Survived Me: a Shatter Me fan-fiction (Warnette)

Chapter 122 - Confined

⚠TW️⚠️
Hospitalisation
Injury detail
Mention of hostage
Mention of kidnapping
Mention of abuse

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(I think that's all the trigger warnings that there are, but I could be wrong! So if any of the past trigger warnings are sensitive for you, then don't read this chapter!)

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(A/N): (It is currently 4:55am as I am writing this, so, as you could probably guess - I am soooo tiered! Because of that, there is probably way more mistakes than usual. So, for that, I am sorry.)

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JULIETTE'S POV:

The wind is so powerful as it pushes, with full force, against the window pane. It sounds as though the whaling belongs to a heartbroken widow. "Are you feeling alright, sweetheart?" I hear Aaron's voice break through the winds cries.

The last five days have been overly boring. I am bedridden in this hospital room with nothing to do, nothing to worry about - which, for me, is unimaginably dull. I am completely confined in a hollow box known as a room. "Yes Aaron, I am fine." I inform him, once again. "Just really, really bored."

His thumb strokes the skin that connects the thumb and index finger, with his thumb, rubbing soothing circles over the area. "How can I help you, my love?"

I shake my head, fighting the unimaginable urge to roll my eyes. "You can tell me what happened and let me get involved with whatever it is that you are planning."

Aaron sighs, loudly. His eyes fill with some sort of pity that is quickly quashed by resistance from the emotion. I can tell he is having an internal battle between feeling sorry for me and protecting me. "Once you are well again, I promise you, sweetheart, I will tell you all there is to know, but until then, it isn't safe."

"How isn't it safe, Aaron?!" I argue, doing what I have been so desperately wanting to for the whole of the time since I woke up. "You know what isn't safe?! Having Sebastian out there, running around, completely free!"

"But love," he states, seemingly getting agitated as well, "your recovery is my top priority right now, and it should be yours as well."

"No! The only thing that I want to focus on is protecting the sector - because that is my job, that's my responsibility! They need me!" I shout, not being able to hold it in anymore. "Nothing is wrong with me, only a few scrapes and scratches! I just want to know what happened! Is that so hard?! Is it too much to ask for the truth?!"

I can tell Aaron is becoming more and more frustrated, he is turning slightly red and his jaw clenched. "Please don't argue love, I know you feel that it's your liability to know everything that's going on, and it is, in a way, but right now you aren't the supreme commander, you are a patient."

I scoff, irate and incandescent. "I am always the supreme commander! I am in hospital, that is true, but it doesn't strip me of my title and my responsibility!"

I shift in the bed, completely ignoring the throbbing agony that transpired me. I swivel my body so that my leg dangle over the side of the bed. As I thrust myself forwards, brining myself myself into an upright stance, I gather the energy to raise to my feet. "No love, lay back down!" Aaron says louder than I can tell he intended it to come out. His voice is demanding and sound all too familiar to how he would speak to the soldiers when he was the supreme commander.

I notice the moment Aaron realises that he has used such a powerful inflection. He has quite obviously sensed my emotion that is slightly tanned with worry. "I am so sorry my love, I didn't mean to shout, I am just worried about you."