Meanwhile Melinda was in a light blue room with three doctors. She was lying on a bed while they were examining her. Suddenly she felt uncomfortable by them touching her and she collapsed. She was kicking around and screamed. The doctors tried to calm her down but they failed. They called on the station for some other doctors to help them. Some nurses brought a sedative to calm her down but the doctors didn't want to use it because the last time they did it she was in a coma afterwards. So they held her tight, took off some blood from her and sent it to the lab. They put and oxygen mask on her moth and nose and tried to make her breath properly.
"Please call Dr. Finn. We need to make an appointment for Melinda with her" Dr. Martin said to one of the nurses.
Faith just arrived at the hospital and ran trough the corridors towards Melinda's room. There she saw Jim standing at the bed where Aiden was sound asleep. She silently walked in.
"Hey" she whispered.
"Hey mom. You were fast. Were you racing?"
"No, I wasn't. How's Melinda?"
"I don't know. Neither a doctor nor a nurse showed up. I don't know if it is a good or a bad sign…" he said worried.
"Hey… Come here" she hugged him. "You know that she's strong. She just woke up of that coma and she will be healthy soon!!!"
"God I hope so" Jim tried not to cry.
"I know she will recover! She's strong. She made it through the hardest."
"Thank you mom."
"You're welcome."
"I guess you should take Aiden home now."
"Okay. But I think I should go to your house. You know if he wants to come back in the morning its way easier and not so far than my house."
"That's a great idea. Take my keys. I won't come home tonight anyway. I'll spend the night here. I want to see how she is…" he handed her the keys.
"Okay" she picked Aiden up. "If he wants to come here in the morning I'll call you."
"That's a good idea. How can I thank you?"
"Don't be silly, Jim! It's normal that family members are helping each other in bad situations. And you know that I love to have him around."
"Sorry, I can't control my feelings at the moment."
"It's okay. I understand. I'll go now. See you tomorrow!" she said, lifted Aiden and carried him.
"See you" Jim answered and kissed Aiden's forehead.
2 hours later Dr. Martin came walking over to Jim.
"How is she?" Jim asked for the second time this day.
"Well, examining her wasn't easy. She had a panic attack. I think it's related to the rape. She needs a therapy and we already called someone who is specialized to cases like hers. She'll have her first appointment tomorrow."
"She had a panic attack? Why didn't you come to me? Did you do any treatments?"
"We're pros and we know how to stop something like that. Although in her case it wasn't really easy. We didn't want to give her the helping sedative because last time she was in a coma afterwards and we didn't want to risk this again."
"OMG… Is she okay now?"
"Yes, she's okay. But she could always get an attack again."
"Can I go to her?"
"That would be a good idea. But you have to know that she will get another attack if she gets touched. Because of the coma her brain couldn't process all the memories about the kidnapping."
"Okay, thank you for the information doctor!"
"You're welcome. Come on I'm going to show you where she is" he said and went towards a room. Jim followed him without any answer. They walked through a few corridors until Dr. Martin stopped. "Here we go" he said.
"Thank you" Jim answered and entered the room. He saw Melinda lying on the bed. She was shaking a bit. "Hey honey. What's wrong? Why are you shaking?" he wanted to know.
"Nothing. Everything's okay" she responded silently.
"I don't think that everything's okay. You had a panic attack."
"It's nothing. Don't be worried."
"But I am worried."
"You really don't have to be. I'm okay" she tried to convince him although she wasn't completely alright.
"You know that I'm always worried about you and that will never change."
"Why? Why are you like this? How do I deserve you?"
"I'm like this because I love you and believe me you deserve more than I can give you!"
"No, I don't."
"Yes, you do."
"No, that's my final statement. I don't want to talk about this now."
"Okay, but please calm down. We can talk about this another time. But you have to believe me that I really love you with all of my heart. I love you for what you are and nothing else matters, okay?"
"I love you, too, Jim."
Jim leaned down a bit and gave her a small but tender kiss. Jim didn't want it to last too long because there was the risk of Melinda having another panic attack and he didn't want to see her in that condition. After the kiss he sat down on the edge of her bed. She sat up a bit.
"Jim?"
"Yeah?"
"Could you please do me a favor?"
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