adopted by sandra bullock (and her gf cate blanchett)

chapter 11

TW: mentions of bruises and malnourishment

"is that fucking cate blanchett!?"

sandy and cate stood in absolute shock.

danielle erupted into laughter.

dani didn't think she'd ever laughed harder in her entire life.

tears were streaming down the sides of her face, out of laughter and of joy and relief.

she caught her breath just enough to say "it is, it is cate blanchett."

dylan looked at dani in wonder.

dani herself hadn't had much time to process her close proximity to two major celebrities, too much had happened. that's something to unpack later she supposed.

the first thing that sandy noticed about dylan was his eyes. they were just like sandy's father, and sandy's own.

his resemblance to her didn't stop there.

his long brown hair, albeit matted by sweat and the hospital pillow, was exactly as wavy as sandy's, where danielle's was just slightly curlier.

freckles splashed across his cheeks in an adorable fashion, and his skin was naturally tanned just like danielle and sandy's.

he was scrawny but appeared to have some muscle under the hospital gown.

he spoke again, "why is cate blanchett in a hospital room, with me, why am i in a hospital?"

oh boy, he had some catching up to do.

dani patted the bed next to dylan, prompting him to move over.

before sandy could protest, dani was in bed next to him.

they looked so natural together, sandy could hardly believe they had spent the last day or so apart.

dani rested her head right on dylan's shoulder and he started tapping rhythmically on her arm.

it seemed to be second nature for them.

before anyone could answer his questions,  doctor stang came in.

"dylan! i'm so glad to see you up and well."

he shot a quick glance to danielle lying basically on top of him, but thought better than to say anything given the apprehensive look from cate.

"it seems that your vitals are fine, your operation went well and there should be no further side effects."

dylan had never been more confused.

"i...had an operation?"

doctor stang continued, speaking more to the women than to dylan, "memory loss isn't a side effect of his condition, he just won't remember the procedure because he was unconscious the whole time."

dylan looked panicked to danielle, who just patted his arm reassuringly.

"now that all of the custody nonsense is cleared up, i'm happy to discharge you both into ms bullocks custody as soon as possible. the paperwork needs to process, but i expect to have you out in the next hour."

it was just after six am now, although time seemed so irrelevant after the hours they spent in the confines of the hospital building.

dylan didn't even want to ask what custody issues had happened, he was just glad not to go back with max.

he hadn't spoken with sandy or cate much, or at all, but he knew two things for certain.

one was that they were both there for him when he woke up, and that he felt better than he did before leaving max's, and he assumed those two things were related.