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Note: Welcome to part 2. :)

This is an alternate universe. In this one, Kate is a detective and Ana's best friend.

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PART 2

Papaya and vanilla

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"You will be the end of me, Christian Grey," she whispered, and took a deep breath before walking inside.

"Great!" Christian growled, as he accidentally made the bottle of water fall to the floor.

"You should wait for the nurse to help you." he heard a female voice say, while he was attempting to get the bottle himself.

He recognized her voice immediately. It was her.

Anastasia...

Christian wanted so badly to look up. He so wanted... no, needed to see her. God, he missed her. But, he couldn't. He just wasn't strong enough to face her right now...

"What are you doing here, Anastasia?" he asked, eyes fixed on the water bottle, voice cold as ice, but his heart starting to thaw... as the seconds passed.

There was nothing more he wanted than to look her in the eyes, and pull her in a tight embrace. But, he was still so hurt.

Ana sure did a number on him, and he wasn't the kind of person who forgave that easily.

"Christian," she whispered, her voice soft and sweet.

He heard how she closed the gap between the two of them, and as Ana reached his hospital bed, he decided to act like he had moved on from her.

However, Christian had a feeling that she would make him cave. Why? Because if it involved Anastasia, he was a very weak man. As moments passed, he desperately fought the urge to grab and pull her tightly in an embrace. Just the way he used to...

"Look at me... please?" she asked, her voice pleading.

As he clenched both hands into fists, Christian's eyes fluttered shut. He was taking deep breaths, and that was his mistake... Cause she stood so close to him, and of course all he could do was inhale that oh so delicious, familiar scent of hers... papaya and vanilla. God, he missed her so much!

"Christian? Would you look at me, please?"

Well, there was no turning back now...

As he finally looked up, eyes landing on her, his heart contracted inside his chest for Ana, the feelings he had tucked away years ago, all of a sudden coming back to the surface tenfold!

Tears were spilling from her beautiful, blue eyes, and he wanted nothing more than to hold her tightly and tell her not to cry.

Those eyes of hers... they twinkled, when he used to make her smile, and lit up the moment she saw him... But now they were filled with tears.

Yes, it was true that she had hurt him badly all those years ago. She had broken off their engagement, and left him. But no matter what happened in the past, he never had the heart to see her in pain. As their eyes locked onto each other, Christian felt like he had finally found the thing he lost all those years ago. He was watching her, and at one point he saw her whole body shake.

"I... I'm so s-sorry, Christian." She uttered, while tears streamed down her beautiful face.

Christian couldn't take it any longer, his heart melting for her... he couldn't see her like this anymore. So, he moved closer towards her, and just like he so desperately wanted to, he pulled her in an oh so tight embrace.

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Mia Sawyer considered herself to be a lover, not a fighter. When she saw on the news how cruel humans were to each other, she never understood where all that hatred came from. Why? Why would they hurt each other so much? What's the point? Couldn't they just forgive one another and live civilized? Cause we were civilized people, right?

Right.

So when Mia walked towards her big brother's hospital room, she walked in with a heart full of love. But, when she saw who was standing next to the hospital bed, she INSTANTLY saw red before her very eyes.

Ana... it was Ana! She stood there, hugging Christian like she never left him, like she never broke his heart into little, tiny pieces!

"Ana, how dare you. Stay away from him!" she threatened, her voice filled with anger.

In response, both Christian and Ana turned their faces and looked at her." Mia, I ..." Ana began, but got cut off by the blonde.

"Get... the hell out!" Mia growled, while throwing deadly daggers with her beautiful eyes at the brunette.

"No, I won't let you bully me like this, Mia,"

In response, the blonde stormed at Ana, wanting nothing more than to remove her from Christian's room.

"Mia, stop it." her big brother said, while giving her a pleading look.

"She is evil, Christian! Don't let her suck you back into her life!" Mia pointed out, while tears pooled in her pretty eyes." She's toxic and you know it! And still you take her side?!"

"It's enou..." Christian began, but suddenly felt like he couldn't breathe.

"Christian? Are you OK?" Mia asked worriedly, as she held him on his upper arm.

"Oh, God. Ana, he's turning blue! Help him!" Mia shouted hysterically.

Without hesitation, Ana said." Go get his doctor, right now!"

Mia ran out the hospital room, and hastily went to get the doctor, while she did her very best to resuscitate Christian.' No, no, no! DON'T you dare leave me, Christian. Don't you dare.' was what went through her head, as she worked on him, eyes teary.

Seconds went by, but still she saw no progress on the monitors in Christian's hospital room. Ana's throat closed up, as she observed him for a second. It looked like he was gone... dead. He's... DEAD?!

As her eyes landed on the medical monitoring equipment again, the display of his vital signs showed a flat line. "No," she uttered, her voice breaking and her hands shaking violently.

Ana knew she had to try again to save him, but instead, she froze and watched in horror as the doctor and nurses barged into the room and began working on Christian...

She walked backwards, and stopped in her tracks, when her back hit a wall, still looking at her colleagues, attempting to save Christian's life.

It was in that moment, when she realized that Mia was right. 'I am NOT good for him. I am a toxic person... one who doesn't deserve him,' was what swirled around in her head right then...

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Kate walked out of the Police Station on edge. She just received a call from her neighbor that he heard a loud clatter from her apartment!

Fuck... seriously?! Was someone really breaking into her home? Her safe space? No.

So, that's why she told her boss that she had to go home right away...

Kate stepped into her car, and sped away, while trying her very best to swallow her tears.

Today was such a bad day.

Not only the break-in, but she also received very bad news from Luke Sawyer, Mia's husband.

"What happened, Luke? I thought that Christian was doing fine." she had asked him on the phone, but her friend kept giving her vague answers.

"There were some complications from the surgeries." he replied, not wanting to go into detail.

She had known Luke for a long time, and he was a very detailed kind of person. So, she didn't understand why he was acting this way. Kate just shook that thought off and stepped onto the gas pedal. The investigation on Christian's attack was not going smoothly at all. They had little to no leads, and that just frustrated her enormously! They had some suspects, but they turned out to be dead ends.

However, Kate was not the kind of person/ detective who gave up that easily. She was very determined to solve this particular case...

She WILL find out who had attacked her friend so cruelly and had left him for dead on the side of the road.

"Oh yes... I will," Kate whispered, and stepped on it once more." For Christian... and for Ana,"

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After twenty minutes, Kate arrived at her destination and parked the car. As she entered her apartment building, she got a strange feeling in her gut. "Who could it be? A burglar? Or someone else?" she whispered, as she stepped out of the elevator.

Before she opened her apartment door, Kate pulled out her gun from its holster. When she stepped into the living room, she furrowed her brows. There was a bag on her coffee table. It was then, when she recognized it. It was Ana's.

"Ana? Are you in here? What are you doing, girl?!"

As she walked into the spare bedroom, a familiar scent hit her." Whisky?" she whispered, and shook her head.

And there she was!

It was Ana. Her best friend was lying passed out in the corner of the room, surrounded by a whisky bottle and four glasses.

SERIOUSLY?!

Kate shook her head at that and crouched down. "Ana! Wake up!" she said, and shook the brunette hard on her upper arms, attempting to wake her up.

But when Ana didn't budge, Kate grunted, and got on her feet. She walked out the bedroom, and when she returned, she had had a jug of water in her hands. It was also filled with ice...

The moment she poured it onto Ana, her best friend shrieked and jumped up. "Kate! What the hell?!" she shouted, looking around a bit disoriented. "What's wrong with you, Kate? Why did you do that?!"

"You are questioning MY actions? Seriously?!" Kate exclaimed, while glaring at her bestie. "What are you doing here? And why were you drinking?! Whisky... really, Ana? What's gotten into you, huh?! Do you even know that Christian is in the ICU right now? I..."

"Yes! Yes, I know! I was there OK, when it all went down. Maybe I was the one who caused it! Christian was doing fine, until I... until he," Ana rambled on, but couldn't continue, as she began to sob aloud...

"Hey, tell me what happened?" Kate asked, and pulled her best friend in an embrace.

It didn't matter that Ana was wet from the ice water. Her bestie needed her at the moment, so Kate comforted her.

" Everything will be OK, sweetie... shhh, shhhh," she whispered, and hugged Ana tightly." Christian WILL be fine... he will be OK... He is strong, he's always been the strongest one of our group, since high school... so don't you worry, sweetie,"

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Till part 3!

J