Chapter 9, Enjoy!

Warnings: Light Angst

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Two and A Half Women, Oh...and Carlos

Chapter 9

If Wishes were Sitches

Julie stared down at her hand, her eyes wide and her mouth tightly closed, her face pale. She hadn't meant to slip on the wet sidewalk, she hadn't meant to slice her hand wide open on the sharp piece of metal that rested in the grass by said sidewalk. Julie sat up from her fall and stared down at her hand, which was now bleeding heavily, blood staining her shorts and the sidewalk.

It didn't hurt

'It's okay, Julie, baby, it doesn't hurt-AH!'

So much blood….

'Dios, she's bleeding out! Move out the way, Julie!'

Julie looked down at her hands and then to her white shirt, which was also being stained with her blood.

Her Mommy's white dress, stained with blood, the wood she rested on staining with blood as well.

"-lie!"

'It's okay Baby…I'll be okay…'

"-ulie!"

'I-I'll be okay-it doesn't hurt now…jus..'

"-ULIE-"

'Just a bit cold….'

Someone was screaming, she didn't know who was screaming. It sounded horrible, like they were dying. Why weren't they stopping? The screaming sounded like it hurt!

"Julie! Julie!" Carlos shook his screaming daughter, why wouldn't she stop screaming? "Julie, it's okay, Julie!"

Stephanie was by his side as well, ripping up her jacket and wetting it with her water to wrap Julie's wounded hand up tightly. She moved out the way as Carlos pulled Julie back and splashed the rest of Stephanie's water on her face.

That did the trick, Julie stopped screaming and was now panting, tears in her eyes and her frame trembling. She wasn't looking at them but, her eyes were wide open, the pupils blown. Carlos cursed and lifted his eldest daughter in his arms. He knew how she was with blood.

"I'm going to take her to the hospital," Carlos looked over to Stephanie, holding Julie close, "It looked like a deep cut, she's going to need stitches."

"Okay, I'll stay here with Heidi and the others," Stephanie picked up the crying Heidi and held her tight, "Is she going to be okay?"

"I think so," Carlos leaned in and kissed Stephanie and Heidi, "We'll be back soon, okay?"

"Okay," Stephanie rubbed Heidi's back as Carlos made his way to the car. She had been shaken as well when Julie began to scream bloody murder. Stephanie let Heidi cry in her shoulder before taking her back to the waiting group.

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"It's been a while since she's freaked out like that," Carlos mused, running a hand through his hair and looking over to the person beside him, "I thought she was dying."

"I guess because she hasn't had a trigger like that in a while, it was a big one," Tank looked down at Julie, her injured hand had needed stitches and had to get a few rounds of shots as well. The first shot had her back to her old self and the last three shots had her spitting mad and whipping out the arsenal of curse words she knew.

"Yeah, she's been extra careful when it comes to cuts and blood, this one was out of the blue," Carlos sighed, "I don't want to call the therapist, but if I have to.."

"You two should talk it out before calling her, you might be able to defuse the situation before then," Tank looked at the man and then to Julie, who was slowly waking up, "Oh, look, the hellion has risen from the land of dreams, I should escape before she decides that I'm an easy target."

That's right, Uncle Tank, you better run, got some eggs with your name on it," Julie muttered, opening her eyes and turning to Tank, "Stupid nurses, putting me to sleep."

"You had one running out in tears," Carlos smiled as Julie sat up, "I gave them the green light to knock you out."

"Hmph, mean," Julie didn't object to Carlos pulling her into his arms, instead she curled into him, "…."

"Wanna talk about it?" Carlos asked, running his hand through Julie's hair, "I'm a good listener."

"….I triggered myself," Julie muttered, looking down at her bandaged hand, "How bad was the cut?"

"Really bad, lost a lot of-" Carlos started but he went silent, "It's been awhile since you had an episode, last one was when we watched the Shining and the elevator scene."

"…." Julie gripped her father's shirt tightly and whispered, "I wish blood didn't affect me the way it does, it makes me look like a wimp."

"You experienced something traumatic, you get a free pass," Carlos kissed the top of Julie's head, "Anyone that gives you flack for it, is going to get an earful from me."

"….she almost died that night, didn't she?" Julie looked up at Carlos, with tears in her eyes, "I just remember her cooking, and then she was on the floor, screaming, and the blood, all that blood."

"She did," Carlos nodded her head, "We almost lost your mother and Heidi that night."

"How did you feel when that event was occurring?" Julie sat up, now interested, "If it scarred me, it must have maimed you."

"…I guess it did," Carlos looked at the wall, playing with a lock of Julie's hair, "Her screams, I can still remember them. She was screaming so loudly, in some much and then she was getting weaker, she was bleeding out too fast. Her silence was what scared me the most, when she went silent and passed out from blood loss, I thought she had died then and there. I thought Uncle Bobby couldn't come fast enough and-I thought she was gone."

Carlos looked down at Julie and smiled softly, "Blood scares me a little too, because of the same thing."

"Sometimes, I wish I wish I was Heidi. She didn't really know Mommy, didn't see her suffer like we did. She's latched on to Stephanie and-I know you want me and her to connect but-she's not mommy. She's nice and all that, but she's not my mom."

"I know, and you shouldn't say that you wished that you had no memory of your mom. You were special enough to get her love and to remember it. Though I know Heidi loves Stephanie, there's a hole that Stephanie can't fill. She's asking questions that I'm not ready to answer, I'm scared to open those wounds again."

"You scared?" Julie scoffed, "Yeah right."

"I am scared, I may be a brave guy, but even brave guys get scared of something," Carlos looked down at Julie, "Do we need to call the doctor?"

"…No…" Julie mumbled, looking away, "….okay, yeah, let's go talk to her, together, okay?"

"Alright, together," Carlos hugged his daughter and kissed her cheek, "Ready to go back to the party?

"Yeah, you think Ms. Plum is gonna be pissed I ruined her Easter Party?"

"If she is, Stephanie will put her in her place," Carlos pinched Julie's cheek, "Come on, we'll stop on the way back and get some ice cream and fireworks."

"Sweet!"

End.

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