original_clone (original_clone) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2015-08-14 23:24:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, sarah manning |
Who: Sarah and NPC Kira
When: After this message http://asylums.insanejournal.com/valarc
Where: Sarah and Felix’s place
What: Asking an important question
Rating/Warnings: Illness and health issues
Status: Complete Narrative
Sarah didn’t want to believe it but it did seem like their real life was going to be running the way as it did in the dreams. Which, Sarah had already decided, sucked enormously. Cosima was one of the nicest people you could meet and it wasn’t fair that she was suffering like this. When she’d received the message from Jemma she hadn’t wanted to think about it but she had to. She needed to be strong for her sister and Sarah knew what that meant. Kira.
In a way it was easier because she’d already gone through it in the dreams, her doubt, hesitation and wonder over whether she had been right or wrong to let her daughter undergo such a serious procedure. But it had been Kira’s choice and at least here she was older.
Taking a deep breath she knocked on her daughter’s door and walked in, “Hey monkey” she smiled watching Kira draw a picture at her desk, “What are you doing?”
“Drawing a picture for school, it’s part of our holiday work. Things we did over summer” she explained, “So I decided to draw you and me and Uncle Felix going to the zoo”
“Oh wow, look at those animals. That’s a super drawing Kira” Sarah said, honestly impressed with her work. Gone were the days of stick animals and unrecognisable objects, she was really coming along now. She definitely didn’t get her artistic skills from Sarah that was for sure.
“I like the penguins most” Kira said, “They’re cute”
“They are, they’re smart too. And family means a lot to them” yeah Sarah such a neat link, she chastised herself “Monkey, you know I told you about Auntie Cosima being ill?”
Kira nodded, “Is she okay? Did her friend find medicine to make her better?”
Sarah shook her head, “No, sweetie. Not yet. We might know of a way to help her though, but it means I need to ask you to do something which sounds scary”
“What is it?” Kira asked putting down her pencil and turning to look at her mother.
“Well to help Auntie Cosima fight what’s making her ill she needs something called bone marrow. That comes from inside your bones”
“How do you get it out?”
“Well they use long needles, which I know you don’t like but you’d be asleep the whole time. But you can say no baby, it’s up to you”
“It sounds scary” Kira admitted, biting her lip and playing with her hair for a moment, “But it will help make Auntie Cosima better?”
Sarah nodded, “Yeah monkey, we think so”
Kira nodded, “Okay” she said simply, “I’ll be brave. Can I draw her a picture? So she knows she’s going to be okay?”
“Of course you can. I think she’d really like that. And as soon as she gets home we’ll go see her alright?”
“Okay” she said before hugging her, “I love you mummy”
“I love you too monkey” Sarah said holding her tightly and closing her eyes against the tears in them. She really did have the best daughter in the world.