The next few days were torture. Jackie tried to go on like normal, she went to work and spent time with her kids. She'd do ok when she was around others or her kids but as soon as she was alone she'd lose it.
She was her normal happy self at work, around her family, or her kids but when she and Nick were alone with one another she'd take out her anger, fear, and frustration on him.
She didn't want to, and after she'd blow up at him she would immediately feel horrible about it but she had to vent to someone and since she was trying to maintain normalcy around everyone else Nick was the only one to vent to.
Nick had been fantastic, a rock of support and love. He'd just let her scream at him like a crazy person and then when she'd stop and burst into tears he'd wrap his arms around her lovingly, despite just having her wrath directed right at him.
"I'm sorry Nicky, I'm so sorry." She said in a sobbing voice after one of her many outbursts.
During this particular outburst she'd called him everything from a jackass to a terrible husband because she spilled her coffee, as if it was Nick's fault even though he'd been across the room at the time.
"Shhh it's alright, it's alright, we are going to get through this, everything will be just fine." He said as he helped her sit down in a chair and then cleaned up the spilled coffee.
The next day the phone rang.
"It's the hospital." She whispered to him as she grabbed the phone.
Nick grabbed her free hand.
Jackie talked on the phone for a few minutes and immediately after she'd hung up the phone she staggered backwards, Nick had to literally catch her or she'd have fallen over.
He helped her into a kitchen chair.
"What'd he say?" Nick asked quietly, even though he had a pretty good idea what he'd said based on her reaction.
"He said that he got the results back and that he wants me to come see him at the hospital." She whispered, barely able to say it.
"Honey if that's all he said why are you so scared?"
"Because Nicky, if it was good news he probably would have told me over the phone right?"
"I don't know." Nick said but he feared that she was right.
They got in the car and took the kids to her mother's house and then went to the hospital.
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