My home is where my heart lies

The suffering (part 3)

Author's notes:

Hey, I'd like to present the 17th chapter of the story.

I hope you'll like it.

PS. My current plan for a couple of next weeks:
rewriting Alone,
rewriting the 1rst chapter of Kiss the Rain,
3rd chapter of Sometimes it's just better not to know,
rewrite the 3rd chapter of My home is where my heart lies,
a Christmas one-shot in WoW universe.

PS.PS. If you have an idea that you would like to see me write, or want me to quicken the writing of any of my stories, feel free to write a comment :D

As always, till the next time, and thanks for everything.

Sorry, I had a lot of assignments from my uni, so I had little to none time to finish the chapter. Still, I hope you'll end up liking it :D

Changelog:
2020.12.13 - a preview was posted.
2020.12.24 - a whole chapter was posted.

End of author's notes.

Akali's POV (sometime later):

When the raven-haired woman began to stir out of her slumber, she was blinded by the white, intense light. It took her a couple of moments to fully open her eyes and adjust to the intensity of the light. As soon as she managed to do so, she froze. Akali did not recognise the room she was currently in. She tried to stand up as quickly as possible, but nearly immediately, she felt that some weight was put on her midriff. Without wasting a single second, she averted her gaze from the snowy-white wall. She tried to locate the source of the feeling. Just a second later, she found it.

On the midriff on the teenager, Evelynn was sleeping soundly. The hair of the woman was in disorder, she seemed exhausted. The fatigue and concern could be easily spotted on her beautiful face.

"What are we doing here, Eve?" she asked softly, tenderly creasing the cheek of her guardian. "Why are you so exhausted?"

As from a distance, the beeping sound started to be heard. A monitoring console could be spotted at her right. It was a modern piece of technology that was displaying a couple parameters on various graphs. Some fibres were connecting the device with Akali's body. The realisation was brought after a couple of prolonged moments.

She screamed loudly.

Rogue closed her eyes, hoping that all she was currently seeing was just a dream, just a nightmare. Within a couple of next moments, the teenager felt the comforting warmth closing all around her frame. The oh so familiar scent of her guardian soon filled the nostrils of the girl. Without opening her eyes, the raven-haired teenager hugged the woman back nearly instantly. She needed that warmth, she needed that feeling of protection.

"Shhh... everything is fine, darling," Evelynn cooed with a slightly hoarse voice. "I'm here, and I have no intention to leave you," she assured the latter.

"Eve," the girl mumbled in a quiet tone. "Tell me that it is just a dream, tell me that it is just a nightmare, please," she added in a pleading voice.

"Darling, it's reality," the magenta-haired woman uttered in a bit more serious tone. "You're in the hospital after the 'events' of yesterday's match," she provided a further explanation. "I'm so sorry that you must have endured through that all."

"Wait... what?" the confused teenager asked, opening her eyes to look at Evelynn's pretty face. "I... I thought," she continued to mumble.

"Oh..." the living goddess gasped, interrupting her protégé's statement. "You thought that you died, didn't you?" she asked with concern filling her voice. As soon as Akali nodded, Eve strengthened her hug, "You're alive, darling. You got hurt, but you'll be fine. I'll make sure of that myself," the woman promised.