"Are you gonna answer me now?" Evan asked, sounding a little more annoyed than before. "I'm not going to let you forget this - I will keep bugging you until you answer me."
"Can you wait 'till we get down to the harbor?" Alix rolled her eyes. "I'm using all my energy trying to hold onto the Slurpee and not fall over with these stupid crutches making life difficult..."
"I could take the Slurpee, do you think you could talk then?" Evan offered, holding his hand out and Alix glared at him.
"No." she said, eying a wooden bench that was close to harbor side. Resting on her good foot, she pointed with her left crutch at the bench. "See that bench? I'll race ya' to it. You win and I'll tell you right then and there how I know Baltimore so well. I win I get to wait until whenever I want to tell you."
"Oh you are so on, Gimp." Evan laughed, setting himself up to begin running. "On your mark...get set...get...set..."
"Say go already!" Alix laughed, getting too impatient to put up with Evan's jokes at the moment.
"Go!" Evan yelled and Alix glared at him for a millisecond as he took off running. She knew he had planned on her getting too impatient. Scared ti race a gimp, eh? That's real nice...
Alix pushed off almost immediately after Evan, barely letting her good foot touch the ground to steady herself. People on either side of her looked at her as if she was completely insane but she just raced passed them as if they didn't exist; surprisingly quickly for someone on crutches.
"Woah - woah; shit!" Alix swore as one of her crutches slipped and most of her weight was placed on her hurt left ankle. "Fuck! Crap...oh my god...shoot me...just shoot me now..." she whimpered, her hands and elbows scraped up but all that hurt was her ankle and she could feel that all the way up to her stomach and hips.
Evan picked her up gently, completely letting himself forget about the race. He sat down on the same bench that they had been running too, and laid her down across the bench. Alix's feet her farthest away from him, while her head lay on his lap.
"Shh...shh...you'll be okay..." Evan spoke softly, letting his lips caress over the words. "Shh..."
Alix whimpered softly, trying not to scream. It was built up in her chest and it took all of her not to just let it all out. At this point, with a small crowed growing around her and Evan, she was getting to the point that she didn't care what anyone around her thought. Her foot and ankle fuckin' hurt.
"Mmm...s'okay Ally-cat..." Evan stroked her hair back. At the moment, she couldn't have cared less what he was saying, she was in too much pain to even hear much of whatever it was. "Ally...Ally, listen to me..."
"Hurt..." Alix whimpered softly. "I hurt...it hurt too much...make stop..."
Evan leaned down and pressed his lps against hers softly. All of the sudden, her pain was gone, and she closed her eyes, tracing small circles on Evan's lips with her tongue. The pain was gone. Gone...
Evan sat back, looking down at Alix with a sly grin. "Your boo-boo all better?"
"D-D-Definitely..." Alix stuttered, barely able to speak from her heart pounding so fast. "D-Definitely b-better."
"You alright?" Evan laughed, leaning over to grab her fallen crutches. "You're actin' like it hurt you...it didn't, right?"
"Hell no." Alix laughed, awkwardly trying to sit up on the bench and grab her crutches at the same time. She successfully got them and pushed herself up so she was standing on her crutches too. "I'mma...I'mma g - "
Before Alix even finished her sentence, she raced off away from Evan and towards the hotel. She heard him calling after her and racing after her, but Alix knew the streets of Baltimore much better than he did. She raced across the block although the signal told her to stay put - and Evan was caught back after a new line of cars rushed through.
When Alix arrived back at the hotel, there were tears streaming down her face and she didn't completely know why. When she got into the elevator she collapsed against the back corner of the 'room' in a sobbing wreck.
The door opened on the top floor and Alix attempted to stumble out. It didn't work as well as she had hoped.
"Ally-cat?" she heard a very familiar, somewhat deep voice ask. "Are you okay?"
"N-not really..." she sobbed, trying not to look at Edge.
"C'mon...back to my room..." Edge put an arm around Alix's shoulders and ushered her in the room two doors down from Hunter's.
"Now what's wrong?" Edge asked as Alix collapsed back on the first bed near the door. "And don't say 'nothing' 'cause I happen to know enough about teenage chicks to know that one sobbing her wittle eyes out means something - wait, is it a guy? Do I need to punch someone's face in? You know no one messes with my sister..."
"S-Sort of..." Alix giggled a little at Edge's reaction. "C-Can you go over to H-Hunter's room and grab the peice of paper on the n-nightstand that s-says Un-Un-Undertaker's Cell?"
"Do you have the key?" Edge asked warily as he stood back up and took a few steps towards the door.
Alix dug into her pants pocket and pulled out a key card and handing it to Edge. He nodded and raced out quickly down the hallway.
Alix grabbed onto the bedpost and pulled herself up so that her entire body was on the bed. She sniffled as she stared at the ceiling nearly silently, trying to figure everything out. Or something out at that.
"I'm back." Edge announced as he walked back into the room. "I take it this is what you sent me for?"
He held up a slightly crumpled peice of paper that had a series of numbers with 'Undertaker's Cell' scrawled over it.
"Th-That'd be it..." Alix sat up and grabbed the hotel phone from Edge's nightstand. "May I?"
"Eh, no prob." Edge shrugged, slouching back on the other bed and turning on the TV. "You're only running back to your daddy when your brother is right friggin' next to you and willing to talk..."
Alix hesitated when the word 'daddy' came out of Edge's mouth, but quickly typed in the numbers on the little slip of paper.
'Taker's phone rang three times before he picked up. "I swear if this is another freaking prank call I will chokeslam you when I figure out who you - "
"Mark, it's me, Alix." Alix said, trying to stifle a laugh and almost failing. "You said to call you anytime I needed it, and I kind of need it right about now..."
"Oh, Alix!" the Undertaker laughed. "I'm sorry, I've had a - what's wrong, anyway? Why are you calling?"
"Uhm..." Alix glanced over at Edge, who was trying to ignore Alix talking to the Undertaker. "Addy's in the room, I don't really feel comfor-"
"I'll be down there as soon as possible." Mark smirked, and in the background Alix heard a car door close and an engine rev up. "Raw and the Smackdown idiots who wanted to room with friends are staying across from First Mariner Arena, right?"
"Mhmm." Alix sniffled, remembering Evan's question of how she knew so much about Baltimore. I never did answer that, did I...?
"Now do you want me to stay on the phone, or do you think you can make it until I get there?"
"...I'll try to make it." Alix finally settled. "Promise you'll be here soon."
"I promise, hon." Undertaker smiled, already on the Interstate. "I also promise this - if some idiot hurt you in any way I will punch their face in."
"No, no, no one hurt me." Alix giggled, but added in her head: physically. "You don't have to worry about that."
"Good." Undertaker nodded. "I'll be there soon, if you need me again just call."
"Can do." Alix smiled. "Thank you da - ...Mark."
"No problem." Undertaker caught the word that Alix had almost said, and had to feel a little proud of himself that he had let this girl who had been homeless only months ago trust him enough to call him that. "I'll see you soon."
Undertaker clicked off and Alix put the phone back on it's holder. Edge knew enough not to say a word, and Alix stared mindlessly at the TV, her eyelids drooping. Between the pain of her foot and the street of Evan or Rey and her brothers and her 'fathers' she hadn't slept much. With how much she had cried she had gotten pretty tired.
Within minutes she drifted off to sleep, remembering Evan's kiss.
AN: Happy New Years everybody! Here's another update before my Winter Break is over and school starts again on Monday. In case you were wondering about 'Addy,' Edge's real name is Adam, for anyone who didn't know.
Oh, and I started a new story, 'Fifteen Years and Blind.' Go check it out NAO.
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