Her Assistant

[48] To Live or Die

Rough draft. Unedited.

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Was I given another chance? 

She wondered as she sat up from her bed. She looked around and saw nothing but white. "Where am I?"

Then she heard a beeping sound and Dmitri's voice...

"I couldn't get the rest of the tumor because it is already in a delicate part of her brain, she might be brain dead if I try to," Dr. Killian, the neurosurgeon, explained to Dmitri. Another doctor chimed in, "However, we can still try chemotherapy but it may trigger more aggressive tumours."

"How long does she have?" Dmitri asked, his voice seemed already defeated. "Is she going to be okay, live normally or be a mother to her daughter at least?"

"Optimistically, chemotherapy could give her another year if she responds well to it. The cancer is pretty aggressive," one of the doctors replied. 

"What do I tell the kid?" Dmitri's voice broke. "Chloe wanted to be with that kid so much and we tell them that she's going to die soon anyway?"

Phil could see Dmitri's frustration and he knew that the outcome isn't any better for Chloe. 

"I'm sorry, Dmitri. We did everything we could let's just hope --" Dr. Killian's beeper interrupted him. "I'll be right back." The doctor scrambled back to the OR and Dmitri felt something was wrong. 

Chloe heard another doctor say, "She's not going to make it, Killian. Just let her go."

"No, she will, add another dosage. Go!" Killian was trying his best to revive the woman who seem to be on her death bed. 

Chloe glanced back and saw people in scrubs, she took a few steps closer and saw that she is in fact, already dying. She could not believe what she saw and she ran out of the room and saw Dmitri. She was pleased to see her fiance but as she called his name, he wasn't responding but instead looked defeated with his palm covering his mouth, trying to stop himself from crying. 

She walked up to him and tried to hold his hand but her hand went through his body. "What is happening?"

"Where is mommy? I want to see mommy..." She heard a child's voice, she followed the source of the voice and saw the family she left. Celestia stared at her.

"You're finally here," Jesse spoke, placing his hand on her shoulder. "It didn't take too long for us to meet again," he smirked. 

Chloe turned and saw her nightmare before her. "Y-you can s-see me?" She started to remember everything, those days she had with Phil when she ran away with him, the day she give birth and the day she left Phil and Celestia behind. 

"I'm dead, you're almost dead too," Jesse explained then pointed at Dmitri. "I was murdered in my own room by that man." 

Chloe stared at Jesse in horror and she ran away from him as far as she could, although her path seemed to be endless.

Dr. Killian nervously looked at the monitor and her heart beat is back, he glanced at his colleagues who were obviously amazed. "I'm not going to give up on this girl, she has a lot of reasons to live."

Chloe, on life support, was soon brought to her room. Dmitri stayed by her side, crying. "Love, I don't think I can ever let you go."

Star climbed onto the bed after she ran away from Phil, "Mommy, wake up."

"She is going to be fine, right?" Star asked Dmitri. He can see that she has the same hopeful eyes as Chloe had. "She is supposed to watch my play next week."