KSD17: Actually I had no intentions of having Norma Aggie's mom, but it has given me an idea and you will see that played out in the next few chapters. Thank you. I really want them to have a few small moments and let things play out before they realize what they're really feeling for each other.
daisesndaffidols: I kept overlooking Harley and I wasn't sure how I wanted to bring him and Norma into the story, but I will have more of him in future chapters. And whether he finds out about Norma's behavior has yet to be seen. But rest assured good things are coming for them all. I really want the little moments to mean something and I didn't want to over look them with this story because they are a crucial part for both Wade and Zoe.
Zoe didn't push Wade to talk to her about August. She knew very well that it wouldn't work in her favor. If anything it would only push him away from her and she didn't want that to happen. So she did the only thing that she could do, wait. She let it go and waited by for him to come to her ready to open up about it.
"Doc," Wade said, in a soft tone that had the brunette worried with in seconds. She had never seen him look like such a shell of himself. But here he was looking pale and something was serious off with him. At that moment Zoe was happy that she was upstairs in her office, way from the rest of the practice.
"Wade," Zoe softly told him, refraining from gasping at the sight in front of her. She quickly had him sitting down, shutting the office door. "Are you okay? Of course you're not, look at you!" She exclaimed walking back to her chair at her desk. "I mean," Zoe sighed, at the words that had slipped from her mouth. "What's wrong?" She asked, her eyes roaming over him. He looked like he had been through hell and back again.
"Aggie," he choked back a sob, keeping his focus on the name plate that was in front of him. Zoe said nothing knowing this was the moment that he was going to pour his heart out to her, at least he was going to try. Zoe moved her chair around to the other side so she could be right next to him. "She was everything to me," he sighed, a ghost of a smile covering his lips at the moments they had shared. "I wasn't suppose to love her. She was my best friends sister. Kids can be mean and she was in tears and Meatball didn't even care, but I hated seeing her like that, ya know?" He asked, fighting back the tears that threatened to spill out. "After that, she easily became my best friend. Meatball hated me for it but he got over it. And it had became the three of us. Until I screwed everything up. If it wasn't for me she'd still be here." He wanted to punch something, hit something even but he refrained from doing that, clenching his fists in his lap.
"It's not your fault, Wade," Zoe told him softly, trying to piece the events together in her head, not that it was working because she was missing a huge piece of that puzzle.
"IT IS!" Wade yelled, getting to his feet to pace around the small office, hands going straight to his hair.
"No, it's really not," Zoe soothed, getting up to place a hand on his shoulder to stop him from pacing around the room.
"You," Wade hissed, glaring at her. Zoe gulped trying not to let the next words out of his mouth get to her. "Don't know shit about my life, Zoe Hart. I killed my wife," Wade's voice had gone to barely above a whisper falling to the floor, tears streaming down his face. Zoe dropped to the floor, pulling him to a hug, holding onto him. He needed to let it out and Zoe was okay with holding him and giving him the comfort that he needed.
"Aggie?" Wade called out, hearing dead silence in his home. Making his way from the front he noticed that there was no toys scattered all over the place. No little laughs filling the house. There wasn't even an intoxicating smell coming from the kitchen. Wade felt his heart squeeze at the very thought that something could be wrong. He raced up the stairs, stopping at his son's room. Worry filled his body seeing that Brax's room was still messy from this morning and his little car bed was still messed up from sleeping. Aggie and Brax always made his bed together in the morning.
Wade took the few steps to the room he shared with Aggie. Standing in front of the door he could hear soft sobs from the other side. He quickly shoved the door open, making Aggie jump. "Wade?" She asked, quickly wiping the tears away.
"What's going on?" Wade asked, stalking closer to the bed. Aggie shook her head. Wade sat down, pulling his wife into his embrace. "Aggie talk to me," Wade pleaded. He hated seeing his wife like this. He wanted to help her out, with whatever was going on with her.
"I'm so sorry, Wade. I didn't mean to do it," she sobbed the tears coming out faster now. Wade tensed.
"What happened, August?" Wade asked with a gulp, dread filling his insides.
"I'm sorry," Aggie sob again, moving away from him. "You're going to hate me." Wade shook his head, taking her hands in his.
"I could never hate you. Tell me what's going on so we can fix this thing, okay?" Wade asked her softly. Aggie nodded taking a deep breath.
"I...I," she sighed, moving away from her husband off the bed. "I love you Wade and that won't ever change, I promise you that."
"You didn't cheat on me did you?" Wade asked. He didn't mean to, it just slipped out of his mouth before he could stop it. He knew the woman standing in front of him for most of his life and he knew without a doubt that she would never do such a thing. At this rate he just didn't know what else could be going on.
"No, never!" She scolded him. She a had a feeling it was coming, so she let the comment go. But confessing what she had done was bad. "Things have been rocky with us as of late. We never see each other and we live in the same house. You work every chance you have and when you are home you're spending your time with Braxton and I love that you are, but I felt like you don't love me any more. All we do is fight," she sighed, letting her anger slowly vanish for the moment. "I can't take it any longer, Wade."
"DON'T!" Wade warned. "Do not tell me that you went to see Tucker about a divorce," he stated, all emotion in his body, slipping away. Aggie burst into more tears. Wade pulled her close. "I love you more than anything, baby. I was working all the time so we could go on a vacation over the summer."
"I'm horrible," Aggie mumbled against Wade's chest. Wade pressed his lips to her temple.
"No, you're not, sweetie," he cooed in her ear.
"I still think that we need time apart. At least I do," she whispered, moving away from him. "I just need a few days." Wade stood frozen watching his wife walk to the door of their bedroom. "Braxton is at your parents house for the night." And with that she was gone.
When Wade was able to control his actions he ran through the house right out the door just in time to watch her drive away.
For the following week, Wade did everything he could to put on this act that everything was fine and that Aggie was off visiting friends from college and that she'd be home in a few days. And when those days were up he told people that things came up and she wasn't ready to leave her friends yet and that she wanted to spend more time with them. Wade knew they didn't believe his story, saw the pity in their eyes, but he stuck to his story. It was only after Braxton was out cold at night that Wade would hug his wife's pillow and cry until he fell into a restless night sleep.
Two weeks after Aggie walked out of his life, Wade had tracked her down and he was going after. Because he had enough. The 2 hour drive Wade kept figuring out what he was going to tell her. He had it all worked out, until he saw her. He felt sick to his stomach. He was suppose to be the one protecting her. And now she looked like shit and that was putting it nicely. She was nothing but skin and bones. The radiant that was her was gone and she was nothing like the girl he saved from bullies. She wasn't the woman he fell in love with. But he was determined to bring her back to that. He got out of his car, licking his lips, walking across the street.
"Aggie," he called. She looked at him, tears clouding her once bright eyes. She blinked the tears away and ran away from him. She didn't want him to see her like this. Wade chased after her, but it was too late because she hadn't seen the car the was speeding down the street and the guy never saw her coming and Wade was left watching in horror as she was threw into the air, landing with a loud smack on the black pavement, with blood pooling around her. "Oh Aggie," Wade cried, sweeping her up into his arms, kneeling by her, tears pouring out of her eyes. "I love you, baby," he sobbed, kissing her head.
"This isn't your fault, Wade. It's meant to be. We can't fight fate. I love you and don't change a thing about you Wade Kinsella. Take care of Braxton and be happy, because you deserve that and more," she told Wade with one final breath. Wade broke down watching as his wife was ripped from his hands.
I really felt this was the best place to end this chapter. You will get Zoe's reaction in the next chapter. I didn't want to over do it. And I wasn't planning on writing this chapter until further into the story, but it just came out when I started to write.