Emergency

Valarie turned to the doorway in shock to see Reid standing there putting away his gun. Hearing the machines going off he ran to Aaron and pressed the panic button. He couldn't lose him; he just couldn't. Losing him would kill him and he was clearly in critical danger.

Petersman had pressed on his stomach where he'd only just been fixed up for internal damage and bleeding. The pressing alone could have set off the bleeding again but when he'd shot Petersman he'd fallen onto Aaron's stomach. The impact of his fall could have opened one of his scar lesions releasing fatal toxins into his blood. Also the stress of what had just happened couldn't be helping.

He needed emergency surgery and now. Spencer only prayed that the toxins hadn't spread to his organs. He couldn't become even graver ill than he was but no matter what he vowed he'd help him recover as much as his family let him. There was no-one that mattered more to him than Aaron except maybe his mother but that was another kind of love.

Valarie turned to her son stunned and saw what was causing the machines to go mad. She went over to the corpse and swallowing all the emotions that were running through her attempted to get him off her son. Thankfully she succeeded and he fell to the floor with a thud.

They noticed Aaron's eyes flickering open and shut and they each grabbed one of his hands. He tried as hard as he could to keep his eyes open but he felt himself weakening and the pain was unbelievable.

"Aaron, hold on, you can fight," Spencer encouraged. "I know you're feeling weak and in pain but I know you can find the fight in there. You're the strongest person I've ever known. You've fought death before and I know you can again. You're my hero and I love you..."

"Sp..." he answered looking up at him weakly.

"Aaron, you don't..." he replied.

"I...I..." he tried again.

"Aaron, you need to focus your energy on fighting. You can talk later but right now you need to focus your energy on pulling through. Focus on Jack and your dad..."

"You too," he answered struggling then closed his eyes as the pain and weakness overcame him.

Just then the nurses and doctor rushed through the door and over to Aaron asking them to kindly move away so they could tend to him. They ran their tests on him than ran out speeding him to OR leaving Valarie and Spencer to watch them.

Spencer sought and slipped his hand into Valarie's while she gave his hand a squeeze.