Becoming Stronger together

*With Christian*

Seabs was driving back to their hotel and he looked at Christian in a rearview mirror, "You alright Christian?"
Christian snapped his head up, "Why wouldn't I be?"
"Your concussion. You were sick all day today, your GF just pas-" Seabs started to say but Christian cut him off
"Can you not? You know that I'm obviously still in pain about that and I will be for awhile. If I want to talk about it with one of y'all, I will. Till then, just don't." Christian said
"Sorry." Seabs said as they pulled into the hotel parking lot.

They all got out of the car and headed up to their rooms.

*Christians POV*

Shaw wanted me to stay at the police station and let me see my brother being arrested. I wanted and still want nothing to do with my brother. I couldn't believe he got so drunk that he punched a cab driver. Then on top of that, Brent asked me if I was ok because Brielle just passed away. I was still in pain about it and didn't want to keep getting reminded about it. When we got back to the hotel I went up to my room and shut the door behind me and didn't let anyone in. I wanted to be by myself and I couldn't get that with Tristan in the room.

*End of POV*

Brent and Patrick knocked on Christians room to talk to him but Christian wouldn't open the door.
"Christian we want to talk with you. Please open the door?" Sharp asked knocking on the door.

Within the next half hour or so Kaner and Toews were walking down the hall. Kaner was still belligerent, but Toews was fine.

"What the hell are you two doing?" Jon asked
"Brent over here said something to Christian that upset him. He came up here and won't let anyone in the room." Sharp said
Jon pulled out the room key, "This could be helpful."

Jon, Kaner, Sharp, and Brent walked in and Christian lifted his head up from his phone screen. They saw that he was crying and had been for awhile. Jon walked over to his bed and sat down next to Christian. Jon looked at Christians phone and grabbed it from him. It was a video of him and Brielle from when they first started dating till he moved to Chicago.
Christian looked at the ceiling then laid back on his bed and covered his face and started crying. Jon patted his stomach telling him it was going to be alright, Jon hinted to take Kaner into the other room and let him and Christian be alone.
Christian cried for an hour or two. His pacemaker kept kicking in and you could tell because he would go quiet for a minuet. He eventually fell asleep and Jon put him in his blankets and took his phone.

*The Next Day*

Tristan woke up early and ran into his dads and Jons' room. "Daddy! I'm hungry!"
"Hey buddy. How about we get dressed first?" Patrick said
Tristan jumped off the bed and into his and Christians room, "Chrissy get up! We're going to get food!"
Jon yelled from the other room, "T let him sleep. He doesn't feel good."
"Oh sorry. Feel better Chrissy!" Tristan said giving him a hug.
Patrick and Tristan were leaving and Patrick went to say bye to Christian, "Hey you want anything to eat?"
"No." Christian mumbled from under the blanket.
Pat couldn't get mad at his brother for not talking to him. Patrick deserves it, "Alright. If you do text me."
Christian fell back asleep for an hour then woke up to a phone ringing, "Jon please get that!"
It rang again, "Jon! I'm sick remember. Please get the phone."
He finally sat up and saw he was in his room alone. He let out a sigh and answered the phone.

*On The Phone With Gina*
C: Hello?
G: Christian? I need to talk with either Jon or your brother.
*Jon walks in the room as if on queue*
C: Yeah hold on. "Jon someone wants to talk to you."
*Jon grabbed the phone and Christian laid back down*
J: Hello?
G: Jon. It's Gina.
J: Hey how's your trip?
G: Is it true that Christians girlfriend passed away?
J: Hey give me a minuet to switch rooms alright.
G: Ok.
*Jon went to his room*
J: Yeah. She was in a really bad car accident and was in a coma for awhile. Christian got in a fight with Pat and left to go to Georgia to see her, and found out that she passed away.
G: I'm coming home early. I want to be there for him.
J: He really doesn't like talking about it.
G: Well if he does, I wanna be there for him.
J: Listen Gina, we're going to be home sometime tonight.
G: I'm at the airport now and I'm getting the next flight home. I'll see you guys then. Bye.

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