| Fan Fiction |
by DTLCT
He moves his left hand and strokes Alice’s hair a bit. She’s a good kid, he thought. He turns his attention to his right at that time, wondering how and why Cyndi is here. But he’s glad she’s here.
About that time, Alice wakes up since she has a feeling that Wallace’s hand is moving.
“Ge!” Alice shouted out excitedly. “You’re okay!”
Wallace looks over to her again. “What did you expect? For me to not wake up?”
“Ge! Don’t say that!”
Their talking has awakened Cyndi.
“Mr. Huo, you’re okay,” Cyndi said, her voice full of relief.
Wallace looks over to her. “It’s Wallace, not Mr. Huo. It’s only been a week or so that we haven’t seen each other and you forgot already?”
Cyndi smiles at him. She knows that he’s okay since he can joke now.
Wallace turns serious again. “Why are you here? Aren’t you supposed to be at work?”
“Ge, I called her,” Alice said.
Wallace looks at Alice, waiting silently for her to explain.
“When we took you here, you came out of it a bit and then went back under again. But you kept mumbling Cyndi’s name so I took your cell phone to call her.” She smiles proudly after revealing her clever move.
“You probably heard wrong,” Wallace mumbled, embarrassed.
“Whatever, ge. I’ll just leave you to talk to jie jie now. I’ll go outside and tell Tim that you’re okay. I need to call back home also.”
Wallace looks after Alice for a while and then turns his attention back to Cyndi. “Don’t listen to her. She’s just talking rubbish.”
Cyndi smiles. “Mr. Huo, you shouldn’t be worrying about that now. You need to rest.”
Wallace sits up at that time. “I had enough rest. Alice shouldn’t have called you. You have work. Your supervisor will give you a hard time for this.” He attempts to get out of bed. “Let me take you back to work.”
Cyndi stops him from getting out of bed. “No need to. You need to rest. Don’t fight it.”
Wallace tries to get out of bed but his knees failed him so he stumbles back onto the bed. Lucky Cyndi’s been holding onto him or he would have fall sideways off the bed.
“I told you not to move.”
Wallace smiles weakly. “I have never been this unstable since I was little. I guess work is getting to me.”
“Not only that. Mr. Zhao and Miss Chia are missing. You’re worried for them so you’re working hard to find them. Plus work.”
By this time, Cyndi has helped Wallace back into bed, but he refused to lie back down. He’s just sitting there with his pillow prop up behind him.
“So, what will you tell your supervisor later?” Wallace asked, feeling comfortable again.
“I already told him,” Cyndi said. “He didn’t object since it was important.”
Wallace waits for her to repeat what she said to Seth earlier.
Cyndi looks down, suddenly shy. “I told Seth that my boyfriend is in the hospital and I need to go see him right away.”
Wallace smiles. “That’s a great reason then.”
Cyndi looks up at him and their eyes meet. Their hands meet and finally they’re an official couple as of today.
© Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Re-posted: Sunday, October 11th, 2009
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Okay, hope you guys will forgive me for being so subtle and somewhat lame. But I don't like rushing things with these two.