Love in a Strange Place: A Vampire Witch's Journey to find where she belongs

Chapter 7

I found myself in that partly awake state again and I lost track of time. I was aware of a few of the times my father must have come in, but I couldn't respond again and I felt the moment he realized something wasn't right again. He tried to shake me, but I didn't respond and I tried. My back felt like it was on fire and my mind was all over the place.

I heard him call for Vlad in restrained panic and he and his wife came running into my room not long after. I then blacked out again only to be awoken by my back burning more than it was before as well as the sharp sting of my skin being cut with something really really hot and I couldn't hold in the scream that sent me into a small flash back, but thankfully my Father was able to calm me enough that I didn't do anything bad and he tells me what was going on in a calm and soothing tone that was at odds with the emotional undercurrent it had of fear and sadness and anxiety, although I still can't seem to find the strength to open my eyes or respond, but he seems to know this.

"It's ok, Sapph. Vlad is just helping to get some of the silver out, it is stopping you from healing it seems and causing you to become sick and blacking out. Vlad is the only other person in my home that is very skilled in doing this that I would trust to work on you. I tried, but you seem to calm down better in my arms than his."

So that was why my back felt like it was burning and stinging. They must be using some kind of superheated tool to reopen my scars and dig the silver laced gunk out. Again I just drift in and out of awareness until the next thing I am fully aware of is lying against someone where my knees are on either side of their hips and my arms are around someone's shoulders comfortably, I also have a very soft and very warm material draped over my shoulders loosely, I also can tell we were only partly sitting up so that I wouldn't slide down or slouch or anything like that and my full weight was on the person, but their back was still supported and we were both comfortable in a resting position.

I feel that I am completely topless and the person I am leaning against was also topless, but the material covers both of us. This person also has their hands carefully on my hips so that they can keep me from falling without actually touching anywhere that might hurt me or trigger me. I then became aware that this person is my father, which was good because I was just about to panic about the position I was in against a stranger.

Although I was still confused as to why I was in this position. I can also feel that I still had an IV in, which I let out a soft groan and I feel my father react to the sound by placing a hand on my cheek and softly saying

"Are you ok, Sapph? Are you finally awake?"

I carefully move my head to look at him, that he ends up helping me as I was a bit sluggish with a head that felt so heavy and then I tried to speak, but all that came out was a croak that made me cough violently for a couple of times and my father quickly asks someone to pass him the water and the next thing that I feel and see is that my father is holding a glass of water with a straw for me to drink out of.

I remember to just take a sip and then I quietly ask him what happened in as loud a voice as I could in my still dry mouth and throat, but I take another sip before I could cough again as I look up at him and see he is carefully watching me for a moment before answering me in a fatherly tone that if I hadn't of had my abilities I would have thought was just his normal fatherly tone, but I could feel that for a fraction of a second he was feeling so many things at that moment

"We had to sit you like you are so that your back could heal better where we could check it without disturbing you too much to avoid triggering you, I tried to lay you on some pillows but again you clung to me so I hope you don't mind, but you obviously wanted to be comforted from a trusted person with your subconscious mind.