Realistic or Modern Falling. Fading Away

[decadent-rider]

She shook her head and carefully got him to move so that she could sit behind him and have him laying against her, holding him tight as she could "Hey, hey it's okay, we're not gonna let that happen okay? Noah look at me... he said heading for. Not that you've already got it. We're gonna find you the best person we can okay?" She promised him, kissing his head "But you gotta be done with touring baby.... It's made you so sick and I can't keep watching you go through that." She told him seriously.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Noah took a deep breath to try and calm himself and gave a small nod "Okay....no more tours....I promise." He whispered pulling her close to him and trying his best to relax "I love you, I love you, I love you." He kept repeating to her.

 

[decadent-rider]

She frowned and held onto him tightly, kissing his head "Shh, shhh Noah breathe.... I got you okay?" She murmured, "I love you too, so do the kids... Speaking of the kids, I think that might be Eden." She murmured, hearing her phone starting to ring and answered it "Hey baby, you wanna talk to Dad?" She asked her, smiling as she could hear her perk up a little, "Alright give me just a minute." She told her, adjusting her position behind Noah to be more comfortable then passed the phone over

Eden sat there waiting impatiently until she heard the phone move "Daddy you didn't look at any of the funny things that I sent you yesterday." She told him quickly. "When are you and Mom coming home?" She asked, "Cause I wanna show Rory the new game we were playing but you said not to tell Mommy you were letting me play it." She told him not knowing she was on speaker

 

[Forever6A7X]

Noah smiled some when he heard her voice "Uh...well I wasn't feeling good yesterday princess and I had to sleep most of the day. I'll look at the funny stuff today though." He murmured but went wide eyed when she mentioned them playing Resident Evil "Uhhhh yeah I'm not sure yet Princess. We just gotta wait and see alright?" He murmured giving Carmen a sheepish grin.

 

[decadent-rider]

Carmen rolled her eyes a little when she asked about Resident Evil, laying back and just smoothing Noah's hair back out of his face while they chatted, soon hearing Keaton in the background trying to get to the phone and sighed as the bickering started, "Eden, can you let your brother talk to us as well?" She asked her, shaking her head when there was a grumble followed by the sound of someone breathing directly onto the microphone

"HI DADDY!" KEaton yelled down the line, "Did you know my best friend staying at our house?" He asked him, "Iris staying here and Rory and auntie Max.... Daddy do you know where Mommy go?" He asked him frowning when Eden called him stupid and they started bickering again, somewhere along the line the call got cut and Carmen just looked back over at Noah shaking her head "They're definitely our kids." She sighed, "He's been waking me up like that lately, might take him to get his hearing checked." She mumbled

 

[Forever6A7X]

Noah gave a small chuckle as he tried to answer Keaton's questions but he kept interuptimg him. By the time the call got cut off he sighed softly "They tell you anything more about his heart?"

 

[decadent-rider]

She shook her head and sighed a little. "He's got an appointment scheduled for next Thursday? Yeah next Thursday but he's been doing good.... They've still only said it's a possibility. Not a definite." She told him quietly, kissing his head "Get some sleep handsome." She told him quietly, "I'm gonna go grab something to eat." She slid out from underneath him carefully and leaned down, kissing him lovingly, pulling back when his monitors sped up a little, smiling "Glad to know I still have that affect after all these years." She winked.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Noah chuckled quietly and smiled widely at her "Of course you do, now go eat, and sneak me back some french fries." He teased before squeezing her hand one last time right before she left and he started to fall asleep.

 

[decadent-rider]

She rolled her eyes and lingered just a minute til he was out and she headed down to go get something to eat, sighing quietly and finally managed to call Max "Hey, sorry, I didn't manage to get through to you yesterday at all... So it's not awful but it's not good... We might be another few days but I'm gonna ask them this afternoon what they think. He's out of the ICU at least.... I'm so sorry this happened while you're staying with us. But we will be back as soon as we can and we can recommence our relaxing time. If you wanna extend it that's cool with me, I can get your flights switched... I don't know how you did this with Rick for how long you did cause I'm already over it.... I don't... I can't lose him." She told her.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max gave a small sigh and nodded "It was a lot thats for sure, but you guys will make it work. Did they say what happened? Was it because of all his stress?" She asked softly

 

[decadent-rider]

"Uhm.... It hasn't helped. But he's getting real close to heart failure they said. Think it's probably from his Dad's side cause we didn't know there was a history of this... It makes sense with Keaton but... This is just the bevginning." She swallowed back a couple tears, picking up a sandwich and some snacks from the convenience store across the street for food, "Oh! If the kids wanna have a movie night I forgot to tell you in the play room, Eden knows how to do it, we got a projector, she can get onto the disney plus and put it on the screen." She told her.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max frowned deeply and shook her head "Shit Carmen...I'm so sorry. Hopefully you guys can find a good specialist that can help him. If you want, I can call Ricky's and see if they know anyone out here. I know that his problems ended up not being heart related but they were pretty helpful." She explained quietly

 

[decadent-rider]

She shook her head and frowned "It's alright I'm gonna talk to Keaton's doctor when I take him in next week, see what options we got for adults." She told her, "I better go, Nick's meeting me in a couple minutes with his bags so I can put them in my car." She told her "Anyh problems with the kids at all just let me know and I'll let you know soon as we do when we are gonna get home.: She told her.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Nick pulled up to the convenience store she'd told him to meet her at and gave a small smile "Hey hows he doing?" He asked as he gave her a comforting hug.

 

[decadent-rider]

She smiled a little and nodded. “Sleeping. Asked me to sneak him some fries…. We go some answers.” She told him and explained everything they’d been told. “So I’m gonna take him home and he’s gonna stay home now…. Fuck we aren’t exactly strapped for cash, he can retire now.” She told him.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Nick gave a small nod and sighed heavily "Alright, well when he is stable enough we'll have to talk about the band. While I know touring isn't an option, maybe some studio work could be?" He said giving a small shrug "But its something we can talk on later." He murmured. He didn't want to stress or her or make it seem like he didn't care about Noah, because he most certainly did. However, him and the other guys were not as well off and would need to know the future of their jobs.

 

[decadent-rider]

She nodded and frowned, "No I know, sorry I just... I'll keep you up to date and obviously Noah will as well... Thank you... For everything... All the time." She smiled, hugging him tightly and let him go so he could start heading home to Nadine as well and she finally headed back over to the hospital, going up to Noah's room, taking a seat while he slept and hoping she could get him home soon.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Noah glanced over at the door when it opened and Carmen came through "Heyyyy you didn't bring french fries." He teased giving her a small pout before smiling at her "You okay? Talk to me." He murmured as he reached for her.

 

[decadent-rider]

She sighed quietly and set the bag of snacks down, going over and sitting with him, "How you feeling?" She asked him quietly, "I think I was a little cold to Nick. He's dropped off your stuff, it's in the back of the car so you'll have clothes to go home in.... Have they said anything else?" She asked him, just worrying about him. "

 

[Forever6A7X]

Noah shook his head some "No I just woke up maybe ten minutes ago. I feel exhausted, but not in as much pain." He murmured watching her some "Don't dodge my question, how are you feeling?"

 

[decadent-rider]

She smiled a little and rolled her eyes "You still aching though? Don't look at me like that I just wanna make sure they're keeping you comfortable." She muttered "I'm tired. Scared.... Hoping the kids aren't giving Max a hard time." She mumbled, playing with his fingers. "I know you know how it feels... I just.... I'm glad that I didn't listen to you when you said to not come down.... Cause I don't..." she frowned and reached up to wipe a couple tears "When Ricky passed away I told you I couldn't do what Max has done... And I still mean that... You and your stupid faces and your half southern accent and your lisp and your smile and the way you hold me and you can talk me down... I. Can't. Lose. You." She told him seriously, gripping his hand a little tighter.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Noah gave a small nod and took a deep breath "You won't, I'm going to fight this all the way okay? I won't go." He whispered giving her hand as tight a squeeze as he could.

 

[decadent-rider]

She nodded slowly, leaning down and kissing his cheek, "I'm holding you to that." She smiled a little, carefully getting him to shift a little so he could lean back against her.

It was another three days before she was allowed to take him home and a fairly quiet car journey for them until she pulled into their drive and she saw all the kids stood at the door, smiling "You got some crazy ass fans you know." She teased him, getting out and going to give him a hand. "Hey, careful guys, Eden can you help with Dad's bags?" She asked her, giving her the car key to get the trunk open while she picked up Keaton and watched the other two help Eden, smiling as KEaton was trying to wriggle away and get Noah to hold him instead "Daddy still doesn't feel great bub, can you wait five minutes for cuddles?" She asked, setting him down. She eventually got him settled in bed with Keaton on cuddle duty and went to see Max in the lounge "Hey, how have they been?" She asked her, taking the keys back from eden.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max looked up when she heard Carmen's voice and smiled "Hey, they've been just fine. Eden has been a real help too. Now her and Keaton had some bickering matches, but its all good, nothing I can't handle." She said before hugging her tight "How you feeling?"

Noah cuddled his son close smiling when Eden ran in and cuddled his other side "Oh I am so happy to see you both. You make me feel so much better." He murmured happily.

 

[decadent-rider]

She sighed a little and shook her head "They either love each other or they're trying to murder each other." she muttered, shaking her head "I'm getting there... I've got him lined up with a few appointments, he's gonna put out a statement today to announce his retirement from the touring at least, but we're gonna get there with new routines and whatnot. I was gonna head to the store this afternoon to pick up a few bits, did you wanna join?" She asaked her "The kids will come obviously but I might leave Eden here... Need to talk to her tomorrow about all of this." She muttered, just rambling and finally paused "I think we need a girls weekend at a nice resort.... Massages." She smiled a little

Eden frowned a little and just watched him a little "What kind of sick were you?" She asked him suspiciously, "Cause there was a video of you falling over on stage." She told him, frowning some. She was getting to the age now where even though all her accounts were private and Carmen heavily monitored them she was getting content from Bad Omens and her Mom's music as well which meant she'd started being exposed to what people said about her parents online