I am here for you

Chapter 1

The idea for this came after coming across the extended trailer for Goodbye Vietnam on Facebook.

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Callen was at home, wondering what to do. Then, he got a text from Hetty that said 'Need you!'. He immediately rushed over to Dovecote to find out what was wrong.

'Hetty? I got your text, are you okay?' He asked.

Hetty did not look fine.

'Uh, yes. Yes, Mr. Callen, I'm fine! I called you here because I though I could use the company!' she said sheephishly.

'Hetty, you look terrible! have you been crying?'

Hetty wanted to deny it, but her eyes were all red, and looked like the haven't rested in a while.

'Uh, uh'.

'Hetty, it's okay, you can tell me.' He said, soothingly.

Looking like she was about to cry again, Hetty told him.

'MMMMMMM. Sniff. I, am a mess. a real mess! I, have been handling it so well, but these last few days, I don't know what's happening to me!'

'Uh, okay. what's, what's the problem?'.

'Sigh. 4 days ago, Nate told me to tell him what, my situation was like, for me. I felt better afterwards, but the next day, I had this really bad nightmare that kept me up half the night. I've been trying to go back to sleep since, but each time I try, my mind flashes back to that cage, or something else, and it keeps me up all night! I've only slept like, 2 or 3 hours since, and I'm SO tired and I just want to sleep! and I think I'm going to cry again!'

Callen gave her a big hug.

'Shh, shh, I got you, I got you Hetty.'

'I just want to sleep!' She cried out.

'I know, I know.' 'I'll give you some advice, if you let go of me'.

'Mmm hmm, letting go now.'

A Minute later.

'Sniff. What's the advice, dear?'

'1st, Thank you for saying you need someone to talk to, you can talk to me or anyone on the team anytime about dealing with any form of PTSD. 2nd, here's one bit of advice for dealing with sleeplessness that I know of very well: Remember that you are safe, you have friends who love you and care for you, and um, think back to a happy memory and try to stay on that until you fall asleep.' Callen said.

'Sniff. Okay.' Hetty responded.

'Do you need me to stay with you tonight?'

'That, that would be nice, thank you.'

He stayed with her, and Hetty fell asleep, and managed to sleep the night with little problems. But, then thought: 'I have a feeling this might be the beginning of something very emotional for the whole team'. And wondered if everyone would see this very, very emotional side of Hetty.