Broken Joy
By Kelly
(E-mail: Kelly@jadedjem.com)
A/N: I'd love to hear suggestions, or plot devices on this, because I'm kinda floundering. Also I'm considering making this a. joint story, so I am on the look out for a co-writer, who has been doing FATF FF's for a while, and will help to keep me motivated and on track, as I tend to waver off the track frequently!!!
For my Reviewers:
Hiphopstar-: Thanks so much! As the first reviewer on this story I give you un-limited cookies!
Kerri-: Thanks for the review, and with luck I will keep this one going, and at the moment I have a basic storyline but even as far as that goes the possibilities are endless.
Sevas Tra-: Thanks for the review and as for modem troubles I feel ya, mines being a hose-beast at the moment as well. So much for cable internet be connected all the time with my beast of a modem! Re-reading the prologue I realized all the grammar and spelling mistakes I had, I wrote it late at night and blatantly refused to except help from spell-check and the grammar checker!
MarMar-: I'm hoping this'll be popular. Really I just started writing this to try and over-come my writers block and get back to my other fic's, but now I'm liking it a lot.
Foxy-latina-: My other fic, ahhh yes, Jealousy, well actually, I was writing this one hoping to get over my Writers block and get back into writing that one, but I'll have a go at this and see how long the inspiration lasts and when I've finished with this one for the time being then I'll go to twisted and try and get the Leon-Anita vibe happening, and then with luck I'll be back into Jealousy with a vengeance.
Insanityzcat-: I'm glad you liked it! I have a tendency to over do the drama, so it becomes, melodrama. But I'm reigning in all my skills at temperance and the less is more principle in the hopes of keeping this from becoming insane with melodrama.
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Chapter 1
Mia skidded into the ambulance zone at the hospital and dove out of the car already at the reception desk by the time Jesse got out of the car. "Mia you can't park." Jesse shrugged and got into the drivers side moving the car to the car park.
Mia ran down the hallway to the paediatric ward, stopping to demand to know where Gabrielle Toretto was being kept, with a look that refused argument on pain of a slow and terrible death. Armed with the information her hair flew out behind her as she marched down the hallway to meet with Ele William's gaze.
"Where is she?" Mia said already turning to the window and peering in on her niece, her heart clenching painfully, her hand going to the glass trying to mentally reach through and grab the baby's hand. Ele came to stand beside her quietly looking in on the child with the same gripping pain, that seemed to unify women in a way men couldn't understand.
"What's wrong with her?" Mia whispered, her breath fogging up the glass.
"We do not know much yet. They have been doing many tests. She has been in for two days. Scarlet says she stopped breathing." Ele murmured.
"Letty? Where is she?" Mia said looking around for her best friend.
'She is talking to the doctor. They left just as I called you; they have been in that room for the last 30 minutes. Nurses come and go from the room but no one informs me of anything." Ele blustered just as a nurse came and questioned her.
"Who is Miss William's next of kin?" The nurse asked refusing to look up from her chart at either of the intimidating women.
"Dios querido!" Ele clutched her heart. "I am her mother." Ele said faintly, Mia's hand supporting her.
"It's nothing to worry about ma'am." The nurse assured her sharply, eyeing the elderly woman, suspiciously. "The doctor would just like your permission to sedate your daughter she'd worked herself up into a state, and it isn't healthy for her to stay that way."
"Sedate?" Ele looked at Mia appalled. "What is this sedate? She needs not be sedated, I wish to see her. Now!" Ele demanded she would handle this.
The nurse looked on objecting silently as Ele pushed passed her and burst into the room holding her daughter captive, shutting the door again firmly.
Mia turned to see Jesse walking fast towards her and she sighed, pushing her chin up and refusing to let tears fall, as she brought Jesse to the window and explained quietly what had happened while Jesse had been away.
Both were standing impatiently near the door as the doctor, and then Ele and a sober Letty emerged, all three faces grim. The doctor said something softly, placed a comforting hand on Letty's shoulder then walked away quietly.
Ele clucked softly, one arm around her daughter, as Letty looked up tearily, and eyed off Jesse and Mia, before stiffly wrapping her arms around Mia as she brought her into a tight hug of commiseration. Ele un- tangled herself subtly and moved to give Jesse a hug.
All four moved slowly back to the sofa a short way away from the window.
"What's wrong?" Mia finally broached her big brown eye's dark with concern.
Letty looked at her mother and her mother reached across to squeeze her hand supportively, letting her take as long as she needed before she spoke, her voice rough, "He., um, called it," Letty tried to remember, "Sickle Cell Disease." She nodded swallowing around the lump in her throat. "He says, says that, there is a good chance she'll have it for the rest of her life. If, if she does, he said, it's, most likely she won't live much longer then, then 40.' Letty choked, on the sick taste in her throat.
"You said if?" Mia asked softly, "Is there anything they can do to diminish the chances?" Mia asked, she knew SCD effected the red blood cells and instead of having the normal round mailable red blood cells, people with SCD had sickle shaped, hard pointed cells that could get caught and be extremely painful. She didn't know to much about causes, symptoms or cures.
Letty shook her head weakly. "No. She, well she's young enough to qualify for a blood transfusion, but the chances of finding a donor are rare, they have to be the right blood type, and not carry the, the, gene, that, uh, that causes it, the disease, he said there isn't a high chance of, success." Letty stood then and muttered, "He said I could hold her now." Then she walked towards the nearest nurse looking desolate.
Ele looked to Mia for explanation.
Mia shrugged helplessly, "I don't know, I'll, look into it. Talk to my professors. Check out some textbooks, I guess it's good news about the transfer." Mia said figuring it was a little too early to be that optimistic.
Ele nodded slowly, looking around they needed to take their mind of this. "Where is Domi? Is he on his way? You told him yes?" Ele asked. Of course she would have. It was the entire reason Ele had called.
Mia and Jesse passed a covert glance at each other before they dropped their heads in shame and Jesse shook his slowly. "He isn't coming." Jesse muttered.
"What do you mean he is not coming? He knows? Does he know his daughter is in hospital? Does he not care? Is he loco?" Ele hissed in outrage.
"He knows," Mia said slowly, "He isn't crazy. Just a disgusting, shameful, coward." Mia scowled in something more then just anger. It was a cancerous mix of shame, disgust, rage, and confusion.
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**Preview of Chapter 2**
"Mia and Jesse are on their way home, They just have to drop Ele off. Leon and I are gonna go see how Letty's holding up." Vince muttered to Dom, eyeing his friend slowly before muttering just as casually, "You sure you don't wanna come? I bet Letty would like to see ya." Vince said shrugging into his jacket.
"No, uh, no. Be best if I stay here. You'll tell me how the baby's doing right?" Dom asked rubbing his bald head and looking at the only person he could trust to help him. Vince was the only one that knew the full story. Besides him and Letty... hell Dom wasn't even sure he knew the full story.
By Kelly
(E-mail: Kelly@jadedjem.com)
A/N: I'd love to hear suggestions, or plot devices on this, because I'm kinda floundering. Also I'm considering making this a. joint story, so I am on the look out for a co-writer, who has been doing FATF FF's for a while, and will help to keep me motivated and on track, as I tend to waver off the track frequently!!!
For my Reviewers:
Hiphopstar-: Thanks so much! As the first reviewer on this story I give you un-limited cookies!
Kerri-: Thanks for the review, and with luck I will keep this one going, and at the moment I have a basic storyline but even as far as that goes the possibilities are endless.
Sevas Tra-: Thanks for the review and as for modem troubles I feel ya, mines being a hose-beast at the moment as well. So much for cable internet be connected all the time with my beast of a modem! Re-reading the prologue I realized all the grammar and spelling mistakes I had, I wrote it late at night and blatantly refused to except help from spell-check and the grammar checker!
MarMar-: I'm hoping this'll be popular. Really I just started writing this to try and over-come my writers block and get back to my other fic's, but now I'm liking it a lot.
Foxy-latina-: My other fic, ahhh yes, Jealousy, well actually, I was writing this one hoping to get over my Writers block and get back into writing that one, but I'll have a go at this and see how long the inspiration lasts and when I've finished with this one for the time being then I'll go to twisted and try and get the Leon-Anita vibe happening, and then with luck I'll be back into Jealousy with a vengeance.
Insanityzcat-: I'm glad you liked it! I have a tendency to over do the drama, so it becomes, melodrama. But I'm reigning in all my skills at temperance and the less is more principle in the hopes of keeping this from becoming insane with melodrama.
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Chapter 1
Mia skidded into the ambulance zone at the hospital and dove out of the car already at the reception desk by the time Jesse got out of the car. "Mia you can't park." Jesse shrugged and got into the drivers side moving the car to the car park.
Mia ran down the hallway to the paediatric ward, stopping to demand to know where Gabrielle Toretto was being kept, with a look that refused argument on pain of a slow and terrible death. Armed with the information her hair flew out behind her as she marched down the hallway to meet with Ele William's gaze.
"Where is she?" Mia said already turning to the window and peering in on her niece, her heart clenching painfully, her hand going to the glass trying to mentally reach through and grab the baby's hand. Ele came to stand beside her quietly looking in on the child with the same gripping pain, that seemed to unify women in a way men couldn't understand.
"What's wrong with her?" Mia whispered, her breath fogging up the glass.
"We do not know much yet. They have been doing many tests. She has been in for two days. Scarlet says she stopped breathing." Ele murmured.
"Letty? Where is she?" Mia said looking around for her best friend.
'She is talking to the doctor. They left just as I called you; they have been in that room for the last 30 minutes. Nurses come and go from the room but no one informs me of anything." Ele blustered just as a nurse came and questioned her.
"Who is Miss William's next of kin?" The nurse asked refusing to look up from her chart at either of the intimidating women.
"Dios querido!" Ele clutched her heart. "I am her mother." Ele said faintly, Mia's hand supporting her.
"It's nothing to worry about ma'am." The nurse assured her sharply, eyeing the elderly woman, suspiciously. "The doctor would just like your permission to sedate your daughter she'd worked herself up into a state, and it isn't healthy for her to stay that way."
"Sedate?" Ele looked at Mia appalled. "What is this sedate? She needs not be sedated, I wish to see her. Now!" Ele demanded she would handle this.
The nurse looked on objecting silently as Ele pushed passed her and burst into the room holding her daughter captive, shutting the door again firmly.
Mia turned to see Jesse walking fast towards her and she sighed, pushing her chin up and refusing to let tears fall, as she brought Jesse to the window and explained quietly what had happened while Jesse had been away.
Both were standing impatiently near the door as the doctor, and then Ele and a sober Letty emerged, all three faces grim. The doctor said something softly, placed a comforting hand on Letty's shoulder then walked away quietly.
Ele clucked softly, one arm around her daughter, as Letty looked up tearily, and eyed off Jesse and Mia, before stiffly wrapping her arms around Mia as she brought her into a tight hug of commiseration. Ele un- tangled herself subtly and moved to give Jesse a hug.
All four moved slowly back to the sofa a short way away from the window.
"What's wrong?" Mia finally broached her big brown eye's dark with concern.
Letty looked at her mother and her mother reached across to squeeze her hand supportively, letting her take as long as she needed before she spoke, her voice rough, "He., um, called it," Letty tried to remember, "Sickle Cell Disease." She nodded swallowing around the lump in her throat. "He says, says that, there is a good chance she'll have it for the rest of her life. If, if she does, he said, it's, most likely she won't live much longer then, then 40.' Letty choked, on the sick taste in her throat.
"You said if?" Mia asked softly, "Is there anything they can do to diminish the chances?" Mia asked, she knew SCD effected the red blood cells and instead of having the normal round mailable red blood cells, people with SCD had sickle shaped, hard pointed cells that could get caught and be extremely painful. She didn't know to much about causes, symptoms or cures.
Letty shook her head weakly. "No. She, well she's young enough to qualify for a blood transfusion, but the chances of finding a donor are rare, they have to be the right blood type, and not carry the, the, gene, that, uh, that causes it, the disease, he said there isn't a high chance of, success." Letty stood then and muttered, "He said I could hold her now." Then she walked towards the nearest nurse looking desolate.
Ele looked to Mia for explanation.
Mia shrugged helplessly, "I don't know, I'll, look into it. Talk to my professors. Check out some textbooks, I guess it's good news about the transfer." Mia said figuring it was a little too early to be that optimistic.
Ele nodded slowly, looking around they needed to take their mind of this. "Where is Domi? Is he on his way? You told him yes?" Ele asked. Of course she would have. It was the entire reason Ele had called.
Mia and Jesse passed a covert glance at each other before they dropped their heads in shame and Jesse shook his slowly. "He isn't coming." Jesse muttered.
"What do you mean he is not coming? He knows? Does he know his daughter is in hospital? Does he not care? Is he loco?" Ele hissed in outrage.
"He knows," Mia said slowly, "He isn't crazy. Just a disgusting, shameful, coward." Mia scowled in something more then just anger. It was a cancerous mix of shame, disgust, rage, and confusion.
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**Preview of Chapter 2**
"Mia and Jesse are on their way home, They just have to drop Ele off. Leon and I are gonna go see how Letty's holding up." Vince muttered to Dom, eyeing his friend slowly before muttering just as casually, "You sure you don't wanna come? I bet Letty would like to see ya." Vince said shrugging into his jacket.
"No, uh, no. Be best if I stay here. You'll tell me how the baby's doing right?" Dom asked rubbing his bald head and looking at the only person he could trust to help him. Vince was the only one that knew the full story. Besides him and Letty... hell Dom wasn't even sure he knew the full story.