[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/sbufiQm.jpg[/img][/center][center][h1][color=ed145b] Alexis [/color][/h1][/center]

Alexis lifted her head off of his arm and propped herself up on her elbow to look at him. [color=ed145b]"Elias? How do you feel?" [/color]Alexis leaned over and looked at the injury again and it looked much better. When she lifted her head her face was only a couple of inches from his. His eyes were closed again and he seemed to groan in pain.

Raising up into a sitting position she watched him carefully. [color=ed145b]"What can I do to help you?" [/color] He was so quiet she put her head to his chest to for a moment. She had come to love the sound of his heartbeat as she had slept. It was comforting to her.

A long moment passed before he spoke again. [color=0072bc]"What happened last night?"[/color]

The door slammed open and the doctor and his assistant walked in. Alexis heard the doctor's sharp inhalation as he saw her on the bed sans her shoes and skirts with her head on Elias' chest. Her head turned to see who it was.

[color=fff200]"WHORE!"[/color] The doctor screeched loudly as he raised his arm and pointed at Alexis. Alexis' Aunt Jean ran in and she quickly realized that Alexis was in deep trouble. Jean had sent for the best doctors when Elias had been injured but the best one was also the biggest stickler for the rules of society. He wouldn't budge for anything. Alexis was ruined socially.

[color=ed145b]"I'm trying not to wake up Elias. He needs his rest. His shoulder is in a lot of pain. I'm quite alarmed that you would even consider that anything inappropriate could even go on in his condition."[/color]

Alexis quickly removed herself from Elias' chest and calmly covered him up to his neck. Her heart was racing. So many possibilities of how this could go. Alexis turned and walked over to the doctor and grabbed his arm tightly in her hand and she steered him towards the door. He yanked his arm back and slapped her across the face. The slap was deafening, it seemed to reverberate off of the wall.[color=fff200]"Young lady! What has come over you? Have you lost your mind?"[/color] The doctor demanded of her.

Alexis silently counted to 10 as her face stung and she clenched her fists over and over, tempted to knock the doctor through the wall. In comparison he was much larger than she was and it angered her that his first response was not to listen to her but to strike her in the face. When she lifted her face, the red handprint was there and he was complaining to her aunt about Alexis being allowed to be in the room with a single man alone.

Alexis reached back and after a moment she unclenched her fists and dropped her hand. The doctor wasn't paying her any mind and she didn't want to alienate him any more in case Elias were to need him again. Alexis listened to her aunt whisper her disappointment that she had gotten caught and understanding of why she was in there. The doctor checked on Elias and Alexis waited at the foot of the bed as her aunt complained of Alexis losing her choices of whom she would have to marry now. 

The doctor walked past Alexis. He had already assumed she was no better than a street whore at this point and he refused to look at her. When he left the room with her aunt in tow she shut and locked the door and leaned on it. She stayed there a second and wiped her face. The tears that had slid down did nothing to stop the pain from the red handprint that had already caused her cheek to swell up a bit. 

She went back to Elias and sat down on the bedside. She didn't want him to see her face so she made sure her hair was down and around her face more. She was glad that it was over. She looked over at Elias to see his eyes staring at her.

[@December]