Chapter 48

Jacqueline is at the apartment, worried since she just saw Phillip had just entered into the apartment and when she calls his phone she hears it ring in the apartment. Phillip crawl and faint in the foyer. Jacqueline was worried that something happened to Phillip since his assistant told her he wasn't feeling well so she calls Hilton. She tells him his suspicion and he tells her he's on his way.
Alice comes in with a small number of branches, she complains that she tried really hard since there aren't many dry branches. Roman asks if she's hungry, she tells him that she is and wondered if she came just to make a fool of herself. He tells her that they can get more wood after they eat, and asks if she brought anything to eat. She tells him she does it barbeque sauce counts. He smirks and gets up, he tells her to wait there until he gets back. Roman goes around picking berries (that look suspiciously like cherry tomatoes), before returning to the cave. While Alice alone realizes how boring and sad it is to live in a place where you can't speak with anyone. She hugs her knees to herself, the sad realization sinking in. Roman comes back and tells her not to worry since it's just a passing cloud. She springs up and hugs him forcibly from behind. She apologize for the fact that because Bill found out he will be forced to live alone without human interactions. She promises that she will never leave him alone for as long as she lives. He turns around and hugs her tightly in his arms. He finds that her words resonated deep within his soul because he had said those same words millions of times over the last 500 years, and now he finally has received a response.
back at Phillip's apartment, and Jacqueline is pacing in the hallway when Hilton arrives. She tells him that there is still no response from inside the apartment. Hilton tells her not to worry, the department lockpick starts work on the lock and the ambulance is already on their way. Right as the ambulance arrives, the door is opened and they enter. They find Phillip laying face down on the floor. They took him away and Hilton tells Jacqueline that he has to return to the office. She tells him that she'll be ok she just needs to contact Phillip's assistant.
After everyone leave, Jacqueline calls his assistant and notices some sweat and crawl marks on the ground. She follows the trail to the ornamental pots on the entrance way table. She turns the lid of one of them and a secret door opens. She walks in and finds a room with a fridge on the wall containing vials of blood and an empty vial on the ground.
Phillip's phone starts beeping in his pocket while he's in the ambulance. The ambulance attendants are confused but they go to pull out the phone but Phillip wakes up and grabs her wrists. He takes the phone and sits up, which shocks him. He remembers arriving home and being disorientated. He managed to crawl to the secret door and get into his blood supply. He chugged a vial and falls unconscious briefly. When he came to he heard them coming in so he splayed himself on the ground. Phillip looks to his phone and watched Jacqueline go into his vault and take a vial of blood.
She leaves and tries to call Bill, however he is currently teaching.
Next morning, Roman and Alice are in bed, and Roman is watching her sleep. He brushes her hair away from her face and she shifts in her sleep. Once she settles again he starts playing with her hand until she rolls over on him He smiles down at her and kissed her before getting out of bed.
Alice wakes up and looks out at the beautiful view and closes her eyes again thinking that she is having a wonderful dream. She realizes that she isn't dreaming and she gets out of bed and takes in the view. She looks down at her clothes and notice she isn't wearing what she was wearing last night, and she smiles thinking that Roman helped her change into the clothes. She walks back in and walks straight into Roman. She tells him that it's good that she isn't any other actress or else her implants. He checks her nose and tells her it's all good.
He asks why she is so agitated, and she tells him that she woke up in a strange room, alone, and not in her own clothes. He tells her that he helped her change last night because her clothes got wet. She asks if that was all, he confirms it. She asks him where they were and he tells her that they are at a mountain resort that can only be accessed by helicopter or by rock climbers. He tells her that if he can't live in society this is the only type of place that he can live, so far withdrawn from society. She comments that it reminds her of a fairy house.
They are having breakfast and Roman serves red wine. (Hey it's vacation, standard rules need not apply) she can't believe he fooled her, and that she learnt all those survival skills for no reason. He smiles and apologizes for fooling her, but also thanks her for worrying. Alice is shocked because no matter how much she screamed and yelled previously he never apologized. Roman gets up from his chair, takes a steps and then kneels in front of Alice. He admits that he was wrong, she wasn't terribly unlucky but instead she was his gift from the God. She has given him so many fond memories that he will never be able to forget her. He places his forehead on hers, and her eyes start watering. He pulls away and sit back down.
Alice has an internal monologue where she wonders if there will be another woman in the future that will be terribly unlucky and end up loving him. She also completes the thought that she told Roman in the beach. Immortality is still scary, but for her the idea of leaving Roman live his life alone scares her far more.
Jacqueline arrives at the university determined to talk with Bill. She parks her car and head into the research wing, and... she gets kidnapped. Bill tries to call Jacqueline but he's phone is off. He briefly wonders why she isn't answering, but brushes it off to her being busy. Bill's assistant is arguing with a courier deliver to allow her to sign for the package. Bill arrives, and signs for it and finds out that it's a vial of blood.
Alice is sitting outside on the swing when Roman comes out with a cup of coco. She takes a sip and tells him he added salt to the coco. She tells him that it's funny that his cooking is the absolute worst but she's willing to eat it because he made it. He recites the saying that you'd be willing to eat arsenic for the person you love. She wonders how many people he's fed arsenic to over the last 500 years.
Alice gets serious all of a sudden and starts going through the last 3 relationships. Her 6th boyfriend is in love with her best friend and somehow caught up with her 7th boyfriend. Her 8th boyfriend kissed her 7th boyfriend and is a huge fan of her best friend. She suddenly wants to get struck by lightning. Roman seems confused and asks when did he kiss Hilton, and Alice asks if he didn't save Hilton, and she bit her tongue. He tells her that he used a needle because he gets the most concentrated amount of enzymes that way. She jumps up and ask if he could have saved her without kissing her. He tells her he could have but no one carries a needle around at all times. He admits that funnelling the blood in through his mouth was the most convenient way to pass blood along. She gets mad and storms away, while Roman was laughing.
Phillip is released from the hospital, and his assistant leaves him with the document that he required. Inside the envelope there is a new passport for him.
Alice and Roman are at the river for a peaceful afternoon. Roman is sitting and reading while Alice is setting up a trap for some fish. He asks her if she's depending on that for lunch, and she tells him of course. He jokes that with her luck, even in a mountain she would be eating air and drinking dry water. She asks him to hold off making fun of her for a little while at least until she actually failed. She asks Roman where he expects to be in the future, because she was planning on expanding her career to hollywood, so she would be travelling all over the work and would love for them to meet up for lunch if they are ever in the same area. He asks why she would want to expand since she is struggling to be a 2nd rate star in London. She tells him that she's been working hard, and he jokes there are perks to being a wallflower. He tells her that he bought the villa that he was looking at since his old place was turned into a historical site. Alice tells him that he's made the right choice. She tells him that she thinks something is off because her eye keeps twitching and Roman tells her not to give it much thought.
Bill stays at the lab all night examining and running test on the blood. The next morning he tries to call Jacqueline but her phone is still off. His assistant comes in and hands him a cup of coffee. She asks if he's ok since he didn't go home the night before. He tells her she's fine but bounces some ideas off her about the blood. He receives a scam call about winning the lottery and he wonders why people keep trying to trick the same people. He turns off his phone.
Jacqueline's mother calls Hilton and tells him that Jacqueline was kidnapped. Hilton comes over and watches the video that was sent to Jacqueline's mother. The kidnappers are requesting 100 million dollars. Hilton asks if she has already contacted Phillip, which she admits it slipped her mind. He tells her he's probably got a video too since the ransom was directed to both of the companies. Louis calls Hilton and tells him that Jacqueline was kidnapped and the video was uploaded online.
Phillip arrives at his office building and gets swarmed by the media asking about his feelings about Jacqueline's abduction. He tells her that he's already told his secretary to sell his things at low prices to get the money together. He pleads to a camera to not hurt Jacqueline.
Louis found Jacqueline's car at the university and Hilton automatically thinks that she had gone to see Bill. He asks if Louis tried to call him and he admits that he did but he didn't pick up however his assistant told him that he was in the lab all night and had just gone to sleep. Hilton tells Louis to pull the security footage of Phillip's apartment building.
Alice is looking at the 2 fish in a fishbowl that she caught. She wonders out loud how they got into her bowl, and Roman tells her that it's due to her bad luck. She said her future boyfriends will thank him for how he has treated her. Roman jokes that her boyfriend schedule is busier than her work. She tells him that the best way to get other a current relationship is to hurry into a new one, which she is planning on doing. He tells her not to dare, and she asks if he wants to control her. He laughs and reaches around her to grab the remote to turn on the TV. But she places Roman's hand on her stomach and jokes about being pregnant with his kid and she'll have a mini monster running around. He tells her to stop talking nonsense. She gets up and goes to eat when she hears about Jacqueline abduction.
Hilton and Louis are checking the footage of when Jacqueline leaves and she acts a little off. She gets off at the 5th floor momentarily and then gets on. Hilton can't figure out why she would have gotten off on the 5th floor. Louis suggests that she might have seen someone she knows when she accidently got out the first time.
Alice calls Hilton as soon as she has reception and tells him that they need to find Jacqueline. Hilton tells her not to worry he's working on it. He tells her that once she gets home she shouldn't go out along. Alice agrees with him and tells him she'll be waiting for his good news.
Alice starts imagining the worst and Roman tells her that he believes that Jacqueline will be fine. He grabs her hand to give her moral support. She warns him that if Jacqueline is seriously injured that she'll force him to do what he hates doing. She also adds on that he was right, humans are greedy. Roman tells her that he wouldn't do it for her, and to remember that he is her biggest fan. She rests her head on his shoulder.