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Chapter 10

Jack walked into Jerry's room holding his breath. "Yo, Jack! What up man?" Jerry said as he happily held up a cup of pudding. "Remember when I faked being in here for the pudding? Well now I get to be here and I get pudding!"

Jerry paused for a moment and gave Jack's face a better look over. Then realization hit him. "Oh shit, something did happen." Jerry pointed at a chair in the corner and said, "Come pull up a chair and tell the broken Dr. Jerry what happened."

Jack gave Jerry a small smile as he brought the chair to sit next to Jerry. But it quickly fell as he thought about Maci and how he thought that she would think Jerry was funny too.

Jerry saw Jack's smile fall and also frowned. "Come on dude, that always makes your smile stay."

Jack sat down and went ahead and said it as straight forwardly as he could. "Maci got kidnapped."

Jerry had just taken a giant bite of pudding, but when he heard Jack's statement, pudding flew from his mouth in a spit take. Jack jumped up as pudding splattered on him and onto Jerry's covers. "Dude, Jerry. Gross!" Jack said as he started wiping away the pudding with a paper towel.

"What do you mean Maci got kidnapped?!"

Jack looked down shamefully. "When…when I went to make sure you were all right, I left Maci standing in the lawn. You then reminded me about her, and when I turned around, the freak who had shot you grabbed her and drove off with her before I could get to them."

Jerry looked at Jack confused. "When did I remind you about Maci?"

"When you said her name."

"I did?"

Jack nodded. "You passed out after I got back and told you that she was gone. I guess you were too far gone before you passed out."

Jerry hung his head. "Dude. What did Kim say when you told her?" Jerry asked raising his head back up.

Now it was Jack's turn to hang his head. "Um…She doesn't know yet."

Jerry had taken another bite of pudding, and sucked in a breath when Jack told him and choked on his pudding. When Jerry's esophagus was cleared, he spoke with his voice rising two octaves. "What do you mean she doesn't know?!" He quickly cleared his throat and said again in a manlier, but still shocked, voice, "What do you mean she doesn't know?!"

Jack looked up at Jerry, eyes starting to water. "Dude I think I like her. She reminds me so much of the Kim I gave up and lost. I really don't want to hurt her. And it will probably kill her if I told her I lost Maci.

"Maci is Kim's world, and it would kill me to see how much Kim would hate me if I told her I lost her baby for what may be forever."

Tears were now flowing heavily down Jack's cheeks, and Jerry felt horribly sorry for him. "Hey man. As soon as I get out of here, we are going to find her. Even if you have to wheel me around in a wheelchair. I will help you find her."

Jack wiped the tears from his eyes. "Thanks man. Um, so…When are they releasing you?

Jerry shrugged his shoulders. "Don't know. They're thinking tomorrow, but that's only if I'm a good kid and don't try to walk on my knee."

Jack smiled, but hung his head. He was going to start looking for Maci as soon as he finished talking to Jerry. But without Jerry, he didn't have all the cop connections that could find her faster.

Jerry watched as tears started to flow from Jack's eyes again. He wanted to tell Jack that Maci was his and that Kim was the Kim he had left years ago. "Jack," Jerry said quietly.

Jack looked up tears shining in his eyes. Jerry sat up in his bed and began again. "Jack there's something I need to tell you. Um…How do I put this?" Um, Jack, Maci is-"

"HOW DARE YOU LOSE HER?" Jason yelled as he threw open up the door and stomped into Jerry's room.

"Jason calm down," Jerry said leaning forward towards his son.

"No! I don't want to calm down!" Jason turned towards Jack and Jack flinched. Jason's usual sweet brown eyes were almost completely dilated and filled with rage. Jason was never violent, even if he did get angry.

"Uncle Jack you are supposed to be the hero. You're supposed to be the one with their head on straight. So why the hell would you leave a SIX YEAR OLD alone?!"

Jack hung his head even lower and Jerry stepped in. "Jason, we do NOT use that kind of language!"

"I don't care Dad! It's because of him that my best friend is gone." Jason slowly walked over towards Jack and stared at him. "I used to see you as a hero, but now…Now I can't even stand to look at you."

Jason went to turn, but quickly turned back around and punched Jack square in the nose. Jason watched as Jack grabbed his bleeding, bruising nose for a moment before he finally turned and walked out the door.

"Jason Blaiz you get your butt back here and apologize now!" Jerry yelled as his son made it to the door.

Jason turned back around for a moment and said to his father, "I'll apologize if he gets Maci back." And with that Jason walked out of his father's hospital room.

"Dude! Are you ok?" Jack nodded, but Jerry wasn't buying it. He sat there and repeatedly pressed his nurse's button.

Finally a nurse came bursting through the door. "Mr. Martinez! What is going- Oh my goodness! What happened?" The nurse yelled when she caught sight of Jack.

"My son was upset at him. I didn't think he would punch him. Jason has never been violent," Jerry rambled.

"Mr. Martinez, what is your friend's name?"

"Jack Brew- Anderson. Jack Anderson."

"Mr. Martinez, how old is your son? And Mr. Anderson please move your hand so that I can see your nose."

Jerry sat dumbfounded when Jack removed his bloodied hands. His nose sat smashed in and was a deep blue and black with a mix of red from the blood.

"Well Mr. Anderson, it looks like you have a broken nose, and before we can let it heal, we need to reset it. Mr. Martinez your son's age?"

Jerry sat there for another minute before he finally answered, "Um…eight."

The nurse turned and looked at him shocked. But before she could ask anything, Jerry spoke up again. "He's in karate, and Jack didn't even try to block him."

The nurse turned back to Jack, "Is this true Mr. Anderson?"

Jack nodded, but made no attempt to speak. Jack was still highly upset about losing Maci, but the things that Jason had said to him had brought an all new light to him. Jack looked up at the nurse with pleading eyes. "I-is there any way we could get this fixed ASAP, because I really need to get going," Jack said standing.

"Mr. Anderson please sit back down. We will try to get you out as soon as possible. I've already paged the doctor and he should be here in just a moment."

That next second, the doctor walked through the door. "Ms. Darrus what is the emergency?"

Nurse Darrus turned towards the doctor and showed Jack to the doctor. "Dr. Grinchyn, this is Jack Anderson. Mr. Martinez's son punched Mr. Anderson in the nose. We have a definite breakage, but it needs to be repositioned."

Dr. Grinchyn nodded. He had seen many broken noses and it only took a couple of seconds and a few screams to reposition the broken nose. He knelt in front of Jack as he sent Nurse Darrus to get gauze and bandages.

"Now Jack, this is going to hurt, but I don't want your nose to heal all wonky." He grabbed the tip of Jack's nose and Jack winced. "Oh and please don't scrunch your face or you'll mess up your nose even more. Now on three I'm going to mover your nose back into place, ok? Alright. One. Two." And skipping three, he yanked on Jack's nose and repositioned it.

"Dammit!" Jack yelled. "What the hell happened to three?"

Doctor Grinchyn laughed as he washed his hands. "It's easier if the patient doesn't know, so that they don't try and brace themselves for it. That way they don't mess something up while I'm trying to fix them up. Nurse Darrus is going to clean and bandage you up, then you may leave."

"Thanks Doc." Jack said raising his hand to rub his nose.

"Don't touch. You don't want to move it back out of place do you?" Jack shook his head as the doctor finished washing his hands. "Then don't touch Mr. Anderson."

And with that, Dr. Anderson walked out of the room.

Thanks you guys for reading. I am soooooo sorry about the long wait. My mom's computer crashed and I just now got my own. Another delay was that my sister stole my notebook that had all my chapters in it. I finally got it back and now I'm finally posting!:) I probably won't be able to post for about another month though because I'm moving to Tampa for college. I will be writing an extra long chapter as a sorry though. Please review and share with your friends. And again thanks for reading.:)