Dreams I'll Never See (Intersex gxgxg)

Chapter 9

"Lexie!" Willow dropped on top of her fiancé, crying happily as Lexie gave her a tired hug.

I got up and grabbed the other dose of Advil and water, then brought it over to her. She smiled up at me while Willow continued to give her hugs, and I finally had to tap the redhead on the shoulder. "Can I give your love here some medicine and water?"

"Oh, shit! I should do that!" Willow took it from me, then placed the Advil in Lexie's mouth before letting her sip the water. "I got you baby. You're safe now!"

"Yes!" Bella said quickly. "I mean, if the offer still stands." She had a big smile on her face at the sight of the girls and their obvious love.

"What offer?" Lexie was still out of it, and exhausted. I hit the remote on the bed and elevated the head of her bed until she was a little more vertical, like Bella was.

"Lexie, this is Bella. We found her when we got you back, she was taken too, and she has no family. I might have told her that she could stay with us once this is all over, because she has nowhere else to go. An adoptive little sister kind of thing," Willow explained.

Bella looked over with a nervous smile, and Lexie didn't even hesitate in smiling back. "Hell yeah. Welcome to the family Bella. It would be nice to have more family."

Bella, started to cry a little, and then tried to crawl over the bed rails to get over to their bed, but the IV wasn't exactly accommodating. "Hold on, we can fix this," I told her, pulling her back onto her bed. "We can get a big cuddle going here in just a second."

I motioned Willow over, and she carefully moved the IV stand while I lifted Bella over the rails, placing her next to Lexie. "Thank you all so much!" Bella's tears weren't stopping, but she was smiling from ear to ear. Considering she had just traded in a stepmother who tried to sell her for two sisters that would support her, even if they were still strangers for the moment, things were hopefully looking up for them. Stress and external conflicts had a way of bringing people together. I just had to find a way to keep them all safe so that they could stay that way.

As I sat there thinking, I felt fingers gripping my own, and looked down to see Lexie's fingers interlocking with my own. "Thank you, Jesse. Thank you for getting Willow for me, and then finding me. I knew you'd do it."

"I couldn't let anything happen to you two. You're both so important to me. And now I guess I have a new sister in law to look after." I nodded down at Bella who was cuddled into Lexie and might have been asleep. Or faking it yet again.

"Well, things happened, but we're okay, right?" Lexie asked. "We're safe?"

"Yes, you're safe," I assured her.

"Oh! I need to tell Dr. Kipel you're up! She'll want to check you over!" Willow yelped. Obviously, we'd all been so happy to have her awake that we didn't think about the rest. She left the little examination area and returned a short time later with the doctor.

"I see we're all awake now," she said with a happy smile.

"I am!" Lexie smiled wide. "Thank you for the help."

"And how are you feeling?" she wondered.

"Tired, and cotton mouth. My head hurts, but maybe the Advil hasn't kicked in yet. Sore all over." Lexie groaned a little as Bella moved a little against her, hooking her limbs around her like a side koala.

"That makes two of us," Bella added as she settled in and got comfortable again. Damnit, she was faking sleep again! I was going to have to keep an eye on her.

"You were both rolling around in the back of an SUV all day, so I'm sure that didn't help with the soreness," I reminded them. "But we'll keep you resting as long as you need to get better." That would also influence what I could do to keep them safe too. I wish I had a house of my own to take them to as a hideout, but I didn't. I lived in hotels, going from assignment to assignment, with the occasional rest day, so I never had a place to call home. All my mail and stuff went to my uncles' place back in Massachusetts, but that wasn't mine. Though as I thought about it, they did have enough room for quite a few extra people.