Title: "Her Family"
Author: Kat Lee
Rating: PG/K+
Summary: They always manage to remind her of how blessed she is.
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She forgets, sometimes, just how blessed she is, and the reminders of God's greatest blessings in her life can come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways, like right now, when she's being wheeled away for a terrifying surgery. Her room mates, her best friends, her family are standing in the door to the room from whence she was just removed, watching her go, waving at her, and singing about the blasted Yankees coming.
There's no reason for Blanche to like that song and less for it to comfort her, but they're singing it: her best friend, the closest thing she has left to a momma, and the love of her life. Because it's them, the song does comfort her. Blanche strains forward, eagerly trying to catch on to every syllable they sing.
Their voices somehow carry even pass the closed, elevator doors. She listens to them until she can no longer hear them. Their fading voices bring a different kind of tears to Blanche. She knows, suddenly and with perfect clarity, that she's going to make it out of this surgery alive. Sure, she might have an awful scar, but that doesn't really matter (not that she'll ever admit it aloud). What matters are those three women singing to her now and who will be waiting for her return. Blanche smiles through her tears. She's going to make it out of this surgery, because she's got to make it back to them - and she will.
The End