Jeff sits in the waiting area, a worry-some expression on his face. His hands were roughly holding onto the ends of his chair's arm-rests.

Matt had been taken straight to the back, and Jeff didn't know anything other-then what the paramedics told him, which wasn't much.

He was scared that he would lose his brother. Even with what he did know, he still didn't know on what was happening in the back right now at this very moment., and it was hard to sit there while not knowing. It frighten him not knowing. Not knowing what's going on and what's gonna happen next..

"Jeff." Mark answers when he gets to the waiting area, he walks up to Jeff who had now stood up from his seat.

"Mark, thank you so much for coming so quickly. I'm worried. I don't know what's going on with him." Jeff wraps his arms around Mark's body.

"It'll be alright, Jeffrey." Mark whispers into Jeff's ear. He places his arms around Jeff's waist in return.

Jeff and Mark stand there a few seconds, before letting go. Jeff returns to his seat, and Mark takes the seat next to him.

"What exactly happened?." Mark asks. All he was told by Jeff during the frantic phone was that Matt had to be rushed to the hosptial.

*The phone conversation*

"Please answer Mark..Please." Jeff says out-loud. He was standing in one of the phone booths, inside the hospital lobby.

"Hello."

"Mark, I need you. Matt's at the hospital." Jeff explained through heavy breathing. He was scared.

"..Alright,alright. Come down. I'll be right there. Just relax Jeffrey. I don't need to get there and find out that you've been admitted too because of stressing yourself out, worrying. You just need to relax. I'll be there as soon as I can. I'm in town, so it shouldn't be but fifteen minutes or so, and I'll be there. Okay." Mark replies.

"...Okay, but please hurry." Jeff whispers, he hangs up the phone and walks back to the waiting area. He tried to hold in the tears that wanted to come. He felt like running in that back-room and grabbing his brother by the shoulders and just holding him. He loved his brother, more then anyone else. Well expect for the exception of Mark. Before Mark came into his life, Matt was the only person who he thought cared about it at all. And for Jeff to have to sit here, and wonder on what's gonna happen next with the only family he has left was probably one of the worst things that he has had to go through, and that's saying something.

Mark places a hand to Jeff's shoulder. "I'm sure it'll be fine. This is a good hospital with good doctors. And you did manage to get him here early, that's always good. You just have to have faith that he'll be fine. The doctors know what their doing." Mark consoles.

"But what if they don't, what if I didn't' get him here early enough, maybe he's just too far gone now. He kept nodding off during the drive here. I was so scared that those things that they had strapped up to him, that they'd start peeping indicating that he died. I was terrified that I'd hear them and he'd really die, right in front of me. Mark. Or what if he dies here huh?. What happens if the doctor comes out from that back-room and he tells me that my brother is dead?. That he with the rest of those doctors did all that they could but they just couldn't save him. What's gonna happen. What am I gonna do?. He's my brother, I can't imagine him not being around." Jeff replies through heavy breathing yet again.

Mark grabs Jeff gently "Look at me, you've got to stop thinking like that. It's not gonna help anything. Just don't think like that. He is gonna be fine. Alright" Mark looks at Jeffrey, he was so close to tears. Mark pulls Jeff into a hug, he places his right arm behind Jeff's head, and Jeff leans into Mark's embrace. His face was resting on Mark's chest. Mark didn't care how it looked, he was gonna console Jeff, to make him feel as best as Mark could possibly make him feel at this difficult time.

"It'll be okay, Jeff. You just have to think that everything is gonna be fine. ...You can cry if you want. I'll stay here with you, just like this as long as you need me too."

Just then Matt's doctor comes out and calls for Jeff.

Jeff stands up, but not letting go of Mark's hand. Mark is forced to get up, Jeff walks up to the doctor and eventually lets loose of Mark's hand. Mark stands near-by. Embracing himself for what was to come next.

"...It seems your brother was having a severe reaction to some medication. Do you know of any that he's been taking?."

"..No.. I didn't know he even took any-thing. How is he. Is is okay?." Jeff asks.

"He'll be fine now, you reacted quickly. He's gonna be here for a day or two. If you could find those prescriptions for me and bring them in, it would be very helpful."

"Alright, I will. Can I see him?."

"I don't think that's for the best, he needs his rest right now. His body has gone through alot."

Jeff looks down some-what disappointed but he was happy that he know knew, and Matt is gonna be okay.

"Thank you doctor, so much ." Jeff shakes the doctor's hand and the doctor walks off to the nursing station.

Jeff looks at Mark, and Mark places a hand on Jeff's shoulder. "I told you, he would be fine."

Jeff smiles as does Mark.

"Can you drive me home?, I'd like to find out what caused all this." Jeff asks.

"Sure, I'll help you. We can then get some dinner or something." Mark replies.

"I'd like that. Let's go. I can't stand being in here for one more minute."

Jeff and Mark go through the kitchen, the phone was still off the receiver when Jeff ran out to get the paramedics.

"So, you didn't know he took meds?." Mark asks.

"..No, I mean I don't remember him ever telling me about any that he was on."

After going through the kitchen and the living room, they head to the bathroom to search, so far they hadn't found anything that suggested Matt was on anything. At-least not until they look in the medicine cabinet of the bathroom. There they find several empty bottles of anti-depression medication. Aswell as a half a bottle, prescribed to Matt from some doctor in a different state of some medication, that Jeff wasn't even sure what it was for.. They had found this particular bottle hidden in the very back of the medicine cabinet.. "Why on earth, did he have them still. And what is this one for?" Jeff asks holding the bottle up to Mark to see. Mark shakes his head. "I don't know..."

"This one must have been gotten during the time Matt was still in collage. There. That's the state that his collage was at." Jeff replies when looking at the bottle further. "I can't believe this was right under my nose the entire time, and I never noticed. How could I not?." Jeff explains.

Mark looks around the room. "Don't blame yourself, Jeff. He probably moved them, when he knew you were gonna be in here."

Jeff remembers looking at Matthew, his older brother. The only family that he has left and he remembers the look on his face, during the time he was being taken to the hospital.

Matt looked at him while laid out on the stretcher. Matt's eyes seemed to show disappointment and shame. Matt must have known his secret was out. He had a problem and now everyone's gonna know it.

"Matt, why didn't you tell me that you were taking medication?." Jeff asks, he had his arms crossed and he was looking down at Matt in the hospital bed.

"...Get that look off your face." Matt replies.

Jeff continues to give Matt an angry stare. "I will not, you could have killed yourself. Do you know that?."

"..Your not my parent, don't give me some bogus speech. I knew what I was doing. I took them accordingly. Exactly like the bottle said."

"You didn't Matt. You took them like they were some piece of candy. Your not supposed to do that."

Matt sits up abruptly "I did not, and how would you know anyways?."

Jeff looks away slightly and then returns his glare to Matt. "..I found several empty bottles that you never threw away Matt."

Matt rolls his eyes. "Whimpty freak-en do. Jeff. Empty bottles, and I'm sure they were all from separate months, am I right."

Jeff nods his head "Yeah they were, but that doesn't explain why you would keep them, or why you didn't let me know."

"I kept them, because I wasn't exactly sure, I'd be-able to get more. So I saved several bottles with some remaining pills inside, just to keep me in stock."

"..Why, why do that. Why didn't you tell me you were this depressed. Why didn't you tell me that you were experiencing hallucinations?."

"What. I haven't. What the hell are you talking about?." Matt yells.

Jeff looks at Matt sternly. "I found the other bottle of meds too. You could have told someone."

Matt crosses his arms now "...I ain't crazy."

Jeff grabs Matt's hand. "No-one's saying that you are, you just need to get help Matthew. I've told the doctors about it. They believe you were taking several pills a day. You were lucky that you just had a reaction to the two pills being combined and not an over-dose. It could have killed you."

Matt rolls his eyes "I didn't take those two pills, I ran out of my anti-depression medication a few days ago. I was on something else." Matt confesses.

"What?."

"... I was just drinking"

"You mean drinking while taking the hallucination meds?."

"I wasn't ever on those. But yeah, I was drinking."

"..Matthew, please. Be honest. You were. And it's okay that you were. Look. I'm gonna leave, the doctors are gonna come in here and tell you what they plan to do. Their probably gonna send you somewhere to get help. I want you to know that I love you, and because I love you, I'm not gonna see you until you get better. I've thought it over and I believe it's for the best."

"..What?." Matt whispers.

Jeff quickly leans down to give Matt a kiss on the cheek. "Just get the help you need Matthew. Your not crazy. You just need some doctors that understand what your going through, and to have them help you. You can cope with this and get through it."

"...Wait Jeffrey."

Jeff turns around, looking at his older brother, tears streaming down his face.

"I was drinking and I took those hallucination pills but I took something else too, with that. I really don't even know what it was. I got it off some drug-dealer. I asked him for something that would make this stress, go away. He never did tell me what it was. It must have been that pill, because I know it wasn't the others, ...I've been taking them for over a year. Since collage. I am so sorry I didn't tell you, I was afraid, you'd just think I was crazy."

Jeff walks over to Matt and hugs him. "..I'm sorry. Please get well, I love you."

"Jeffrey..I love you too. And I will get better."

Jeff smiles before turning and walking out to the hall-way, where Mark was waiting.

"I'm proud of you Jeff, you were really strong just then."

"Thanks."

Jeff had always thought that Matt wasn't the kind of guy to be on drugs, of any kind. Sure Matt had acted strange sometimes, but Jeff didn't ever expected that it was due because of drugs. Jeff thought he could always tell who was a junkie and who wasn't but now that he knows the truth about Matthew, He knows that what he thought was wrong. Matt is just a regular guy, just like all the others, who get caught up in something that is beyond their control. They ain't a set of people that become drug-addicts, it could happen to anyone. They just have to take that first hit, or pill and that's the start of it. Jeff knows now to not just think because of someone's out-er appearance, that they don't have some kind of inner-turmoil, like Matt did.

"I sure hope that he can pull through this Mark." Jeff replies, looking up at Mark.

"I'm sure he will. How about we go home huh?."

"Which one are you talking about, mine or yours?."

"Ours Jeffrey, Ours. You think I'm gonna let you stay at that apartment, by yourself."

Jeff stops and looks at Mark with a smile. "What are you trying to imply?."

"I'm saying your gonna be coming home with me." Mark replies with a smile of his own.

"I was thinking about it last night, when you were discussing Matt."

Jeff hugs Mark "..What about school?."

"You can take a different route, or I can just take you and pick you up?."

"I'd like it if you would." Jeff whispers.

"I like that idea too."

TBC

Next chapter will be of the court appearance and I'm thinking maybe Mark's birthday :)

I hope you like this chapter, it's gonna be awhile before we see Matt again, in this story. But it's all for the good, because he's trying to get better.