Chapter 4 the Break
The time crept by at a snails pace as Leo kept his solemn vigil. As time passed with no change in Kendrix's condition he became increasingly worried. Mike called to check in on them around six that morning and Leo still didn't have much to report but he was glad to hear from his brother, it made him feel a little better.
And as Leo fought back his fears he tried to think of how he'd tell her he loved her when she woke. If he let his worries claim him now he'd go out of his mind. He'd lost her once and he didn't want to lose her now. He could still remember it all but he forced himself to remember the best moment from the past.
Out of the corner of his eye Leo caught sight of the blue sparkling light and watched as it turned to a very familiar form. Kendrix was really smiling at them, Leo couldn't believe it. She'd always been beautiful but she'd never been this luminescent. He took in her soft blonde curls and those glittering brown eyes.
"I knew you guys would make it here." they all hugged her wildly. Leo backed up as Kendrix moved to stand by Karone.
"I want to thank you for everything you've done." Kendrix said and Karone smiled.
"'I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Leo had never really been drawn to Karone; his brother was though so he had been glad they were friends.
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It was almost four in the morning before the fever broke and when it did Leo almost did a happy dance. Instead he went and filled a glass with water and waited for her to wake up.
It didn't happen until around noon but when she did she seemed a little better. He was relieved and after helping her to drink he got up.
"Why don't I run you a bath? You'll feel better." The green eyed young man suggested and with a nod Kendrix watched as he walked from the room and into the bathroom.
When he returned, Leo asked where her clothes were.
"I can get them." She said and when she began to get up he looked back at her. Pinning her with his emerald eyes.
"You stay right there." He ordered finding what he was looking for and after setting the things in the bathroom he came back to give her a hand.
While she was in the little bathroom next to her room he set to changing all of the bed sheets Leo wondered why she had such simple things. There were no sparkly things like Karone kept and very few pictures like Maya now had. The thing about that was Kendrix didn't seem like the type not to have things laying around.
His thoughts shifted to her clothes and Leo glanced around, the room was perfectly neat, despite the fact that she had the flu. Then he had another thought.
"Kendrix?" Leo called knocking on the bathroom door.
"Yeah?"
"Set your clothes outside the door and I'll take care of them!"
Within a few minutes the hand dropped them on the ground. Leo was ready with a small trash bag which he put them in.
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"Hay Mike!" Leo said when his brother's door cracked open at a nock.
"How is she?" Mike asked meeting him in front of his apartment door.
"Stubborn," Leo rolled his eyes making his older brother smile. Mike knew Kendrix almost as well as his own wife. After all they'd been friends for over seven years and he'd known his little brother would be just as stubborn. That's why he'd set up that call for just the right moment.
"But she'll live, the fever already broke. I'm going to stay with her. Do you think you could have these washed?" The younger man asked.
"Sure." Mike watched him go back into the apartment and hoped that more than just health would come out of this situation for the sake of both of his friends.
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"I'm fine." She smiled weakly but he could tell she had used up her returning strength. The little white strain lines about her eyes and nose were a dead give away.
With out a word Leo helped her back to bed and then he carefully tucked her in.
"Leo?"
"Hmm?"
"Thank you for not listening."
"Hey, when you love somebody you take care of them don't you?"
"Yeah, you do." She murmured as she drifted off.
Leo sat there a little while just watching Kendrix breathing, her chest rising and falling gently and he knew he'd done the right thing, telling her, even if she didn't feel the same. If she didn't even know there would never be a chance.
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Leo scrubbed out the bathroom and then took a quick shower himself before heading into the kitchen to make something to eat. He'd put Kai's offerings in the fridge and so now heated them up.
He made a quick call to the man in question giving him the good news and then put the chicken soup and ham sandwiches on a trey to take into the bedroom. Kendrix would no doubt weak for a while yet so they'd make due.
TBC
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I know it's not the greatest chapter in the world but it's the means to an end. PLZ don't be too harsh.