Beauty and Death

Jim has Cancer

Aunt Lara: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODg3MzYwMjE4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjU5NzAzNw@@._V1_UY1200_CR173,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

Gravestone (Patrova instead of Gilbert): https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/vampirediaries/images/7/7b/TVD_-_Grayson_and_Miranda_Gilbert%27s_tombstone.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150324170100

Cleo's POV

I just brought my little brother Jim to the hospital after he collapsed at home. He has Leukemia, but it's never been this bad before. I thought we had cured it last time he was sick before our parents died three years ago. But it looks like it had come back. Though I am not sure and am waiting for our family doctor's opinion. She is the closest thing Jim and I have to family left.

Her name is Lara Grady and she was our mum's best friend before she died. Now she helps me when she can in looking after Jim. But I don't like taking money from her. Jim and I call her Aunt Lara, but right now she is our doctor with Jim as her patient. Not aunt and her niece & nephew. Aunt Lara never had a family of her own and was an orphan. But she still became an expert in several types of cancer, which includes Leukemia.

"Cleo" a voice calls and I turn to see Aunt Lara approaching me.

"How is he?" I ask her as I stand up. Our uncle had Leukemia and died from it. I hope Jim was not as bad and that he'd survive.

"I am sorry Cleo, but you were right" Aunt Lara tells me and takes me to her office. "He is resting now, but his Leukemia is back and worse then before. Without the proper treatment he will die" she explains sadly.

"What's the treatment Doctor Grady? I'll pay anything to see him live through this" I tell her.

"It's not that simple this time Cleo, last time he only had Acute myeloid leukemia. This time he hasChronic myeloid leukemia and needs; tyrosine kinase inhibitory therapy, biologic therapy, high-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplant, donor lymphocyte infusion, and lastly surgery to remove his spleen" she explains.

"Then why not do it?" I ask her confused.

"To do a donor lymphocyte infusion we need a blood relative with the same blood type. But you don't don't have the same blood type as your brother" she states. (Totally made this part up, don't know if it's true).

"Why not use someone else with a the same blood type?" I ask her.

"There is no guarantee to that your brother's body would accept it. This costs a lot even with your families private health cover Cleo. But if you want to try it and use someone elses blood that has your brother's blood type. Then I'll support you, but know if it goes wrong it will only make things worse" she states.

"I need to think about this, can you look after Jim until I get back?" I ask her.

"Of course my dear, but know if you choose this path. We will do the three therapies first, before the donor lymphocyte infusion and removing his spleen. But you can't do this alone you don't have the money for it. Even if I help and with private health cover" she tells me. "So you'll have to do a fun raiser and I could probably get some money from other leukemia fun raises to help. But there aren't many with leukemia this bad" she says.

"I understand thank you Lara and please take care of Jim" I tell her before leaving. I head to the one place where I knew I would receive guidance. To my parents graves. They were always there when we needed to make an important decision and I wish they were here now. The decision I make will either kill my brother or save him. But there is no guarantee of either out come.

"Hey mum and dad" I say as I kneel in front of their gravestone. "It's been three years and I am twenty-one now with Jim being eight. Dad Jim is really sick again, worse then before. I don't know what to do, I don't what to lose him" I tell them crying silently. "I know if you were here mum you'd pray, so that's what I am going to do now. Before I decide on what to do" I say smiling gently at her name.

"Dear god it's me again, Cleo Patrova daughter of Grayson and Miranda Patrova. I come here today to ask for your help. I lost my parents and I can't lose my brother also. Please I'll do anything for him to leave a normal healthy life with a family of his own one day. I'd even give up my soul to Death himself" I tell god not knowing that someone had been listening to my pray. Until I heard a twig snap behind me and turn to see a skeletal figure in a black hooded robe.

Death's POV

I was giving my winged horse a ride when I heard someone in the graveyard below us. That was strange as hardly anyone goes there anymore. So I went to investigate and land behind a tomb. I leave Skull and follow a voice of a young girl. I soon find the owner of the voice kneeling before a gravestone praying with tears running down her beautiful face.

When I saw her face I nearly had a heart attack, I had not seen that face in five centuries. But it could not be her she died five hundred years ago. I then hear her last three sentences and smirk devilishly coming up with an evil plan. What she said was this; "I lost my parents and I can't lose my brother also. Please I'll do anything for him to leave a normal healthy life with a family of his own one day. I'd even give up my soul to Death himself" so I step out of the shadows making myself known to the beautiful girl. 

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Picture above of Jim and picture on the external link of Cleo.