TJ's Journey to Marriage - 17. Chapter 17

TJ Narrating

I was lying in the hospital bed and still have seizures. I could feel them and heard the doctor tell my dad that he didn’t know what was causing them. He said they ran a drug panel but it came back negative. If I could just figure out who was there maybe I could read their mind. I know JC was in Iowa along with Tracy, Grayson, Trace and Jack. Kat was out with Alex; so that left Dad, Ethan, Paul, Liz, Jackie and their kids.

“Hey Kellan, tell me you found something.” Dad said

“Ok, where were the prints located?” I heard him ask

“No, there was no reason they should have been in the pantry. Have a team pick them up and hell Paul too. I don’t want TJ having to deal with this anymore.” Dad said

“What did he find?” I heard Ethan ask

“They found prints from both of Liz’s older boys in the pantry on the bottom of the counter, like they gripped it for some reason without wearing gloves.” Dad replied

“Isn’t that kind of strange?” Ethan asked

“Yeah it is; why would you take precautions everywhere but there? It makes no sense.” Dad replied

“I wish we could figure out what they gave TJ.” Ethan said

“No worries Ethan, I have asked Little Tristan to do some mind reading; we’ll get to the bottom of this soon enough.” Dad replied and I felt him holding my hand

“Hey mini” I heard dad say and I turned around and he was there

“DAD! What’s wrong with me?” I sobbed

“I don’t know but I really need your help. I need you to read Ethan and I know you can, something is off with him and Alex.” Dad said

“I thought you were going ask Tristan?” I said

“Isn’’t that your first name?” Dad said and smirked

“You little shit, you don’t want him to know you’re suspicious of him.” I said

“No shit son, I don’t know who I can trust. If you need help ask Tristan, Damian and Nicky.” Dad said

“Well let me read Ethan since he’s standing here. Be right back.” I said and then went into what you might call a trance.

Scanning Ethan’s brain wasn’t all that hard; he was hiding a lot and one of things was he was in on my poisoning. If I am gone he thinks dad would inherit what I had and would get a substantial wind fall. Too bad for him as I have some going to JC and some to my brothers and no one but Kat knows as the will was done outside the office and sealed. I came back to where dad was standing and he had a grim look.

“I was right wasn’t I?” He asked

“Yes you were; but the plan is to get rid of you and everyone else to inherit the money. Paul is in danger of losing his house and Ethan and Alex’s family are in the same boat. They love lifestyles larger than life.” I said and then Tristan and Damian appeared

“Brudder I going to help you.” Tristan said

“Hey Little man, if you guys are here, who’s with the others?” I asked

“Nicky and someone else.” Damian said

“Who?” I said panicking

“Brudder we know who is good and who is not, they with nicky and books”

“Books??” I asked

“He means Brooks.” Damian said

“Brooks? My friend?” I said confused

“Yes, Brooks is a guard and he protects you. He just didn’t know it and neither did Miles or Rusty.” Damian said

“T2, you going to wake up and be all bedder. I removed the poison but we need to get rid of everyone who trying to kill you.” Tristan said

“How do we do that?” Dad asked

“First, I hate to do this but send Ethan out for something; he won’t be coming back.” Tristan said with an evil look that I’ve never seen before.

“You not wake-up until Ethan gone; can’t warn others.” Damian said

“I take care of them” Tristan said with an evil laugh

“Tristan… what did I tell you about killing people.” I said

“Oh, I not going to do but you bet I will help.” He said with a smirk

Dad went back to the room and Ethan was staring at him

“Hey babe, why don’t you run and get us some food; this hospital food sucks.” Dad said

“Sounds like a good idea, I could also use a leg stretch.” Ethan said and kissed dad on the cheek.

Ethan went out and got into the elevator and he was the only one in there. I am not sure what happened but I heard the commotion after. Apparently the elevator went to the top floor and then the cable and emergency brakes gave out and Ethan plunged 20 stories to his death. I heard Tristan say 1 down.

I woke to find dad missing and assumed he went to deal with Ethan’s mishap. I hit the call button and put on a show when the nurse showed up. I started to panic not knowing what was going on. The doctors were surprised I had woken up and went to get dad. I heard the TV in the background and they said there had been an explosion downtown with unknown casualties and that is when I heard Tristan, now I just need to find Alex.

“Son you’re awake.” Dad said

“Yeah dad I am.” I said

“Good to have you back.” He said and smiled

“Glad to be back. Where is JC?” I asked

“On his way with your brothers.” He replied

We sat and waited while the doctors came in and out and said my coming out of the seizers was a miracle. Little did they know?

JC arrived with my brothers and he was happy I was ok.

“Did you hear about the explosion?” He asked

“Yeah heard a bit about it on the tv” I said

“It was at Mom’s house and it leveled the entire townhome; neighbors had been saying they smelled gas all day.” JC said

“Have you heard from your mom?” I asked

“No and I can’t reach her.” He said worriedly

“I am hope you hear from her soon.”

We later found out that Alex was at Liz’s and Tristan didn’t know it. He was able to take out Paul, Liz, Jackie and their two oldest. It became known that Jamie and Gavin didn’t know anything. Jack had miraculously recover the doctors said and was released quite quickly.

JC decided he wanted to get married right when Jack was released.

For some strange reason ever since my last hospital visit I kept hearing this beeping sound.

Our wedding was out in Minnesota at Stephanie’s farm and was quite the event. Everyone danced and had a great time.

“So Tristan James, do you feel lucky?” JC said with a smirk

“I do Jackson Paul” I said and leaned in for a kiss and heard a long beep

***

My eyes fluttered opened and I was in a hospital bed. There were tons of machines attached to me and they were beeping and I felt something in my throat. I heard alarms going off.

“He’s awake.” I heard a nurse shout who had just come to look at me

“It’s ok young man, you’ve given us quite the scare. Just let me remove this tube and we can get you some ice.” The doctor said and pulled out a breathing tube.

“I’ve called his parents and they said they would be right over.” The nurse said

“Ok TJ; it might hurt to talk but do you know where you are?” The doctor asked

“hospital?” I croaked

“Very good. Do you know how you got here?” The doctor asked

“No” I said and started to cry

I started to look around the room where was Jackson, Tristan and everyone else; why did the nurse say she called my parents.

“OH TJ” Mom said coming in and ran up and hugged me

“Mom? I thought you were dead?” I said above a whisper

“No honey, we thought we lost you.” She said

“We?” I asked

“Hey mini, you’ve given us quite the scare.” Dad said

“Dad?” I said

“Yes, silly did you forget me already?” he said laughing

“But …” I trailed off

What was going on? I sat there and heard the doctor talking to my parents.

“He’s been in a coma for over a year and he seems to be doing quite alright.” The doctor said

“Coma? A year?” I said

“Yes, TJ you were driving home from Sebastian’s and apparently you were drugged and raped. You left and got into a car accident and wrapped the 4 Runner around a tree.” Mom said with tears in her eyes

“What? That can’t be true.” I said

“Honey it is, here’s the pictures.” Mom said and sure enough the 4 runner was totaled

“But that’s not what I remember.” I said

“It’s common with head injuries for people not to remember things or remember then differently.” The doctor said

“Is it common for me to have a whole other life?” I asked

“We will have someone come sit with him and see what we figure out.” The doctor said

I sat there…. I can’t believe it was all a dream; it seemed so real.

A man walked into the room and he looked just like Kevin.

“Hello, TJ, my name is Dr. Kevin Campbell but you can call me Kev or Dr. Kev” He said and smiled