Hello everyone, here is today's update, where did Caleb's pills get to? I hope you enjoy, please let me know your thoughts, thanks, Kayxxx :)

I'd rather be a Knight – Chapter eight

"I-I-I loved t-tonight mummy" Ethan grinned as he walked upstairs, his mother followed behind.

"Me too" she replied.

"I'm r-really good a-a-at Jenga" he continued.

"You are, much better than me and your daddy" she smiled.

"W-we n-never spend t-t-time as a f-family" Ethan stated, "I w-wish C-C-aleb was a-awake to p-play too" he sighed.

"Me too sweetie" she whispered as they walked into the boy's bedroom.

Caleb lay asleep on the bottom bunk on his front lying diagonally still fully clothed, as if he had passed out the second his body hit the mattress.

"H-he's on m-my b-bed" Ethan moaned.

"Well, you can sleep on the top one for tonight; I doubt he's going to pull you off tonight is he? He's very tired" she replied as she sat down next to Caleb on the bed and stroked his hair, "God, he's burning up" she spoke concerned as she felt his forehead with the back of her hand, Ethan looked over her shoulder at his older brother, "Caleb honey, wake up" she called as she shook him, he didn't react.

"Ethan go and get your father" she ordered.

"B-but he's a-asleep, he h-has work-" Ethan replied.

"I don't care, get him up quick" she replied frantically.

Ethan hurried out of the room.

"It's going to be okay Caleb, it's going to be okay" she whispered.

Their father and Ethan appeared in the room "this better be good" he huffed.

"It's Caleb" she spoke worryingly, "he's boiling, he won't wake up" she added as she stood up.

His father jumped into action, "Caleb can you hear me?" He called as he inspected him, "Caleb!" He called. He placed two fingers beneath his jawline, "he's got a pulse..." He stated as he felt it "he's unresponsive..." He stopped for a moment to think, "Ethan go and get my briefcase from my office please" he ordered, Ethan quickly hurried back to the room with his father's briefcase. He took out a torch and flashed it in Caleb's eyes, "his pupils are responding normally" he stated he then placed a stethoscope on his son's back and listened momentarily. "Caleb wake up" he shouted as he shook his body frantically, "come on son, wake up" the boy began to stir slightly letting out groans in response to his father's shouting, "Caleb!" He opened his eyes and looked at his father, "don't mess me about like that Caleb" his father warned, Caleb rolled his eyes "I feel weird" he mumbled as he sat up, everyone paused awkwardly as they watched him.

"H-he's wet t-the b-bed" Ethan announced, "my b-bed" he added.

The older boy looked down at his pants to find a damp patch by his crotch "I'm sorry" he mumbled, as father pulled him by the scruff off his neck off the bed, his mother held him in her arms.

"Even when you're asleep you're still annoying" his father huffed as he began to strip the bed.

"I'm sorry" Caleb sobbed as his mother held him.

"It's okay sweetie, it's not your fault" she spoke softly as she helped him undress.

"I'm sorry" was all he could say as he cried, he'd never felt so embarrassed in his life. "...I feel weird" he whimpered as he pulled on his pyjama top, he then darted to the bathroom and dropped before the toilet, heaving into it repeatedly his mother sat on the side of the bathtub rubbing his back.

"This isn't right" she stated as their father appeared in the doorway.

"I think he's had a seizure" he stated.

"A seizure?!" She spat out, "what makes you think that?" She asked frantically.

"Well, he wasn't unresponsive he was just in a deep sleep, plus he lost bladder control which is a common symptom...after seizures people tend to want to sleep, deeply, it's like your brain has just ran a marathon within the space of a few seconds so you sleep, to allow yourself to rest and recover" he explained.

"But, why would he have a seizure?" She asked as Caleb pulled his head from out of the toilet, breathing deeply.

"M-maybe it's t-this" Ethan announced as he pulled out the empty tablet packet.

Realisation grew across their parents instantly.

"Where have they all gone?" His mother called as she inspected her eldest son.

Their father saw a great opportunity unfold, "where did you get these Ethan?" He demanded, "Did you give Caleb all these tablets huh?" He continued, not giving the young boy a chance to speak, "do you not understand how dangerous that is Ethan?!" He roared as he towered over him.

"N-n-no I-I-I..." Ethan couldn't get any words out.

His father picked him up and carried him into his bed room "C-C-Cal-" he cried as he took him away.

"Ethan I know you never gave them to him okay son? But we can't tell mummy okay?" His father whispered as he kneeled down before him,

"W-why d-did y-y-you do I-it?" The small boy whimpered.

"I don't know, it was a stupid mistake, but we'll keep it our little secret okay?" He smiled.

"Y-you need t-testing!" Ethan roared as he climbed up the ladder to the top bunk.

"How is he?" Their father asked as he walked back into the bathroom where his wife had a phone held to her ear.

"What are you doing?!" He called as he snatched it off her.

"Calling an ambulance" she replied.

"No you can't- imagine how pathetic it would make me look when my colleagues show up at my house to treat my son...I'm a doctor for god sake!" He shouted.

"He needs medical help he's had a seizure" she snapped as she snatched the phone back.

"Well he can have it here off me; look he's fine, aren't you?" He asked as he looked down at Caleb he stood beside his mother, he nodded slowly in reply.

"There see, he's fine, there's nothing we can do for seizures, plus he's probably vomited up half the tablets he's took, there's no point in taking him to the hospital I'll look after him here, he's passed the worst now-" as he finished his speech as if on cue, Caleb began to sway back and forth slightly before his body plummeted to the floor and he encountered another seizure, "oh great" his father sighed as he grabbed a towel and placed it beneath Caleb's head as protection.

"I'm taking him to hospital" his wife spoke sternly as she wiped her tears away from her face and picked up her limp son.

Present day...

"What so your own dad overdosed you?" Robyn asked stunned.

"Yep" Cal nodded as he looked up at her and flashed a smile before he looked back down and fixed his eyes on the ground.

"But...why?" Lofty asked.

"I've never been able to suss that out actually, maybe it was to see what my limit was or maybe so I didn't go to the park to play football I have no idea" he shrugged, "he wasn't right in the head but he knew what he was doing- he wouldn't have killed me, if he wanted to do that he would've gave me more tablets" he added confidently.

"An innocent seven year old boy" Robyn shook her head in disgust.

"I'll always remember that night, it was horrible" Ethan spoke with a shudder as he looked over at Cal.

"I was just embarrassed mum kept telling the doctors in the hospital I'd wet the bed" Cal chuckled.

"Did you take the blame for the tablets Ethan?" Lofty asked.

"Yes, though it was clear to everyone how he ended up having them all" Ethan replied with a shrug.

"I took my first pills in the hospital, then slept all the way home, woke up for dinner where my dad gave me a drink with my pills crushed up in it and I went back to bed and crashed out again...where was the opportunity for anyone else but my dad to give me the overdose?" Cal shrugged.

"Did your mum confront him about it?" Max asked.

Cal shook his head, "No, mum would never upset dad, she was completely head over heels in love with him" Cal scoffed as he thought back.

"Our father was what you would call a lady's man, he was very attractive, very smart and a doctor what else would a lady want? I think mother was just afraid of losing him to someone else, he constantly had female attention" Ethan sighed.

"He was sleeping with a nurse from work, he had an affair with her for years" Cal added as he shook his head in disgust, "Mum knew it was going on too, even we knew he was up to something" he added.

"Did you get to play in the final?" Max asked.

"What?" Lofty and Robyn asked confused.

"Football, you won the semis right?" Max asked.

"Oh, no, in fact, I never played football again, I didn't have the energy" Cal sighed in reply.

"Wait...so they didn't take you off the pills after that?" Robyn spoke amazed.

"Are you kidding? My dad just got all he'd ever longed for, my diagnosis, there's no way he'd let that slip, he kept me on them for years" he replied.

"What about your mum? Surely she had a say?" She asked.

Cal and Ethan shot a glance at her knowingly.

"Oh, yeah...of course" she replied awkwardly.

"So are you still on the tablets now or?" Max asked awkwardly.

"No" Cal chuckled, "I was kept on them ones until I was about 15 and then he changed them to stronger ones I can't even remember what they were called but they seriously messed with my head-" Ethan cut him off.

"Cal that's enough of that story now, let's go to the pub" he spoke as he stood up.

"Are you kidding? This just got interesting! Cal carry on" Max urged.

"...these new pills were really strong-" Ethan cut him off again.

"He was on them for a year then he got off them, moved away when he was 18 to go to university and never back home again that's it- now can we go to the pub?" He asked as he reached the staffroom door.

"No!" Max, Robyn and Lofty all yelled simultaneously as they impatiently awaited the rest of Cal's story.

"It's okay Ethan" Cal smiled reassuringly but Ethan shook his head. Cal turned to face his colleagues on the couch and took in a deep breath, "these pills, they messed with my head...I, um, I became depressed pretty quickly-" Lofty cut him off.

"Oh Cal I'm sorry, now I get it Ethan. You don't have to continue" he smiled sympathetically.

They stood up to leave, but Ethan didn't budge, he was too deep in thought...