Hey y'all im sorry for the wait. I started working last week and I come out exhausted. I try to write during my breaks and lunch but it had to write a good story in the Amazon break room. I'll try to make them as best and fast as i can I promise.
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Eudora sat on the edge of Vanya's bed holding her hair to the side and rubbing her back as Vanya voided the contents of her stomach. She had just finished her first round of chemo and it took a big toll on Vanya's body. Diego had gone to the police academy to talk to the instructor and explain why he and Eudora were not in today and why they would not be tomorrow.
Vanya laid back feeling like she couldn't possibly have anything else to empty out.
"Have some water." Eudora said as she brought the straw to Vanya's lips.
"Thank you." She looked up at Eudora and smiled. "Ben didn't do you justice."
"What do you mean?"
"You are a lot kinder than Ben said you were. Nobody would stay with a stranger as they puke their guts out."
"You're not a stranger Vanya." Eudora smiled. "Not to me at least. I spent a big part of my teens hearing about you from Ben and the whole last year hearing about you from Diego. Two very different perspectives certainly but I feel like I've known you my whole life." Vanya sat up and hugged Eudora. "I miss him." Eudora said quietly.
"Me too." Vanya said. "He loved you." She said when she pulled away. She scouted over to the edge of the bed and motioned for Eudora to lay next to her. "He loved you more than you can imagine. He wanted to escape the academy and run away with you." She added laying her head on Eudora's shoulder.
"I would have said yes." Eudora said wiping tears off her face before laying her head on top of Vanya's.
"He was going to propose. He had the ring." Vanya said quietly. "I told him that he was crazy. That you were too young. That you both had a long time to figure out your future together. That was the day before he died."
"I would have ran away or married Ben at any age. He is the only person that truly saw me for me. He didn't expect me to be perfect like everyone else."
Vanya laughed sadly. "Ben once used those exact words to tell me why he loved you."
They sat in silence for a while neither noticing Diego standing at the door.
"Vanya? What happened that day?" Vanya looked up at Eudora with tears in her eyes.
"I don't know. Nobody ever told me and when I would try to ask they would all quickly change the subject." Diego spoke up before Eudora could respond.
"We were on a mission in a lab where they were experimenting on children. We had split up Allison and Klaus had gone to rescue the children while Ben, Luther, and I had gone to take out the main bosses. We thought we had gotten then all but we were wrong. One had come out of nowhere and fired at me while I had my back turned to them then I heard a thud. I turned to see Ben bleeding on the ground. He had taken the bullet that was meant for me. Luther quickly took out the shooter and we rushed Ben to the airship hoping to get him to Grace intime. He bled out before we got to the academy. Before he died he told me to tell you, Vanya, that he loved you and that you were his favorite. He had no problem saying this infront of Allison." Diego said with a small sad smile. He had made his way over to the other side of Vanya's bed and sat on the edge. "He also said to tell you to give Dora the book and the ring. That she deserved to have them. At the time we didn't know what it meant we thought that it was delusions from the lost of blood so we ignored it. Now I know that he had meant Eudora." Both women were in tears now. Neither of them had known what had happened that day and hearing it was bitter sweet. He wrapped his arms as best he could around them until the two fell asleep. He arranged the blanket so that it was covering the two and went to lay down in the cot the nurses had set up for him next to Vanya's bed. He laid for what felt like hours thinking about the brother he had lost. "I take care of them both, Ben. I promise." He said before falling asleep.
"I'm going to hold you to that." Ben said from where he was sitting next to the bed. He looked over at his sister and the love of his life. "You are going to survive this, sis. And when you do, you and Diego are going to have a long happy life together." He smiled. "With or without powers, you were the strongest out of all of us." He turned to look at Eudora who was still crying even in sleep. He reached out to wipe a tear off Eudora's cheek only for his hand to go straight through her. "I miss you too." He smiled sadly. "I love you. Now and forever."
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