Out Of Coma

ERICKSON ROERIG:

"KING"

I hate how so many people have misconceptions about kings, thinking that they are free to do whatever they want, that they fear nothing!

I don't fear anyone, but being a king has his limit too. You have to follow rules, of your family, your high table, your fucking kingdom.

Rules makes us, helps us flourish. With no rules, there would be only losses.

Losses All Around.

Leslie was betrothed to me. Finally, that bitch succeeded into making her way upto me. She ain't a problem to me yet! I can easily get her killed just like that, it's just that she hasn't pissed me off enough.

Or maybe, she still needs to learn her one last lesson, before she dies.

"buenas tardes su alteza!"

The nurse, holding a tray in her hand announced, at the door.

"Hmm!"

I gesture my fingers at her so she walked inside and kept the tray at the table.

"She needs to be dressed!" The nurse looked at me uncomfortably.

Ofcourse, she felt weird to touch her intimate areas in front of a man. It's not about Ruth, it's about her. She herself was a woman and it should be awkward to her.

"I'll do it for her!" I said, keeping my voice as stern as it could get.

She looked up at me rather surprised. Offering to nurse Ruth was so unlike me.

I only break her, the fixing is done by Dr. Scherzinger or Mike.

"Are you-" She stuttered.

"I said." I glared at the woman in white, trying to control my rage, "I'll do it. Now LEAVE!"

"Please do it gently then, your highness!" She bowed down and left, closing the door shut behind me.

I don't know why my feet walked me to her? After what was decided and took place downstairs, my head was rather jumbled up.

I wanted peace, calm, even for a moment.

Why is that whenever I try to find some peace and calm, I always come to her?

Why is she so capable of providing me the peace I crave?

Why is that everytime I look at her, the rock trapped inside my rib cage melts and starts beating again?

"Why Ruth?"

I pulled down the covers gently off her body and started removing the bandages off of her... Still mumbling unconsciously,

"Why the fuck do you affect me in all the way I don't want you to?"

Disposing off the blood soaked old bandages, I wiped clean her blood and started off wrapping new bandages on her, being gentle, the thing I've never been with her.

"I don't really want you to die, Ruth." I mumbled.

"Because if you die, I... I can't imagine my living without you. Of all the time you were not with me, I was alive, breathing because I knew you were there, somewhere, breathing as well!"

I was done with her dressing now, and I walked to sit near her face. She had her eyes closed, her breathing slow and calm, the machines beeping told me that her angel heart was still beating.

She is so calm, peaceful. And her peace is infectious.

All the while she is away from me, I say I hate her, but then, when she is front of me, why can't I say this now?!

"Do you think of me as a bad guy?" It came out of nowhere from my mouth, while I was caressing her beautiful face.

Ofcourse, I was a bad guy!

Who am I even kidding?!

But then, it's because I'm bad you're here with me Ruth, or you would have long been gone!

"I don't wanna hurt you like this Ruth, but whenever I see you... It just makes me sick that you look so much like her, so much like Amelia Roerig! And I'm scared, of the things you would do to me, of the things I would do to you, just like my mother and father did to each other."

I scoffed at that thought. They think I loved my mother, but the truth is, I did not!

She was the reason why the last generation of the Roerig's wasn't strong enough. The emperor of the last generation, my fucking father, Davidson Roerig was helplessly obsessed with a mere woman.

He screwed everything behind her, and now that I've taken up the throne, I have to deal with his mess!

It's true saying about a woman.

"She is capable to even bring a storm!"

Amelia Roerig did just that. She became the queen and the king spent all his fortune carving his love story on the walls and books of the Roerig legacy forgetting the buisness, the official works, everything!

The reason I hate love!

The reason I hate Ruth!

For making me feel that fucking feeling called love!

"FUCK!" I cursed, my hands went to cup her hand again, unwillingly.

There is just something about you her I can't just fucking resist, no matter how hard I try to.

"Don't make me waiting for long Ruth. I want you to fight with whoever is coming to take you away from me. Fight him and come back to life."

My lips, mumbled unconsciously and kissed her knuckles softly, "I know you have always fished for an opportunity to manage to somehow run away from me but I literally dare you to choose death as an option right now!!"

My eye, shed a tear unconsciously, and I clenched them shut, I cannot be serious to cry for a woman!

"Just come back to me!" I said, I lost my control on myself completely.

I kissed her forehead, the tip of her nose, her beautiful, tainted, but still like roses, cherry lips.

"Just fight the heavens and come back to the world, Ruth. I'm waiting for you, right here. And I'll keep waiting... Until the end of time!"

~~

"Eric, Dr. Scherzinger is here! It's time we should-"

Mike suddenly barged inside the room without asking and caught a glimpse of my hand holding hers.

I let go of her hand and cleared my throat getting up immediately, hiding away the fact that this fucking woman was making me weak!

Like she always does!

"Alright!"

I said walking out of the room,

"I'll go check on the transport taking her!"

~~~~~

Soon, we were at our mansion downtown, Poisonvilla.

This villa was something I gifted Ruth on her 20th birthday.

Yeah, it's unlike me to give her something she wants, but

I was in a good mood that day, inside my study, scrolling through my mails, going through the properties being auctioned, when she came to my room chirping happily, got herself seated on my lap and asked me to buy her this villa in her cuckoo voice, something I couldn't deny in that fucking moment!

She and I have a twisted history together. There were moments of romance, moments of torture, the torture dominating the romance.

Fuck, the woman has always been an addiction to me, a deadly poison, and hence, our home is called "Poisonvilla"

Bringing her back to her room, I got her placed gently on her favourite bed.

The interiors of this house were all done by her, every single inch of this house was decorated by her.

There is not even a single place she hasn't touched, or where I haven't fucked her.

This place holds a lot of memories, her and mine memories.

It's a place where Erickson Roerig once loved Ruth Walker.

And, now, here would be the place where Erickson Roerig would share his Ruth Walker.

"I'll stay here with her, you guys can rest assured." I said, staring at my chica sleeping peacefully in her own bed.

It feels really good to see her sleeping peacefully inside that bed again.

Feels like I came back 'home'

After a long long time!

Micheal was okay with me staying with Ruth while the doctor checks on her wounds but soon Nick walked, barging his way inside.

"There is no way you're going to stay alone with her you get that?!" Nick roared in anger, "Nobody is leaving this room until she wakes up!"

I clenched my fist trying to hold myself back from punching him in his face.

"Erickson Roerig, Ruth belongs to us too as much as she is yours, now. It was you only who said this, remember?"

Nick talking like that I took a deep sigh. After all of this, I know they both want Ruth to come out of coma as much as I do too. 

"Fine!" I sighed, and slammed myself back into the chair.

"I need to examine her now, if you all could clear the area?" Dr. Scherzinger said, wearing his gloves.

We cleared the space, not leaving the room though, and he took off the sheets and spread her legs to examine how bad her vagina and uterus could possibly be damaged.

"She can get well right?" Mike asked worried.

"She can never be well until the moment she is entrapped with you people in this hell!"

Dr. Scherzinger said, getting done with Ruth's checkup, covering her back with the sheets.

"It's not just physical wounds that needs to be healed, it's the mental ones too which I'm afraid is very hard to cope up with!"

"Don't give me the mental shit doc. I want her physically fine as soon as possible. I can't wait till eternity." Nick said acting impatient.

"I'll try. Can't say anything right now."

Doctor said, taking his leave. Mike and Nick walked out with him too, while I remained there staring at her face.

~~

"Look at this villa Ruth, our home. It's exactly like how you left it years ago. Don't you dare to die on me Ruth, I'm not done with you yet!"

I walked near the bed and tucked in the sheets for her, carefully, wiping her sweat from her cheeks.

"Unless the time I'm done with you, I forbid you from dying." I said fidgeting with her slender fingers locked with mine.

"I'll even drag you down from heavens if I have to, to be by my side. I do not allow you to die just like that without settling the scores with me!"

With that said, I scooped up her hand her fingers inter-locked with mine and drew it upto my lips, with the thoughts of kissing her knuckles but then Nick walked in suddenly, unannounced.

"We need to-"

And I shrug her hands down immediately. I don't want Nick to see me being weak around this woman. This is my lone secret. I don't wanna tell the entire world that this woman drives me insane.

Not even Ruth herself can know this!

"Uhh... What were you doing?" Nick shot an eyebrow at me.

"I.."

Fuck! What did he see and how much?!

"N-nothing!"

I glared at her sleeping on my bed and said it out again.

"I really hate her"

It wasn't a statement. It was a question to myself!

~~~~~

SIX MONTHS LATER:

RUTH'S POV

"DARKNESS"

I'm surrounded with darkness all over me. Inside the Abyss of dark woods I am falling deeper and deeper into the darkness.

It's been days, months, but I'm falling.. With no escape.

But now, I've stopped. Finally, my body touched the ground.

I'm not hurt. Not even slightly. It looks like my body is all healed now, as soon as I came inside the embrace of the floor beneath myself.

I tried getting up, but my legs are chained. I thrash, scream, try to break the chains from my leg but I can't.

"HELP!"

I scream.

But only silence stares back at me.

"Help me out!! PLEASE!!"

I scream again staring up at the darkness, but not a single soul replied me, not even the silent wind.

"Let me out, PLEASE! Set me free!! I want the heavens to embrace me, now... Please!"

I cried. With tears gushing down my cheeks one after another, hugging my legs to my chest, I sob quietly, shaking.

"Ruth?"

I heard his voice, as gentle as snow.

It was Ryan, my Ryan.

"Moma?"

"Iris?"

I look up immediately, happy, excited. I could see their angelic figures before me.

A white soulful aura surrounding themselves as they smile back at me.

There they were, staring at me smiling, with an open embrace, calling me to themselves, my dad and my mom, crying for me with happy tears, Rhys, my big brother holding my little brother Noah in his hands, calling me towards himself.

"Come on Ruth, you can do this!"

I saw Alan too, with angelic aura around himself, he was singing melodies to me, trying to call me to himself.

"Come Ruth, let me take you to your sweet heaven. A place where nobody will snatch your family away from you! A place where everybody will love you!"

Ryan said, extending his hand out to me, meanwhile Irene wiped away my tears.

"Let's go moma!"

And I gave my hand into Ryan's hand.

He was taking me out.

I was finally flying away from this darkness.

I was happy, finally I'll reunite with my loved ones.. everyone that I loved was waiting for me at the end of this long tunnel of darkness.

Just when I reached the end of the tunnel I could fly out no more.

I tried shaking my legs, but I couldn't break out of the tunnel free.

I looked at Ryan, he was flying away from me, everyone I loved, everyone who loved me, they were all going away from me.

I started throwing my legs, but it didn't work and I realised my ankle was chained to the ground from where I left.

"Ruth!"

I heard the monstrous voice again.

It was him.

ERICKSON ROERIG!

"I won't let you die!"

"No! Please.. no!"

"Come back to me!"

He called out to me again, and the chain attached to my ankle started getting shorter, pulling me down into the darkness

I looked up towards the sky and helplessly watched my family flying away from me, they were happy, they were together, they were full of life, surrounded by light, meanwhile I was getting pulled down and down into the darkness.

All Over AGAIN!

"YOU CANNOT DIE ON ME RUTH!"

I heard his desparate scream.

"I DARE YOU DIE RUTH!"

"NO! Please no... Let me go to them!"

"FIGHT EVERYTHING AND COME BACK TO ME!!"

.......

...

.

And I opened my eyes.

He called me back.

He called me back from my heaven to this hell!

~~

"Beep-Beep-Beep-Beep"

I heard the endless beeping sound of the machines and soon realised where am I.

I didn't need to look around myself to find him, he was right there, sitting besides me, looking at me continuously, without blinking his eyes.

I looked up at him. He didn't react at all. He saw me waking up but there was no sign of anything on his face, neither happiness nor sadness, just a plain nothing.

"I saw you in my dream!" I started, with tears rolling down my cheeks, soaking my pillows wet.

"It was a long and sweet dream."

He was looking at me, hearing my every sentence clearly, perhaps the first and the last time, he was keen to hear me talking.

"I saw Ryan, Irene, Alan, Rhys, Noah, Mom, Dad!" Tears rolled down the side of my head as I bit my lips and cried some more, "They were all happy, calling me to join them up there. Ryan held my hand and was taking me there alongwith himself!"

"Why didn't you go then?" Eric asked.

I looked at him, my tears blurring my vision of his face.

"Because of you! I heard you scream my name! You called out to me, asked me to stop! You snatched me out of the embrace of heavens and shoved me back to hell!"

I sobbed.

"You were right Erickson Roerig, you even control my death! I cannot even dare to die with you around me!"

Eric smiled from the corner of his lips and gently brought his palm over both my eyes closing them shut slowly, caressing it down my face.

"I'm glad that you know, finally.. that you're mine Ruth. God maybe Jesus for everyone else, but for you... YOUR GOD, it's only Me, ERICKSON ROERIG!"

He said, closing my eyes shut, for me to rest my thoughts some more.

Yes, he knew me too well, even more than the almighty himself could ever know and I couldn't agree more!