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BACK AT THE HOSPITAL

As Lucas helped Maya put the mask back on, she sighed, she hated being fussed over; especially by Lucas. "I'm fully capable of putting it on myself." She snapped at him.

Lucas looked awkward "I'm just going to go and… find Riley, tell her your awake, I'll be back in a minute." He said, quickly making up an excuse to leave the room.

Maya looked up at Shawn "Wait, did you just say you wanted to adopt me?"

"I love you Maya and I'm in love with your mother, I'm going to ask her to marry me, if that's okay with you of course?" He explained softly, sitting down beside her bed.

"That couldn't be more okay with me, Shawn." She said tearfully.

"Shall I take that as a yes?" He asked sarcastically.

Maya tried to sit up to talk to Shawn properly, but only winced in pain again; thumping back onto her bed in frustration.

"Hey, not so fast kiddo! You need your rest; you've had major surgery." He told her sternly.

"Major surgery?" Maya looked at Shawn with confusion.

Shawn sighed "You had to have your spleen taken out Maya." He told her gently, holding her hand.

Cory walked in smiling "I told you, you'd be okay Maya." He said, looking over at Shawn and smiling.

Maya ignored that comment "How am I okay Matthews, I don't have a spleen." She thought, quickly changing the subject "Thank you for reading to me Mr Matthews." She said softly.

"Wait, you heard us Maya?" Cory asked, looking at her with confusion.

"Yeah I did." She smiled at him.

"Wait, where's my mum?" She asked sadly.

"Your mum is at work honey, she'll come see you tonight." Cory said, trying to reassure her.

"Why aren't you at work then?" She asked, looking at him with confusion.

"I took the week off, I couldn't leave you all alone." He said softly.

"You stayed off work for me?" Maya smiled.

"Wait, you told Riley to go back to school, but you didn't." Shawn laughed.

"Shawn." Maya said softly.

"Yes Maya?" He smiled.

"Did my mum read the letter?" She asked anxiously.

"I don't know, maybe you should ask her?" Shawn said, looking around and smiling at Katy in the doorway.

Katy ran up to her daughter "I'm so proud of you baby girl." She said smiling, stroking Maya's hair.

"You read it?" Maya asked.

"I did." She said with a beaming smile, adding "I'm so sorry for assuming you had done something wrong."

Shawn and Cory looked at Katy and Maya blankly.

"Sorry, what did the letter say?" Shawn asked.

"Did you want to tell them or shall I?" Katy asked her daughter.

"You can tell them; I don't feel too good." Maya explained, weakly.

"Are you okay Maya?" Cory looked at her with concern.

"Yeah I'm fine, I'm just a little tired, is all." Maya muttered.

"Okay honey, maybe we should leave you to rest?" Cory asked, worry filling his eyes.

"No I'm okay, I like having your company." She said, grimacing with pain.

"If you're sure sweetie." Katy smiled.

"No hang on, Maya you really don't look too good." Shawn said, putting his hand on her forehead "You're burning up; I'm going to go a get a doctor." Shawn said gently, rushing out the room to find her doctor.

After a few minutes Shawn came back with a doctor.

"I hear you're not feeling too well Maya?" The doctor asked kindly.

"I'm just tired." Maya said, exasperated.

The doctor walked towards Maya's bed "You do look pretty pale; do you mind?" He asked, gesturing to her pyjama top.

Maya nodded weakly.

The doctor gently lifted Maya's shirt up and saw it was all red and inflamed around the incision. As he examined her, and felt around it she winced in pain.

Noticing this, he asked her "Is that painful Maya?" Looking at her concerned.

Maya was about to answer when she gagged and vomited.

"Maya?!" Katy yelled and ran to her daughter's bedside.

"Mum, what's happening to me?" Maya asked tearfully.

"I think you've got an infection in the incision we made; we'll need to do a blood test to be sure but I'm pretty certain." The doctor explained softly, adding "I'll get some nurses to help you get changed." He said, pressing a red button as two nurses walked in.

"Maya, I'm going to leave you in the care of these two lovely ladies, whilst I go and talk to your family outside." He told her softly.

As they walked out the door, Maya yelled out "Mum, don't leave me." She said tearfully.

Katy quickly ran to her daughter "I'll never leave you Maya." She said softly, trying to reassure her daughter. She looked over at Shawn "You go; I'll stay with Maya."

"Okay." Shawn said, looking over at Maya with worry.

As Shawn and Cory followed the doctor to his office, they grew anxious "What was he going to say?" they thought.

The doctor closed the door behind him and gestured for them to sit down "I'm pretty certain Maya has an infection in her wound." He explained.

"Sorry, what does this mean?" Shawn asked, anxiously.

"It can be serious if left untreated, but we're going to put her on antibiotics and watch her very closely."

"Didn't you put her on antibiotics already?" Cory asked.

"We did, but that was just precautionary, so it wasn't a very high dosage." He said kindly.

"So now you can treat her properly?" Shawn asked.

"Yes, now we can give her a much stronger antibiotic." The doctor agreed.

Cory and Shawn smiled at each other reassuringly.

"Can we go back to Maya now?" Shawn asked.

"Hang on." The doctor told them, adding "I just wanted to apologize for my colleague's behaviour, nothing should be more important than Maya's health."

"Wait what's happening?" Shawn asked, looking between the two of them, confused.

"Maya's previous doctor cared more about insurance than her." Cory told Shawn angrily.

As Cory and Shawn walked back to Maya's room, they noticed she had gone to sleep with Katy sat beside her, holding her hand.

Author Note: I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to review my story so far, the reviews have really helped and I hope you enjoyed this chapter too; if you did please leave a review, if not then please tell me, either way please leave me a review.