The TITAN that lives in Black Woods

3. | Thirsty and Accusing Questioning

The door closed to Taylors bedroom as Doctor Harris came back to stare up at Caspian who had his arms crossed over his chest. A sign that he was becoming impatient with the doctor. His brows creased downwards in frustration as he leaned his shoulder against the wall directly next to the door as it opened and then shut behind Doctor Harris. It caused him to push himself straight against the wall just before lifting himself to stand on his own without the support.

"Well?"

"She's stable, perfectly healthy, a minor concussion is all." she said with a nod of her head. The silence that followed her diagnosis is what caused the doctor to feel uneasy. She turned her head back towards the door before sighing and shaking her head. "Caspian..." she whispered before looking back up at him with an expression that showed she was containing her concern. "I need to know what happened to her."

Caspian couldn't answer immediately. His lips parted as if he were trained on a certain response, but he couldn't speak. The words deprived from his tongue. He pushed his lips together in a hard line then before biting his lower lip in thought as his eyes searched hers for the curiosity that he was so sick of encountering.

"I don't know." he finally spoke the conflicting knowledge that he wasn't sure if it was the truth or not. His eyes cast down from her ocean blue eyes down to the floor. He leaned back against the wall in defeat as he took in a deep breath through his nose and out through his mouth. "All I know is that he was here again..." he paused, "and he had her blood on his bandana this time."

"How do you know it was her blood?"

"Alicia, come on. How naive can one person be?" He paused quickly and continued before she had a chance to cash in her rebuttal. "He was standing there, staring at her like she was a piece of meat!" he paused a moment to look away from Alicia and exhaled a held breath that he was counting the seconds against, "is she awake?" he asked finally as he stared off to his left.

The doctor stared up at Caspian as if her worry broke through the barrier of her contained barrier for emotional expression. Her eyes spoke of the worry that had been building over time. Caspian had lost his friggin mind, she just knew it, but at least he still cared about Taylor.

"Yes," she nodded softly as she reached up to Caspian's face and turned his gaze back to her. "Cas, she needs you to be there for her." Alicia spoke as if it were a warning. It was warranted of course. The woman knew Taylor and Caspian like they were her own family by now and it was scary to watch Taylor decline like this- but was she really declining? Curiosity was her downfall and that's what worried both Caspian and Alicia. It was a curse and it seemed to be growing in strength.

Caspian nodded his head up and down slowly as his eyes came back to Alicia's. He reached up with his hand to meet the back of hers against his cheek and he stroked the side of it with his thumb. After a second of contemplating in that manner, he lowered both of their hands and he stared down at them as he took her hand into both of his and stroked her knuckles with his fingertips. Tracing over the wedding ring on her finger.

"Thank you." He said softly, letting go of her hand in his and turning to walk away from her and the door to Taylor's room.

"Wait a second, you're not going to see her?" Alicia asked as her face contorted into a glare down the hall at him as he pulled away from her. Her hair stood up on end as an aftereffect of his caresses. The electricity that was between them fading out as she watched him leave.

Caspian looked back towards her with a seemingly softened expression. He pressed his lips together as he shifted his attention from Alicia, to Taylor's door.. Then he turned his back again and disappeared out of the house.