Better than it looks [[OPEN]]

Rosa was confused and severely depressed. She knew that it was blunt to think such things but she just could not help it. She just found out that her beloved was royalty and she was basically garbage. How could he still love her, want her, look at her? She was a whore...was a wretched piece of garbage. In comparison to what Skan could have she was just...just a failure. And yet he had been there from day one, he had carried her through her rehab and stuck around when her brother had deserted her. That was why she was living with him now. Her schooling cost her all of her money, and not to mention the fact that she just did not want to live alone.

She wiped her eyes, which were glassy and red rimmed. She had not been able to sleep for days, and it got to the point where she would just lay awake for hours watching her beloved sleep. She watched him sleep and wondered just what she had done to deserve him. Just wondered how long she would be able to keep him for, and then she would submit to her tears and cry. She would cry and cry until she felt like she might become ill. But before Skan would wake to see she would leave for work and then hide in the trainee lounge. Her mentor thought that she needed a vacation, when in all reality she just needed to talk to Skan and be honest with him. She wanted him to tell her that no matter what he would love her. That even with all of her flaws he would find her lovable and want to keep her.

But she was still scared...she was sure that his little sister hated her. And from what she had been told, Andrei wasn't so favorable of her either. She had nothing to prove to these people. All she wanted to do was impress Skan. She had gotten clean for herself and Skan, she had become a Healer for herself and Skan, she was going towards a bright future for herself and Skan...and if his family did not like her...she supposed she would have to accept that. They were spending Christmas in London though...she didn't want to be around people that hated her anymore than she already had to be.

And it was only because she loved him so much had she agreed to go to this Russian ball of his. And that was another thing entirely that had her ill in the mornings. Shaking her head she had almost completely missed someone calling her, and when she looked to see who it was her stomach tightened and was ready to expel its contents all over the floor. Swallowing hard she walked up to Andrei and took out her wand. She remained silent, hoping to keep the conversation to a bare minimum.

"Clean break," she muttered to herself, and to him if he chose to hear. "Lucky, would it been shattered the procedure would have taken longer."

She took her wand and summoned a pain potion for him, even with the spell it would hurt...very...very much. Popping the cork off the vial she was surprised to find that her hands did not shake when she was working. It was just something Rosa supposed became natural to her. Healing people filled her with a sort of calm, and talking to Skan's family made her nervous as Hell. So that meant she needed to heal Sky to be able to talk to her without wanting to throw up from fear.

"I would suggest drinking this before I fix it," she said weakly. "The spell is quick but it doesn't hurt any less."

Rosa

Rosa had been a bit taken back by his question, or that he was even talking to her. She had always thought that Andrei hated her so much that he would never utter a word to her. However she was not going to screw this up. She wanted him to like her...she really wanted it...and she wanted it because she knew that it would make her beloved very happy.

"Skan is great, a little stressed out for the ball, but other than that he seems to be fine."

She payed closer attention to Skan now than she had done before. She noticed everything about him now and refused to go over any details in his life. She loved him so much that she was willing to be that obsessive over him.

"Okay, so I suppose I should warn you that this is going to be extremely painful."

Rosa sighed and prepared her wand, pointing it at the mans arm she flicked it and with the non-verbal spell listened as the bone cracked and mended back into place. She hated that sound, and what was worse was usually the scream that followed it.

Rosa felt a bit nervous when Andrei told her that Skan would have to choose. She knew that she would never be able to make her beloved choose between his family and her, but she was pretty confident that Skan would find a way to have both in his life. Her beloved was never one to settle for just one hundred percent. Skan wanted the moon and stars, and he deserved them. Smiling she began forming a splint, although the bone had been repaired Rosa did not think it would be good for Andrei to move it around too much. And knowing his current profession, he no doubt would do such a thing.

"I trust you know to take it easy now, after a break like that," she said setting the splint. "If you move it too much you could cause further damage to the bone and muscle...the splint needs to stay on for about three weeks and when you come back I'll remove it and we'll go from there."

Rosa smiled a bit. She always felt so comfortable when she was in her healing element. It was truly something she could do and feel proud of. Nothing else (besides Skan) could fill her world with such satisfaction. Pocketing her wand she took out a quill and began jotting down several notes on the sheet for Aiden to go over later.

"Would you like me to prescribe a pain killer of some kind?" she asked, peering over her glasses. "A certain potion perhaps to keep the pain at bay?"

Rosa sighed, typically she would press the pain meds, but she had learned from Aiden that some people were completely hardheaded and stubborn. So she wasn't going to press it anymore. She would keep the painkillers handy and if he changed his mind she would send them to Skan to give the Andrei. She didn't want to argue today, not when she had so many thing to take care of as soon as she got home.

"Well," she sighed, gently stroking her hair. "If you change your mind just let me know."

Sitting down she began jotting down statistics on her clipboard. Alternating from her wand and quill. Checking his temperature, body for infection, and all the routine grunt work that came with being a Healer. Rosa was fairly thorough and she really did not like to have frayed ends coming up to bite her in the ass later.

"Okay," she smiled gently. "I believe we are done here, unless you have anything else that needs taken care of?"

She almost hoped she did, Rosa wasn't an idiot...she knew that Andrei really did not like her...but part of her wished that he would stop digging into her past and just let her be her. She would do anything to make this work, couldn't he see that she was trying so hard? Couldn't he see that she took this job to make Skan proud? Couldn't anyone see that? Sure, Rosa like healing, but she also think it would be something Skan would be proud of. Something he would say to his friends, "My girlfriend is a kick ass Healer." Yes...something like that.

Because Merlin knows that she told people that she was dating a sexy, sweet, wonderful, understanding, man. Rosa smiled gently at the thought of Skan. She loved him so much...words would never describe it.

Rosa sighed and could see that he was still in pain. Gently she took his arm into her hand and brought the tip of her wand to it. The least she could do was put a number on it so that it wouldn't give him too much discomfort. He could use his arm, think clearly, and still be able to work. Although Rosa was sure she would kill him if he undid her work. She didn't like seeing people in pain, even the people she did not potentially like. She wanted to like Andrei, for Skan's sake but he made it one Hell of a battle.

"I'm serious Andrei," she warned. "You need to take it easy with an injury like that. Magic or no magic you could damage the bone further. And I'm not above telling Skan and making him make you stay home."

She handed him a slip with her information on it if he ever did need a healer again and if he needed her she would be over their as fast as she could. Skan loved his siblings and cared for them deeply. And because Skan was her family that meant that Andrei and Sky was her family as well. She sighed looking at his arm again, wondering if he would take her advice and at least try and take it easy.

"Skan cares a lot about you," she said looking up at him. "I know you know that... and I care about you too Andrei...and I know to you this arm thing is probably just a scratch...but I really don't want to see you back here tomorrow because you broke the bone again...or because you worked it to the point of infection...I'm a healer for a reason, and I know you think I'm a moron, but I do know what I am talking about when it comes to your health."

She adjusted a lock of hair that seemed to keep falling into her face and smiled gently.

"Are you hungry...would you like to go get some lunch with me? I've been on clock since four this morning...Showers owes me a lunch break."