E/LENA

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

“Daddy!!!” a thin voice of a 6-year old Elena called to her Daddy while running to meet her father who was just arrived from the office.

“Mi reinita, don’t run you might fall.” Selena reminded to her daughter, but Elena just continue to run.

She is  following her daughter to meet her husband who look so tired but his eyes twinkled as he saw their daughter excitedly running toward him.

“Daddy what do you got for me?” Elena asked as she met her father. “ Do you got my favorite lasagna from Aunt Eula?”

His Daddy nod and smile at her, and gently touch her nose that her Daddy is always doing whenever she would ask what her Daddy bought for her.

“Really!?” little Elena asked with full of excitement.

“Yey!”

Her parents laugh by their daughter’s cheerfulness before Sander gave a peck on her wife Selena’s lips.

“Eww! Mommy why Daddy is eating your mouth?” Elena’s question made her parents laugh again.

Sander slightly caress her daughter’s hair before explaining, “Daddy is not eating Mommy’s lips, I kissed her like this.”

The house was filled Elena’s chuckle and the couples laughter as Sander kissed his daughter’s neck making Elena tickle.

“D-D-Daddy, stop it tickles!” Elena said, while laughing really hard.

“Hey, stop you too.” Selena said stopping the two.

She saw her husband stop and stare at their daughter naughtily. Uh-oh, she whispered when she saw her daughter and husband naughty smile plastered on their both lips.

“I know what you two thinking, stop that, hmm.” she warned but they continued.

“Attack, Mommy!” Sander playfully shouted, and start approaching his wife while carrying their daughter in his arms.

Elena saw it all like she was watching a television, a tear escape to her eyes as she continuously watch little Elena and her parents happily playing, until the vision she was watching became blurry.

A bright light, greeted her as soon as she slowly open her eyes again. White ceiling and the sound of an air conditioner welcomed her.

She roamed her eyes and saw a dextrose and dextrose pole beside her bed. What am I doing here she thought.

Her eyes widen when she remembered that they were being chased by men with guns. An image of her Aunt Elle played in her mind suddenly making her stilled, but able to collect herself.

She was about to get up when she felt pain on her shoulder and back making her hissed in pain, and state an unknown old man caught her.

“Elena, you shouldn’t move,” the old man said.

The old man approach her, and stop beside her bed, that made her brows knotted in confusion for she didn’t know who is the old man. She never recall meeting him yet he called her name. The old man doesn’t even seem a doctor.

“I’m s-sorry sir, but can I ask who are you?” she politely asked.

The old man gave her a kind smile before spoke up.

“I’m sorry Miss, I am Randy Vaugh, and I am your parents wedding godfather.” Mr. Vaughn introduced.

Elena nod with acknowledgement and look giving Mr. Vaughn a gentle smile, “nice to meet you, Sir.”

Mr. Vaughn was about to say something when the female doctor that he appointed to look after Elena, arrived.

The doctor smiled as he saw her patient is awake and immediately went to check Elena. “How are you Ms. Mirabello?”

“I’m good, but my right shoulder and back are aching.” she responded.

“That’s normal, you gunshot wound has just healed, that is why its normal,” the female doctor informed, “and you had been lying on your bed for almost two months.”

Elena stilled as she heard what the doctor said, and again her Aunt Elle started to linger on her mind.

“D-Do I have company when I-I came here,” she asked stammering, “w-where are t-they?”

“Excuse me doctor, can you leave us for a bit.” Mr. Vaughn intervened.

The doctor nod as a respond before leaving the room. The room became quiet for a while as Elena waited Mr. Vaughn to start talking, and she don’t know but she felt uneasy, not because of fear but because of worry.

“Listen Elena okay,” Mr. Vaughn started, as he took the nearest chair to him and sat at it.

“Dr. Monte was safe, but unfortunately Ms. Estrella is still in coma after getting shot.” he informed.

He saw Elena froze but he choose to go on, “and one of my men was the one who took you here after being shot at on your way back to the high-way.”

“M-My Aunt can I see her n-now?” Elena asked with a teary eye. Mr. Vaughn nodded as a response.

“Take me t-to my Aunt Elle, please.” she pleaded.

She heard Mr. Vaughn called some out side and saw that it was a man in black suit, like the one who was guarding them before entered  room.

“Miss Elena needs a wheelchair.” Mr. Vaughn requested.

After a few minutes, she find herself in the middle of the lobby while one of  Vaughn’s men is pushing her wheelchair, and Mr. Vaughn was walking beside her chair.

She felt anxious, guilty as they took the way that Mr. Vaughn told her where her Aunt Elle are, this will never happen if its because of her she thought.

They stopped at a door just a few doors away from her room, they was about to enter when the door opened, and saw Dr. Monte was about to leave the room, but stilled in surprise when he saw her.

“Your awake, I am just about to visit you.” Dr. Monte said.

Happiness can be seen on Dr. Monte’s eyes as he saw Elena awake. He was worried for both of them being shot, and now he’s glad to see Elena awake and seemed well.

“Come on in, your Aunt is waiting for you,” he said. “ Eleanor will be happy to know that your awake!”

Dr. Monte assist them to come inside her, Aunt Elle’s room, but she immediately felt herself wobble when she saw the state of her Aunt Elle and the apparatus and the tubes that is connecting to her body.

She didn’t notice that she was now moving her wheelchair without anyone’s help. Her tears began to fall as she approach her Aunt Ellen, lying on the bed,  so pale.

“A-Aunt E-Elle, I’m sorry.” She uttered staring to sob.

All in her mind right now is asking forgiveness, because everything is her fault. She endangered the woman who stood as a parent to her when everyone left her. The one who always there for her when she got her mental illness, the one who didn’t give up on her, not even once.

And now seeing her lying in the bed she felt like dying. She never wanted any of this, all she wanted was to answer the question on her mind that keeps on bugging her, but why is this dangerous misfortune always following her.

First her biological parents, then her traumatic past that she can’t still remember except from what she can see in her dream, the people that had killed by her other personality, and now this?! She don’t know what to do anymore, for the more will want something, it will just ending up taking her love ones to danger.

She continued to wept, while holding Ms. Estrella’s hands and whispering countless sorry, but she suddenly stilled when she felt Mr. Estrella’s hand weakly squeeze the hand she was holding, that made her eye widen.

“S-She squeezes my h-hand!” she informed.

“She must have hear your cry.” Dr. Monte said, approaching Elena.

“You know how much your Aunt Elle loves you, that sometimes I got jealous.” Elena’s eye widen when she hears what Dr. Monte said.

Slowly she turn to face him and he was just smiling gently upon seeing Elena’s shocked face.

“Y-You and A-Aunt Elle?” she asked still in shocked.

Dr. Monte nod in confirmation. “She’s my girlfriend.”

Elena can’t say anything for a while for it really shocked her so much. As she recover she face again Dr. Monte who was just staring at her.

“I’m sorry.” she started.

“I-I’m sorry you guys shouldn’t be drag to this mess if isn’t because of me,” Elena said. “I’m sorry, I really do.”

Now she felt much more guilty for what happened to her Aunt Elle and Dr. Monte. She felt doctor Monte placed his hand to her as her head bowed.

“Don’t blame yourself, what happened isn’t your fault.” Dr. Monte said consoling Elena.

“No, it is mine, I just continued to end my life that night, this will never happen,” she said full of hatred to herself. “Aunt Elle will never be going here with these tubes connecting to her body.”

Her tears streaming down to her face freely as she face Dr. Monte who was now currently don’t know what to say to the lad who is in pain of blaming herself.

As Elena can’t face the oldies anymore she, started to move her hands to wheel her chair out of the room.

“Escort the Miss back to her room.” Mr. Vaughn commanded that one of his men immediately heed.

“Let Elena, for now she must be still shock and guilty, and I know you know it more than anyone else for you are her doctor.” Mr. Vaughn said, as soon as Elena come out.

“Yeah, I know, I shouldn’t have said that thing about me and Eleanor, my mistake.” Dr. Monte said.

“It is.” Mr. Vaughn stated.

“By the way, how’s Mr. Estrella,” Mr. Vaughn asked. “Any changes?”

“After the lung transplant that she had two days ago, the doctor said, that she is recovering now, and the tubes that helping her to breath will be remove soon.”

“That’s great then.” Mr. Vaughn commented.

After a few minutes more conversation about Elena’s case Mr. Monte said his goodbye to check how’s Elena is, he also told Mr. Vaughn that he will visit Elena later.

Mean while Elena is now on the garden of the hospital which is located to the rooftop of the building. She asked the man whom escorting her when they was about to enter her room.

She felt suffocated, and she need an air to breath, good thing that this hospital had this. Her escort was just standing a few meters from her for she also asked that she wanted to be alone.

As she looks around thinking, what happened back there at the car, for that was the last thing she remember they where being chased when their car fell to a cliff that is not so deep, and when she saw the blood coming from Dana’s Mom, her head ache that is too much for her to bare, then everything went black for her.

Then a glimpse of conversation between Lena and her, suddenly appeared. She was pleading about saving someone, but she can’t remember who it is, but Lena just shut her up.

She was shouting to Lena in her head, she felt Lena stilled and she saw a glimpse of her Aunt Elle being shot.