I DON'T OWN RESCUE

A:N ITALICS ARE PEOPLES THOUGHTS.

Lachie's POV continued

I ran through the hospital grounds and found the emergency department, Heidi had dropped me off at the back, we couldn't get a park at the front. Running through the waiting room, I went to the front desk, no one was there "Hello?" I asked shouting and banging my fist on the window loudly. A young female nurse came out from around the corner

"What can I help you with sir?" She asked me

"My brother, Chase Gallagher he was brought in here maybe twenty minutes ago" I told her

She looked on her system "Oh yes. Come through this way" I followed her through, I could see my older brother sitting on a chair in a hallway.

"Dean?" I asked concerned about where my brother is "Where's….Where's Chase?"

"His getting scans" Dean told me. I sighed and took a seat beside him; we both couldn't sit still and stand not seeing how our brother was doing. I was starting to get more and more agitated as each time a doctor or nurse walked around it wasn't time for us to see him or for him to be back.

End of POV

A few minutes later, Chase was wheeled back into his cubicle "Chase" Dean following him.

"Your brother is still unconscious from the head injury he received; he should wake up in between the next hour. We have taken blood and sent them off to pathology, will get the results in about an hour…Because Chase can't tell me what was happening to him, is there anything the two of you noticed?" The doctor asked writing information on Chase's records

Both of the brothers looked at each other before Lachie spoke up "He's been really exhausted lately, when he's been getting long enough sleeps. His been pretty pale, the other day he collapsed and when I checked his pulse it was rapid"

The doctor listened carefully "Okay, well I'll take that into account; those are pretty common symptoms, so when we get his results it should tell us what's been going on. You can go and sit with him now"

"Thanks" Dean and Lachie both said in sync. They moved into the cubicle taking a seat on either side of the bed. "This is my entire fault" Dean said as he looked at his brother lying on the bed unconscious

"Dean, it's not your fault" Lachie tried to ease Dean

"I should have known to have taken him to the hospital after he fainted" Dean said

"We" Lachie corrected "You weren't the only one there Dean, we both made the mistake of not taking him to the hospital. But do you really think that Chase would have gone to the hospital?"

"I've hammered him so much recently about him being so tired" Dean said frustrated about how he's treated Chase

"Chase also tries to hide it because he doesn't want to seem like he can't handle it and he doesn't want us to look after him. Dean don't blame yourself" Lachie was saying before there was a knock on the door. He hopped up and stepped outside and was greeted by the rest of his team.

"How is he?" Vince asked

"His still unconscious and has a mild concussion, his scans have come back clear…now were just waiting on blood results" Lachie explained

"Oh thank god" Michelle sighed in relief

"How's Dean?" Lara asked concerned

"Uh..his blaming himself" Lachie sighed

"It's not his fault Chase's sick" Lara said

"His saying he should have taken him to hospital when he collapsed and that Chase being so tired wasn't right" Lachie said glancing back in to check his brother

"We all should have noticed and said something to him, I don't want you boys blaming yourself, were all part responsible" Michelle said

Vince nodded "Well, will leave you boys alone. Just call us if we need anything…anything at all"

"Okay, thanks for coming" Lachie said softly before he turned and walked back into his brother's room. Heidi, Jordan and Lara wanted to stay, so they stood outside the cubicle and grabbed a seat, hundreds of thoughts running through their minds.

"Jordan, I want to stay here tonight" Heidi said as a tear fell down her face

"ofcourse babe…hey what's wrong?" Jordan asked as he wiped the tear from Heidi's cheek

"I knew something was wrong, I should have pulled him off the building…The other day, he was so pale, why didn't I tell one of the boys" Heidi cried into Jordan's shirt

Lara came over and crouched in front of Heidi "Babe…Don't blame this on yourself okay?"

"What if something's seriously wrong with him?" Heidi asked still crying

"Well one, it's Chase and his tough and strong, he'll pull through and two his is in great hands here okay, they won't let anything happen to him" Lara explained as she tried to comfort Heidi

Chase's POV

Everything is black and I don't know why it's black. It's starting to scare me, someone's holding my hand as well and I can hear faint talking in the background. I slowly start to open them, but the lights too strong and makes my head ache, I reclose them again and begin to move my fingers to try and feel where I am. "Chase?" I hear someone ask me, but it all sounds blurred and gets mixed up in my head. I try to re-open my eyes and adjust them to the light, half way open and I can see the blurry out lines of two people around me. One heaps calling out my name, while the other is staring at me in silence. I blink a few times and everything sort of becomes clear to me, the outlines I saw turned out to be my two brothers

"Chase can you hear me?" Lachie asked rubbing my shoulder gently

I just moan and try to nod my head, but the slightest movement gives me a head spin. "What happened?" I ask mumbling

"You collapsed Chase, on top of a building" Dean told me. I must have look confused as to why I was still here if I fell of a building because he explained to me that I had my harness attached

A few minutes later I was joined by a doctor "You're awake, that's good" he told me

"Yeah" I just agreed

"Now, we got your results back" He said holding up the sheet from pathology "You're brothers said you've been extremely tired lately, can you explain how you've been feeling"

"Uhh.." I tried to remember everything that I was feeling beforehand "I um... I've just been really tired all the time and weak, I felt like I couldn't even get out of bed sometimes. My heart kept beating so fast and I felt like…." I had to stop mid conversation, an overwhelming amount of nausea had come to my stomach, I could feel it started to rise to my throat and I knew what was coming, Lachie must have noticed because moments before he reached for a small green bowl beside me and placed it in front of me. I threw up several times before I had come to a stop; I rested my head back down on the pillow willing the nausea to go away

"You okay?" Dean asked me, a huge amount of concern filled his tone of voice

"That's due to the concussion. You're blood results have come back that you have anemia. It's due to an iron deficiency in your diet, your body needs iron and not having the right amount has made you sick. It's not a sudden sickness, so you must have been feeling like this for weeks. We'll keep you under observation tonight and tomorrow morning I'll give you medication to take" The doctor explained to me

"Okay" I said tiredly. I watched him walk out and knew that I would be bomb barded with questions

"Why didn't you tell us you felt this bad?" Dean asked concerned

"Because I didn't think it would get this bad" I answered

"But still, come on Chase, you must have been feeling pretty god damn shit" Lachie told me

"Yeah I did and I wasn't going to tell you guys, I didn't need to tell youse" I told them

"Why didn't you need to tell us?" Dean asked

"Because I can handle it by myself okay, I don't need my big brothers looking after me, I don't need you protecting me. I hate that, you make me feel weak when I'm supposed to be strong and tough just like you guys. But I can't always live up to you guys, It's like I'm not even a Gallagher, I get compared to you guys and I hate it. I'm not like you and shut off my feelings, sometimes I need to talk about stuff and I can't do that with youse, you'll just sit there and laugh or make some stupid joke about it." I raved on, half of it had nothing to do with what happened, but I felt the need to express it.

"Chase" Lachie said trying to calm me down

"If that's what he really thinks, that he can't talk to his own brothers, then there's no point being here" Dean said angered, he got off his chair and walked out the door slamming it behind him. I rolled my eyes and just lied on the side of the bed hoping for everyone to leave me alone

"Chase" Lachie called my name his voice stern

"What Lachie?" I asked "I'm tired, I just want to sleep" I added

"I have never in my life seen Dean so scared" Lachie told me "Heidi is absolutely shaken up, Chase, she saw you fall. Her scream sent shivers down our spines. Yeah you're hurt and you're really sick, but you need to take a look at it from out view Chase"

"It's not my fault" I said

A:N I'm not really happy with this chapter, I hope you guys are though :/ xx