And also I have not been in hospital for anything serious so I don't know the procedure or anything so I say sorry ahead of time If some of the medical terming is incorrect or whatever.
Michael sat in the chair with both of his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands, the chair was situated next to Ben who was lying on the hospital bed with tubes and the ventilator connected to him. Every now and then Ben's heart would speed up and settle back down again.
Michael leaned forward and placed his arms onto the bed and laid his chin down onto his crossed arms licking his lip "Why does everything have to happen to us" he said lifting Ben's hand from the bed and held it tight to his. The hospital door opened Hunter walked into the room Michael looked up "hey" he said.
Hunter pulled the chair on the other side of Ben's bed out to sit down not taking his eyes away from Ben's sleeping form "how is he?"
Michael sighed "I haven't heard anything from the doctor yet" he said gripping onto Ben's hand "he had a healthy cell count last check-up" he said covering his face with his other hand.
Hunter placed his crossed arms on the bed and leant his head on them closing his eyes Michael stared at Ben's face.
The door opened again and man with white scrubs had a clipboard in his hand he was Korean descent with shoulder length silky black hair and square jawline "hello my names Dr Kwoong nice to meet you it would be under better circumstance which one of you is his partner?" the doctor asked.
Michael stood "hi I'm the partner Michael this is our son Hunter can you please tell me what's going on?"
The doctor crossed his arms "are you aware that Mr Bruckner has a low cd4 T cell count?" Michael shook his head "it appears it's at a low level around 350 in normal circumstances Mr Bruckner has had a healthy number of 475 however he seems to be losing weight last check-up he was 176 and now he sized down to 145 has he ever talked to you about it?"
Michael shook his head "Ben has problems with talking to me about his HIV he would of told me if he was losing weight I mean we've been so busy that I haven't noticed" he explained looking down.
Dr Kwoong crossed his arms "usually partners are less to prone to notice weight loss in their partners however his T cell count seems be lowering as we speak. Because Ben has been off the meds for 3 months since his last check-up"
"What" Michael said putting his hand up "I've seen Ben taking meds" Hunter looked at Michael "are you saying he's taking something and you haven't overseen it"
"Mr Novotny I am certain that we have nothing on file to suggest he should be taking anything without our instruction as Ben has been off the meds since his last check-up that was 2 months ago"
Michael licked his lips "is he going to pull through?"
Dr Kwoong stepped further "it's just touch and go now but you're his next of Kin so I need your permission to flush his system and start him back on the meds" he asked.
Michael licked his lip "do whatever you can" the doctor nodded and bowed out of the room Michael looked back to Ben. 'What the hell is going on with you Ben?' he thought.
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Licking his lips Brian held the board in front of his face there was something wrong with the board the pattern had sort of a mosaic feel to the art. He sighed and placed the boards on the desk his intercom beeped through reaching over Brian pressed it down "yes Cynthia"
"Justin's on line one" she said.
"Thanks Cyn" Brian walked round the desk and reached for the phone "yeah" he answered placing the phone to his ear shuffling the boards.
There was a small shuffle on the other end before Justin spoke "wow if that's how you answer your phone I feel sorry for your clients"
Brian sighed "what is it you wanted?" he asked sitting down in his chair.
"What are you doing right now?"
Brian leaned back in the chair "thinking how I'm going to redo these boards before tomorrow morning" he said "why you miss me"
"No not at this moment. my secret lovers tiding me over" he teased.
"Why don't you fuck him for me" Brian smirked.
Justin laughed licking his lips Justin smiled against the phone "why what's wrong with the boards?" he asked changing the subject.
"There shit" he said picking them up and looking at them "why did I hire incompetent staff"
"Hey it's your company" Justin sighed "I'll be over there soon and I'll lend you my talents" he said.
Brian leaned into the phone more "see you soon"
"Bye"
"Love you" Brian whispered.
Justin smiled on the other end "Love you too" he whispered back hanging up.
Brian sighed and put the phone back on the dock and taking one more look at the boards and threw them across the room Cynthia came in once she heard the commotion "Brian what did I say about taking anger out on things"
Brian looked up at her and smirked "who the hell did these piece of shit boards" he moaned.
Cynthia picked them off the floor "your head of art" she said placing them under her arms and walked towards the desk placing a piece of paper on the desk "Park called followed by your mother" she said.
Brian moved the pen back in the holder by his computer "what does the hag want?" he said.
"I didn't stay on the line long enough she told me to leave you a message and that was it" she explained crossing her arms "Michael's at the front desk"
Brian sighed "send him in and I'll call my mother when I want to listen to her gab" he said Cynthia left and a few second later Michael walked in. Brian looked him up and down as he wasn't the best dressed person to step foot in his office "what the fuck happened to you?"
Michael sighed and moved over to the sofa "Ben happened" he said slumping down "found him on the floor last night"
Brian looked back down at his papers "is he alright?" he asked.
Michael rubbed at his face "yeah he's back on the meds again" he replied looking above on the wall at the clock "Ma wants to know if you're joining us for dinner tonight"
"Need to ask the ball and chain" Brian smirked looking up.
Michael raised his eyebrow "when have you started to ask permission to go out for"
Brian shrugged "since I wanted to" he said truthfully leaning forward with his arms against his desk. The intercom beeped Brian leaned over and pressed it on speakerphone "yeah"
"Justin's on his way up" Cynthia said.
Michael put his hands on his knees to help him get up "well I leave you to it but Ma's expecting you though" he said walking towards to glass doors. Michael turned "Brian don't lose yourself" he said before leaving.
"Doesn't be stupid Michael" Brian said swivelling his chair so he could stand. And made his way over to the doors and watched Michael leave, making a face he watched Justin pass Michael in the hall and say hi before walking towards Brian.
Shutting the door Brian walked over to his sofa and sat down Justin stepped in the room and bounced over to him placing his knees beside Brian's body and straddled his lap and sitting down. "Where are these shit boards then?" he asked putting his arms round his shoulder.
Brian kissed him on the lips "on the table" he gestured behind him.
Justin smiled kissing him back and shuffled off his lap picking the boards and raised them to look "wow you were right these are shit the imagery is all wrong" he flipped to the next board "and the colours look dull and out of place together."
Brian took a hold of Justin's hip and directed him to sit in his lap "that's what I have you for to redesign them" he said kissing Justin's neck.
Justin moaned as Brian grabbed the boards and threw them over his shoulder as he continued his ministrations to Justin's neck "Deb called me" Justin said Brian hummed against his skin "we don't have to go" he said
Brian sighed "I just want to go home and fuck you into the matrass" Justin groaned.
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Name: Emmett Honeycutt
Age: 40
"I'll delete that" Typing back Emmet changed it
Age: 35
Interested in Men.
Hobbies: Shopping, Work, Dancing.
Emmett bit his lip pressing onto the publish button shaking his head Emmett sat back in the office chair. Satisfied with his dating page he turned off the computer and got ready to go home knowing that the site wouldn't work.
Picking up the keys he grabbed his jacket from the back of the office chair getting ready to head to an empty apartment.
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Ben's breathing picked up as the machine that connected beeped loudly. Ben squinted his eyes from the glare of the sun scrunching his eyes closed tightly before opening his eyes and stared at the ceiling. Michael sighed shooting from the chair
"Ben"
Ben blinked over at Michael who has moved closer to the bed "hey" Ben croaked and coughed moving his left arm.
Michael licked his lips "be careful of the IV" Michael said sitting back down on the chair leaning over to the side table and picked a glass of water "here drink this" he said lifting the glasss to Ben's mouth.
Ben lifted his other IV free arm and drunk some as Michael titlting the cup. Ben took the cup and drank the liquid. Michael pressed the call button on the side of Ben. Blinking rapidly he handed the cup back to Michael "what happened?" he asked.
"You passed out last night" he replied Michael leaned back in the chair and crossed his arms "talked to the doctor" Ben took a glance at the door Michael sighed "he said you haven't been taking them" Michael said mentioning his medication.
Ben licked his cracked lip and stared in front of him as Michael stared intently at the door.
It was silent for a few more minutes as Ben went to speak the door opened and the doctor walked with a nurse behind him "I see your awake Mr Bruckner" the doctor said. Taking a pen and small light from his pocket "I'm Dr Kwoong I'll be overseeing your treatment, I'm just going to check a few things and then you'll be free to rest"
Ben smiled "it's just Ben Doctor" he assured him.
Dr Kwoong smiled "okay Ben look straight forward" he said taking a stool from the corner of the room and moved closer to Ben's eyes flashing his little light onto the floor he lifted it to examine Ben.
After the Doctor checked everything and told him about the medication he would have to start taking again explaining the side effects of this medication for the next few weeks. Checking to make sure Michael knew all the medical terms and what Ben had to take Doctor left them two in the silence of the room before departing and leaving Ben to rest and Michael left the room once Ben was asleep informing Hunter.
Next Time on Queer as Folk: Brian and Justin go on a double date? Can Ben take the medication that has been specified for his condition and it may bring some memories from his past? Emmett gets a weird phone call? And Ted and Blake finally get what they wanted.