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Crossroads- Ch.10
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Lara continued to chew the sugar tablet, but maintained eye contact with Alice, who was busily trying to blink away the sudden tears of relief that were threatening to fall.
Billy pushed open the door. "Anyone going my way?" He asked with a friendly grin at Lara. "I’m giving out free passes…good for today only."
Lara swallowed the remnants of the sugar tablet. "Is being cheerful a job requirement?"
Janice and Billy laughed. "No, but it’s a good way to stay sane." Janice added.
"Now, let’s get you situated."
With practiced hands, the two had Lara in the stretcher in just a few moments. As they wheeled her to the ambulance, Alice brought up the rear. "Um, can I ride along?"
"Please?" Lara added.
Janice frowned. "I’m sorry. We can’t allow passengers."
Alice nodded. "Okay….Lara, I’ll follow the ambulance. I’ll be there, as soon as I can, okay?"
"Don’t worry, we’ll take good care of her." Billy smiled reassuringly.
Alice watched as Lara disappeared in the back of the ambulance. As the vehicle lumbered off, she turned and made her way to the mini.
As Alice approached the emergency room entrance, she was flooded with a sudden memory of the night that she brought Dana to the hospital. She tried to suppress the memory, but it struck her so forcefully she actually gasped. Filled with a sudden anxiety, she sat down on a bench just outside the door. A woman in her sixties looked at Alice with pity. "I hate hospitals, too." She offered Alice a cigarette. Alice shook her head.
She calmed her breathing, and turned to enter the building. Once again, a sense of anxiety filled her with so much force that she was left gasping for breath. She recognized the beginnings of a panic attack and turned and stumbled from the entrance back to her car. Breathe, Alice, breathe, in, one-two-three-four, out, one-two-three-four, she repeated this mantra and leaned against her hood until her heart rate calmed. She knew she could not go in the hospital.
She got her cell phone out and dialed Kit’s number.
Kit answered on the third ring. After Alice explained what had happened, she responded, "We’ll be right there." Just before the phone was disconnected, she heard Kit say, "Bette, grab your keys."
Alice hung her head in disgust. Feeling the anxiety bubble up again, she dialed a number she hadn’t used in a long time. A familiar voice picked up on the second ring. "Hi, Alice!"
"Tina, I need you."
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Shoot…I can relate to the fainting…and the effect it has on someone who is with you when you do it…I hope she is okay. So Bette & Tina will run into each other at the hospital….is this a good thing or a bad thing. And I’ll be waiting for you to hook my girl Bette up with someone…remember you promised…
I’m glad there was nothing more to Lara falling of the stairs (there really isn’t, is there?). I can totally understand that Alice had a little anxiety attack at the hospital…the memories of the last time she was there aren’t good at all. I really love this story, I like the whole pace of it. Keep it up!
Great =) more soon, k?
poor alice and I hope that lara is ok please post soon and great update I lov it and I can’t wait to see what happens next
Wow. How the HELL did I miss so many great fucking updates?! I just caught up on the last few chapters, and I have to say that I am totally in love with this story. I really started to dig the Lace thing at the end of season three (as much as my Danish loving heart hates to admit), and you write it better than IC could ever dream of. Please continue soon, because I will be anxiously awaiting your next update! This is an awesome story that is beautifully written! :-)
loved it! but what else is new? my friend just fainted the other day and fell off a ladder, so i went through a similar scare as this one. i know how alice feels! well im looking foward to your next update!
Gah I’m addicted to this story so much now! It’s keeping that little flame alive in my heart that there will possibly be more of a lace storyline in the next season (… a little fire which IC will no doubt extinguish with a big bucket of festering crap…). It’s great, so much drama, so much sexual tension! And the comment Lara made in the previous chapter to Alice, well it almost broke my heart. Update soon k? Cause it’s awsome.
OMG don’t tease us with such fast updates, I love them too much;) Please post soon to feed my habit. I’m totally curious to find out what is really wrong with our girl Lara. I enjoy how you’ve maintained the Dana connection with the apprehension of Alice entering the hospital too. I hope that Lace can comfort each other soon and keep working their issues out. And you DO know that our screens might explode from all the over-the-top hotness of tension released if/when you have them get together. Or am I being presumptuous? Also: OK, you got me, Lara pregs may be a tad much at this point. Regardless, this story rocks and I agree with bojangles that it keeps the thought of the Lace storyline alive…it just doesn’t make sense to NOT have them as the ‘it’ couple in S4, but then again, who knows what IC & Co. are thinking… waah. Post soon and you rock!