Drift POV
"Did you get a blood sugar test kit?" I asked Hound.
"Yeah," He says, handing me a box. I did the test and looked over the note Bulma wrote.
"Not good, Bulma's notes say the lowest number to be in the normal range is seventy-two. Jayce's is sixty."
Bulma already thought of that and provided a few bottles of glucose, "I need to take her to the medbay."
Jayce was unconscious at this point. I worried we were too late, and Jayce is dying. Hound watched as I worked as fast as I could while being careful.
"This will help, but this might take several rounds all night," I explain, "enough until Jayce wakes up and isn't weak."
I'm guessing though her level was so low, this has to take awhile. I want to stay here, but worry Jamie could sense something was wrong. Jayce isn't dying...yet. As I'm thinking if I should go to Jamie's room or not, my phone goes off. Bumblebee tells me he's with Jamie, and she's unaware of what's going on for now.
"Jayce?" I hear. J.R. and Crosshairs were standing at the door.
"She'll be ok," I assure her as she walks towards the bed.
J.R. POV
Even reading the monitor, reading stable vitals, I still can't believe Jayce will be ok.
"Why are you doing this to yourself, Jayce? Do you think I'm no longer struggling like you? You were worried Jamie would find out about our struggles, and now it's like you don't care if Jamie finds out that we've been dealing with or that you're dying." I fell to my knees and cried. Both Crosshairs and Drift came to me and hugged me, "She won't be ok. She'll keep trying," I say before they could say anything. Neither said a word. Be I must have been crying for ten minutes before I could stop.
"I know it seems like things won't get better, but they will," Drift says as he wipes the tears from my eyes. How many times does he have to tell himself that to believe it?
"come on, let's go get dinner," Crosshairs suggests. I didn't want to leave, but there's nothing I can do for Jayce.
Third-person
Drift sat on the chair by the bed, holding Jayce's hand.
"This isn't the way, Jayce. I know you're tired of the terrifying thoughts and nightmares,"
Drift didn't know that Jayce was starting to wake up. She kept her eyes closed and listened to Drift, "J.R. is already stressed knowing you're trying to kill yourself, and seeing you unconscious in the medibay the last two days terrifies her. She doesn't even know what you did after you knocked her out," Tears started rolling down his face, "she thinks you're dying. I..I don't know how I'd explain to Jamie if she found out. How would we support her and J.R. as they watched you die?"
Drift let himself cry, hearing Drift cry caused Jayce to tear up. She had to bit her lip to keep quiet. He cried for a few minutes before he could stop. He sent Hound a message before leaving the room. He went to his alt mode and drove off.
Hound POV
Drift asked me to sit with Jayce, but I don't know where he went. Like Crosshairs, Drift wouldn't leave any of the girls without a valid reason. I looked at Jayce and noticed the tears.
"Jayce? Come on, open your eyes," I sat on the bed and moved her on to my lap, being careful with the IV line. Cade comes in and sees what's going on. Jayce opened her eyes and hugged me.
"Her number is much better. Still a little low," Cade tells me. He took her off the IV and cleaned up the area, "you need to drink this."
He shows her the nutrition drink.
Please take it; you're still sick.
Jayce took the drink. Cade told me I could take her back to her room before leaving the room. I'd rather wait, I don't think J.R.'s in a good mental state to realize Jayce was taken to her room.
Jayce slowly finished the drink and wanted to lie down. She was still tired.
I laid her on the bed and sat on the chair. Jayce falls asleep ten minutes later. I don't know if I should be concerned she was awake for only an hour. Crosshairs sent me a text asking if Jayce was awake. I told him what took place the past hour. He tells me to bring her to her room. He thinks J.R. will panic regardless of where Jayce is since Jayce will be asleep, damn.
Crosshairs POV
We should have been back an hour ago, but I figured J.R. wasn't ready to go back, so I made a couple of stops. J.R. fell asleep on the drive back, which is what I was hoping would happen. I carried her back to her room. By ten, Jamie was asleep. Now for what I'm not looking forward to, telling Bumblebee, Cade, and Drift what Jayce did.
"You guys don't have to know." I tried to get them to change their mind, especially Drift, but they want to know.
J.R. POV
I woke up, knowing the Autobots and Cade would be at the stairs. I have to use the bathroom.
"If we were even a minute later, I think it would have been a different story." I hear Crosshairs say. I sat at the top of the stairs and listened to the conversation.
"I pulled her out of the water. She was awake and gasping for air but very weak. I don't think she knew we were around. She wasn't conscious for long," Hound explained to them.
"I took everything off her and wrapped her in my coat. She had to be put on a non-rebreather and 60% oxygen. I know that's an emergency, but we felt she wasn't stable enough for the drive." Crosshairs adds. By now, I'm biting my tongue and covering my mouth with my hands as tears roll down my face.
"Her breathing improved after ten minutes, enough to be put on a nasal cannula and 40% oxygen. Though she didn't warm up a lot, she was stable enough for the drive back."
I've heard enough, I run to my room, close the door, fall to my knees, and let myself cry.
"J.R.?"
I opened my eyes to see Crosshairs worried expression. He was holding me. Drift was sitting next to him. I can't control myself anymore and started bawling.
"Jayce is ok; she's in her room sleeping." Drift tells me.
'She will keep trying until she succeeds," I sobbed, "There's no way to protect her."
"There's an extreme measure with a high chance Jamie will find out,"
"You know Bulma refused to do that before, It's not a solution," Drift hissed.
"What else are we supposed to do? The stress we've be3en under just the past two days and J.R. Jamie's seen both Jayce and J.R. unconscious, why don't we just tell her what's been going on?"
"No!" I exclaimed both because this is a terrible idea and to get these two to stop arguing.
"I'm done with this," Crosshairs snapped, puts me on the bed and leaves the room. At least he didn't slam the door while closing it. I wanted to run after him but scared of what he might say to me.
"Come on, Let's go somewhere away from her for a while."
Drift picks me up, and we go down to the garage. Crosshairs' alt mode was still here.
Drift put me on the passenger side of his alt mode before getting in on the driver's side and driving off.
I knew he'd go to the lake. I sat on his lap, hugging him as he sat on the hood of his alt mode. Drift said nothing for five minutes.
"What are we going to do? He will leave."
"No, he's won't." Drift was sure of this.
Drift POV
J.R. was getting cold; we've been sitting outside for a half-hour. She didn't want to let go of me either, so I sat on the passenger side of my alt mode, hoping she'd fall asleep. I know she will wake up, terrified at some point tonight. She might get two hours of sleep before that happens. Five minutes pass before I see a car behind me. No doubt it's Crosshairs. Decepticons don't even know about Jamie's cross-dimension travel. J.R. is half asleep on me. Crosshairs walks up to the door and opens it. I give him a look of disgust. He sees J.R. half asleep, takes off his trench coat, puts it on her, closes the door quietly, and goes back to his alt mode. Crosshairs left five minutes later. I waited for a half-hour before going back to the base. Crosshairs alt-mode wasn't in the garage. Don't know if he's out or recharging in his quarters.
Bumblebee walked out of Jayce's room as I came up the stairs. He followed me into J.R.'s room and took Crosshairs' trench coat from me. No way I'm leaving her wrapped in that after what happened tonight. I laid her in bed and covered her with the blanket. Bumblebee and I left the room and went downstairs.
"What happened?" Bumblebee asked as he put the trench coat on the back of the couch. I knew telling Bee what happened would piss him off.
"Nothing to worry about, Bee."
Bumblebee goes upstairs. I grabbed a couple of things from the medibay before going back to J.R.'s room.
Two and a half hours pass before Crosshairs comes into the room. He retrieved his trench coat on the way.
"You sure it's a good idea for you to be in here?" I hissed.
"Yes, I know she will wake up, terrified, and it would help if I'm here."
It wasn't long before we heard J.R. I was expecting a scream or for her to try to run out of the room. It's more troubling hearing her talk in her sleep.
"No, Crosshairs, don't go. Jamie will be devastated."
Crosshairs picked her up and sat on the bed, thinking J.R. would try to run out of the room.
Crosshairs POV
So that's what J.R. thought hearing how angery I was, shit.
"J.R., It's ok, I'm still here," I hugged her, hoping to get her to wake up. Bad idea, she's freaking out, thinking one of the others is restraining her from following me in her dream. She was trying to break free from my grip. Drift and I kept talking, trying to get her to wake up. It took her two minutes to wake up.
"It's ok, I'm not going anywhere," I promised as she cried.
I can't believe this; her mental state is terrible. J.R. wouldn't get this upset over arguing, actually she's the one who starts most of them around here.
"Go back to Jamie's room. She will take a while to fall asleep."
Drift leaves the room, and I lie on the bed, J.R. on top of me, still crying.
She falls asleep ten minutes later—what a disaster of a day.