lacuna

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"Jaxon, you awake man?" Damon asked as he turned his head to try to see Jaxon lying in his separate cot.

He heard a groan, so Damon turned his head back, nodding absently.

It's been a week since the accident, and they still haven't been allowed to get discharged from the hospital. Damon himself had a severe concussion, and two broken ribs. His arm and back were also really scratched up from having jumped in front of Emma, saving her from any damage. Jaxon had been behind the door when the explosion happened, which meant he had the brunt of the explosion thrown in his face. Or back, technically.

He has many burn injuries, several cracked and broken ribs, and several other broken bones. Damon has been working with a nurse to be able to walk around, since the concussion makes him dizzy and black out at times, and thankfully the same nurse has been taking care of Emma when he can't.

"W-wha-"

"You want water?" Damon asked as Jaxon tried to speak, knowing full well he wasn't asking for water.

Jaxon nodded anyway and Damon did a little dance on his bed to try and get him to the edge of his bed and hand some water to Jaxon.

After Jaxon drank enough to help his dry throat, he asked Damon, "what happened?"

"Someone put a bomb in the house."

Jaxon cursed, before his eyes widened. "Emma?"

"She's okay, they won't bring her in here yet though." Fucking nurses, who do they think they are?

"Goddamnit."

"Yup."

Then silence overcame the two of them, but before long a new nurse came bustling into the room. "A man named JJ is wanting to come see you two, do you know him."

"Bring him in." Damon said impatiently.

She nodded briefly then left.

"How did JJ find out about the accident?" Jaxon asked curiously.

"I told him where I was going, he probably went to see what was taking me so long."

"Wait, isn't it the same day?"

Damon paused, then snorted. "I actually have no idea."

JJ suddenly burst into the room, and breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of his friends. "Goddamn, I thought I lost y'all."

"Better luck next time." Damon retorted.

JJ laughed, then sobered quickly. "Something happened at the prison."

Damon and Jaxon immediately sat up straight. "What the fuck do you mean?"

"There's a news channel out there, about some dead girl and one injured. The officers overlooking the night shift there were arrested for having a fucking dead prisoner on their watch. Guys- what if it was S-Scar?" JJ croaked, emotion overtaking him.

Damon heard Jaxon cuss in the bed next to
him, but he remained silent, looking at the wall blankly.

He was numb.

*

"Goddamnit!"

"Ma'am, if you could please calm down, we're taking you to the hospital right now." The paramedic tried to calm down the young woman.

"No I fucking cant! I'm dying!"

"No you're not."

"Well it fucking feels like it."

"You have a scratch on your neck, and all the blood on you isn't even yours."

Scar rolled her eyes. "Whatever, I'm allowed to be dramatic, that bitch tried to literally kill me!"

"Yes, well, now she's dead."

Scar laughed maniacally. "Fuck yeah she is. Fucking loser." Then she realized who she was talking to and tried to backtrack. "I mean- self defense. You're not going to say that to the police right?"

The paramedic merely laughed weakly, then inched away from the prisoner.

Once they got to the hospital, the two paramedics efficiently got Scar down on the stretcher and jogged into the hospital, where a pair of nurses were waiting for them.

As they were wheeling her to her room, someone came running past them, then quickly backtracked and peeked at her from above the nurses heads. Scar smiled as JJ's face widened in a combination of shock, happiness, and confusion.

She knew she was going to be okay.

*

ONE YEAR LATER

"The jury finds the defendant not guilty."

That simple statement changed Scar's life forever.

That simple statement meant she was freed of the killing of Rosa, which was the only thing keeping her in prison. Her uncle, along with all of his puppets, were found guilty of many things. The evidence that Jaxon had been spending all of his time on was eventually the thing that got their uncle incarcerated.

He would never be able to bother them again.

Scar was free. She was free to raise her daughter by herself. Well, along with Damon, Jaxon, and JJ of course.

But goddamn, Scar was finally going to live in peace.

THE END

thank you everyone for reading!
this update has finally gone up, and it took so long just because i've been having MAJOR writers block for this book.

I think i've been writing this book for like two years, and i have obviously grown in that time so i have definitely been wanting to just discontinue this book, but then it suddenly started getting reads and I didn't just want to do that to the readers who were interested in the plot. that's why this book was having slow updates, and all that.

sorry for that ending, it might've not been what some people were wishing for but I honestly just wanted to get something up. I might rewrite this book
later, and get all the plot holes, one chapter characters, and all the editing mistakes out of here.

but yes, thank you to everyone who read to the end, your support means a lot!

if you made it to the end, and didn't hate it, go check out my other books! better writing, better plot, and deeper insight on characters!

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