Title: Hands Clean 18/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.net) if you want to email me during the week email me at (23405@sjamail.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 second once and again fan fic but my it's my first August/Grace so any ideas or comments you have would be great. So please email me with them. J Oh and I'm very glad to see I got a review Yeah!!! (ok there are no more flashbacks for the rest of the chapters because I think the present is good enough with out the flashbacks)
"You're essentially an employee and I like you having to depend on me
You're kind of my protégé and one day you'll say you learned all you know from me
I know you depend on me like a young thing would to a guardian
I know you sexualize me like a young thing would and I think I like it"
"Have you convinced her to go a doctor yet?" Rick asked Lily as he came into the kitchen.
"She won't go and truthfully I don't think he'll find anything."
"She's been throwing up, not eating and barely doing anything at all."
"I know that but it's not an illness she has."
"Then what's wrong with her?"
"She's depressed, she misses him and she's not going to get better with out him."
"Yes she will, Grace doesn't give up for anything, she never has."
"You know I want to believe that Rick, I really do but I can't. I can't accept something that I don't think will happen."
"So what do you what do you want to do?"
"Make sure he doesn't leave her."
Grace looked at the calendar; he was leaving today and never coming back. It was not fair, she loved him. Grace said to herself. Not that it mattered, nothing seem to really matter anymore, not to her anyway. She sat down on her bed and started to think about what it was going to be like for him when he moves. He would probably find some one else, they'd fall in love and get married. He would forget her, it really wouldn't be hard at all for him. He might even come back to Chicago eventually and she would meet his wife, who would not know who she was. She would think that Grace was just an old student and if she did learn who she was she would be graceful to Grace for making her meet him. And Grace would still be alone, she'd always be alone and sad. There was nothing she could do about it, life was making sure of that. What had she ever done to deserve this! Whatever it was it must have been horrible because what she was going through now was too painful for her to take. But she had to, she had to get on with life, that was the only thing left for her to do. But she wasn't sure she could do it.
"Take some cake with you. The train ride is going to be long." One of his collages said handing him a plate.
"You know you are all a little too happy about me leaving." August said.
"Well I know I don't have to worry about you taking my job now." One of them smiled.
"Yeah now you're taking mine." August said.
"Maybe that's why I'm so happy."
"You know you've never really told us why you were leaving." Another person said.
"And I'm not planning to either." August said back.
"I know they don't pay more, so it's not money."
"You've got that much right, no one pays as good as this place."
"Maybe it's us?"
"No, the only think you do that gets on my nerves, is trying to pry into my life." August said.
"We're just trying to be your buddies and buddies tell each other what's going on in their lives."
"Not this buddy." August said.
"Mr. Dimitri?" Lily asked as she came up.
"Who's this? Is this what you've been doing in your free time?"
"Mrs. Sammler, let's talk in my office." August said leading her in.
"How could he leave someone like that behind?"
"Didn't you hear she's married to someone else."
"Ooh this could get messy
But you don't seem to mind
Ooh don't go telling everybody
And overlook this supposed crime"
