Epov

Oh Shit! In all the time we had spent together, Jasper and I had never actually spent the night together all night, so I had no idea what the hell he was like when he was actually sleeping. Apparently my boy had a little bit of PTSD going on! Pretty damn interesting that the initial psyche evaluation for the department hadn't picked this shit up when he had tested for us. He was shaking like a leaf and it was all I could do to hold him against me as I tried to get him to come back to himself. When I finally heard him ask, "What happened" I hugged him up tightly and tried to make sure he was good and calmed back down. "I dropped the damn call button on the floor and it startled you pretty bad."

He was still shaking pretty hard and I kept stroking his head and trying to soothe him, "Jasper, do you think you could hand me the call button, my leg is starting to hurt pretty damn bad and I guess the nurses have forgotten about me or something"

He nodded and slowly reached down and picked up the control off the floor, handing it to me so I could push the call button.

Instead of coming in directly, the damn nurse came over some speaker with a crackly voice that made both me and Jasper about jump out of our skin. "Yes, what do you need?"

"What do I need?" was she fucking crazy? I had gotten my knee sliced and diced, I was stove up in a damn bed with tubes in all kinds of bad places and she asked my "What I needed?" I growled at her, "I need you to get your ass in here, my roommate has fallen out of his bed, my knee fucking hurts and I need you to do your damn job!"

Apparently after she heard me say that Jasper had fallen out of bed, she had bailed on the other end of the speaker and her and the rest of the cavalry were on their way into the room. I was hardly done talking before the door came flying open, causing Jasper to jump again, and the nurse and a couple of orderlies came tearing into the room. They did an almost comedic slide stop when they saw that I had a hold of Jasper, and he was warily looking at them like he was going to fight. I started talking to him, low and fast.

"Jasper, its okay. They are good guys and they are going to help get you back in bed. Its okay!" He was still wild eyed and tense, like he wasn't all the way relaxed yet, so I kept a grip on his hand.

Screw it. If anyone figured out we were together, then fuck it. He needed me right at that moment and if I didn't get him back to himself, someone was going to get hurt and I didn't want it to be him. I reached up with my other hand and started stroking his face again, talking to him sweetly, trying to get him to looking me in the eyes. His eyes kept flitting back and forth between the orderlies and the nurse and me, but they were slowing down. I saw the nurse had gotten a syringe and I knew they were going to sedate him, but it was for the best until we figured this new wrinkle in the situation out.

I held his hand as the nurse approached him, speaking softly and comfortingly to him. He began apologizing to her and was cooperative as she injected the sedation into the iv port that was still in the back of his hand. The orderlies cautiously approached and helped him back into his bed. He was asleep before his head even hit the pillow as the nurse got on the phone and called the doctor, updating him on what she had observed.

"Has he done that before?" She started grilling me like I had known him his whole life. "I don't know, you need to call McCarty" I gave her the number and she quickly called Emmett up, and interrogated him with the skill of a seasoned investigator. Her face was grim as she hung up the phone. "Apparently he has some issues with being woken up suddenly, but nothing ever as dramatic as that. The Doctor is ordering another scan of his brain to rule our a bleed, but it appears he is having some issues. We are going to put him in restraints for his safety, and that is not going to make him happy because I am going to have to recatherize him.

She glared at me as she told me all this. Fucking hell! I am not his "Next of Kin" so why do these nurses feel the need to share all this shit with me? I reminded her that I needed something for my knee and if she would be so kind as to get the tube out of MY dick I would really appreciate it, but she just huffed at me and said, "Right now he is my priority. I am going to get his tests ordered and get him handled and comfortable and then I will get you taken care of. Someone will be in with your pain medication in a few minutes, so just relax, Mr. McCarty is on his way to sit with him, so you will be able to sleep. One of the orderlies returned with the restraints they were going to use on Jasper, and my heart clenched as I watched them slip the soft cuffs over his ankles and wrists. I was glad he was unconscious, but I knew he was going to be traumatized.

I couldn't even watch as she recathed him. That was horrible, and the entire weight of everything he was going though hit me and I realized that I was responsible for every single thing he was going through and I deserved the pain I was feeling. I laid there crushed in the realization that I was a monster. Jasper had done nothing but give to me, and I had taken and taken, leaving him reliving trauma from his past and caught in the hell of his current life that was one seemingly constant stream of what was quite frankly…abuse.

Empov

Emmett wasn't surprised when the call came from the nurse about Jasper finally snapping, he had been expecting some kind of blow-up for awhile. Jasper had been pushed for so hard for so long that he knew he was at his breaking point, he was just surprised no one had been seriously hurt. As he gathered up a few things to take with him so he would be prepared to leave from the hospital to go directly to the academy in the morning, he worried what impact Jaspers revelation would have on his career.

When Emmett arrived at the hospital, he was infuriated to find Jasper restrained and he immediately began untying him as the nurse came in and started to argue with him. "Look, he is a danger to himself and others at this point! Those are for his safety!" Emmett glared at her, "I am here for his safety and if there is any problem, I will handle it. Now leave us the hell alone!" Jasper had started to stir as the argument ensued and he came around as Emmett was untying his ankles, but before his wrists were undone, and he came unglued.

The shouts of rage that came out of Jasper were completely unexpected. He raised straight up out of that bed and I swear I thought he was going to snap the restraints they had on him. The nurse hit the call button and called for back-up to get in right away and for them to bring in sedation. I saw Emmett look at her incredulously as he practically laid across Jasper to hold him down. "Wait just a fucking minute! What the hell did order for him? Have you BEEN giving him that? He is fucking sensitive to that and it makes him psycho! No wonder he is freaking out. Jesus Fuck woman! Call that doctor back and get something different, but not in that same family. it's a freaking wonder he hasn't jumped out the God damned window if you have been giving him that shit. Its in his military medical records!"

The nurses eyes cut at Emmett, "I have not seen his military records!" Its not noted anywhere in his charts that he's sensitive to Morphine and that damn information would have come in handy a while ago, that explains a hell of a lot!"

She got back on the phone with the doctor as Emmett held Jasper down and talked to him, trying to calm him and get him to stop fighting the restraints, but he was yelling himself hoarse, pulling against them, fighting with all he had, trying to get free. Another nurse came running into the room with a syringe full of medication and she injected it into him, and all of the sudden he went limp, as if he had been stunned, though he continued to gasp, as if the very effort he had put into getting free had been like running a marathon.

A fucking drug reaction? Holy shit! As if he hadn't been through enough? Now they dope him up with the one damn medication that makes him crazier than a shit house mouse. Emmett made sure Cullen was paying attention as the nurse explained all that. That Jaspers nuttiness was not Jasper being crazy,(though he does have some issues), but that he was doped out of his head on something he was allergic to.