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The next two days were long for Reid. Luke had woken him up around three in the morning once again and after they talked for a good hour in Old Town once again, Reid only got about two more hours of sleep before he was up and heading to Memorial for his shift. He had worked a good almost thirty-two hour shift by the time he was able to return home around four in the morning. As he was walking in the door however, his phone rang again.
"Luke, I just got off a thirty-two hour shift." he said answering the phone, "How important is..."
"I need your help."
Reid could hear Luke's voice was slurred.
"Are you drinking?"
"Just one, I swear."
"Where are you this time?"
"The Lakeview."
"I'm on my way." Reid said, "Don't move and stop drinking."
Reid hung up after hearing a Okay from Luke. He turned to leave but hesitated. Closing his eyes for a minute, he turned and marched across the living room. He was going to regret this, but he walked into Katie's room.
"Hey, Goldilocks!" he said a little loudly, regretting it when Jacob started crying.
"What the hell, Reid." Katie said, groggy, sitting up.
"I need your help." he said, a little lower this time, "Luke's at the Lakeview and drunk."
Katie was jumping out of bed and rushing to her closet as soon as he spoke.
"Go and get Jacob ready." she called over her shoulder at him.
He left her room and made his way into the kids nursery. Walking over to the crib, he picked the kid up and cradled him in his arms. He got a little coat on the baby before walking into the living room. Katie was running around looking for her keys.
"I'll drive, just take it." he said, handing her Jacob.
"My baby is not an 'it'." she frowned
As quickly as they reached the Lakeview, Jacob was fast asleep again. They walked in. There was really nobody around except for the night clerk and one or two others. They looked around for Luke.
"It's past four in the morning. The bar here isn't even open." Reid said
"Luke's mother owns half the Lakeview and besides, he probably just took something from the bar or bought something at the store and just ended up here." Katie replied, keeping her voice low to not wake Jacob, who she was holding.
"Then were is he?" Reid asked, "Never mind." he pointed to someone slouched in a chair, his back to the night clerk at the desk.
"We can't take him to his parents or the farm." Katie said, "And I don't think taking him home with us is a good idea."
"Hospital." Reid replied, "He only has one kidney and drinking is not going to help that."
"Bob and Chris are both on call, they'll call his parents."
"Wouldn't that be a good thing?"
"Reid, he's been through so much already. His parents are just going to make it worse."
Reid couldn't believe the one person he thought would really help, was thinking about keeping this a secret. He started to think himself that he should have just come alone and taken him to the hospital.
"Then what do you think we should do?" Reid asked, as they walked up to Luke, who seemed to be sleeping.
"Reid, we're in a hotel." Katie said, "Give me a minute."
She walked over to the desk and started talking to the clerk as Reid sat on the small table in front of Luke. He saw a bottle of vodka sitting between his feet. Picking it up, it was almost empty.
"Couldn't have just been beer, kid. No you had to drink real alcohol." he smiled, "Luke." he snapped his fingers in Luke's face, who jumped.
"What the..."
"Morning!" Reid said, "Is this really all you've had?" he held up the bottle.
"Maybe." Luke replied, closing his eyes again.
"Okay, I've got us a room." Katie said, looking down at Luke, "Is he sleeping?"
"Barely." Reid replied, standing up, vodka bottle still in hand, "If his mother owns half this hotel, wouldn't someone know to call her if they saw him drinking?"
"Well yeah, but that desk clerk is new. She doesn't actually know who he is." Katie replied, looking over her shoulder, "Shall we get him upstairs before someone does see him though?"
Reid nodded, snapping his fingers in Luke's face again. Luke opened his eyes and looked up at him. After much moaning from Luke, he was being held up by Reid and they followed Katie into the elevator. It only took a few minutes for them to find the room and were inside, not running into anyone else. Reid lowered Luke onto the bed, who curled up almost into a ball. He went over and at in the chair.
"Thanks for helping, but maybe you should take Jacob back home to get more sleep." he said
"Please, I'm wide awake and Jacob is sleeping." Katie replied, taking a seat in the other chair, "We'll be fine. Besides, I told the desk clerk that there was a flood at our apartment so we needed to stay for the night. It would look a little odd if Jacob and I just left five minutes after getting the room."
Reid laughed.
"Don't you have work in the morning anyways?" Katie asked, "You should go home and sleep."
"Luke doesn't even know you and Jacob are here." he told her, "How would that look when he finally wakes up and freaks out to see you and Jacob when he called me?"
"He probably wont even remember calling you."
"Good point." Reid replied, "In the morning, I am taking him to the hospital to make sure there is no infection to his kidney."
"How are you suppose to get him to agree to that?"
"i'll threaten to tell his parents." Reid replied, "I've already told him, unless I have a reason to say anything, I wont. Something like this. This grants that I should say something about."
"But you're not going to?"
"Not unless I am forced to."
"Couldn't you get in trouble for that?"
"No, it's a thing called doctor patient confidentiality."
"But you're not his doctor."
"I am if I'm the one treating him."
They sat there for the remainder of the night talking back and forth, making sure they were to not wake up Jacob and kept checking that nothing wrong happened to Luke. Around nine in the morning, two hours past when Reid was actually due for work, Luke work up. He rolled over in bed, eyes opened, but squinting through the light.
"What happened?" he whispered
"You were drinking last night."
He looked over to see Reid, sitting in the same chair he had been the whole night. He then saw Katie and Jacob asleep in the chair next to him. He quickly sat up, panic in his eyes.
"What is she doing here?"
"I asked her to help. Don't worry, she was the one who thought it best to let you sleep it off. I wanted to take you to the hospital, which in about a half hour, after you are fully able to move and are awake, we are going."
"No, I'm not." Luke said, standing but getting dizzy.
Reid stood and walked over to him, handing his a water and some aspirin.
"You will or I call your parents right now and tell them you were drinking last night." he didn't care how fragile the younger man was right now, he just wanted to make sure he was not going to die, especially on his watch.
"You wouldn't!"
"I told you Luke, if something happens that I need to tell, I will."
Luke lowered his eyes, "Fine. But she is not coming with us." he pointed to Katie before popping the pills into his mouth and taking a sip of the water.
"That's fine. We'll just have to drop her off at the apartment first." Reid told him, "Sit back down and relax for a little."
Luke listened to him, "Thanks for coming when I called."
"You remember calling me but not what exactly happened last night with you drinking?"
"No, I remember it all." Luke replied, "Just not the, getting up here into the room part."
Reid laughed at that and sat back down in the chair. Almost an hour later, after Luke had thrown up a few times, they were all out the door. They dropped Katie and Jacob off at the apartment and headed for Memorial. Once there, Reid had a hand on Luke's elbow to keep him moving. They were just rounding a corner to an exam room when they ran right into Chris Hughes.
"Doogie, didn't know you were working today." Reid looked at Luke, who looked like crap.
"My dad called me in when you didn't show." Chris replied, also looking at Luke, "Luke, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." he replied
Chris looked back at Reid, "You were suppose to be here hours ago."
"Yeah, I got distracted. Private patient. Then I ran into Luke and he walked in with me."
"Do you have an appointment or something Luke?"
"Meeting, for the new wing." Luke quickly lied.
Chris just nodded before turning back to Reid, "I'll tell my father you're here."
"Thanks."
Reid quickly rushed away, Luke right next to him. They waited for Chris to disappear behind the corner to enter an exam room. Reid closed the blinds.
"I am so getting in trouble like Katie said I would for doing this."
"You're getting in trouble." Luke laughed, "I was drinking when I shouldn't be."
They fell silent as Reid checked to make sure Luke was not running a fever or anything.
"We should get you in to see if there is anything wrong with your kidney." Reid said as the door opened.
Both Bob and Chris came walking in. Reid was leaning up against the counter and Luke was sitting on the edge of the bed, his head down so not to look at anyone. There was silence between the four of them as Bob looked from Reid to Luke and back to Reid. Chris just stood in the doorway, a slight smile on his face.
