A month later it was time for Tyler to go off on another tour of duty. Roxanne, wanting to be able to say goodbye properly and be with her kids had asked for Kevin to cover her if a case was to come up.
Roxanne woke up early, before the alarm and looked over to her sleeping husband, feeling was that he would be away from her possibly forever but at least for the next 6 months. She grumbled quietly when she realised why she woke up. Her stomach was acting up again. Probably from eating a higher fat meal the night before.
"Is it your stomach again?" Tyler asked, Having been woken by her trying to get comfortable.
"Yes."She answered unhappily. "It's been worse lately."
"I know darling. Maybe it's because I'm leaving and it's causing you stress." He suggested. Knowing her stomach issues would always act up when she was stressed.
"Yes. It could be." Roxanne answered. "Do you want to go back to sleep?"
"No I'm good." He answered. "Come here and I'll cuddle you."
"Thanks Tyler. I'm just going to take some medicine first."
"Okay. Good idea." He answered before Roxanne went downstairs to get herself some medicine and water and then went back to snuggle into Tyler.
"Can you please get your stomach checked out while I'm away?" He asked. Worrying about his wife.
"I have an appointment on Monday." She answered.
"Okay good. Tell me how it goes." He answered.
"I will." She answered. "I'm going to miss having you to comfort me."
"I'll miss having you to comfort." He responded. "If your not up to taking me to the airport that's okay." He told her.
"I'm good Ty." She answered. "I feel nauseous more than anything."
"Okay sweetheart. Do you need to vomit?"
"No. I'm good." She answered and closed her eyes.
"Okay sweetie." Tyler answered and rubbed her back to help her get herself back to sleep.
"Thankyou Tyler." She mumbled.
"That's okay. Just rest." He replied and watched his wife go back to sleep.
When the alarm went off a couple of hours later Roxanne and Tyler both woke back up. "Do you feel any better now." He asked her.
"A little." She responded. "Do you really have to go?"
"Yes sweetie but I'll be back." He reminded her.
"I hope so." She answered.
"I will. We have a bit of time to snuggle until we need to get up." He told her.
"Good." She answered. "You make me feel so safe."
"I'm glad." He answered and kissed her on the cheek.
"Ty?" Roxanne asked.
"What sweetheart?"
"Do we have time for sex?"
"Yes. If we're quick." He answered as they proceeded to have sex before getting up and getting Lottie ready before heading to the airport.
Arriving at the airport they all said their goodbyes and hugged Tyler before he left to catch his flight and then headed back home where Roxanne played with Lottie for the rest of the day to get and keep her happy.
Come Monday Roxanne was getting Lottie ready to go to Rose's and worrying about her doctor's appointment. "Rox do you want me to come with you?" Dana asked, knowing she was worried.
"You have school sweetheart." She answered. "But thank you."
"Your appointments at 8:00am. I would hardly be late." She continued.
"I know Dana. You can come if you really want to."
"Of course I want to. You seem like you could do with support. I couldn't leave you to go alone."
"Okay. Thankyou Dana." She replied.
"It's fine." She answered.
At the doctor Roxanne told him her symptoms whilst Dana sat beside her and offered some support.
"You could have a stomach ulcer." The doctor said. "Your previous stomach pains were probably IBS." The doctor responded pausing to make sure she understood. "I'd like you to give in a stool sample and book yourself in for a scan and we can discuss your results after." She continued and gave roxanne a container to put the stool sample in.
"Thankyou." Roxanne answered, before her and Dana left. Roxanne then dropped Dana at school before heading to work.
Arriving at work Roxanne pulled up in the parking lot at the same time as Blake. "Rox. Your in late for you." Blake observed.
"I had a doctors appointment." She answered.
"Oh. Are you okay?"
"Yeah. I might have a stomach ulcer but otherwise all's good."
"That's fairly serious." Blake answered. "I'm sure Hotch would let you have time off."
"I know he would but I don't want it." She answered.
"Okay. Fair enough. We have a case. You don't mind if Clara stays with you while I'm away?"
"Of course I don't Blake. I love having Clara round."
"Thankyou Rox." She answered. Pleased she didn't have to try and find other teenager care for her daughter.
"No worry's Blake." She answered as they both went into the briefing room.
"Morning Blake and Roxanne." Hotch greeted, not mentioning the fact that they were a few minutes late as he knew Roxanne had a doctors appointment and Blake could often be slightly late due to traffic after dropping Clara off.
"Morning everyone." They both greeted as Roxanne went over to brief everyone in the case.
"Two 19 year old males were stabbed late last night." Roxanne said pausing briefly. "This matches a stabbing that occured one month prior and NYPD think it's the same guy." She finished. As the team briefly discussed possible scenarios.
"Wheels up in 30." Hotch said as they finished discussing. "Roxanne can we have a word in my office?" He asked, wanting to catch up with how her doctors appointment went.
"Of course Hotch." She answered as the team got up and Roxanne and Hotch went to his office, shutting the door behind them.
"How was the appointment?" He asked after they'd both sat down.
"Alright. They think I have an ulcer so I have to give a stool sample and I have a scan first thing Wednesday and then I have another appointment next Monday to discuss the results." She answered.
"Okay." Hotch responded pausing, being able to tell she was in some pain. "If you need to take some time you know you always can."
"Thankyou Hotch. But I'll be fine." She answered just as she felt the familiarity of being about to vomit. "Is it alright if I excuse myself?" She asked. "I need to use the bathroom."
"Use mine." He responded, being able to tell she was about to throw up.
"Thankyou." Roxanne responded' going into the toilet adjacent to Hotch's office and vomiting before retching a couple of times.
Hotch waited for her to come out and respected her privacy, knowing that's what she would want from him until she was done. "Are you feeling better now?" He asked.
"Not much." She responded honestly. "I'm sorry for vomiting in your loo though."
"It's fine. Your not the only one." He answered. "The cleaners clean it every day like the others so no worries it's not like your contagious." He continued.
"Oh that's good." She answered. "And no stomach ulcers arnt contagious but they are painful."
"Yeah I can imagine." Hotch responded. "If you need to go home or to the hospital or anything while we're away get Kevin to cover you and give me a ring." He said.
"I will Hotch." She agreed. "Can you not tell the others. Blake knows but I don't want them all worrying."
"I won't tell the others." He promised.
"Thankyou Hotch."
"That's okay. I'll see you when we're back from the case and we'll talk again in Monday." He told her.
"Okay." Roxanne said as they both got up, Roxanne heading to Garcia's office and Hotch heading to the airstrip.
The next week Roxanne was at the doctor again with Dana accompanying her once more. "You have a stomach ulcer caused by the infection." The doctor explained. "I'm going to prescribe you some antibiotics that you must take 3 times a day and you should start to feel better within a couple of days."
"Thankyou." Roxanne responded.
"That's okay..Come back if your not starting to feel better or if your symptoms get worse." She said whilst writing out the prescription.
At work Roxanne caught up with Hotch to tell him what was going on before doing some of her own paper work, as they didn't have a case.