Emily was sitting in her bed. She had just gone through intense chemotherapy to eliminate the rest of her bone marrow. She would be getting the transplant from Molly in three days.
Molly was also preparing for donating her bone marrow. She had been getting injections of medicine to move the stem cells into her blood. The bone marrow would be collected by apherisis, which meant blood was taken out of her arm, the stem cells were filtered out, and then the blood was returned back to Molly.
Jason had to run back to the penthouse to get some things that would make Emily feel more comfortable. Lily was asleep in her room, which had been moved right next to Emily's. Sam was sitting at her newfound daughter's bedside.
"Sammy…" Emily said. Sam held the bedpan for the 7 year old. She emptied all the contents of her stomach. Sam ran her hand up and down her daughter's back. "This hurts." The child said, starting to cry. The chemo was causing Emily a lot of pain.
"I know it does, Emmy. But soon you'll get the transplant and then you won't be sick anymore."
Sam stood and emptied the bedpan. She returned back to her chair.
"Is Lily going to get this too?" Sam sighed. Even if Michael was a match, there was a chance that Lily would be too weak to handle the chemo.
"I don't know." Sam ran her fingers through the little girl's dark hair that resembled her own. Luckily, the chemo wouldn't cause her to lose her hair.
"Why did I get sick?" she whispered. The chemo was making her tired and weak. Since she was losing her own bone marrow, Emily could easily get sick. Sam and Jason had sent their families home because they didn't want to risk Emily going through all of the chemo just to get an infection and die from that.
"We don't really know, Sweetie. But I would give anything for you and Lily to be healthy."
"One good thing did come out of this." She said.
"What's that?"
"I found my Mom, Lily found her Dad, and we both found a sister." Sam kissed her forehead. "Will you lay with me?"
"I don't want to hurt you, Em…"
"Please?" Sam climbed into bed with the child she had just met only 10 hours ago. But it didn't matter how long they had known each other. Emily was her baby and that's all that counted.
Jason opened up the door to Emily's room. He found both Sam and Emily asleep in the hospital bed. He smiled and went over to them. He kissed both of their foreheads.
He knew that things wouldn't automatically go back to how things had been before. Sam was leaning on him because of the fact that their daughters were sick and the one she had raised for 7 years could be dying. But he was going to be there for her. They could worry about where they went from here after the girls were healthy.
Jason put down the things he had brought for Emily on the table across the room. He walked out of the room and looked in the window to Lily's room.
The beautiful little girl was asleep in her bed and he swore she looked exactly like her mother. He saw her pale face and how weak she was. Jason needed Lily to survive. He had just met her and he wasn't going to let her go now.
"Jason?" he turned and saw Reilly and Taylor standing behind him.
"Is Sam around?" Reilly asked.
"She's asleep in Emily's room."
"You might want to wake her up." Taylor warned. He nodded and entered the room, leaving the doctors to discuss the cases.
Her peaceful look made Jason not want to wake her. Sam's entire world could collapse in the next minute.
"Hey, Sam." He whispered.
"Jason?" she said quietly.
"Taylor and Reilly have Lily's results." She shot up in bed, causing Emily to stir. The little girl turned to her side and stayed asleep. Jason helped Sam out of the bed and they went into the hallway.
"What is it?" Sam asked, leaning against Jason. He rested his hands on her hips.
"We got Michael's test results back. He is a match for Lily." Taylor shared.
"Is she strong enough for chemo?"
"That's what we don't know." Reilly said. "You both know the effects of chemo because of what Emily is experiencing. But Emily is a lot strong that Lily. If that is what the effects are for her, we can only imagine how they would be for Lily."
"Can we at least try? I'm not just going to sit around and let my baby die." Sam said.
"We're going to try. It's going to be intense and it's going to start in 10 minutes. We will have to do a longer session that Emily's because of the fact that Lily is a lot worse. Michael will be receiving double the injections Molly is getting. If it is possible, we would like to do the transplant tomorrow." Taylor told.
Sam nodded and went to look into Lily's room.
"What about Emily? When can we do her transplant?" Jason asked.
"The chemo is making Emily sick, but it's doing its job." Said Reilly. "There is a possibility that Emily's body will reject the treatment. We are going to put her, and Lily, on a donor list incase that happens. You both need to understand that since their bone marrow is being eliminated, they are a lot more open to infection. If either of them rejects the marrow, they could die from infection."
"What can we do to prevent that?" questioned Sam.
"Limit visitors. We would like it if it could just be the two of you, Molly, and Michael. The two of you need to try to stay clean and do not come here if you are feeling sick. The girls are already immune to anything on the two of you as of now. We just have to keep it that way."
"Are we going to set Emily for a certain day?" Jason wondered.
"If all goes well with Lily, we would like to get Emily in two days after her. If something happens with Lily, then the day after her."
"Thank you." Jason said to the two doctors.
"We will be setting up the chemo in Lily's room. You need to go wake her up." They walked away to get the equipment.
"I'll wake up Lily, you stay with Emily." Sam said. She went into her daughter's room as Jason went into his.
"Lils, wake up, baby." Sam whispered.
"Mommy, what's wrong?"
"Michael is your match. You have to get chemo."
"Like Emily? Will I throw up too?"
"Probably, Lily. But it will all be better when you aren't sick anymore."
By 4 in the morning, Sam and Jason were completely exhausted. Lily and Emily were both throwing up a lot. They could so nothing but hope that the girls could make it through this.
Sorry for the wait! I hope you guys liked this chapter, even though it is kind of sad.
I googled the effects of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants, so all the information in this chapter in pretty accurate.
Emily and Lily are fraternal twins, so I don't know if they would have the same bone marrow, but in this story they don't. Anyway, on with the questions.
Do you think Lily will react well to the transplant? What about Emily?
Do you think both girls will live? Do you want them to?
Should Jason and Sam get back together after all of this is over, even if one or both of the girls die?
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I also have a new story, Lies, that is a JaSam story that takes place in August 2007.
Secrets and You Choose have both been updated, if you read those stories.
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