![]() He had him so close finally after all this time and Arceus himself had just slammed him in the garbage in front of him, stomped him with its godly hoof, reduced him to atoms, to nothing, didn’t even leave the ashes to mourn him with. ![]() He had escaped from a snowy death perfectly healthy and then died in a ditch who knows where as soon as he had been deemed alright enough to leave the hospital alone. He had survived nearly freezing solid in a blocked off cave in the side of a mountain of a completely different region for three and a half years only to be finally rescued and then die as soon as he was out of it. ![]() No wonder she can’t stop crying, you think, unaware that you’ve started to cry too - albeit silently. “Who…?” Bundling Steph up in your arms, you squeeze her tight and feel the palpable shift in the air. “Holy shit…” you breathe, eyes wide as you stare at the zeroes on the pages. Years piled up in doctors and dollar signs. Every penny of debt for Shawn and Nora’s care has been paid by the same credit card. The folded and crumpled page has a mate, of course, and you snatch it out of the envelope frantically. As of two days ago, the balance is paid in full. A one-time payment is listed for every single cent that Steph owed for Nora’s treatments and care. This one is unlike anything you’ve ever seen though - because the balance reads zero. Over the years you’ve seen plenty of them, memorizing the way they look and even the way they smell completely against your will. You’re well acquainted with what a balance statement from the hospital looks like.
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