Tarlos: We're A Family, All Four Of Us

Part 6

The silence afterwards was deafeningly, Carlos was trying to get his mum to talk to him then got TK on the phone to talk her through what to do while he called 9-1-1. Harper and Louise were staring blankly at their parents distress completely innocent to the situation. Carlos had to sit down once EMS finally got to his dad, TK gave him a kiss then told him he's going to call Nancy and Mateo over to watch the girls as he comforted the scared girls. They haven't told them yet. TK ran to grab a hoodie for himself and for Carlos, Carlos was quiet with a kind of fear or sadness in his eyes, TK didn't even see him like that after the kidnapping attempt. "Thanks for coming so last minute," "Sure dude what happened?" "I don't know yet," "Okay got it, take as long as you need," "I left the sheets out for the sofa bed. Carlos come on we can go now," TK guided him out of the house and into there car, it was horrible. The silence.

Carlos gripped onto TK as he saw his mothers image covered in blood approaching. TK was doing the maths in his head, it was a lot of blood for one person to loose. TK gently peeled Carlos off so he could hold his mum, they needed each other, "Family of Gabriel Reyes," they didn't hear them, "Over here Doc I'm his son-in-law," "Those two," "Son and wife. I'm a paramedic so you can give it to me straight." TK barely held back his own tears after that, with the doctor beside him he took Andrea's and Carlos's hand, "Andrea, Carlos. Gabriel was shot very close to the heart puncturing the lung. He lost a lot of blood in a short amount of time. He passed on just as he got here," the cries were horrible, a widow, a son just about to get married and a baby never going to be able to meet their grandad and several young grandchildren who would most likely would not remember Gabriel as the years go on.

Carlos stared out to the world, slipping his shirt seamlessly over his shoulders and started buttoning it down. He heard a scream which made him jump, the girls were just playing tag running through the house, TK gently touched his shoulder snapping him out of the daze. TK then continued helping Carlos to dress, the last few buttons on the shirt, the tie, a gentle kiss to the head before calling out to the girls. Both girls came running hair brushes in hand, their simple button up black dresses with a white belt looking adorable on them. Carlos turned around leaning/sitting on the window sill watching TK comb through the girls hair, he neatly plaited Harper's first into two plaits, Louise didn't want to sit still long enough so he plaited her an aliceband to keep her hair out of her face. With both girls he leaned down and whispered something in there ears. Once done and hair-sprayed they got up and ran into Carlos's arms, "We're here for you today papa," they smiled, Carlos was teary eyed holding his girls.