MichaelOwnsMe (foreverbm) wrote in qaf_drabbles, @ 2008-04-01 17:25:00 |
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Entry tags: | author: foreverbm, challenge #58: chairs |
Title: Lost Too Soon (Parts 9 - 11)
Author: Foreverbm
Timeline: Future about 30 years
A/N: Written after a comment by jule1122
Warnings: death references
Condoms: 2 to Ben
“Hunter….” I reached out but he pushed me away, his eyes meeting mine. I didn’t know what I had expected to see in them, but the anger that shone from them made me take a backward step, knocking a chair over. The clang of it hitting the floor echoed around the silent room.
He hadn’t moved, as if taking a step would turn the nightmarish scene before him into reality.
“What happened?” His voice was harsh and I heard JR’s intake of breath at his words.
I dredged what the doctor’s had told me from the back of my mind.
“His appendix burst during the night, by the time they got him to surgery peritonitis had set in. They did everything they could…..”
“They can fucking keep us alive with drugs but they couldn’t save him!” Hunter spat out.
“Hunter….please…”
”Where you with him…when……”
My mouth was dry and I swallowed before I answered him.
“No.”
“You should have been…someone should have been!”
His words hit me like a slap to the face. I knew they came from the anger he felt at the moment. He would regret them later, if he remembered them. They would be forgotten by me.
“Hunter stop!” JR’s quiet but firm voice broke the silence. She rose from the chair and walked towards him, taking his hand and led him to the bed.
I watched them in silence then quietly slipped from the room. They needed this time together, to grieve for a father who had loved them without constraint. I closed the door and leaned against the wall in the dimly lit corridor before sliding down it, burying my head in my hands.
I don’t know how much time had passed when I felt a hand touch my shoulder. I looked up at Hunter.