The Empire Of The Rose

Twisted Ways [III]

I looked at his bruised and deeply wounded body before I turned to look at Eva who was currently speaking to the Academy's doctor Gaby.

"So, what's his exact condition?" I asked before I once again looked at Jerome, I was no fool, I did know that Jerome's condition was critical.

"I'll be honest with you Alice; Jerome will not make it through the night." Gaby told me as the nurses constantly checked Jerome's vitals.

"Is there anything we can do to improve his condition?" I asked her, there had to be at least one option left to save him.

Doctor Gaby looked at me sadly before she slowly shook her head.

"He's already a lost cause Alice, he has an internal bleeding that needs to be taken care of immediately but given the amount of blood Jerome has lost the past days he is at risk of dying in the middle of a surgery." Doctor Gaby informed me before she shared the clipboard in her hands showing me the exact information of Jerome's heath state.

"Why don't you give him blood?" I asked her confused, why hadn't they done that in the first place?

"Because Jerome's genetics were severely modified to the point that not a single type of blood in now compatible with him." Doctor Gaby told me, so in another few words there was no hope for Jerome, by dusk he would be dead.

"What about my blood?" I suggested, his blood and mine were the exact same so that had to work.

"Alice you already have lost lots of blood these past days and donating some of your remaining blood to Jerome wouldn't be the wisest thing to do because this could backfire and end up killing you, there's just too much at stake." Sasha told me and she had an excellent point but that didn't mean that I would give up on Jerome, as the director of the Association every single hunter and huntress was under my responsibility.

I'd never do the same mistakes Natashia once made by selfishly placing her own needs before the wellbeing of everyone else.

"But we can't just let him die like this Eva, he's only bloody sixteen and I know for a fact that he's a good lad, he's too young to die because he had a long life ahead of him." I said trying to persuade her; we had to at least try something.

"I am aware that this is unfair Ali, but I cannot risk your life to save his enough people from the Falcon bloodline has died, we need you alive so the Empire of the Rose will be once and for all a reality." Eva told me as she met my gaze.

"The Empire of the Rose, what is that exactly?" I asked her confused, I had never heard of such thing before.

"I will give the exact details in another occasion." Eva said and I nodded understanding what she meant exactly; you never knew who could be eavesdropping on our conversation.

I looked at Jerome and realized something.

"What if I just give him a tad of my blood?" I suggested; this definitely had to work.

Eva frowned at me.

"I don't think that just giving Jerome just a small amount of your blood with immediately fix everything." Doctor Gaby told me as she looked at me confused.

I shook my head at her.

"No, you misunderstood me; I meant that I would let Jerome drink some of my blood; that would heal him, right?" I said as I looked at her with hope, I just couldn't let him die especially not like this.

"In theory it would work Alice." Doctor Gaby said as she looked at Jerome and made a pause.

"But what would be the problem in this case?" I asked her to know that there was an exception to this solution.