Cinder froze, she didn't know how to respond. The amount of heart break mixed with the cold sweat that had begun to break didn't allow her to do anything else other than pull away from Ruby and look up at her with a broken expression. Soft amber eyes betraying her the rage and frustration she was unable to say with words.
Ruby was too caught in euphoric bliss to notice the absence of Cinder between her legs. "God that was amazing." said Ruby as she reached down to pull up her pants. Now that she had sobered some she looked down at the girl in front of her and froze. For what she saw was not Blake, "Cinder…" was all she could whisper before the girl before her stood and rushed out of the room without a word.
Cinder wiped her face with the sleeve of her jacket and sped to the front door.
Unbeknownst to them Winter was finally having somewhat of a good time dancing with the green haired girl that almost ran her over earlier in the day. "What's wrong Schönheit? The music not you're type or is it that you lost track of that golden eyed girl you've been glancing at all night?"
Winter looked at Reese in surprise, "How'd you know?"
"I have eyes you know. If you wanted to go and get the girl I'm not gonna stop you, I'm all for people getting laid especially someone as repressed as you Engel."
Winter rolled her eyes and said, "Well if you want to get laid so bad why are you hanging out with me?"
"Well first off because you are a very beautiful woman and second it's fun to be around a fellow german speaker once in a while, you let me get away with less shit and it's fun to see what I can get away with. Also it does get a tad lonely at times, this accent can only get me so far, but in all seriousness if you are going to keep pinning just go for the girl already. It will make you feel better Liebling."
Winter contemplated Reese's words for a moments before telling her new friend goodbye and searching for Cinder, only finding that she was nowhere to be found.
As Cinder sped home she began to berate herself. "You're an idiot, of course she thought you were Blake. Of course she did, because how could anyone love you? Blake's the golden girl. Blake's the one everyone loves. Blake's the one that always had a real mom and dad. You're just a piece of trash someone left on the door step."
She speed walked the five blocks it took to get back to her house, wiping angry tears that fell. When she arrived home she spotted a familiar black car rolling into the driveway and upped her speed.
After Blake had convinced Velvet to let her take her home she didn't feel too up for partying and decided to just go home and tell her friends goodbye tomorrow. When she closed her car door and when she looked up she spotted Cinder striding towards her at an alarming speed with her fists balled and eyes rimmed red.
"Cinder? What's wr-" Blake couldn't even finish her sentence before Cinder's fist connected with her face, knocking her back against her car causing a low resounding thump.
"YOU!" screamed Cinder as she swung again with one hand grabbing the collar of Blake's shirt for a better hit. Blake reacted in time for the third hit and barely managed to dodge it as she shoved Cinder hard enough stumble back a few steps.
"What the hell Cinder!" yelled Blake.
"You just had to make her fall for you didn't you!" said Cinder as she grabbed Blake's jacket and tossed her to yard, tripping them both as they fell on to the half frozen grass.
"Fuck!" yelled Blake as the sharp edges of the grass dug into her back. She shoved Cinder away and managed to elbow her in the ribs, knocking her back enough to shove her off. Cinder, relentless in her blind rage recovered quickly and managed to jump back onto Blake quickly grabbing her by the throat.
Blake gasped and gagged as Cinder put her full weight on Blake. Blake crossed her arms over Cinder's and used them as leverage to shrimp herself to the side and place one foot on Cinder's hip, she did the same for the foot. She soon began to see dark spots in the corners of her vision she used her body weight to bend Cinder's arms and land a good punch in the throat. When Cinder's grip loosed she kicked Cinder's hips back forcing Cinder to loosen her grip in her and let her land one more kick to Cinder's sternum.
As they both gasped for breath and rolled to their sides they heard the front door of their home slam open. " WHAT THE DAMN HELL IS GOIN ON OUT HERE." Yelled Tukson as he strode out into the cold night air armed with a double barrel shotgun. The moment he noticed his girls on the grass gasping for breath he tossed his gun to the side and ran over to where they laid.
"Girls! What happened!" He yelled as he kneeled before them and helped them up.
"Blake's a bitch that's what." gasped Cinder as she glared at Blake.
"I have no idea what you're talking about you damn psycho." As soon as Blake finished her sentence Cinder lunged for Blake only to be stopped by one strong arm catching her around the waist.
"That's it! Time out for the both of you!" yelled Tukson as Cinder and Blake looked at him incredulously. "Both you girls got along so great! But all of it is going to shit because of what? Some girl?" they looked at him with even more surprised faces but Tukson raged on. Angry and upset that his girls were fighting, topped with the fact that he had been woken from his slumber for this nonsense grated on his last nerve, making the ever more painful pain in his chest worse.
"You girls are supposed to love and care for each other, you're sisters for god's sake! And then I come outside to find you beating the snot out of each other and from what Emerald tells me it's all for some stupid girl?!" Tukson gasped as he put a hand over his chest, the agonizing pressure had built and the pain was now unbearable. He began to fall but was held up by Cinder.
"DAD!" yelled Cinder and Blake in unison, quickly forgetting their fight. Blake rushed to Tukson's other side and put his arm around her shoulder like Cinder had done after she had caught him. "I'm fine, I'm fine just a little pressure in my chest that started a few hours ago. All I need is some good sleep and it should go away."
"No. You need a hospital and that's where we are going to take you. The pressure in your chest sounds like another heart attack and it's only gonna get worse from here." said Blake as she adjusted her grip on her dad.
When Tukson gasped in pain when they began to move him he said, "Alright, Alright, if it will calm you down I'll go see the damn doctor," They held dragged him to Blake's car since it was the only one of their two cars with four doors. They half dragged him into the back seat and hopped into the front.
Soon after the car roared to life Blake gunned it in reverse, the wheels screeching against the worn road as she turned out and pressed forward shifting the gears in record time as she broke law after law on the way to the hospital.
Yang was enjoying a much needed smoke in the designated smoking area of the hospital. She took one long drag exhaled slowly, relaxing against the wooden bench she had hogged all to herself. She heard tiers screech in the distance and glanced in the direction of the sound. She saw a jet black 1969 Camaro almost crash into another car as it screeched into a parking spot.
Yang calmly took another drag as she mused, "Well you don't see one of those every day." She watched from a distance as two dark haired girls jumped out of the car and quickly went to the back seat to gingerly help an older man out. "Hmm that guy kind of looks like the dude that runs the bakery down road, and that girl looks like the girl Rubes is crushing on… oh shit it is them… and by the looks of it that guy needs treatment stat." Yang sighed and took one last drag of her cigarette and put the bud out in a nearby bin.
"I better help them by getting him treatment imminently or he'll die during the paper work process and Ruby is gonna be pissed I stood by and let a friend of hers die. Especially the baker." Yang jogged over to the front doors closing flowing the girls and the man she held. When Yang arrived to the front desk they were arguing with Ciel about getting the man treatment before paperwork and considering how by the book Ciel was Yang knew that the man would definitely die during the paperwork if a doctor didn't intervene.
"Ceil, I officially take this man as my team's patient. Now please give this man a bed so that I may treat him while these lovely girls fill out the paperwork you need." The girls look at her in surprise as she could see on Ceil's forehead look as if it's about to burst.
"WHAT?" yelled Ceil, "I have a stack of patients for you damn team and this is who you decide to treat?!"
"Yep." Answered Yang nonchalantly as she barely spared the mountain of files in a box labeled Branwen a glance.
Ceil looked as if she was about to go on some kind of rant before she sighed as she massaged her temples with her forefingers and said "Fine… there is a bed in room 403B. Just take them and the paperwork and get out of my sight." They were about to walk away and Ceil pointed at Blake "And you! I better see that paperwork by the end of the night." Blake nodded and followed Yang to the elevator.
"Thank you." Whispered Cinder.
Yang shrugged and said, "I couldn't just let the man die, Ruby would be pissed as hell if I let the baker from her favorite bakery just die."
Cinder stiffened at the mention of Ruby's name, this happen gone unnoticed by Blake and she raised her eyebrow at her in question. Cinder saw Blake's expression and mouthed 'later'. After they go Tukson situated in the bed Yang began to take his vitals and make notes in the blank chart by his bed. As Yang jotted down the man's vitals she asked him a series of questions and paged a team of nurses to prep him for immediate surgery. After she told the sisters she would be back yang went to consult her team about their new patient.
Soon after Yang left, Cinder and Blake were ushered out of the room by two nurses, one with flaming red hair and a tall man with green hair. As they sat in the waiting room the tension between them was thick enough to cut. They silently each took half of the paper work and quietly filled it out. Neither wanting to be the first to talk about the incident outside their home.
Minutes felt like hours as they waited for the doctors to come with news about their father. When they eventually filled out the paperwork Blake collected it all and went down to the lower floors to deliver it. As she walked to the front desk it almost seemed like the girl manning the front desk had given them more paperwork than the rest of the people there. Did…did this girl give us more paper work out of spite? No… this is a damn hospital for goodness sake…
Blake shook her head and deliver the papers, the girl glared at her but said nothing. Blake resisted every urge in her body to roll her eyes as she left the front desk and dredged her way back to the waiting room Cinder was in. She still has no idea what the fight was about, but if the screaming and the way she reacted to Ruby's name had anything to do with it. Ruby must have doesn't something to upset Cinder adding to the fact that Cinder smelled like a brewery meant that she hadn't been in full control of her actions. But damn could she throw a punch. Thought Blake as she reached up to gingerly touch her bruised face. Now that the adrenaline ha worn off she began to feel the full brunt of her injuries.
When she made it to the waiting room she saw wincing as she shifted her sitting position and gently rubbing the spot Blake had kicked earlier. Blake smirked and sat down near Cinder, quickly pulling out her phone she began to scroll through it to find something to read and take her mind off the current situation. When she glanced at Cinder she had seemingly done the same only until she had glanced at the actual screen did she see that she was writing and rewriting a message to Winter. Blake had thought to test Velvet but considering her current state she decided not to bother and continue her search for something to read.
Cinder bit her lip as she incessantly tapped her foot against the floor. What the hell should I say? She didn't know how to tell Winter she was at the hospital and that she needed her. She needed her best friend and she didn't know how to tell her. Winter was having so much fun at that damn party… no I Shouldn't bother her… Yeah no she's probably having the time of her life with that one girl so she wouldn't answer anyway. Cinder clutched her phone, the urge to throw it against the wall was very tempting, but she decided against it. Instead she decided to text Emerald to not bother opening the bakery tomorrow and explained the situation.
After several minutes of explaining to Emerald and telling her not to come and that everything was going to be fine Emerald showed up anyway. She took one look at the sisters and said "I'm going to kill that kid." The family that was sitting on the other side of the room looked at Emerald in horror and clutched their little blonde boy in their arms.
"No no no, she didn't mean your kid, she meant someone else." said Blake as she watched their eyes widen and move away and into another room.
"Nice one Blake." Chuckled Cinder, both almost forgetting about the green haired woman standing by them with her arms crossed.
"So what did the little devil child do to make you beat the living shit out of each other and give Tukson another heart attack." Both the girls stayed silent as Emerald began to tap her foot. "Well? I'm waiting." Blake and Cinder looked at each other and in their silent conversation they decided it best for everyone if they stayed silent on the matter before another person ends up in the hospital tonight. After a solid ten minutes of silence Cinder deflated some and went to sit down where the family had been sitting previously with a magazine she had snatched from one of the tables.
Cinder was slowly beginning to doze off when she spotted the blond doctor walking towards them with a grim expression. Blake and Cinder rushed to the doctor, completely forgetting about Emerald of whom had dozed off in her chair.
"What's wrong?" said Blake with a worried expression.
Yang's frown deepened, "We did everything we could but I'm afraid we were not able to save your father. He had developed a form of crush syndrome caused by dead cells what where left behind from his previous bypass surgery. These cells affected the healthy cells and caused another heart attack. We tried to salvage as much as we could but at this point he is going to require a new heart and considering his age and the amount of time he has left he isn't going be able to get one in time…" tears streamed down Cinder and Blake's eyes as the crushing realization that they were going to lose their father. "He is going to wake up from his anesthesia soon if you would like to be with him.
~A.N.~
Oh gosh two chapters in the same month? What is this? Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter. It was interesting to write and I really was gonna release this on father's day but it wasn't done at the time so it wasn't able happen sadly. Anyway please leave a review and till next time peoples!
Translations:
Liebling- favorite or darling
Engel- Angel
Schönheit- beauty
Guest responses:
Guest: I'll leave that tid bit for the next chapter and Dirne was a word recommended to me by a friend because I honestly don't know much german.
Guest4: Yeah shadow told about how people were asking him about me and I did find that to be a bit hilarious. And as far I know he is very secretive about whether or not if he did lead the mob. Is suspect he did because he got sick of waiting for his 'encouragement stick' to come in the mail. (it's a spear by the way)