"You better," Frances answered across the wire, "Alphy, as mad as I am, I love you, son." The phone clicked and went to the dial tone. That was out of the way, but Alphonse now felt really...really guilty. His mother, friends, and even BARBARA cared. Even though he hurt them, they all cared. It only fueled his self hatred, but in a different way. He hated what he'd done, not who he was. Alphy looked up to Barbara and placed his uninjured hand on her face. With a sad smile, he pushed the fallen strands away from her face and wiped her jaw with his thumb. Quietly, he apologized, "I'm sorry Babs... I... I never meant to hurt you or anyone... I thought... It was stupid okay? I understand now."
Babs smiled sadly back down at Alphy, proud of him now that he seemed to get something through that thick skull of his. She leaned slightly into his hand, closing her eyes briefly. She couldn't break down, not now. Reaching over, she clicked the phone off so that the only sound in the room was the faint beeping of Alphy's heart monitor. "Of course, you idiot." Her smile widened slightly and she hopped up on the small bed. "Scoot over." She mumbled, wiggling in beside him, finally resting her head on his shoulder and her arm across his waist, careful to stay clear of his broken rib.
Alphy followed the commands, in a slight daze from the drugs, then draped an arm around Barbara. It took him a minute to comprehend what was happening and stutter out "Is, is this what friends do, Barbara?" It didn't matter to him, his mixed ball of emotions took over and he leaned his head on hers, and stared at those sad green eyes of hers. The blanket almost didn't cover both of them, so he slyly pulled Barbara towards him while moving the blanket more towards her. He was careful of is leg, arm, and rib while he pulled her closer. As he leaned in towards her ear, he whispered, "I won't worry you again, or anyone again. I promise."
Barbara grunted in response. "It's what I am doing." It was like cuddling with a card house, afraid to move wrong and have it fall out from beneath her. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes. "You really scared me, Alphy." Her hand balled up in a fist around the top of the blanket, holding it to his chest. Her eyes were still closed as a couple of tears escaped the dam. "I didn't know what I would find.... and then seeing you like that..." She drew another long shaky breath and bit her lip. The anger was falling away, revealing what Barbara had felt from the beginning, tried to cover up, to take control. "You better keep to that promise." She opened her eyes and looked back up at him accusingly. "Or you will not want to see the consequences."
"Barbara..." Alphy started, but then he looked at her to see tears soaking his shoulder. Gently, he used his good hand to wipe those tears off of her cheek and then calmly grasped her balled up hand. Looking at her like that made Alphy blink and think. She was more afraid and worried than mad. He'd done this to her... "Babs, I promise." he finished. Her reaction confused him a little bit. Despite all the stupid things he was prone to, and how hurt she felt, here she was. It felt like a wrench was turning in his stomach (thankfully, it wasn't the rib) when he thought about it. After a moment to just sit there wiping Barbara's tears, brushing her hair out of her face, and then running his good hand through that hair, he whispered, "Do...you still love me? I mean, more than the friend way?"
"I've done... so much to not deserve that." he mumbled.
Babs sighed. Did she? She was still very mad at him, and not just for recent events. He had given her a necklace on their first real date, and then went off and gave Anne the same one when he started dating her. No warning, no official "dumping", anything. It was just like their little blip of a relationship never happened. And now that Anne was gone, did he really just expect everything to go back to normal? He didn't realize how much he had hurt her.
"I don't know." Her eyes drifted closed again, and she nestled back into the crook of his arm. "Just shut up and rest."
Fortunately, sometimes Barbara could be wrong. Alphonse's self hatred stemmed as much from Anne's death, to realizing how much he hurt the woman he saw as probably his closest friend. There was no way she would forgive him, or he thought that. He didn't know that he was DATING Barbara. In his mind, going on a date does not mean dating. Later, Alphy figured out that for Barbara, it did. Alphy's insides churned and he tightened his hold on Babs. She didn't have to tell him twice to rest, but he whispered as his eyes shut slowly, "I'm sorry, Babs. Goodnight..."
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