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Chapter Eleven; Panic Attack

*Jason's POV*

I woke up to noises around my surroundings. I looked around and saw I was still in Scarlett's hospital room with her right next to me. I sat up and stretched. I sighed and looked at Scarlett still sleeping peacefully near me. I smiled at her and noticed I still gripped onto to hand. I noticed the time on the clock read 9:49. It was still somewhat early.

I felt Scarlett gripping onto my hand squeezing every couple seconds. I looked at her and her eyebrows were furrowing, about to wake up. I felt my heart beat faster from excitement. She was finally going to wake up. "Scarlett, can you hear me?" I asked rubbing her hand. She groaned quietly as her eyes very slowly opened.

"Scarlett?" I asked anxiously. Once her eyes fully opened, she smiled at me with tears in her eyes. "Jason?" She said in awe. I nodded. She pulled me into a hug. I wrapped my arms around her small figure and rested my head on her shoulder. "Thank you," she choked out through tears. She pulled away and looked at me.

"Thank you so much Jason." She said starting sob. I pulled her back into my arms. "Shh, don't cry. You're safe now. You're safe." I whispered stroking her hair. "You saved me. I could've died..." "But you didn't." I abruptly said. I couldn't honestly imagine her not being here. Her in another world. When I was around her I felt like the old Jason. The old me. She kept me sane. Her personality is nothing like I've ever seen before. She's nothing like any other girl I've meet.

She pulled away and looked at me with frightened eyes. "Can you tell me what they did Scarlett? I need to know. I don't need you hurting anymore." I begged. She took a breath and looked down at her hands. "I was scared Jason. I thought I would've been done for. They knew you were on your way as soon as you got off the phone with Luke. That's when they..." She stopped herself and tears started falling down her face again.

"What did they do Scarlett?" "They did things do me! Things I didn't want them to. I felt violated Jason." She said as her lip quivered. My heart broke at that moment. Knowing they touched her. I held onto both of her hands. "Look at me." I said looking at her fragile face. "Scarlett, look at me." She hesitantly turned her head to face me. "I promise you, I won't let anyone touch you. I won't let anyone hurt you. I will protect you from now on. Do you understand me?" She nodded.

"I understand, sir." She said giggling. I smiled at her. "There's that gorgeous smile." Her cheeks reddened instantly. "Are you hungry?" I asked standing up. "Starving. Get me some food please." She said pouting a lip out. I chuckled. "Of course." I walked out the door and walked out the doors of the hospital. She doesn't need gross hospital food. I'll get her some McDonald's instead.

*Scarlett's POV*

As soon as Jason walked out the door I felt sleepy. Jeez, I've only slept for how many hours. I thought maybe I should just take a short nap. I shut my eyes and fell into a deep sleep soon after.

'I looked around at my surroundings. It didn't look at all too familiar. I looked and noticed Jason was next to me and looked angry and upset. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Nothing you need to worry about." He said, placing a fake smile on his face. "I'm gonna take a little walk." He said. He kissed my cheek and walked out the door.

It's 7:10pm. Jason left at 11. My stomach had butterflies in them. Where was he? My phone rang next to me. I picked it up hoping it was Jason. "Hello?!" "Scarlett? It's me Zak. Where's Jason?" "I don't know! Where is he? He said he'd take a walk. But that was at 11 this morning!" I said, tears welling in my eyes. "Scarlett calm down. We'll take care of this." He said and hung up. "You better hope so," I said aloud. I turned on the tv and my jaw dropped and I felt like my world stopped. 'Las Vegas's Top Wanted, Jason McCann killed.'

*Jason's POV*

I walked back into the hospital with a whole bunch of nurses and doctors running around. "Code blue! Code blue!" They won't shouting. "Code blue to room 122!" I thought for a moment. That's Scarlett's room! I ran to where they were and a nurse stopped me from going in there. "No please! I'm her boyfriend!" I lied. "It doesn't matter. Sir, you're going to have to wait here."

"Can you at least tell me what's going on!" I shouted. "She seemed to have a panic attack. Caused by her trauma. Her trauma causes things like nightmares which gave her the panic attack. She's very sensitive to everything now. But I promise you, you can go back in after we're finished." I sighed. I let it happen again. I leave her and now this happens. I sat on a chair outside her room and waited, ten minutes at the most. Dr. Michaels walked out with his clipboard.

"Before you go in Jason, can I ask something of you?" I stood up and faced him. "Sure, what is it?" "Well first thing is, you are free to take Scarlett home this evening. We just wanna have her here for at least another 4 hours. But about that.." He looked at me. "I would advise you stay with her for the next few weeks. Her heart rate and everything seem evened and normal when you are around her. She is calmed by your presence. That's why I want you to stay with her, day and night, so she could avoid her hospital visits."

I nodded. "I can work something out." I smiled. "Good. You may now go in." He said and walked down the hallway to another patients room. I walked to Scarlett and set the bag of food next to her. "Are you okay?" I asked in a caring way. She shrugged. "What happened?" I asked kneeling down next to her.

"I had a nightmare." She said awkwardly. She knew that I knew about her panic attack. I held her hand. "Everything's okay now." I smiled. She smiled back at me until it soon faded when her direction faced the doorway. I turned there too and saw someone I did not recognize standing there.