Night,
I was speechless for a few moments, as she feverishly looked at me, "He killed your mom, how do you know honey?"
"She brought me to him, I guess they had a fling or something. He was mad that she had brought a kid to him, and she was asking for money to help take care of me. He beat her to death, I was 3 at the time, but I still remember it. Then he knelt down in front of me and said that I could make money for the club, and I would earn my keep."
I honestly was trying not to throw up. Thinking about Rayne as this small child, first watching her mother be beat to death, then having the man who she was told was her father tell her that fucked up shit.
"I am so sorry baby. I wish I could take it all away, but I can't. What I can do is make sure the rest of your life is a happy one, and guarantee I will not let anyone ever hurt you again. If anyone ever touches you they will die baby, I swear that to you."
She watched me not quite believing me, but wanting to. I just let her look at me for a few minutes.
"Baby, you're running a fever. Bones was here to check up on you, and they are looking for medication to give you, he thinks you might have an infection, so he's bringing antibiotics. Shannon was there too and said if you get too sick to feed Hope, she already has everything in place to switch her to formula until you are well again, so you are not to worry about any of that."
She nodded,"Okay, I do feel really bad, kinda like my body is too heavy, and I am hot but cold too, so that makes sense that I have a fever."
Just then there was a knock at my door so I hopped up and went to open it. Bones and Shannon were both there again. He had a bag of supplies and she came in just smiling at Rayne.
"Hey there girl, you don't worry about Hope, we will make sure she is all taken care of." Shannon smiled at her, and Rayne tried to smile a little back and nod her head, but it was pretty wobbly.
Bones sat down next to her on the bed,"I am going to check your stomach and see if we need to change the bandages, and I have some antibiotics I want you to start taking as well as some tylenol to get your fever down. Other than that, make sure you are drinking water so you don't get dehydrated."
She nodded and kind of closed her eyes like she was having trouble keeping them open, which she probably was. He lifted the t-shirt I had given her. Shannon had found her an unopened pack of underwear somewhere, that girl could find anything, I swear.
He made a bit of a hissing noise,"What's wrong, Bones?" I tried looking over his shoulder at her.
"This is seeping and it looks like it's infected alright. I brought some antibiotic ointment. I put some on before I bandaged it, but we need to keep fresh on it and if need be change the bandages. We need to do that at least once a day, but possibly more. We will keep an eye on it. The antibiotics should help anyway." I just nodded to let him know I heard what he said.
Rayne woke up and moaned slightly in pain as Bones cleaned the area and her stitches, and then he applied a generous amount of ointment and bandaged her all up again. I got her to wake up enough to take an antibiotic and some tylenol and drink just a bit of water. Then she was out again.
Shannon decided to take Hope with her to let Rayne rest for a bit. She also said she would see if she could come up with a breast pump to help in case Rayne got too full and hurting or anything. I just nodded like I had a clue in hell what she was fucking talking about, which I didn't.
When they had gone, I climbed back into bed next to Rayne, and pulled her close to me. It had seemed to help earlier when she was having a nightmare, so I hoped with me close, it would let her sleep better, and not be plagued by nightmares.
I wiped her forehead off with the cool cloth I had gotten earlier. She whimpered in her sleep and I leaned over to whisper in her ear, "I've got you baby, I will fight off all those monsters for you. You don't ever have to be afraid again. You just sleep while I watch over you." Then I kissed her lightly on the side of her head.
She actually seemed to snuggle deeper into my arms, which was just fine with me. I hugged her gently, not wanting to hurt her stomach, and just leaned in and smelled her hair. I honestly never thought I would want to just hold a woman and smell her fucking hair, but now I did.
Then I heard the sweetest sound ever, "Night", she just whispered it softly, but my heart felt like it was going to beat out of my chest.
She had said my name, just whispered in her sleep, but for her to do that I think she knew I was here and felt safe. Probably for the first time in her whole life.
I would make sure she always felt that way, and I couldn't wait for her to say my name again. I knew it was crazy and sudden, but I loved this girl and would die for her and my baby in a moment if I had to.
I now just had to wait and see what was going to happen and if we were indeed attacked. If they came for her, I swear I will kill them all.
They had already started a war, and I would finish it!