Old Fashioned

Alexander stared down at the sleeping woman, her eyes were swollen from crying or maybe it was something else, her body was littered with scratches and large gashes that he knew would take just a few days to heal.

Her breathing was even, a far cry from what she was like when she was brought into the hospital...Her hands were covered in blood, his mother’s blood.

They had found them next to each other, Elisa’s cold body in Rain’s arms.

She was delirious when they found her, she refused to let Elisa go and kept threatening to kill anyone that came close...Her eyes were closer all through and even her words were slurred.

He had walked up to her, held her by the shoulders and pulled her into a tight hug. Enzo had taken Elisa’s body off her and Alexander carried Rain in his arms while Luigi carried an almost dead Viola.

He had to stop his body from shaking as he carried her into the ambulance, the anger he felt at that moment was one he’d never felt before, not even when he had figure