Confession! I cried like a baby writing this :( It's another sad one...sorry guys...but by now ya'll should know I love some anguish in ma stories! XD haha. Well I hope you enjoy this very sad chapter. Thanks for all the reviews I've been getting by the way :D I've enjoyed reading them ^_^
I was in our house…but it was dark and only I was there. I crept down the stairs to find Reid, and when I got to the bottom a horrific site greeted me. Bailey, Spooky, and Reid were all on the floor with pools of blood around them. I ran to Reid and kneeled next to him.
"Spencer? Spencer!" I yelled. He didn't stir. His skin was cold an he was paler even that he usually was. I laid on his chest and cried, until I heard a cry upstairs. It was Gregory! I ran up as fast as I could, My shirt still covered in Reid's blood. I saw a dark figure standing over Gregory's crib. He had gone silent. I couldn't see the mans face, even when he turned around. But I could see the blood covered knife in his hand. I heard Diana's voice in my head.
"They're going to kill you!" He ran at me and I screamed. My eyes shot open and I sat straight up in bed, with tears running down my face. Reid jumped up as well.
"Chealsee what's wrong?" He asked. I shook my head.
"Just a nightmare." I said.
"What about?" He asked.
"Somebody came in here and…they killed Bailey and Spooky…you…and Gregory." I explained/
He sighed and said, "It's because of what my mom said while she was having that episode isn't it?" I paused and then nodded. He scooted over and hugged me. "Don't worry. She's completely delusional when she's having those. They used to give me nightmares to but it all in her head." He said. So we laid down and went back to sleep. I wasn't really want to but I did, and s few hours later, it was time to feed Gregory.
The week passed, and though it had been fun, it was time for Diana to go home. Reid was taking her to the airport where the people from her sanitarium were picking her up. As we were loading her stuff, she started this terrible coughing fit.
"Mom are you alright?!" Reid asked frantically. She just continued coughing. I got get a glass of water and we helped her sit down. After she stooped Reid asked again, "Mom are you alright."
"I'm fine Spencer. Why must you always fuss over me?" She said. We assumed she was fine, and then Reid was off to the airport. I sat inside and fed Gregory. My night mare was still haunting me, but what Reid said had reassured me, and I was just glad everyone was okay.
One week later
Reid had gone back to work, and I was stuck at home alone once again. Gregory was sleeping and I was doing dishes. That's when the home phone rand.
"Reid residents." I said upon answering.
"Yes this is the Las Vegas sanitarium and we need to speak with Dr. Reid. It's about his mother." The lady on the other end said.
"He's at work now do you have his cell number?" I asked.
"Yes. We'll call him there." She said.
"What exactly is wrong?" I asked her.
"His mother has taken ill and we fear she won't last too much longer." She said and just like that hung up. About thirty minutes later Reid came busting through the door and headed straight to the bedroom and started packing a bag.
"Spencer what are you doing?" I asked.
"Going to see my mom." He said.
"What about Gregory?" I asked.
"He'll be here with you." He said.
"Spencer I'm not letting you go alone." I said to him.
"You have to stay with Gregory. Just let me go alone I'm fine!" I could tell he was stressed and getting ticked off but I persisted.
"I don't care what you have to say about it I am coming with you." I said.
"Chealsee I don't want you with me!" He said turning around.
I glared at him and said, "What ever happened to for better or for worst?!"
"Right now that doesn't matter!" he told me and continued packing.
"You're such a jerk! Just go alone~" I said and stormed out of the room. I felt stupid and very much like a teenager who'd just gotten in a fight with her parents, but the last comment had hit a nerve. I was hurt but too angry at him to cry. I knew he was stressed, but I was trying to help. I heard Gregory crying from his fold out crib downstairs and went down to check on him. He had just gotten lonely ad scared I guessed from all the yelling. I picked him up and rocked him back and forth singing lullabies to him and rubbing his forehead with my thumb. He was probably part of the reason for the fight Reid and I had just had. Neither of us had been exactly restful for the past week and a half. Weather Gregory was asleep or not we both worried about him. I laid Gregory down carefully in his crib, and covered him with his blanket. I remembered my harsh words to Reid
"You're such a jerk!" and I anything but thought Reid was a jerk. They seemed necessary at the time, but at the moment I was starting to feel bad. Sitting down at the kitchen table, I let just a few tears escape my eyes as I patted Bailey on the head. I heard the stairs creak and saw Reid come around the corner. I looked up at him.
"I'm sorry for saying you were a jerk. You aren't a jerk." I told him. He sighed.
"I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have said our vows don't matter. I called Miranda and packed you a bag. You're coming with me." He said.
On the plane, Reid was quiet. He didn't talk to me and I didn't talk to him. I simply reached over and held his hand. I was worrying about Gregory, after all we'd only had him home for a week and a half, but I trusted Miranda to take care of my baby.
"Reid?" I asked in a really low voice that I imagine sounded like a little child's voice.
"Hmm?" He said, without even looking at me. "
It'll be okay…I'm…here." he looked over at me and smiled. It was weary, but it was a smile none the less.
"I know." He said and I cuddled up to him as he hugged me. The long plane ride was making me awfully uncomfortable, considering It was only about two weeks ago I'd had Gregory, but the last thing I was gonna do is complain to Reid. It was also not something to announce in public. I shifted around in my seat and put my hand over my lower stomach. The discomfort was getting worse by the second now that I'd started noticing it. Reid looked over at me.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
I shook my head and said, "My 'stomach' is hurting." I put extra emphasis on stomach.
"Oh! Here I'll scoot and you can lay down." He said, realizing what it was.
"No I'm fine Spencer I just need to lay back." I said.
He turned a bit and said, "Just lay back on me then." I did as he said and after a minute or two I fell asleep. It was what seemed like a few minutes later that Reid shook me awake saying, "We're here Chealsee." I was still laying on him. Jumping up, I felt even more discomfort in my abdomen then I'd had before. But I ignored it. What mattered at that moment was Diana.
We walked into the hospital, where we saw Reid's dad standing. I knew Reid resented his dad even now, but still they hugged each other. I wasn't waiting to be introduced. Especially at a time like that.
So when I heard Reid say, "Dad this is my wife Chealsee." I jumped a bit. He shook my hand and I shook his.
"You must be the lovely girl I've heard so much about from Diana. Where's the baby she was telling me so much about?" He asked.
"Oh he's not old enough to travel. He's with our dog and baby sitter." I said. I felt Reid put his arm around me.
"Okay Dad that's enough questions for now. Where's Mom?" He sounded very aggravated. He seemed to get very defensive all of a sudden when his dad started talking to me and about Gregory.
"She's in that room there." His dad said. We both walked in and saw Diana lying there, looking very frail and breathing very heavy. She looked over at us walking in and shutting the door.
"Spencer." She said.
"Hi Mom…how are you?" He asked and I could tell he was only holding off tears for her sake.
"I've had better days." She said. We both chuckled a little bit at her joke.
"Chealsee…may I speak with you?" She asked. I nodded and Reid looked at me with sad eyes.
I hugged him and whispered, "I'll be fine and I'll let you know if something happens." I heard him sniffle a bit but didn't say anything. He walked out to give us some privacy.
"Chealsee…are you taking care of my boy?" She asked.
"As well as I can Diana." I told her.
"Good…make sure to keep Spencer out of trouble." She said.
I teared up and my voice cracked as I said, "I will."
"I want to see the baby. Just one more time." She said. I was about to say he was at home, but then remembered I had my camera with me and had taken a video of Reid and the Gregory. I pulled it out of my purse and turned on the video, then held it to where she could see it.
"There he is…" She said drearily. I knew it was getting close, so I leaned down, hugged her, and then went back out of the room to get Reid. He turned and looked at me and I nodded. So he went in the room to say goodbye to his mother
Reid's point of view
I walked into the room and sat down by my mom. Taking her hand I said, "Mom…I want you to know…that…no matter what happened…no matter how bad things were for me as a kid…I couldn't have asked for a better mother. You were always there for me…and you read to me…I'll miss that…I'll miss you…I love you Mommy…" I was crying by the end of it and she reached up and whipped a tear away from my cheek. Her breathing was heavier than before.
The last thing my Mom ever said to me was, "I love you Spencer." I started to bawl like a baby. My mom wasn't the kind of person to say that often, so it meant a lot to me. It was then she squeezed my hand. Her heart monitor went faster, and then got gradually slower as her chest stopped moving, and her hand eased up in mine. Then, it was over. She was gone. I leaned down and hugged her one last time before the doctors came in and shooed me away so they could cover her and get her body to a different place. I backed out of the room, still crying my eyes out. Then I ran into someone. I turned to see Chealsee.
I hugged her and cried and she rubbed my back, soothing me, saying, "It'll be okay. Shh. You're okay." Just like I'd done for her when she'd lost somebody close to her.
(I wrote this one myeself. It's my very own. I couldn't find anything to sum this chapter up so I wrote somthing. Enjoy it)
Looking into her eyes,
I could tell she was hurting,
And that she was ready to leave this world behind.
I held her hand in mine,
And let the tears roll down my face.
Nobody would see now.
Nobody would see me cry.
She lifted her frail hand,
One last time,
To whip a tear from my cheek.
Then she used the last of her voice,
To say one simple thing,
To her son who was beside her.
"I love you Spencer."
She said weakly,
And I cried more.
For that was a thing,
I'd rarely heard her say before.
"I love you too mom."
I told her then,
And then her chest stopped moving,
And her hand stopped squeezing mine
And her eyes closed peacefully,
And her son,
Was left all alone,
In a hospital room,
Holding his mother's hand
So...am I evil or what? :( I'm so sorry guys. I just got the idea and simply HAD to write it out. Opinions? Wanna hear em!
