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This chapter is edited with a sprained wrist cause Wattpad didn't save when I edited it earlier there MIGHT still be mistakes I'll look over it later when my wrist is good and I sprained racing a 5th grader.  very stupid of me tbh

Ashton pov

I was sitting on the couch when suddenly I hear sophie screaming and something falling down. I quickly run the stairs up to her room  She is on the floor with the pieces of vase all around her crying.

"Sophie are you okay?"  I ask as I stepped into the room. 

She doesn't stop crying.

"Are you hurt?" I ask. She points to her foot.

A piece of glass was stuck there. I could see it was not deep, and the piece of glass wasn't that big either. 

"Sophie calm down I will be right back." I said. 

I run down to medicine cabinet and pick the first aid box up. I quickly wash my hands as I would have to touch it and my hands might have germs in them that might lead to infection so better to wash.  I run back up she is still sitting on the floor still crying. I quickly calm her down by giving her a few hugs and saying that it's going to be alright. 

"Dad it hurts." She says wiping her tears. 

"Just let me see. I'll be as gentle and as slow as possible."  I say.

"Promise?" She says. 

"Promise." I say. 

Sophie pov 

He extends his hand and gently keeps my foot in his other and takes a look at it.

"The glass piece is not that big nor does it hit any arteries and all. So I can take it out like we rip off a bandage fast and painful and then I just dress it up." He says and I see relieve take over his face. I just nod. 

"I will take it out on 3." He said. I nod again and close my eyes.

"1,2" He says and suddenly I feel the pain go through my whole foot. 

"That  hurt," I say

"I am sorry but I did say it would be painful."  He says.

"But you did say that you will take it out on 3 then why did you take it out on 3?"   I ask.

"Always better when you don't see it coming." He says. I nod. 

"Alright, I'm just going to dress it up now so it stays covered." Dad says.

"Will it hurt?" I ask. 

"It shouldn't." He says.

He quickly begins the dressing of the wound. It didn't hurt it was a bit uncomfortable though and my eyes were starting to close. I was tired this day was just something else something I am not used to a lot happened first a stranger to me entered in the house and he had a gun and now dad was dressing up my wound. I also forgot to reply to Nathan I decided to do that when dad was done. 

"I am done."  He announces as he gets up and picks the cotton and everything up. 

"Thank you." I said.

"No problem, just what I do on a daily basis but those are really big yours was just a little but just as important to be attended to cause even the smallest of wounds can cause the biggest of problems." He said. 

"Who said that?" I ask. 

"Your mom. She said when we had a lot of small topics left to prepare for the exam." He said and laughed. I started laughing too. 

"Bed please?" She says. 

"Alright." I say and pick her up and set her on the bed. I just send a yes to Nathan and then keep my phone back where it was. 

"I'm going to clean up the little pieces now try to go to sleep it's late." He says.

Okay. I say and lay down and fall asleep pretty quickly as I was really tired.

Ashton pov

She falls asleep. I slowly pick the glass pieces up careful that I don't hurt myself. After I am done I go downstairs  I keep the first aid box in the medicine cabinet. 

I check the time on the clock. It was midnight. I was tired of what happened today the speed I drove in, the way I rushed home from the hospital it was the second time today. The first time was the day Sarah died exactly 11 years from today.  The memories of the day come flooding back into my head.

Flashback

I was working at the hospital Sarah was home today as she didn't feel like coming in today. I was in my office just looking over some files. When Sarah is calling flashed on the phone.

"Hey, Sarah. Are you feeling better now?" I ask picking up the phone.

"Daddy it's Sophie, mommy head blood."  Sophie says.

She didn't speak clearly but I got what she spoke.

"Sophie, I am coming just sit by mom. Okay?" I say.

"Okay, daddy." She says.

I hang up, and rush out. I quickly call up Duke to go there. Sophie didn't need to see more. I quickly got 3 paramedics and an ambulance. Outside, I was pretty calm but inside I felt like crying and just protecting them both. Soon, we were there. I opened the house door after telling the paramedics to just come inside. 

Sarah was on the floor blood flooding out of her head duke was doing CPR. But her eyes were closed. Her heart stopped and I had no idea how long it was happening her brain needed oxygen.  The paramedics rushed in with a stretcher. I picked Sophie up she wouldn't stop crying.

"Leave her I will come with her you go with them." Duke said.

I handed Sophie to Duke. I was scared to death at the time I couldn't lose her. It hasn't even been a year since dad died. I couldn't survive another loss and that too of Sarah my friend of 20 years and wife of 3 years. We all sat in the ambulance and it drove off to the hospital.

We injected a few things into her through the IV we had just put in she began opening her eyes slowly.

"Sarah." I said relieved that she was alive. 

"Ashton just take care of yourself, Sophie, and duke I will be there always just take care." She said weakly. 

"Don't say that you'll be fine you're alive you're talking." I said and her eyes just closed again. I was trying not to cry. 

"She's going to be fine Dr. walker." A paramedic said. 

"Thank you." I said. 

When we entered she was taken into a trauma bay and they ordered things and did tests. I walked inside. 

"Dr. Walker you can't be here, please wait outside." A resident said and just dragged me outside to the waiting room. It was strange to be here usually I would be the one to take people outside or tell someone to take them outside. Soon, the resident who dragged me outside was there his eyes full of sympathy he walked over to me

"I am sorry Dr. Walker." He said.

"Don't say it she can't be dead she can't be she was fine she talked to me." I said letting the tears flow now not caring that I worked here.

"She is Dr. Walker her brain was deprived of oxygen, and there was a cyst that burst to cause her to fall. I am so sorry for your loss. She was a true gem." He said and walked way. 

I ran up to where Sarah's body was laying down and sat down on the stool I held her hand just cried. I couldn't hold the tears back anymore. I heard Sophie and duke come in. Sophie wouldn't stop crying and after she saw Duke and me she started crying harder. The next day was the funeral. The day I promised Sarah that I will always take care of Sophie, me, and duke. The next 3 weeks were at home as I just couldn't figure out how to go to work leaving Sophie at the daycare at the hospital, and I just couldn't be in the place she took her last breath. 

Flashback end
I remember the call to her brother, her parents all the relatives. This was a week I cried and cried. Her brother and parents couldn't even hang the call-up. They all just cried she was their daughter/sister after all. When they were here the next day for the funeral her mother saw her body and she was in tears all over again. Even I was miserable, not able to hold on but I had Sophie with me she is my daughter so I said this to myself and held myself together. Some nights, after putting Sophie to bed I would cry as the wound was still fresh. The thing that if I would have been home that day she was sick I blamed her clumsiness for her falling, but It was a cyst and it just burst. 

After 3 weeks, I pulled myself to work. A year after Sarah died was Sophie's first day of school.

She wouldn't leave my shirt and if I would have her leave it she would start crying and I hated it when she cried cause I made a promise to Sarah so I stayed there the whole day and played with her and the other kids.

All the years after that went slowly problems came in the way, but three of us dodged them out together. If duke wouldn't be there for me I could have never raised Sophie the way I have.