"ow! be gentle, for fucks sake!" el scolded as the nurse checked out her wound.
"el," eli warned in a gentle tone as she huffed and glared at him.
"be a little bit more gentle," he told the nurse, "don't be so goddamn aggressive,"
"when's ezra getting here? i miss him," el breathed out as eli smiled, "he had some work to do and then he'll be here. emerson and emilio is outside, i'll call them in when you're done?"
el nodded slowly.
the nurse moved back her with a small smile then pulled down her shirt again, "it's all done. i'll come back tonight to check if the stitches are fine,"
el nodded, "m'kay," she muttered as the nurse gathered her stuff and exited the room.
"i can't wait to tell people i got stabbed," el murmured and checked out the bandage, "it's kinda cool, not gonna lie."
he chuckled, "what, you're excited to tell your kids all about it one day?"
she scrunched up her face, "ew, i'm never having kids,"
"are you sure about that?" he gave her a look.
"fuck kids, i wouldn't deliberately want kids. they're annoying ankle biters. literally little devils," she shivered at the thought before tilting her head at the door, "if they're still outside, tell them to come in,"
he smiled and nodded before going to open the door and looked both ways before motioning for them to come in.
emilio slowly entered, with emerson following behind and emilio went over to the bed and gave el a small smile.
"how are you feeling?" he quietly asked as she hugged on tightly on her extra pillow, "fine,"
he frowned at the one worded response, "oh. um, i just—"
"eli, can you go down and get me a hot chocolate?" el cut him off and eli quickly nodded before heading for the door.
"sit," el told emilio and emerson and they both quickly obeyed and did so.
"good boys," she cooed and patted emilio on the head which made his grumble something.
she chuckled and motioned for emerson to come closer, "you're going to tell me exactly what the fuck happened and you are not going to lie to me again," she held her hand out towards the direction of the door and the lock snapped shut.
"do you understand me?"
they both gulped and nodded.
"good," she exhaled and leaned back against her pillow, "now go,"
"well mom never exactly told me, i was there in the room when eli was born and there was only him crying. a man came running in and said aunt becky got into an accident and was in the same hospital. mom was furious and so was dad but i had no idea why. i stayed silently in the corner of the room with eli to protect him just as nonna and nonno came in and they were talking about how mom had to take you in," emerson went on to explain but el furrowed her brows.
"but why?"
"the company was going to aunt becky. mom didn't like that but nonna and nonno said it'll go to her if she takes you in. they probably thought i was too young to understand but i knew," emerson told her and she slowly nodded.
"did she kill aunt becky? for the company?" el asked and emerson quickly snapped his head up, "no, i don't think so. i don't know,"
"they also knew if it got out that aunt becky died and they didn't take you in, then it'll be very bad for their image," emerson added.
