A Life Long Wait... By Fleur and Zombierocker NEW!

Frank's a jeeeeeerk... myea.

and this whole Barbie thing is makin me nervous... i mean i KNOW they have "history"... but DAMN seems more "current events" than "history" to me.

and on a side note, I love *THIS* Azzy... different from DLMS Az DEFINATELY and even CCD Azzy.. though I have a feeling you're trying to make it the same guy...

PLEASE remember Lillith... CCD Azzy's a die-hard romantic! ... most of the time.

but i swear to Gee, if I see any Gazith in here........ *narrows eyes*... that boy is too sick!

Chapter 14

Frank was delighted to see Gerard had a girl in bed with him..even though she was on top of the covers and fully dressed..but still.

Besides it was obvious that they either had been or were just about to be kissing'.

'If her smudged make up, both on her lips and on his robe, gownie- thingy means anything' Frank thought, 'they've been at it for a while.. BYN will be ticked!'
"Hey! I brought you a visitor."

Barb turned slowly to the sound of the VERY un-welcomed visitor, Rardy's head had flown around, almost as though he was guilty of something. "BYN!"

Barb was annoyed and let it show.
"So..Who is this? Your new reason to believe?" Barb made NO effort to get up or even move slightly away from Rardy. If anything she seemed to relax more into her spot.

She WOULD have stayed right where she was as she was quite happy to be in Rardy's arms again.

If this girl wanted to be part of his life...FINE.
If she wanted to be HIS GIRL...Okay!

BUT. Barb was part of the package...She and Rardy had been through WAY TOO MUCH to just step outta the Way just because another pretty face had suddenly shown up.

Barbie was gunna make SURE that this new girl was atleast NOT gunna run when things got tough before Barb would even Consider stepping aside.

So In MOST cases Barb woulda stayed right where she was.

"Is Your Name Iero?" she spoke directly to the guy pushing the wheel chair, her eyes narrowing a bit.

"Wull...yeah. So? What of it?"

"Frank Iero? As in a leperchaun? "

"Look I don't think that's called for I-"

Barbie continued as if Byn hadn't spoken. "Played outdoor soccer for what? Four seasons at St. Patricks?"

"No Byn! It's all right. Why..yes..Yes I am..Are you a fan?"

( more later )

Chapter 15

Barbie smiled and started shaking her head, as if in amazement. She made a move as if to get up.
"OH Oh no I'll come to you you you PYT.." Frank said trying to sound smooth. Rardy was suddenly feeling VERY defensive and just a tad jealous that Barbie remembered a guy from ANOTHER team.

He had forgotten to look at the gleam in Barbie's eye.

As Frank rounded the hospital bed and came to Barb's side he extended his hand to shake hers. She grasped him with one hand.
And PUNCHED him in the stomach with the other.

"UGH!.." He groaned. "What the f-?!"

Rardy laughed out loud. If Byn hadn't been so happy to hear that she would have been VERY angry at this new girl.

Barbie smiled a too sweet smile. "You fouled Rardy on our last championship game. Only Game I couldn't play...WE lost.. BECAUSE you hurt him so bad he couldn't continue."

"That was him?!" Rardy stopped laughing. The tumor often made things hard to remember. When he had seen Frank with Byn before, he thought the guy looked familiar, but Rardy couldn't be sure.

"You bet he was!"

"You're one of the blue ballers?!"

"Hell yeah I am!"
"We're called the Blue Knights!"
"Not her! She ain't! When she played, us guys on the other teams..she gave us Blue balls one way or the other!"

Barbie preened at that. And Rardy couldn't help but be proud of His Barbie.

"Wul..that was what almost two years ago.."

"2 years, 7 months and 14 days to be exact."

"What no hours and minutes?" Frank sneered. "Besides it was just a high school game."

"Our LAST game!" Barbie was overwrought, she looked like if she could she would have killed Frank.

"Look I'm sorry I didn't know, we didn't know how sick you were. We saw you in that chair, we figured you had a bad sprain of something..That you just couldn't play..NONE of us knew that you OR HE was sick!"

"None of us knew How sick I was...Not even Barb and me.. In a way I have to thank you...if you hadn't fouled me Barbie woulda never been so worried about a bit of swelling that just wouldn't go away...
And then when she realised I was trying to hide it from my folks...she KNEW something was up.
I didn't wanna be one of the sick kids like-"

"Like me...right?"

Rardy realised he had never hurt Barbie in ALL their time together, as much as he had in that moment.

She got up and went into the bathroom.

"Barbie!..Barb..Barbara Joan I'm!..." SLAM! "Sorry."

"oh Shit! Dude..I'm so sorry..If I had known.."

"You woulda went easy on us and that wouldn't have been fair. If Barb hadn't already gotten so sick so fast...I woulda been paying closer attention. You never woulda got me...we Woulda won."


Frankie looked at Byn. "It..it was a DAMN close game too..They WOULD have won. Mind you I didn't cheat but...I..I DID foul him..on purpose..He was the REAL threat."

"Look you think Red..I mean" he pointed at the door. "Will come out soon?"

"Red?" Rardy looked bemused.
"Y-yeah. The red head that was just laying in your bed?" Frank was trying to cut Rardy some slack now that Frank knew he was REALLY not right in the brain.

"Oh..." Rardy still seemed a bit confused.."Y-yeah Barbie doesn't let most people see her cry..But knowing her..Give her a minute..She come back out, like Nuthin's wrong.. When she wants to, she can knock your socks off."

"I remember that uniform..the way she moved...Like lightning, but also like-"

"AHEM!...this is ALL very interesting, old home week and all, but a...So GERARD..What did your little elf bring you?"

Both the boys looked at Byn she was obviously Ticked. Frank whistled at how angry she looked. "Uh- oh Frank ? Was it?" Frankie nodded.
"First Barb and Now Byn...We're in the shit for sure now."

Byn couldn't help but be jealous. A few minutes ago Frank acted like she was the ONLY girl on the planet, and Rardy seemed Very happy to see her, despite the petite curly headed Redhead laying in his bed.

Now they were comparing notes on Rardy's old high school Crush, and their collected histories.

At least Byn HOPED Rardy and Barbie..(just the name wanted to make Byn gag) She HOPED they were history.

The handle on the door moved slightly and both the boys tried to not look too eager to turn.

Out came a similarly dressed girl to the one that went in But...something was different.

As she climbed back into Rardy's bed the difference was Obvious. She now had STRAIGHT BLACK hair with a Blunt cut, with freshly applied khol and red RED glossy lips.

Rardy grinned. "You're REALLY rockin that Goth chic look Now!" Frank nodded in agreement.

Barbie looked at a Very shocked Byn..
"What? Did Our Rardy forget to tell you? Accidentally on purpose no doubt. I'm Cancer ward Barbie..Wigs and Gurney not included..Hospital gowns and chemo sets sold separately."

More, more, more, more, more!!!!!

That is all

Cancer Ward barbie!!!

Chapter 17

Here is a short one.
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Robyn actually blushed as she realized what the whole ‘sick’ thing meant. Of course…she got ‘sick’ too. Practically his whole school did. Still, she found it funny that they all called it ‘sick’…not what it was…not what it was at all. She looked away from Barbie’s cold eyes, feeling slightly shameful of the way she had been acting. This girl had already had a hard life, and she was making recovery worse at best.

‘Why should you feel bad?’ A stern voice in her head claimed, ‘Gerard likes you…right? Kick her to the curb! You are just as sick…more so actually because you are here cause you have to be. She only gets to visits.’

Robyn thought that was true…but it didn’t make her feel any better. ‘After all, though she was sick she seemed better now. Just your normal healthy girl…what is so special about that?’
Robyn didn’t have an answer for that.
‘Is this any different than what you did to Gerard.’ A softer, meeker voice said, ‘you have Frank…isn’t that enough?’
She hated to admit that the last voice, probably her conscience, was right…but the fact was that it was. It wasn’t fair for him to spring this ‘Barbie’ on her…but she was no better with dropping the information about Frank in his lap without notice. She looked at ‘Cancer Ward Barbie’ and saw that a triumphant look glinted in her eyes as she looked Robyn over.
“I…I’m sorry…I didn’t know. I mean…’sick’ doesn’t make it sound half as bad as what this is…” Robyn mumbled under her breath as she allowed her eyes to trail across the bags in front and around her. It was no wonder Gerard liked this girl…she seemed to have money coming out of her butt hand over fist. She looked over at Frank, who’s eyes were large as he looked over at Barbie. Robyn had never once wanted to escape so much in all her life, and that included when her parents were having their screaming matches.
“Gerard dear…didn’t she ask you something,” Barbie asked, the snarkiness in her speech cut Robyn like a knife, “don’t you want to share your gifts?”
Gerard seemed to remember himself and blushed a little.
“I…yeah…um. I, um, got lots of nice stuff. Ya know…movies and food and stuff.”
At the mention of food Robyn’s stomach growled, she is regretting not eating her soup…wither it made her sick or not she might feel better than she did then. Frank turned to the sound of her stomach.
“You okay Bert? You need to lay down again?”
Robyn wanted to scream ‘yes’ at the top of her lungs, but instead simply nodded her head.
“I guess…I didn’t feel as well as I thought I did…sorry to interrupt you Gee with you…‘friend’.”
Frank had a smirk on his lips as he came to wheel Robyn back…she didn’t like the fact that her pain made him happy, but she just wouldn’t think on it, at least not now. She would think it over later when she was supposed to he sleeping because when she was all-alone at night like that…it was like she wasn’t there at all.

Patient: Roberta Appolinia Rhoades
Age- 20
Height- 5’ 5”
Sex- Female
Date- 01-18

The patient, who we had been seeing much improvement in began to decline this evening. When asked how she felt she refused a straight answer. I am worried about what a change this drastic could mean. I am going to up her dosage, it will make her stomach cramps increase, but it could help her in the long run.
The same nurse as before told me that the other patient she had seen today seemed to be declining as well, but that is to be expected. This is his second stay and he will have a tougher time of it. In the mean while I will keep a close eye on her.

P.s. No more visits/visitors with other patience until she shows much improvement.

Chapter 18

After Byn was rolled out Gerard turned to his childhood sweetheart., "That wasn't very nice BarBIE! Cancer WARD!! Wigs and Gowns sold separately!" Gerard threw his hands up.."The fuck was THAT all about?"
Barb looked at him sheepishly.."It was..'Wigs and Gurney not included..Hospital gowns and chemo sets sold separately..' actually.." she said cringing like she was expecting him to explode.
His brow softened and his frown slowly melted away as he began shaking his head.. "Barbara Joan..? What AM I gunna DO with you.." he lifted his arm and put it around her.Gerard kissed her on her forhead "You know if I didn't Love you so much.." He wasn't anywhere so serious as he had been moments before.

Barb was though, "I woulda been DEAD along time ago..bein' with you gave me the will to fight when I had none..I guess I owe her an apology..If she finds strength in you or You in her..If she's the reason you need to fight..then More power to her."

She looked geniuinely remorseful.. "I'm sorry I was such a bitch to her..I'll Make it up to her next time I promise..But that little..OH! That BOY!! He just makes me wanna-" her hands balled into fists.

Az appeared in the door way.."SO Barbie I hear you made Quite and impression on young Frankie.."
"I'd like to make an impression in his skull!" The nurse looked at the boy in the bed..They BOTH cracked up!

"WHAT!!?" Barbie just KNEW they were laughing AT, not With, but AT, her.

"ah..Young love.." Rardy ALMOST said with a straight face.
"It's a GRAND thing to behold...Makes the heavens even stand still for a moment and watch.."

Babrbie couldn't beleive what they were saying.."You..You don't mean Me..and..and the leperchaun?" Rardy nodded he was laughing so hard he could barely breath.
"He's!!!..You didn't see the looks he was givin' ya Barb..He was smitten!!!" rardy was laughing so hard he had to lay back to catch his breath.
"Okay wull...the tumor..It's REALLY addling your brain.."

"Nope! I don't have a ANY type of tumour, brain or otherwise and I saw it..VERY Spencer and Hepburn..Or Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.."

"More like Cleopatra and Octavian.." This was one of the reasons Az liked Barb she caught his archane references and could argue points of history with him..She was an Excelent history student..But Barb LOVED to hear Az's points of veiw on the ancient world.

He talked sometimes, well it sounded to Babrb sometimes..Like he'd ACTUALLY been there and Seen the things they'd discusss.
Now she was bringing up one of the most famous clashes over love in history there ever was.

"She HATED him! He May have wanted her..but he was NEVER going to be man enough for her.."
Barb looked supremely smug. "MY point exactly."

I can just feel a Frank/Bella/Gee Vs. Frank/Kal battle brewing:P

Chapter 19

Another small depressing one.
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The next morning Robyn was told the news about her new restrictions and her upped dosage. She took the news well it seemed no tears or cries of protest…in fact she didn’t react at all. The doctor seemed exasperated when he left her room, but Robyn didn’t care. She knew that all she was doing was feeling sorry for herself, but it didn’t change her frame of mind. Once the doctor left she stared out the window, watching the tree outside her second story window sway in a breeze the likes of which she might never feel again. The night before she had thought over everything that had happened to her that day, thinking over her own petty jealousy and the fact that she had now lost all hopes of even see ‘him’ again. He couldn’t visit and she couldn’t leave her room, unless she was getting treatments. In other words, she was trapped here all alone.
Robyn looked at the clock her mother had given her for her bedside table, it read twenty till noon, and her mother would be here soon for visiting hours. She dreaded seeing her, and worse seeing Frank later in the day. She hated to think of him just coming to see her because he might get a glance of that horrible ‘Barbie’ girl. Robyn gave a little sniffle, discovering that she was now crying. She hated feeling sorry for herself.
Suddenly there was a knock at her room door. She quickly wiped her eyes and looked toward the door. At first glance she could nearly swear that it was Gerard at her door. She felt her heart swell with happiness in her chest just a moment before she realized it was only the nurse Azrael at her door. That knowledge only made her feel worse…what if she never saw him again…
“How are you feeling today dear,” Azrael asked as he came in with a tray of food for her. She gave him a small shrug as she stared at her bowl of soup.
Azrael came closer to her and took her pulse, checking her status. Robyn shuffled in the bed, not wanting to look Azrael in the eyes. She knew somehow that he could see into her…see her sorrow. Finally though she could no longer stand it. She had to know…had to know how Gerard was doing.
“Az? How…how is he today?”
Azrael’s eyes locked with her’s, searching.
“He isn’t doing as well, especially when he learned that he couldn’t see you today.”
“Oh,” Robyn replied, “well…I am sure his ‘Barbie’ will be able to cheer him up plenty.”
Azrael gave her a smirk, “well…she has before. Last time he was here they both saved one another, but I dunno…he seemed awfully upset that he couldn’t see you.”
Robyn frowned, she didn’t want to think of Gerard in pain…but it was nice to think that he was missing her, would be missing her. She wanted to talk to him…ask him if he was okay…
“If…if I gave you a note…would you give it to him?”
Azrael smiled, “yes. I think that’s a fine idea.”
Robyn gave him a frail smile and, grabbing a piece of paper and pen, scribbled a short note to him and handed it to Azrael.
“For his eyes only Mr. Angel.” She said with a smile. He nodded and gave her a small salute before exiting her room with the note. As he walked to Gerard’s room he saw Lillith talking to the doctor, her eyes wide with worry as he talked to her about her upped dosage and her lack of patient visitors. He would talk to her later…he knew that Robyn and Gerard belonged together even if they didn’t. Part of him itched to know what she had written in her note, but he would leave it to chance.
He entered Gerard’s room, seeing the boy sitting in his bed much the way Robyn had been in her’s, facing the window. He cleared his throat, causing Gerard to jump.
“Oh…sorry Az. I…was thinking…”
“I’ll not ask what about, I am simply a messenger now it seems.”
He handed Gerard the note. Gerard looked it over not sure whom it was from, but hoping he could guess right.
“Is it…from Byn?”
Azrael smiled as he left the room, “yes dear boy…she seems terribly lonely for you if you ask me.”
Gerard smiled at the hope he felt surge through him. When Azrael was gone he opened the note in a hurry to find Robyn’s rushed handwriting greeting him.

Gerard,
Save your strength and meet me in the activity room tonight. If you don’t come I will understand.

Robyn.

Please, for the love of God Gerard, you BETTER meet up with that girl...

Chapter 20

There was a soft wrap at Byn's door. She looked at the clock it was getting close to noon but it wasn't like her mother to knock.

"C- Come in?" Byn said her tone clearly showing her confusion.
Barbie stuck her today white-Blond head in.
"Hey? Can? Can I come in?" Barbie didn't really wait for an answer, that wasn't who Barbie was. She crept inside one finger over her lips and closed the door behind her.

"Shh..I Gotta be quiet..Don't Want "DOCTOR TORMENTOR" to know I'm visiting you.." she said in hushed tones hoping to get a laugh from Rardy's Other girl.

Barb had even taken off her heels so no one would hear her slip in.

"Look I wanted to say I was sorry I was so bitchy yesterday..I guess I'm still a little jealous of anyone Rardy pays ANY attention too..He's been talking about you alot and well..I just..I was being stupid..He's really falling for you ya know.."

Barbie shifted uncomfortably where she stood, she felt like she was confessing her worst sin.
"He..he even was talking about you during his last seizure..He asked me to give you a chance..And I promised him I would..But yesterday..I broke my promise..I've never done that before to Rardy..And I wanna make up for it now...IF that is you'll let me. I don't wanna be enemies, even if we can't be friends..But I 'd like to be...friends, that is..if for his sake if nothing else..."
Both the girls eyes brightened just at the thought of the very sick boy in the next room.

"Plus I kinda know how it feels to be where you are..I..I'm not even supposed to be here, but when I heard old DR. TEETH's DECREE that you couldn't have any visitors, wull..lets just say I HAD to come and see you then."

Barbie pursed her glossed lips, they weren't bright red today though. Today, everything about her, from her hair to her make-up to the colors of the clothes were softer somehow.

"About..yesterday, I guess I was just...envious of you..You get to see him all the time now..I hafta wait for visiting hours most days..Unless Az is here..he cuts me some slack.., Bobby does too..those two are real angels ya know..They REALLY care about their patients.."

Barbie looked at Byn's shocked face.
"I'm talking too much again aren't I?"

She licked her lips nervously, exactly the way Byn had seen Gerard do it too. And swallowed hard as she reached into her HUGE hand bag she had over her shoulder and she pulled out some bags from one of those, perfumey kinda pinky shops in the malls, the kind that sold frilly underwear and sexy things too.

"Like I said, I uh..I remember what it's like to be where you are..So I got you some hand lotions and some lip balms, and stuff, their mostly trial sizes cause i didn't know which you'd like and, that way you can keep'em in the night stand, they won't walk away so easy..My hands got dried out AWFUL and MY lips bled from all the treatments.."

Byn was wondering if this girl was trying to buy her off. But she DID seem genuinely sorry. And VERY nervous.
"There also a few sleep shirts in there..Those damn hospital gowns are enough to make some one sick just by having to wear one of those just on it's own..."

Barbie leaned in whispering, "Look when I went through this, there were OTHER concerns, girly concerns too...IF..If you need someone to talk to about stuff you can't talk to Rardy about..I HAVE been through all of this before.., Hell I'm just in early stages of remission, one good infection my whole body could go haywire again..We could end up as roomies for all I know.."
Barbie held out the bag with one hand and help up her other hand as if in surrender.
"Consider this my WHITE Flag..Truce?...Can..? Can we try again? For Rardy's sake at least?"

"And who is this?" Byn's mother said from the doorway, with Az standing next to her.."That Dear Lillith is Trouble..If those two get together, NO one, ESPECIALLY the two poor boys, will be safe."

"And Heaven help Dr. Toro if they ALL join forces..." Said the blond haired blue-eyed Buff nurse standing behind the two of them.

"DAMN RIGHT Bobby! WE'LL take over the place!"

It's too bad that I can see a breaking of this new truce in the future.

Yay! Bobbit is in the picture!

Chapter 21

Smutty research went into this one.
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Gerard had stared at the note for several minuets before realizing what it really meant. She wanted to see him, to talk to him. Maybe she didn’t hate him, after all Azrael had told him that she seemed to ‘terribly miss’ him. He hoped it was true, because he certainly missed her, even though it had been less than a day. The prospect of never seeing her again was awful to think of.
He listened silently for some sound from her room. Her room was quite close to his, he could sometimes hear it when ‘Dr. Fro’ came in to see her. Listening intently he could hear hushed voices, and the close of her door. He hoped that it was nothing wrong, maybe a nurse with more treatments or whatever. He sighed, looking over the small note again, then the sound of someone approaching his room reached his ears. He looked up in time to see Frank entering his room with a nervous smile and a large stack of magazines. Gerard looked him over, confused, as he pulled a chair up to his bed.
“Um…Frank? Why are you here?”
And not with Byn…
Frank gives him a small shrug, “well, I would be with Bert, but the doctors won’t let her have any visitors but her mother. Plus, she seems kinda busy talking with your friend Barb.”
Gerard’s eyes grow larger, “Oh…does it look okay?”
Frank gave another smallish shrug, “I guess…no screaming or anything. Bert seemed kinda quiet though. But she always was. I guess that’s why we get along so well. I talk enough for both of us.”
Frank laughed a little and, seeing that Gerard didn’t join him, cleared his throat.
“Anyway, I have a peace offering for you,” Frank said, motioning to the stack of magazines next to his chair. He picked the stack up and handed it to Gerard. Gerard looked at them, seeing that they must have come from Frank’s own collection of magazines, mostly music ones. Gerard saw a Revolver Magazine with Glen Danzig on the cover and smiled.
“Misfits! I love them man…”
Frank grinned, “thought you might. There is, um, a special inside there if you catch my drift…”
Gerard frowned as he flipped through the magazine, closing it immediately when he saw what Frank was talking about. Frank let out a high pitched giggle at Gerard’s expression.
“I thought…ya know…you might need it. Especially since you can’t visit Bert anymore.”
Gerard carefully opened the Revolver to the ‘special’ inside. The ‘Special’ was none other than a vintage Playboy*. It was back dated from the year he was born it seemed, with Lisa Sohm advertised on the front along with “southern girls featured”.
“Th-thanks,” he said uncertainly.
“No problem. I have a ton at home, one of the only things my dad left me. I gave you this one cause it said something about ‘Southern Girls’. Bert moved here from like, Georgia when we were kids…so I thought it would fit.”
Gerard’s blush had moved on from pale pink to bright red. He quickly stuffed the Playboy under his pillow, praying no one would find it there. After that he was silent and Frank gave a little uncomfortable shuffle.
“So uh, can we call it even then. I mean…I really am sorry. And if you don’t want the other mag I’ll just…”
Gerard shook his head, “no…its fine really. Thanks for the gifts, it’s really sweet. I will totally read through all of them.”
Frank smiled at him, “all of them?”
Gerard’s blush deepened even more. “Well…nearly all of them.”
There was some commotion down the hall a second later and Frank went to the door. He looked back at Gerard with a small smile on his face.
“Well uh…I’ll catch ya later Gerard.”
And he was gone, leaving Gerard to himself to resume thinking about how he would make his daring escape to the activity room that night.
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The one mentioned is actually from the month that Gerard was born in...I looked it up...*sigh*

Leave it to Frank