His symptoms had started. There was no way he could stop them. At first, he tried to ignore them. He tried to place stress at work as the cause of his symptoms. But, Ethan eventually knew he couldn't run away from them forever. He was going to have face the fact that this was it. His life was going to end. When he finally accepted that this disease was happening and the progression of th illness was out of his control, it all went down hill from there. Depression began to set in.

It had been only a couple of weeks but, his colleagues and friends noticed a change in his behaviour. More importantly, Cal noticed it too. Ethan was began more irratibie, forgetful and tended to lose his temper more easily. This change worried his friends and Cal but, every time they tried to talk to him about, Ethan would just snap at them. They tried getting him to take breaks, talk to a counsellor yet, it was helping. Ethan would shut down and walk away. Cal was busy in cubicles treating a patient with chest pains when the curtains drew open.

"Yes?" Cal called out without looking away from his patient.

"Excuse me, Cal, but I think you ought to see this." Charlie answered.

"Not right now, Charlie. I'm busy at the moment." Cal told him.

"This can't wait." Charlie urged him.

Sensing the urgency in Charlie's voice, Cal asked another nurse to take over and excused himself from the cubicle.

"This better be important." Cal emphasised.

Following Charlie, Cal noticed they were heading in the direction of the hospital entrance.

"Uh, why are we out here?" Cal asked, confused.

Charlie didn't answer. He didn't need to. The minute the two of them got outside, Cal noticed there was a huge crowd gathered around. The crowd consisted of Max, Robyn, Iain, Jez, Lily and Dylan. Following in the direction they were looking in, Cal tilted his head up towards the sky. That's when he saw what everyone was looking at. In no time, Cal ran towards the building opposite the crowd.

"ETHAN!" Cal shouted when he saw his brother standing close to the ledge.

Iain tried to grab Cal's arm but, he managed to escape. He ran up the stairs that led to the roof. Cautiously, Cal opened the door. He didn't want to make a sound that would startle his brother. Slowly, Cal edged towards Ethan holding out his hand.

"Eth, grab my hand and let's go back inside." Cal pleaded with his brother.

Ethan didn't turn around nor did he answer. Stepping closer, Cal tried to take his brother's hand. Ethan pulled away.

"Why are you up here?" Cal asked, trying to make conversation.

Again Ethan didn't answer. Cal could feel his heart begin to beat faster. He tried to calm his breathing down even though he was scared out of his mind at what Ethan was doing.

"Come on, Eth. Let's go back in. As much as I would love to stay up here and look at this wonderful view, we've got jobs to do." Cal joked trying to make light of how serious the situation was becoming.

Nothing Cal said was making Ethan move away or talk to him. Without going to close to the edge himself, Cal peered down and saw his friends looking up at them, fear and concern written on their faces.

"See our friends down there. They want us to come down too." Cal said. "They want you to come down."

Ethan still wasn't talking. He just stood on the ledge looking straight ahead of him as if his mind was somewhere else. Ethan made a small step closer to the edge and there was an audible gasp from below. Cal was about to make a grab for Ethan's wrist when his brother began to lower himself down on the ledge. Ethan had sat down. Sensing this was a good time, Cal walked close to him and slowly lowered himself down too. Side by side the two brothers sat.

"Talk to me." Cal said. "Please, Ethan."

Still no words came out of Ethan's mouth. It was as if he'd lost all ability to talk.

"You don't want to talk. That's fine as well." Cal said. "We can just sit."

"You shouldn't be here." Ethan finally spoke.

"And what? Miss this incredible view while spending some quality time with my little brother?" Cal chuckled.

"I'm being serious." Ethan said. "You shouldn't be here".

"Why not?"

"Because I don't want you to see this."

And before Cal could ask what Ethan was talking about, Ethan pushed himself off the ledge.