Title: A Chance at happiness 19/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.net)
Disclaimer: these characters belong to once and again except any characters you don't recognize
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: email me all you comments and suggestions. This is my first once and again fan fic so any ideas or comments you have would be great. So please email me with them. J oh people I have been reading the reviews and the very least I can see if first OMG! I am so shocked I have gotten so many reviews and for those of you who were wondering since Jessie I now gay then I might try to play that in but I'm not sure.
"Here." Eli said as he handed Grace another cup of coffee and sat down.
"Thanks, but I think I've had enough. How can doctors live on this stuff?" Grace said.
"Well they don't really have a choice and it's not that bad." He said taking another sip of his cup.
"You're opinion not mine." She said. "So is there a reason we haven't gone home yet? We are done right?"
"Yeah we're done. I just well I owe you something…." Eli started to say.
Grace cut him off. "For doing this? You do not owe me anything, Eli. I did this because we're friends."
"You didn't have to though and like I said I owe you something." Eli said.
"Ok, what is it that you think you owe me?" She said nervously.
"An answer."
"An answer to what?" Grace asked clueless.
"To one of your questions. It's the least I could do." He said
Grace got up. "Don't worry about it, Eli. I have already forgotten about them. How about let's just go home." She as she started to head out of the door.
He grabbed her arm. "Grace, I always run because I'm sacred if I stay someone else I love will get hurt."
Grace looked him in the eyes and could tell it was true. "Well next time you're going to run take me with you."
"Why?" He asked looking her in the eyes.
"Because that way you'll have a reason to come back." She said with a smile. "Now come on, we need to get to bed before the rest of the family wakes up."
Eli and Grace walked out of the hospital and a cold wind blew. Eli took off his jacket and handed into her.
She looked at him questionably.
"It's cold and plus I want you to know if we ever run off together I'd always take care of you."
"I never doubted it." She said and put on the jacket.
Karen woke up the next morning and the lights were off so she waited for the nurse to come in. When the nurse finally did, she was smiling. Karen did not know why until she turned on the lights. Karen started laughing. "Who?" She asked.
The nurse smiled. "No really knows." The nurse left.
Looking at her walls, Karen started to think back to happier times.
~A young Eli and Jessie came running in the door.
Rick was trying to catch up to them.
Karen looked up from her work and saw Eli and Jessie holding two sheets of paper in their hands. Karen looked down at them. "What are these?" She asked.
"For you." Eli and Jessie said.
Karen took the sheets of paper. Eli's was a drawing of the whole family and Jessie's was off the house.
"Aww thank you, guys." She said as she hugged them. "You know what I think I'll save these in some special place." She got up and went to find a box that Rick had to get for her. She wrote their names on it. "This is where we'll put all of your drawings you do and then when you're older we can look at them again and remember how happy we all were."~
Karen smiled. That box had almost gotten too full but Karen refused to throw any of it a way. She loved looking at all the things that Eli and Jessie had done for her. They always seemed to be there, when times were bad, just like they were now.
Grace walked into the bathroom; Jessie was already in there.
Jessie looked up out her. "Had a rough night?" She asked with a smile.
"Not really." She asked as she tried to get to sink.
"So you slept all last night?" Jessie asked.
"Like always." Grace said.
She grabbed Grace's arm. "Why don't you just tell me what you and Eli really did!" She said.
Grace pushed her back. "Don't ever touch me again!" She put her toothbrush back down. "I'll wait till you're gone or you grow up, which ever comes first." She said as she started to walk out of the bathroom.
Lily walked past Grace. "What's going on?" She asked.
"Nothing, I just don't want to talk to her right now." Grace said pointing at Jessie.
Lily walked into the bathroom. "What happened?" She asked Jessie.
"Nothing." Jessie said as she left the room.
Rick walked by. "Jessie where are you…"
"To my room." She said as she head upstairs and slammed the door.
Rick walked into the bathroom where Lily was. "What's going on?"
"I wish I knew."