A Rose's Thorns

Chapter 8, Bleeding

3rd PoV

Alan stepped towards a pale, bleeding Rosaleen; her eyes were tired and dull as he reached over her shoulder making sure her injured one was away from him.

"Sir... Is she going to be okay?" Ella asked from his shoulders, Rosaleen's coat holding her in place now that it was tied like a baby carrier. The young frail girl watched the fiery orange woman stumble and try to stop Alan from helping her.

"She will be if she lets me carry her." He said his deep green eyes watching her, worry was deep down as his hand swept under her knees and picked her up, her dark eyes widened slightly as her eyes looked up at Alan.

"Rose, can you hear me?" He asked looking over her features and she nodded softly, her hands were shaky and her shoulder still bled. Her artifact fans back on her hip like they never left, she coughed slightly as her bleeding slowed way down.

"Okay, we are going to get Ella home and take you back to Dark Wick to get the Mortkranken students to look at your shoulder." He said and she nodded slightly, her eyes drooping as she fought sleep and stared up at Alan and seeing Ella staring at her scared and worried.

"I... I can walk..." She whispered and Alan shook his head roughly, looking at her wound, then back at her and starting to trek towards the train stop to go back to the park and get the little girl home.

He stepped onto the train, setting Rosaleen on the bench then grabbing Ella under the armpits and lifting her off his shoulders, setting her down where she went and crawling on the bench with Rosaleen.
"Can you drape her in her jacket?" Ella asked to pull the jacket off herself, her children's jean jacket was dusty and torn in the arms, her hair was matted and unclean but her eyes were puffy and dirt streaked down her face from crying.

"Yeah. That's a good idea." Alan said, taking the coat from Ella and throwing it gently over Rosaleen.

"T-Thank you..." Rosaleen said weakly as she stayed still, feeling small hands running through her dirty hair.

"I like your hair." Ella said, playing with the tendrils of orange, making Rosaleen sigh softly and hum in thanks.

"What kind of anomaly was he? I had never seen anything like him." Alan said looking at Rosaleen who was still awake, but zoned out, his voice bringing her back to reality as she spoke.

"Dragon, he was hoarding young women, they did that, kidnap 'marry' then murder." Rosaleen explained coughing slightly as she shivered gently growing cold.

"They were common in Ireland..." She mumbled and zoned out again as her pupils started to fluctuate slightly, widening and narrowing she was trying to focus as she huffed.

"We are here. Ella, can you walk?" He asked and she nodded fiercely.

"Yeah, I can show you the way." She said and he nodded looking at Rosaleen.

"Stay here. I will be back in a second I promise." He promised looking her in the eyes and she nodded softly, her tired eyes not really focusing on him but could see him.

Rosaleen's PoV

"Rose?" I heard my name, my eyelids opening as I looked over, seeing Cara she was alone my eyes looked around.

"Where's Alan..." I croaked my eyes searching fearfully realizing the train was moving and my anxiety picked up and I grunted in pain standing, swaying slightly.

"You're injured! You're bleeding!" She yelped as I stumbled slightly, looking around realizing it was just us.

"Where's Kaito and Luca?" I asked, I may had been injured and out of it but I could see the guilt wash over her features like a crashing wave, my eyes searching her features.