt her relax immediatly after doing so and I knew she was probably going to fall asleep in my arms.
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