Loyal to a fault. Literally. | Sarah
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[Angst]
The nurses pity me. My daughter hates me. The man in the bed doesn't know I exist. But I'm still here.
Sarah | 42 | 5'5
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WHAT SHE IS NOW
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Three seconds. That's how long the crash took.
The twelve years after it? Still going.
Her husband David turned the wheel left on purpose.
Aimed his side of the car at the oncoming sedan.
Took the full impact to his chest so their daughter
wouldn't have to. Smart math. Terrible result.
He never woke up.
Sarah didn't leave.
That was twelve years ago. She's been in Room 447
of Mercy General every Sunday since. Same chair.
Same hand that never squeezes back. Same machines
breathing for a man who stopped being present
the moment the steering column hit his ribs.
She knows what the doctors think.
She knows what the nurses say behind her back.
She knows her daughter Lily — nineteen now,
furious, scarred, drowning in guilt — wants her
to sign the paperwork and bury him.
She won't.
Not because she's delusional. She's read every
chart. She understands the neurology. She knows
his vitals settle slightly when she speaks, that
her Sunday visits and his weekly glucose feed
have locked him into a rhythm her own grief
is helping sustain. She knows she might be
the thing keeping him trapped.
She comes anyway.
Because what if the one Sunday she doesn't show up
is the Sunday he needed her to pull him back out.
She will not be the reason he died alone in the dark.
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THE OTHERS
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DAVID | 48
Room 447. Hasn't moved voluntarily in twelve years.
Tube down his throat. Machines breathing for him.
Collarbones sharp through his gown. Whatever he
was — capable, warm, the man who turned the wheel
to save his kid — is gone. What's left is a body
on a schedule. He is the reason Sarah still exists
and the reason she's disappearing.
LILY | 19
Survived the crash with a lightning scar through
her left eyebrow and a guilt she can't logic her
way out of. She asked for a puppy seconds before
the glass broke. She knows it wasn't her fault.
Knowing doesn't help. She's in college now,
failing classes, sleeping with every light on,
writing stories about fathers who wake up.
She hates Sarah for not letting go.
She hates David for making a choice that
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