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Luke was at the bar with Melaina, a woman he had met whilst looking after Jess at her school, though he'd never tell Christian how they'd met of course. She was in her late twenties, petite with long dark hair, flawless tanned skin and light brown hair.

She was incredibly pretty and despite the fact they were both under Non-Disclosure documents, they still had quite a lot of fun telling each other stories of their employers and previous ones, keeping out any highly personal details.

Luke had booked a nice quiet French restaurant in the City that Ryan had told him about, and he was sitting with Melaina in a bar a block away, watching as she laughed at something, completely distracted by how pretty she was.

'So, Luke, are you staying with the Grey's for a while now, or do you think you'll move on?'. He thought for a second, sipping his drink 'I don't know really, we'll have to see what happens in the next few months-'.

They were interrupted by Luke's phone beeping with a text and he glanced down at it, muttering an apology to her for getting it out at their table.

'FROM: J. Taylor

Jess had a fit and is at the Hospital. Situation unclear'.

Melaina saw him pale 'Luke? Is everything alright?'.

'Uh…no. That was Jason, something's wrong…that's a vague text even for him… I think something's happened…'.

She reached over and held his hand so that he was forced to look up at her, seeing a kind smile on her face 'It's fine Luke, we can do this another time alright? Go to the hospital and see if everything is okay, I can see you want to'.

He opened his mouth to say something but Melaina shook her head 'it says more to me that you want to go and see if she's okay, than you staying, okay? I'll assume it's Jess because of your reaction, you should go, we can do this another time okay?'.

Luke nodded gratefully and quickly paid, gathering up both of their things and calling her a taxi 'I'm sorry-'.

He was cut off with a quick brief kiss before she laughingly got into the waiting taxi, giving him a quick wave before it joined the traffic. Quickly Luke hailed his own one and directed it to the Hospital.

Grace had been midway through a shift when a colleague had called her down to the emergency ward, explaining that someone was being brought in from the Grey residence, but they didn't know who yet. Grace had stood worriedly at the ambulance bay until she had seen one unload the familiar face of her Granddaughter. Ryan was with her, holding a bloodied jumper and looking a little bit lost as the Paramedics wheeled her out, shouting to the surrounding doctors.

Grace wasn't ethically allowed to practice emergency medicine on family, emotions could easily overtake in that type of situation and she was more likely to do harm than good. So instead she watched at Jess was whisked off, Ryan hurrying over to her.

'Mrs Grey uh-'

'Grace'.

'Grace, right. Jess had an epileptic fit and as she fell she hit the back of her head, she was non responsive and there was some blood… Taylor is bringing Christian and Ana right behind, I didn't think they should be in the ambulance just in case... you know…she's not responding but she's breathing…'.

Grace nodded, looking worried as she hurried off into the hospital as Christian and Ana appeared with Taylor a minute later.

Despite the City traffic Luke was at the hospital forty minutes later, Ryan meeting him at the entrance and filling him in on the situation as they went down to the ward.

'so she's been given a scan of her brain, looks like everything is working okay, but she's still not come around and there are a good few stitches in her head as well'. Luke nodded slightly, looking relieved but still tense and angry.

Jess was lying on a bed, a breathing mask on her mouth, a pair of leads on her chest, a drip in her arm, a sensor on one of her fingers, and several machines attached to her, slowly beeping rhythmically, every now and again making slightly different noises.

Grace was looking over her notes as Christian and Ana sat at other sides of the room, barely even looking at each other 'Can one of you be adult enough to tell me where Harry is please?'.

Christian's voice was barely more than a low mutter 'Gail was in her room, Taylor woke her to look after him'. Grace nodded slightly 'and are either of you going to tell me what has caused this silence between you both, or am I going to have to treat her in silence? You are supposed to be her parents'.

Christian looked away 'I was shouting at Jess before her fit happened, I lost it and she was terrified. It's my fault this happened'.

Ana muttered something darkly under her breath and stood up, storming out of the room and Grace looked at her son with an incredulous look.

'What did a seventeen year old girl do that was bad enough for that kind of a reaction Christian?'.

'She gave ten thousand dollars to her mother and to the man that…you know'.

'Harry's father?'.

Christian looked physically sick at the mere mention of Marcus and nodded, running his hands through his messy hair. 'She's been off with us both for a few days and when the Bank told me it was just… I don't know… something snapped… I fucked up, I know'.

They both looked up and saw Luke standing in the doorway, having heard the conversation and looking furious.

Luke balled his fists in complete anger and walked forward a little, glancing from Jess's motionless form to Christian 'you shouted at her? She was probably fucking terrified, well done Grey, well done'.

Christian was about to speak but Luke cut him off, jabbing a finger at him

'As if she would give either of them money voluntarily, if you'd let her speak I'm sure she'd have explained. I've heard what you were like, what you don't understand is that shouting isn't the way to deal with things, especially if it's a scared seventeen year old girl. I don't even care if you fire me, someone has to say it, she's like a sister to me. You can be a right cunt sometimes Christian, she won't say anything because she's been through worse- but shouting is as good as abuse, especially when someone is as messed up and fragile as Jess'.

Luke turned and walked away down the corridor, shaking his head and muttering something darkly under his breath.

Christian looked completely broken and Grace touched his shoulder 'Christian, look at me. You made a mistake, yes, I won't deny that. But you are not a bad person, and the only thing you can do now is stay with her and be the only thing she really needs right now- be her parent. She should hopefully regain consciousness tonight or in the morning, I have to check her blood tests are back'.

She left and Christian was sat completely alone with Jess, only ambient noise and the beeps of machines between them for a while.

After a little while Christian stood and sat on the bed beside her, looking down on his daughter, feeling his heart clench at the deathly pale skin and the chilly hand that didn't move as he picked it up in his own.

'Jess…it's me, Christian. Harry is at home with Gail, he's safe… I'm sorry for what I did… I fucked up beyond, well beyond anything imaginable really. God, Flynn will have a fucking field day when he hears about this won't he… Of course I know you must have had a reason for giving that money and I should have listened, I know that now… a bit late now really though isn't it…'.

He sighed, coughing away the lump in his throat 'you've been let down by so many people in your life, the last thing you needed was someone like me to be your Dad… and to do something like this. I'm never going to forgive myself for this'.

Christian felt the lump in his throat now refusing to leave and couldn't even stop the stream of tears on his face anymore, a faint twitch in Jess's hand the only response he received.

Outside, Caleb turned around abruptly and his voice was barely a hush 'give it a minute'. Ana had vaguely explained what had happened and was surprised, the teenager having just announced that he was going to show Christian Grey what he really thought about him.

Ana looked confused 'you were about to go in there all guns blazing?'.

He shook his head slightly 'Christian Grey is showing some type of emotion, I don't want to interrupt that'. Ana smiled weakly at the comment 'how did you get here so fast… who told you? We were too caught up..?'.

'Sawyer called me from his taxi, and I knew anyway, my sister is an ER nurse, she paged my dad'. He glanced down the corridor 'Lets just give them a bit of space, I'll hardly achieve anything by going in there now'.

Ana noted the irony and followed Caleb down to the line of hard plastic chairs.

Inside the room Christian was still holding Jess's hand and felt it squeeze back again, this time much stronger and he looked over, seeing her eyes open very slightly, looking around in confusion at the ceiling.

Christian stood up and was standing over her so she could see his face 'Jess, Jess it's me, you're in hospital, you're okay'.

Under the breathing mask she mumbled something that he was barely able to interpret and he nodded, brushing her hair away from her face 'yeah, Harry is fine as well, he's with Gail'.

Christian heard the heart machine slow down slightly as she clearly stopped panicking about her son and looked as though she was trying to sit up. Quickly Christian pressed the button on the side of the bed and the back rose up so that she was in an almost sitting position.

Jess 's hand moved incredibly slowly up to the breathing mask and moved it aside, breathing shallowly and slowly, her voice a croaky whisper 'Dad?'.

Christian felt the lump in his throat rise again and tried to swallow it down quickly, looking pointedly at the wall until he felt Jess's hand squeeze his own once and then tighter until he looked back over at her.

'Don't leave me?'.

Christian looked over at her and nodded, wondering how his own mother had ever been able to care so little about him, and how Hailey Cole had given up on Jess.

In the back of his mind however, Christian couldn't remove the question on just why Jess had been compelled to hand Hailey and Marcus those large amounts of money.

What are your theories on the money situation? I'd be intrigued to know :)

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