Wow , thank you so so much for all your reviews, I hope I don't lose that many readers with this story , because I really have a lot planned for this story , it may come as a depressing story, in a way it is but im only trying to portray grief and I can say that in the end there is a happy ending.

Anyway with all the reviews you guys motivated me to writing my next chapter so I will stop rambling, also I don't have a specific update day, I just update when I have time.

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Chapter 7 – love & war?

Nurses and doctors barged through the doors , ushering charlie out but charlie being as stubborn as she was insisted she stayed. Once she realized what was going on tears began to pour out of her eyes spilling onto her cheeks, her body trembled . charlies body jumped as they shocked brax , but nothing changed a long defining line etched onto the heart monitor the beep filling the room as well as charlies sobs.

Heath had seen the rush into the room and it wasn't long before he heard the defining beep fill the corridor , he raced towards braxes room, seeing his brother and new sister in such a state caused him to drop the hot drinks causing them to splash onto the floor. His feet paced towards charlie , his arms wrapped around her and he held her as she cried , her tears burning through his tshirt.

30 minutes had past and nothing had changed , charlie had calmed down but the heart monitor still had a long line etched onto it , like it was trying to wake them up but it couldn't. Charlies head snapped up when she heard a few words that made her world stop, her heart stop ,her body stop, "time of death 17:50pm" Dr walkers voice was crackly , anyone could tell that this was the last thing he wanted to happen, Charlie squirmed out of heaths grip and flung herself onto braxes bed, She tried to start CPR , but she didn't have the strength to go on , instead she collapsed onto brax sobbing , each tear drop rippling onto his chest.

Heath didn't believe his brother was gone , his big brother wasn't dead, He rushed over to charlie and tried to pull her off brax so that the doctors could do a few tests and find out what killed his brother and if that monster did this. Charlie just gripped brax tighter.

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After a while of persuasion security had managed to get charlie to wait outside , now they were sitting in an all familiar corridor , in the hospital , cheeks tearstained and eyes bloodshot red. Charlie was now sitting staring at a blank wall, her arms were holding her legs tightly, everyone that passed gave both charlie and heath symphethtic looks but charlie took no notice she just stared ahead, like she was trying to wake herself up from a nightmare a never ending nightmare.

Footsteps echoed through the now lifeless corridor , rushing towards them was Ruby and Casey. Charlie wasn't ready for this yet, but she didn't have the strength to run either, she knew she had to tell them but how, How was she supposed to tell casey his big brother was gone? How was she supposed to tell her daughter the man she looked up to as a dad was gone, dead?

They saw her messed up and paced forward imeadiantly hugging her, they didn't know why but they both had a feeling something inside of them was gone dead.

Charlie didn't want a hug, she wanted a bear cuddle from brax , the ones that always made her smile, the ones that kept her warm and the ones that she felt protected with but the problem was he was the one person who couldn't .

"whats wrong charlie?" Casey asked, he wasn't sure if he wanted to know the answer to the question he'd just asked , "its my fault" cried charlie , covering her eyes like something had just hit her, something terrible. "whats your fault?" ruby asked, she was also unsure if she wanted to know the answer, charlie started to cry , dark tram lines made way down her cheeks.

A doctor approached , charlie didn't need to look upto see it was a doctor giving her a sympathetic look, "we've determined a cause of death" At this casey and ruby heads snapped up ,Heath was here and charlies mum and dad were out of the country , there was only one person they hadn't asked about, "Mr . Braxton had a full cardiac arrest , im so sorry for your loss" Ruby started to shake indicating she was about to cry ,but she couldn't keep it in , brax wasn't dead, but he was gone. Casey had started to cry, he held ruby as their grief began to take over their bodies.

Charlie couldn't do it, she couldn't bear to see her daughter and new brother be sad, so she wandered into braxes room, A flood of tears gushed down her cheeks as she let a strong sob leave her lips as a great pain welled up in her. "im so sorry Brax" she whispered , usually she would be glued onto the spot but today she wasn't, charlie paced forward and wrapped her arms around braxes cold and lifeless body , "I'm so sorry" she murmured entangling her hands in braxes , they were the perfect fit, "I love you"

Like I said before I hope I don't lose many readers because of my plan for this story, I hope you guys don't give up but if you do thank you for reading. To those who will continue to read I have lots planned and eventually there will be a happy ending ,I also have to add this is definitely not the end of brax…

thank you for all your reviews , it makes my day , if you have any advice or anything you want to happen please review or pm me.

Hope you enjoyed xoxo