[IC] Crooked Young - An Altered Lies Production

[AlteredTundra]

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He had known for a while that Audrey was a bitch and she had known him to be the kind of idiot teen boy who sometimes said the wrong thing, but it always came from the right place. Sometimes she responded in the way that he thought she would. And when that would happen, they’d find a nice, quiet place to really commemorate the situation with something very intimate. So Audrey couldn’t blame Alex for thinking this was one of those times. She sometimes said or did things in code. How was he supposed to know what she really meant?

As he sat there, waiting for the light to turn red, he ran almost every word he said and played it back over and over again. He was hoping to figure out what exactly it was he said that made her so angry. He only suggested they have a quickie. Compared to other times he opened his mouth, the way she snapped at him paled in comparison. He honestly didn’t understand it and it was driving him almost as insane as Audrey was sounding. He wanted to know what was up, but he waited too long for that. The light turned green.

He looked at Audrey’s face and as he did, his eyes went down a little south. She wasn’t kidding, he mused in a low murmur. It didn’t occur to him that people were behind him because, no more than a few seconds later, he heard honks from behind him. And Alexandros took off, pushing his foot on the accelerator and drove forward. She said she wanted to go to the hospital, then fine. If that would calm her tits down, then he’d happily take her there, but if she thought he was going to not say anything further, she clearly didn’t know him at all.

Alexandros took a detour as he took one of the back roads to Beverly Hills General. It was a deceivingly quicker route that allowed him time to know exactly why she was acting the way that she was. “If you want an apology for wanting to please you, then you can forget it,” he stated to her, turning right without even stopping, causing both Alex and Audrey to whoosh to the side. “When you tugged at me back at the Ball, how was I supposed to know you wanted to go to the hospital? All you said was we needed to go.” and he kept talking, possibly digging himself deeper into his grave. “The least you could’ve done was specified what you wanted before misleading me. Is that so much to ask?”

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“If you want an apology for wanting to please you, then you can forget it. When you tugged at me back at the Ball, how was I supposed to know you wanted to go to the hospital? All you said was we needed to go. The least you could’ve done was specified what you wanted before misleading me. Is that so much to ask?”

Was Alexandros really that oblivious to notice her less-than-ideal health state? The bronze glow that always illuminated Audrey's skin was nowhere to be found, her naturally olive complexion ashen and pale. The playful spark in her eyes was missing, replaced instead by an unfamiliar tiredness with dark circles underneath. There were no hand gestures while she spoke, no immediate reaction to his words, no attempt at interrupting him halfway through his spewing bullshit in the way she normally would. Usually, Alex was pretty good at reading between the lines and guessing the intentions behind her words. In their short time together, he'd learned how to read her body language and actions, and his assumptions were correct most of the time.

But tonight? Alex wasn't getting the message.

Fucking fantastic.

“I don’t want your fucking apologies, Alexandros!” Audrey finally spat in frustration once she'd regained her energies, slamming her hand against the armrest between the driver and passenger seats of his car but making no motions to sit back up. How was he still so blind?! “Do you not fucking see how pale I look?! Are you really that stupid to think I wanted you to screw me when I look like a zombie straight out of The Walking Dead? How the fuck can you think I was mislead-”

But before she could finish the rest of her sentence, Audrey suddenly fell silent. Her vision began to get hazy at the same time her head started spinning, and the sensation of being lightheaded began to take over. The brunette felt her extremities become limp, while the energy seemed to be sapped away from the rest of her body. The last thing Audrey remembered was hearing Alex’s voice frantically asking if she was okay before the world faded off into darkness.

[AlteredTundra]

A little known fact about the young man known as Alexandros Mossos was that he never panicked during stressful situations. He went to school when it was known that his father’s business deals with a shady corporation went sideways and in turn, so did the security of his family for a few months. When threats escalated, the Mossos-DiVale children were put under heavy guard. They were escorted everywhere by armed guards and were driven to and from home with no stops in between. While Ava was trying not to freak out, Alexandros remained cool and in control. He never let this phase him.

He was only thirteen at the time. Where a normal thirteen-year-old would feel terrified of their new normal, he proved he was every bit the man his father was. Alexandros took it like a champ -- like a man, if you will -- and proved to everyone that, even at that young age, he had what it took to survive the worst moments of his life. No matter what he went through, there was no way he could ever panic. Nothing in this life or the next could affect him. Whether he’s Alexandros Stefano Mossos or someone else when he’s reincarnated, he was equipped with the ten-miles of reinforced steel walls that endured time itself. In other words, he was invincible.

...At least, that was until the young woman who was carrying his child, or at least what Alex feared. He didn't want to think about it, especially after what Johnny said and he shrugged off. The thing about it was, in any worse case scenario he could think of, her being pregnant was at the top of the list. And if she was, he should do what he could to make sure their child didn't die from its mother being unconscious. Nothing mattered now. Not appearing to be the man everyone expected him to be, not what sort of shit status he might have among his friends. The only thing that he was even remotely fixated on was getting her to the hospital stat!

And as soon as the light went green, a red blur zoomed down the streets of Los Angeles. This was where Alexandros’ days of street racing came into play. He wasn’t the best driver, but he won most of his races and his ability to control his Ferrari was outstanding. It was good enough to zip through the lanes, speeding past all of the cars that seemed to have a problem with him disobeying the rules of the road. He had no patience for them nor their opinions. Right now, come hell or high water, Alexandros was gonna do what he could to make it to the hospital.

He turned a sharp right and the hospital came into view. Like an amateur good enough to go pro, Alexandros pulled into the circular parking lot where usually ambulances were supposed to park and did his best to parallel park. Immediately, he was met with hospital security.

“Sir, you can’t park here. This is an ambulance section only!” A tall, muscular man told him.

He rolled his eyes. “I’m aware but as you can see, this isn’t exactly a normal circumstance.” He gestured to unconscious Audrey. “My girlfriend is pregnant -- or I think she’s pregnant. She never got to finish telling me before she passed out.”

“I understand that sir, but you can’t --”

Alex was fed up with waiting. “Do you know who I am? Or a better question, do you know who she is?”

“Sir, I don’t--”

“I’m Alexandros Stefano Mossos, son of Baltazar Mossos and Adrianna DiVale. And this beautiful, if not puffy young woman is Audrey Huntsberg.”

And as soon her name left his lips, the security guard who Alex recognized he was only doing his job, couldn’t say anything. Alex felt bad for exploding on this man, but when the life of his child was potentially in danger, there wasn’t anything he wouldn’t do. If he had to embarrass a poor security guard or two, then he’ll happily do that with little regret.

“This is Jenkins. I got Dr. Huntsberg’s daughter and her boyfriend in front. Yeah, that Dr. Huntsberg. We’re going to need a stretcher.” Jenkins, the security guard in front of Alex said into his earpiece.

A few moments later, two EMTs came out and it wasn’t long until they started to check on Audrey. Worried, Alex was hovering, though he did his best to stay as far back as he could allow himself to. They spent the next five minutes checking on her and then they lifted her onto the stretcher. They locked her in as carefully and started to wheel her away and of course, Alex wasn’t far behind them.

Wherever Audrey went, despite the protests of the EMTs and the nurse who took over her care, Alexandros was going to whatever room she was. His name meant something to the hospital, which is probably why they didn’t enforce their usual rules and Audrey’s health meant something to Alexandros. So he would wait by her side, holding her hand even as the doctors came in to check up on her. He had no idea of knowing what they had to do so she would wake up or if it was on Audrey, but he made sure his face was the first thing she saw when she did.