Another Moment

- 2 -

"How are you guys holding up?", Emily asked.

"Well, they gave Sienna some meds to calm her down. She's sleeping now. I can take her home with me as soon as she wakes up and is cleared to go.", Luke said to his boss.

After receiving the news of her mothers passing, Sienna had a heavy panic attack and nobody was able to caml her down. This was when the doctor decided to give her a sedative. It hurt Luke to see his daughter this devasted and all he wanted to do was holding her and telling her that everything would be alright soon, eventually.

"And what about you?", Emily asked again, worry lacing in her voice. In all his worry for his daughter, he hadn't have time to cope with the message for his own sake.

"Well, I'm okay, I think. It still feels unreal and it will take some time to actually realize it, but my number 1 priority is my daughter right now."

"I know, Luke. Take as much time as you need to geteverything settled. If you need help we're all only one phone calle away."

"Thank you, Emily. This means a lot."

"We're family, Luke. No one gets left behind. I have to go now. Keep us updated, okay?"

"I will, thank you and tell the others I said hi."

"I will.", and with this, they ended the phone call. LUke put his cell away and reentered the room where Sienna was sleeping in the huge hospital bed. She looked so fragile and small laying there. Slowly, he walked towards the bed and sat back down in the chair beside the bed.

"So, what will you do now?", Matt asked to avoid the silence which was building up.

"Well, I'll try and get full custody since I'm the last blood relative person she has left and I'm her Dad, so it shouldn't be that hard." Matt nodded and leaned back in his chair.

"Hey, whenever you need help or if you just wanna talk, I'm there. It can be tough raising a child on your own, Luke, but I'm sure you'll do great."

"Thanks, I'm not gonna lie. I'm nervous that I'll mess things up, but I am also scared. Our job is dangerous and I don't wanna cause her any more pain than she already experienced."

"Don't worry, we'll take care of you.", Simmons smiled, reassuring his friend, which Luke returned.

"Well, I can't make that decision without her. If she doesn't want to move to Quantico with me because of the friends and school her in McLean, we have to find a different solution.", the Ex-Ranger sighed.

"Just take your time to decide. Everything will fall in place by itself.", Matt responded.

Luke was about to go on talking when he noticed that Sienna was slowly starting to wake up. The teenager groaned as she carefully opened her eyes, the bright lights blinding her.

"Hey, how are you feeling?", the agent asked as he took his daughter's hand and gave it a getle squeeze. Sienna only shrugged with her shoulders and kept staring outside the hospital window. Luke sighed. This would be a long way to go.

"Hey, listen. We have to talk about where you'll be staying after you get discharged from the hospital. There are different options and personally, I would suggest that...", he started to explain as Sienna interrupted him.

"Please, don't put me into foster care. I don't want to, please.", the girl begged, tears glazing her eyes as she kept looking at her father. Matt's and Luke's hearts broke right there and then.

"No, Baby Girl, no, I did not plan to. I actually was about to ask you if you would want to come to Quantico with me. You could live at my place and..."

"Yes, please. I just don't wanna be alone, Dad.", the girl said as she started to cry.

Luke immediatley engulfed the girl in a hugh and tried to comfort her as he whispered sweet nothings into her ear. After a while, when Sienna had calmed down, they broke apart and the girl leaned back into her pillow.

"It's all my fault.", she then whispered.

"What?!", Simmons and Alvez asked at the same time.

"That accident...it's my fault."

"How could you possibly think that, Sienna?", Matt said.

"Mom was angry with me. We were at a school meeting before and my teachers were telling her that my grades were dropping and that it would be difficult for me to get into the next grade with these grades. When we got back into the car, we started fighting. She blamed my friends for my bad grades. She said that they would be a bad influence. That's when I snapped. I was yelling at her that if she would have paid more attention to me than to this Scott guy, the she would have noticed that I was looking for help because I was struggling."

"Wait, who is Scott?", Luke wanted to know since he never heard that name before.

"Scott was Mom's new lover. They met here and there, but never were a thing. He was disgusting and just not right for her. Anyway, we kept fighting and at some point I said that I hated her. And sometime after that, when she wasn't focusing on the street...we got off the road and crashed into that tree. We crashed because she was mad at me. It's all my fault and the last thing she heard of me before she died was that i hated her.", Sienna finished explaining and started to heavyly sob. Luke, who also shed some tears at his daughters words, sat down on the bed beside her and held her tight. It broke his heart to see her like this. How could she blame herself?!

"Shhhh...Princess. It was not your fault. It was no onés fault.", he tried to console her.

"I-I just miss her so much. Why does it hurt so bad?"

Luke held her even tighter, too scared to let her go.

"I promise you, everything will be alright. We'll figure this out." Sienna sniffled.

"C-Can we go home now, please? I-I don't wanna be here any longer."

"I'll go get the doctor.", Matt said and got up to leave as Luke gave him a thankful look.

About 10 minutes later, Matt returned with Sienna's doctor and a nurse and they freed her from all the needles and machines.

"Okay, you're free to go. I just need you to sign the release papers and you're officially free. I'll be right back.", the doctor said and left the room.

"I'll go and call Emily to let her know that we're coming back while I go get the car.", Simmons told them and also left.

Just when the agent left, the doctor came back and Luke signed the papers.

"You're ready?", he asked Sienna as the doctor left and he helped her get down from the bed at which she nodded.

"Okay, let's go then.", Luke said and was about to start walking when he felt his daughter hesitating. He looked down at her and noticed the tears in her eyes.

"Hey now, what's wrong?" Sienna sniffled before she spoke:

"Can you please promise me something, Dad?"

"Anything."

"Don't ever leave me."