Thanks to Ally R. Swan for reviewing.
I have started a new story and written several oneshots since I put this up. I'll post the titles and fandoms here and someone might find something they know and like.
-I'll tell you I'm fine (but I'm actually not- Alexa and Katie (two chapters, one more to go)
And the oneshots…
-Reunited- Lord of the flies
-Happy birthday to you- Once upon a time (birthday gift for Ally R. Swan)
-Different birthdays- 13 reasons why (Birthday gift for Dark Heart 945)
-Drowning with love- glee (written in memory of Naya Rivera)
-A new type of music- If only
-Nobody said it was easy (take me back to the start)- everything everything
For weeks and weeks every member of our dumping ground- family had been longing to go outside for just one little moment.
Someone came into your grandmother's shop this morning. They think it's her but no one is sure. So they need someone who knows her well to come and tell.
So she's dead?
No. But it probably not long left until she is. And in case it's someone else, someone needs to be able to tell.
Someone like me?
Yes. If you're okay with it we can go right now.
If I was to go back only an hour or two I would never expect that getting outside of the house would come so sudden…
And I wouldn't have expected that my terrible bully of gran would ever die.
Right now I sat in the shotgun seat next to May- Li while she drove us towards the hospital….
I hadn't said it. But this wasn't okay with me.
I wasn't afraid that she might be dead. I was afraid that she might not be. I hadn't met her since I was taken away from her by the social services and I could only imagine what she'd have to tell me if she was awake.
And maybe she was- maybe this was just some scam to make me come see her so she could do exactly that…
"Here we go." May- Li said as she pulled over bby the A&E. "Are you ready?"
I wasn't.
"Yeah. Sure."
"Then let's go inside."
The doors to the hospitals were locked, we had to ring a doorbell and then wait for someone to get us.
"Here." A nurse came. "Rebecca Hyde?"
I just couldn't answer, my throat was thick and I couldn't make a noise- let alone a word. So it was a good thing May- Li could come with me and we were led inside.
"We're not sure about who it is." The nurse explained to us while giving us all the ecquipment to wear because of the virus. She was found at your grandmother's shop though, but it was closed and nobody knows how long she'd been lying there on the floor."
"But she's alive, still?"
"It looks as if she had a heart attack or a stroke. But we'll know if she dies and we can make an obduction."
I couldn't help but nod, slightly and slowly as I got on a plastic screen taped around my forehead along with the mask over my nose and mouth and the overall and gloves I was already wearing.
If these times weren't over soon we'd be choking to death before anything else.
"Here. Come with me." May- Li had gotten on the same "clothes" as I did and the nurse led us through the hallway where patients were lying in every corner, big plastic sheets had been put up every here and there and just everything spoke about today's times, virus and quarantine. "In here she is."
She showed us into one room with only one bed, cut off from the rest of the hospital.
I didn't need to take a second look…
There was a machine beeping next to the bed, and on the bed laid my grandmother…
….She was quiet and still and relaxed, maybe or maybe not for the first in her life.
"Is this your grandmother?"
"Yes."
Suddenly I noticed how it was just like her body still shone of hatefulness and anger, just like it had when I saw her last and she could barely talk to me…
"Would you like to be alone? Obviously you won't be able to talk to her but maybe there's something that you want to say?"
There were things I wanted to say for sure, and as the nurse left and May- Li stood behind me I leaned over gran before suddenly the thickness in my throat was gone and I wanted to say all at once.
"I hate you…." Was the first thing I could think of saying and the most important. …"You made my life hell and I'm happy you're almost dead. I hope it was as painful as it could have ever been and I despise each and every word we ever spoke to each other."
I raised again and walked back to May- Li.
"Can we go home now?"
"Bec?" May- Li tried carefully. "Are you sure those are the last things I want to say?"
"What do you think I should say? I'm not going to say that I love her because I don't. I'm not going to say that I was happy with her because I never were. Every word I said was true. My gran was a mean bully that took me in because she had to when my mum died and didn't let me go until I forced her too. And life at the dumping ground is so much better than I ever had with her…"
What I wanted to say.
"…And except for bullying me herself she agreed and helped the ones who did. So yes, these were the last things I wanted to say…" I turned back to the bed. "I HATE YOU."
Random fact
I probably got it wrong with how Joan was found like that and brought to the hospital. But I guess it works for the story and it went with the storylines.