can your write something like in the notebook where either emma or regina has alzheimers?
Asked by: Anonymous
"How is she today?"
The young woman smiled sympathetically at the gentle silverly haired resident, the same question asked every morning and met with the same response. It pained her to see the disappointment within green eyes, still so vivid, allowing a glimpse of the woman she once was, the woman she'd lost along with the remainder of her love's mind.
She shuffled on the thick carpet, the sound being one of familiarity in a place where so many suffered with the aches and pains age brought with it. Her fingers clung tightly to the book in her wrinkled hands, the pages yellowing and creased due to the amount of times they had been turned. Some were tear stained, the memories still fresh, the emotions on the pages still just as potent.
The carer looked up upon hearing the elderly woman approach, her hands coming to rest upon the woman in the chair's shoulders. "You have a visitor Miss Mills."
It broke her heart to hear her love being referred to in such a way, that wasn't her name, hadn't been for a very long time yet now it was hidden behind a cruel fog in her confused mind, veiled and kept from her.
She flinched, as she always did, when the other woman placed a tender hand over hers resting on the arm of the chair, "I…I don't want a visitor…"
"But she's here to read to you darling," the kindly assistant told her, her tone soft and gentle as though speaking to a scared child, "you'd like that wouldn't you?"
Dark eyes flicked from the young woman aiding her, to the smiling stranger stood just behind, slight panic coloured features still so beautiful only weathered with age and exhaustion. A short nailed finger came up to pass through red painted lips, teeth still stunningly white nibbling in anxiety.
The aid gave a nod to the waiting woman, she instantly shuffled to sit in the chair opposite Regina, her smile never fading even through the older woman's hesitance. "Do you remember where we left off yesterday?"
Regina frowned, her eyes moving to where the other carers stood readying the room for others, when they moved back to green she allowed herself to look within for once, the strange sense of calm that she never felt anymore was enough to let her do so. "Th-they were…" she struggled, her eyes still on Emma that not truly focusing as she fought to remember, it was there, she knew it was, but how to access it?
As a hand came to rest upon hers, a tender touch, a warm tingle up her arm and a flash of golden curls in her eyes.
"They were g-getting married…"
"Yes my love," Emma smiled brightly, her green eyes tearing up as they did whenever Regina began to remember, "that they were…shall we?"
At the small nod she turned the page to where they had left off and began reading about their life, moments forgotten and memories slowly fading but as long as she were alive, as long as they both were alive, so would their love be, the love of the Savior and the Queen.