Bad Medicine

“Back off Rich!” he told him not that happy.

“No!” Richie said firmly. Ellie didn’t know what to do. She knew Jon would never hurt her but in the condition he was in she wasn’t sure and she knew Richie wasn’t sure either. Tico and David were just opening the door when they saw what was going down.

“Richie I said move! She’s my woman and I asked her a question. Or do I believe you want to play Sir Galahad to her is that it? I always knew you had a fucking crush on her. How bad do you want to fuck her?” He asked his best friend.

Well that was all Tico needed. “Ok Jon that’s enough. You need to sit down and shut the fuck up right now.” As he went to grab him Jon went to swing at him but Tico defended himself and swung back and knocked Jon out cold.

“TICO!” Ellie screamed.

“I’m sorry Ellie but he swung first. I had to defend myself didn’t I?” he asked the guys. They all told her that he had to do what he did and picked him up and put him on the bed.

“Nah he’ll be fine Ellie trust me it’s not the first time that one of us hasn’t punch the other out.” Dave told her shaking his head.

Ellie just looked at them like they were crazy. “You got to be crazy. Should we call a doctor?”

“No Ellie Colton is on his way up. He’s going to take blood from Jon so I guess this will be easier now seeing he won’t say no to it. I should of thought of this before.” Richie said shaking his head.

“Richie! Knocking Jon out was not an option.” She told him upset.

“Ellie we didn’t know what he was going to do. He was upset with both of us and he started to get into your face. There was no way I was going to let him hurt you.” Richie told her unsure of what his best friend was capable of under these circumstances.

“Richie he would never have hurt me it’s Jon.” She told them.

“We know Honey but he’s under stimulants so we really don’t know what he could have done. And Colton told me one of the things in it is cocaine. He doesn’t know how much but he does know that there is some and Jon has been taking two pills in the morning and two at night now for a week. And his personally just started to change I would say the day before you got here because he was going off on the road crew more than usual. “Richie told them.

“Yeah that’s true he was wasn’t he. I just thought it was because he was missing Ellie and he was horny.” Dave said as Ellie rolled her eyes.

“Look let me call Colton and see if he left yet and if he hasn’t I’ll tell him to get his ass here fast.” Richie said as he walked over to the phone. Ellie was sitting on the bed running her hand thru Jon’s hair. She was looking at him so lovingly. She knew deep in her heart that he would not have hit her she just knew it. He wasn’t Michael where she knew he would have and would have been scare to death. But not her Jon. She knew she didn’t have to run from him. She laid down beside him as she could see him face to face and study each feature. She traced his lips, his nose, his eyes, his mole and did it over again as the guys watched her doing it. They smiled at each other as they watch this because they thought if he didn’t appreciate this then they were really going to kick his ass. Then there was a knock at the door Tico went to answer it as Ellie gave him a sweet kiss on the lips and got up.

It was room service that Jon had called for. Ellie had forgotten. It wasn’t much just Ellie’s tea and soda and some sandwich’s and Jon’s coffee and soda and some desserts. Tico tipped the guy and he went off. The guys helped themselves and would order more when Jon woke up. Another half hour went by and Jon was still out.

“Boy Tic you really knocked him out.” Dave said to him. Ellie just gave him the eye.

“Well Jon always did have a glass jaw. Plus I think what he’s taking isn’t helping him too much either.” Tico told them.

“You think that’s why he’s having a hard time waking up?” Ellie asked.

They all looked at her and didn’t know how to tell her this but they needed to. So Tico just did. ”Honey did he ever tell you about the time when he was just a kid when he experimented with drugs?”

“Yeah we met a couple of years after that why?” she asked.

“Did he tell you he tripped out really bad from them?” Tico asked her.

“Tico he told me everything. He wasn’t as secretive back then.” She told them.

“Ok then well then that’s not the only time he’s tried it. He’s taken it several other times when we first started out when we were hanging around in some not so nice clubs with some not so nice people and we were drinking really hard. And they were passing this shit around and he thought what the hell what could it hurt and that he was with us. Nothing that he would end up in the er or anything but he had some bad trips. You see you don’t dare Jon into anything but he won’t do that shit anymore I can tell you that and when he finds out that he’s been taking something with coke in it he’s going to freak.” Tico explained to her as she just sat there.

Finally she asked, “So he knew it could hurt him but he did it anyway?”

“Well Honey I know it’s stupid but when you’re touring the way we were and with the people we were with you kind of had to keep up with them or get your teeth kicked in. And you’ve seen Jon he’s small, wiry but small so he had to show them that he could handle anything that they threw at him. Plus he was a pretty boy too so we had to protect him from certain creeps.” He explained in a little more detail. “Ellie you can’t tell him the pretty boy comment or he’ll freak. That’s one of the things he likes to stay in Bon Jovi.”

“Yeah I get it I won’t say anything to him or anything you guys told me ok? I just want him to be ok.” She told them concerned.

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Finally Colton arrived to see Jon. When he got there, there were four angry people staring at him as he settled his bag down on the table and as Richie introduced everybody. They all started in on him as Richie had to quiet them down.    

“OK look he knows how we all feel but can we just let him do what he needs to?” Richie asked them.

“Fine but what exactly is he going to do to Jon other than take his blood?” Ellie wanted to know. 

“Well that’s a fair question and yes once I’ll take a sample of his blood and analyze it to see exactly how much of the cocaine is in Jon’s system and only God knows what, we can go from there. Now where is the bottle that I gave him?” Colton wanted to know. 

“Oh I found it in his pocket. I guess he was carrying it in his pocket so he wouldn’t forget to take them.” Richie told him giving Colton the bottle.

“Ok I’ll take these back but just tell Doc that he’s still taking them. He doesn’t need to know anything yet. Ok roll up his sleeve so I can take his blood. (pause) He’s not going to be pissed at me for doing this is he?” he asked them.

They all looked at each other as Tico spoke up. “Look Doc it doesn’t matter whether he is or isn’t. We’re the ones that are ok’ing this so he’ll be pissed at us. So just take it and we’ll handle him.” He said confidently.

Colton looked at them and despite his reservations about this took Jon’s blood anyway. Once he was done he put it in a bag very carefully. “Well then if there’s anything else?” he asked them.

“Yeah he’s acting funny again and really not himself you know agitated what can we do to get him back to himself?” Richie wanted to know.

“I really don’t know it has to work its way out of his system I’m sorry to say. You said he already took two this morning? Well as long as he doesn’t take anymore today hopefully he should start to feel better by tomorrow and by the end of the week most of it should be out of his system, next week for sure. I’ll call you guys with the results.” He told them.

“Oh here these are our room numbers so just in case if you can’t reach me then try these other two ok? But whatever you do don’t call here.” Richie told him.

Colton left as the guys sat around and discussed their next move. They just hoped that when Jon finally woke up he would be a little more like the Jon they knew.

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  About twenty minutes after Colton left Jon started to come around and Ellie was sitting right next to him and started to brush his hair back and caress his cheeks. The guys all moved in closed and were hoping he wasn’t going to be too mad at them for decking him. 

“Jon Honey that’s it come on wake up sweetie.” Ellie kept on repeating as Jon finally started to open his eyes slowly.

“Hey there he is he’s finally awake. See Tic you didn’t kill himmm.” Dave grunted as Tico slapped him in his stomach to shut him up.

“Wh…wha…what happ…pened?” he squeaked out and trying hard to adjust his eyes.

Helping him to sit up Ellie looked at the guys for support. “So how you feeling Kidd any better?” Richie asked him.

“Well…that depends… what happened?” Jon wanted to know really confused looking around at them and running his hands thru his hair. “God I have such a headache.” They all just looked at each other as their eyebrows went up and didn’t know how to tell him. “What…what it is it?” he asked them curious.

“Depends on how mad you’re gonna be at us?” Dave told him as he winced. Again Tico shoved him as did Richie as Ellie just gave him a look.

“Ok what the hell has been going on here?” he asked them getting angry.

Each finding a chair and Ellie staying at his side Richie started by telling him what happened last night and into this morning. Ellie filled him in on what Richie couldn’t then Tico told him what happened after that. Jon sat there in sheer shock at what they were telling him. He remembered when he woke up this morning and he didn’t find Ellie in bed with him so he did his thing and went out and grabbed a bite and then went and did a radio interview. When he got back she was sleeping on the couch so he woke her up. He tried to remember what happened after that but he can’t seem to and he doesn’t know or understand why.

So Richie decided he may as well tell him all of it. “Well I guess you’re blacking out. The meds that you’re taking are doing it Jon and we think anger is triggering it. And probably stress too.” Richie started when Jon cut him off.

“What the do you mean? I’m not taking anything?” he told them.

“Jon we know that you are.” Ellie told him as she put her hand on his thigh.

“What the hell are you talking about?” he snapped at her. She jumped a little bit but not enough to leave his side.

“Ok Jon that’s enough.” Tico told him.

“What’s enough? She’s my girl I can talk to her anyway I want.” He told him.

“I think we lost him again.” Dave said trying not to sound too nasty.

“What the hell does that mean?” Jon wanted to know. “I’m right here so talk to me will you. What happened?” he demanded to know.

“Ok you want to know?” Ellie said to him. “Fine you and I were fighting when Richie came to see me about what you and I were taking about. He saw Dr. Colton and he verified that you are on some supplement to help with your voice but actually it’s not helping at all. Doc told him to put you on it. Yeah, yeah a lot of other singers used it before you but did it really help them Jon? Or was it just another way of getting them hooked on cocaine? Doc knows exactly what’s he’s doing. And once you’re hooked he’s got you.” She told him as he cut in.

“Whoa! Cocaine? You’ve got to be shitting me! Right? Colton told me that was all herbal. Isn’t it?” he asked them. They all shooked their heads no. “I’m going to fucking kill him!” Jon yelled.

“Now calm down Jon we’ve got this covered. I went to see him and he came over just a little while ago when you were out and he took some blood and...”  Richie said as Jon was getting sick and tired of cutting in on them.

“He did what to me?” he asked them shocked.

“Yeah we didn’t think you were going to like that part.” Rich told him wincing, as all of them were wincing as Jon looked at all of them angrily.

“You let him take MY blood while I was out cold? Why was I out cold in the first place.” He wanted to know.

Tico now had to speak up and he was just pissed enough to tell him this part. “You little snot nose punk! I know you don’t remember why and that’s the only thing that has me sitting here and not slamming you against that wall!” he angrily said to him.

Jon didn’t know what to say or do. He couldn’t believe that Tico was that mad at him. “Why the hell are you yelling at me like that Tico?” he wanted to know.

“Because you have no fucking idea do you? You just assume that we were taking advantage of you right? And you have no idea what you almost did…”but he saw Ellie in back of Jon waving her arms trying really hard to get his attention so he wouldn’t blurt out that Jon had almost hit her.

“What Tico? What did I almost do?” Jon wanted to know. But Tico needed him to know.

“I’m sorry Ellie but he needs to know what he almost did.” Tico looked at Jon sternly as Jon then turned to Ellie with a what the fuck look.

Ellie just looked down as Tico went on. “Jon you had no idea what you were doing and we couldn’t let you continue so when you were yelling at Ellie, Richie got in-between the two of you just before Dave and I got in here. And when we did you were having just a fit Ellie was trying to break the two of you up that you well it looked like you were going to hit her so I decked you.” Tico told him.

Jon stood there shocked as hell. He looked at all of them then at the woman he loved. “El did I try to…hit you?” he asked her quietly and ashamed of himself.

Ellie walked over to him and put her hand on his cheek. “Jonny I know you would never hit me. I was never scared. You did come at me but I knew in my heart that you wouldn’t strike me. You just don’t have it in you to do something like that. If the guys didn’t let out a scream and you turned around and Tico belted you well you would have stopped. I now you would have. Even in the state you were in I could see it in your eyes.” She told him with all the love in her heart as she then wrapped her arms around him.

He then wrapped his arms around her and never wanted to let go of her. “But…but what if I did. What if I had hurt you Ellie, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself.” He told her still clinging on to her as the tears started to run down his face.

“I told you, you couldn’t have. Now stop thinking that way.” She said as she clung to him for dear life.

“But what if…” Jon was trying to get out but Ellie was having none of it.

“Stop ok? You’re not Michael I know when someone is going to hurt me and you’re not like that. Now you’ve been on this stupid medication for about a week now and Colton said if you stop now it should take a good couple of days to see the results of it to show that you’re coming back to normal from it. And another week for it to be out of your system. But why he took your blood was he wants to know just how much Cocaine is actually in your system since taking it. Jon I saw the pills they’re like horse pills for crying out loud.” She told him.

“I know Baby and I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hide them from you guys but Colton told me they were just herbs and that they wouldn’t hurt me. So I didn’t think anything about it.” He told them honestly.

“Well we found out that Doc wanted him to give these to you Jon so he knew what was in them. We really can’t trust Doc for anything.” Richie told him pissed.

“Yeah he has it out for me that’s for sure.” Jon told them.

“He has it out for all of us Jon because with you there’s no Bon Jovi.” Dave said.

“You guys don’t need me you can start another band easily.” He told them.

“Yeah we could but we can’t find another friend like you now can we?” Tico told him smiling.

“Thanks guys.” He told them chocking up.

“Ok let’s knock off all the girly crap and try and figure out what we’re going to do about Doc?” Dave asked.

That sounded like a good idea to the guys. They were getting sick and tired of all the crap that Doc was pulling. They talked things over and decided before they confronted him that they would wait until they heard back from Colton. The guys were sure that he was feeling a little better but his head was still hurting him so Ellie told them that she was more than capable of taking care of him and she didn’t see where he was dangerous to her anymore. They looked at each other and then told her to call anyone of them if he reverts back. She told them that she would and not to worry.

After they left she asked Jon if he wanted anything to eat. “No Babe my stomach feels a little queasy.”

“Well you need to get something in it I don’t care. I’m going to call down and see if they can bring up some soup they should be able to do that and some tea.” She said as she picked up the phone. God he hated to be fussed over liked this. He wasn’t a baby, unless he was dying that is.

“El really I’m fine all I want is for you to come and comfort me.” He whined.

“I will as soon as room service comes with our food. Plus I’m hungry.” She told him smiling.

“Yeah well I’m hungry too but not for food.” He told her wiggling his eyebrows at her.

“I thought you said you had a headache and you were nausea?” she asked him as she had her arms crossed over her chest.  

“Oh, oh I am very sick really so hum come here and gimme a little TLC Baby.” He told her posing on the bed all sexy.

“Do you even feel sick or was that just to get rid of the guys?” she asked him smiling.

“Little bit of both. I do have a headache and my stomach is bothering me I’m not lying about that really. But I do remember one thing and that is when you first got here and what we did before I went all nuts. I’m really sorry for that El I didn’t mean to go off on you like that.” He told her really feeling bad at the whole situation.

Crawling on the bed up to him so they were face to face she gave him a kiss. “I know you didn’t but I’m not going to tell you that it wasn’t the greatest thing that I’ve been thru. Look you do need to relax for a while ok Hon so just do me this favor and try and get some sleep and then when you wake up get some food in your stomach. Then and only then if you feel better maybe if you’re a real good boy I’ll show you just how much I love you how’s that?” she told him as she nibbled on his ear.

“Babe you keep on doing that and I’m never going to last five seconds here.” He told her grabbing her around the waist.

“Uh uh uh. First sleep then eat then fuck. Ok?” she told him kissing him on his nose.

“You’re trying to kill me aren’t you?” he said to her whining again. She just smiled and giggled and went to get her book and wait for room service to arrive.