"Well that went well," Peyton said to me and stood up.

"What do you want me to say? Ok fine don't have the treatment," I said to my wife.

"Well you didn't have to yell at her," she said exiting the room. I shook my head and threw a glass into the sink in which It broke.

"Dad," I heard my son say.

"Yeah Keith," I said holding the bridge of my nose.

"You want to go shoot some hoops or no," he asked at my aggravated look.

"No let's go," I said walking over to him and grabbing the ball. We walked to the river court in silence and started playing.

"Hey dad," Keith asked and made a free throw. I grabbed the ball and tossed it back to him.

"What's up buddy?"

"Is Sawyer going to die?" He asked.

"I don't know bud, I don't know," I said looking at him. I was standing facing him when I saw him look off into the distance. I turned around to see my father coming up behind us. I walked to where Keith was.

"Lucas, Keith," he nodded at both of us. I rested my hand on Keith's shoulders and nodded back to him.

"I'll do the transplant Lucas. If that's what you want, then count me in," Dan said.

"This doesn't change anything Dan," I told him.

"You're right and I understand, but if I die I know it will be to save a life. I've lived mine Lucas with many mistakes and regrets, but Sawyer hasn't and I want her to get the chance to live hers," he said sincerely. "Call me if you want and let me know what's going to happen." He said and started walking away. Keith looked up at me and said, "Grandpa." He ran towards him and I tried to hold him back. He ran to Dan and Dan kneeled down to his level. They were talking to each other for about a minute when Keith hugged Dan and came back to me.

"You ready to play old man," my son said as he grabbed the ball from me and did a lay up.

********Sawyer*************

I ran up to my room and slammed the door and cried on my bed. I heard a knock at the door and said, "Go away." I heard the door open and my mom came in. She sat down and rubbed my back soothingly.

"Sawyer it's going to be ok," she said. I shook my head and looked at her.

"Mom I'm so sick of being sick. I don't want to go through with it," I said sitting up.

"Sweetheart you have to, you have to for me please. I need you here. Everyone needs you here," my mom said through the tears.

"I'm just so tired of being in pain, mom," I said hugging her.

"I know but you can fight it," she said as I heard the doorbell ring downstairs. I went with my mom to answer the door and Kypton was behind it. My mom left to go to the kitchen to order dinner since the fight between all of us ruined it.

"Hey beautiful, you ok?" He said as we sat on the couch and I turned on the T.V.

"No, the cancer spread to my spine Kypton, I need a transplant," I said to him. He grabbed and I laid with my back to him. He kissed the top of my head and said, "It's going ok."

"If I have a match," I said.

"What's your blood type?" He said.

"O negative," I said.

"God you have to be so difficult," he said with a smile.

"Yeah but you like it," I smiled and kissed him.

"Sorry to do this Kypton but we haven't eaten yet, so I was going to order some Chinese, you like Chinese?" My mom asked.

"I haven't eaten yet and anything is good," he said.

"Fried rice," I smiled and she said, "I already have it down." She laughed and went back into the kitchen to order just as my dad and brother walked into the house arguing about who won the game. Keith sat down and my father said hello to Kypton and kissed my head as he walked into the kitchen.

"What's for supper?" Keith asked.

"Your mom's ordering Chinese," Kypton said as he turned the TV to the sports channel. I grabbed it and switched it back as all three of the guys yelled since my dad came back with some tea for me and Gatorade for the boys. We watched the game and ate supper in the living room as mom and I were told to be quiet so they could watch. We rolled our eyes and laughed. After the game Kypton and I were sitting on the edge of the pool with our feet in the water and talked till he had to get back home. I went up to my room and started doing my homework that I was behind on. I finished my Physics and shut my notebook as my dad walked in. He sat on my bed and I turned around to face him.

"I'm sorry for yelling at you I was mad about something and I took it out on you," he said.

"Dad I'm sorry too, it's ok," I told him.

"Mom told me about you and grandpa," he said and I stiffened up.

"Dad…..I…" I started saying but he cut me off.

"Stop, you should be able to come to me and ask me and I understand. You want to see Dan its fine," he said.

"I just wanted to know him and I was scared to ask," I told him.

"I know and I'm sorry. Just because I don't see him doesn't mean you can't. I'm just afraid he is going to hurt you like he hurt me," dad told me.

"I know mom warned me about everything and she was against it at first. She yelled at me for even asking. She finally agreed after I told her everything, but she was still debating it when she dropped me off. She came with me the first time and sat there just in case, she lets me go alone now, but still sits in the car waiting." I told him. He nodded his head.

"Your mom is great person, she loves you," he told me what I already knew.

"She loves you to dad, you just have to tell her and let her know that," I told him as he got up.

"You should get some sleep, we have a big day tomorrow," he said. I looked at him questionably.

"Grandpa Dan is doing the transplant if he is a complete match, which he is but they still have to do a few tests, but you start Chemo again tomorrow." He said and I nodded feeling sick to my stomach. I knew this would make me better I just didn't want to do it. Who knows if it could work there is only a fifty percent chance it will and my parents were willing to take the chance. I didn't.

We were sitting in what was called my room in the hospital since I would be here for awhile, getting extensive treatments of Chemo. I would confine in a room until I was able to receive the transplant from Grandpa since the tests all came back positive saying that I was able to get one. He was in surgery as we speak and all was going well since the test showed he would be a perfect match. Now we just had to wait a few days for the chemo to kill my bone marrow so the new bone marrow would be able to fit. In a few days I would receive Grandpa's. Tomorrow I would be going into surgery to get a catheter into my chest so I could receive medication and chemo through there instead of doing it through my arms. I was lying in my bed listening to music while my mom sat on her chair talking to one of her clients over the phone. My dad and Keith were waiting for Dan to get out of surgery along with Nathan. Haley came in the room with two guitars and I instantly took off my head phones.

"So I thought I would take the day off from classes and come and visit, well more of play with you," she said as my mom covered her ear and left the room.

"Thanks Haley," I said grabbing my guitar from her.

"So what do you want to play?" she asked tuning her guitar.

"Actually, I was wondering if you would listen to one of my songs that I wrote(I'm using a song that I DIDN'T WRITE)," I asked her.

"Of course!" She smiled and I sat up and tuned my guitar. I started playing and singing.

I can almost see it
That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"

Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking

But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking

I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep going

And I, I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on

'Cause there's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Somebody's gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

Keep on moving, keep climbing
Keep the faith, baby
It's all about, it's all about the climb
Keep the faith, keep your faith, whoa

I stopped playing and Haley had tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you cry," I said setting my guitar to the side.

"It's ok, its just that the song was beautiful and you have an amazing voice," she laughed through the tears.

"Sorry Haley, I was on the phone with a client I didn't mean to run out," my mom said as she saw us hugging.

"It's ok Sawyer and I were just talking and playing," she said and hugged my mom. We played for awhile until we heard that Dan was out of surgery and everyone left to go see him and talk with the doctor. I was reading when I saw Emma come into my room. She looked very weak and she climbed up on my bed.

"How you doing today sweetie?" I asked her as she saw my guitar.

"I'm tired," she said. Emma's Chemo didn't work and the doctors tried everything, but they gave her a few months to live. Emma and I have been pretty close since the day I first met her. She always has a smile on her face and she knows she doesn't have too long to live. It was sad to see for me though. She had a life to live, she is only eight. We watched a Disney show and she fell asleep till her mom came in and grabbed her. Both my parents walked through the door and came to my bedside.

"Hey hunny we are going to go home but I will be back in the morning," my father said.

"Okay, good night," I said as they both kissed me and left. I started throwing up when they left and was sitting in the bathroom with the nurse. She was sitting on the edge of the tub while I puked into the toilet. I took a deep breath while she handed me a towel and some water. After a while she helped me get back up. We were walking to the bed when alarms started sounding outside.

"I'll be right back, if you can make it go ahead, but otherwise just wait here," the nurse said rushing out of my room into the one across from me. The one that was Emma's. I walked to my door and looked to see all the doctors go into her room. I stood outside in shock as I saw her mom exit the room with one of the doctors and fall to the floor crying. Tears ran down my face as I made my way to her mom.

"She's gone Sawyer," her mom cried in my arms. "My baby is gone." I rubbed her back and started crying with her until the nurses grabbed me and took me back to my room.

"Sweetie you have to stay in here," Nicole, one of the nurses said. "You can't get sick of."

"I know I'm sorry," I told her wiping my tears and crawling back into bed. I took my phone out and started texting Taylor. We texted through the whole night and the morning came and my dad walked in to see my puffy eyes.

"Sawyer," he said shocked.

"Emma's gone dad," I said crying and he hugged me. He sat as the nurses prepared me for surgery that would take under an hour to do. He held my hand all the way down to the surgery room to where he had to let go. After that everything went black.

******Peyton***********

"I know Jon, okay I know," I screamed into the phone and threw it on my desk at Red Bedroom Records. I sat down in my chair and called my husband.

"How is she?" I asked him.

"She just go out of surgery and the doctors said it went well. She should be out the whole night along with the Chemo it would be taking a lot out of her," he told me.

"I will see you in about 2 hours and I will bring Keith," I told him.

"Haley said she and Nathan will look after him tonight so he can finish up the school work he has missed with everything going on," he told me.

"Well then I will go pack a bag and bring it over to Haley's," I told him.

"I already packed his bag, you just have to grab it and bring it over to them," he said.

"This is why I love you!" I smiled into the phone.

"I love you too," he said happily.

"I will see you in a little bit," I told him as I hung up the phone and grabbed my purse from the closet and started walking out when Brooke walked in.

"Hey, you leaving?" She asked me.

"Yeah I was just on the way to the house, you can come I will drop you back off afterwards," I told her as I locked the studio. She followed into my car and we stopped by the house.

"So how you doing?" She asked me as she sat on the stool at the kitchen bar.

"I'm holding up, it's been a long journey and the outcome just kills me," I told her as I pressed the button for coffee on the coffee maker.

"It's going to be ok P." she said. I grabbed two mugs and a thermos for Lucas and set them on the counter.

"What if it's not Brooke? What if something happens?" I asked her as I sat down on the stool next to her. "I don't know if I could go on."

"She is going to be ok and if not we will take it from there. But Peyton you have to think positive," she told me grabbing my hand.

"I know enough about me, how are you and Julian?" I asked her.

"Good. He is so busy lately with the playoffs and everything, they have a big game tonight so I think Haley and I are going. You want to come? Hopefully it's the last game so I can see my husband at night," she said winking.

"First off eww, secondly I think I'm going to stay with Sawyer tonight. I will talk to Lucas see if he will go and hang with Julian and Nathan. He needs a break." I said as the coffee finished.

"Well I think we should do a girls night at the hospital with Haley, me, you and Sawyer this weekend!" Brooke said.

"Sounds good, we just have to see if Sawyer will be up for it," I told her as I poured the cup of coffee for us and into the thermos for Lucas. I handed her the mug and we went to see near the pool.

"How's Wes?" I asked.

"He's ok. Been kind of down lately. He always has his girlfriend over and they always fight," she said laughing. "Kind of reminds me of you and Nathan." I looked at her and laughed.

"He hasn't seen Sawyer," I told her quietly.

"I know. He said he doesn't want to see her like this, it's too hard for him. I told him too, but I'm not going to make him. He has to be ready on his own time." She said.

"How did this come to be Brooke? Why do these things happen to me?" I asked her sadly remembering everything that I have been through.

"It's not you, if it were I'm pretty sure I would be gone," she laughed. "You just have to remember that everything happens for a reason whether we like it or not, it's life and it happens," she told me the truth.

"We should get going I told Lucas I would be there an hour ago," I told her as I grabbed the two cups and we headed back into the house. I grabbed Keith's bag and threw it in the back while I drove back to work to drop Brooke off. I headed over to Haley's and knocked on the door and Nathan answered. I handed him the bag and said, "Thanks for taking him Nathan, we really appreciate it. Here is some money if he needs anything," I handed him some money.

"You really think I'm going to take your money?" He laughed and pushed it away. "How are you guys doing?" He asked.

"We're hanging in there," I told him.

"Is everything with money and such okay, because I am always here if you need anything, you know that," he said kindly.

"I know but we're ok, thank you," I said as I hugged him and left. I went to the Jimmy John's and picked up a few sandwiches and soup and headed to the hospital. I knocked on Dan's door and walked in. He was lying on his bed and sat up when he saw me.

"Peyton, what brings you here," he said.

"Well I wanted to make sure you're doing okay, and I brought you some soup since I know the food here sucks," I said setting the food on his moving tray.

"Thank you," he laughed. "I'm doing okay a little sore but okay."

"Well good," I said and hugged him. "Thank you for everything that you've done for us."

"Peyton, it's the least I can do," he said hugging me back and wiping the tears from my eyes.

"Lucas is lucky to have known you and married you, you have made him so happy and given him a life that I missed out on. I'm sorry for causing you guys problems." He said sadly.

"Its always going to be there Dan he's never going to forgive you and I know you know that, but my kids have asked about you since they were 10 and they want to know about you. They know what you done and I think that they don't understand why you could have done it, but you have saved us. You saved Sawyer or at least I hope it works," I told him. He nodded his head and said, "Thank you, for giving me that chance."

"Well I got to go, I'll see you around?" I asked him.

"I'd like that," he said with a grin. I made way up to the 7th floor and walked into Sawyers room.

"Hey," Lucas said getting up and taking the coffee and food from me.

"How's she doing," I asked going up to her and seeing the thing sticking out of her chest.

"She has not woken up yet, the doctors say its normal," he whispered and ate some of the food I brought.

"I was thinking you could go to the football game tonight. Hang out with Nathan and Julian, have a guys night," I mentioned to him.

"Maybe," he said shrugging his shoulders.

"It might be good for you," I suggested.

"Peyton," he said annoyed.

"I just think you need to get out, coach the team with the guys be manly do you what you do," I said manly. He laughed and shook his head.

"If you want me to go I'll go," he said and I sat on his lap.

"Call me when she wakes up," he said.

"Of course," I smiled and kissed him.

"Could you guys do that when I am not in the room," Sawyer said. We both looked up to see her with her eyes open and rushed over to her.

"Hey baby girl," Lucas said grabbing her hand.

"Hi daddy," she smiled at both of us.