Shades of Gray
Chapter 3
A/N :Sorry it took me so long to write…
I didn't get any reviews for chapter 2 so PLEASE review!
Disclaimer: I do not own DrQMW
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"Is the baby okay?" Colleen asked worriedly.
"Well your blood pressure is very high. I want you to stay in bed until the baby arrives." Dr. Mike said warmly lifting the stethoscope from Colleen's belly.
"But you can't help all the people sick with the fever by yourself ,Ma." Colleen argued.
"I'll be fine. Andrew will be too. You just take care of you and your baby."
Truthfully, Andrew wasn't all right. She had just been to see him and he had begun to have severe headaches, muscular pains, jaundice, and vomiting. Also his fever was dangerously high making Andrew barley coherent.
"Is there something you're not telling me?" Colleen said sensing something.
"No." she lied not daring to look into her daughter's eyes.
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"There's a subject we've been avoiding, Cloud Dancing, for awhile now." Dorothy said as they strolled outside his home. He turned to her , urging Dorothy to go on. "Seein' all those people sick, makes me realize life is short. I want to know where and if this relationship is going anywhere."
"Dorothy, I don't know what you're people or my people will think about the two of us together, but after five years of being with you ,I don't know how I would live without you."
"Are you sayin' you want us to be married?" She looked up to him hoping that was what he wanted too. Life she knew, would not be easy for them ,but more then anything she didn't want to be alone anymore and wanted to grow old with him.
"Yes," he said uttering a single word that changed everything. Dorothy reached up and kissed him passionately.
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"We should leave, Robert E." Grace begged as she ladled soup into bowls for her customers.
"I ain't leaving our home Grace. You and I both have a business ,friends. I want Natalie Antonia to grow up here."
"If she gets the fever, she won't be able to. Robert E I can't lose another child … I won't lose another."
Robert E reached up and touched her cheek. "Nat will be fine."
"How can you be so sure?" Grace said as she turned on her heels and walked away.
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"Pa?" Zack asked weakly, hearing his heavy footsteps come into the room.
"Ah… I just wanted to…"Hank said not knowing how to say what he really wanted to.
"I know." Zack replied. Through the years he'd begun to understand Hank's un spoken words.
"Has Michaela been by to see ya?"
" She said I ain't got the fever as bad as most folks."
"That's good." he said as he awkwardly patted Zack's shoulder.
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Katrina paced the tiny cabin angrily. How could Matthew just leave her like that? Not a goodbye or any warning indicating he was going to Boston? She wondered if he had really cared for her at all. All the promises that had filled the last five years now where suddenly broken.
"He'll come back." said her sister Fiona reassuringly.
"I don't want him to." she said but inside she wasn't sure if she meant it.
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"Brian are you okay?" Sarah asked worriedly.
He shook his head slightly as he tried to stand. "Get Ma."
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Hate to leave you at a climax but I have to find some way to keep you guys reading. So what do you think?
Chapter 3
A/N :Sorry it took me so long to write…
I didn't get any reviews for chapter 2 so PLEASE review!
Disclaimer: I do not own DrQMW
* * *
"Is the baby okay?" Colleen asked worriedly.
"Well your blood pressure is very high. I want you to stay in bed until the baby arrives." Dr. Mike said warmly lifting the stethoscope from Colleen's belly.
"But you can't help all the people sick with the fever by yourself ,Ma." Colleen argued.
"I'll be fine. Andrew will be too. You just take care of you and your baby."
Truthfully, Andrew wasn't all right. She had just been to see him and he had begun to have severe headaches, muscular pains, jaundice, and vomiting. Also his fever was dangerously high making Andrew barley coherent.
"Is there something you're not telling me?" Colleen said sensing something.
"No." she lied not daring to look into her daughter's eyes.
* * *
"There's a subject we've been avoiding, Cloud Dancing, for awhile now." Dorothy said as they strolled outside his home. He turned to her , urging Dorothy to go on. "Seein' all those people sick, makes me realize life is short. I want to know where and if this relationship is going anywhere."
"Dorothy, I don't know what you're people or my people will think about the two of us together, but after five years of being with you ,I don't know how I would live without you."
"Are you sayin' you want us to be married?" She looked up to him hoping that was what he wanted too. Life she knew, would not be easy for them ,but more then anything she didn't want to be alone anymore and wanted to grow old with him.
"Yes," he said uttering a single word that changed everything. Dorothy reached up and kissed him passionately.
* * *
"We should leave, Robert E." Grace begged as she ladled soup into bowls for her customers.
"I ain't leaving our home Grace. You and I both have a business ,friends. I want Natalie Antonia to grow up here."
"If she gets the fever, she won't be able to. Robert E I can't lose another child … I won't lose another."
Robert E reached up and touched her cheek. "Nat will be fine."
"How can you be so sure?" Grace said as she turned on her heels and walked away.
* * *
"Pa?" Zack asked weakly, hearing his heavy footsteps come into the room.
"Ah… I just wanted to…"Hank said not knowing how to say what he really wanted to.
"I know." Zack replied. Through the years he'd begun to understand Hank's un spoken words.
"Has Michaela been by to see ya?"
" She said I ain't got the fever as bad as most folks."
"That's good." he said as he awkwardly patted Zack's shoulder.
* * *
Katrina paced the tiny cabin angrily. How could Matthew just leave her like that? Not a goodbye or any warning indicating he was going to Boston? She wondered if he had really cared for her at all. All the promises that had filled the last five years now where suddenly broken.
"He'll come back." said her sister Fiona reassuringly.
"I don't want him to." she said but inside she wasn't sure if she meant it.
* * *
"Brian are you okay?" Sarah asked worriedly.
He shook his head slightly as he tried to stand. "Get Ma."
* * *
Hate to leave you at a climax but I have to find some way to keep you guys reading. So what do you think?
