A Shadow In The Abyss (Rogue love story)

Chapter 9

Emma's POV

I sat in the waiting room in the hospital that Steff is currently in. 

Rogue sat beside me, doozing off into sleep. We have been here for five hours and there was still no news on Steff. 

He should've gone back to Crocus but he told me he wanted to keep me company. 

I sighed and looked out the window. It's raining. Great. 

I used to love the rain, but now, I don't. I locked that love up with my old personality. 

"Mrs. Wilsburn?" A nurse said walking up to me. I nodded meekly and she cleared her throat. "Your brother is stable, but unfortunately he seems to be in a coma. We don't know when he'll wake up, or if he'll even wake up at all." What a great nurse she is. 

She skipped away as if there weren't people who were in pain here. 

I stood up and started walking down the halls to my brother's room. 

I opened the door and my eyes widened and my face contorted into one of pain. 

He was covered in bandages with a breathing mask on and bruises and burns all over his face and body. 

A knife was on the floor beside the bed. I looked closer and I started shaking. It was the same knife that had been used to kill my parents. 

I looked out the window and saw someone wearing a mask, similar to the one of the killer that killed my parents. 

He was dragging his finger on the window in what seemed to be blood. 

'I'm coming for you' is what it wrote. 

I screamed and without even thinking about it, I bolted out of the room, no thoughts in my mind. 

Memories flooded back into my brain, memories I would rather not remember. 

I ran passed the waiting room, Rogue standing up as he saw me running away. 

"Miss! Please no running in the hospital!" Nurses and Doctors called out to me and I ignored every single one. 

I looked through one of the windows and I saw him there.

I almost screamed and a little shriek escaped my throat and I kept on running. 

The only thing in my brain was 'run'. Every time I looked out a window, that man was there with the mask that seemed as if he were smiling insanely with blood splattered over it. 

I reached the doors and I burst through them running into the rain. "Emma. You can't run from me." His voive echoed through my head and I could hear the grin in his voice. 

"I'll find you. Then I'll kill you. And then I'll kill your brother!" He was laughing now. Does he enjoy seeing me crawl on the edge of despair? I suppose so.

"NO! Leave me and my brother alone! Get out of my head!" I screamed terror in my voice. People who passed by looked at me oddly. 

Then he appeared in front of me holding the knife that I found in Steff's room, exept it's covered in blood. 

I backed away in fright "Emma, Emmmmmmmaaaaaaaaa. I'm coming to get yooooouuuuuu....." He said with cackling laughter. "No!" I shrieked clutching my head. "Get out of my head! You aren't real! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" I screamed but it sounded more like I was in pain. 

"You still neglect my existance?! You know I'm here Emma! You know I'm real! You know I'm going to kill you! STOP ACTING AS IF I DON'T EXIST!" He shouted his voice booming. 

"Leave me alone! You're not going to kill me!" I shrieked falling to my knees in a puddle. 

"You don't know that Emma! My sweet sweet Emma!" His laugh was insane and I screamed as someone grabbed my shoulders from behind me. 

My eyes widened and sheer terror was displayed on my face. "NO! Let me go! Don't kill me!" I shrieked but I was forcefully turned around to meet Rogue's eyes containing conern. I was shaking and somehow I had gotten up on my feet. 

"Emma, what's wrong?" He asked his hard grip on my shoulders loosening.

I shook even more, not in anger, no, but in fear. 

I swallowed hard and my bottom lip quivered. Noticing my distress he pulled me into a hug.

I still shook violently, and then I saw him behind Rogue holding a knife taunting me. My eyes widened and everything went dark. 

Rogue's POV

I found Emma and she was shouting on the ground clutching her head as if she were in pain. 

I grabbed her shoulders to stop her from running and she shrieked in fear. "NO! Let me go! Don't kill me!" I was taken aback by her outburst and I knew something was wrong. I turned her around with force and when she saw it was me she relaxed a little but she was shaking. 

I pulled her into a hug hoping to comfort her and she shook even more.

She took a step back and her face was terrified. She looked like she had seen someone murder someone else. 

Then her eyes closed and she started falling. I caught her and am now on my way to the hospital.

Something's wrong, I know it. 

"What happened if I may ask?" The nurse asked me. "She collapsed on the road." I replied coldly. I don't like this nurse one bit. Her uniform was too revealing, she wore too much makeup, she wore high heels, she was chewing on bubble gum loudely like a cow, and she was quirking her hip and leaning on the counter. 

"Anything else happen?" She asked bitting her bottom lip. I shook my head. I can't jump to conclusions about what Emma was screaming about. 

The nurse walked closer to me moving her hips from side to side exageratedly, and I shifted in discomfort. 

I was about to move when another nurse walked in checking her clipboard. She gave a disapproving look to the other brunette nurse and told me to follow her. "Mrs. Wilsburn is now awake, but when we ask her questions she remains quiet. She demands to speak with you alone." She said and I nodded entering the room and the nurse walking out quietly. 

Emma was looking out the window and when she heard my footsteps she turned her head around. 

When she saw it was me, her face was relieved and relaxed. I haven't seen Emma with a face like that since I met her, which was only a few months may I add. 

"Rogue." She mumbled a small smile on her lips. "I'm so glad you're okay." She mumbled and I looked at her shocked. "Why wouldn't I be okay?" I asked and she looked at her hands which had started shaking again. She sniffed. "Because the one who murdered my parents is back. I believe he's the one who started attacking Lamia Scale and when you grabbed be earlier, I thought it was him. I saw him in Steff's room writing on the window in blood and there was the knife he used to kill my parents on the ground in front of his bed. When I ran I saw him through the windows and outside he was talking to me." She cleared her throat and my eyes widened. Why was she telling me this? Does she trust me enough to tell me? We barely know each other.... but yet she trusts me with this. "Before I passed out, he was behind you holding the knife as if taunting me." She said tears in her eyes. "He said he would kill everyone I care about to make me suffer and then kill me too." She explained and she squeezed her eyes shut.

She cares about me? I know it's inconsiderate of me to think that when she pretty much just told me the reason she freaked out and the reason why she was so cold to others. 

She opened her eyes and her gaze drifted to mine. We leaned in towards each other. Closer.... Closer.... 

A/N: Ok that's the end of this chapter! Did I scare you again? I gave myself shivers while writing this one. Oops. Hehehe have a good day my Strawberry Patches!

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