angel baby (heavy editing)

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  (A/N: I couldn't yesterday because writer's block but I'm back today. Enjoy. Also this chapter can go two ways and as I write, I'll decide but either way, I apologize in advance and we're halfway to the end of the book :))
         

            Lia didn't expect to be back at the hospital so soon. She hoped and prayed that they would be allowed to see Kathy. The only reason she had even known Kathy had woken was through a friend of Lena's who was a nurse or they would have been in the blind. She still couldn't comprehend that Kathy might potentially not go home with her. Oliver said his father could help and that alone should have assured her because it was Daniel Borghese and Daniel Borghese was the most powerful person in the country but she still had a bad feeling and when she had a bad feeling, nothing good happened in reality.
No, no, everything will be fine. Kathy is safe and she'll come home safely. We'll win the case.
Her self reassurance did nothing to quell the bad feeling in her. This was not good.
They arrived at the hospital and the boys followed Lia to where she'll meet the nurse. She didn't know how to feel about Oliver still being with them. Of course she was happy he was with her, showing moral support (the hug earlier gave her a piece of her sanity back), she couldn't help but feel she was unburdening her family's problems on him. After they heard the news from the nurse, she would tell him to go home. He had done enough.
     At a distance, she saw the nurse and hurried to meet him.
"We came as fast as we could. How is she?" She asked when she was close enough. The look on his face told her everything she needed to know and explained she had that awful feeling in her gut. The nurse looked around skittishly. Lia was aware he was breaking hospital's guidelines and could lose his job and considering he looked very young, he probably wouldn't get another job for being chased out of an hospital that early but right then, all she wanted to know was how Kathy was doing.
Finally, he spoke and she wished he hadn't.
"She did wake up but she went into a cardiac arrest afterwards. They managed to save her"
Lia felt hollow.
" I didn't want to say anything until you got here because I assumed you would be driving. Honestly, it's not looking good"
Lia was going to throw up. Her first good meal in days was going to paint the floor.
" One of the risks of having an heart implant is one of this alongside the risk of infection and the heart not taking"
" What's going to happen now?" She admitted it was a miracle she could still stand and speak considering her mouth and throat felt like sandpaper and the dizzy spells was overwhelming.
"No one is allowed to see her now. Not even her foster parents but they left earlier. I have a feeling they left for good because..." The nurse trailed off looking away.
Because there's almost zero chance of her survival and Kathy is going to die.
She was terrified to turn back and face her son, scared of what she'll see.
"Right now, we can only hope and pray. I'm really sorry"
Lia wanted to punch the pity off his face. Who did these people think they are? Writing her off like that. Kathy was a fighter. If she could beat cancer, then she could beat this.
But did she though? The whole reason she was here in the first place was because the doctors didn't find all the tumor.
Lia needed to sit before she fell. She found one close by and sat on it. A few seconds later, she felt a presence next to her. She knew who it was before she turned. Her son. The reason for her existence. Her fragile, fragile broken boy. How would he survive this?
She almost, almost cursed the day Chris brought her home. He had always had a thing for strays. First it was a hamster, then a cat and both animals died and Chris nearly lost his mind both times. She should have taken that as a sign, no? But no, Kathy wasn't dead. She would wake up and be her perfectly weird self because both, all of her kids were weird but so perfect.
Maybe she was the problem. Everything she touched rotten. She couldn't get anything right. She was about to get life long happiness when all this happened. Maybe she was the problem.
         Lia startled awake and her flight reflex kicked in until she remembered she was at the hospital and felt all the tension return to her. She didn't even remember falling asleep.
She turned and the sight that she saw made her weep. Her boys were asleep too, using each other's heads and shoulders as support. She felt a teardrop. She was indeed in tears then. She didn't know why that sight made her weep and maybe it wasn't about them but about Kathy.
Oh Kathy, my angel. Please be okay.
She stood up and moved to shake Chris awake. Oliver woke first though. He was her son too. He blinked probably wondering why a woman who looked like she was hit by a train multiple times was standing in front of them. He moved and that woke Chris up.  
"We need to go. Simon will call us if there's an update"
She was almost fearful that Chris would refuse. He had heard what the nurse said. But he stood up without question and that also scared Lia.
"No reaction" Chris was the worst kind of Chris.
"The nurse", Oliver spoke looking behind her.  She turned to see the nurse, Simon, taking hurried step towards her. Lia wasn't a stranger to the look on his face.
Oh no.
The moment he was close enough, he said,
"Another complication happened. It happened so suddenly"
He paused looking at each of them, unadulterated fear in his eyes.
"Kathy has been declared brain dead"

(A/N: so I apologize :((()