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A/N: A-M; I love you!
Chapter 10
When Sadey returned, she had in hand a large, plastic, red tray like the ones they use to have in fast food places, clutched in her hands. Her stubby pink painted nails clashed with the red, almost making her hands look like they were part of the tray. From where I was sitting, I could see she had placed a huge stack of pancakes on a large plate in the middle of the tray, and she had piled many strips of bacon onto a smaller plate next to the pancakes.
She smiled when she saw me staring hungrily at the food she brought. She carefully set the tray on my lap, and handed me a small fork. Then she sat down on the edge of my bed.
"We don't have any syrup I'm afraid. The farmers haven't brought the months new supply of food to the city yet." Sadey said, as she watched as I began to cut apart one of the pancakes on my plate.
"Oh that's quite all right. I haven't had pancakes for ages! They look wonderful." I finally took a bite, and found that these pancakes were the most delicious things I had ever eaten since the virus struck. "MMM!" I exclaimed. "Did you make these yourself?" I watched Sadey's grin grow wider as I shoveled the food in my mouth.
"Yes I did.. And you might want to slow down a bit." She laughed softly. "Your stomach might not take kindly to a lot of food at once."
"I guess your right." I slowed down my pace, and Sadey and I sat quietly for a while.
Finally when I was starting into my plate of bacon, she asked, "How far along are you?"
"Pregnant you mean?" I asked after I swallowed a bit of bacon. Sadey nodded in reply. "A month."
"So why did your friend send you to Bane city?" Sadey saw my face contract into a look of painful thought. "If you don't mind me asking."
I frowned a bit. I hadn't thought of Lex for about an hour, which was a good record for me. But now Sadey had put my mind right back on him. My head started to pound a little.
After an awkward silence though, I smiled a bit, and answered. "Well, My friend, her name's Amber, said this would be a safe place for me to have my baby. I wanted to leave where I lived before, because I already have a daughter, and well, I thought it would be best If I left for a while and left her with capable hands."
Sadey nodded. "I've seen Amber here before. She use to go in Fran's casino a lot. I don't know why she would befriend Fran.. She didn't seem like the type to hang around with Fran's riffraff.. But.. I can't judge." Sadey shook her head, and continued. "Anyway, you say you have a daughter? Aren't you going to miss her?"
I closed my eyes to this and sighed. I was going to miss Brady.. More then anything. "Of course I'll miss her. But it's better this way."
"I guess you have to follow your instincts." Sadey grabbed my now empty plate, and stood up. She placed the tray on the bed next to me, and turned back and looked into my eyes. "Are you ready to try to stand up? Seeing you're so determined to see Fran today."
I nodded and pulled the blankets off of me, and turned, placing my bare feet on the cold, white, linoleum.
Sadey grabbed my arm, and she slowly helped me stand up. Right away when she did, I felt a horrible rush of lightness to my head, and everything began to spin in front of my eyes. My leg hurt more then anything I had experienced, and soon I heard a loud scream erupting from my sore lips. I felt myself being pushed down onto my bed, and I felt someone, later it was obvious it was Sadey, shoving a cup of water to my lips. I coughed as the liquid poured into my mouth, and I finally ended up retching over the side of my bed. I started to shake, and it took about 5 minutes until I could see normal again. I could feel Sadey rubbing my back, and I saw her looking at me intently when I could finally see her.
"I- I'm sorry." I stammered. I coughed a little, and stared into Sadey's eyes.
"It's quite alright." Sadey said rubbing my back. "That was just a combination of morning sickness and the fact that your not fully healed." Sadey seemed shaken. She finally let go of me, and sighed, walking over to a cabinet on the wall on my right. She pulled out a white clean white medical gown, and handed it to me. "I want you to put that on and move to the bed next to you.. I'll get the one your sitting on now cleaned up later."
I grabbed the medical gown from her when she came back over and held it out, and carefully, I half hoped, half crawled onto the bed next to me, and I collapsed on it.
Sadey turned away for a moment and waited until I pulled the new medical gown on, and she took the soiled one from me. When she brought it over to a bin labeled "Laundry", she looked back at me, with worry etched in her face. "This settles it." She said firmly. "You're not leaving until your better."
I opened my mouth to protest, but Sadey shook her head. "No.. You're staying. You can't even stand up. And you have a baby to consider. Now your going to lay right back down, and your going to sleep. I'll bring you some food later."
I finally decided that protesting was a stupid thing to do. So I nodded and smiled a little. "Thank you. For letting me stay."
Sadey smiled back. "Your welcome here whenever. I'll help you the best I can. Now sleep."
With that, I laid down in my new bed, and cuddled myself into the blankets. I was surprised by how tired I was, because the minute I put my head on my pillow, I fell asleep.
I awoke to find that the hospital room I was in was dim with a faint light. I could tell it was sunset. My stomach growled with hunger, and my head was aching a little. To my surprise two people were sitting on the bed next to me whispering to each other. They were half in shadow, but I recognized them right away as the boy and the girl I had seen on the road. They didn't notice I was awake at first, so I just watched them. After a while the girl realized I was staring, and her face broke into a grin.
"Trudy your awake." Right away I recognized that voice. It was Patsy!
"Pasty!" I called out, sitting up quickly. "Your alive! And you must be Paul. "I nodded toward Patsy's brother, and he nodded happily.
"Good, now that you're awake I can turn on some light." I watched Patsy curiously as she walked over to the far wall and hit the light switch. Normally I would have expected nothing to happen, but the minute she hit the switch, all of the lights in the room erupted to life.
"They have actual power here?" I said, in shock.
"Yeah!" Patsy said happily as she sat down next to her brother. "They have their own generators. They power the whole city."
"I could learn to like this place." I said playfully as I sat back onto my bed. "So how did you two get here?"
"Paul's been here ever sense he left the mall 7 years ago. He wandered onto it by pure luck. He left cause Lex was bullying him to wear a suit for Zandra's wedding. He doesn't like weddings." Paul nodded as Patsy spoke. Still the same they were. Patsy did all the talking. "Me, I was sent to the mines after Luke pulled some strings. The Chosen broke up not long after, so I wasn't there long. And I wandered on this place by pure accident when I was trying to find my way back to the mall. I didn't want to leave once I knew Paul was here."
"Well I'm very glad you're both alive." I said, feeling a bit old as I did. Pasty looked so much older now that she had black hair and she had grown up so much. And Paul.. It was a lot to take in that they were now sitting right in front of me.
"We're glad you're alive too." Paul said, in the same muffled fashion as he had when we were on the road.
"Yeah we didn't think you'd make it though the night when we got you back here." Patsy shivered a little.
I was about to say that Cloe was at the mall, and that she missed Patsy terribly, when I erupted into a long yawn. Patsy began to speak again before I could.
"You better get some sleep. And you're most likely hungry." Patsy said this very quickly. "It's our fault you woke up."
"No no.. It's fine.. Well.. I am a little hungry.. But I think I want to sleep a bit more." I said quietly. "I'm glad to see you two though."
"We understand!" Paul said, getting up and grabbing Patsy's hand.
"Yeah. We'll wait out in the visiting waiting room just outside of here. And later we'll bring you food." Pasty started to walk towards the door, with Paul behind her, and she hit the light switch, and all of the lights slowly flickered out again.
"See you later you two." I called out as they walked out, quickly falling asleep again in the gathering darkness.
