Title: Hands Clean 19/?
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)
"We'll fast forward to a few years later
And no one knows except the both of us
And I have honored your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this"
"Thank you doctor. I'll take all that into consideration." Grace said as she walked out of her office.
"Good because I'm worried that if you don't start taking better care of yourself." The doctor said.
"I will start don't worry." Grace said.
"Ok, Ms. Manning you might want to make another appointment with my secretary."
"I will, thank you." Grace said as the doctor said as she walked over to the secretary's desk. "I need to make another appointment." Grace said and then her cell phone went off. She picked it up. "Hello?"
"Grace, it's Jessie."
"I recognize your voice, Jessie." Grace said sarcastically.
"Very funny, look I was wondering do you know that Lily's here?"
"Where's here, Jessie?"
"At the collage, in Dimitri's office."
"What? Why?"
"I don't know, I just saw her go in there with him."
"Wait, what are you doing there Jessie? School's out." Grace asked.
"Grace's I've got to go. See you home." Jessie said hanging up.
"Great!" Grace said mad as she put her phone up.
"Is everything ok, Miss?" The secretary asked.
"No, look is it ok if I call and make my appointment?"
"No problem."
"Thank you." Grace said as she left the office and headed to collage.
"Mrs. Sammler please have a seat." Dimitri said as he gestured to the chair in front of his desk.
"I'm not staying that long." Lily said.
"Ok, is there something I can help you with?"
"You can give me back my daughter back."
"I did remember? I left your house with out her and now I'm leaving Chicago."
"No you didn't? You left us someone but it's not my daughter. My daughter has never been this depressed in her life. She doesn't move, she doesn't eat, she barely lives at all."
"I'm sorry about that but I didn't do that to her. I'm not that one that made her choice. That was you."
"I know what I did!"
"Are you regretting it now?"
"No, I still don't think you're good for her but… I also don't think you're that bad for her either."
"You've got to be kidding me! I'm leaving today in an hour to move away from her because you wanted me to. Not because I wanted to but because you wanted me to."
"I'm…"
"I've uprooted my life because of you already but for some reason I'm doing it again! You can't just tell me now after everything I've been through, after everything I did."
"I know, you may think it's too late. But I want my daughter back and I don't know any other way to do that with out putting you back in her life."
"Well then find away because I'm not changing my life for you again, Mrs. Sammler. I'm just not." Dimitri said as he opened the door.
"Are you holding that door open for a particular reason because if you're holding that open for me, then you might as well close it because I'm not leaving till you agree to stay."
"Fine, then I'll leave." He said as he started to walk out.
"I thought you loved her, but I guess I was wrong because you don't leave someone you love behind." Lily screamed.
Everyone turned and stared.
August turned back around. "No see that's where you're wrong, Mrs. Sammler. I love her so much that I can leave her behind to be with her family because I knew her heart would break if she had to leave them. Can you say that you love her that much? So much that you would give her up just so she would be happy? I can I've done it twice now. So don't you dare try to question my love for her again because let me tell you're way off base every time you try to understand us." August said as he walked out of the office.
Grace ran into Dimitri's office and it was empty. "No! I couldn't have missed him!" Grace screamed.
"Missed who?" Another teacher asked as he came up behind her.
"Oh August Dimitri has he already left?" Grace asked worried.
"Yeah after that lady came in and screamed at him, he had no choice."
"What lady?"
"He called her Mrs. Sammler."
"Great, so I missed him. I can't believe I missed him." Grace said sadly.
"His train doesn't leave for another thirty minutes, you've got time."
"Really?"
"Yeah, but you might want to hurry. It's a long drive."
"Thank you." Grace said as she started to leave.
"Miss, can I ask why you need to find him?"
"I've got some news for him that I think will convince him to stay."
"Well there goes my job. Wait, I think you're the girl they were talking about."
"I probably was."
Well good luck catching him."
"Thanks."
"what part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?
what part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
what with this distance it seems so obvious?"
