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She frowned, trying not to cry as she heard his voice for the first time in years "Me and Asta are coming up to see you.... I need to talk to you." She told him frowning "We'll be there by tomorrow night. This isn't up for debate.... Bjorn I know everything... Ubbe showed up on my front doorstep." She told him frowning.

Ivar was fading in and out all through the night, eventually coming to in the early hours of the morning and loking aroubnd confused and trying to sit up, eventually feeeling a hand on his forehead, pushing him back down and looked over seeing Max sitting next to the bed, "What's going on?" He slurred, barely understandable and lay back without a fight,

 

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Bjorn sighed heavily and pinched the bridge of his nose "Shit....alright look, I'll send you an address and city that is safe alright? Halfdan is currently running shop while Ivar is on vacation...he will have no mercy." He muttered

Max sat with him the entire night and sighed heavily. She frowned as he finally started to wake up and move around. She pulled his head to lay back and shook her head some "You're in the hospital Ivar."

 

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She agreed to that and hung up the phone, sorting out flights once he'd sent stuff over to her... She got out of the taxi with Asta and took her daughter and their two suitcases up to the front door of a large townhouse, knocking a few times and waiting for Bjorn to answer like he promised he would.

He frowned and just looked at her, "Can't talk?" He slurred again, confused and scared, "What happened?" He asked her frowning.

 

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Bjorn opened the door and smiled widely seeing Carmen and Asta. He rushed over and hugged Carmen tight spinning her around "Oh it has been too long! How I have missed you!" He said happily still keeping his massive frame wrapped around her.

Max frowned more and took a deep breath "You had a massive seizure, caused you to stop breathing. They got a pulse back but you have had another two since then." She explained letting a few tears fall "They're looking over your x-rays again but....Ivar they're thinking you might be close to severing the rest of your spinal column."

 

[decadent-rider]

He frowned and closed his eyes exhausted, just giving her hand a squeeze. “Where are the kids?” He mumbled looking over at her just wanting to see them.

She just broke down sobbing into his chest and held onto him tightly as she could. “Bjorn….. this is Asta. Asta this is your uncle Bjorn.” She murmured to her.

 

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Max sighed heavily and squeezed his hand gently "They're with Sven at the suite." She said quietly kissing his temple gently

Asta looked at the man she had only seen in photos and quickly hid behind her mother. She thought her father was big but Bjorn was even bigger "Hi....he is really big mommy.." she whispered

Bjorn smiled happily at Asta and knelt down to be her size "Hello Asta, it is so good to meet you. Last time I saw you, you were so tiny, you would lay on my shoulder." He said sweetly to her "Would you like to come inside? My youngest is just about two years older than you, I'm sure you two will get along."

 

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Carmen smiled as she nodded slowly and followed them both in, watching her go up to the kids in the living room. “Oh they got so big Bjorn…. We need to talk.” She told him frowning.

Ivar frowned but nodded “I want to see them.” He mumbled and rubbed at his chest as it started getting tight, frowning some. “Chest hurts.” He grunted arching his back involuntarily against the pain he was feeling before his eyes rolled back again and he went into another seizure.

 

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Bjorn nodded as he led them inside smiling as Asta went over to his kids "She seems have gotten all the Lothbrok traits." He murmured happily before he led her toward the kitchen for drinks "So you said Ubbe showed up?"

Max frowned a bit and quickly pressed the call bitton when he went into another seizure "Help!! Someone help!" She yelled trying to get Ivar settled the best she could

 

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She frowned and sat down with him. “Where is Gunnhild?” She asked him quietly. “Yes. My dead husband showed up at my house. Unannounced and very much alive…. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that would you?” She frowned.

They swarmed the room quickly and got her moved away from the bed, trying to get him stable first before running a couple of tests and talking quickly, taking him out of the room for another CT scan.

 

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Bjorn sighed heavily as he handed her a cup of water "Gunhild is out getting her nails done, little mom get away." He explained before he sat down and ran a hand over his face "I may have helped stage it..."

Max stayed out of the way but stopped one of the last nurses "Have they found out anything from the tests we got earlier?"

 

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She frowned and watched him quietly. “Oh I know. He dumped you in it the night he arrived.” She told him frowning. “Eight years of mourning my husband. Eight fucking years of the worst grief I’ve ever had to go through and it was all a fucking lie?! He made this huge decision without me? Something to ruin both of our lives and he just went ahead without saying anything to me?” She muttered.

She shook her head and moved away from her quickly. They didn’t bring him back for a while and when they did he had majorly deteriorated and was no longer breathing by himself but his doctor came in with him to speak to her. “He’s had a stroke. Well he’s had two. The seizures were nothing to do with his heart as you mentioned to us but a bleed on the brain.” He explained. “We caught it but this one has been major.”

 

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Bjorn sighed heavily and sipped at his water a bit before taking a deep breath "Look, we were made as soon as we got into America, got a threatening note basically saying him or Asta. He didn't tell you because he knew it would have stressed you even further. He wouldn't have done it if he knew you couldn't handle yourself Carmen. I get you're pissed, I get he didn't talk to you but sometimes thats the fucking life and you should know it better than anyone. The night he died? They had a sniper posted outside the safe house, ready to get Asta had she have been brought home. He didn't come back for so long because he had to make sure to you cut off from us completely." He explained shaking his head a bit.

Max took a shaky breath as she listened to the doctor speak once Ivar was brought back into the room. She gave a small nod and let a few tears fall "And what...what are his chances of making it?"

 

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She shook her head. “I’m not stupid. I get that we were in danger but neither of you had any right at all to make that decision for me.” She snapped at him. “Are you both so blind to the fact that I too have contacts in the states?! I would have rathered a few more weeks of stress to the eyeballs than eight ducking tears of mourning my husband.” She choked out. “I don’t think either of you really understand what you did!” She sobbed, pushing his hands away when he tried to touch her. “No! You should know only too well the pain your mother went through after Ragnar met aslaug…. Ask her now if you made the right choice to do that to me.” She told him, getting up and going to the bathroom.

“they aren’t great. He’s probably got a 30% chance of making it out of the hospital. Now every day he gets through that goes up but he is in no condition to do any kind of physio… and from the notes on his medical charts, it looks like he’s put in place that a DNR be implemented if he is no longer able to express his opinion…. So he does now have a DNR in place. If he gets any worse there will be nothing for us to do for him.”

 

[Forever6A7X]

Bjorn shook his head some and sighed heavily trying to take her hand but frowned as she went off. He looked at her as she came back and leaned in his chair "Do you think Ubbe to be a stupid man? To not have reached out to said contacts? Carmen no one would help us, even with the drop of your name. They wanted nothing to do with him or get in the way of Ivar's wrath."

Max nodded some but gave a bit of a shocked expression when he mentioned the DNR. She hadn't known that he had put one in place at all "Thank you doctor..." she murmured

 

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Carmen glared at him. “Stop trying to justify what you did! Can you not see that you both made a mistake?! A huge one at that! Let’s have Gunnhild killed and you may understand… I will never forgive you for it. Because why did no one think that after even a few months… maybe he should have come back. Not eight fucking years of pain and torture.” She spat, getting up and taking Asta out of there, taking her to a taxi and getting her inside, ignoring bjorns protests while she got the guy to take them to the nearest hotel.

Hvitserk frowned some as he answered his phone. “Hey, what’s happened?” He asked having seen it was Max’s number and she wouldn’t be calling while they were on holiday unless there had been an incident and since Ivar had snapped that vertebrae he had been waiting to get the phone call that something else had happened. He knew his brother wasn’t doing well but he also knew that he was hiding things from max that he shouldn’t be.

 

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Bjorn shook his head some "Why did you come back then?!" He yelled but frowned more as she started to leave "Carmen stop! Damn it stop!" He yelled but when she was already in the car he shook his head and walked back inside


Max took a deep breath as she called Hvitserk and finally broke down "He....Hvitserk its not good....he had 2 strokes....and...and he signed a DNR without telling me!" She sobbed down the line

 

[decadent-rider]

Bjørn sighed heavily and gave his brother a call, rubbing his face and leaned back on his desk chair "She just walked out. Got in a taxi." He told him, "She isn't happy.... rightfully so... I told you to talk to her.... You'll be lucky if she doesn't make herself disappear now with Asta... She looks like shit too Ubbe. You need to fix this."

Hvitserk frowned and sighed heavily, "I know he did... He called me to let me know. He's tired Max, I know it's hard and he doesn't want to leave you or the kids but he's tired of being in pain and trying to force hijmself to keep going." He told her quietly "Do you want me to come down to Dublin?"

 

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Max frowned more and let more tears fall "Why wouldn't he tell me though? Hvitserk he wouldn't have any kind of conversation with me." She said before sniffling a bit "I think you should....I'm not sure if we'll be making it out of here." She said softly

Ubbe sighed heavily and pinched the bridge of his nose "She won't fucking listen! I've tried talking to her multiple times and she won't fucking listen...nothing I do or say will be right because everything is wrong. Bjorn even if I tell her I fucked up and shouldn't have done this she wouldn't listen."

 

[decadent-rider]

"I'll sort a flight for tomorrow." He told her, sighing quietly, "It sounds horrible but he's been... He's known for a while he's been getting worse and worse... He said he didn't want you getting your hopes up and to be ready for him to be gone.... So he thinks if he barely talks to you then you'll be miserable enough with him around that when he's gone it'll be a relief instead of worse." He sighed.

Bjørn frowned and shook his head "I did tell you to not just show up at her house and to at least start off with only a little contact.... But no, you don't listen." He muttered. "Come up to Norway... Prove it to her that you are done with playing games and that you should all go somewhere completely new to start all over again." He muttered, sighing heavily.

 

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Max took a deep breath and shook her head some "All these years together and he still thinks so lowly...I'll see you in the morning Hvitserk." She said softly before she hung up and broke down crying

Ubbe gave a heavy sigh and ran hand over his face muttering to himself in old norse "Alright alright I'll be there in the morning." He muttered before he hung up and went to book a flight

 

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Carmen was getting their things put away in the hotel room, shaking badly and just trying to stay on her feet but she had been more stressed than normal and on top of struggling with her food intake she could barely stand straight, not really hearing Asta when she was asking questions and soon turned to go towards the bathroom, collapsing to the flor.

It was a few hours later that he started coming around a little, not moving but at least watching her some and eventually was able to make some noise to get her attentioln, more confused than ever.

 

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Asta frowned as they got to the hotel completely confused "Mommy what happened? Why are you crying? Why did we leave?" She asked as her mom rushed around. She gasped as she saw her fall and ran quickly over "Mommy?! Mommy!" She yelled trying to wake her up before she got her phone remembering the 911 training she had been told months ago by her mom.

Max frowned when she heard him making noises and smiled "Ivar...hey there." She whispered kissing his hand gently "Don't move too much okay?"

 

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He grunted a little and just tried to squeeze her hand, feeling scared and disoriented, not even able to speak as he watched her carefully.

Carmen came to the next day to an empty room, looking around confused, not remembering how she got there until she heard Ubbe’s voice and soon followed by Asta’s voice coming into the room, looking over at Ubbe and sighed when Asta left with someone else to give them privacy.

 

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Max gave a heavy sigh and kissed his hand gently "You've had two strokes Ivar....and they have told me about the DNR. Right now all we can and will do is see where this takes us okay?"

Ubbe sighed heavily as he saw her come to and let Asta go into the waiting area "Carmen....Asta called me last night." He said quietly before sitting next to her.

 

[decadent-rider]

He frowned and just continued watching her until he fell asleep again for the night. He woke up the next morning feeling worse still but the kids were finally there and he was just glad to see them again but he groaned a little, hearing his brother's voice.

Carmen frowned and watched him, "What do you want?" She muttered, watching him like a hawk, not really trusting him anymore.