In the end, Rose decided to take her Maxence out of the hospital without the doctor's authorisation. Not because he was insisting – he had been pretty quiet for a while, only staring at the watch even when a nurse came to change his bandages – but because the doctor's questions were getting stranger and stranger and she didn't like it at all. Apparently, they had found anomalies in Maxence's blood test and in the X-rays they had done. Her Maxence was being looked at in a way she hated. As if he was a new species coming out of nowhere. Someone worth studying. Rose wouldn't let anyone look at him that way or use him as an experiment subject.
So, soon as she had gotten an opportunity, she had taken him back to their home. After Maxence's statement, the police had allowed them to get back in their house. It was clearly self-defence. The inquiry wasn't completely done but it would be soon. Rose would have to let her Maxence know that he wasn't accused of anything. Poor man was half asleep when she had driven him home, and he was awfully in pain. But it was getting better when she tucked him well in bed. She lay down next to him and stayed with him for a moment. She called their children again to give them news. Maxence was okay so far. He was sleeping deeply. He would be hungry when he would wake up so Rose left the watch in his hand and went to the kitchen to prepare something nice for him to eat later.
She wasn't showing anything but she was worried. She kept thinking about the doctor's words. The man looked really intrigued and curious about the anomalies found in Maxence's medical results. He was so focused on it that he hadn't even said a thing about the paralysis. Maxence had found about it alone and no one knew if it was gonna be definitive or not. And Rose was afraid to go and see another doctor who would find anomalies too and try to keep her Maxence for more tests. With that attack, he would be vulnerable for a while, and she had to protect him from everything. He wasn't realising it yet but when he would be fully aware of the paralysis, he might not take it very well.
Rose sighed. The days to come wouldn't be the easiest. She hadn't told their children, nor her mother about Maxence's condition. Jackie had agreed to keep them until Maxence was better. It was one less thing to worry about, but the kids would come over and see how their daddy was. How would they react when they would understand their amazing daddy wouldn't be able to play with them the way he used to before? What could she tell them all? She hoped that it was only temporary, but she doubted it. He had said he already couldn't feel his legs before she found him in the tool shed. That left very small room to hope. Unfortunately.
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Down to Earth
Fanfiction"Instead of killing himself, he could rewrite his whole life and have a better one. He only had to use the Chameleon arch. And maybe finally be happy in a life where his past as killer wouldn't weight so much on his shoulders."
