chapter 6.2 part 2
“Of course...” ...if I turn Ivy into a wolf everything would heal. The same thing happened to Jenks when I turned him big. His body had been covered in scars, his foot horribly crushed, all of which had been fixed. It wouldn’t even take me 20 minutes to make the wolf potion but if they removed the arm would it grow back? For some reason I didn’t think so.
“What is it?” Cali voice was a whisper in my ear.
“I can save her. I just need them to keep her alive for an hour.”
“It’s ok, June’s agreed to let them operate and amputate if they need to.” Cali’s voice was soothing, and barely a whisper not wanting to draw attention to us.
“No!” surprised faces stared at me.
“Ms. Morgan, we should get you back to your room and reattached your IV. Before the adrenalin wears off and you crash.”
“You can’t amputate her arm, I just need an hour and I can fix everything.” I could see the uneasy looks on the medical staffs face; several of them glanced at Ivy as if remembering I had restarted her heart. Out of the corner of my eye I saw one man cross himself. I had saved Ivy and that somehow makes me evil? Small minded bigots. Mape didn’t look disgusted, her face was plain disbelief and something I couldn’t identify.
“Ivy's going to be fine, her mother has given us permission to operate and the surgeons are very skilled.” I could almost see Dr. Mape’s thought process - I was turning into the crazy girlfriend and she needed to get rid of me.
“Rache…” Jenks voice was soft and warning.
“Remember your leg? My scars? I can do the same for Ivy. It’ll fix her, I know it will.”
The double doors swung open as a male nurse dressed in scrubs stepped in.
“The operating room’s ready for her we need to get her down there.” He glanced at us, “do we have consent?”
“Yes but with certain conditions, I’ll accompany you upstairs and explain to doctor Cohen.” Mape said nodding to the nurse. I could feel myself beginning to panic, if they took her into the operating room there would be nothing I could do.
“I'm afraid you don’t have the consent of her next of kin.” We all swivelled to look at Cali. “Ms. Tamwood isn’t Ivy's next of kin. Miss Morgan is listed as Ivy's partner and scion giving her the primary next of kin rights. I filed the paper work with the I.S myself.”
I was listed as Ivy's scion? When the hell had that happened? I thought of all that paperwork Ivy had made me sign, I’d thought I was just granting her next of kin status for me. Damn sneaky vamp.
Dr. Lipsky shook his head. “We have her mother, June Tamwood, listed as next of kin, it was checked on admission.”
“I can prove it. I have all the paperwork at home.” Dr. Mape looked at me sadly.
“I'm sorry but we don’t have time to wait, we have to proceed with the operation.”
“But I'm her next of kin.” I didn’t want to sound desperate but they had to believe me. I wanted to explain, to tell them what I could do but if I did that I would be admitting I could do demon curses. It didn’t matter I had to tell them, Ivy would do anything for me. How could I do less?
“Don’t be foolish Rachel, I'm her mother and I gave my permission for the operation.” I saw the medical staff all nodding or at least not disagreeing. And I guess it made sense. I mean who are you going to listen to, the powerful, well regarded undead vamp or the shunned, black witch? It didn’t matter what I said they weren’t going to believe me.
“Cali.” Deep breath Morgan you can do this. “Can you take me over to Ivy? I want to say goodbye to her quickly before they take her downstairs.”
Serena and Cali started to walk me over to Ivy. It felt odd accepting help from someone who was Ivy or Jenks. The pains in my body were getting worse and I wouldn’t have been standing without their support, never mind walking. Cali kept a grip on the back of the gown, keeping everything covered this time. I made a note to buy something nice for each of them after this.
“You only have a second Ms. Morgan, after this I want you back in your bed. You and I have a great deal to discuss later.” Mape's voice left me in no doubt she wanted answers. It’s a pity I'm not going to be here to give them to her. I was going to plan B.
I was going to grab Ivy and run like hell.
It was the only choice left to me. I wouldn’t let Ivy lose her arm because of me. I’d managed to jump the ley lines before, sort of. Bis had been with me, together we’d been able to tune into the frequency of the line and shift my aura to match it. Which made it possible for me to travel through the line. It had all gone wrong however when I tried to move from the line I was in, to the next line. I ended up losing Bis and falling out of tune with the lines.
I had managed to drag myself back to reality and in the process created my own ley line. Which led to me discovering that the ley lines had been created by demons when they cast the curse which created the ever after.
The experience had been incredibly painful but I wouldn’t fail Ivy. I would get us home to the church. Cali and Serena let go of me as I supported myself by holding on to Ivy's bed. I placed my hand on Ivy's wrist. I knew I could do this. I just had to get us into the line. I focused on Ivy's aura trying to make it match mine.
I was hoping the times our auras had merged would let this work. I could feel it lapping against my own aura but I couldn’t affect it. There was one obvious thing missing, each of the times our aura’s merged blood had been involved. Moving the bandage covering my neck aside I touched the edges of my wound feeling the blood coat my fingers.
“Ms. Morgan what are you doing?”
I ignored Mape's voice. I pressed my tacky fingers to Ivy's bloody leg, and our auras chimed. I grabbed, trying to pull on the line outside our church as I already knew its frequency. I could just reach it. Shifting our matched auras to the right note, we were swept into the line.
I managed to form a bubble around us, holding Ivy's mind and soul together just as I did my own. But without Bis I couldn’t tell where I was. I was lost. And that meant I had killed Ivy and myself. I might be able to survive creating a line back to reality but I that would mean dropping the bubble and abandoning Ivy.
I knew Ivy would never survive. Vampires can’t manipulate ley line energy, and I knew from Al that even some of the demons had died or gone crazy when they created the original lines. So she would stand no chance. There was no way I would let her die to save myself.
I could feel my control wobbling and tried to maintain it. I was already so weak, and I was carrying a passenger, the added strain seemed to be eating away at my bubble.
I'm so sorry Ivy. I'm so sorry we’re going to die like this. I should have left you in the damn hospital! But I thought I knew best. I thought I could save you; instead all I've done is doom us both. I apologized to her, knowing she couldn’t hear me. No sound was made. I had not just killed her, I had stolen her second life from her. No one would ever know what happened to us. I was going to die with her.
Maybe dying beside her was all I could ever have offered to her. “I love you, Ivy.”
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So that’s the end of the chap. sorry it’s so short i promise the next chapter will be longer and if they survive then they really deserve a bit of a break from life threatening events don’t you think?
Also i forgot to say this before but the title of chapter 6.1 is of course from Razorlight - golden touch - which i don’t own and this chapters title is from Alisha's Attic - 5 Big Letters which i don’t own either