A/N: WOW What can I say other than I'm really impressed how many people read the story, faved, followed and even took the time to review. I know that this isn't always the case with a lot of storys and I'm really glad you liked what I wrote. I didn't really intend to write another chapter but you guys were so kind so here it is, just for you. Thanks again! You safed my week!
"We found her passed out on the floor in the park of the institute." He said as soon as you took the call. "Come here immediately." He hung up and you were out of the door just seconds later, not even knowing if you closed the door behind you.
"Any explanations why she'd done this?" Aldois asked and you could only assume that he was referring to Cosimas high alcohol-rate. Why did he ask that? It wasn't like you could read her mind, even if she swore you did sometimes. Did anyone ask one of the thousands who drank themselves unconscious just for fun why they did this? No! Why make an exception with her? Was she bound to any higher standards because she was such a scientific breakthrough?
A small hypothermia and another bump on her forehead were the results of her out passing in the backyard of the complex. At least she wasn't that foolish to go too far away in her condition. The park was frequently visited by a lot of employees even at night; there was no way she wouldn't be found in case of a break down. Good to know there was still some sense left in her. If you're deadly ill and plan to drink yourself into unconscious, do it in a medical facility.
"How are her breathing results?" You ask not able to take your look from her.
"Nothing new. Maybe a little worse but that could be from the hours of staying in the cold. We don't know how long she's been there exactly. But we gave her the oxygen mask to be safe." You nod, you think, not able to look at anything else than her. She looks so different than the woman you normaly see in your bed beside you every night. It's not just the mask attached to her mouth; it's her full body posture. Fragile, weak, exhausted, pale, not in the slightest like you remembered her. How is this even possible? You only parted from her for around fourteen hours. She can't get like this in such a short amount of time.
"There was also a small amount of stimulators in her blood." A deep breath comes out of your mouth. She smoked again. She promised you not to until she got better. Can you blame her? You smoke too. Different substances but still. It does the same for you, you imagine. She hasn't gotten you baked, like she promised, so you have no real reference. It helps her relief her stress and smoking does that for you too but it's probably more intense for her than you. When you remember how much you smoked the in the last days, just to get a free head, you notice that you should be amazed it took her that long. The need for a cigarette is strong, even now but your need for her, her closeness, her pure presence is much stronger. She's the reason of your high stress level and she's the only real cure for that too. Just looking at her is more relieving to you than five packs of cigarettes could ever be. She's safe now. She's with you and you'll make sure it stays that way.
"Let her rest for now, sleep it off and I'll examine her further tomorrow. Go back to your apartment, Delphine. I just wanted to inform you of her belonging." Aldous says and you can hear that he's annoyed with Cosimas behaviour, that she disturbed something he planned out.
You want to yell at him, curse him for what he does to her and to you. Scream at him how he slowly destroys the woman you love by experimenting on her but you don't. You don't dare to risk his anger, not wanting to risk your position. But you won't follow his order either. You wanted to find her for hours now, there's no way in hell you'll leave her alone now that she's back.
He stares at you, confused that you don't follow his orders immediately so he waits, as do you. After a few minutes he seemed to give up and turns to the door but you hear him turn. "You know, if I'd known that you would get attached to her so much, what she'd do to you, how much she'd change you, I would've sent another monitor." And then he left. You know what he means, how she'd changed you.
You broke off with him the minute she kissed you, not that what you two had been was even close to a relationship but you still ended it. Both of you got what you wanted, benefited from this whatever. He didn't understand your reasons at first, thought you played a wicked game with him but when you told him the same thing in your mother tongue again to have every word you needed to explain yourself his expression froze and for a short amount of time you're scared, not so much for yourself but for her.
Aldous Leekie doesn't like being beaten in something, to lose against someone else. Still he leaves you two alone but you imagine a satisfied grin on his lips the moment she can't hide her sickness from him any longer. Maybe he thinks that his opponent got cursed the way she deserved; that no one stands in his way and you're scared what this means for your research. Is he torpedoingthings, you, her? But then again you think of his ego, how much it would inflate if he found the cure for her and was the reason she'd live, stay with you. Both of you would need to thank him and he would cherish this moment. Shining in his glory and add another stripe to his reputation. It would satisfy him that he beat you and also her and in his sick mind probably meant to show you how wrong you choose. You couldn't care less. If it helps her, if there's anything that would help her you would do a lot more to make sure she's safe. Obviously you're the only one thinking like that.
She didn't even seem to consider her own health when she planned her little drinking orgy. It was cold at night, even if the days were very warm. This could only turn out worse. She could've went to Sarah if she wanted to get drunk or Alison. All of her genetic identical seemed to be very hard-drinker but she choose to stay here, where she' be found and without a doubt would get criticized for her behaviour. A complex creature indeed. A psychologist would say that Cosima was seeking for attention that this was a scream for help but you knew better. There was a spot in your brain that told you she didn't go because she didn't want to leave you. That there was something in her that needed you as desperate as you need her and that couldn't bear to leave you. Not when none of you knew how much time you still had together. She stayed close even when she was angry at you and you feel a sick wave of relief at this realisation flowing over you. Maybe there was hope after all.
If you concentrated hard enough you would find answers in each other. If you tried even harder you could find the answers you seek in her body. If you tried your hardest you could make her believe that everything was not lost. That there lay still so much ahead of you two together. That the two of you had a future, together. Not separated or you without her, together, as a pair. As crazy science girlfriends. Trying to make the world a better place with your researches and be a better person to be worth one another. They would. There was still time. They could make it. They had time.
A/N: A lot shorter, I know. But as you all noticed I changed the perspective of the story and it's kind of a first try for me. I felt it flew better with my writtng now and I hope you guys see it the same way. It came more natural this time so I hope you like it and if you want another chapter, tell me and please leave a review with your opinion.