Okay

Jason’s breathing grows shallower and shallower. Rick pries his fingers form his hand and goes to prepare to head for the hospital. It was his last resort.

Suddenly Jason sucks in a lung full of air. It felt as though someone had been suffocating him with a pillow had all of a sudden removed the blockage. He blinks as his heart races, the pounding continuing in his head. His chest still felt tight, but he could finally breath and he rolls over, trying to recover.

Rick turns around quickly and goes back to him. “Jason…are you okay?”

Jason coughs a little and manages a nod. “Yeah….I think so.” He tries to control his breathing again, shaking just a little from the shock he had gone through. Slowly, slowly, his headache also begins to subside. “What…what happened?”

Too relieved for words, Rick sinks into a chair, bewildered. “I have no idea.”

The ringing phone makes him jump and he picks it up immediately out of reflex. “Hello?” Hearing Katie, he’s not all that surprised, though now he wonders why she hadn’t called sooner. “Yeah…I think he is…” Rick stands up and begins to check Jason over as he talks to Katie. Sighing, he wipes some sweat from his brow. “We just about lost him though, I don’t know what happened. It was like he was suffocating. He couldn’t breathe. I was just on my way to take him to the hospital, but all of a sudden he seems to be doing better.”

Jason tries to relax again, his head sinking back into his pillow. His body was totally exhausted. He’d never felt anything like that before, and didn’t want to feel it again. He wasn’t sure he’d felt quite that close to death before, and suffocating was not a pleasant experience.