Blaze Of Glory

PikaDarkness

Chapter 9

Falling Sick. Fighting Chance.

The next day after the horrendous cleaning of the house and Emma and Jeff finding numerous disgusting things that they had no knowledge of, Emma woke up feeling sick. She felt like she was going to vomit and her stomach felt like it was using itself as a punching bag.

Emma got up and stumbled out of bed clutching her stomach and made her way out of her room and down the stairs.

"Hey Emma… what's wrong?" Jeff asked alarmed by the pain etched in her face.

"Feel…sick" Emma moaned, crashing into Jeff burying the side of her face into Jeff's chest as though wishing to him to relieve the pain. "Ouch!"

"I didn't do anything…" Jeff was thoroughly befuddled.

"No no, my stomach is hurting." Emma cringed as another surge of pain tore at her insides it was as though scyther was playing swords dance in her insides.

"Aww well… go to bed, try to sleep it off." Jeff gently pulled her to the stairs. Emma yawned.

"I won't be able to make it upstairs… to sleepy."

Jeff considered that for a second. "Well move it to the lounge, just get to sleep before you know it your stomach ache will be gone"

Emma nodded and staggered to the lounge and collapsed on it and was asleep within minutes.

Jeff made breakfast for one today, it wasn't the first time he'd done this but it was the first time in a year. It felt rather odd.

The phone rang while he was putting his plate in the sink.

"Impeccable timing" Jeff walked quickly into the spare room across from the kitchen to answer the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey Jeff." It was Delia.

"Hey Delia."

"Wanna do something today?" Delia asked "We could leave the kids at one of our houses and go out somewhere?"

"I'd love to but I can't"

"How come?"

"Emma's sick" Jeff smiled sadly, thinking of how Emma had come downstairs in pain from a stomach ache.

"Oh… I hope she gets better." Delia said.

"Me too"

"I'll call you tomorrow." it wasn't a question, she meant she was gonna call him.

"Alright bye"

"Bye."

And they hung up. Jeff wasn't in the mood to do anything anyways and thanked god he had a good enough excuse not to go out.

Walking out of the room he suddenly became cold, looking outside there was a storm brewing and the wind was ferocious. Jeff ran upstairs and grabbed a blanket then turned and made his way downstairs and into the living room. Jeff put the blanket over Emma noticing she had become more comfortable with something covering her and making her warm.

Jeff looked outside again, the sky was a dark black clouds running in a circle, with lightning sparking at random moments. Jeff shut the curtains not liking the looks of the outside world.

As the day wore on, Emma had not woken up. Jeff was getting a bit worried; it was reaching 9 hours since she'd dropped off and he was considering waking her up and have her eat something. He didn't have to worry much longer for she woke up fifteen minutes later.

"mmm…" Emma yawned, stretching. "Dad?"

Jeff walked out from the hallway, "Emma you awake! How are you feeling?""Better, you were right sleeping does get rid of it."

Thunder resounded through the house. Emma turned to look through the curtains Jeff had pulled back just for the sake of it. It was almost pitch black outside. "Holy crap." Emma looked at it with awe.

"Been going all day." Jeff said shaking his head, he lifted Emma's legs then sat down putting her legs back down on his lap. "Oh smile come on!" Jeff pleaded as Emma turned around with a sad look. Fed up with the melancholy mood Jeff started tickling Emma's feet. Emma roared with laughter trying to free her feet from Jeff's grip.

Thank goodness that a knock came from the door. Jeff got up leaving a giggling Emma at the lounge. Jeff opened the door and was met by his friends.

"Hey man"

"Hey Jeff"

"What up Bro?"

Emma had met Jeff's friends once before and Jeff was the youngest of them all but had grown more mature. But funnily enough if he got into a fight with one of them; he always lost, he didn't go to the gym as they did 5 days out of the week in fact Jeff never went.

Jeff tried to tell them to leave but they didn't hear him over the thunder and the noise they were making. Emma noticed they were carrying beer.

"Guys come on, Emma's sick could you please leave?"

"Jeff come on man, the games on!"

Jeff groaned, this was the reason he sent Emma out on Friday nights because this always turned ugly.

"Yeah Jeff, the miss's sent us out so we came here!"

Jeff nodded "Well that's nice but I have a sick kid here I can't do this tonight."

"Your kids alive? We never saw her around so we figured she didn't make it out of the fire."

Jeff cringed, Emma was likely to make a scene out of this when they left. "No she made it I never wanted her around when you guys came seeing as you always get drunk and fight."

It appeared that his friends knew of his sensitivity because they started tickling him. "Come on Jeff… Don't send us out! Into the storm that is."

Jeff was laughing hard he couldn't take it anymore so he shouted. "Alright alright! You can stay just stop tickling-" Uh oh asthma attack. Emma knew this immediately and ran to get his spray.

"Whoa whoa Jeff you alright man?" One of them asked, Jeff's legs gave out sending him crashing to the floor choking gasping. Jeff was panicking clutching his neck and chest. Emma ran back into the room and thrust the spray in Jeff's hands he immediately took two puffs from it and was able to breathe again.

"Jeff you alright?"

Emma got angry at them. "he had an asthma attack you idiots!"

"We didn't know he had asthma."

Emma pushed one of them. "Well now you do!"

"Don't touch me you whore!" And sent Emma flying into the wall just by pushing her.

Jeff growled and jumped up and punched him. "Damn you Jack don't touch her!"

Jack immediately started punching and kicking Jeff, Jeff was overpowered he wasn't strong enough to hold him off.

"No! No! Stop it!" Emma screeched trying to pull Jeff away. Suddenly a hard impact crashed down on her cheek, Jack punched her it was a misaim for Jeff. Jeff growled in anger and began to fight back, he punched 10 times in 9 seconds before getting a knee to the gut which sent him back down.

Jeff yelled in shock as he was picked up and power slammed through the coffee table. Glass and debris rained down on him as he went through it completely and smashed to the floor.

Glass cut Emma as she rushed to push it all of Jeff, his face was cut and so were his clothes in numerous places.

"Jack no! That's enough!" Two people hastened to restrain Jack from going at Jeff again, they knew Jeff wouldn't be able to defend himself. "Come on lets just go!"

And with that they turned and bolted from the front door as Emma was chasing them with a baseball bat that was sitting infront of the spare room door. Throwing it down angrily she turned and ran back to Jeff, Emma was stunned to see him sitting up.

"Dad? Are you ok?" Emma asked bending down beside him.

"No… could you help me up?" Jeff asked and Emma obliged. Jeff was unsteady on his feet and he crumpled down on the lounge as he clumsily made his way to it.

Jeff sighed and closed his eyes and Emma knew he was going to sleep, exhaustion wearing him down. So Emma bent down and kissed his forehead, his arm came up and Jeff rubbed the side of her face before it fell as he slipped into dreamless sleep.

To Be Continued…

Wow! Did you expect me to have a fight scene in this?! I know its not what I normally put in but I'm such a big fan of action I had to put this in for fellow action-lovers! Well now I have to do chapter 10 - 10! I cant believe how far this story is going its unbelievable! Anyways if you wanna find out what happens next I have to go and write it! But by the time you read this it will already be put up!

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