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Marion looked around the waiting room. Lou was attempting to knit something that looked like a large blob with three sleeves, Amy was entertaining Catherin, Peter and Ty where deep in thought, and her father had yet to stop pacing. "I am going to get something to eat. Anyone want anything?" When she got no answer she stood up.
"I'll come." Ben stood up
Marion was surprised Ben had not said anything since he had gotten here. Marion walked down the halls to the stairs. She refused to use elevators they always had an awkward silence to them and they seemed to take time stopping at every floor taking ten or fifteen minutes to get to the ground floor. That and the fact that she disliked small spaces with no way out. She started down the 10 flights of stairs noticing that Ben was no longer behind her. When she got to the bottom of the stairs Ben was already there holding the door open for her.
Ben looked at the floor. "I spent a lot of time in hospitals. And elevators move faster when you use ones that are not often used."
Marion smiled slightly as she walked towed the cafeteria. "Do you have any suggestions on hospital food?"
"No. I am afraid it is all equally discussing. The only good thing is there coffee." Ben said quietly.
"Good to know." Marion said ordering coffees to take up stairs to everyone.
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Marion handed a coffee to Jack. "No thanks."
"I just climbed ten flights of stairs with three coffees and a juice box and I did not spill anything. So just drink it." Marion glared at him before handing Amy a coffee and Catherin the Juice box.
The door opened again and a doctor walked in. Emedeatly everyone was standing in front of him waiting for news. "I have good news. The surgery was successful and the tumor has been completely removed."
"Can we see Lisa yet?" Jack looked at the doctor.
"She is still in recovery. Any sort of brain surgery takes a long time to recover from. She will need to spend a week here and three to five weeks at home resting. That means no work no cooking nothing of the sort. The only time she should leave the house is to come back for follow ups. She will still be on medications for a long time to come so she will not be allowed to have alcohol or caffeine." The doctor continued to ramble on and on about the do's and don'ts and repeated himself several times.
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Four days later everyone was crowded in Lisa's hospital room eating the pizza they had snuck in. Catherin had it all over her face she smiled when her mother glared at her "Good." She said putting more pizza in her already full mouth.
"Catherin that's not polite!" Lou scolded her daughter; she bent down and wiped Catherin's face cleen.
Catherin jumped down and ran over to Jack who picked her up. "You think I'm going to save you from your mom? I don't think so."
"She just gets in to so much trouble!" Lou said thinking about all the things she had broken.
"Some people call in the terrible two's." Lisa said smiling at the little girl
"My mom called it ongelmia." Ben said miss pronuncing the frinch word
"Your Frinch need's work." Lisa said. "You can't even pronounce a simple word like trouble! Who would have guessed you spent life with people who speak French better than English."
"Hay you actually know some French. I know nadda." Ty said to Ben
Amy glared at Ty. "That's Spanish."
Ty looked at her. "I know that."
"You did not!" Amy tried not to laugh at the glare Ty was giving her.
Marion smiled at her youngest daughters light heartedness.
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Evreyone sat around the dinner table 3 nights latter enjoying Amy's famous micowave dinners. "This is really good chicken." Ty said
"I got the steak dinner." Ben said
Mallory glared at Amy. "Chicken nuggets and Mack n` cheese. Really what am I two?"
"Yes." Catherin exclaimed
Amy smiled at her 2 year old niece. "I ran out of dinners if Ty hadn't had one for breakfast this morning there would have been enough for you too.
Ty glared at Amy. "It's not my fault we don't have cereal."
"That's because you ate it for dinner the night before." Amy said
Lou looked at her sister. "Next time you offer to bring dinner the answer is NO!"
Lisa smiled. "Look on the bright side."
"What is the bright side?" Jack asked her
Lisa smiled "It's not hospital food!"
Ben looked at his aunt. "Speaking of hospitals I have something I want to tell you all. As you all know I graduated from medical school in May. I applied for a Job in the pediatric cancer wing at the hospital in Calgary, and I got hired. I start in a week."
"Ben that's wonderful. I am so proud of you." Lisa was tearing up
"Congratulations." Jack smiled at the boy who had come a long way from when he worked at Heartland.
"So now do we get to call you Doctor Stallman?" Ty asked
Ben glared at Ty. "I have to go back to England and get my things out of my apartment. But I will only be gone three or four days."
Marion looked at Ben he hadn't really seemed like the doctor type. Much less a pediatric doctor.
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"Jack could you hand me my laptop Please?" Lisa asked
"You're supposed to be resting not working you just had surgery on your brain."
"I realize that Jack. But I am not going to work I just need to check something."
"What?"
"He is lying."
Marion and Amy looked up from the furniture catalog they were looking at. "Who?"
Lisa shook her head. "Ben. Three days in England. Not likely! You'd just as soon get there and you'd have to leave that's not near much time to pack. Now unless you would like to check the flight schedule yourself I would much appreciate if you would hand me the laptop."
"Fine but I really can't see why he would lie to you." jack handed her the laptop
"Thanks." Lisa said opening the laptop. After scrolling for several moments she found the airport flight schedule for that day. "What time was his flight at?"
"2 this afternoon." Amy said without looking up.
"There is one to Alaska one to Québec one to Kentucky one to Rome, one to Mexico and one to BC." Lisa said shutting the laptop.
"So he is lying." Ty said
Amy smiled sarcastically. "Thank you captain Obvious!"
Ty smiled back at her. "You are welcome sergeant sarcasm!"
Marion smiled. "I don't know him but is it maybe to go see a girl friend?"
"No he has spent the last 8 years at a school in England." Lisa thought for a moment. "Justine." She whispered so low that no one heard her.
"What did you say?"
"Just forget I ever said anything." Lisa said standing up and walking towed her bed room
"Well that was odd." Lou looked at the now closed bedroom door.
"What did she mutter?" Marion looked at Mallory who had been sitting on the floor closest to Lisa reading one of her ever so helpful books.
Mallory put a book mark in her book. "Julie or Justine or something like that."
"Mean anything to you Dad?" Marion looked at her father who shook his head but stood up and followed Lisa's path
"Ok that was strange." Mallory
"Just a bit." Marion said sarcastically
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I will update soon as I am off school for 2 weeks and have not a thing to do (School wise) so all I need are reviews and I will update every other day! That would be a lot of chapters!