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Beaten, Working Toward Recovery Chapter 5
Dana not at all wanting to walk alone or upset Alice gave in still trying to comprehend what was going on in Alice’s head. “Alice, we’ll go home, but look around it’s safe here. There are plenty of couples here, and it broad daylight, nothing is going to happen.” Alice did not want to fight, she kind of knew she was being unreasonable, but she did not want to be here anymore. “Thanks Dane, I just don’t want to be out here, I want to go home.”
DANA’S CONDOMINIUM
Dana was downstairs using her treadmill, she hated treadmill, the whole idea of running and not going anywhere just didn’t sit well with her. But she had so much pent of energy she had to so something. She came downstairs and worked with her weights for a while. But that just wasn’t cutting it, she wanted to run, run fast, hard and away. But with a treadmill you could only run fast and hard.
She had her Ipod on listening to music while she ran, so she didn’t hear Alice walk into the room. Alice lightly touch Dana’s hand trying not to scare her while she was trying to get her attention. But Dana jumped anyway. “Dana, dinners ready.” Dana looked down at Alice with one eyebrow lifted higher then the other. “You cooked?” Alice smiled shyly back at her friend. “I know how to cook, but no I didn’t cook, I ordered pizza. I guess you didn’t hear the doorbell.”
As the two sat on the couch watching TV while eating pizza Alice looked over at Dana, “We are really missed up aren’t we. I don’t want to go out, you want to go out but only if I go with you. I just hope a year from now our friends don’t find our bodies still sitting here waiting for the other one to be able to go outside.” Dana sat back next to Alice. “This is our safe little world Al, no monsters are allowed in here.”
That night Alice did what Jacq had suggested she only took the sleeping pills before going to bed. She did not sleep as peacefully, she fought, she talked and she jerked in her sleep. Several times Dana even thought about getting the other two medications for her just so she could sleep peacefully. But she knew Alice still had to face her demons and numbing herself of the memories was not the way to do it. So she just held her and helped her get through her nightmares.
TBC
I did have one more little scene for this chapter, but I thought I would use it to start my next chapter instead.
Thanks Leyla for your encouragement you don’t know how close I was to deleting most of this chapter and starting over again. And thanks for not pointing out my many spelling and grammar errors, after rereading and turning blood red I realized you really do overlook a lot.
Guys thanks for all the comments. Some of you have commented on almost everything I have written, you have no idea how much you have encouraged me. If not for your comments, I might have given up this hobby, I am finding myself loving and addicted too. Deb
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I really love the relationship between Dana and Alice. I hope you will continue this story beyond their healing.
Deb!! I love ur writin! its fantastic! I love this story line its so serious yet with alices sense of humour in with it a bit it makes it fantastic! I love the relationship u have goin on between alice and dana its amazin!
i love it when i see a new chapter of this posted, and i wasnt disappointed, great job :D
Love it. Keep it coming. I espically enjoy how they care about it each other.
i really like where this story is going so far and can’t wait for you to post again. keep em comin.
I think I told you this before but let me do this here. The things I enjoyed most about this chapter:
– The touches of fluff and humor were great, it evens out the pain of the subject and true to life
– I’ve always thought you did a great job capturing not only Alice’s fear but the impact it has on Dana as well. The protective nature of Dana was perfectly expressed.
– The moment that Alice felt her fears set in at the beach was spot on and real.
– Last but not least, Dana thoughts about the treadmill was so true cause that’s exactly how I felt when I have to run indoors lol.
This post is killer..Post s0ON..
It was a wonderful chapter and I cannot wait until the next post you write wonderfuly
this story is amazing. i applaud you. keep up the great work
wow Debs. i’m starting to dread the ‘comment box’ cause i feel like i keep writing the same thing to you but really- this story is wonderfully concieved and delivered. I am hanging on every word- can’t wait to see where you take them. and HOW do you make such a painful experience so romantic?
i love all of your fics, theyre all great and this one rocks :o) cant wait for the next update. xx
I love this and this is going to be a long hard road for alice and dana but will they find there true feeling for each other please post soon
I love this chapter. All seem so real, the therapist,the fears, the relationship, its fantastic.
Oh and the fara fawcett glasses are great.