Chapter 15 - I wanna go Home!
They arrived at the hospital and Vince was admitted right away. He was put on an IV of antibiotic and they cleaned the cut. They decided to stitch it while he was here because it was so deep and plus if it was closed it shouldn't get infected again. The nurse left Nyssa to try to cool Vince off with cool cloths since it was obvious she was not leaving his side. Vince woke up with a lucid look on his face for the first time all day after he had been out of it in the hospital for about 2 hours.
"Where am I Nys? I don't know where I am."
"We had to take you to the hospital. You had a nasty infection in your hand and it gave you one hell of a fever. We couldn't wake you up at home when I got home from school and we brought you here. You don't remember fighting with me about how much you hated the hospital?"
"No, I don't remember the drive here either. How did you get me to the car if I was unconscious?"
"Oh shit, Dom. Speaking of which, he is still waiting outside. Dom helped me get you up the stairs and he drove here. I should tell him you're awake. He feels bad that he didn't check on you when you never got up." She went into the hall and told Dom he could come in now because Vince was awake and ok.
Dom came in and did the typical 'man, I knew it was nothing act'. The doctor came in. Vince asked when he could leave. The doctor told him the next day. Vince said no way was he staying there over night. The doctor told him it was standard procedure to keep someone with that amount of infection overnight for observation. Vince said no way. Dom gave Vince a dirty look. Nyssa had dealt with this same sort of thing when Danny was shot the first time. Danny had been happier at home. She figured Vince would be the same way. She interjected.
"Can't he go home if we promise to keep him quiet in bed for the rest of the night? You really don't want him here, harassing everyone and being a general pain in the butt. And he will be a pain, I'll tell ya. I took care of my brother through an infection following a gun shot wound so this would be a piece of cake."
"Is this your brother young lady?"
"No, this is not my brother. My brother passed away in the line of duty after he was shot again. Only he died instantly that time. But I can take care of Vince and make sure he takes it easy and takes his pills. He'll never stay here. Better to release him to me and Dom so we can make sure he goes straight back to bed. If not he will just end up either taking off on you or harassing your staff."
"Well.." It was most unusual but the man did look like he would be a terrible patient.
"Hello. I am an adult and I think I have a say in this. I wanna go home." Vince did not appreciate being talked about like he did not exist.
"Fine, we will send him home in the care of the two of you. Keep him quiet for the evening and don't let him strain his hand at all. Plus he has to take these pills three times a day for the next seven days." Nyssa took the pills and the nurse came and unhooked Vince. He got up and Dom left so he could get dressed. Nyssa stayed.
"You sure are difficult you know that?"
"I hate the hospital. I want to go home."
"Well you get your wish. Danny hated it here too. I always got him out early and took care of him at home."
"You must miss him huh?"
"Lots. But it gets easier with time. Besides I didn't want to have to sleep in the basement without you. I would get scared and end up staying with Leon. I don't want you in a fist fight with Leon with that bad hand." She giggled.
Vince growled and grabbed her. He had his jeans back on but no shirt. He pulled her against him. "You don't belong in any bed but mine." He kissed her and she responded like she always did to him. Instant and primal. She broke it off this time.
"Let's get out of here V." He finished dressing and they left. Dom would not let him drive as per the doctor's orders. Nyssa climbed in the back and assumed Vince would take the other front seat. She was wrong. He crawled in the back with her and lay down across the seat with his head in her lap. He was still tired even if he didn't want to stay in the hospital. She played with his hair while she stared out the window. They were home before she knew it. It was only 6pm. They helped Vince into the house and put him to bed.
Nyssa tucked him in then lay on top of him, on top of the covers. She told him she was going to see her dad for awhile and that she would be back around 9pm. And that she was not going to school the next day, she was staying home to take care of him. He smiled at her. It was nice to be taken care of for a change. She changed into the girliest outfit he had ever seen her wear. It was a long skirt with dragons on it. It kind of wrapped around her and tied at the waist. She put on a white tee shirt with a red dragon on the front and strappy sandals that tied up her legs. She put on silver hoop earrings and put up her hair in a messy bun. She looked awesome.
"Sure you have to leave? You should stay here and let me unwrap you."
"You need to sleep and I need to do this. I'll see you soon."
She leaned over and kissed him goodbye then left. She took his car up to Lompoc.
She went in and went through all of the security checks. This time her dad was brought into a small room with a table and two chairs. They embraced and Mark cried.
"Nyssandre. You are so pretty. You have grown so much. And you are thinner then the last time I saw you. You look great."
"I missed you so much Daddy. I know you told me not to come here but so much has happened I need to talk to you about it."
"Of course sweetie. What's on your mind."
She told him all about Ed and what he did. And how Vince came to her rescue. Her dad was livid. Ed was going to find himself in hot water. Mark had all kinds of ties outside of jail. Her dad wanted to know all about Vince. Nyssa started by asking if he remembered Dominic Torreto. Mark said he did. She asked if he remembered the tall, shaggy guy who use to come visit Dom. Mark did. She told her dad that was Vince. He was not overly thrilled to know she lived with Dom and Vince. She made sure he knew that Dom's sister and girlfriend lived there too and she left out the sharing a room with Vince part. She told him that Vince was teaching her to drive Danny's race car and she was going to make her career ambition mechanics. Dom already promised her a job.
Her dad wanted to know if she was street racing. She told him no, but he saw the answer not yet in her eyes. He didn't look impressed. She asked if her 'stang was still at the old house. Her dad told her yes. Then he told her to move back to the old house so she wouldn't have to live at Torreto's. She told him she wouldn't live there alone.
She told him that her mom had run off. Mark said he had heard. She asked if she could have the 'stang to drive so she could stop borrowing poor Vince's car all the time. He told her that her Uncle Steve had all the keys. Steve was really a family friend not an uncle but he had known her dad since the second grade.
She embarrassingly asked her dad if he could give her an allowance till she started working for Dom that summer. He told her quietly that he had a lot of money the US government and law had not found and Steve knew how to get it. She could have whatever she needed. And Steve still had her credit cards and she was more then welcome to use them too. He told her there was no reason for her to ruin her summer working in a hot garage. She wanted to do it she told him, and besides that the whole team would be working there or the café all summer anyway so what would she do, sit home alone?
She gave her dad the number at Dom's and told him she wouldn't come again if it bothered him. Mark told her not to come too often but he would like to see her every once in awhile because while he didn't want her to see him like this he missed her too much to tell her not to come. They hugged good bye just as the guard came and told them it was time for her to go.
She left and called Steve right away. He met her at Dom's and she left the Nissan there. Steve gave her bank account numbers, her two charge cards, the keys to the house and the 'stang. He drove her to the house and they went into the garage. Her baby started right up. It was a '67 mustang convertible. Candy apple red. It was pure stock though. It was in show car shape but not meant for racing. She thanked Steve and headed home to Vince.
He was in bed but reading not sleeping when she got home. He asked her how it went. She told him great and asked if he was up to a trip to the driveway. He told her sure. They went up to the drive and she showed him the mustang.
He had to know where it came from. She told him the story and what happened while she visited her dad. She told him it had been a 16th birthday gift and it had been a year or more since she had seen it and just figured that the house and the contents of it would have been confinscated at first, and when she found out they had been in her mom's name at first and now were in fact in Nyssa's name she had just never gone to get it. She told him she didn't want to monopolize his car all the time so she went and got it. They headed back down to Vince's room and he crawled back in bed.
"You still feeling weak baby?" She asked.
"No, of course not." Came the answer but she could tell he was fibbing.
"I'm tired out myself. Glad I am not getting up for school tomorrow. She started to change into her night dress. It was one she wore when it was hot outside. Spaghetti straps and a silky material. She slid into bed. "See you in the morning V." She lay on her back and next thing she knew he was looming over her.
"Not going to bed without your good night kiss are you?"
"Well I thought you would be tired."
"I am never too tired for kissing you." She held her arms open and he leaned in and kissed her. He kissed her eyelids and the tip of her nose after her mouth. "Thanks for standing up for me and making sure I got to come home. I get fucked up in hospitals."
"I could tell. My bro hated them too and I always did take him home and take care of him."
"How did it go with your dad? Was he mad that you went to see him even though he told you not to? Dom said the same thing but he was always secretly happy when we visited him anyway."
"Yea, he was happy. He's going to give me my allowance till I get out of school and get a job. He wants me to visit him again, just not all the time. And he wants to meet you." She giggled.
"Really? He wants to meet me?"
"Yea he does. Now go to sleep."
"Only if you sleep over here with me." She rolled over and put her head on his shoulder. He had never instigated contact like that before. Normally they just ended up together over night. She thought that they might just be making progress here. She went to sleep with a smile on her face. Of course the fact that she wasn't getting up early the next day was also nice.
They arrived at the hospital and Vince was admitted right away. He was put on an IV of antibiotic and they cleaned the cut. They decided to stitch it while he was here because it was so deep and plus if it was closed it shouldn't get infected again. The nurse left Nyssa to try to cool Vince off with cool cloths since it was obvious she was not leaving his side. Vince woke up with a lucid look on his face for the first time all day after he had been out of it in the hospital for about 2 hours.
"Where am I Nys? I don't know where I am."
"We had to take you to the hospital. You had a nasty infection in your hand and it gave you one hell of a fever. We couldn't wake you up at home when I got home from school and we brought you here. You don't remember fighting with me about how much you hated the hospital?"
"No, I don't remember the drive here either. How did you get me to the car if I was unconscious?"
"Oh shit, Dom. Speaking of which, he is still waiting outside. Dom helped me get you up the stairs and he drove here. I should tell him you're awake. He feels bad that he didn't check on you when you never got up." She went into the hall and told Dom he could come in now because Vince was awake and ok.
Dom came in and did the typical 'man, I knew it was nothing act'. The doctor came in. Vince asked when he could leave. The doctor told him the next day. Vince said no way was he staying there over night. The doctor told him it was standard procedure to keep someone with that amount of infection overnight for observation. Vince said no way. Dom gave Vince a dirty look. Nyssa had dealt with this same sort of thing when Danny was shot the first time. Danny had been happier at home. She figured Vince would be the same way. She interjected.
"Can't he go home if we promise to keep him quiet in bed for the rest of the night? You really don't want him here, harassing everyone and being a general pain in the butt. And he will be a pain, I'll tell ya. I took care of my brother through an infection following a gun shot wound so this would be a piece of cake."
"Is this your brother young lady?"
"No, this is not my brother. My brother passed away in the line of duty after he was shot again. Only he died instantly that time. But I can take care of Vince and make sure he takes it easy and takes his pills. He'll never stay here. Better to release him to me and Dom so we can make sure he goes straight back to bed. If not he will just end up either taking off on you or harassing your staff."
"Well.." It was most unusual but the man did look like he would be a terrible patient.
"Hello. I am an adult and I think I have a say in this. I wanna go home." Vince did not appreciate being talked about like he did not exist.
"Fine, we will send him home in the care of the two of you. Keep him quiet for the evening and don't let him strain his hand at all. Plus he has to take these pills three times a day for the next seven days." Nyssa took the pills and the nurse came and unhooked Vince. He got up and Dom left so he could get dressed. Nyssa stayed.
"You sure are difficult you know that?"
"I hate the hospital. I want to go home."
"Well you get your wish. Danny hated it here too. I always got him out early and took care of him at home."
"You must miss him huh?"
"Lots. But it gets easier with time. Besides I didn't want to have to sleep in the basement without you. I would get scared and end up staying with Leon. I don't want you in a fist fight with Leon with that bad hand." She giggled.
Vince growled and grabbed her. He had his jeans back on but no shirt. He pulled her against him. "You don't belong in any bed but mine." He kissed her and she responded like she always did to him. Instant and primal. She broke it off this time.
"Let's get out of here V." He finished dressing and they left. Dom would not let him drive as per the doctor's orders. Nyssa climbed in the back and assumed Vince would take the other front seat. She was wrong. He crawled in the back with her and lay down across the seat with his head in her lap. He was still tired even if he didn't want to stay in the hospital. She played with his hair while she stared out the window. They were home before she knew it. It was only 6pm. They helped Vince into the house and put him to bed.
Nyssa tucked him in then lay on top of him, on top of the covers. She told him she was going to see her dad for awhile and that she would be back around 9pm. And that she was not going to school the next day, she was staying home to take care of him. He smiled at her. It was nice to be taken care of for a change. She changed into the girliest outfit he had ever seen her wear. It was a long skirt with dragons on it. It kind of wrapped around her and tied at the waist. She put on a white tee shirt with a red dragon on the front and strappy sandals that tied up her legs. She put on silver hoop earrings and put up her hair in a messy bun. She looked awesome.
"Sure you have to leave? You should stay here and let me unwrap you."
"You need to sleep and I need to do this. I'll see you soon."
She leaned over and kissed him goodbye then left. She took his car up to Lompoc.
She went in and went through all of the security checks. This time her dad was brought into a small room with a table and two chairs. They embraced and Mark cried.
"Nyssandre. You are so pretty. You have grown so much. And you are thinner then the last time I saw you. You look great."
"I missed you so much Daddy. I know you told me not to come here but so much has happened I need to talk to you about it."
"Of course sweetie. What's on your mind."
She told him all about Ed and what he did. And how Vince came to her rescue. Her dad was livid. Ed was going to find himself in hot water. Mark had all kinds of ties outside of jail. Her dad wanted to know all about Vince. Nyssa started by asking if he remembered Dominic Torreto. Mark said he did. She asked if he remembered the tall, shaggy guy who use to come visit Dom. Mark did. She told her dad that was Vince. He was not overly thrilled to know she lived with Dom and Vince. She made sure he knew that Dom's sister and girlfriend lived there too and she left out the sharing a room with Vince part. She told him that Vince was teaching her to drive Danny's race car and she was going to make her career ambition mechanics. Dom already promised her a job.
Her dad wanted to know if she was street racing. She told him no, but he saw the answer not yet in her eyes. He didn't look impressed. She asked if her 'stang was still at the old house. Her dad told her yes. Then he told her to move back to the old house so she wouldn't have to live at Torreto's. She told him she wouldn't live there alone.
She told him that her mom had run off. Mark said he had heard. She asked if she could have the 'stang to drive so she could stop borrowing poor Vince's car all the time. He told her that her Uncle Steve had all the keys. Steve was really a family friend not an uncle but he had known her dad since the second grade.
She embarrassingly asked her dad if he could give her an allowance till she started working for Dom that summer. He told her quietly that he had a lot of money the US government and law had not found and Steve knew how to get it. She could have whatever she needed. And Steve still had her credit cards and she was more then welcome to use them too. He told her there was no reason for her to ruin her summer working in a hot garage. She wanted to do it she told him, and besides that the whole team would be working there or the café all summer anyway so what would she do, sit home alone?
She gave her dad the number at Dom's and told him she wouldn't come again if it bothered him. Mark told her not to come too often but he would like to see her every once in awhile because while he didn't want her to see him like this he missed her too much to tell her not to come. They hugged good bye just as the guard came and told them it was time for her to go.
She left and called Steve right away. He met her at Dom's and she left the Nissan there. Steve gave her bank account numbers, her two charge cards, the keys to the house and the 'stang. He drove her to the house and they went into the garage. Her baby started right up. It was a '67 mustang convertible. Candy apple red. It was pure stock though. It was in show car shape but not meant for racing. She thanked Steve and headed home to Vince.
He was in bed but reading not sleeping when she got home. He asked her how it went. She told him great and asked if he was up to a trip to the driveway. He told her sure. They went up to the drive and she showed him the mustang.
He had to know where it came from. She told him the story and what happened while she visited her dad. She told him it had been a 16th birthday gift and it had been a year or more since she had seen it and just figured that the house and the contents of it would have been confinscated at first, and when she found out they had been in her mom's name at first and now were in fact in Nyssa's name she had just never gone to get it. She told him she didn't want to monopolize his car all the time so she went and got it. They headed back down to Vince's room and he crawled back in bed.
"You still feeling weak baby?" She asked.
"No, of course not." Came the answer but she could tell he was fibbing.
"I'm tired out myself. Glad I am not getting up for school tomorrow. She started to change into her night dress. It was one she wore when it was hot outside. Spaghetti straps and a silky material. She slid into bed. "See you in the morning V." She lay on her back and next thing she knew he was looming over her.
"Not going to bed without your good night kiss are you?"
"Well I thought you would be tired."
"I am never too tired for kissing you." She held her arms open and he leaned in and kissed her. He kissed her eyelids and the tip of her nose after her mouth. "Thanks for standing up for me and making sure I got to come home. I get fucked up in hospitals."
"I could tell. My bro hated them too and I always did take him home and take care of him."
"How did it go with your dad? Was he mad that you went to see him even though he told you not to? Dom said the same thing but he was always secretly happy when we visited him anyway."
"Yea, he was happy. He's going to give me my allowance till I get out of school and get a job. He wants me to visit him again, just not all the time. And he wants to meet you." She giggled.
"Really? He wants to meet me?"
"Yea he does. Now go to sleep."
"Only if you sleep over here with me." She rolled over and put her head on his shoulder. He had never instigated contact like that before. Normally they just ended up together over night. She thought that they might just be making progress here. She went to sleep with a smile on her face. Of course the fact that she wasn't getting up early the next day was also nice.