Lexington "Lex" Bostwick (ex_rapidhush770) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2011-03-14 20:04:00 |
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Entry tags: | #solo, 2009-08-12, lex |
Welcome to Disneyland, kid
Who: Lex and a couple unnamed NPCs
Where: Children’s Hospital of Michigan, then an unknown location
When: Ridiculously early in the morning and then throughout the day
Warning: Not safe for life. I’m really serious. I squicked myself out. I thoroughly apologize to anyone this may offend. This is just fiction.
The child was only six years of age and her mother was crying like she were a newborn. She simply wouldn’t stop. Her mother was busy swearing up a storm while trying to get their rundown car to start up, but the engine wouldn’t kick in. The car was the least of the girl’s worries. They had just left the hospital after being told they couldn’t keep the little girl in their care due to money and insurance conflicts. Never in her life had she seen her mother so livid. It almost reminded her of the fights she and daddy would have before he left several years ago.
“Mommy?” The tiny girl spoke gently while watching her mother weep at the steering wheel. No response. “...Mom-”
“What?!”
The girl shrunk back at being snapped at, curling up in her seat before looking away and sniffled.
“Oh sweetie, I’m sorry,” the woman quickly apologized while reaching out to the girl to coddle her. “I’m so so sorry. Please forgive me.”
After a second of being held, she looked up to her mom and tried to smile. “Maybe I’ll just stop coughing up blood. And maybe the headaches will go away, right?”
The mother didn’t know whether to cry more or be optimistic. She knew her daughter was slowly dying and not a damn doctor in the state gave a shit. They could barely afford rent, let alone medicine to help make the girl feel better. Couldn’t anyone show a bit of sympathy? Now the car wouldn’t start up and she didn’t own a cellphone, thus making it impossible to call someone up for a ride, but even if they could, she had no one to call. No friends, no family in the area. With a reluctant sigh, she slipped out of the car and tugged her girl out with her. “Come on, sweetie.”
“Are we going back inside, mommy?”
She wished they could. “No, we’re going home, sweetie.”
The little girl looked confused. “But... we need the car-”
“The car won’t start up, sweetie. We need to start walking, ok?”
Despair swelled in her daughter’s eyes as she pouted, then averted her gaze to the ground. “Ok...”
A sigh left her lips as she took her daughter by the hand and began walking. She couldn’t even uplift the moment with promises to stop by McDonalds or some place to just sit and relax. There was no more relaxing in their lives. No more optimism.
They barely walked for a minute when a stranger approached them. A man dressed in all black, looking rather concerned for them. “Miss, do you need a lift at all?”
Despite his charming accent, she just smiled at him and shook her head. “No, we’re alright.”
“Are you sure?” He seemed pretty persistent. “It’s late out. Not exactly the time to be taking a midnight stroll, no?”
As much as she didn’t want to admit to it, he had a point. And she didn’t expect kindness to emit from the heart of a stranger. Taking a pause, she looked back to him with a sense of hope on her features. “You would... give us a lift?”
“Why not?” He gave a shrug. “I couldn’t help but notice your car was stuck back there and thought I’d offer a ride.”
Now she was smiling, even if it was a small one. “That would be mighty generous of you, sir. Nothing out of your way, I-”
“Nothing’s out of my way, love.”
The way he interrupted her made the woman pause for a second, but he was smiling at her, so that was a good sign, right? Finally giving in, she tugged her daughter along to walk on over to him. “You’re too kind, sir. God bless you.”
He didn’t say anything to that, merely turned on his heels and gestured for them to follow. The walk was rather quiet while he led them out of the parking lot. She found it peculiar at first, but asked no questions. It was when he took a turn into a random back street by the hospital that she raised an eyebrow. “Sir? Are you sure this is-” Turning into said street, she saw nothing but darkness ahead of her. As if he had vanished into nothing. Her eyes blinked while examining the area. “Sir?”
“Mommy, where did he go?”
“I don’t know, sweetie.”
If only she had turned around to check behind her. By the time she opened her mouth again, Lex had already struck a blunt object upside her head, knocking out the mother before giving the same treatment to the child.