Sickeningly Sweet

Chapter Five

                               "She is just bluffing."  The head tells me after I explain to him the little visit Sugar paid me in my hospital room. 

                              "What if she isn't?"

                          The Head tells me that she would have killed me if she wasn't.  Then he changed the subject entirely saying that we should speed up the process just in case.  Tomorrow I am to meet with the soldiers and watch them train at their fullest abilities.  Henry is to be there and The Head says that it is time to put on a show.

                        All I can think of is, Seriously?  This is what he is worrying about?!  Dont mind the psychotic bitch that just threatened to kill me, lets focus on the a fake romance.  He hears my thoughts and creates a high pitch noise in my head making me crumble to my knees. 

                     "9 A.M." he reminds me and leaves.

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                I take the long way back to my room.  I dont feel like being under surveillance right now.  It takes me 30 minutes to get back to my room, which I feel is still too short but I am tired.  When I open my door it is dark.  Not just the kind of dark where the lights are off, but the kind that seems like not eve any light could penetrate the darkness.

                 I walk in and try the light switch.  It doesn't work.  Then I try the lamp and remember I need to change the lightbulb.  Good thing I have the candle on my desk, "Insagnia." and light breaks the infinite darkness.

              "Good to see you are well enough to leave the hospital wing."  I hear a deep voice from behind me.  I turn quickly and send lightning toward the voice and he dodges it.  Henry is sitting in the middle of my floor with a smug look on his face.

              "Why the hell are you sitting in the middle of my room in complete darkness?"  Seriously creepy.

              "I wanted to be here when you got back." , He has grown again, at least two inches, "I have a question for you," he hesitates, "Why didn't you tell me you are a superior?" 

              What the hell is that?  I ask him and he gestures to me saying half with, half spirit. "I was told not to."  I say and sit on my bed.

             Henry is still standing in the middle of my floor.  I decide the if he knows there is no point in holding a fake form around him so I shift.  His face goes so pail that it looks like snow.  I laugh and he sits down. 

             "So you can dig a bullet out of my shoulder, but it freaks you out when I change forms like you do?"  I smirk as he scowls.  He mutters something in french and sits there, "Thank you, by the way, for saving my life."  He waves me off like its no big deal making me roll my eyes.

        He turns to leave but I stand up and grab his wrist.  He turns back around and looks at me.  I tell him to come back later and have dinner with me and my friends.  He nods his head and I smile.  He looks at my hand still around his wrist and I remove it like his stare set it on fire.  He smirks as he leaves. 

                    What was that?  I curse myself and go to change into comfortable cloths.  Then I notice.  The cameras are gone.  This is weird, I mean I am happy, but they take the cameras out just after I get shot?  And a day after I find out about my fake relationship?  Maybe the Head had them removed because he knew Henry and I would be staying together soon.  I shiver and gag at the thought. 

                  If they were watching me through cameras then why didn't someone come help me right after I got shot?  Maybe because they wanted me to think they were watching me but they really weren't.  Or they were but not through cameras.  Maybe they are using Henry now.  What if they were really the ones that shot me, but Sugar told me that she was the one that did it.

                     I dont know maybe I'm going crazy from loss of blood.  Even though I have great healing abilities.  But if they took out the cameras then I should be able to o home right?  Wrong.  I am in charge of an army now.  And army generals dont leave their base.  I also cant leave because I have to stay with Henry.  Damn Henry.

                    I pace my room until there is a knock on my door.  It is Amanda and when I open the door she jumps on me.

                  "I am so glad you are awake!  I thought you were going to die!"  She enounciated each word as if I didn't speak English.  Yet I cant help but laugh and roll my eyes at her overreacting self.  When she lets go she hits my shoulder and I yelp.

            "OMG I am so sorry!" she was about to burst into tears. 

            I tell her not to worry because I need to change the bandages anyway.  I sit on my bed and take off my shirt.  Amanda peels off my bandages and my mouth goes dry.  That cant be right.  It didn't look like that before.  We both look at my shoulder in dismay at the reopened wound that seems to be causing my shoulder to turn gray.

             "Rose.  Whats happening?" When I dont respond Amanda starts yelling in my face.

            "I dont know."  I say after she spits on me. 

              Amanda bolts out of my room screaming.  Maybe she is going to get help, but the gray and purple mass is now spreading down towards my elbow and when I look in my mirror it is on my neck too.  I dont want to move so I just sit and wait, hopping she brings help, and I am kind of hopping that help is Henry.