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On Sunday, Bella drives to the movie theater with Angela in tow, and her car breaks on the way home from Angela's house. She calls a tow truck, and calls her dad, and she goes home in the cop car and her station wagon goes on vacation to the mechanic.
On Monday, Charlie drives Bella to school.
As she's been discharged from the car and Charlie pulls away, a van driven by a panicking teenager screams out of nowhere towards Bella.
Making wishes is easy.
It is not automatic. It is not instantaneous.
The van creams Bella, good and proper.
On Monday, Charlie drives Bella to school.
As she's been discharged from the car and Charlie pulls away, a van driven by a panicking teenager screams out of nowhere towards Bella.
Making wishes is easy.
It is not automatic. It is not instantaneous.
The van creams Bella, good and proper.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:11 pm (UTC)Alice gets up and follows them as far as the hall.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:15 pm (UTC)He follows them there, too.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:16 pm (UTC)She asks Charlie, "Is he a relative?"
Charlie looks at Alice, puzzled, and shakes his head.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:33 pm (UTC)"No friends," says the doctor, not unkindly. "Only immediate relatives."
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:38 pm (UTC)Charlie doesn't look liable to contradict her.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:47 pm (UTC)He pauses in the waiting room.
"She's unconscious. They don't know how long it'll take her to wake up. Stable, though."
And he leaves.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:53 pm (UTC)In that case... in that case, what the hell, he goes back out to the place with the unhelpful receptionist.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:59 pm (UTC)Up he goes.
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Date: 2012-09-21 09:12 pm (UTC)What's that thing Bella said once? What does he want, and what does he have?
He wants a lot of things. Bella better, for one. That's easiest, but it's not going to happen without some things he doesn't have.
When she put that whole treasure chest's worth of coins on her necklace, she only used up one square to do it, right? He takes one of the sparkly squares out of his pocket, sits beside her bed, and wishes for: all the stars, hexes and pentagons on her necklace, off her necklace and visible and touchable and in his hands.
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Date: 2012-09-21 09:13 pm (UTC)He has the fifteen pentagons and the one star in Elias's opal-hematite pattern.
And one glowy, red hex.
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Date: 2012-09-21 09:22 pm (UTC)Just to see, he bites the inside of his cheek. Moving the pain from left to right makes perfect sense, and then there is a square in his hand, made of something like black glass that seems to suck in all the light it touches and give it back only grudgingly, in tiny glimmers.
"Fuck," he mutters, and uses it to wish the star back onto Bella's necklace.
He still doesn't know what's wrong with her, besides 'wrecked to hell'. Well, what does he have? Sixteen pentagons. And what can pentagons do? They can make you good at things.
He picks one up, and makes a wish.
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