The next morning as Sakura awakens from her coma
"you know I could feel that right" says Sakura
"your dad said asking your nurse to not stop me was consent, why was that not what you wanted" asks Chase nervously
"I hate that my dad knows that, while I wish you'd had more faith in me I am glad you asked my dad to confirm, I can be a little nuts, thanks to my various conditions" says Sakura
"why aren't you officially diagnosed with the things Hanna found in your bloodwork, the mineral deficiencies or the seizure disorder" asks Chase
"because they didn't respond to treatment, I asked him not to record the diagnosis for either of them because I felt stupid with the diagnosis and no answer, before you ask the broken ribs were a result of a seizure at work, I went limp and hit a table then the thick iron leg, I was seizing on the floor for at least ten minutes before the customer alerted my dad, they assumed I was faking, the surgeon only half fixed them because he didn't want to operate on someone with a seizure disorder, my dad said he was quite racist about it too, said my dad should go find a samurai to fix my ribs instead of 'abusing' the western medical system, as if my life wasn't hard enough" says Sakura
"did you enjoy what you felt during your coma" asks Chase
"you were maybe a bit rough, normally I don't mind but I couldn't do anything to heighten the feeling, I feel better as a top, obviously in a coma that's impossible, I was impressed that you did it even with the cameras in this room" says Sakura
"Quinn assured me the footage would be deleted or handed to us and not the security team, I'm sorry if I was a little rough, I'd never done that before, you're my first, I didn't know how it worked, all I knew was your body clearly enjoyed it" says Chase
"I just wish Quinn would let me have that damn prototype, I hate not being able to see you" says Sakura
"I haven't changed Sakura" says Chase as Zoey walks in
"I sure hope you have because I don't want you leaving her for me" says Zoey
"what did you, Tori, Robbie and Cat break up, I thought you guys were solid" says Chase
"we are, Tori proposed to us last night and Cat's kind of rethinking the entire relationship, she wasn't thinking any of us would ever propose to her, she was actually hoping we wouldn't" says Zoey
"why" asks Sakura nuzzling Chase
"because poly marriages aren't legal, proposing means a superficial split would have to be made in order for it to be legal and Cat is terrible at faking things, Cat's deal is either Tori retracts her proposal or Cat cuts her out of the relationship" says Zoey
"that's kind of mean of Cat, Tori shouldn't have to choose between her happiness and love" says Sakura
"you need to understand it from Cat's point of view Sakura, she's the ONLY person in her entire family who is open to having multiple lovers, accepting Tori's proposal, even if they never get married would mean she'd be disowned by her entire family and none of her kids could ever be a Valentine, Cat has more at risk than any of us are, Tori got permission from a judge to buy all three rings, her own father participated in and at one time considered polygamy, I have a cousin in Canada that is in such a relationship and while Robbie's parents don't believe it should exist they won't stop him from entering into one, Cat is risking being disowned by her entire family, even her parents" says Zoey
"ok I see her problem, though I do not understand why her parents would be angry at her, they've been trying to visit her for months, they knew full well this is the kind of thing Cat really wants, would they really disown her too" says Sakura
"unless they can convince the rest of her family that Cat being in a poly marriage is good for them then they wouldn't have a choice" says Zoey
"isn't having more kids under the Valentine umbrella a good thing" asks Chase
"only in so far that you would have to ignore Robbie's right to having kids with his last name" says Zoey
"not if you hyphenate, Shapiro-Brooks, Shapiro-Valentine and Shapiro-Vega, no distinct lineage is lost, besides Cat has very distinct genetics that only she has in the Valentine family, would they really truly risk losing those traits" says Sakura
"how can you know that, you've never even seen her" says Zoey
"I don't need to, I can tell just by the way she talks she has dimples, she's very smart, when her brain damage co-operates anyway and she's very flexible" says Sakura
"how can you tell she's flexible" asks Zoey
"well for one you just confirmed it, for another she must have some sort of connective tissue disorder because she can talk and talk and talk, nobody talks as long as she does without jaw pain" says Sakura
"oh right….. you wanted to be a genetic scientist, that makes more sense, I'm sorry if I offended you" says Zoey slightly embarrassed
"don't be embarrassed, you got so deep in the weeds that you forgot other people existed, I most likely be the same If not worse with Chase" says Sakura
"well anyway Lacy, Sabrina and Bre arrived this morning, Hanna will likely be with them today" says Zoey as Nicole walks in
"you should know this whole grooming conspiracy thing involving Bre, she accidentally started it" says Sakura
"how could you possibly know that, you don't know them" says Nicole
"because I used to write shipping fiction Nicole, I know which sites absolutely suck, your family wasn't really middle class till after you were born correct" says Sakura
"what's that got to do with anything " asks Nicole
"she had the same cancer I had Hanna confirmed it, after she was cancer free she'd have felt confused, wondering why this could happen to her, that someone had to be responsible, I know this because that's how I feel right now, your family wouldn't have been able to afford a really good blind friendly word editing suite, one of the sites that is blind friendly has an error in its narrative side, it mixed up save and publish with delete, the owners can't and have never been able to fix it because it's a low traffic, low fanbase site, they can't make enough money to afford to re-write the code, I used it because they allow sexier scenes than most sites do, most of its users aren't blind so they can see the words delete and save and publish, anyway there was a one-shot story published by a user named Breanna Blind Bat, she used her real face as a profile photo, the story was about a girl forced to take care of horses, forced to work of her parents debt, you can see how that might be considered grooming" says Sakura
"but Hanna deleted it the day after" says Nicole
"indeed however not before someone took a picture of it and posted it online for millions of people to share and create conspiracy theories about" says Sakura
"Lacy might break up with Bre if she finds out the bombing was because of a story Bre wrote" says Nicole
"if Lacy does that over a mistake she made years ago because of a software problem then Lacy never loved Breanna" says Sakura as Tori walks in
"this is going to be one hell of a test case for their relationship" says Nicole
"can't the police or FBI sue for damages" asks Sakura
"then Bre would have to admit she made a mistake, they had some sort of big fight because they were scheduled for one hospital room, Bre has just requested a private room where neither Lacy nor Sabrina are allowed to be in" says Tori
"absolutely not, you get Hanna to put her on suicide watch immediately" says Nicole
"why, she seems perfectly stable" asks Tori
"because she feels responsible for everything that's happened to her family after our parents died, for those conspiracies, for me and Hanna not getting along period and for Lacy and Sabrina's injuries, if she is left alone unsupervised she will be gone by lunch, the only reason she hasn't attempted suicide is because Lacy had been by her side helping her feel strong, if that's fractured she won't see a way back, no way to redeem herself, she won't understand how anyone could love her after that" says Nicole
CODE BLUE I repeat we have a code blue in room six
"crap" says Nicole running to save Bre
3 hours later
"how was I supposed to know it was an accident" cries Lacy
"did you even ask" asks Nicole nostrils flaring
"she doesn't like me asking questions, she will only answer questions about you, Hanna, me or Sabrina, if I even attempt to ask her about ANYTHING before your guys parents deaths she bites me hard, it actually hurts" says Lacy
"the latest conspiracy about her killing her parents set her off, she became very combative, the only time she would talk in a calm voice was when she was trying to convince Lacy to make love with her, they mentioned the one-shot story she'd written" says Sabrina as Hanna sighs
"she's the reason they were on that plane, she was feeling depressed and the only thing that made her smile were the smell of Hawaiian flowers from an expensive store in San Francisco, they got the bright idea to get her a bunch of flowers directly from the source so they chartered a jet to get there and back quickly, you know no international agency has actually managed to recover their bodies and it's been years, so YEAH she feels responsible, that site had a speech to text feature that she LOVED, she'd never saved anything after she spoke those stories before, always closed the browser window, that day she thought maybe saving it so she could hear it back, her own voice telling the story would help with her depression that day, like I said she'd never saved anything before, since she couldn't see either she didn't know it would publish the story" says Hanna
"what can we do" asks Sabrina
"WE is the right word Sabrina, you want her to feel secure you BOTH become involved with her" says Nicole
"Lacy and I are TWINS, by definition we can't be both involved with Bre" says Sabrina
"Sabi she said with BRE not with each other, meaning we could set up a schedule and SHARE her" says Lacy
"oh right that makes sense, I guess I'm not used to sharing nor am I used to Bre being willing to that kind of thing…. Is Catarina pregnant" says Sabrina
"Robbie wears as Cat calls it a 'stick sleeve' but it is possible one broke yes, she's been ordering pregnancy tests left and right since last night , the one she took this morning came back negative but she will continue testing, why" says Tori
"her face was a tad puffy, that's how our mom was when she was pregnant with us" says Lacy
"oh that, ya no that's an allergic reaction to a lotion she bought, it was supposed to de-oil her face, all of a sudden she's afraid about zits and acne because she read something that said there was a link between a high sex drive and bad acne or zits, anyway go talk to her but let Nicole do the talking" says Tori
"at this point I'm not sure we deserve her" says Sabrina
"that's not up for you guys to decide Sabrina, it's up to her, she needs to feel secure, she felt she wasn't and you guys had yelled at her, then the doctor covering your case allowed her to be left alone, she didn't see another choice, her mental stability, much like Cat's memory is in constant flux, if she feels alone there really isn't an outcome where she comes out alive, now lets go talk to her" says Nicole
With Breanna
"did that doctor really need to cuff me to my bed, I wasn't going to run" cries Breanna
"you had your iv needle pressed to your neck, Lacy and Sabrina are here" says Nicole as Breanna immediately covers her ears
"haven't they hurt me enough" asks Breanna
"you're going to want to hear this trust me" says Nicole as Breana sighs and uncovers her ears
"fine I'll listen but I don't expect to be happy with what they want to say" says Breanna
"we didn't know it was a mistake, you know Sabrina can be hot headed, she assumes things, she'd convinced me you set us up" says Lacy
"I know you like both of us, being twins I though you'd wanted me to break the law and include lacy in our special time, that's why I rejected your advances, what if we set up a schedule, like Lacy and I split the day with you, there's a lot more to do here than there was at old home" says Sabrina
"if you guys are seriously offering then I want MY rules, not yours, I have the most to lose, we go full time, not halvsies, I can choose what we do and when, the only hard rule is neither of you are allowed to kiss or be romantic with one another, your focus is ME, I'm sorry if I'm being overbearing, mom and dad did everything for me, I just feel like such a failure, I'm truly at a loss without them, for someone to use them to make me sad is cruel, I suffer enough being blind, why does nobody outside a small circle in my life seem to care" bawls Breanna as Lacy and Sabrina get in the hospital bed with Bre and cuddle her
"you're not alone in this Bre, we're all family, we will get through this together" says Lacy
"I just think they'd be sad Hanna is still single" says Breanna calming right down
"both the girl AND guy I had crushes on died in a crash three months ago Breanna, I can't just create the perfect human for me out of thin air, besides Bre you know how nobody likes me back anyway, I've just given up trying, if someone wants to come sweep me off my feet they can if they want I just don't see it happening" says Hanna