"YOU PROMISED!"

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Beep...beep...beep

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Reid felt something come back to him. No..no it couldn't be possible. He had heard the flatline. A new sound began humming through his ears. It was the sound of a steady beep, he knew it was from the heart monitor. But it couldn't be.

Despite what Reid thought, he felt his heart begin beating again, just like it refused to do before, suddenly colors and shapes began to return as well. Instinctively Reid attempted to breathe, and to his relief, air filled his lungs.

Immediately, he began coughing as air finally filled his lungs. He could still hear the sound of the steady beep though. He felt arms wrap around him, holding onto him desperately; he blinked to clear his hazy vision.

"Reid," Reid blinked again and caught a glimpse of blonde. "Luke?" he asked. Luke leaned back so he could look at the red head. Reid stared up at him in question as Luke slowly wrapped both of his hands around one of Reid's; bringing it up to his face.

"Please...keep fighting Reid." Luke begged pressing his lips against his hand. Closing his eyes feeling a stray tear fall from his face.

"Don't leave me."

...

Luke was a distraught mess. He had finally forced himself to come back and wait in the waiting room. Now sitting there, Luke was regretting the decision.

He was reminded of how horrible waiting rooms were. It was hell sitting there not knowing what was going to happen to the person being operated on.

It hurt to be powerless.

Luke found himself rocking forward gently, his elbows were propped up on his knee's, one hand held onto the other, his somewhat balled up hands were pressed to his mouth. Luke's eyes were reddened and his cheeks were flushed and wet.

Luke's parents had long since given up on any attempts to console their son. Every time they tried Luke pulled away. He didn't want them to hold him, he didn't want their comfort, he didn't want them telling him that everything was going to be okay.

Especially when he knew they didn't mean it.

He only wanted Reid. He only wanted Reid to hold him. No one else would do. He didn't want anyone else.

Luke's eyes glanced at the clock for the fiftieth time that hour. It had become a reflex motion for Luke. It had been hours that he'd been sitting in here and there was still no word about Reid.

Luke gave a broken hearted sigh, trying very hard to keep the quivering out of his breathing. Although it didn't help. Tears involuntarily filled Luke's eyes again and his bottom lip began trembling once more.

Then a new sound entered the area, footsteps, coming quietly the hall. This caused Luke's head to snap up his eyes wide and his body alert. Luke felt his stomach churn with anxiety when he noticed that it was Chris.

Luke was immediately on his feet his mouth moving without his consent.

"Well, is Reid alright, is he out of surgery?" Luke asked frantically. Chris's expression was less then comforting, it made Luke's chest tighten almost painfully. Chris frowned as he looked at Luke.

"Well..see, during the surgery we ran into complications." he said quietly. Luke's eyes were wide and tears were flowing down his face. His breath was caught in his throat; he wasn't sure if he could breathe anymore.

Despite this Luke forced his mouth to move, "W-What..kind of c-com-complications?" he stammered fear and regret filling his words. Regret, because he wasn't sure if he wanted to know the answer to his own question.

Chris took in a deep breath before he began to explain, "Well the surgery was going fine at first, we managed to locate the tumor and we began working on it. But then...he started bleeding." his voice began to get quieter. "He was bleeding too much..his heart rate spiked, and I couldn't see what I was doing for a few seconds."

Chris's mouth opened again but no words seemed to be able to come out. Luke stared at him his body shaking horribly.

"Reid's heart stopped."

Luke's body went rigid his eyes were filled with shock and despair. Now he wasn't breathing, it was as if his entire world had just come crashing down on him. And it came down hard...too hard for Luke.

The tears were thick and hot and they stung painfully at Luke's eyes. His mouth hung open moving slightly as if he was trying to speak but nothing would come out.

"H-He..He's dead?" he choked out. His voice cracked, it couldn't be true. No, no it was impossible.

Chris opened his mouth, but Luke didn't want to listen anymore. He quickly cut him off anger mixed with the fear, pain, and denial.

"No!" he snapped glaring at him. "No, no that can't be true it's not!" he almost shouted at him. Chris's eyes were filled with pity as he tried to speak again but Luke didn't give him the opportunity.

"He's not dead! He can't be dead!" Luke shouted at him. The other residents in the room were looking at Luke with deep pity. The only people there were Lily, Holden, Katie, Casey, and Allison.

They began walking up to the crying blonde.

"Luke-" Katie began pain filling her eyes, the all to familiar emotion of grief filling her. Luke shook his head shutting his eyes. He didn't want to hear any of it!

"No No! Shut up! It's not true! It can't be!" he cried loudly. Casey walked over to the other blonde with Allison close behind him, both of them knew from experience how violent Luke could sometimes get when he was upset. Well not so much violent as..unstable.

Allison's eyes were wet with unshed tears as she came up to her grieving friend. "Luke, it's okay," she said sounding as if she was out of breath. Luke cringed shutting his eyes tighter, "No, it's not!" he shouted. Casey carefully came up behind the blonde; grabbing him by his shoulders.

Luke immediately tried to struggle free Casey frowned keeping his grip firm on his best friends shoulders as he tried to free himself.

"Luke, man, it's alright," he said quietly. Luke felt himself unable to gather up the strength in order to free himself. He cringed again, the pain was too much for him, he sobbed broken heartedly.

What else could he do?

Casey and Allison frowned as they watched their friend start to sob. Casey carefully wrapped one arm around Luke from behind assuring that the blonde wouldn't try to run away from them. He kept the other on his shoulder, gently running it up and down his arm. He rocked him gently as Allison wrapped her arm around him, from her spot beside him, her other hand began combing back his hair.

Both of them whispered comforting words to the distraught boy. As he sobbed hopelessly,brokenly,painfully. All Luke could do was cry and shake and cringe. He was powerless; he couldn't run he couldn't do anything. He could only let his friends try to comfort him.

"It's okay Luke," Casey murmured, noticing tears that began to drip off Allison's face, Casey frowned at that. He frowned deeper feeling Luke shaking harder, his face twisting in pain as the sobs burned his throat more. He continued rocking him, "It's alright," Allison spoke softly her voice broken too.

Luke cringed feeling his heart constricting; his head fell back slightly, hitting Casey's shoulder when it did. "No," he sobbed out. "It'll never b-b-be o-okay," he cried his voice breaking.

"Sure it will," Casey replied taking the duty of combing Luke's hair when Allison starting rubbing the blonde's arm.

Luke shook his head, "N-No it won't," he choked. "H-How c-can he be...h-he promised!" Luke cried. Allison's tears grew heaver, "We know Luke," she whispered trying to hide the shaking of her own voice.

Chris frowned, "Luke," he said. Luke flinched again his eyes tightening, "No," he whimpered.

"Luke you have to listen to me, I didn't finish." he said. Luke forced his eyes to open slightly hearing this. "Reid's heart stopped, we were doing all that we could, we thought it was too late." he trailed.

"But..out of nowhere the monitor started beeping again, his heart started beating again."

Luke's eyes widened hearing this he could feel the slightest sliver of hope entering his thoughts.

"S-So..w-w-will he be okay?" Luke asked. Chris frowned; however.

"Well..we're not sure, we've moved him down to ICU." he explained. "So far we haven't seen any changes, we're not sure if he's suffered any damage yet."

"B-But h-he's..he's alive right?" Luke asked.

"...Technically, but..we're not sure if he's going to wake up either."

Another sob tore through Luke's throat when he heard this. Suddenly that sliver of hope seemed to disappear. Casey and Allison were immediately right back to soothing the boy tightening their holds on him.

Luke barely noticed them now. All that he could register was fear. Fear that Reid may never wake up.

Luke was powerless though, he could do nothing to help him.

Luke only continued to cry.

"He promised," he sobbed out.

TBC

Woah..i really took a long break sorry guys i've been having quite a slump lately. then i just had a not so urge urge and went to this fic and starting typing. I was thinking of the one scene when everyone thought Holden was dead..you know and Damian holds Lily. That was what I was picturing when Casey and Allison do that. I luv the bro-mance i just wrote. I like gay It wouldn't' have been the same if i had one of the girls comforting him. Also i got sick of doing that. I wanted a guy to comfort Luke or it wouldn't' have been right. Holden didn't seem right, and I kind of have a thing for a Casey and luke pairing..which no one writes of course. But i knew it would be odd if Casey just suddenly came up and did this so i threw in Allison to even it out. ...I like it! Lol well i hope you guys liked REVIEW!