His and Her Saviour

Twenty Two.

Lorenzo

I'm not gonna lie I didn't mean to hurt Ell that bad but she needs to know how to train. At the end of the day, I'm doing this for both our sakes. So that Ellie can fight, and I can let loose and not worry about her as much as I do now.

"Hey dude you got a second?" Stef came into my office.

"What is it?"

"It's Elliana. I think I might know what's up with her."

I nudged my head signaling him to go on.

"She has PTSD. And a lot of it. Every time someone tends to go near her or even raise a hand on her, she gets a memory of her past and it hits her hard. When you were sparring with her this morning, you probably gave her another memory making her act out like that. Look, I know you want to start training her but maybe she should start from square one for sparring. She's not Tarra you know people are different Enzo"

I nodded and agreed with Stefano. 

"Oh and Ellie locked you out of your room so have fun with that" Stef tapped my shoulder and left my office. 

I sighed and made my way up to Ellie's room. I knocked but there was no response. I tried to open the door but it was surely enough still locked.

I got a spare key out and unlocked the door. I didn't see Ellie but I heard the shower running. I sat on the bed and waited for her to come out.

Elliana

When I got out of the shower, my whole body was red from the hot water. I threw over one of my brown hoodies and a pair of black shorts and went out of the bathroom. I looked at the bed and Enzo's head turned to me. 

I went back into the bathroom and locked the door.

"Ellie come on we need to take" Enzo banged on the bathroom door.

"Leave me be for a few please" I yelled back.

"No we need to talk Elliana" He shouted back.

I unlocked the door but my body was still against the door. He opened it and I was sitting against the toilet. 

"I'm sorry for being too rough on you earlier, I thought it would be easy but clearly it isn't. If you need time off that's fine we can just give you a few knives and a gun to work with for now." Enzo leaned down and tucked a piece of hair behind my ear.

"Enzo it's not about the training." My voice cracked as I tried to speak. "I don't know how to make it all stop" I cried out. "The memories the flashbacks the-the feeling of wanting to die the feeling of pain the feeling of my heart physically hurting and the feeling of pure sadness!" I brought my knees up to my face and wrapped my hands around my legs.

Enzo shifted next to me and wrapped his arms around me and ran his fingers through my hair.

"Look Ellie. I'm not going to give you the speech of yeah I get you and other bullshit because I don't know what it's like to feel that way. But I can tell you that first off Silas is dead, your dad is dead, and Leo is dead as well. I'm not saying that just because they're dead you should have nothing to worry about but I'm telling you that in order for you to get better, you need to try as well." Enzo muttered.

I looked up at him and he wiped the tears off my face.

"You need to try" He whispered. 

I nodded slightly and wrapped my arms around his neck and buried my face into his neck.

"I'm sorry for being so sensitive" I whispered.

"Don't ever be sorry for being a certain way. You being you is the whole reason I am so in love with you Elliana" He responded.