Liberation [completed]

Wounds-Mia

This is a long chapter guys! The picture above is who I imagine Hunter to be, well the hair and the eyes at least. If you guys have seen Teen Wolf you'll know Derek Hale. That's who I think Hunter would be like. I own no rights to the picture, I merely took it off the internet for reference. 

Happy reading :) 

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I peak at Asher from my side of the car. My eyes hurt from the side glance and that intensified the headache I was having. My body ached from the running, getting beaten up, climbing and jumping. I was tired and drained. I was sure the lack of food over the past few weeks had taken a toll on me and this was my punishment. My body hated me with passion for the neglect and I was at its mercy now.

However, I was still not ready to let it unleash its full wrath upon me. I could take care of myself. I knew I wasn't hurt internally, I knew how that felt. These were just superficial wounds, I could treat them myself. The dizziness will pass with sleep and so will the nausea when the car stopped moving. Also, I couldn't afford a hospital visit.

"Asher" I whisper softly and tentatively. I didn't want to fight him, I was too much in debt to him to fight but I couldn't go to the hospital.

"Hmm?" he asks me switching his attention to me from the road. 

"Can we not go to the hospital?" I ask him knowing he was going to erupt in anger.

"WHAT! NO! I AM TAKING YOU TO THE DAMN HOSPITAL" He yells angrily as I had expected. 

I sigh and shift in my seat, "Look, I'm fine okay? I'm just bleeding superficially, nothing serious. I can treat myself" I try to explain to him.

"Will you shut up and just let me take you to the hospital?" He asks me lowering his voice and looking at me briefly before turning to traffic. 

"But I know what an internal wound feels like this isn't it!" I argue.

"Do you have an MBA?" He pauses and I stare at him like he was dumb, of course, I didn't have an MBA "No, I thought so." He says ignoring the look I was giving him. 

"Asher the hospital's too expensive...I don't ha-"

"What the hell am I here for then?" He snaps at me.

My eyes widen at what he was suggesting, "No. I swear to god. You will not pay for me! I'm so serious! I will jump out of this car right now if you disagree with me"

Asher turns to check if I was serious and I raise my hand to the door indicating that I was. 

"You need to get yourself checked out," He says adamantly. 

"No, I don't. I am perfectly healthy" I tell him insistently. 

"We have very different definitions of healthy," He says turning off the highway.

"Are we still going to the hospital?" I ask him.

"NO! I figured since you can sit here and argue with me that you're not in that bad a condition" He sighs, "But you are staying with me. I'm not arguing there. I will lock you in my apartment if I have to."

"For the night" I agree.

"No, indefinitely," He says and I gawk at him.

"You're crazy! I could never afford your rent! I told you this already" I nearly yell at him.

"You don't have to pay me," he says rolling his eyes at me.

I open and close my mouth mechanically as I try to decipher my thoughts. Firstly, who was this man? Where the hell did he come from, and why the hell was he running to my rescue so much lately? What did he want from me? What was he doing in my part of town for that matter?