Floral&Fading(PTV fanfic)*Completed*

Sixteen

Vic's POV

As I sat in the waiting room of the hospital anxiously waiting for the doctors to come out and tell me my little girl is okay, I bounced my leg up and down and look at everything on the walls. A hand is placed on my knee which makes it stop shaking so I followed the tattoo arm leading to Tony who has the look of scared for Scarlett and annoyed with me.
"Please calm down. You're making me nervous and I'm suppose to keep you sane"
"Tone I can't"
"Yes you can" I sighed and sunk into the chair even more. We've been sitting here for two hours. How much longer can this be?
As if on cue, a nurse comes out in a white coat and a paper clip and I sit up hoping that she's going to call Scarlett's name but she doesn't.
"Family of Brendon Dasilva" the mother, father and a girl- assuming lay his sister or girlfriend-with black hair who looks about 14 gets up and follow the women past the doors that I desperately wanna run through but can't.
"I'm gonna grab coffee. Want something?" He asked getting up and stretching.
"Yeah for Scarlett to be okay"
"She would be if you weren't talking shit about her behind her back to your little brother. Now do you want caffeine or not" I nodded and he walked off heading towards the food court on the main floor. were on the second.

"Scarlett Fuentes' family?" I snapped out of my train of thought when I heard that and got up following the doctor past the doors and to I'm assuming his office.
"Hello mister Fuentes. I'm Doctor Urie, Scarlett's Doctor during her stay. So we have both good and bad news" he said sitting at his desk. He motioned for me to sit at the chair across from him and I did as told.
"Oh god" I said covering my eyes with one of my hands. She's dead. She's dead I just know it.
"Mister Fuentes your daughter it alive if that's what you thought the bad news was. She's breathing and awake last time I saw her. That's the good news. Although the bad news is that after we ran some tests, we discovered that there was drugs in her blood stream making her mentally ill and not eating very much" he explained. Drugs?
"What do you mean drugs? Did you find out if she's been taking them? Or were the forced?" I asked.
"Well when your spouse-"
"Ex girlfriend actually" I corrected.
"Ex girlfriend was pregnant with your child, she was on a heavy amount of drugs. Meth included. But also prescription. What she had been taking over the course of the nine months harmed your child making her premature and interfere with her blood flow. Now are you aware of your child's mental condition?" I shook my head. The files never mentioned anything about her having mental problems.
"Scarlett is schizophrenic causing hallucinations and hearing things which may have triggered her to do such an act. She is also bipolar but can not take medication for either due to what Miss Crawford had done during her pregnancy"
"So you're telling me that because my ex girlfriend was crazy, Scarlett developed illnesses and can't get better? Because of Cara's acts, my child is paying the consequences?" I asked getting mad. He sadly nodded.
"We're still running tests. We are going to find out if there's a way. A safe way, to give her the medication she needs but right now we haven't come up with anything" I nodded.
"Can I see her?" He nodded and got up, me following close behind. He took me down the hall and stopped at room 259.
"Do you have any family waiting outside?" It's family only.
"Yes her god father Tony Perry"
"Very well. I'll bring him over" I thanked him and slowly opened the door.

"Oh my god" I said walking towards the child in the bed. She was awake. Alive. I sat down on the edge of her bed and smiled at her.
"Vic I am so sorry I'm so stupid and fucked up and I didn't mean anything hurtful I've ever said. I'm ungrateful for what I have and I should be thankful you took me in and did I mention I'm sorry because I really am and-" I cut off her rambling by moving some stray hair out of her face.
"Shhh. Darling it's okay. You're my daughter. Sure we don't meet eye to eye  at times but I love you. And I'm sorry as well for being a dick"
"No you haven't. It took me so long to realize that you've been an amazing father. I've just been a stuck up brat that basically lived my childhood as a stray that I forgot what it's like to have someone truly care for me and not just because they're with my mom or something"
"I'm always gonna care for you. I'm always be right behind you" her smile turned into a bigger one and I wanted nothing more than to hug her but she had an IV in her arm and I know when you bend you arm with one of those, it kills so I simply leaned forward kissed her forehead.
"Vic?" I hm'ed in response.
"Am I going to die?" She asked scared.
"No love. No you're not. I promise"

"Good to see you're okay" we heard Tony from the door. I looked and saw he had a tray. Two coffees and an apple juice for Scarlett. He came over and sat on the chair on the other side of her bed after handing me my coffee and her juice.
"Thank you tone"
"Good to see you're sober now" he said chuckling and taking a sip of his hot beverage.
"I think I'm gonna quit drinking. It's a hazard to both me and my little girl and I wanna be a good parent for you" I said taking her small hand in my free one, smiling at her.
"And good to see my apparent god child is okay. So tell me Victor. What crossed your mind when you told the doctor that? I'm not even Catholic or Christian" he said looking at me.
"I know I know but I couldn't just say you're a friend so I made up something"
"And the term brother never crossed your mind?" He asked. Face full of amusement.
"Guess not" I said chucking.

It was around 3am when Scarlett had actually fallen asleep. Tony was on his phone messaging Mike since I left mine at home and I was sitting on the other chair watching tv that was mounted into the wall across Scarlett's bed.
"Mike said tomorrow he's gonna come see her" I nodded.
"Wanna tell me what's up?" He asked. I've been pretty quite since I found out what's actually wrong with Scarlett and I've been coming up with solutions to help her get better at home. I might move her to a different school, move into a better house, possibly in the newer part of San Diego-maybe Tony's neighbourhood. It's nice and calm there-, get rid of anything that can possibly harm her, hide my medication, get ride of alcohol, all that kinda stuff.
"What do you mean?" I asked looking at him.
"You're being quite. Too quite for you. What's on your mind?"
"I'm just thinking"
"About?"
"Did you know about Scarlett's health?" He shook his head looking confused.
"I didn't know about that kinda stuff. I only knew about her childhood because me and Stephanie would take her from cara once in a while but that was it. Why?"
"Just asking" he nodded and then his attention when back to his phone while my attention went to my hands sitting in my lap. Nothing exciting to do in a hospital beside sleep and I'm not exactly tired yet.

"Want coffee?" I asked.
"You've have too much caffeine man. Drink some water" tony told me. I simply chuckled and got up.
"The only person that's had too much of something is my brother and his pot. Want anything or nah" he smiled and shook his head.
"I'm good. Thanks though" I nodded and left the room heading down stairs to grab myself a coffee since it's gonna be a long night

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So Scarlett apologized and now her and Vic will possibly be nicer to each other. How long do you think this will last? Or do you think they changed for the better, for good this time.
I know I ask this often but now that we know about Scarlett's mental state, how do you feel about her? Do you think it was the illnesses that made her the way she is towards Vic or was it just hatred itself.
Let me know what you guys think!