A/N: Hey everyone! I've been reading a lot of Librarians fics lately(theyre all great by the way. Props to everyone) and now all I want to do is read and write them. This one's gonna get pretty sad, be warned. Hope you enjoy!

The Librarians and their guardian were sitting around the Library eating lunch. Well, everyone except for Cassandra. It was nearly 1 o'clock, but she was still fast asleep in her room. The group had reunited a few days earlier, and had ended up working a case the night before. It had drained a lot of their energy and kept them up late. Most of the group wasn't affected, but when they had tried to wake Cassandra that morning, she was exhausted and didn't seem to feel well, so they had let her sleep.

"Do you think Cass is okay?" Jake asked "It's getting pretty late" At that moment, Cassandra walked into the room.

"Good morning" she said.

"Are you Ok?" Eve asked. "We were starting to get worried."

"Ya I'm fine" Cassandra said sleepily. "What's for lunch?" she asked, sitting down next to Jake.

"Just some hotdogs" Ezekiel said. "Want one?"

"Hotdogs" Cassandra stated blankly. Jake could tell that something was up.

"Hotdogs, hotdogs are beef, beef is cows cows eat grass….green…green is boron that's atomic number 5" she was rambling. Jake put his arm around her.

"Cassandra" he said calmly. "Stay with me alright. Come on focus its okay." But the rambling didn't stop. It kept going

"Boron…5…5 is pink…pink…pink strawberries" Her words got faster and faster, her breathing became labored, her voice strained.

"Cass"

"Strawberries….strawberries fruit…fruit….watermelon…water….freezing point 0 degrees Celsius boiling 100…the square root of one hundred is 10 divided by 2…"

"Cassie come back to me!" Jake's voice was growing urgent. The others looked at each other worriedly. Something wasn't right. Cassandra's ramblings had never lasted this long. By this point Jake was always able to bring her back.

"10 divided by 2 is…is 5…5 back to pink, strawberries…strawberries…fruit" Cassandra was speaking so frantically, the words were becoming incoherent. "Fruit….fruit…grapes…brain grape"

"CASS!" Jake yelled now, hearing mention of the tumor. His arms were still around her. Suddenly, Cassandra inhaled sharply. The words stopped. The room was silent.

Cassandra fainted slightly, slumping into Jake's arms. She opened her eyes and placed her hand to her nose. When she drew it back it was covered in blood.

"Cassandra that's been happening a lot lately" Eve noted. "Are you sure you're alright?"

The tension in the room could be cut with a knife. Everyone had noticed the changes in Cassandra since they had last seen her. She didn't always seem as cheery, she got more nosebleeds. She rambled more often, and for longer periods of time. She either ate nothing, or three helpings. She would sleep later, and forget things briefly. They didn't want to face the facts that something was wrong, but now it was becoming real all too quickly.

"I'm fine" Cassandra reassured the group. She still seemed flustered. "It's just…is it cold in here?"

"Actually it's pretty warm" Flynn said. It was summer. The group was dressed in tanktops, and shorts, but Cassandra wore a sweater. Jake felt her forehead.

"Cass" he said. "You're burning up"

"Really?" she asked, still frantic. "Because I'm really cold" She attempted to calm down, moving herself out of Jake's arms.

"Cassandra I think we need to get you to a hospital" Eve said.

"No! No I'm fine really I just…I just don't feel that well is all. Maybe I should just, go back to bed"

"Cass" Esekiel joined. His voice was serious. Cassandra's face grew somber. She didn't want to go, that was clear. Reality was hitting all of the friends like a truck speeding down the highway, and they were moments away from the crash.

"We'll all go together" Eve said. She placed a hand on Cassandra's shoulder, trying to be comforting. She was the guardian. It was her job to protect her Librarians. She had learned on her first day that that didn't always mean simply jumping in front of a bullet.

"I'll drive"

A while later, the group sat in the emergency room. No one said a word. Everyone knew that the end was approaching, but no one wanted to admit it.

Jake looked over at Cassandra, and saw her looking at the ground. She was trying not to show it, but he could see the fear in her face. He could see the tears in her eyes. Without hesitating, he reached over and placed his hand on hers. She looked up at him and smiled, then squeezed.

A few more moments went by, full of nothing but silence. Slowly, Cassandra's head fell onto Jake's shoulder, and his arm found itself wrapped around her. Just then, a nurse walked into the room.

"Cassandra Cillian?" she said. Cassandra looked up. Her eyes grew wide. Jake felt her breathing heavily again.

"You can do it" Eve reassured her. She didn't dare tell her that it would be okay, because they all knew that it wouldn't.

Cassandra took a deep breath and slowly stood up. Jake heard her emit a small whimper. She took one step before he stopped her.

"Hey Cass" he called. She turned around. "Do you want me to come with you?" Cassandra looked at him and started crying. He knew that he didn't need an answer. He stood up, put his arm around her, and walked with her into the hospital room.

The remaining Librarians sat in the waiting room, still not saying a word. Flynn had his arm around Eve. Ezekiel was fiddling with a pencil. After what felt like an eternity of waiting, Jake walked out. Everyone stood up. It took him a moment before he was able to speak.

"The doctor said we should just take her home" he muttered. "That all there's left to do is wait" Ezekiel stepped back, not processing what he had just heard. After the silent moment of shock was over, Eve found herself running out of the room. Flynn went after her.

He found her sitting on the floor by the vending machines, her head in her hands. Holding back a cry, he walked over and crouched down next to her. He put his hand on her shoulder, and when she looked up, her face was a mess of tears.

"No" she said roughly.

"What?" Flynn was confused.

"No…no" Eve stammered. "Leave me alone. You're not supposed to see me like this. No one's ever seen me like this" She started hyperventilating. Flynn wrapped his arms around her.

"It was supposed to be my job to protect them" she sobbed. "Now one of them is dying."

"Eve" Flynn said. He slowly rubbed his hand in circles around her back. "You couldn't have stopped this."

"I know" Eve sniffed. "It's just…"

"Just what?"

Eve hesitated. She had never told anyone that she met about her story. No one knew why her walls were built up so high. No one knew why she had taken the job as a Guardian. No one knew why she never talked about her family. Flynn read everything in her face.

"Eve, if you don't want to tell me…" he started

"No" she interrupted. "It's just uh…Cassandra is the same age that my little sister would be."

"You have a sister?"

"Had a sister." Eve had started to calm down. Concentrating on the story that had held up her walls for most of her life, she was slowly easing out of the emotion overflow.

"Her name was…her name was Lillian" Eve continued. She spoke slowly. Flynn was the first person to ever hear this story.

"You know, growing up, we uh…we just moved from military base to military base and our mom…she died not long after Lilly was born. Our father, well…what with his work and everything, he didn't really…he didn't have a lot of time for uh…for Dad stuff. I'm not saying he didn't care. He loved us a lot just…circumstances were uh…bad.

"So, I kinda ended up taking care of Lilly for most of my life. You know I would uh…I would make her the smiley face pancakes, and when…when she had nightmares I was uh…it was my bed that she would climb into and I would put bandages on her scrapes and check for the monsters under the bed" Eve took a deep breath. Finn listened intently. He held on tight to her, pained at seeing Eve so upset.

"We were really close. You know you uh…that happens when you don't really get the opportunity to make other friends. We were inseparable really. And then uh…" Eve choked back a cry. She had pushed back the pain of the events she was recounting for so long, she didn't remember what it felt like to think about them.

"You can stop if you want to" Flynn reassured her. She smiled at him, happy to have him watching out for her.

"No" she said. "I need to get it off of my chest. Um…Lillian, she was uh…she was killed during 9/11. She was in one of the planes" Eve's was starting to cry again. Flynn exhaled, the words he heard not what he had been expecting.

"That's why you were in the Counter Terrorism Unit" Flynn realized, a whole new view of his Guardian washing over him. She nodded.

"I was always supposed to protect her, from anything, and this time I couldn't. And I told myself, and I promised Lilly…that if I couldn't save her…I would…I would stop it from happening to other people. And now with Cassandra, it's like my sister all over again. I'm supposed to protect her, and now I can't, and she's going to die, and I can't save her. But this isn't even like Lilly. This time, I have to sit back and watch it happen, and know that there's nothing that I can do." Flynn sat there, saying nothing, simply holding Eve. There was nothing else to do but be together. At that moment, Ezekiel walked by.

"Oh! I'm sorry Colonel Baird" he said, feeling as if he was intruding. The situation had mellowed even Ezekiel. His snark had disappeared since everything began with Cassandra. He turned to leave

"No." Eve said. "It's uh…its fine" She knew that it didn't matter today who saw her in what way. The only way they would all get through this, was together. Ezekiel walked over and sat next to the couple. The group sat in silence, feeling the pain the awaited them, and the comfort of each other's presence.

Meanwhile, Jake sat next to Cassandra in the hospital room. The doctor had left the two of them alone together. Cassandra hadn't said a word. She hadn't even looked up. Jake hadn't even touched her. He didn't know what to say. Still, he was the one to break the silence.

"Cass?" he muttered.

"I'm going to die" she whispered. Jake heard her voice start to crack. His heart broke at the sound of it.

"I've known since I was 15. I thought I had made my peace with it, but now it's really happening and I can't…oh god Jake I'm gonna die!" She fell into his arms, sobbing. Jake just held her. He tried not to, but soon he felt his own tears accompanying the ones he felt soaking his shirt.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed! Another chapter should be out soon. Bye!