౨ৎ in which aliya levine begins her third year of surgical residency with overbearing parents, an ex who left her heartbroken, a green eyed rich boy, a chaotic best friend and a pair of twisted sisters.
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chapter fifteen━sanctuary season six, episode twenty three
❝ out of all the things i thought might happen today, this would be incredibly low on the list. ❞
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When Aliya was four years old, her pet goldfish died.
Trent had found her in her bedroom with the tank on her lap, her small hands tightened around the edges of the glass as she stared into where the goldfish was, upside down along side the cave she had bought with her pocket money a few weeks prior to his unfortunate death.
She explained to her older brother that the fish was simply sleeping, and she wanted to keep it company. Trent didn't have the heart to tell her that her beloved fish and first ever pet was dead.
Sure, there was Sprinkles the cat, but that cat hated that four year old girl.
(Sprinkles was a menace, to say the least.)
An hour later her mother flushed the fish down the toilet, explaining rather angrily in a very condescending manner that she couldn't possibly have a dead fish in her bedroom.
And, three years after the death of her beloved gold fish, Aliya's great grandmother died, where the 'speech' about death followed shortly after.
The one valuable life lesson she received from her parents was their take on death. By valuable, she meant she learned what not to tell her own kids or any other children when she found herself in the situation of having to explain death to a tiny human.
Travis Levine at first described death as a long nap, confusing Aliya and everyone at the funeral when she attempted to wake her deceased great grandmother up, like Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty.
Due to Travis' failure, Molly had then taken the reins, pulling Aliya to the side by her elbows, setting her down on a dining room chair as she sat opposite her, their knees pressed together as she told her daughter that death was in fact not a long nap.
It was where a person simply stopped existing, stopped living, stopped breathing. And, you never got the chance to ever see that person again. They were simply gone from this world.
One thing Aliya couldn't argue with was that at least her mother didn't tip toe around basic facts like her father did.
Several years after Trent's wife died, her nephew, James, asked her what death actually was.
