What The Hell I'm Supposed To Do

The Night We Met by Lord Huron

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Mindy sighed as she was distracted yet again from packing by a string of texts and two missed calls from Martinez "What!?" She said when she finally picked up. As she listened to the voice on the other side of the phone Mindy exclaimed "WHAT!" although it sounded less angry and more worried, a tone which had Beth looking up in her direction, trying to gage the conversation from one side of the phone. "Oh my God, he really- no I won't tell hi you told me the thing he told you in confidence might I add. No I'm not mad you told me- I just don't think he wanted me to know. Hence why he told his oldest friend and not some girl he met a couple months ago!" She paused again and listened. "Mmmhhhm. …Yeah, I understand why you did it... I think you should go back, he didn't really want you to leave, he's just in a weird place right now... Yeah I know I wasn't there and I didn't see his face but I know Mark he- no I'm not implying that you don't know Mark! Martinez don't get mad at me about this! Martinez? Marti-RICK!" She threw her phone angrily at her sofa and it bounced harmlessly off the cushions, she then turned to Beth angrily "He hung up on me!"

"What happened?"

"Apparently Mark had a break down, spilled some secret he was deeply ashamed of and then asked Rick to leave. Or something like that anyway my conversation with Martinez wasn't that detailed."

"Should we go over there?" Beth asked "I mean if we do, he'll know Rick called us and then he'll get all pissy because we're treating him like he's fragile."

"Yeah, but he is fragile. He's in a weird place right now. He wants help but he can't ask for help because he's ashamed he needs it and he doesn't want us to offer help because then it looks like we think he's weak or something."

"So what are we supposed to do?"

Mindy sighed "I don't know. Maybe Chris'll know?"

Beth shook her head "He's a Flight Surgeon not a psychiatrist. I think we need Dr Shields on this one."

The two woman hung up on Dr Shields happy she had the situation handled. On the other side of town, Siobhan was desperately calling Rick for the whole story. As soon as he picked up she demand answers "What the heck did you say?!"

And Rick told her what he had said.

"He asked you to leave?"

"Yeah, practically yelled at me to go."..."He'll be okay, right?"

"Yeah he'll be okay, he's tough."

"I just, I've known him for a long time and I've never seen him so... so-"

"-vulnerable?"

"Yeah."

"Don't worry Rick," She said softly "He'll be okay."