Reunion

Reunion
" Uh..." Stirred awake, she groaned and grimaced in pain as she fluttered her eyes open.

Staring at the familiar wooden beam up above, she was left bewildered for the longest while. A dull stinging pain resonated through her being.

Creak!

Just then, " Kyley?..." She heard as the door to he room was pushed open.

Kyley couldn't help but look down towards the door, and there, she saw a face that she never thought that she would ever see again.

He looked disheveled and utterly distressed, looking at her in shock and disbelief.

Thud!

The things he held in his hands dropped falling from his hands, causing a soft crash on the floor. Among the items was a bandage, and it rolled across the floor amidst the silence.

After a short moment of pause, Darren rushed to Kyley's side in the bed shortly after, and Kyley could t help but frown in confusion. She didn't understand why he was like this, " Darren?"

For some reason, seeing him like this caused her heart to sting quite in hurt and down her abdomen.

" You're awake... you're alive!" Just as Darren said, Kyley recollected all the things that had happened, up until the very last moment.

Her eyes instantly reddened and watered and she wanted to sit up to hug Darren. However, " Don't move too much Kyley. Just stay put" He said as he slowly sat by the side of the bed and reached to grab her hands, raising them to his lips and kissing it deeply.

His breath became haggard and rough as his eyes reddened, almost breaking into tears.

" I thought that I'd never see you again..." He said, his voice hoarse and full of pan and gladness.

Looking at him, still lost in a daze, Kyley was stomped and didn't know what to say. Her face squeezed in hurt as she stared at Darren.

She could tell that Darren had experiencef a fair deal of hurt and terror.

" Me too" Kyley opened her mouth to say, uttering in a low dry whisper. It wasn't until now that she realized just how dry her throat was.

Darren moved back and looked at her gladly, smiling pitifully. Seeing Darren like this once again, she couldn't help but tear up, streams flowed down her face.

" Hey..." Darren reached to wipe her tears as he urged in a deep soothing tone. However, he himself had tears running down his face.

Everything he said back then as she slowly lost consciousness after stabbing herself resounded in her mind, causing her heart to swell in a mix of emotions.

However, just then, Kyley's face froze when she recollected something. She remembered the pregnancy and that it might not be Darren's. She remembered that they needed to talk about it and that she needed to make Darren understand that she had no idea.

That she loved him and would never have betrayed him.

" Darren, I-"

" Shhh!" However, Darren only hushed, placing a finger on her lips. Kyley was surprised to see him act like this, and could only watch with her mouth still open mid-sentence as he clasped her hands in his and said afterwards, " I don't care about what happens from hereon. All I know is that I wanna spend the rest of my life with you."

Kyley felt her heart tremble and stir softly at his words. Unable to hold back her feelings, she weeped staring at Darren with gratitude.

How could she not love this man? How could she have ever thought that this man hated her?

Kyley hated her thoughtlessness and rashness.

She wanted so badly to stand up and embrace him and kiss him till she couldn't breathe any longer. However, the damn pain in her abdomen wouldn't let her.

Nonetheless, she loved him to death and back!

As though Darren could tell how she felt, he clasped her hands in his even tighter and neared his face to hers, touching his forehead to hers.

" I love you, Kyley. Don't you ever try to leave me again" he said, his tone serious despite being soft and frail.

Kyley's whole body trembled hearing this as she felt her heart throb fastly. She immediately nodded her head and moved in to kiss him passionately.

' I miss him. I miss him so much!' Kyley thought as she relished in the crispy softness of his warm lips.

After several minutes, the two finally broke away.

Darren and Kyley held hands for several minutes, reveling in their reunion as they looked at one another with immense love and gladness in their gazes towards one another.

" How are you feeling?" Darren asked shortly after, bringing Kyley out of her daze. She looked down at her abdomen where she felt the most pain and said sincerely, " It hurts."

Questions surged in Kyley's mind afterwards. She wondered how she was still alive, but she could tell that she hadn't died even after stabbing herself being a werewolf.

Despite being weak, she was still a werewolf, and her durability as ome was incredibly... Supernatural.

However, it was still probable for her to die through the wounds she dealt herself if it wasn't for Darren's help. After all, she's weak.

Of course, Kyley knew it was Darren who treated her. The latter was walking towards the medical equipments with which he walked in with earlier. One after the other, he picked them up.

Kyley was glad that she was alive as she couldn't forgive herself if Darren became devastated and lived a miserable life afterwards because of her death.

She was glad that she was alive as she wouldn't have been able to reunite with Darren this way.

Kyley knew she had only been irrational to think that Darren hated her. He never stopped loving her!

As Darren returned to her side with a relieved smile on his face, Kyley felt at peace.

Darren dressed her wounds and it reminded Kyley of the past times when Darren would take care of her wounds like this.

In fact, Darren also felt the same as he had a wistful smile on his face at the moment.

It was a feeling they shared through their bond.

Funny how fate works right?

Suddenly, Kyley remembered something and couldn't help but mutter, staring dumbfoundedly at a spot with widened expression, " The baby?" She turned to face Darren to ask.

She had just realized that stabbing herself in the stomach could have very well cause her to lose the child. Kyley was overwhelmed by panic!

Her heart pounded as she looked towards Darren in hope...

However, Darren only paused to look at her and shook his head with a sad expression, " I have no idea..." Darren looked away in pity.

" We can only pray that it survives" Darren held her hands and urged assuringly.

Kyley's eyes widened even more in shock hearing Darren, she instantly fell into despair at the thought that she'd lost the child due to her foolish and selfish act.

Nonetheless, she moved her gaze to Darren and nodded in a lost daze to his words. Her heart weighed heavily and stung in hurt however.

She wanted to believe Darren's words, but it was just hard to do so when she knew what tge likely answer was.

Despite who the baby might belong to, it was still hers in the end.

But now... There's nothing else that she could do about it. What's done is done.

Kyley couldn't help but look towards Darren, sad and feeling downhearted. However, she wouldn't let that get between herself and Darren. Kyley wanted to start anew with him.

No matter what, he was the family she wanted. And she was convicted to seeing to it that this dream of hers living forever with him came true...