The gangster's little unknown assassin - Part 2

Chapter 53 - Vasco

~ Two days later ~

Sage was looking out through a window in her hospital room, watching the grey rainy sky when Vin arrived. She didn't notice him, and Vin didn't say anything. He only sat down on her sofa and started working on a school report on his computer. From time to time, Sage would look in Blaze's direction to make sure she was ok but other than that, she did nothing besides look out through the window and watch the rain fall.

"What worries you, sis?" Vin finally asked after finishing the report he was working on, and two hours passing since he arrived, and Sage only looked out through the window.

"I fear that he will take her. That, I'll wake up one day, and she'll be gone." Vin listened attentively, the cold blank tone Sage used caught his attention. He identified her tone as melancholic, and it worried him. She hadn't left the hospital in two days, never straying from Blaze's side and rarely sleeping.

"We are here. We won't let that happen. The hospital is surrounded, the windows are watched, and uncle Jack even sent a patrol of cops to make sure nothing happens." But Sage didn't listen. She felt detached from her body, almost as if her soul had left her flesh, and she was watching things happen from above, as if from a third party's point of view.

"Mom torments me every night. She keeps on warning me, and when it's not her, it's him who comes to plague me. To taunt me and torment me," Vin suddenly wrapped his arms around her, and Sage jumped in surprise, not expecting the contact.

"He can try, sis, but we won't let him. And if mom warns you, it's because she loves you. I wish she would visit me in my dreams as she does with you, so don't take her warnings as torments and try to see past what she says and understand her message behind it."

SAGE'S POV

"As philosophic as you try to be, that's what I have been doing, or at least trying to do. Why do you think I stopped pushing dad away? She says I will need him." I confessed, slowly feeling myself come back to me, as confusing as that may sound. "I just have a strong feeling, a terrible one, that she will be gone soon. And I don't know what to do about it."

A shiver of disgust crept up my spine from my brother's touch, quick flashbacks of Igor's touch irked me and made me push Vin away. He went willingly, and for once, I couldn't stop myself from grabbing disinfectant and passing it all over my arms, neck, hands, and ears.

"Sorry," I muttered to my brother, and he just nodded his head, a look of understanding on his face.

"It's ok. Hazel used to do that too when she came back." He confided with a sad smile on his lips. "I'm just sorry that it happened to you too." He whispered and handed me his jacket that he had left on the sofa, after seeing me compulsively scratch at my forearms.

"You know, mom made an email for me and Diesel before we were born, and she wrote to us and sent us some pictures in there. We found out on our eighteenth birthday. You could do the same with Blaze. Maybe that could help you with that feeling." He suggested. "You could put the email address and the password on a piece of paper and put it inside the locket you bought Blaze, and if you want, I could help you." He offered, and after pondering it for a bit, I accepted his suggestion. After all, I used to write to my psychologist, so writing to my daughter could help.

My brother isn't actually that stupid, after all. Who would have thought?

"Ok, let's do it." I decided, and Vin grabbed his laptop and we got to work.

We created the email, and I made the password. The pass is something obvious, but at the same time, it's something that no one would guess. I put Ziva's full name and birth date in it.