Note: These characters are not mine but are taken from BBC's Waking the Dead. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED!
Friends
He was not a man prone to express his emotions however on this particular occasion it was different. This was personal, close too his heart. And by the expression on his colleague's face when he had turned around as soon as she had spoken his name, told him that it was bad news. Though he didn't know how bad it was until she had told him.
Grace has cancer.
Those three words. Grace has cancer.
Three words that made his heartbeat stop, three words he dreaded to hear. The words that said to him maybe withing a few months, weeks even he could lose yet another memeber of his team. And he couldn't deal with the thought of it happening to him and to the rest of the team again.
No, not Grace he thought. It took awhile for him to comprehend what Eve had just told him but when he realized that the reality of it was ture, his stomach churned making him feel nauseous.
The reality of the truth hit him hard like a ton of bricks and pulled at his heart strings. It had already been difficult with losing Mel and when Luke had died, he was devestated. But it was Grace who had always helped him deal with his grief. And now that Grace was ill, he couldn't bear to lose her as well. He cared too much about her.
He had a crime scene to process but this more important. Grace was more important. Eve could understand that so without discussing the situation any further Boyd left the crime scene and headed to the hospital.