Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors by Elliday (PG13)

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Fandom: Entourage
Pairing: Vince/Eric
Author on LJ:: dancinbutterfly
Author Website: LJ memories

The title, from an Editors track by the same name, could not have been put to better use than for this story. This story is like being omnipresent in a news article--it's something that pops up on the newscycle, and it's sad and scary and worrisome, but you can't really connect with it because it happened to someone else, even if they are famous. But in this story, you're as part of it as Eric himself; that worry is made somehow more real. I refuse to call this hurt/comfort, because the comfort isn't the point, and neither is the hurt; this is a story of how bad things happen to people, and how the people who love them deal with it. Don't pass this by, even if lighthearted stories are normally your thing. I promise it's worth your read.

There's a picture of Vince, beneath a blue hospital blanket, ventilator firmly in place, on the front of People. It's an old picture; it has to be because the ventilator came out half-way through week three- which is a good sign, the doctors told him: it means he's healing.

However old it is, Eric's got no idea how they have the picture, but he figures it's his fault - he'd forgotten about the paparazzi and, for once, Ari and Shauna don't yell at him about it. He's forgetting a lot of things lately.

His world has shrunk down to the chemical smelling halls of Mount Sinai in New York, so that Rita could be close to Vince. He only goes home and showers when she brings his own mother with her, and even then he has to practically be dragged by the ear before he'll go.


Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors