" This was not necessary, you know. I am not even injured." Malachi told Bella, his forearm facing up for the nurse to check the needle insertion. The nurse assisting, Jackie, was mindful to how steady the pacing of his heart beat sounded, on the sonogram. Given he had experienced being near death, and his words made it out to be an inconvenience.

Tyler, not having once close his mouth and having to repeat his apologises of losing the control over his van, winces at the cut above his left eye.

" it is better to be thorough, than miss even a small minor bruise." Jackie explains, " I have to point out, Mr decker. you are lucky to have walked away from being hit by Mr Crowley's van. You had a guardian Angel, looking out for you."

Malachi feels the twitch of his eyebrows, and a slight turn of his mouth, suppressing his laugh he wanted to give. The irony of her words was making it difficult to not feel witticism, about how the situation is. " you can say I do have one, I know him personally and well. actually. he is, one word, family." His words are not registered in her mind, the needle of the syringe filling with nothing, it perplexed the nurse, louring her eyes in a frown.

" this is strange, such an oddity has not happen before." Pressing two fingers down on the pulse, feeling the veins for flowing of blood. A strong pulse was felt, which Jackie could only feel but it had her questioning as to why there was no blood in the vile.

" are you keeping hydrated, Malachi?".

Bella, with curiosity, leans over inspecting his arm. 'That is strange.' Jackie's eyes blink, wanting to question what she was seeing. The metal of the needle bends, and ejects the material out, piercing the saline packaging.

eyes displaying an emotion of surprise, Bella stares at the hole puncture in the plastic which contain saline solution. a hand on Malachi, she puts pressure in her grasp and gives a not too self assured smile. but there was a linger of a dubiety.

Malachi notices the minuscule change of her facial expression.

mouth agape, Jackie unclips the ball tip pen
from her board. " I am just going mark on the ballot, injuries not sustained." she mumbles, " doctor Cullen will be in shortly. I will just be checking on Mr Crowley, just a few steps to your left. Just call if you wish to need anything."

Charlie comes in the out patient section, where he heard from the doctors spoke. His eyes meet Bella's, then shifts to Malachi, a visible reaction of relief follows seeing there no harm that came to the two children. He, in several strides, goes to where they sat. " Bells, Kai. You are safe. you, Crowley, and I going to have a serious talk after we are done here."

" Tyler didn't do nothing, Charlie. It was out of his control, and how could he know the van was going to swerve off course. I am in one piece, am I not?" Malachi tries using his words to deflect, and not make the chief of police angry to tyler. he fixes his body, seeing the man earnestly staring. an all Serious look. " you could have been killed, Kai."

" dad. Please." Bella coughs, casting a look to Tyler who was staring— with guilt at Malachi. " Malachi stepped away from the accident, just in a short time before the van could do any serious injuries. he just jumped out of the way, it was amazing." Her explanation made for her father to give Malachi, wanting further word of explanation to the 'story', a stare.

" is this true, Kai?"

" you can say I had a quick reaction and my amazing agility abilities came into cause." Charlie ponders on his inquisition, to know more of how the boy he saw as a son came out unscathed and escaped the impact of being crushed by a car that weighs the same amount as a boulder. But he pushes away the thought, taking notice to how Doctor Cullen comes waltzing in.

" I heard the chiefs daughter is in town. oh, i see there is another new face here. Isabella swan, and Malachi decker, the charts say. I heard you were quite in luck with escaping death, Malachi, by mr Crowley's van. and here you sit with not even one injury."

Carlisle hums, training his eyes on Malachi. his scent smelled divine, it was vigorous and it was the first prominently feature he could distinguish. " doctor Cullen, it is good to see you." Charlie tries hard to not roll his eyes, hearing Tyler begin his apologies, then with a rough swing of the curtain uses it to silence him.

" I prefer Kai, over Malachi. It is just much easier to say the abbreviation, then my government given. The formality, It gets tiring." Bella uses her elbow, to dig in the gap of his ribs, giving a gentle nudge.

" kai, be nice." she scowls, " actually I can't speak. i like Bella."

Carlisle uses a humoured laugh, finding Malachi entertaining with how blunt his words were. " there is no indication of any concussion, when we were scanning you. No trauma, your charts are clear. I don't see a reason for you to stay here." Amaze was one word, to describe what Carlisle was thinking. 'No blood spilled. he standing perfectly fine.' he observes, Malachi is abrupt to stand from the gurney.

Bella stood up, copying his motion. " don't be so quick to stand, Kai. There could be a chance of having a concussion but it didn't show on the scan." Agreeing, Carlisle places a hand to Malachi's bicep. Goosebumps form on the skin of his arm, surprising enough it didn't disconcert Malachi enough to quire of.

" just allow for me to check your eyesight. Then you are free to leave."

Unclamping the pen from the pocket of his coat, Carlisle uses the flashlight engraved in the pen to check Kai and his pupils remain in a small size. glancing at Bella, he releases a sigh, at the buzzing that came from his jeans. ' I don't need to see the name of the contact to know it is mom calling.'

" you better answer that phone call. I have a sense if you don't, whoever is ringing will be upset." he humours, covering the sheets of paper to his stomach. " Charlie".

Malachi, Bella and Charlie leave the out-patient section. Phone in hand, Malachi answers placing the mobile to his ear. " I am taking you already know, Mu-"

then the voice of his father sounds through the speaker, loud and for those in the ear range could hear.

" WHO DARES TO ALMOST KILL YOU, MY SON, MALACHI JOHN MORNINGSTAR? DO I NEED FLY TO THAT TOWN AND BRING MAZIKEEN?!" cringing away, from the tumultuous sound of his father speaking, Kai is swift to cover the bottom of his phone.

Charlie eyebrows both raise. 'Morningstar? Is that Kai's last name? I thought it was decker. And who would have guess just how loud a person can be, on a phone none the wise.' he, amused to seeing Malachi pinching the top of his nose, turns his stare to bella.

" Morningstar? Is that a second last name of Kai's?" he questions. " I was lead to believe it was only decker, after Chloe."

" that is the last name of his father, Lucifer. He.. it is a complicated story. If you want the short version, Ms decker— sorry, I mean to say C-chloe gave Kai her maiden name. Lucifer was not in his life, not until a year and half to this day. It is not really my place to tell or say." it was the truth, that which Malachi told her.

Charlie hums. His interest in the name 'Morningstar' the interest zealously growing. Something about the last name was fixating in his mind, and couldn't brush it off. 'Maybe it's nothing.'

Meters from where Malachi stood on the phone deflecting his fathers anger, Edward and Rosalie argued about being at the hospital. " I don't understand why you chose to come here, when this doesn't involve us. You saw how he got out, standing like nothing had happen and it was just a breeze of the wind."

" rose, you just gave yourself an answer. you saw it, we all saw it. it was like a force stopped me, I felt defenceless. I just want to see if Malachi is okay." Edward hushes Rosalie, then he takes notice to Malachi. Talking on the phone, tracing his cold breath on the square window.

A nonchalant still follows, with Bella taking note of Edward standing ten feet from where she stood from the corner of the wall. She follows his line eye of sight, to Kai. If Bella was not quick enough to see, she would miss the vulnerability which is quick to disperse. the trace leaving his features.

" Kai." She goes to where he stands, using her frame to shield and cover Kai.

From edwards gaze, that which still lingers.

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AUTHOR SPEAKS;
Chapter eight is now complete.

Thank you for the rising reads and voting on my book. It was slow at first, which made me sad as I thought this book would not begin to get the views I hoped it would at the start, but we are just hundreds of reads from three thousand views. Which is a quarter to ten k! I know I won't get those views fast, but I don't mind.

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Please don't mind the use of capital letters, I was trying to use upper case lettering for the yelling as a way to humour my writing.

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