Beep…beep…beep. That was the sound Jason woke up to. He found himself in a nice warm dark bliss. He found he didn't want to leave it. It suddenly hit him though. Why was he warm? Wasn't he still stuck in the freezer with Grant? Oh God…Grant! Jason shot up in but soon laid back down when the light burned his eyes.
"Easy honey. It's okay, your okay now."
After awhile he opened his eyes again, slowly this time, and saw his wife Kris standing over him.
"Kris? Where am I? What happened?" Jason asked.
"Your in the hospital. Steve called me when he got here. He said you and Grant were trapped in a freezer. It took them almost an hour to get you out, when they did the paramedics said you guys were half frozen. Grant wasn't even breathing. I dropped the kids at my mom's and came right here," Kris explained.
"How long was I out?"
"A week,"
"Where's Grant?"
"He's over there," Kris pointed to the other side of the room.
Jason looked over and saw Grant lying on the other bed. He was hooked up to a breathing tube and a bunch of other things keeping him alive. Reanna was asleep in a chair next to him. Grant was very pale and Jason could barley see his chest rise and fall. Jason started to get out of his bed, needing to be by Grant's side.
"Easy Jason. Let me get a doctor first then I'll take you over to Grant."
Jason laid back down and kept watching Grant. Soon Kris came back in with the doctor.
"Mr. Hawes, I'm Dr. Gates, I just wanna run a few tests on you to see how you are doing," Dr. Gates explained.
As the doctor checked over Jason, Reanna woke up and was happy to see Jason awake as well. When the doctor was done, Kris and Reanna helped Jason over to Grant's bed and sat him down in the chair Reanna was sitting in. The two women then left to give them sometime alone. Jason just sat there watching Grant breathe. Finally he reached out and grasped his hand.
"Grant? I don't know if you can hear me, but I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry I let this happen to you, I'm supposed to protect you. Your like a little brother to me and I'm supposed to look out for my little brother. I'm sorry I failed you," Jason apologized.
Grant made no response. The only sound was the hissing of the oxygen machine.
"I wish you would give me something to work with here G," Jason mumbled.
He sat there for a little while longer before Kris came back in and helped him back to his bed.
"Jason whats wrong?" she asked, once he was finally settled.
"I failed to protect Grant, now he's hurt because of it."
"Honey you know Grant doesn't blame you and he is alive and still here. He's going to be fine," Kris assured.
"I still failed him. When we were in the freezer his asthma was acting up. He had a few attacks and I was able to talk him through them and get his breathing under control, but there was one time that he stopped breathing all together. I did CPR and he started breathing again, but that moment when he wasn't breathing I felt like I couldn't breathe either. He was lying there dead and I've never felt more scared in my whole life," Jason explained.
They sat in silence for a few minutes, Jason was staring at the floor not wanting to meet his wife's eyes.
"Jason look at me,"
Jason didn't move.
"Look at me honey," Kris softly ordered.
Jason looked her in the eye.
"Nothing that happened is your fault. You did what you could to help him and since he is still here I say you did a real good job. You took action when it was needed and it saved his life. So stop blaming yourself and just be here for Grant when he wakes up," Kris comforted.
"Have I ever told you how amazing you are?" Jason asked.
"Not recently," Kris smiled.
They shared a long kiss and Jason felt better.