Chapter 132

The Haas family of three got in the car as they drove to the ER, where CJ's pediatrician is waiting on them. Walking through the automatic sliding doors they Shelby and CJ sat down while Caleb spoke to the nurse behind the counter, who told them the doctor will be with them shortly. CJ started coughing more frequently than he had in the time they were at home, the wheezing sounds of his chest made his mother worried as she looked at her child not sure what to do anymore.

The nurse directed them to one of the consulting rooms and, the doctor soon entered the room. Shelby sat down on the hospital bed with CJ on her lap. His wheezing became worse and Shelby looked up at the doctor with big fearful eyes.

"Can you lay him down on the bed?" The doctor asked and removed CJ's clothing while getting his stethoscope ready, listening to his lung sounds and his heart. Noticing the skin around his small rib cage sucking in as he struggled for breath.

"What's going on? What's wrong with my son?" The mother panicked seeing the doctor's face as he speeds up the process and getting the oxygen masks ready.

"He's having an asthma attack." The doctor said calmly, continuing his work on the baby, giving him some medication in a syringe, and putting a small oxygen mask over his nose and mouth. CJ crying as he starts panicking his little legs kicking around restlessly, his hands going to the mask that was on his face, as his chest were rising and falling rapidly, as he struggles for breath.

Shelby moved into the corner of the room her arms folded across her chest as the tears fell from her eyes. Caleb swallowed hard walking over to her pulling her into his embrace holding her tightly, as she shook with sobs. "He's gonna be okay, they're going to help him." Caleb whispered while Shelby looked helplessly over her husband's shoulder at her son on the bed.

The doctor worked on him, and it felt like an eternity until he got CJ stabilized, his breathing returned to normal. "He's going to be just fine. I'll come back later to run some more tests and get him started on some medication in case this happens again in the future." The doctor told the parents.

"Thank you." Shelby said weakly, walking over to the bed, sitting down next to her baby as he looks around the room, as she stoked a finger through his delicate blonde hair.

"I'm scared Caleb." She whispered to her husband once they were alone in the room.

"I know. I am too." He kissed the top of her head, putting his hands on her shoulders as the two of them started at their baby boy.

Simon came into the kitchen freshly showered, but still in need of a long overdue shave. Wordlessly, Alex handed him a cup of coffee that he accepted, walking over to the couch he took a seat.

"You want to tell me what's going on?" Alex asked sitting opposite him, after she cleaned the kitchen and paced the dishes away where she thought it belonged.

"Don't want to talk about it." He mumbled taking a sip of his coffee

"Tough, because I do. This is not the Simon Asher I met during my time at Quantico. Talk to me." He paid her no mind and started at a spot on the coffee table avoiding the statement she just made. When he refused to answer Alex took the lead on the conversation. "Why do you have these?" She asked lifting up the bottle of sleeping tablets.

"Because I can't sleep." He shrugged laying his head back against the couch closing his eyes. "Why are you here Alex?" He inquired still not opening his eyes.

"Because I'm worried about you, Simon. Those texts that you send me saying you need help. Well here I am trying to help you if you'll let me."

"I was drunk I can't even recall sending any of those. Thank you for coming." He got up walking to the front door opening it. "You have a family waiting for you." He looked at her, as she gathered her things walking towards the front door,

"Call me if you want to talk."

"Goodbye Alex." He dismissed closing the door behind her and she heard they key turn in the lock, getting in her car she drove home, texting Shelby asking if she's spoken to Simon in the past few days and if she noticed anything strange about him.

Ryan and Phoebe were watching sports, but Phoebe found it boring and ended up sleeping. He stared down at his beautiful daughter, her chest rising and falling peacefully a hand curled in her hair. He was content in this moment. His mother always said there is no greater love than what a parent has for their children he could never understand until he became a parent himself. There is nothing in this world that he wouldn't do for hi little girl, but her mother would certainly get in the way to keep both of them in check.

"How's Asher?" Ryan asked when Alex came back.

"Why is she sleeping? What's she gonna do tonight?" Alex asked waling over to the couch, knowing it'll be a long night if Phoebe can't sleep tonight and she's not in the mood fighting with a one year old about sleep.

"We were watching some football and it seemed to be so boring she fell asleep. How did your intervention go?"

"Calling it an intervention is setting the bar way too high. He basically told me to leave when I tried to talk to him." She explained looking at the frown forming on her husband's brows. "There were sleeping tablets on the table and an empty whiskey bottle and he just told me he can't sleep. But there's more to it and it worries me that he's acting strange."

"Maybe he's just having a bad day. And Simon's always been a strange person." Ryan said, he didn't have much interaction with the guy because the two of them almost went at it, but it was his wife's friend and he respects that.

She kissed Phoebe's head softly walking over to the kitchen to get dinner started. Checking her phone to see if Shelby replied to her message yet but there was still nothing. She decided to call her later tonight to talk. She opened the fridge staring inside, looking for nothing in particular but her mind drifted back to Simon. She'll go over there again tomorrow if she as to until he opens up to her. During the dinner Alex tells Ryan that she is excited to go back to work in a few days, sitting at home is really not for her.

"I'm sure they'll punish me even more making me do hordes of admin and not allowing me to go out on cases."

"That's the price you pay for breaking rules." Alex said pointing her for in his direction.

"I'll slaughter pigs if I have to, if that's what it takes to keep you safe." Ryan said seeing her smile.

Simon hasn't left his position on the couch since Alex left. He grabbed the bottle of pills on the table opening them for the first time since he bought them. A note pad laying open on the table with three words written on it. It wasn't much but it said a lot for whoever will end up finding it. He got up and grabbed another bottle of whiskey from the cabinet in the kitchen, making work of it to finish this one in record time.

CJ was sleeping but his parents never took their eyes off him, despite both of them feeling tired. "Do you think he'll be okay?" She whispered looking up at her husband.

"I'm sure he will. He's a fighter. If you think this is making us stress wait until he hits his teenage years." Caleb commented and Shelby laughed a little, as she imagines the kinds of things Caleb did to give his parents grey hair when he was a teenager.

"Please don't remind me about it. He'll be a good child, like his mother." The blonde smiled hoping that would be the case.

Simon got through half of the whiskey. He pulled out his phone and typed a message to Alex not sending it right away. He walked towards the bedroom to get something and walked back out to the kitchen sitting down on the couch. Tears running down his face and a hand shaking as he pressed the sent button on his phone sending the text to Alex. His service weapon in his right hand ready to be fired, holding it shakily against the side of his head, as he swallowed deeply taking a long shaky breath…

Did you guys see there might be no season 3 of Quantico? I'll be really upset if there won't be one. I wrote this chapter with my eyes half closed because I am so tired but want to post something tonight, so please excuse the errors there might be. Thank you for reading.

Lovies-S