Purple Roses

AWAKE

Parker's P.O.V

I walk out Alec's room and walk back towards Rosie's room.

'I'm just not in the best place right now. I hope you can understand.' Her words replay in my head. I truly wonder what is the best place to be. I turn a corner in the direction of Rosie's ward.

Then a sweet smell fills the entire area. I stop. She's probably awake. I increase the speed of my pace until I'm standing right outside of Rosie's room. I reach out my hand to open the door but stop.

I stop as I remember what she could be now. She'll be so different from what I'm used to her being. Am I ready for that? Will she be able to tell that I'm a friend not a foe? Will she recognize me?

I open the door and walk in to see Rosie sitting up staring eyed wide at me. Her eyes have changed color now. They are brown with rings of red. Her skin has gotten paler than I remembered. Her lips too red. Her hair has lost its shine but still kept its curl.

She seems thinner too. Well she hasn't been eating for days so that's expected I guess.

"Rosie?" I ask taking a step forward. She watches me, observing me. My heart starts to sink. She doesn't recognize me. "It's me Parker." I try to refresh her memory. She tilts her head to the side frowning. "Parker?" she asks me, her voice normal. "What are you doing?"

My eyes widen in shock. "You remember me?' I ask her, failing to hide my relief. "Why would I forget you?" she asks me. I sigh a sigh of relief walking towards her. I hold out my hand for her to take and she takes it with no hesitation. "I don't know. I just thought you would." I shrug smiling. Squeezing her hand and sitting on my seat near her.

She gives me a toothy smile and that's when I see them. Her fangs. They weren't long but they were sharp. Perfect for biting into her victims. I gulp and quickly look away from her mouth and back to her eyes. They look sad. "Parker."

"Yes?" I watch her closely.

"I had a bad dream." She looks at me. "Oh? What happened? What was it about?" I ask her feeling a protectiveness towards her. I want to protect Rosie from all the bad things out there, even from her nightmares.

"It was about- "but she stops when the door opens and Syris walks in with the gang following behind him. "Rosie!" he tries to smile at her, and you could tell he is trying his best not to recoil at her presence. Rosie grins at him, seemingly unaware. "Syris!" she widens her arms for him to come pick her up like he usually does.

He walks over and picks her up. He throws her up in the air. Her giggles fill the room. The rest of the guys fill in the small room all watching, happy and relieved but guarded.

'Parker?' Henry asks me through mind link.

I don't respond to him, not wanting to discuss what she is at the moment. I'm just happy that my mate has finally woken up from her bad dream. "Guys!" Rosie squeals leaving Syris to go give them individual hugs. I lean on the wall and just smile at my mate. She is so precious and happy.

Syris comes to stand next to me. "Not to bring her food hey Parker?" he punches my arm fake annoyed with me. "She just woke up." I tell him, rubbing the spot where he punched me. "Really?" he asks me smiling and watching Rosie. "How does she feel?" he asks me now worried about her. "I don't know." I say and stand up properly when she's done hugging everyone and goes to sit back on her bed.

I go sit down next to her on the hospital bed. "How are you feeling Rosie?" I ask her. She shrugs. "I feel okay. A little bloated but okay." she answers. "Bloated?" I question her. She nods pointing to her stomach. "It feels funny." She says and yawns, tired. "So I'm guessing, you're not up for lunch then." Frank smirks leaning on the wall watching Rosie. "Lunch?" she looks at him eyes wide. "Yeah." He stands up properly and walks over to her and bends down to her height.

"And I'm guessing you've never had pizza or extra meaty beef burgers." He says in a fake sad voice. "Pizza? Beef burgers?" she turns to look at me confused. "It's food. It's something you eat. You haven't had pizza or burgers before?" I ask her shocked. She shakes her head. "Where I come from we don't have pizza or burgers." She says. I look at Frank who had a horrified look on his face. "Never. Heard. Pizza. Burger. Lies." He takes hold of her face in between his hands. "You are lying." He gasps. Rosie smiles at him. "Why would I lie?" she asks him.

"This cannot be ignored. Rosie we are getting you discharged from hospital and we are going to feed you pizza and burgers!" he stands up grinning and determined. "Pizza and burgers!" Rosie stands up to match his enthusiasm and that's when I noticed it. I blink a few times, maybe I'm seeing things. That's impossible. It couldn't, she couldn't have.... grown taller...right?

The rest of the guys laugh. "Frank is so passionate when it comes to food." Henry laughs. "I just wish he is this passionate when it comes to doing his chores in the house." Syris frowns. "Syris. Food and chores are completely two different things." Frank turns to Syris. Syris takes this as an opportunity to start lecturing Frank. I laugh at the sight. I swear Syris is something else.

Then the we all hear a knock on the door. They all quieten down and look to the door. "It's Dr Martin, can I come in!" Dr Martin tells us before opening the door and entering the room. "Hello." He greets us all. "Hello doctor." They all respond. He turns to me and give me a nod. I nod back, acknowledging him.

"Hey, aren't there supposed to be a maximum number of people allowed to be in a room during visiting hours?" he asks them. "I don't think so." Syris shrugs widening his eyes trying to act dumb. "Yeah me too. I don't remember there even being a maximum number of people allowed in during visiting hours." Jordan steps in doing a little pout.

Doctor Martin shakes his head and smiles. "Just keep it down." He says and turns to look at Rosie who is watching Doctor Martin with curious eyes. "Hello Rosie. I'm Martin, your doctor." He extends his hand so that Rosie can shake it. Rosie shakes it. "Hello." Rosie replies in a low tone.

Doctor Martin drops his hand and looks to me. "Excuse me Alpha." He smiles. "Oh, no sorry." I stand up so that he can sit down next to Rose. He sits next to her. "Rosie. Do you remember anything that you think could be the reason you are in hospital?" he asks her, taking a notebook from behind her hospital bed and opens it with a pen in hand.

Rosie shakes her head. "No." Martin nods and writes something in the book. "Do you remember anything before you woke up here?" he asks her. Rosie looks at the book. "Yeah. I was at the fare with Jordan. Then we heard a weird loud sound that hurt my ears and then." She stops and looks to me. I feel my insides turn. She probably remembers me failing to be there to protect her. "Then?" Doctor Martin looks up from the book after writing something on the book to watch her.

Rosie looks at him. "Then everything is blurry after that." She mumbles looking down at her hand. "Blurry?" Doctor Martin writes something again in the notebook. "Can you try to make sense of the blurry images?" he asks her curious. Rosie looks up to him, looking into his eyes. "I don't know." She starts and she scratches where HE injected her with venom. I feel bile rising up to my throat. I'm going to be sick. "I can't really put it into words but I feel like." she looks at her hands.

"That if I touch you here." she raises her hands to touch her temples. "I might be able to show you." She looks at him. Doctor Martin widens his eyes. "Show me?" he asks her shocked. Rosie nods. "I don't know if I can but I feel like I can." She squints her eyes not sure. Doctor Martin writes something again in his book. He then closes it and puts it down next to him. "Can you show me please." he asks her.

Rosie turns to look at me and I see the ring of red around her eyes starting to fill the rest of her pupils. She then turns to Doctor Martin and reaches to touch his temples. "This may hurt." She mutters and Doctor Martin closes his eyes. She takes a deep breath and closes her eyes.

They stay like that for a few seconds but it's over as soon as it's started. Rosie opens her eyes first and looks at Doctor Martin who still has his eyes closed. She lets go of his head and drops her hands. Then Doctor Martin snaps his eyes open and they are bloodshot red. Then blood starts dripping down his nose.