A/N: ok, I´ve been wanting to publish this one for a long time, even before I had DL´s ending this one was already done ahaha it actually helped me complete the ending, so this one ´s very special.
****
A very
unexpected call made Nichole´s phone ring in the middle of the morning, she was
working in a restoration, this time of a small statue, a religious one.
“Good morning,
Maggie” she greeted, it was unexpected but she recognized the number.
“Nichole,
dear, you were going to pick up Josh at the airport tomorrow, right?” her voice
was desperate, concerned. Nichole noticed the word “were”
“Is something
wrong?” she recapped the phone calls she´d had in the past week. He hadn´t
called in the last couple of days but the last time they spoke he was mostly
ok, he thought he had gotten a cold. “And with this heat!” he had complained.
“Ah –Maggie
let out a breath- yes, dear, he´s sick with some incurable disease- the woman
sobbed- we´re bringing him back, he´s in the plane as we speak”
“Incurable?!
–Nichole hadn´t realize but tears had started to fall from her eyes- When does
he arrive?” she wiped her tears with the back of her hand
“To the
airport in an hour and from there we´re taking him in helicopter to the
hospital”
“Can I go to
the airport?” she didn’t want to have to ask but for the sound of it his mom
had other plans
“I rather you
go to the hospital…There´s another volunteer who´s sick, it´s likely that they
have the same thing, one of the volunteers is coming with them, I am waiting
for them here with some other medical personnel…”
“We won´t fit…
-Nichole stated the obvious- what do you need me to do?” she asked trying to
summon to her practical, composed self. Maggie seemed to have thought the same,
she sobbed once and then she was her doctor self
“I need you to
let Aaron and Erick know about what´s happening. I don’t think I can tell the
story again, also, I need you to go get the admittance papers ready for when we
arrive. If you don’t know his numbers Aaron might help…”
“It´s ok, I
got it. Anything else?”
“No… no, just
that”
“Are you at
the airport now? …Aaron and your husband will want to know”
“Right now I´m
on my way. Tell them not to call me, we´re discussing the best course of action
as soon as I finish this call and I need to be focused”
“I´ll tell them.
See you in the hospital”
“Bye Nickie”
in rare occasions the woman called her that. Nichole didn’t really mind
anymore, especially not when Maggie said it.
Nichole made
the phone calls and as predicted both father and son wanted all the details,
she gave them what she had
“Did he tell
you he was sick?” Erick asked in his usual calm voice but now it had an edge to
it
“He said he´d
caught a cold”
“Obviously he
was downplaying it, that idiot!” Aaron said angry with a note of desperation in
his tone
“Yeah…” she´d
murmured
**
Nichole was on
the waiting room, passing the pages of the old magazines that she wasn’t even
reading. It was still another half hour for Josh, Maggie and the others to
arrive. She´d filled the forms quick; she knew his information by heart.
**
“Love, don’t
leave me alone” the girl in the empty room whispered against Josh´s hand, it
was covered with red and purple spots, petechial hemorrhages.
Drip, drip,
and beep, beep were the sounds that kept the girl, Nichole, company. The
Arlington family was shocked, they hoped butt they were waiting for the worst.
Joshua was worse with every hour, his liver had started to fail, and his heart
rate was slow and getting slower. He wasn’t waking up and not responding to
treatment.
Nichole had
read every internet and book information in the past twenty four hours, it all
said incurable and it also said only a few died if the treatment is given on
time, the first forty eight hours were crucial for this. Josh had spent three
days without treatment so this part of the information was like a cruel blow to
the family. It was a rare disease, one that the doctors accompanying him had
never seen before so it was diagnosed as a cold, it had all the symptoms of a
cold which is how it starts and then it turns in hemorrhage, organ failure… They
had been in a remote place with barely anything available… Josh was dying.
The door to
the hospital room was opened, Maggie entered in her white doctor´s coat. She
nodded to Nichole and went to check on her son. She replaced the fluids that
dripped into him. A line of blood came out of his nose. Maggie carefully lifted
the oxygen mask and cleaned is blood, and then she kissed his head.
“How is he?”
Nichole asked in a low voice, sad, Maggie saw her and her eyes filled with
tears. She rounded the bed, towards Nichole
“I think we
didn’t bring him on time” her voice broke “I can’t believe my boy´s here again,
I don’t know what to do. It´s like living the nightmare all over again… I wish
his grandfather was with us… he helped him once… maybe he could do something now,
you know, he was incredibly smart…” the woman cried as she hugged Nichole who
hugged back unable to say a single word. Her life with Josh had been a breath
of fresh air, his love since the very beginning had been a strength that she´d
relied on in so many occasions, he was all light, somehow had managed to free
her from the monster, from tragedy, finally and now…
Maggie´s pager
startled them both
“A patient”
she cleared her tear-stained face “You…you could go home… you need to rest” she
told Nichole
“I don’t want
to go. I´ll stay… I want to be with him” there was a not in her throat.
“Ok, thank you”
the woman touched her shoulder and left the room giving a final glance to her
son
****
“Hello baby,
what do I owe the pleasure of your call?”
“I am not your
baby” Nichole wanted to say but that’d make it difficult to ask the next thing.
“I need your
help, come to me”
“Baby, what´s
wrong?”
“Red wood Larch
hospital, room 036, how fast can you come, Nat?”
“I´ll be there
in an hour and a half”
Natasha gasped
once she saw the scene before her. Nichole had red-rimmed eyes, the man next to
her, her boyfriend, on the hospital bed looking pale and covered with red spots,
the heart rhythm on the machine too low to be normal. It all screamed, wrong.
She entered and closed the door
“What
happened?” she asked
“To weeks ago
Josh went to a poor tropical country as a volunteer, they needed doctors,
surgeons… twelve hours ago he was brought like this… there´s no… -Nichole
sighed, swallowing tears- there´s no…”
“Cure, I know”
Natasha knew. A few years after Karl´s death, she´d started to do a lot of
volunteering as a doctor in poor countries
“It´s been over
48 hours… - Nichole took a deep breath- he´s withering away”
“Baby…” Nat
went closer to Nichole who shook her head; she still didn’t let Nat to touch
her unless it was unavoidable.
“His mom came
a while ago…”
“Yeah, where’s
his family? I´d think they´d be all over him…”
“His mom’s in
the hospital over seeing his treatment. She works here so of course she´s
treating other patients. His brother’s is suing the country and whoever he can
and his father is at home –she sighed- a stroke…he got a stroke when he saw his
son… but that´ beside the point”
“Ok…what´s the
point? What do you need?”
“I need… I
don’t know, his mom came a while ago, she said something, she said that if his
grandfather -Natasha shuddered- if
Alexander was alive he´d probably know what to do since he saved Josh when he´d
drowned”
“Alexander´s
dead”
“Yes, but what
he used to save Josh is right here…” she took her hand to her chest
“What are you
suggesting, Nichole?” Natasha seemed scared
“You know what
was done when Josh drowned, the exact way that Alexander used me to save him…
I´m not letting Josh go…I´d do anything to save him”
“Nic… -Nat
closed her eyes for a moment as she rubbed the bridge of her nose with her
index and thumb- though we are in the same hospital, I doubt his family will
let you move the boy to an area they don’t know exists and one that hasn’t been
used in years”
“I know, I
know but I need you to tell me exactly what he did so that we can come up with
a version of it to help Josh… he was dead then, he´s not now… there has to be a
way… Nat, please, do this for me” the girl said and Natasha was taken aback,
Nichole had never pleaded, not to Natasha. Nat paced the room, remembering as
many details as possible and thinking of the possible resources they´d need. Nichole
waited patiently
“The only
thing that I can think of and that we can do here is a blood transfusion; that
might work”
“Alright,
let´s do it”
“Wait; there
are a few complications…”
“Talk fast”
she cut the woman who sighed
“I can only
draw 500ml from you, it´s not safe to get more and we don’t have the resources
to separate the blood, not without telling the boy´s mom. Right now he’s only
getting platelets so, if someone comes…”
“We’ll switch
it… I don’t see a problem there, now go get the stuff and do this”
“Wait…”
“Go!”
**
“You’re still too
good at sneaking in…” Nichole was watching the bag being filled with her blood
“I know this
place”
“Mh…”
“Look, I have
to tell you that this has risks for you and him… Once we put him in this, we won’t
be able to switch him. Your blood will annihilate any other and it´ll be as if
he´s bleeding even more. This bag will get in him in three hours, five top and
I can’t get more blood from you until fifty six days have passed. He´ll need at
least four bags… even ten might be needed…”
“I don’t care
if I have to give him ´till the last drop of my blood” the bag was full, Nat
started to bandage her arm “fill another bag” she moved her arm away
“No, I told
you only…”
“If you don’t
do it, I´ll do it myself”
“Only 250 ml
more” Nat attached another bag “are you sure we´re switching him?”
“Yes” the girl
said clearly. Natasha closed the platelet bag and put Nichole´s blood instead
“wait” Nic said as Nat was about to open the flow
“Yeah?” Nat
raised an eyebrow
“You said we can’t
switch him to regular blood back because my blood in him will annihilate it…
what will it do to him…?” Nic asked anxiously
“It was him,
well, Alexander –Nat amended once she saw the look in Nichole´s eyes- made your
blood mutate and gave you that deadly touch… You very well know it doesn’t
affect him or he would´ve died the first time you ever touched– Nat raised an eyebrow
meaningfully- it´s like his body blocks that of you and your blood recognizes him…
it won’t hurt him. I assure you that. I mean, the kid stitched you, touched
your skin in one of your most vulnerable states in which you had not much
control… don’t tell me it wasn´t him that did it that time”
“Ok, do it”
Nic said after some thought, the older woman nodded and opened the flow
“How are you
feeling?” after filling the second bag, Nat bandaged Nic’s arm which looked
seriously bruised
“I´m fainting”
Nichole blinked trying to fight in vain the black edges around her vision
**
“I am Natasha
Strasberg, Nichole´s physician; I hope you don’t mind I used those” Nat pointed
to the IV attached to Nic’s arm
“What
happened?” Maggie´s voice angry, Nic heard it as a distant elusive sound
“My child
hasn’t eaten since Joshua came, she fainted … low blood sugar…” she explained
“Your child?”
“Yeah… I… though
Nichole´s mom´s dead you could say I am too… I was the surrogate who carried
her…”
“Strasberg
–Maggie said thoughtful- Nichole has that last name”
“Yes, her
parents thought fit to use my last name. We´ve kept in touch… I´ve been her
doctor since after she was born”
“Oh, but she
does not….” Maggie´s voice was now soft, sympathetic
“No, of course
not, Miriam was her real mom… It´d hurt her to call me that –Nat smiled a shy,
little smile- Ah, a nurse came to check up on you boy” Nat changed the subject
“Oh… -Maggie
was interrupted by her pager-, she sighed- gotta go, I´ll be back in a while”
“You didn’t
have to say you are my mom, you know” the girl said with annoyance
“Mom” Natasha
whispered, Nichole rolled her eyes
“It’s annoying
to say the whole thing. My point stands”
“That was the
sympathy card, dear, she wouldn’t have trusted me near his almost twice dead
boy or using syringes or any supply or let me distract her enough that she
over-looked the whole blood instead of just the platelets”
“Ok, ok, fine.
How long was I out?” Nichole didn’t like that she hadn’t heard Maggie come or
that she was totally vulnerable, vulnerable and dangerous.
“A little more
than an hour”
“Ugh” the
young woman grumbled and tried to get up from her seat
“No, no, no,
stay there. How do you feel?”
“Weird, weak,
I didn’t hear Maggie coming”
“750 ml was
too much blood”
“Only enough
for six hours”
“Seven”
“Any changes
in him?”
“Too early to
know, you should sleep it´ll help. I´ll wake up if something changes”
“Ok” she
didn’t argue, she was feeling too weak and hopefully a few hours of sleep would
make her better
“What time is
it?” the sound of an ambulance woke Nichole up
“Five in the
morning”
“One more
hour… Get more blood. How is he?”
“No, Nic, I am
not taking more blood out of you. His heard beat is better, just a tad”
“It´s working
then, he needs more”
“You will get
sick…”
“I don’t get
sick. I never get sick. Do it!”
“That blood in
you is your life; no one can give you more. We could compromise your bone
marrow”
“Don’t tell me
Alexander Arlington ever cared about that?” she almost shouted
“No, but
Joshua Arlington will”
“Damn it
Natasha!”
“Besides, he
did care, he cared because if you were hurt, he was hurt –she pointed to Josh-
back then you could get transfusions and we had all the medical team and
facilities for when we couldn’t… not now” Natasha said
“We have to
take him down, you know the place”
“We can’t tell
them about you, we can’t tell them about what happened to both of you, they
will treat you as a threat”
“I don’t care.
I´m not letting him go”
“Ok, ok, look
I have thought of a possible way but it might not work and it is dangerous but
it has the potential of making him better without making you sick… you might
shut down for a while though”
“Ok, what is
it?” Nic narrowed her eyes
“I want you to
keep an open mind and consider the end result”
“Fine… Just
get to the point, you´re as annoying as always”
**
“Nic, what
happened to you?” Aaron said worried when he saw the IV on Nichole’s arm
“I fainted”
she rolled her eyes
“Why?” he
stared
“Low blood
sugar” she lied
“Haven’t you
been eating? –he raised his eyebrows- Nic –he started with almost the exact
same tone that Josh used when he though she was being unreasonable but he
didn’t want her to push him away- he´d want you to be healthy, why haven’t you
eaten?” concern in his voice, concern that made Nichole want to cry. In the
time she´d been with Josh, she´d gotten to care about his family, about Aaron
as they cared for her but now, Aaron was extra caring, as if he was trying to
compensate for Josh not being there
“Hospital
food”
“Oh, you can
go eat. I’ll stay here with Josh, dad will come later to visit him for a while”
“Is your dad
better now?”
“He´s getting
better… He wants to see Josh” his tone was sad, he took a deep breath “you can
go home and rest for a few hours, you need to sleep and eat”
“No, it´s fine, got food right here” she
pointed to the IV. She also didn’t want to say how she was waiting for Josh to
get worse; it had been 30 minutes since they had switched him back to the
regular platelets, the first step of their plan.
“Mmmmm I’ll
still go and get you some food. Mom says you haven’t gotten home. Do you need me
to bring you anything in specific?”
“Yeah… Could
you please go to my apartment and check on Mitch still has food and water, ah
and could bring me the black bag under the sink of my bedroom?” she gave him
her keys
“Sure, do you
want any food in particular?”
“No, anything’s
fine”
**
You know, suing
that poor country won’t make things better” Nichole said over the food she and
Aaron were having once he came back
“If they had
better health policies, Josh wouldn’t be here” Aaron said in a harsh voice
“That´s a good
idea, the having better policies part”
“Are you
agreeing with me?” Aaron said in a surprised voice “Nichole is agreeing with
me? This has to be recorded for history!”
“I am but not
in the way that you think” she rolled her eyes, she hadn’t taken her eyes from
Josh, the heart monitor showed his heart was going slower, hers was going
faster with the desperation of what she knew was going to happen
“How can you
agree but not really?”
“I am most
certain that you will win, you´ll rip their money away… you´re that bad or that
good… Once you do I think you should give the money back”
“I won’t do
such a thing!”
“Yes, you
will… there´s a reason why your brother went there… if you don’t give it back
it’ll be like taking all his work away…” she stared at Josh in his bed, Aaron
sighed scrubbing a hand over his face
“I hate it
when you’re right”
“It won’t hurt
you to give it back, you´re already rich, money can´t do a thing for him now
but for them, for his dream… I think you should tell them that they either give
you the money or improve their health policies, I bet they´ll take the later,
we’ll supervise that or else they´ll just have to pay twice the amount or
something, you´re a lawyer, you can come up with penalties and all that… if they
take the first option you could create some kind of foundation to help them”
she finished and from the corner of her eye she saw him staring at her with a
small smile
“I always
thought that since we were kids he´d always learned your ways but you´re just
like him as well”
“Some of his
greatness must have stuck with me –she inhaled deeply- besides, there´s no need
to let people die” she sighed as Natasha entered the room, a worried look on
her face, it was time. Nichole’s heart beat faster as Josh´s nose started to
bleed followed by his ears and the petechial hemorrhages got even worse. She
knew this would happen but to see it happening made her tears come out without
control.
Aaron looked
back to see his brother, stood up and quickly asked for help, doctors filled
the room, Aaron was asked to go out as Josh´s heart slowed down, then it was
Nichole´s and Natasha´s turn to go
“Maggie,
Natasha can help” Nichole said ignoring the nurse telling her to leave
“Nichole, no
offense but we are the best doctors and we´re doing our best”
“He keeps
getting worse and none of you have ever gone to the tropical countries that
deal with this disease, you´ve never seen it, we have. She´s dealt with it” Nic
said pointing at Nat. Maggie sighed as she shook her head. A tube to breath was
being shoved in Josh’s throat “it could help” she pleaded
“I must know
what you´ll do first” Maggie said to Nat who nodded and moved forward, around
the nurse that was making her stay away
“Once a person
has survived this disease they become immune to it… Nichole survived to it –she
lied- I want to try using her as some kind of vaccine” she explained, Maggie
frowned
“Making a
vaccine out of Nichole could take years”
“I meant to
say that I think Nichole´s blood would make your son better”
“That´s just a
theory, besides she can’t give him more than…”
“500 ml I
know, which is why we´d do it directly” Nat said, a horror look crossed over Maggie´s
features. Natasha had explained Nichole that when Alexander had used her to
save Josh when he was little he made it so that her blood went through him and
then his to her as if their body was one, it had been the fastest way
“That´d be
dangerous for Nicky…”
“I am willing
to do it” the younger woman spoke
“We don’t know
if it works” Maggie argued with less conviction
“We gotta try…
Maggie… he´s all I have” Nichole said barely above a whisper
“We need to
test your blood first –Maggie stared for a moment before speaking- I don’t know
if your blood type is compatible and… you´ve traveled a lot, it might…” Maggie
trailed off; Nic’s eyes grew wider as she looked at Nat. She couldn’t let her
blood to be studied, it was different, there was panic visible in Nichole´s eyes,
Nat, as always was the picture of being calmed
“I understand-Nat
started-. I’ve been thinking of this since Nic called me. I have them here” she
gave Maggie an envelope with a blood test
“I´d like
these to be from this hospital”
“There´s no
time to make a new one –she motioned to Josh- … but , here, I knew you´d ask
that”
“When…?”
Maggie was clearly surprised that Nat had anticipated this, Nic was too but at
the same time she was not, Nat was very good at plotting and making plans,
detailed plans to get what she wanted, to make things come to the end she wanted.
“Dr.
Arlington” a nurse called, the three women looked at her. It seemed like Josh
was crying blood, he was bleeding every where
“Are we doing
this?” Natasha prompted, Maggie looked at Nichole
“Yes” said
Nichole in a firm voice
“Yes” Maggie whispered
**
It was close
to hour twenty eight that Josh stired and as he did so he pulled a little at
the needle stuck in Nichole´s right arm that rested on his stomach
“Ow- she
frowns, Nat quickly stands up to help so that Josh didn´t pull his own IV- shhh,
love, don’t move much” Nichole whispers into Josh’s ear. Josh doesn’t open his
eyes but he stops and moans in pain once before going back to sleep. Nichole
also feels like letting herself sleep, she´s very tired and her eyelids feel
heavy as well as her body
At hour twelve
after Nichole started to give her blood to him, the bleeding in him stopped
completely and she was completely shut down, Maggie was really worried about
her heart rhythm and vitals, to her she was in a comma. At hour eighteen he
started to breathe by himself and Nichole had woken up for the first time for a
couple of hours but she was really sleepy but from them every time his eyes
fluttered, five or ten minutes before she woke up, Nat noticed it but said
nothing.
Twenty nine hours after, Josh opened his eyes,
still blood shot, he blinked a lot, Nat dimed the lights for him to be
comfortable
“Nichole?” his
voice was hoarse, his throat hurt, everything hurts. He wondered if he was
delusional, he remembered he was in some jungle with a high fever and excruciating
pain and then he remembered listening to her voice.
“I´m here
love” he heard her voice to his right, he registered her arm on him, slowly he
turned to see her. He recognized the hospital, he was back home. He was in some
kind of double hospital bed because his girlfriend fit right next to him
“How…?”
“Ssshhh… rest,
love, you´re home… you´ll be fine” as if her voice carried some kind of spell
he felt himself drifting to sleep
The next time
he woke up, it was during the day, his eyes didn’t hurt as much and his body did
not feel like it was being crushed anymore, he looked to his side remembering
where he´d heard Nichole and sure, she was there, sleeping, her arm on his
stomach, he noticed there are needles on her arms… blood coming out of one and
in to the other, he furrowed his eyebrows, confused as to what´s going on, his
mind is still foggy. As if she sensed he´s awake her eyes flutter open, she
smiled, he smiled back , she looked pale, dark circles under her eyes as if she
hasn’t slept in days she looked like he´s never seen her: sick
“Hello, bunny”
she whispered and lightly brushed his lips with hers
“You look
pale” he stated the obvious
“You too” she
chuckled
“I´m sick”
“I know”
“Why…?” he
looks at her arms, she closes her eyes and opens them slowly as if she didn’t
want to talk about it. He knows that blink perfectly, she´s doesn’t want to
speak and she wouldn’t do it if it wasn´t him.
“Keep in mind
that I love you and that I´m not in danger –she started, he was confused but as
she kept explaining he felt horrified. Alexander had done that, he´d never
known how that had happened exactly, and now she was telling him this is a
version of that, it was happening again
“How could you
allow this?” he said angrily to Maggie ho was just coming in. he tried to take
off his IV
“You´ll hurt
yourself Josh!” Maggie tried to stop him
“I don’t care”
he growled and tried to sit up
“Ow! –Nichole
hissed, he stopped altogether- stop, Josh, let me finish, if you take off the
IV´s then you´ll hurt me and yourself” she said and he calmed down, let Maggie
check his vitals. She and Nat had worked an agreement, she’d check Josh and Nat,
Nic, as well as the blood works… with them sharing blood his had temporarily acquired
Nichole´s characteristics.
“Welcome back,
baby” Maggie smiled once she finished, her son smiled for her and then yawned
“I´ll let you
rest” Maggie brushed his hand. She and Natasha left the room
“That yawn was
very convincing –Nic teased- I hope you never use those tricks on me”
“I made you
sick, right? That´s why you are pale” he
said with an edge of anger in his voice
“That´s just how
my skin is”
“I’m serious…”
“Look, I know
what you´re thinking…and yes, this is what Alexander did but you´re not hurting
me in any way, it´s exactly like donating blood, also, this time I wanted to do
it, it was my choice. I couldn’t lose you and even if I knew you´d bet mad I
did it and believe me I’d do it again. If you try to take off the IV, I´ll put you to sleep and do it all over
again against your will without regret…
-he frowned- I´m not letting you go… but…aren’t you glad that I love you as
much as to risk you hating me?” she reasoned, his expression softened
“I don’t want
you to be harmed in any way”
“I´m not being
harmed, but if you don’t let me do this and get worse then you will harm me, if
you´re not around, I´ll go back to being dead, so, please, stop being stubborn”
she said, they stayed silent for a long time
“I missed you so
much” he broke the silence
“I missed you
too”
“Why does your
blood help me? Mom had this look like they had resigned to the worst… I don’t
get it, how did it help me before…?”
“You know
Alexander made me different. My blood carries much more oxygen and ….well I´m
not a doctor nor a scientist like he was but he made it so it regenerates
organs, mine of course, and my white cells as well, they are better at fighting
diseases…You´re immune to… my other ability –she rolled her eyes- so it helps
you like it´d help me”
“I guess it
makes sense but, wouldn’t that, healing me put your body under a lot of stress?”
“It´s capable
of handling it, don’t worry”
“But it does
put your body under a lot of stress”
“Yes,-she
sighed, not wanting to get into details- that´s why you´re also sharing your
blood with me since so far you´re the only blood type that my body wouldn’t destroy”
“Wait! But that
means you are under much more stress than you´re letting me know!”
“Calm down,
it´s not that bad, we just shut down, that releaves some of the stress you´re
talking about”
“What do you
mean, shut down?”
“You wont like
it”
“The more
reason for you to tell me, then”
“Fine, but you
don’t get any more questions and you have to know that it´s not because of you
that this has happened because it´s happened to me before, when mmmm when my
missions and training didn’t go well”
“When you were
hurt, you mean, like you´re hurting now”
“Yes, I guess,
except that you´re making it sound like you´re the bad guy when it´s not like
that at all… You´re part of me, if any part of me was injured, I´d go ahead and
make it better, it´s the same, you´re part of me, I had to do what´s necessary to
make you better and this is just the way it happens” she shrugged
“You didn’t say
what way that was”
“I guess it
seems like some kind of comma state…I bet your family was very worried because
I had to brought you into it with me” her voice barely audible
“For the sound
of it I brought you into that not the other way around”
“That´s
unimportant, boy” she winked, he stared with a tender gaze
“My little
monster… I owe you so much, you´ve saved my life so many times” he said just
above a whisper
“On the
contrary, love, you´re the one that´s saved me, you´re the one that brought me
back to life” she said against his lips.
