"You have to talk to me eventually." Justin said, pulling Leo in a side street. They'd walked in relative silence back from the hospital, Leo with his head bowed as Justin kept a hand on his younger brothers shoulder to keep Leo walking in the same direction he was. "Hey, I know your scared but I'm here. You've got me."

"But not mum or Dad." Leo said, his eyes flickering to meet Justin's.

"We can tell dad if that's what you want." Justin started but le shook his head. There were unscheduled tears in Leo's blue eyes and Justin felt his heart break upon seeing the hopelessness in Leo's eyes.

"What if I don't get better?" Leo suddenly asked and Justin froze for a minute. He'd never considered Leo not getting better. "What if the treatment doesn't work."

"You can't know that it won't work."

"And you can't know that it will." Leo snapped and Justin looked at his brother with worry plain on his face. Leo didn't snap, Leo was the calm one he was the onenthat lost control.

"is that what your afraid of? Is that why you don't want to do this." Justin asked.

"I never..." Leo started but Justin cut him off.

"You didn't need to, your silence was enough for me to know." Justin said before sighing. Leo dropped his head to look at the floor. He was leaning on the wall and Justin slowly leant next to his brother. "Look, I won't force you to do chemotherapy but isn't it at least worth a try. Even if it's a waste of time at least we tried." Justin said.

"Sorry." Leo mumbled and Justin looked at his brother to find tears running down Leo's face.

"There's nothing to be sorry for." Justin said, putting an arm around Leo's shoulder, awkwardly offering what little comfort he could.

"Yes there is." Leo turned his gaze once more to Justin. "If I wasn't I'll then mum wouldn't have gotten depression."

"Leo, that isn't your fault." Justin started, not quite believing Leo thought thatmolga going to the clinic was his fault. "It was dad's."

"You saw how she was when she found out." Justin went to argue but he couldn't. Leo was right. Olga hadnt been the same upon finding out Leo had cancer. She'd already closed off when vaughan left but upon hearing about Leo's condition Olga had sunk into depression, barley leaving the house let alone trying to help Leo or Justin. No wonder Leo thought he was to blame for Olga ending up in that clinic.

"That wasn't your fault. It just happened and there's no changing it okay?" Justin said, moving so he was stood in front of his brother. "No matter what happens, I'm staying. And you're going to be fine, I promise."

"Don't make promises you can't keep." Leo replied. Justin stood in silence for a minute before Leo pushed past him. "It's not fair on you to have to deal with this. I hate that I'm hurting you and mum."

"There's nothing any of can do, Leo, pushing me away won't help anyone." Justin argued. When vaughan had left, before they'd found out Leo was sick his little brother had closed off in a similar way to mum. It wasn't until they'd found out Leo had cancer that Leo had come opened up a little. "maybe I can't promise you'll be alright but I can promise I won't leave you like dad did and mum is doing. I'm right here Leo, just let me help. I want to help."

Leo nodded slowly, still not meeting Justins gaze. "Im scared Justin"

"I know you are but we're going to get through this together." Justin said, pulling Leo into a hug. Tears started to fall down Leo's cheeks and onto Justins shoulder as the older comforted his brother. As they stood there, Justin could almost believe everything would be alright. Almost.

...

Vaughan and the westbrooks were sitting in the living room when Leo and Justin finally came home. The younger had wiped away the tears but he knew he probably still looked like he was crying when vaughan stood up and asked what was wrong. Then again, it probably didn't help that Justin was stood next to Leo giving out obvious worry.

"Wouldn't you like to know." Justin sneered, flicking back to the angry attitude he'd had ever since coming here. Leo just stood there, his head bowed a little. His mind was still racing over his conversation with Justin.

"Justin, that's no way to talk to your father." Allie stated.

"Like I care what you think." Justin replied, glaring at the red head.

"Hey." Floyd interrupted.

"Leo are you alright?" Vaughan asked, ignoring the others in the room. Leo wanted to laugh at that question. Of course he wasn't alright. He was upset, scared, angry and he ached all over because of the leukemia. Except it wasn't like he could tell his dad that.

"I'm fine." Leo mumbled. "I'm going to bed." he added, hastily exiting the room. His conversation with Justin after finding out he wasn't getting any bettered wiped him out. Vaughan went to argue but Leo ignored him, needing to get away from them before he broke down again.

It wasn't long until Justin followed him up, a scowl on his face that immediately softened upon seeing Leo. "You okay?" Justin asked and Leo shook his head. "Do you need me to do anything?" Justin asked, awkwardness in his tone as if Justin didn't know what to do.

"No, Im just tired." Leo replied.

"Okay." Justin said but he didn't move. "Dad thinks I upset you." Justin suddenly said and Leo frowned. "Anyway, get some sleep well go up to the hospital to start the chemo next week okay? That'll give us time to let this sink in." Leo nodded but as he did so he felt his heart sink. Tomorrow, next week when did it really matter when the chemotherapy started. The fact was he had to have and Leo hated that.

"Night?" Leo said, his voice hesitant as Justin turned away.

"Night." Justin replied.

...

"I think Justin's the one who upset Leo." Floyd stated as he and Tiffany sat in the living room. Vaughan and Allie had already gone to bed, leaving the two westbrooks siblings alone.

"Floyd, maybe Leo's upset because of his mum. I don't think Justin would do that." Tiffany said but there was a hint of doubt in her voice.

"Come on, tiff. Justins got a nasty streak, we've already seen it and we've barley known him 2 days." Floyd said and Tiffany knew what her brother was thinking of. The fight the day they'd all met.

"Even if Justin did, it's not our business." Tiffany argued.

"But it is Vaughan's and we both know Justin hates mum being with Vaughan. What if Justin hurts mum?" Tiffany stayed silent, wondering how the conversation had escalated.

"Floyd, Justin wouldn't..." She started but Floyd cut her off.

"What if he does, tiff. He can't stay here." Floyd said but Tiffany didn't reply. She knew having Justin and Leo here would cause problems but she just didn't know how much. She just hoped them being here wouldn't hurtnher mum because if Floyd was right, then it would.

A lot of Justin and Leo in this chapter and I hope you liked the little bit of Tiffany and Floyd because I felt like I was neglecting them a bit. Anyway, hope you enjoy and please review :-)