A/N: Hello readers. I was sorry for not updating sooner, I had things to tend to for a while, and so I left for about one week. Just so you know, I am NOT abandoning this story, I just took a break for a while.
Anyways, in the last update, Leslie gave Sherman an idea of putting a home theater system in that empty room of his Penthouse, and Sherman, Leslie, and Penny got revenge on Grunion by throwing eggs at her car, even her neighbors hate her so much they joined in on them. This is where we left off. Enjoy.
(Normal P.O.V.)
Sherman was asleep in bed and was relaxing in his nice cozy bed. He felt like yesterday was amazing, he got the revenge he wanted on Grunion. He would have felt bad, but he didn't, because she deserved every single egg tossed at her car. In fact, when she came out of her house to see what everyone was doing, she was shouting and having a total fit. Sherman and everyone else laughed and kept on throwing eggs at the car, even when she kept shouting and demanding they stopped.
Sherman woke up when he heard his phone ringing. The sound of the ringtone filled his ears until he picked it up and answered it.
"Hello?" Sherman answered groggily.
"Sherman?" a voice asked in pain. Sherman knew who that voice belonged to. It was Leslie. His eyes widened and he sat up in bed, kicking the covers off his legs.
"Leslie? What's going on? Is something wrong?" Sherman asked in worry.
"I-I was running on the track, and my (Sobbing) my side just started hurting, and I'm tasting blood, and I'm internally bleeding from the side that's hurting. I don't know what I'm gonna do" Leslie said scared and worried. Sherman then got up from his bed and grabbed onto his bag.
"I'll be there in a few minutes" Sherman said before hanging up. He then put his phone on the bed and got dressed.
After a while, Sherman called a cab and arrived at the track behind 'Susan B. Anthony: Elementary School'. Sherman then paid the driver with ten dollars and sixty six cents and ran out of the cab and onto the track.
"LESLIE!" Sherman called out the minute he saw her on her knees on crying with blood coming out of her mouth, crying, and she was gripping onto her left side.
"Sherman, please help!" Leslie cried out. Sherman then stopped running, took his bag off and put it on the ground and got on his knees in front of Leslie.
"Are you okay?" Sherman asked his girlfriend in concern. Leslie shook her head and she stopped grabbing onto her side and lifted her shirt up to reveal a dark red blot of blood underneath her skin that went up to her armpit. Sherman was in shock after seeing this.
"Oh my God" Sherman muttered with his hands over his mouth. Leslie began crying again and Sherman notices there was dried blood hanging from her bottom lip.
"Leslie, stay calm okay? I'm gonna dial 911 and get you an ambulance, okay?" Sherman said. Leslie just nodded. Sherman then took out his phone and dialed 911 on the keypad. As he waited for someone to answer, he looked at Leslie and remembered that he was in her position when he first found out he had cancer.
(Flashback, three years ago)
Four year old Sherman was lying down in a hospital bed and he had a nasal cannula on him, giving him oxygen for his lungs to take in. Mr. Peabody came into the room looking very very sad and sat down next to Sherman.
"What's wrong Mr. Peabody?" Sherman asked his father. The white beagle just took a deep breath and looked at his son with tearful eyes.
"I spoke with the doctor and he told me... he told me you have lung cancer" Mr. Peabody said. Sherman was confused.
"What's cancer?" he asked.
"Cancer is a very powerful illness that some people can die from. You have it in one of your lungs. One lung doesn't work as well as the other does" Peabody explained. Sherman was now scared for his life when he heard. Sherman then began shivering and crying in fear.
"I don't wanna die. Please don't let me die, Mr. Peabody. Please don't let me die" Peabody could sense his boy's fear of dying because of this cancer that had been diagnosed in him. He reached his paw out and grabbed his son's hand.
"Sherman, I will never in a million years let you die. Because you're the best thing that's ever happened to me and I never want to have it taken from me" Peabody told him gently. Sherman smiled and held up his other hand and extended his pinky.
"Pinky swear?" Sherman asked. Peabody gave off a small smile with his eyes half-closed and held up his other paw with one of his claws extended.
"Pinky swear" Peabody said locking his claw with Sherman's pinkie finger.
(Flashback Over)
Sherman kept thinking on about that fateful day when he was four as he waited for someone to pick up the phone and he looked at Leslie in pain.
"911, what's your emergency?" asked the operator.
"I need an ambulance over at Susan B. Anthony Elementary School, we're behind the building on the track. My friend she's coughing up blood, she's internally bleeding on her side and she has cramps on the side that's bleeding" Sherman said into the phone.
"Alright, we've got your location on GPS, the Paramedics should be there in a few minutes" said the operator.
"Thank you" Sherman said before hanging up. Leslie then looked up at him with a tearful smile.
"Sherman, thank you so much" said Leslie. Sherman then put a hand on her cheek and spoke.
"I just couldn't stand to see you in pain like that. Besides, I love you" Sherman said.
"I love you too" Leslie said weakly. Sirens could be heard and red and blue strobe lights could be seen on the track's surface. Sherman got up and looked to his left to see the ambulance.
"Hey! We're over here!" shouted Sherman. The medics saw him and ran over with a gurney. He then silently watched as they put Leslie on the gurney and rolled her into the back of the ambulance. He was scared for his girlfriend's life, but he was also glad he could get there in time, otherwise something worst would have happened. But at least now Leslie was getting medical help and maybe, just maybe she'd make it out okay.
(Three Days Later)
(Sherman P.O.V.)
Leslie had been placed in the ICU for about three days now. She and I have had phone conversations back and forth, but today, not one single call came.
Right now, I was in bed and I was just staring at my phone on my desk, waiting for someone to call, hopefully it would be Leslie. I then heard a phone ring, but it wasn't mine, it was the house phone.
"Hello?" I heard a voice answer the phone and it stopped ringing. It was Mr. Peabody. I picked the phone up to listen in on the conversation.
"I'm doctor Foreman with the ICU of New York City. The parents of Leslie Anderson have told me and call you to inform you that their daughter has passed on" I then hung the phone up and put it back on the charger. That was all I needed to hear to send my heart crashing down into a million pieces.
I began crying into my pillow, really hard. Tears were being soaked up by my pillow. I didn't want her to die just yet, I wanted to tell her how much she really meant to me, and that she was the love of my life, as well as the fact that nobody in this whole city could replace her.
"Sherman?" I heard a voice. I looked up to see Mr. Peabody looking over my bed. He must have figured I heard the whole message and just pulled me into a hug.
"Why?" I asked in between my sobs, letting the tears run down his back and into his fur.
"I don't know, Sherman. I'm so sorry" Mr. Peabody said. I felt his arms wrap around my body.
"I loved her, Mr. Peabody. I loved her" I said.
"I know you did, and she was the most amazing girl on this Earth. It's very hard to get over losing someone you love so much" Peabody told me. I just kept on crying. That whole night was unbearable, maybe this was how Hazel felt when she lost Gus. Only she had more to time to spend with him and say goodbye, I just didn't. This felt like the end of the world for me, this was my Cataclysm.
A/N: There you have it. Leslie is dead and Sherman is taking very very hard. Don't worry, the story isn't gonna end just YET. We still have some stuff to go through before this story can end. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!