jude&basilio

Christmas might have been overkill that year. Normally it was a more subdued affair - a trip to his grandparents, gifts under a big old fashioned tree, church mass... They'd had a small family, so it wasn't as if the house had been filled to the bursting. Last year's christmas had gone by in...

It had taken no small amount of effort to get out of the hospital without someone being called. He was a minor, and technically someone should have been. But he was also nearly eighteen, and his injuries had been minor. He'd made the point that getting a call that his son was in the hospital...

Jude had been helping from the first moment he was able to. He'd helped set up the whole area. He'd helped organize. He'd done pretty much everything he was allowed to do, and then been sent off to get food so he didn't pass out from exhaustion. He didn't get exhausted, he told them, but they'd...