A/N: Awe, my kitties are fighting over my keyboard and messing up my typing… So cute, so cuddly (I got three of 'em, the smallest and 2 yr old one, is about two hands long and two hands tall from ear too foot, nose too tail. Izz so cute, she's so tiny).
Enjoy! We're almost done with voices, folks! This chapters got some nice, sweet, completely platonic father/daughter fluff.
Voices
Chapter Twenty-Five: It's True That We Love One Another
Ashley woke too someone shaking her shoulder. She opened her eyes wide, instantly, fear coursing through her.
For a second, she saw her father, but she blinked, and saw Bruce.
"Ashley? Why are you asleep in my car?" He asked worriedly. Ashley blinked a few times too clear her head, sitting up slowly.
"I don't remember…" She murmured, hoping he wouldn't see through her lie. It wasn't the first time he'd found her in weird places too sleep. Bruce sighed.
"C'mon, I'll take you back up too your room." Ashley nodded, allowing him too carry her bridal style up out of the garage and too her room, moving in and out of an unconscious state.
Softly, she clutched his shirt.
"Don't leave me…" she murmured. "I don't wanna be alone…" She murmured, finally falling back asleep. Bruce set her down in her bed, and ran a hand through her hair.
"Don't worry, kid, I'll never leave you, no matter what."
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Ashley yawned, waking up too the sunlight on her skin. She slowly sat up, and panic set in.
What was she going to tell Bruce?
And speak of the devil, she turned her head; too see him asleep in a chair beside her bed.
She remembered her words last night and smiled softly.
"He stayed with me…"