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[Chapter 25]

Chapter Twenty-Five: Lost and Loosing
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"I tried to save myself but I failed!" ~Memphis May Fire, Unconditional Love
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Anna's POV

Opening my eyes, I looked around. I was in a room. There was beeping all around and a pain in my wrist as I moved my left hand up to my face. I looked down. There was an IV in my left wrist, dripping liquid into my sore body.

I thought I was alone in the vast room until the other patient, on the other side of the plain, vomit-green curtain coughed and coughed and coughed. She or he didn't stop until a nurse came rushing into the room. I heard shuffling, soothing whispers and then it was quiet again. There was some more shuffling and then I heard the nurse start to walk over to me.

Closing my eyes as soon as I saw her foot, I pretended that I was still asleep and let her check my slightly ripped out IV and all the other things you would need to check if you were a nurse.

"Okay..." I heard her trail off. She sounded unsure, questionable and curious and also...scared.

I badly wanted to open my eyes and see what she was gazing and was unsure and frightened at, but didn't. I didn't want to see anyone. I didn't want people clustering over me like I knew they would if they knew I had woken up.

But then again, I couldn't stay asleep forever.

Mentally taking a deep breath, I made sure to slowly open my eyes, for the effect of seeming like I had just woken up and not 10 minutes before.

"Oh!" I startled the nurse who I had seen was staring intently at my left shoulder. The mark. The one I had gotten so long ago that now, to me, it seemed like a birthmark or something normal. But it wasn't. It was almost dark enough to seem like a old, faded tattoo and intricate yet delicate enough to also add to the impressions of being a tattoo. The only thing that confused everyone who saw it, and made them think that it wasn't a tattoo, was that it looked as if it was etched onto my skin, as a mark, not a tattoo. Even the colouring was a darker one of my pale skin tone.

"I'll go get the doctor--"

"No! Please. I don't really want to speak or see anyone right now," I croaked. I felt utterly antisocial and closed up. I thought that if I saw another person's face, I would jump out of this bed like a crazy madwoman and lash out at their face, making sure to get them in the eyes.

"Oh...alright," the polite and much more likeable nurse finally gave in, smiled at me and then turned and left.

As the door closed behind her, I breathed out a deep breath that I didn't know I had been holding in. I didn't even know why I had been holding it in.

Something happened last night that caused me to end up in this hospital and I needed to know what it was.

I turned my head and looked at the ugly green curtain, trying to imagine who could be the poor person on the other side. An old lady? Old man? Or were they young? A child? I hope not.

My thoughts came to an abrupt end as I heard the person--a girl--on the other side of the curtain start to speak.

"Why? You might not get to see anyone in a long time--trust me, I know." She said plaintively. I knew that someone would come to see me, today or tomorrow or the day after. I wasn't trying to sound harsh or defensive but I realized that I came to sound a lot like Brittany, the head cheerleader at our school, when a girl insulted her.

"Someone will come see me. I know it. Besides, I'm not staying here for long," I started spitting out words. The girl on the other side didn't say anything but I only felt bad for a few minutes afterward as my mind started to drift off again--into it's dangerous and uncomplimentary recesses.

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Incubus' POV

I had learned from Thalus (who I hadn't seen in awhile) that Anna had been forcefully possessed by a Fear demon and that had left her in the hospital.

Thalus had magically appeared in front of me as I was reading one of the sheets I had stolen from Starlight.

"Prince--Master,"

Looking up, I saw Thalus' smokey form hovering inches away from me.

"Yeah...?" I ask. I was still a bit annoyed and on edge. Starlight had seemed to disappear for a day and when he got back from wherever he was (which was the Underworld, he had told me), he seemed relieved and frightened and angry all at the same time.

"The human--Anna," Thalus looked at me with his ruby eyes--my eyes. He seemed...scared. I don't know if it was for Anna, for himself or for me.

He had been telling me about everything that had happened--he had seen Anna walking around town, in the middle of the night (again) and saw that it wasn't her. It was a Fear demon. Thalus went to go rescue her and did, but ended her up in a hospital with a few scratches and bruises. At least she wasn't possessed anymore--or taken to the Underworld without me.

I don't really know what I felt about her. I didn't like her--I didn't like any human--but I did...admire her. I liked the way she smiled and how easily and suddenly she could get frustrated at you. She could've been a demon for all I know! She would've made a good one at that too.

"Thank you, Thalus. I'll see you around and also will want to hear from you again on Anna--you're on 'stalking Anna' duty now,"

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Sorry for the gross and ugly chapter, I just wanted to fill you guys in on everything so yeah...

Well now that you guys know what happened, the story will get a lot better! :)

***Plus, I don't plan or write drafts first--I just write whenever I feel like and whatever is on my mind so I'm sorry of there are terrible mistakes and the chapter sucks. I'll go back and edit--I PROMISE!!***