CHAPTER 42
I DO NOT OWN EMMERDALE OR IT'S CHARACTERS, THEY ALL BELONG TO ITV1
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Hazel Rhodes was in her dressing gown waiting for the kettle to boil at Mill Cottage, she clutched her chest...she had felt quite queasy getting up today, in fact over the last few days.
She watched the kettle for a while, and then pulled her mobile out of her dressing gown pocket, she scratched her head...this bit of technology was even more complicated than the last one she had...infact there was NOTHING wrong with the last one...it was just Jackson had insisted she have a more up to date one.
She realised she had a picture message...and faffed about with the buttons through sighs of frustration..until she opened the picture,
"Awwwwww" she cooed out loud...Jackson had sent her a picture of Jack on the beach with a sandcastle...and there was another one with him clutching some fluffy toy...and one of all three of them in the campervan...there was alittle footnote tagged on the base of the pics, it read 'TEAM JJA having MEGATOP times!'
She smiled to herself...then reaching for a mug to make her brew...she gasped and clutched her chest...she then collasped to the kitchen floor in pain.
Chas came down the stairs with a towel on her head, " Hazel love...YOU can use the shower now...MAKES a change getting IN THERE first...!" she rounded the corner to see Hazel on the floor motionless...Chas gasped out loud...and hurried over to her, " HAZEL...HAZEL LOVE", she crouched down and gently shook her, " Hazel...OH NO...THIS IS all I need..." she stood up and grasped her mobile from the counter...she dialled 999.
In Blackpool, Aaron and Jackson were on the pier...little Jack was running up and down entertaining himself, "...SO then while WAITING for yah to come out them bogs, I sent me Mum the pics... So are we gonna spent ANOTHER day at the pleasure beach...OR are yah gonna be sick like yester-day", asked Jackson with a smirk, Aaron straighened his cap in the sea breeze, " I'VE told yah...it were THAT dodgy pint at that sea front bar...", Jackson leaned his elbows onto the pier's railing, " STRANGE how MY pint was alright...AND the little man took a sup of yours...he's right as rain!", Aaron smiled, watching Jack peer down into the sea, he was trying to climb up...but was just on the small side to reach the top rail...even so Aaron went over, " NO Jack...it's dangerous!", Jackson raised his eyebrowes impressed..." well WHOSE the model parent then !", Aaron waved a hand at him...but deep down was afraid of another incident happening, like it did 2 days ago when he lost him at the arcades, Aaron had kept sturm about it...SO did Jack...otherwise Jackson would have freaked out...OR, in Aaron's honest opinion...would of moaned ON and ON about it all day.
Aaron came to Jackson's side at the rail, he glanced at his partner as he stared out to sea looking through his shades, " Hey...it's OUR anniversary next month..." he announced...making sure Jackson was IMPRESSED that HE remembered...Jackson snapped his head around, " errrrr...BUT we've ONLY been married for two months...IF that...", Aaron rolled his eyes at him, " NOT THAT...it's been 2 years since we...you know..." Jackson loved it when Aaron got all embassassed, " Jackson grinned at him, " OHHHHHH...it's been 2 years since I first rammed me coc...", Aaron nudged him, " HEY...not in front of Jack...", Jackson glanced over at Jack...the little lad was now chasing seagulls...Jack was FASINATED by the things...JUST like him when he was a boy...
" HE can't hear us!...anyway...we've sorta NOT been together quite 2 years...", told Jackson, placing his chin on his elbows, Aaron pulled a face, " oh yeah...the time we split up...it was October and it were on that road...", Jackson nodded trancelike, " that's it...ALL over MAD Mickey...", Aaron pushed out his bottom lip, " yeah I screwed up..." then snapped his head round, " JUST like YOU the SECOND time we split...when you shagged Rhys...", Jackson pulled him a frown, " ACTUALLY I NEVER shagged him...it was just a..." he thought for a moment, scratching on his head, " AND we are raking up all this because...", Aaron laughed...so did Jackson, " don't know!..." Aaron admitted, " BUT I enjoyed the MAKING UP !", Jackson winked at him, " the best..."
At Mill cottage, the paramedics had strapped Hazel onto the stretcher, Chas, still in her dressing gown, turned to Paddy, " DO you think she's gonna be alright paddy...", Paddy had a grim look, " lets just wait until they get her to hospital a..." he then realised something, and turned to her, " the Paramedic said something about her medication...", Chas hurried over to a cupboard and pulled out a paper bag, " it's ALL in there...ARE you gonna go with her...", Paddy nodded, " yeah I should...look see if you can get hold of Jackson again...OR Aaron..." Chas shook her head in frustration, " I'VE TRIED Paddy...they've BOTH got their phones switched off...", Paddy was heading out the door, " THEN leave a message...and KEEP trying...JACKSON has to come back Chas..."
Chas stared out the window as Hazel was loaded onto the Ambulance by the two Paramedic's, Hazel wasn't dead...but she HAD a really WEAK heartbeat...she tried Aaron's phone...and got the voicemail, "AARON...call home yeah, please...IT'S URGENT!" she bit her lip...did that sound too strong...she shook her head...IT WAS URGENT...they just needed to get back...
In Blackpool, Jackson stood at the cubical door in the gents...Aaron washed his hands at the sink, " SO where next...we go home tomorrow...AND I don't fancy Pleasure beach AGAIN...not with having to sleep in that Camper van tonight!", Jackson frowned as he placed his hands in his shorts pockets, " THOUGHT about getting a ride on one of them..." he mouthed the trams bit, " He'll love that...", Aaron turned around with a cheeky smirk,"I'LL COULD DO with getting a ride meself...!", Jackson winked at him, " I'll have to see WHAT I can do then!", he knocked on the cubicle door, " JACK... you finished"
"Yeah!"
"Have you given it a shake"
"Yeah!"
"then flush the toilet...OR..WE'RE miss the TRAM!" announced Jackson,
"YEAHHHHHH" squealed Jack from inside the cubicle...as the toilet flushed.
At the hospital, in Hotten, Hazel laid in the intensive care unit, a doctor and two nurses were seeing to her, Paddy stared through the window as Chas hurried to his side, " HOW is she!" she asked concerned, Paddy pointed, " the doctor is still with her...but she's stablised...", Chas breathed out a sigh of relief, " THANK god...I really thought she were a goner there Paddy", Paddy turned, " any luck contacting the boys..." he asked, Chas nodded, " NO...I've left a message on Aaron's phone...HE aint got back ta me yet..." she stared at Hazel through the glass...the machines connected to her...the oxygen mask, " Have THEY said owt about what's wrong wit her...", Paddy took her into the small family room, " SAME as before... her heart...IS she taking her meds...", Chas shook her head at him, " HOW do I flaming know...I'm NOT her keeper Paddy!" she sat down and pulled out her phone, " OHHHHH, I JUST WISH they're CALL me!"
Jack wriggled in his seat on the top deck of the tram, Jackson kept his arms around him, making sure he was safe and secure, Aaron sat back on the seat and rested his eyes...he then pulled out his mobile...on a effort to take a few snaps...on switching it on he noticed the message icon, he glanced at Jackson, but he was pointing out more trams to Jack, Aaron placed the phone to his ear...on listening to his mums message...he pressed call...then moved away from Jackson and Jack, " MUM...it's me...what...NO...when...we're in Blackpool" he glanced across at Jackson, "allright allright...WE'LL be there...I've just got to TELL him first!"
The three of them stepped off the Tram when it reached the end of the line on the prominade, Aaron's glum frown had distracted Jackson on board...Jackson turned, "HEY what's with THAT face...THIS were Jack's treat NOT yours!", Aaron shook his head...he felt stressed and pulled off his cap and ran his hand over his shaven head...Jackson KNEW the signs, "WHAT IS IT...SPILL!", Aaron turned, " me MUM called...well she left a message on me phone...I called her...its...", Aaron couldn't get the words out...they stuck in his throat in the midday sun, " WHAT IS it Aaron..." spat Jackson, Aaron's blue eyes tried to tell him, " it's your..."
It dawned on Jackson...he stared into Aaron's eyes, " NOT...not me mum...no Aaron...not me Mum...", Aaron shook his head, " we gotta get back mate...now" he told gently...
The Doctor stood in the family room with Paddy and Chas, " So how is she..." enquired Paddy soothenly, the Doctors face was grim, " Mrs Rhodes is VERY unwell...it seems the meds she is on are JUST NOT working anymore...OR...that she is NOT taking them properly...either way, we have noticed SHE should have come in for a medical check up 3 weeks ago...SHE missed her appointment...", Chas grabbed Paddy's arm, " Hey, that was when we HAD the bother with little Jack...SHE had other things on her mind...", the Doctor tilted her head, " even so...YOU said earlier she has a son...", Paddy shook his head, " yeah Jackson...HE'S on his way...but it might be a while he was in Blackpool..." he and Chas glanced at each other, before Paddy asked, " IS there something you are not telling us doctor..."
The doctor thinly smiled, " Look...the next 12 hours are going to be crucial...
...we HAVE administered stronger drugs...
...but they need to get through her body...lets just say it WOULD be best if he were here...as soon as possible..."
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