Unexpected love

Chapter Fourteen: The C word

Killian's POV
-- a few days later --

It was horrible to see the state Emma was in because of all this. She hasn't left the hospital for no reason what so ever. She didn't go to work, she didn't go shopping, she didn't go for something to eat. Nothing. She just stared at Henry lying on his hospital bed with bags around her red blotchy eyes. I had never seen her like this before. In fact I had never really seen her upset at all for the past 7 months that we were together.

A few days ago the nurses said that Henry's test results would be given back on Tuesday, today. And also they were going to wake him up. Emma of course was delighted about the fact that he would be waking up soon but not for the test results.

So on the Tuesday I brought Liam to school and quickly made my way to the hospital and up to Henry's room in the ICU. Emma was standing in the waiting room, dressed in new clothes, her hair looked shiny and clean and she had make up on. "Hey love. You look a lot better today. What's the occasion?" I asked hugging her. "I don't want henry to see me in the state I was in when he wakes up. Plus test results are sort of a big deal." She said smiling at me. "I know, I know. I was joking you around. Also these test results could come back absolutely fine. So don't panic and work yourself up too much okay?" I said staring into her eyes. She nodded and we both sat down.

Emma was texting Lily, who found out about what happened only a few days ago as Emma wasn't fit enough to text anyone as she was so upset. I was texting Robin who had given me the rest of the month off from the studio to take care of Emma and Henry. I was thankful he did. I wouldn't be able to come to the hospital everyday but go to work and look after Liam at the same time. It would be harder than it was already. Thankfully Liam had baseball today until 7pm in school so I could stay at the hospital until then.

We hear the waiting room door open and we both look up. A doctor was standing in front of us with files in his hand. As he closed the door over me and Emma stood up. "Well? Did you get the results back?" Emma asked frustrated. He looked at Emma with fear in his eyes. "Yes. But they might not be the ones you want.." He spoke softly. "Anything is better than not knowing." I replied. He nodded and opened the file.

"So we looked at all the results. From his blood, fevers, blackouts, headaches, frequent tonsillitis, bad coughs and everything else we tested and it all summed up to one thing." He paused. Emma stared at him so hard she nearly put a good through his head. "I'm so sorry but we believe that he has symptoms of, and we are diagnosing him with a very rare childhood lung cancer...."

Emma's POV

There it was. The word I didn't want to hear in my whole life time. The C word. My son. And Innocent, care-free person was just given a death sentence.

"Every single symptom you gave us that started 2 months ago sums it all up. There's no other explanation." The doctor continues. I fell to the ground crying. Killian sits beside me on the floor and cuddles me tightly. He then looks up at the doctor. "What's our next step then?" He asked. "Well the mass on his lungs is too big to operate on. So we will begin to find a match for a transplant. We will also start chemo and some medications but we cant determine how long he will go with his current lungs." The doctor explains. I didn't want to listen to what he was saying. It broke me enough to know that he had cancer and now he needed a transplant and chemo?! It was getting all too much to take in. Luckily Killian was listening and the doctor shortly after left the room.

"Come on Emma. Stand up and clean yourself up." Killian said as he stood up. He took my hand and pulled me off the floor. I automatically hugged him as tight as I could and cried harder. "Its okay, Henry will be fine." He whispered into my ear. "How am I ment to tell him he has cancer Killian? I couldn't even tell him that his own father had died I had to get nurses to tell him." I sobbed into his shoulder. "I'll help you love. I'm always going to be here for you. I won't leave you stranded." He tells me. He pulls out of the hug and wipes my tears away. I smile at him and his lips crush onto mine.

After 2 hours of sitting in the private waiting room with Killian a nurse comes in. "He's awake Ms.Swan. if you want to come and see him?" She smiles at us. Killian nudges me and I stand up holding his hand. I tighten my grip on Killian's hand. I open the door and step inside with Killian by my side.

|I'm so so so sorry for not updating in so so so long! I promise I'll never let you all wait for a chapter for that long ever again
     Happy once day! I hope you all survive this finale |