Come Inside
One Shot
Sasha sat on the couch in the living room she had finished her shift an hour before and must have dozed off , nobody else was home so she had the place all to herself, glancing up she could see someone standing outside through the gauzy haze of the curtains. It didn't take her mind long to make the connection that it was Abe his shock of ginger hair would be noticable anywhere. How long had he been standing there she wondered. Getting up she made her way over to the door and stood on the porch. His eyes already focused on her.
" We could be here 30 years and that still wouldn't be long enough" said Abe
Sasha stood looking at him, she could feel her heart beating inside her chest, he was asking her to believe..to believe in him ..in them..she had already lost Bob and Tyrese and yet she knew that he knew better then anyone what loss was ..what her loss was..All that he had loss , he had told her about his wife and children, and yet here he was willing to take that leap and he wanted to take it with her. Sasha felt the tears well up in her eyes. She would make herself vulnerable again..and believe, to think he's going to leave..like they all did before, not because they wanted to but because thats the way it went.
"Come inside" said Sasha taking his hand and leading him inside and up the stairs.
she led him upstairs to her room and set him down on her bed and then proceeded to the bathroom in her room, where she ran him a warm bath, while the water was running she went to him and gently smoothed back his hair. he started to speak looking a her his eyes questioning, but Sasha held up her finger to her mouth and shushed him.
"I'll be back she said leaving him and shutting the door behind her, she went down into the kitchen and found a couple of cans of chicken noodle soup and crackers, quickly pouring the contents into a pot she heated it up and placed two bowls on a tray, and headed back upstairs.
Abe was still sitting quietly on the bed where she had left him
"here" she said handing him a bowl of soup and a spoon, they both ate quietly, Abe glanced at her now an then smiling mostly to himself he couldn't help but notice how Sasha took each spoonful of soup carefully in her small hands and blew on it before eating , it was so delicate and cute. when they were done Sasha took a napkin wiped herself and then taking the same napkin wiped his mouth dabbing the edges lightly.
"I want to take care of you right now" she said looking into his eyes
Abe looked down at his hands, he didn't know if he could hold back the tears, he didn't even know if he wanted to , he felt like he could with her, she wouldn't hold it against him. he didn't try to hide it he wouldn't ball like a baby but he didn't hide the tears in his eyes, it had been a long time since someone had really saw him and wanted to care for him, Rosita took care of him when he was sick..but her idea of intimacy was sex..it never went further then that, Sasha really saw him, saw threw his bullshit and called him on it. He needed that, he needed her in a way he didn't even think possible in a way that had totally taken him by surprise he was in love with her! he wanted to love and protect her til the day he died and he would
Sasha helped him out of his clothes and scrubbed his back and washed his hair , she helped dry him off and helped him into bed pulling the covers over him, and curling up next to him. Abe wrapped his arm around her wondering if she would join him under the covers.
"I can't do well when I think you're gonna leave me...but I know I try,...Are you gonna leave now?...can't you be believeing now " said Sasha
" I have to believe , now" said Abe and with those words he kissed her..whatever happened they had eachother now and forever.