Warning you now guys, there will be tears. I didn't cry while writing the last two chapters where you all seemed to have bawled your eyes out. I started crying within the first few minutes of writing, and I don't cry during movies or books hardly ever. (Though Unsaid Emily did get me.)

It was a simple movie night with the guys, Julie was trying to catch them up on the times.

She didn't think her choice through that night though, it seemed simple enough, they were working their way through the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), and they had reached Guardians of the Galaxy.

A movie known for it's humor, she didn't think about the fact she hadn't watched it in over a year.

They were sprawled out across the living room, Alex in the arm chair, Reggie on his pillow fort he made on the floor, and Luke on the couch with Julie leaned up against him.

The scene opened to young peter sitting in the hospital with his headphones on, clutching to the mix-tape his mother had made him filled with her favorite songs.

Julie's eyes began to glaze over as memories began to consume her.

She began to relive her memories from just over a year ago, some of the darkest days of her life. She sat outside her mothers hospital room, holding her phone tight to her chest with her ear buds in her ears. Volume at maximum volume, as she tried to drown out the world around her. The playlist filled with all of her mom's favorite songs. On the other side of the wall she leaned against was a hospital bed. The bed where her mom laid. Her dad was in there too, holding her mothers hand. Tia stood at the side of the bed, looking over her sister. Carlos was asleep by the window.

Julie couldn't bring herself to go into the room. She couldn't bare to see her mother, laying in a bed, pale, sullen, and small. She was so used to her mom's vibrant spirit, bursting out into song and singing at the top of her lungs. Sitting at the piano, writing music with her. Music. 

She was used to hearing the sound of piano notes surrounding her mom, not the beeps of a heart monitor that was beginning to slow as her mom's song came to an end.

The notes of her mom's heart were beginning to die down, and Julie knew what happened when the song began to slow and fade.

Her dad walked out into the hall and gently took her earbuds from her ears before taking her hand and pulling her up from the ground. He nodded his head to the side before he began to gently pull her into the room. She hesitated at first, but followed. She walked up to the side of her mother's bed.

"Julie," Rose spoke weakly, but she had a smile on her face.

"Mom,"

"Hey, sing with me,"

Julie nodded and followed in tune with her mother as they began to hum and mumble the lyrics to one of her mom's favorite songs.

"Hope when you take that jump

You don't fear the fall
Hope when the water rises
You built a wall
Hope when the crowd screams out
They're screaming your name
Hope if everybody runs
You choose to stayHope that you fall in love
And it hurts so bad (Yeah)
The only way you can know
You gave it all you had
And I hope that you don't suffer
But take the pain
Hope when the moment comes,
You'll say I, I did it all..."

They sang together softly, as her dad watched his two girls sing together for the last time, but with each line, Rose's tone began to fade, until her final words came out. She held the final note for as long as she could before her long held out note turned into the tone of a flat-lining heart monitor. With her final words sang, Julie began to feel hands on her shoulders, and sounds coming from around her, but she couldn't make them out, but her vision began to blur between two scenes.

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Luke felt Julie shift next to him, and thought nothing of it until he could feel her breathing becoming erratic,

"Julie?" He turned to look at her only to see a panicked look on her face. "Hey Julie?"

The panic in his voice got the attention of Alex and Reggie, Reggie quickly paused the movie as Alex rushed over to them.

Luke looked panicked as he moved to turn towards Julie, no longer having her lay up against his side. He didn't know what to do, he didn't know what was wrong, and Julie was upset, and he couldn't do anything to help as tears streamed from her glazed over eyes.

Suddenly Alex took control of the situation, placing a hand on each of her shoulders, standing above her blocking out her surrounding.

"Julie, breathe with me okay? Just follow my breathing." Alex calmly commanded as he began to exaggerate the sounds of his breathing, when she started to follow suit he spoke again, "You are in your house in the living room. You were watching a movie. You are safe. Everything is fine. It's Alex, your ok." 

Julie's eyes began to follow Alex's as he pulled her from her own mind. Her breathing quickened once more before Alex once again began to exaggerate the sounds of his breathing.

She matched once more, but the panicked daze did not leave her voice though she was no aware of her surroundings. At least the ones she could clearly see, that being that she was in the living room and that Alex was arm's length away from her. She was sitting on the couch. Something was to her right. The tv was on behind Alex.

Slowly she began to take in her surroundings as she slowed her breathing and her eyes began to slow from their sporadic jolts around the room. She began to feel the tingling in her arm fade away as she took in more oxygen.

"You ok now Julie?" Alex asked softly, she nodded extremely slowly. Alex nodded back only slightly faster, "Just keep breathing." This time he didn't exaggerate the sounds and merely breathed normally as Julie watched him inhale and exhale. She continued to slow her breathing to a normal pace.

Once she was breathing at a constant normal rate and her eyes were no longer flitting around the room Alex let his arms fall from her shoulders to her arms feeling her muscle tension loosen. He pulled her in for a hug. She wrapped her arms around him and gripped tightly not letting go for a few minutes. She mumbled into his ear, 

"Thank you Alex." It was barely there as she still was too out of it to speak up any louder but Alex hear it and smiled.

"You're welcome."

Luke sat to the side watching Alex take perfect control of the situation. Alex perfectly calmed his girlfriend down, helped her breath properly and comforted her before being pulled into a tight hug. He began to feel both jealous and guilty. He wasn't jealous of Alex, he knew Julie was like a sister to him.

No, he was jealous of the fact Alex knew what to do and could calm Julie down. He was jealous that someone else knew what to do, and he felt guilty that he didn't know what to do.

Reggie stood to the side, until Julie's eyes opened while she continued to hug Alex tight, she saw him, and gave him a look that was filled with vulnerability. Reggie cautiously walked over to her before joining in on the hug.

Eventually Julie released Alex, Reggie pulled away as Alex did as well. Alex stopped for a moment and gave a questioning look to Julie silently asking if she was ok now. She gave an extremely small nod, before he pulled away fully.

Once she did she looked to the side and saw the concerned yet panicked look upon Luke's face. Rather than speaking she just laid back against Luke's side and used the remote to continue the movie since her attack was long enough for the part to be over.

Luke wrapped his arm around her once more and held her slightly tighter. She took his free hand and laced her fingers through his as they continued the movie. The boy's jamming out to music from their childhood, a weird thought for Julie. Though she wasn't entirely paying attention to the movie having seen it enough times to let herself space out, the attack having zapped her energy, but she was enjoying watcher her boy's enjoy the movie far too much to fall asleep.

Once the movie was over, Julie pulled Luke off to the side away from the others having seen his concerned and guilty glances during the movie.

"Luke, I'm ok now." She told him holding his hands in-front of her looking him in the eyes.

"But Julie, I had no clue what was going on or what to do? What would have happened if Alex wasn't there?"

"I would have just gone through the whole attack and then come out of it. All Alex could do was help me recover from it quicker. You can't prevent them, if you try then all you do is walk on eggshells for the rest of your life not really living your life."

"But Julie, I had zero clue what to do."

"And that's my fault, and before you protest hear me out, I didn't tell you about my attacks because I haven't had one since you guys came into my life. I used to have them all the time, I just learned how to deal with them. The only reason Alex knew how to deal with mine so well is because he has had them. It's a perspective I hope you never have to know. He only knew what to do without knowing anything about the trigger or the personal differences because he knows what it's like from his side of it. He knows what he feels like he needs to be told and shown and he used that knowledge to help me."

"Julie, I want to know what to do if this ever happens again." Luke begged after a moment of silence.

"Ok, I can understand that, but for that information we are moving elsewhere." Julie told him taking his hand and guiding him to her room.

Julie yawned as her eyes began to droop.

"Awww, Jules are you tired?"

"Yea, they take a lot out of you, but to answer your question on what to do. I'm telling you this because I know it will make you feel better if it ever happens again. Not to walk on eggshells constantly and fear any triggers. I haven't had one in months, so they really aren't that common for me ok?" Luke nodded before she continued.

"Everyone's experience is different, but for me don't smother me. Don't incase me in a hug or wrap your arms around me. That is a sure way to make me panic more, but some people that is what they prefer. I on the other hand feel better when you do like Alex did, he stood above me and placed a hand on each of my shoulders, with his arms straight keeping as much distance from me as he could while still holding me to help ground me. By standing above me he blocked out everything around me with his body and arms. That prevented me from going into an overload because everything multiplies in intensity, so I am not trying to take in everything around me and process because I can only focus on one thing. Therefore as he spoke and exaggerated his breathing I could focus on it. Do just like that. Just copy what Alex did. Now for the more specific to just me. Do not mention my mom. Focus on reminding me to breathe properly, telling me where I am, who you are, then just start telling me random facts. Like, the first song we sang together was Bright, or we write songs together, or you are wearing a blue shirt. Things like that help me begin to take control again. Once I've calmed down and am breathing mostly normal then you can pull me into a hug. If you do it before that I panic because I feel like everything is closing in and I am trapped. Just hold onto me, and eventually I am fine. Just like you saw."

"That scared me so much earlier Jules. I didn't know what to do, and I just froze."

"It's ok Luke, you didn't know. Honestly had Alex not been there not much would have been different. I would push through the attack on my own and then would have turned to you once I realized you were there and pulled you into a tight hug until I felt safe again. If you weren't there than I just would have sat there until I felt calm and safe again. It's something I can get through on my own, but I do appreciate when I have help. I'm sorry I scared you. I didn't feel like I needed to tell you about them because I thought I had fully gotten over them since I hadn't had one in months."

"I promise, I will be there for you if you have another one."

"I know. I trust you, and I love you." Julie said laying her head onto his chest while they sat on her bed.

"Go to sleep, I've got you Jules." Luke looked down and saw she had already fallen asleep. He wrapped his arm around her and let her sleep against him as he protected her from her demons. He held her close, and eventually slid them downward into a laying position to make her more comfortable. He absent mindedly drew patters on her arm with his finger tips as he began to fall asleep next to her.

 Ale flashed in the next morning planning to check on Julie knowing she would have been exhausted last night, but when he peeked his head through the door he was met with an adorable sight.

Julie was laying on Luke's chest, one arm draped across him holding onto his shoulder, while he had an arm wrapped around her holding her close with his head leaned down onto hers.

Alex smiled before grabbing Julie's phone from beside her bed and opening it to camera and taking a few pictures for them to have later before he flashed out knowing Julie was ok so long as she had Luke with her.

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Thoughts? How much did yall cry? (Yes I use yall, yes I am from the south)

Also I'm sorry if this doesn't line up with your experience. I have social anxiety and tried to use my own experiences to base it off of while changing it some since Julie's wasn't rooted from a social situation, but any social situations didn't seem to fit Julie's character. So I just slightly altered my own experiences. 

Hope you guys enjoyed!! Please leave requests!! (I will try and make the next few happier!)