Realistic or Modern Just Breathe

[Forever6A7X]

Max sighed heavily as she pushed the stroller down their little street with the dogs close. She was now very worried about Jon. He had been sweating bad through the night with a fever and she had barely slept while trying to keep an eye on him

Bea frowned some and gave a small nod "Okay...but why doesn't he stay here? I want daddy here too.." she said quietly before cuddling close again "He will come home soon too?"

 

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She frowned and shook her head. “No Bea. Daddy has to go stay with abuela until he finds his own place. Daddy isn’t going to come live at home again.” She told her seriously. “I know it’s confusing and I know it’s very sudden but he loves you kids and he’s gonna come over and see you guys as much as he can like normal.” She murmured “Get some sleep and if you have more questions you can ask me in the morning okay?” She told her.

Jon made it to the gym and inside to the locker room, just about managing to get changed before needing to sit down for a minute and finally made his way to the treadmill, texting max he’d made a doctors appointment for the afternoon and he’d be home later. “Hey Frank…. You were right. I overdid it by staying up that late to finish his room. He loves it though.” He smiled at the owner.

Frank was the one calling max an hour later though. “Hey, I need you to come get Jon. I’ll take his truck back to yours tonight but he can’t drive. He’s fainted.” He told her, “he’s up now but I’m not sending him home like that. Just dropped.” He told her, still fanning Jon a little while he was propped up against the wall and sipping at the water bottle one of the guys had brought for him.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Bea woke up the next morning and giggled some seeing Javi and Alana both curled up with her. She sat up some and rubbed her eyes before waving at her mom as she came out of the bathroom "Good morning Mommy!" She whisper yelled before reaching for her

Max frowned softly as she got home seeing Jon's text. She didn't think it would be good for him to go to the gym, but if he felt okay to do it then she wouldn't stop him. She picked up her phone about an hour later and frowned as she listened to Frank "Shit....okay give me 20 minutes I'll be there." She said before she rushed out grabbing Matthew ans the diaper bag.

 

[decadent-rider]

He frowned as he was sat up, hunched forward and buried his face between his knees trying to calm himself down. “I think I’m gonna be sick.” He grunted, managing to hold it until the receptionist grabbed him a bowl and put it under his head where he threw up as Max was walking through the door.

Carmen smiled and pulled her into a cuddle. “Good morning baby. You wanna come help me out with breakfast?” She asked her quietly, “let your brother and sister sleep in?” She asked her, taking her downstairs.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max frowned as she came in hearing Jon throwing up. She went over to check on him and rubbed his back some "Can you walk?" She asked softly to him "We're getting you to a doctor right now."

Bea smiled happily and nodded giggling a bit "Uh huh! Can Mittens join?" She asked excitedly as she held onto her mother. Even though she was now 8 years old, she was still tiny for her age.

 

[decadent-rider]

Jon grunted a little and nodded slowly once he was done, getting up with some help and grabbed his water bottle plus his bag and shuffled out to the car with her, leaning back in the seat and staying quiet the whole way, just staring out the window and trying to keep his composure.

Carmen smiled and nodded "I think so, if you can find him he can come get breakfast as well. I think the dogs could probably do with breakfast but I think they might be up with Giulia so they can eat when she gets up." she smiled some.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max helped him to the car all of her focus on him and not anyone else who was around them. She gave a heavy sigh as they got going and held his hand in hers "Talk to me okay? Tell me if I need to pull over." She said softly to him

Bea nodded happily and smiled some going to find Mittens in her room and picked him up "I found him Mommy!" She said happily before placing him down. She didn't fully understand the aging of animals and that Mittens was a very old man.

 

[decadent-rider]

He frowned just trying to keep the world straight, "I don't... I was fine yesterday.... I haven't taken anything.... I don't.... I feel weird." He mumbled frowning.

Carmen smiled and lifted him up again, "Here, let's give him a hand getting downstairs.... So you and Javi have a birthday coming up.... Do you think you might like a new kitten? Cause I don't want you to be lonely when Mittens passes away." She told her frowning a little.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max frowned more and gave a heavy sigh "We'll get you better babe, I promise." She murmured before she sped up. When they finally got to the doctor's she did everything to help him inside begging a nurse to look at him as quickly as they could.

Bea frowned some when Carmen mentioned Mittens dying "Huh? But mommy Mittens isn't old. He my age, he young." She said as she walked downstairs with her "But I think a new Kitten will be fun to have with Mittens. We can all play together!"

 

[decadent-rider]

She frowned and shook her head "No baby Mittens is odler than Giulia. He's about twenty years old." She told her "And cats just don't live as long as people do... Mittens is doing okay but he's not gonna be around forever." She told her frowning, kissing her head.

Jon frowned and dropped into a chair in the waiting room, rubbing at his face and just looked over at Matthew in his buggy and sat there watching him carefully, a little worried about what was going on with him seeing as he'd only just got her and Matthew back home again

 

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Bea frowned more and shook her head some "No! No more talking about Mittens!" She said starting to get upset about it all taking deep breaths like Giullia had helped her learn when she was having her meltdowns when Carmen was gone.

Max gave a heavy sigh as she held him close while they waited "Its going to be okay I promise." She whispered before kissing the top of his head getting worried sick about him.

 

[decadent-rider]

He frowned a little and just nodded. But they didn't get any answers for it. Not on that day or any that followed for the next year while he continued feeling crummy through all of his next roles and everything else inbetween he just wasn't well. It didn't help having to run around after a now toddler Matthew who had become quite the tearaway and he knew MAx was exhausted but he was still doing all that he could for his family. He woke up late in the morning though, realising she must have let him over sleep and soon wandered down to find MAtthew in the lounge watching cartoons and Max in the study doing some editing "Hey there beautiful." He murmured and kissed her head "He not going to kindergarten today?" HE asked her quietly.

Carmen smiled and kissed her head "Hey, it's alright, Bea, look at me princesa.... it's okay. go give him some cuddles while I do breakfast." she suggested, setting the cat down on the kitchen floor.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max looked up at him and gave a small tired smile "They have the day off, its a teacher training day." She murmured to him before rubbing at her eyes. Things had been stressful to say the least this past year. They couldn't figure out what was going on with Jon and she was about ready to take him to a specialist about it. Plus Matthew had hit the terrible two's and was a complete wild child at the moment, she was growing tired and worn out from it all.

Bea gave a nod and kissed Mitten's head as she cuddled him. When breakfast was finally done she moved to sit at the table and waited patiently for everyone else arrive

 

[decadent-rider]

He frowned but nodded. “Alright. Go take a nap. You are up just as last as me last night.” He murmured, pecking her cheek. “I got the terror.” He smiled, feeling a little more normal today than usual and went to sit with their son, pulling him onto his lap. “Hey buddy. What you watching?” He asked him

Carmen sighed quietly as everyone finally came downstairs. “Right. I want tidied rooms today guys. Javi and Bea I need a birthday wish list from you both as well… Giulia are you around today or going out?” She asked her

 

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Matthew giggled and babbled happily as he pointed at the TV "Elmo!" He said cuddling close to his dad "wuv daddy."

Giullia shook her head some as she sat with her mom "No, I'm home all day. I'm getting the last of my things together for college."

 

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He smiled and kissed his head, watching him some. “You gonna help me walk the dogs in a bit bub?” He asked him quietly, sitting there and enjoying the peace and quiet with Matthew being well behaved for once when he started getting sick again, at first assuming it was just his new normal of getting tired without doing anything but he soon felt his chest tightening more and more until he fell off the couch and lay on the floor gasping for air and trying to reach his phone to call for help.

Carmen nodded and yawned a little. “I have work to get done in the study so I can start to think about going back to at least part time to start with but I’m here all day so don’t worry about the kids.” She assured her.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max frowned softly when she heard her son's screaming and crying through her sleep. She quickly jolted up running down the stairs half asleep "Matthew?! Baby whats -" she was cut off though when she saw Jon on the floor "Jon!" She yelled before falling to the ground by his side "Babe?! Babe!" She said trying to get him awake. When she realized he wasn't waking up she quickly called an ambulance.

Giullia nodded some and gave a heavy sigh "I've gotten a job on campus, it pays pretty good. I can pitch in on Bills, I can get a job at the coffee shop too, they're always hiring." She explained

 

[decadent-rider]

She shook her head. “Giulia sweetheart the money you make is yours. I don’t expect you to help with bills or anything of the sort…. I’ll be having a chat with your dad soon about that stuff.” She promised her

Matthew was sat there crying as he watched his parents on the floor “Daddy fell!” He sobbed, eventually seeing strangers come into their house and started freaking out more until his mom picked him up and he held onto her tightly.

Jon was in and out for hours, not breathing on his own for a lot of that time until he came around in a room and with a tube down his throat, starting to panic until he felt Max’s hand on his forehead and looked over to see her sat there, trying to reach for her hand.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Giullia gave a heavy sigh but nodded some "Alright...I'm just saying if its needed I can help." She saud softly before she started to eat her food

Max quickly picked up Matthew once the medics arrived and called their babysitter asking if she could watch him for this emergency. When Jon woke up hours later she placed a hand on his forehead to try and see if the fever he had gotten was going down "Hey baby, don't worry you're going to be okay." She said softly as she took his hand in hers.

 

[decadent-rider]

He frowned just looking over at her confused and gripped at her hand, trying to not freak out but he’d been doing okay and it had come out of nowhere. They still had no answers and he was just scared.

She smiled and kissed her head. “You are too much like me sometimes.” She murmured, clearing up as each kid finished and she went to sit in the study and start to get back on top of paperwork.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max frowned as she squeezed his hand and gave a heavy sigh "They're running a lot of tests and bloodwork baby, we're going to find out what this is." She said softly before she moved closer to his bed "Matthew is at Grace's right now, she agreed to watch him with the situation."

Giullia gave a small smile and started to help clean up the house before with her siblings. She sometimes hated being the eldest, she was the role model to the younger ones and had to be the surrogate parent when theirs weren't able to be, unless thats how she felt and saw things.

 

[decadent-rider]

He just groaned a little, not liking that he couldn’t talk to her right now but soon fell asleep again, the fever starting to climb.

Carmen worked the whole day waiting for any kind of word from Clay and the next couple of days were the same so she eventually called his mother only to find he’d gone to stay at a motel instead after she’d kicked him out when he’d told her everything and so she called the auto shop “Hey Mike, just calling to find out if Clays been at work… I haven’t heard from him in a couple days he’s been staying with his mom. I’m just a little worried.” She frowned.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max frowned softly when she noticed the fever starting to rise. She pressed the call button and took a deep breath "We'll figure out wgats wrong babe...I know we will."

Mike frowned some and gave a heavy sigh "Yeah he's been working his ass off up here, won't say whats wrong but I'm guessing thats it. Saw him go off with a few bikers though, seemed like he knew them or somethin. Want me to tell him to call if he shows up again?"

 

[decadent-rider]

Carmen frowned and shook her head "Thanks... Look when he gets back can you get him to give me a call, let him know it's about the kids." She sighed quietly, hanging up and went on with her day until she got a call from the hospital, frowning some as they asked for the wife of a Clayton Cardenas "That would be me, is everything okay?" She asked the person frowning some.

Jon just continued to sleep on and off for several hours until he was woken up with Max nudging him awake and he looked up at her, frowning some, taking a moment to realise that his doctor was in the room as well 'Not the news we were hoping for... We can't find anything wrong with you Mr. Bernthal. Now obviously there is something seeing how sick you are but we can't find an underlying cause.' He explained to them both

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max shook Jon awake when the doctor came into the room and took a deep breath. She shook her head some and held Jon's hand tight in hers "What do you mean?! You said you were running all kinds of tests! Nothing came back as unusual?!"

The nurse on the other end sighed some as shw finally got ahold of the man's wife "Hello is this the wife of Clayton Cardenas? Hi....yes m'am, you husband is currently at Memorial Hospital...he was brought in by a few friends, it looks like your husband has had a heart attack. Very minor for the moment, he is awake and coherant as well." She explained