Katez-chan says: My first songfic! Hope you like it! ^^
I promised I would write some CharLiv for you guys, so... this isn't it. Sorry. ^^; This is FidoLiv, again, because 1) they're so cute and 2) that's just how it turned out.
Disclaimer: Fidelio, Olivia, and any other characters belong to Jenny Nimmo. The song "I Will Fly" Belongs to the three lovely ladies that make up the band Hot Soup!. Neither the song nor the characters belong to me. Got that? Good. Now don't sue me.
Short summary: Olivia, now 16, discovers that she has cancer. Fidelio is heartbroken when he learns that she may die. He now has to tell Olivia he loves her before it's too late.
Long summary: Olivia is sixteen when her unusually successful acting career is brought to a halt by a brain tumor which has progressed to a lethal degree. Fidelio has loved her for a long time, but has never said anything. Will he be tempted to speak up when he learns Olivia may lose her fight with cancer? Olivia already knows she will die, despite the doctors' reassurances. However, she may have some comforting words for her beloved violinist.
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Fidelio caught up to Charlie in the garden of Bloor's. He'd been looking for Olivia all morning and had now forgotten why.
"Why isn't Olivia here? Is she filming another movie?"
"Haven't you heard?" It was only later that Fidelio realised that Charlie looked more concerned than anything.
"Look, I don't really pay attention to what movies are being filmed or-"
"She's in the hospital."
Fidelio was stunned, shocked, and scared. "What? Why?!"
"Apparently, she collapsed while walking home from Emma's on Saturday. They wouldn't have found her, but her mum was worried and called Ingledew's. Liv had left an hour earlier, so she should have been home by then. So they called her cell phone, and nobody answered. They were just about to go out and look for her when Mrs. Vertigo got a call from one of Liv's fans who'd recognised her. She was unconscious and lying on the sidewalk when they found her. They couldn't wake her up, so they took her to the hospital and it took a whole day for her to wake up, but when she did, she was really sick and she had a migraine. She kept passing out and she couldn't stand up, let alone walk, so that's why she's not here."
"Do they know what's wrong with her?"
"If they knew, I would have told you," Charlie replied, slightly annoyed.
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When my time comes to leave
I just want you to know
I believe
That love goes on
and never dies
so when I'm gone
I will give you a sign
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"Ah. Miss Vertigo. You're awake."
"Hn?" her head hurt so much she was wondering if the gentle, empathetic voice she heard was just an anomaly in the pounding of her brain.
"We think we know what you're sick with," Said the young man's voice. It was such a nice voice. It was the kind of voice Olivia could be friends with, if it wasn't hurting her with its tiny vibrations. And if she could be sure if it wasn't a hallucination.
"Argh." She moaned. There was a sigh and a click beside her, like that of a button being pressed.
In around fifteen seconds, a sort of numb feeling started in the crook of her left elbow and rushed up the veins of her arm. It slowly spread through her entire body, and finally her pounding head. She couldn't think, she couldn't move. She was trapped. It was, in a way, worse than the horrible, crushing, crippling pain. But her numb brain wasn't thinking about the philosophical and metaphorical pain of being trapped, being paralysed and was only thinking about the lack of physical pain. It was so nice. But then the numb feeling gradually receded, leaving only the very shadow of pain and a stupid, sleepy feeling.
"Is that better?" said the voice with infinite tenderness.
"Yes," Olivia answered.
"We think you have some form of brain cancer. I'm being simple, Olivia, so that you will remember this. I'm not patronizing you."
"I can rememem. Remember." It was so hard to form words.
"We have you on so much painkillers right now, I'm surprised you can understand me."
"What?"
"Never mind."
"Am I going to die?"
The doctor winced. At least, he probably winced, judging by the tone of his next words. "You shouldn't be so blunt, Olivia."
"I have to know."
"It's possible."
"It's also possible that the hospital could collapse on our heads in a few minutes. It's possible for anyone to die anytime."
"Well, if you're thinking like that, then yes, you definitely will die." There was a hint in the young doctor's voice that he was playing a joke on her.
"So will you. I mean, am I going to die from this cancer or whatever it is?"
A pause. "As I said, it's possible,"
"Just tell me."
"It has grown... fairly large... you must have been hosting it for at least one year, possibly two."
"Hmm. That still doesn't answer my question."
"I'm impressed. You're still coherent with this much painkillers."
"I'm always cohesive... I mean coherent..."
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and I will fly across the valley
I will land up in the pine
and when you hear
a lonesome wren's song
you will know
it's me
up on high.
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Katez-Chan: Yeah... I just thought you guys might want to see the proof that I actually wrote something today, just not in Misunderstood. Sorry I'm not working on that. But I got bunnied by a what-if. Yeah, I know, CharLiv is my favourite couple, so why haven't I ever done anything at all for that? DX I don't know.
Not so much of a cliffy on this one. Which is weird, because I'm like, addicted to cliffhangers.
I actually did research on the symptoms of brain cancer. I R SO PROWD OF MYSF!
The sensation of painkillers was witnessed firsthand by yours truly, when I was hit by a car in 2nd grade. I know, It's been 7 long years, but I still remember it well.
So I had this playing on my iPod and I couldn't stop this fic from creeping into my brain.