Barely Breathing
This fic started being written in late Aug 2009 as a colab between myself and jayhogartismyangel after we'd been reading blind items and rumors on the GH Carnival of Horrors plotline. My co-writer's been MIA and so I've decided to bring this fic to fresh eyes and see if there is any interest in this verse. It is set AU during the aforementioned Carnival plot in the GH verse and sometime AU post Degrassi Goes Hollywood in the Degrassi Verse…
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The imagery of the moment played over and over in her mind like a bad movie.
He promised he wouldn't leave her like the rest. Promised he'd be her husband...one day...when she was ready to take that step. So many promises and yet they were all gone in the blink of an eye...
"Come on," she had said sitting on the edge of his bed just hours earlier, "it will be fun."
He rolled his soulful eyes at her like she had been a madwoman.
"Fun, says who...didn't your beloved Jesse die at a carnival."
Maxie nodded sadly.
"That was like three years ago, and besides he was a cop he could of died in the line of duty tons of other places and besides I don't dwell in the past."
He nodded.
"You're just not wanting to go because you still have that ridiculous fear of clowns admit it."
"W-well."
Maxie let out a devious laugh.
"Come on," she had said dragging him to the local drug store which had already set up their Halloween display and insisted that he faced his fears and dressed like a clown.
That was their last happy memory...one she'd cherish forever as after that things went black...
At this present moment she felt like her entire would was crashing down like a house of cards.
"He's dead," Mac's voice had told her as Spinelli's body lay on the cold ground of the park.
"NO," Maxie has screamed at the top of her lungs, "he promised me he wouldn't leave me."
Mac put an arm around her.
"I told you being with Spinelli would lead to someone getting hurt...better him then you."
Pushing away from her father she screamed and cried...cried and screamed and decided instead of staying in town falling into a downward spiral of destruction she thought that she'd prove to Spinelli that she was better than that which was why she was heading to the bus station to head off to Canada.
Little did she know however that Spinelli was not as dead as Mac had told her. No, he had recently been loaded into an ambulance where he was clinging to life...
TBC