Please note that my english might be not perfect. I'm from europe and not from an english speaking country. But I still hope you don't have trouble to follow my story.

I don't own any character. The story is just fictional.

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"Considering your face the results can't be good."

Connor looked at his sister in concern, glanced at the charts again.

"Can you come to my office?"

Claire gave him a nervous glance.

"You haven't change, have you? Still making it excited to deliver news", she got up to follow him to the neighborhood room, where he offered her a seat.

Since the seriousness in his face didn't change, Claire became nervous but followed his order.

"To be honest: I didn't expect what I've seen. The normal range of creatinine is between 0,84 and 1.21. miligram per deciliter. You're level is between 10-12 cc a minute."

"So, I've got an infection?"

Connor closed his eyes, shook his head.

"No."

"What then? Would you please speak english with me?"

Rhodes sighed, giving her a sympathetic look.

"Claire, you're kidneys are not working very well. You probably need an organ transplant."

"What?!"

She denied, got up from her chair.

"That's not true. You're wrong. You have to repeat the tests."

"I did", he said in a harsh voice, folding his hands.

"I sent them to three different labors and got the same results."

Recognizing the upcoming tears in her eyes, he stretched his arm to take her hand.

"Do I have to die?"

"No. Not yet. As soon as we took you in as our patient, we're putting you on dyalisis, to detoxicate your body."

She couldn't help but started to cry. The tears were streaming down her face. Connor grabbed a tissue from his pocket, got up from his chair and gave it to her, before he sat down next to her, soothingly stroked her back.

"Listen, I know it feels like your whole world is breaking apart right now. But there is a life after that. Since you're young there is a chance to put you on the donors list and to get a new kidney in time."

Claire shook her head in disbelief, started sobbing heavier when her brain processed the news.

Connor tightened his grip and pulled her in a hug, so she cried into his shirt.

"It's okay. We gonna get through this together. As a family", he promised her, rocking her in his arms, until she got calm enough to get out of his arms.

"How did this happen? I never took any medication, nor did I do drugs or anything else."

"It's not that easy. Kidney failure at this age mostly points to different issues. It's some kind of a creeping process. First we have to figure out if the problem is leading us to the kidneys and if it lies in front of the kidneys or behind the kidneys. There are different reasons, like genetical causes, tumors, infections."

"Tumors?"

"We worry about that then, alright? The next step might be to put you asleep, to prepare you for the dyalisis procedure. We put a shunt in your arm, to get vascular access. Meanwhile, I'm going to run another test on myself."

"What kind of test?"

"There are rare cases, where people became a donor inside their family. And if one of my kidneys would be suitable, I wouldn't hesitate to save you."

Claire took a deep breath, bit her lips.

"I don't know if …"

"Shhh.. Not now."

He gave her another hug, then paged April Sexton, who arrived at the room seconds later.

"April? This is my sister Claire. Please tell Maggie that we need to take her in as a patient and prepare her for surgery, right? After that we need a blood-draw and a CT."

"Who's the patient?"

"I'm the second patient who needs to be examined."

"I got it", she told him, before she guided Claire to the ER…