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Summary: "Do you remember that time I fell out your window and you came jumping out after me?" There was a twinge of humour to her husky voice and Leon smiled for her benefit. For three years he let himself believe that he would always save her from everything, until he was the reason she was in that ambulance, a broken back and their baby was gone.
Sassy Ava nee Ava- Haha I am proud and so pumped that I got a plug in your profile (not that I'm stalking profiles or anything *cough*) I am so glad you love this chapter! I liked it too- I couldn't stand Leon and Lala fighting for to long as you can see. Thank you so much and you really made my day!
Mrzlettyortiztoretto – Ahh firstly Pony is okay- I let her loose in my backyard today and she got so sad when I left haha. Now I would love to write more F&F stories sadly I am so in love with Makeshift Beds and Morphine by Sparklygreennailpolish that I can't comprehend even attempting to go up against THAT. But maybe a Vince one…And just cause you're so good to me I will consider it. Thanks as always for the wonderful review!
Love Ink- I am so excited about your new story! And thanks for stealthly adding Home in your Authors Notes- I can feel the love. So thanks so much!
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Anyways my boss has just returned from his little adventure and informed me that I can have a few days off work. Excited – you should be because I will have nothing else to do but write some Lala/Leon goodness! Woo!
Anyways I'll be quiet now- on with the show!
Playlist-
Hands Down – Dashboard Confessional
Laugh, I Nearly Died- The Rolling Stones
Baby Come On- Plus 44
June 1999 – Moats and Boats and Waterfalls
Two chocolate bars and three coffees later, Nicola wiped the sweat off her brow and looked down at her oil stained legs, the damn car had been dripping on her. Shaking her head she looked at the mud splattered Lancer Evolution that was sitting in front of her. How could someone take a car like that mud larking.
"Fucking Universal joints." She muttered before spinning around on her trolley and sliding back under the car. Reaching for a shifter she continued to loosen the bolts near the axle.
"Nicola?" Shanes voice wafted towards her and she groaned. Damn trainees.
"What?" She growled, not even bothering to shift her position. She heard him walking and saw his steel capped boots appear near her grey tennis shoes sticking out from under the car.
"Have you seen the cordless drill?" Nicolas brow furrowed as she laid her head back on the trolley. What the fuck did he want a drill for?
"In the toolkit at my feet." She replied and heard metal sliding on concrete and the distinct sound of rusty hinges.
"Watch out, man." She heard Jesses voice and saw him wheel something between the front of the Lancer and the Mercedes that was parked in front of it. "Move that toolbox Shane. Legs La." He said and just as Nicola lifted her legs Shane kicked the toolbox under the Lancer so it was wedged under her calves.
"Idiot." Nicola muttered but returned her attention back to the car. The owner wanted to pick it up that afternoon. Not likely.
"You want a coffee, La?" She heard Dom yell to her before saying something to Shane.
"No thanks." Nicola called back and wiped her hands on her denim shorts and went back to staring at the underside of the car. She could still hear Shane moving around the shed and tried desperately to focus.
A voice interrupted her thoughts but then she heard Shane talking and ignored it.
"Hey man- watch this." She saw his steel toed boots go past the drivers side door towards the Mercedes. She opened her mouth to speak but was left speechless as his toe clipped the hoist that was holding the low clearance Lancer safely above her.
There was a small thump and Nicola squeezed her eyes shut waiting for the blow that was sure to happen. But something caught the chain and the underside of the car was millimetres from her nose. And then she let out a loud hiss as the front end of the car hit her shins. She went to move but remembered the tool box was sitting under her legs and bit her lip as she felt the cold metal start to dig into the flesh.
"Fuck." She muttered and heard running feet before Shanes face was looking at her under the car.
"Nicola! Are you alright?" Another young boy was beside him, looking at her lying there staring at the axle begging it not to fall on her head.
"Shane, go get Dom or Vince. Now." She tried to sound as calm as possible as she heard him leave. She yelled out after him but doubt her heard it. "Don't get Leon."
There was a slamming of doors and she thought she could hear the kid shouting but her attention was quickly reverted back to the car hanging above her when the chain let go another link.
Looking wildly around she saw the other boy was still there.
"Hey, man can you go around to the front and see if you can get the toolbox that's sitting under my legs out?" She hissed and the kid immediately ran around to the front and she felt his hands fumble around the legs.
"Shit, no stop." Nicola yelled back when she felt the tin of the toolbox biting into her calves.
"I can't move it." The kid yelled.
"This would only happen to me." Nicola muttered as she threw the shifter out of her hand and listened for someone coming.
The slamming of a door indicated the entry of someone and then the running of heavy boots.
"I'm so sorry, Dom, it was an accident." She could hear Shane saying as she imagined Vince and Dom looking at the situation.
"Nicola can you hear me?" Dom was looking under the car at her.
"Yeah Dom, there's a tool box wedged under my legs and I can't move." She saw Doms eyes move to her legs and then him cuss.
"We're going to have to lift the car up." He told her and she nodded. If anyone could lift a car off her it was Dom.
Dom stood up and Nicola went back to staring at the axle when she heard Leons voice.
"Whats going on?"
"No…" Nicola groaned when she saw more pounding boots and then denim clad knees and then Leons frantic face.
"Lala!"
"I'm fine Leon, really don't worry." She could reach his hand where she was and patted it in reassurance.
"You're stuck under a fucking car."
"I'm fine, baby. Really." The chain creaked again and both of their eyes snapped up.
"It's jammed, I can't get it to come up." Dom said and she heard swearing coming from her other side where she guessed Vince was standing.
"The toolbox? Have you tried to move it?" Dom shouted down to her and the kid that was with Shane quickly explained what had happened. "Are you in pain La?"
"Not really. There's something pressing on the front of my legs and I think its bleeding and the tins cutting in a bit, but nothing broken."
"Where's Jesse?" She heard Dom ask then more pounding feet and she guessed Shane had been sent to find him.
"What happened?" Leon finally asked and Vince told him about the kids goofing around and accidently hitting the hoist.
Nicola could hear the hiss in his breath.
"It's fine, it was an accident, Leon." She said softly squeezing his hand again.
"Hey guys what's-" Jesse ran in and Nicola could see him standing beside Leon.
"Okay, Shane and…" The other kid spoke up.
"Brett."
"Alright Shane and Brett. We're going to lift the car. I want Brett to pull the tool box out from under her legs and Shane you grab the trolley okay?" Nicola could picture them all obediently nodding to Doms commands.
"You alright La?" She heard Dom shout and saw Leon stand up.
"Just peachy." Nicola replied and heard Dom counting to three, then the tool box was gone. But Shane wasn't quick enough and she was left under the car as the men lost their grip on it and it fell back on the chains.
Straight away Leon was lying down on the concrete looking down at her.
"La, La are you okay?" There was panic in his voice as Nicola tried to breathe as the cold metal now pressed into her cheek pinning her to the trolley with her head facing Leon.
"Wow you guys are strong." She laughed slightly but felt something cutting into her cheek. When she got out of there she was so burning that damn car.
"Shane and Brett go to where Jesse is standing. Jess you get her the fuck out of there this time okay? Wait." She heard Dom move and then some more swearing. "Jess, better go and get some bandages and cream before we pull her out." More running and Nicola tried to take deep breaths but everytime she inhaled her stomach pressed into the undercarriage.
She heard someone skid to a halt near her feet before Dom started counting again.
"One." She gripped onto the trolley.
"Two." Taking a deep breath she hoped she didn't get trapped in a worse position.
"Three." The car moved and her ankles were yanked and suddenly she was staring at the roof of the garage.
Nicola glanced at the shocked faces standing around her as Jesse started to rip bandages open and she looked down at her legs which were now covered in blood.
Jesse using shaky hands started to clean her legs but the shaking was driving her nuts as Dom made his way towards Shane who was standing ashen faced nearby.
"I'm so sorry Nicola." He muttered over and over again.
"Its no trouble kid." She replied waving a hand at him and watched Jesses hands.
Leon clearly didn't see the accidental side of things though as he lunged for the trainee and slammed him up against the wall. No-one moved as he held him by the collar.
"You could have fucking killed her you idiot. She could have broken her legs, and you're sorry-"
"Ouch!" Nicola shouted and looked over at her boyfriend shaking her head. "Can someone that doesn't have fucking ADD give me a hand with this?" She snatched the bandages from Jesse and sent him away. Nicola looked back at Leon and the kid and sighed. "Leon it was an accident. Come and help me before I bleed to death would you." She ordered and Leon slowly put the boy down on the ground.
"Don't think you still have a job here." He hissed at the boy and looked at Dom who nodded his approval before walking over and kneeling down in front of Nicola who was sitting on the trolley dabbing at her leg.
He snatched the bandages from her hand and started to wrap the superficial cuts on the front of her shins.
"I think you owe Jess an apology." Leon said quietly as she winced.
"I know." She replied and chanced a glance at Shane who was being led into Doms office. "It was an accident, Leon. You shouldn't be so hard on the kid. He feels awful." Leon turned his head to look at the office and shook his head.
"He shouldn't be fucking around in the shed." He muttered.
"I remember plenty of times when we did the same thing." She placed a hand on his shoulder as he stretched her other leg out onto his lap and started to apply cream to the wound.
"Well he shouldn't do it when my girlfriend is lying under a car." He replied and Nicola laughed.
"Alright, Leon. If that's the way you see it."
Leon drove Nicola home soon afterwards and she was quiet as she picked at the crusted blood on her hands and glanced over at his blood stained wifebeater realising that her face must have been bleeding quite badly.
"You scared the hell out of me back there La." Leon said as they turned into their street and he drove up the driveway.
"I'm sorry." Nicola muttered and climbed out of the car, making her way towards the back door when Mia came rushing out.
"Shit, La! What the hell happened?" She inspected the wound on Nicolas cheek then looked down at her blood stained shirt and her bandaged shins and dragged her inside. Leon following quietly.
Mia passed Nicola some aspirin which she took before Mia started dabbing at her face with a warm cloth making Nicola wince.
"Dom was worried sick, said you'd been trapped under a car." Mia glanced over at Leon who took a seat but was still a bit pale.
"Yeah." After cleaning up the cut Mia insisted that she clean Nicolas hands as well to check for anymore cuts.
She had Nicolas left hand in hers when the cloth caught on something. Nicola looked down and flinched. She'd completely forgotten to take it off when she'd gone to work.
Mia quickly rubbed at the ring and stared at it shocked as she held it up to the light.
"Is this what I think it is?" She asked glancing back at Leon.
"Yeah, I guess it is." Nicola replied quietly as she looked at the blue sapphire on her ring finger.
"When did this happen?" Mia insisted as she snatched Nicolas hand back and stared at the ring.
"On Leons birthday last year." Nicola replied in a small voice and looked over at Leon who was rubbing his face, sure of the scene that was about to follow.
"And you didn't tell us?" Mias mouth dropped open as she glared between the two.
"It's none of your business." Leon replied and Nicola knew it was a lost cause.
"I only just started wearing the ring because Leon thought I needed time to process okay? So technically if we're talking ring wearing days, its only been one and a half." Mia was still staring at the ring.
"You didn't get her a diamond?" She glanced over at Leon.
"She thinks diamonds are overrated." Nicola nodded as he spoke and Mia chanced a look at her friend.
"You two are the most ridiculous couple ever." She laughed and kissed Nicola's cheek.
"Congratulations, baby girl." Before walking over and kissing Leons cheek. "You too Le." Leon gave a small smile.
"Thanks Mia." He said softly and Nicola rose an eyebrow at him.
After she'd showered and walked back into the bedroom with clean bandages she found Leon looking at the red book she'd given him the day before. Sitting down beside him she opened the bandages and looked at her slowly seeping cuts. They probably needed stitches.
"They look like they need stitches." Leon said, not even looking up from the photo of them sitting on the swing.
"No." Nicola replied as she tried to smear antiseptic cream on them and winced. Leon snatched the bandages off her for the second time that day and started to patch her up, his hands shaking so badly she had to hold them to stop him hurting her. "What's your damage?" She growled and Leon sighed, his hand resting in hers.
"You could have died, La."
"But I didn't." Nicola replied, taking the bandages from his hands and applying it to her shin before wrapping it around her leg.
"But you were pretty fucking close. That stupid kid…"
"It was an accident Leon." Nicola said quietly and Leon stood up, pacing the room.
"It doesn't matter! You nearly died under a car La! You nearly died! Doesn't that scare you?" His face was streaked with tears and Nicola looked up at him a small smile on her face as she shook her head.
"Not really baby, we all die eventually right?" She fixed up her other leg while Leon continued pacing.
"So if I died it wouldn't bother you?" Leon asked, running his fingers through his hair in frustration.
"You really want to go into this now, Leon? This whole I love you so much I would die thing. Because you should already know my answer." She lay back on the bed but he kept pacing.
"Oh yeah and what's that?"
"You don't think I would do anything for you? You really are fucked in the head. You're so stupidly blind sometimes Leon." She sat up and he stopped pacing to stare at her blankly. "You always think its you that has to earn my love, but I've always loved you Leon. You forget that sometimes. Just because you're always so fucking romantic doesn't mean I haven't given up lots of things for you. For godsake you are the only guy I have ever slept with, and while I was in New York, after you had said you would wait you still slept around. So fuck you and your questions. I'm tired." She lay back down but didn't hear the distinct sound of pacing or the slamming of the door so she chanced a look at the end of the bed where Leon was still standing, his fists clenched, shaking and he stared at the bed.
"You said you didn't care about New York." He said quietly. And Nicola rose an eyebrow at him as she lifted herself onto her elbows.
"I waited nine months for you, and you couldn't do the same for me. It hurt just a little bit." She replied just as quietly. "I know who you are Leon, but it doesn't stop it hurting." Leon kneaded the heels of his hands into his teary eyes and growled.
"Fuck. Fuck." He muttered.
"Don't worry about it. It was ages ago." Nicola tried to diffuse the situation but she took one look at his face and knew that it wasn't that easy.
"I have to go." He said and left the room quickly. She didn't bother following him as she rolled over in her pillow and sobbed. The events of the day finally taking their toll.
A/N: Okay thoughts? REVIEW- x