Kentucky's Best

Chapter 9

The next morning Harry was sitting in his office talking to his uncle, he was telling him about everything that happened the day before at the zoo.
"I'm telling you Marty, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Rose just crawls to that wild animal and the next thing I see is it laying in her lap like a puppy would." Harry says.

Marty laughs. "I told you that girl has a special gift." He says looking at his nephew. "You like her don't you?"

"Yeah, I do, a lot." Harry admits. He was just about to say more when Debbie runs in.

"There's an emergency out at Bart's. Roger just called and needs help." Deb says with tears in her eyes. "It's Rose."

Harry was up and running as soon as he heard Rose's name, as soon as he starts his truck he hears the passenger door shut so he throws it into gear and spins out as he pulls out of the parking lot. Harry makes the 15 minute drive to Bart's ranch in 5 minutes, his truck never saw under 90 miles per hour and his uncle never complained, hell he loved Rose too.
Pulling up the the ranch Harry skids to a stop throws his truck into park, jumps out and runs to the arena where he sees everyone's gathered around. He doesn't even stop he just jumps the fence. When on the other side he see Highroller laying on the ground, but what stops his heart is, so is Rose. Running to her, Harry pushes Roger out of the way.

"What the fuck happened?" Harry chokes out, when he sees how still she is.

Roger shakes his head and wipes away a tear. "Bart has a new hand working here. He doesn't know who Rose is." Roger stutters out. "She had him calmed down like she always does. But then he marches in here thinking he could do better and jerks the halter out of her hand and tells her to back the fuck off, that she's to small to do a real man's job, he then goes to walk away, Highroller goes crazy and our Rose was in the line of fire." Roger chokes out. "Bart grabbed his shotgun he alway has handy for cases just like this, killed that demented horse. Life flight is on its way now."

"Jesus." Harry cries as he lays his head on Rose's chest.

Marty walks up and puts his hand on his nephews shoulder. "Harry, I called Beth, she's going to your house and getting you some clothes together. You can go with Rose, stay with her at the hospital, we will keep Steph."

Harry looks up at his uncle. "I can't lose her Marty, I just can't." Harry cries shocking everyone there except Marty, Roger and Bart.

Then they all hear a voice sneer. "Well hell, who would believe a big, tough looking guy like him would fall apart over a kid like her. Is that even legal, I mean ain't she like to young." The guy says.

Harry slowly raises his head and looks over toward where the voice came from, seeing everyone back away from the guy that spoke made it easier for Harry to find his target. Standing, Harry walks toward the much shorter guy making him realize he fucked up. Grabbing him by the front of the shirt Harry picks the guy up with no problem at all.
"You did this?" Harry snaps. "You hurt the girl I love."

The guy swollows. "It's not my fault she didn't move." He whispers, now slightly scared of the really tall and strong guy.

"Rose had control of that fucking horse, but then you stepped in and caused all this. Now she's injured and the horse is dead." Harry yells. "I have watched that beautiful woman approach a wild wolf and have him lay in her lap like a fucking lap dog. What the hell makes you think you can do her job better than she can?" Harry snaps, shaking the guy.

"Harry, son, life flight is here. So is Beth with your clothes." Marty says. "Come on. Put him down he's not worth it, consintrate on Rose, she needs you more right now." Marty reminds him.

Harry drops the guy he was holding and turns to see his aunt and daughter. He also sees Bart's ranch hand were smart enough to block Rose from their view, which he was thankful for, he didn't want his daughter to see Rose like that. Seeing Rose being loaded into the helicopter, Harry jogs over to his aunt.
"Stephanie baby, you be good for Aunt Beth. Daddy will be home as soon as he knows if Miss Rose is okay." Harry says giving his daughter a hug and kiss, then taking the bag his aunt packed for him.

"Daddy, tell Miss Rose I love her." Stephanie says as tears roll down her cheeks.

"I will baby." Harry says kissing her cheek again. "I love you Steph, be good." Harry says as he jogs to his truck.

Bart turns and looks at Allen. "You're fired, and don't even think about trying to find a job anywhere else in this area." He says. "Everyone here loves Rose, when they find out what happened here they'll probably shoot you, so you might as well leave town."

This time the 30 minute drive to Louisville seem to take forever, Harry was driving as fast as he dared to. He was so afraid something bad would happen to Rose before he got there. Finally getting to where he was wanting to be, Harry jogs into the hospital, tells the staff who he is, who he's looking for and they point him in the direction he's needing. Walking quickly to the ICU Harry tells the nurses there who he's there to see and they buzz him back once they find out he's a doctor.
Harry stops in the doorway to Rose's room, there is a team of doctors and nurses around her all doing different things. Things he hated being done to his beautiful Rose, one of the doctors working on her looks up and sees Harry.
"You her boyfriend?" He asks.

Nodding, Harry steps forward and sticks his hand out. "Dr. Harry Styles." Harry replies. Hell as far as he was concerned they didn't need to know right now he was a vet.

"Wonderful, you know what to look for, and we don't have to worry about you staying here with her." The doctor says.

Harry just nods, he did know what to watch for. He did go to medical school for a short period of time before changing over to veterinarian school.