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Fitting Tribute
Dominick Carisi found his girlfriend outside on her mother’s porch. The chaos inside the house had left him reeling so he had no idea how she was remaining strong.
As he approached Amanda turned to face him with a soft tearful smile.
“Hay”
Dominick returned her smile with one of his own.
“Avoiding the AmberLyn vs Kim showdown? I heard it’s the fight of the season” he smirked.
“They’re still going at it? They were either going to be best friends or mortal enemies, my dad would have loved it, two blonds fighting over him” Amanda sighed leaning into Dominick’s side until he wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
“Yeah” he stroked her arm, soothing the cold from the air.
“It’s not like anything they are fighting about actually mattered to him, he wouldn’t care if we tossed him in a cardboard box and dumped him off the side of a highway. He lived his life like it was the only chance he had and never cared about the consequences. He Left those for us.”
Amanda wiped the tears from her cheeks.
“Me. He left the consequences for me to clean up. Kim, Amberlyn they just… they are talking about fitting tributes for a man who died with nothing but the 20 bucks he had left in his trouser pocket.”
Amanda unrolled a $20 note that she had obviously been fidgeting with for hours since she had left with her fathers things from the Hospital.
“They want flowers and ceremonies, how do we do that with $20 bucks?”
Dominick kissed her forehead “That doesn’t matter right now, we’ll sort that out later”
“The only thing he would he would want was use this last $20 bucks to place a bet on whatever big game was on”
“Is that what you want to do?” Sonny asked worriedly
“More than anything” Amanda choked out a laugh “but I can’t, I unlike him have to deal with consequences”
“That’s a pretty grown up thing to say Amanda Rollins”
“Someone has to be and it’s certainly not going to be the children’s in there”
Sonny laughed “well I’m a grown up too so if you need anything just ask”
“I know, superhero underwear aside”
“That was one time and my niece bought them for me, you have to let me live that down eventually”
“Never, I’ll bury you in them”
“Prrft I’m not concerned, I’ll outlive you I’m italian so spite and pride is great motivation”
“I’d like that” Amanda whispered into his lips as she reached up to kiss him.
“How about we go out together and leave it to Jessie and Billie”
“Let’s hope they grow out of rainbow and glitter everywhere before then”
“You have a point, detective”
They stood in silence for a while, Dominic holding Amanda close. He had done what he came outside to do, cheer his girlfriend up, make her laugh and remind her of the good things.
“Dominic, I have something you could do? Could you find a casino with a roulette table and place this on 23, that’s a fitting tribute, the rest I can handle but…” she said sliding the $20 into Dominic a hand
“Sure, I can do that,” Dominic smiled. “The number 23 huh? Your birthday”
“His lucky number” Amanda smiled back reminded of how much her Dad loved her.
“Funny that’s mine too.” Dominick pulled Amanda into one final hug before they went back inside