Soulmates in any universe or time 《 Wattys 2018 》

Sara's injuries

After trying to get Quentin to stop blaming himself for a bit he calmed down and I finally brought myself to look at Sara, she looked so pitiful, weak, helpless even, but still beautiful with the injuries.

The bruises and cuts all over her, on her arms, her face, every inch of her skin was in some way or another covered, even bandages were scattered around her small cuts, I was guessing under each bandage a piece of glass had to be removed or stitches were under them, I honestly didn't want to know.

I was taking the bird toy over, to sit it on the table next to her bed when I noticed the actual amount of machines she was hooked up to, it hurt me to see her, knowing that she was one of the closest things I had to family since my real family was now either dead or like my mother, abandoned me, it was just me, Sara and Quentin and I realized that finally.

A nurse walked in shortly after Quentin sat down on the opposite side of Sara's bed from where I sat down, you could see the tears trying to escape his eyes if you looked close enough, "Mr. Lance?" the nurse knocked on the wall behind Quentin, he stood up and wiped his eyes with the sleeve of his jacket before he greeted her, "Yeah, that's me, is she okay, will she be okay?" he was clearly unnerved about the whole situation.

The nurse spoke to him kindly "She will be fine in time, but Sara's injuries are rather serious, serious enough that we had to medically induce a coma to keep her vitals steady and to make her not able to feel the pain as much until we wake her." he hugged the nurse just as she finished talking, "Thank you." he said after they talked a bit longer about her injuries, she said that they didn't know how long it would really take for her to be healthy enough to be taken off of the medicine that was keeping her under.

Quentin sat down just before his ex wife, Sara's mom, Dinah walked in, "I got here as fast as I could." she was still in her CCPD uniform, her makeup was smudged and running down her face with the tears, I got up and handed her a box of tissues from the stand beside where I was sitting, she couldn't keep from crying, she soon dropped to her knees.

Before I could even step back Quentin had dropped down right beside her and she buried her face in his neck, I was surprised that even after being divorced for three years and living so far apart all of that time, that he could still be so kind to her without a second thought so quickly.

Finally Dinah got her tears under control, Quentin comforted her the entire time she was falling apart until he released her from the hug he had her in helped her up and made sure she made it into the chair he was sitting in before she arrived, "Leonard can you go down to the cafeteria and grab us both a coffee?" Quentin asked as he retrieved some money from his wallet, "Sure." I answered simply, with that I headed out of Sara's room.

Coming back up the stairs and toward Sara's room I overheard Dinah and Quentin talking, "Dinah you can stay in Starling with us as long as you want, and it would probably help since Leonard is living with me now, since Lewis," he fell silent for a minute, "Well you know." He finished his sentence and I walked back in, "Leonard, Dinah is going to stay with us for a bit while we get everything arranged, okay?" He was looking me in the face with an obviously fake smile, I just nodded and handed them their coffees.

That night, Dinah stayed at the hospital with Sara just in case anything would change, so she could call if it did, Quentin drove us to big belly burger for dinner since it was too late to go home and cook anything before finally heading home.

For a while I stayed up with Quentin, at least until he told me to go ahead upstairs "Until I get a guest bedroom cleaned up and ready for you you can sleep in Sara's room." he said after I got up and asked where I was sleeping, reluctantly I agreed, "Oh one second Leonard," he started again as I was heading up the stairs.

He walked past me to a closet beside the stairway "Sara picked these out for your Christmas present this year," he continued as he opened the door to a closet and pulled out a small brown box, "You'll need something to sleep in until we get your stuff, good thing Sara likes shopping early for presents." he smiled as I took the box from him and opened in to find a pair of ice blue sweat pants that had the words "Chill out." written down the side.

Sara always got me cool gifts, that was another one of the things I liked about her, I must've been smiling after seeing the pants because Quintin said that he was happy that I liked them, up stairs after telling each other goodnight he reassured me "Sara will be okay Leonard, shes a fighter." I nodded and smiled at him before closing the door to get ready for bed.

The next morning I came down stairs to find Quentin standing over the stove, phone to his ear, bacon frying, "I'm sorry but I need the week off, you'll have to find a substitute." Apparently he was talking to his boss, he hung up shortly so I cleared my throat letting him know I was there, he looked over his shoulder at me "Oh hey Leonard, I'm making you breakfast." he turned back around and grabbed two plates from the cabinet.

We were eating in an extremely awkward silence until I finally decided to ask Quentin when we were going to be going to my house to get clothes, really I wanted to ask if we were going to go see Sara or not, but didn't want to upset him, "As soon as we finish off this bacon, how's that?" he brought a clearly faked smile to his face when he looked up from his plate to me, I just nodded and continued to eat.

About ten minutes later, after washing a few dishes we got ready to go get my clothes, I knew it would be painful to walk in the doors and not see my dad in his recliner or to see Lisa in the floor surrounded by my old toy cars and all of her dolls, she loved playing with the toys I used to play with, she was six but it was adorable when she would always say she wanted a car like the one I gave her when she got older, it was a yellow gold looking volts wagon, memories started to eat away at me even more after we arrived.

I finally had my clothes all packed and met up with Quentin at the front door, "You sure you have everything?" He grabbed one of the bags I was holding, "One more thing." I dropped the bag and ran upstairs to my dads room where I opened the closet and grabbed one thing, his blue parka with a fur lined hood.

He never wore the parka because he said it had a memory he never wanted to loose, it was the one thing we had around the house that he wouldn't let anyone near, he wore it on the first date he had with my mother, he always told me about how it was Christmas eve and it started snowing while he was walking her home, the wind picked up, she started to shiver so she asked him "Do you mind if I wear your coat, its a bit chilly and I don't have much on." Dad always said she was wearing a dark blue, white speckled dress that would put the night sky and stars to shame.

My dad let her wear it but when they got to her house she forgot to give it back, five dates later she still had it, well into spring she still had it, she wore it every chance she got, finally he claimed it back after they got married and moved in together.

I pulled myself out of my memories, walked out of the bedroom door and closed it quietly, I sure was going to miss the house I had lived in for almost sixteen years, but I still had family and I was extremely grateful for still having a family, although they werent blood, they still cared for me.