For years I cried

Chapter 7

Tests were taken on Elena and it took 3 days for the results to come back. For the days that Elena was in the infirmary I didn't leave her side, which meant Lissa didn't leave mine. Which also meant Dimitri was with Lissa guarding her. All I did was cry, Elena was sick and there was nothing I could do for her, Dhampirs weren't supposed to get sick, it was in our genes. I guess having two dhampir parents meant things were altered.

When the results finally came back I was still sitting next to Elenas bed waiting for her to wake up after her nap. The doctor walked in with a grim look on his face.

"Guardian Hathaway, I'm so sorry to tell you this and it really breaks my heart to inform you that your 4 year old child has a brain tumour." His voice was growing quieter and quieter as my brain became to process that my baby girl was well and truly sick. He said some more things about her illness that I didn't quite register and walked away and closed the door behind him.

I broke down in tears, I couldn't believe what I had been told, my quiet, beautiful daughter had cancer. How could something so cruel as cancer try and take my baby girl from me. God can be cruel but I didn't no he could be this cruel.

I needed air, I needed just a minute to myself where I didn't have to worry about waking Elena. I walked out of her room and walked into the courts garden, I sat down on a bench and poured my heart out. I sobbed and sobbed, my beautiful baby girl might die. She might never get to know her daddy, she will never no the truth.

As I was crying I felt a warm, familiar hand on my shoulder. I wiped my eyes and turned to Dimitri

"What did he say?" He asked softly.

"Why do you even care?" I snapped "what makes you so curious about my life now after 4 years?" I shouted. "You haven't even shown your face since you told me you were leaving, you have no right to ask a question that personal about MY daughter." People had started to stare as I screamed at Dimitri.

I expected him to take my shouting and harsh words and move on from them but instead he shouted back. "And what makes you think you have the right to scream at me" he yelled "you wanna no why I haven't shown my face around here since I left? I moved on Rose, I got on with my life and started dating Tasha." More tears fell down my face, mostly at the fact that Elena was in the infirmary.

I sunk back down to the bench and put my hands in my face "she has a brain tumour." I whispered, I didn't see Dimitri but I could imagine his face going pale, because when I looked at him he was paler.

"I'm so sorry, Rose." He put a sympathetic hand on my shoulder and for a second I enjoyed the fireworks that it has created before pulling away and standing up

"I don't need your sympathy, as you said you've moved on. And so have I. I have a daughter to worry about instead of a stupid teenage crush that I had." Before he could speak again I walked back to the infirmary where Lissa and Christian was talking to a now awake Elena.

I walked in to hear my baby girl laugh at something Christian had said, I felt sick at the thought that I might never hear that laugh for as long as I want. I went closer to Lissa and asked to speak to her in private, leaving just Christian in the room.

"Lissa, the doctor has told me the results and they've came back bad, worse than bad in fact." She went to speak but i cut her off with a shake of my head, tears were falling down my face as I continued "she has a brain tumour, the time when she past out was actually a seizure caused by the tumour. The doctor wants to speak to me about treatment later today." Lissa was crying along with me by the time I had finished so I pulled her into a hug where we both cried uncontrollably.