Riker knows he should be the one keeping it together for the sake of his whole family, but inside he was just dying to break down on the spot and cry until there was no water left. His youngest niece had just tried to commit suicide, his youngest son has just slipped into a coma cause of a bus crash and now to top it all off his wife has cancer is at the risk of dying.

Anybody else in his family want to put their life's at risk whilst they are at it?

He was still sat outside the room Jake is in holding Laura in his arms waiting for a nurse or doctor to come out to tell them it's fine to go in and see him, but nobody was coming out. They were all still in there doing something. It seemed like forever, but they were only there for 45 minutes, but that was long enough to be waiting.

They were suppose to be with Rocky and Keely for Mackenzie.. but surely Germaine and Ashleigh will tell them what's happened with Jake. Hopefully anyway.

Riker should probably go outside and call his parents, Ross, Ratliff and Rydel to tell them what's going on in case they try to go round Rocky's or Riker's house.

"Laur," Riker said "I'm going to go call my Mom and that."

Laura pulled away from Riker and nodded "I'll wait here..." Laura said, her voice sounding almost like a whisper.

Riker threw her a weak smile before giving her a kiss on the lips and going outside like he said he was.

Rocky was sat at his daughter's bed side, he had been since she'd gotten here and they'd finally sorted her out. He was here on his own. Keely wasn't there because she was stuck at work and nobody would let her off early, but she said she'd try her best to come down as soon as she could. But she wasn't really having any luck.

Mackenzie was asleep in the bed, she hadn't woken up yet. The doctors said she was really weak and they don't know if she is going to wake up with the amount of blood she lost. Which he just sighed at instead of breaking down, when he wanted to.

He had his head laid on the side of the bed, he felt like he could just drift off to sleep any minute. If Mackenzie woke up she'd wake him. Not sure how. But she'd defo wake him up. As he shut his eyes, the door opened, he shot his head up expecting to see Keely but she wasn't there, iT was Germaine and Ashleigh.

"Oh my god..." Ashleigh said in horror as she walked closer to the bed "i-is she okay?"

Rocky shrugged "Doctor's don't know yet."

"Why'd she do it anyway?" Germaine asked.

Rocky glared at Germaine "If I knew why she done it, don't you think I'd of done something by now to make sure she didn't?"

Germaine backed away a little from his Uncle. He sure was pissed. Then again... Every parent would be if their child tried to commit suicide.

"Where's your Mom and Dad?" Rocky asked.

Ashleigh sighed and bit down on her tougne to stop herself from breaking down crying again. It was bad enough she was crying about Mackenzie and then when she got told about Jake she just collapsed onto the floor and lost it completely. She didn't want to do the same now.

Germaine saw that Ashleigh looked like she was going to cry, so he put an arm round her and brought her in closer for a hug. No matter how much he felt guilty for doing what he is doing to her.. She's still his baby sister and he has to make sure she's okay.

"H-he.. Was on the bus going to his feild trip," Germaine began "the bus crashed badly and now... he's in a coma."

Rockys eyes widened "Oh my god..." Rocky said shocked "s-should I go see your Mom and Dad?" He asked getting upf from his seat.

"No," Germaine said "you stay here with Mackenzie.. She kind of needs you more than Jake does."

Rocky nodded and sat back down into his seat before sighing again and putting his head in his hands.

Germaine removed his arm from round Ashleigh "We're going to go get a drink from the vending machine," Germaine said "want anything?" Rocky shook his head "We'll be back in a little while. We might go see Jake as well." Rocky nodded.

Germaine and Ashleigh then left the room.

Mackenzie began to make a little bit of movement in her sleep, Rocky looked at her, she looked like she was about to wake up. Her eye lids began to twitch which was a definite yes. "Mackenzie?" Rocky asked.

Mackenzie's eyes fluttered open slowly she looked around and saw her Dad sat by her side "Dad?" She asked, groggily "what happened?" She tried to sit up as best as she could but failed. Meaniing Rocky had to help her, which he did.

Rocky sat back down after he helped her sit off "I don't know what happened," Rocky said "last thing I remember, you came home in a huff and puff... Slammed your bedroom door shut. I let you cool off a little, came upstairs to check on you... there you were sprawled out on your bed with blood dripping from your wrists."

'Shit'. Mackenzie thought. She totally forgot about what would happen if she failed at killing herself. Her Mom and Dad would kill her. But.. Her Mom wasn't in the room. Which was odd.

"So.. Why'd you do it?" Rocky asked as his voice cracked "what drove you too it? C'mon Mack.. I can help you."

"you can't help me."

"Well... If I can't help... I can at least try." Rocky said.

Mackenzie rolled her head to looked at Rocky "Make Uncle Ross turn straight as well as Uncle Ratliff," Mackenzie said.

Rocky cocked his head in confusion "What's that got to do with anything Mack?" Rocky asked "don't you like that they are gay?"

"No, I'm fine with it," Mackenzie said "but try getting people in my school to live up to being totally a-okay with it. Maybe then they'll leave me alone."

"So.. Your bullied about that... and... Charlotte's not..." Rocky said confused "how the heck does that work?"

"Beats me."

"Anyway," Rocky shook his head, realizing he sounded like how he use to when he was 19 or 20 "that's not the point... If you were having problems why didn't you come talk to me or your Mom about it?"

Mackenzie shrugged "Because," She said "I found a new friend that I could talk to and trust... But he's away and... it began again which drove me insane which lead to this."

Rocky sighed "You do realize you are going to have to get your story straight before your mother gets here," Rocky said "because she is going to kill you. More importantly she's going to kill me for not keeping an eye on you when you were moody and upset."

Mackenzie nodded in agreement. Her Mom was more than likely going to kill her.

Rydel got home from town and got what she wanted and needed to, which was food. She walked into the kitchen and put everything away in the fridge and cupboards before going into the living room and collapsing onto the couch and sighing. She wanted sleep. She's so exhausted.

"Mom?" Ryan asked coming into the living room "Oh there you are, I need to tell you something."

Rydel rolled her eyes "If it's anything to do with hard work..." Rydel said "count me out.. I'm tired."

"No..."

"Oh, then what is it?" Rydel asked sitting up on the couch.

"Some guy came round earlier," Ryan said walking over to the couch "he was looking for you and wanted to know where you were cause he needed to talk to you."

"What did this guy look like?"

"He had brown hair, like mine," Ryan said "he was tall. About your height, maybe a little bit taller... He.. er... Now that I think about it he looked a little bit like Auntie Laura..."

Rydel looked at Ryan as if he was loosing it big time. What would a guy who has the same colour hair as Ryan and resembles Laura come knocking at their front door for?

"Ryan," Rydel said "are you sure you're not loosing it?"

"No, no!" Ryan shook his head "I am being serious... Does Laura have any brother's or sister's I don't know about? Cause I'm sure he could of passed as her brother."

Rydel felt her heart sink. Should she tell Ryan about Noah? Maybe it was time she did. After all he is 15 years old now and he should surely understand by now, cause if he doesn't then he's got serious problems.

"Y-yeah," Rydel said "she had an older brother called Noah."

"That's his name," Ryan said. Rydel immediately shot her glance at Ryan "he told me his name was Noah Marano.. Oh my god. How did I not catch on that it was Laura's brother?" he shrugged.

"A-are you being serious Ryan...?" Rydel asked with a little bit of fear.

Ryan nodded "Yeah, I'm not joking..." Ryan said.

Rydel put her head in her hands "Oh god.. Oh no..." She whimpered.

"What's wrong..?" Ryan asked "is there something about him..."

"He's your Dad Ryan!"

Ryan's eyes widened "Wow..." He said a little taken back "that would explain why he has almost the same coloured hair as me.."

Rydel gave Ryan a funny look. How on earth could he be thinking almost positivly about this? Oh yeah that's right.. Because Ryan doesn't know Noah raped Rydel which got her pregnant.

"but someting tells me... There's another reason why you are so scared." Ryan said. Ryan's no fool. He can see straight through his Mom. Something's playing at her about Noah. Aka Ryan's dad.

"I- I don't want to talk about it Ryan," Rydel said "but... when I do.. I'll tell you."

"Well I wanna know now in case I have another run-in with him," Ryan said "and I decide he's a nice guy and it turns out he's a monster," Ryan said plopping down next to her "to be fair... I'd rather know what he's like now... rather than later."

Rydel took a deep breath "He raped me about 15 years ago before you were born and then he disappeared." She said as bravely as he could "thats why I'm so scared of him Ry.." She said as her voice cracked with tears.

Ryan's mouth almost dropped open. His Dad is a complete ass. Wow. Then something occured to him "M-mom..." Ryan said "when he did... yeah... was that before or after you got pregnant by him..."

"I don't want you to feel bad Ryan..."

"Just tell me women!" Ryan snapped.

"I got pregnant when he done it..." She said.

Well that made Ryan feel a tun better to know he was only brought into the world all cause his Mom was raped by some disgusting monster. Ten times better.

As if the next day couldn't get anymore worse for Ross.. Yesterday his husband leaces him over a stupid mistake Ross done and now he finds out from Riker that his youngest nephew is in a coma and his youngest neice has attempted suicide and they are both in the hospital.

Well of course they are going to be in the hospital. Where else are they going to be? Ross rolled his eyes at himself.

Then Riker had to add the worst one on top ever. The one that made him break down on the floor crying. It even made Charlotte cry when Ross managed to tell her. Laura having cancer.

This week was just not for this family at all.

Whilst Charlotte was getting ready to go to the hospital to visit Jake and Mackenzie, as well as everyone else, Ross decided he'd go to the store to get something to drink on the way there. In any hope he had he'd bump into Ratliff, apologize big time and they could go back to normal.

Hopefully.

He got to the store, paid for the drink. But nothing. He wasn't there. Where the heck could Ratliff be staying anyways? There's not alot of people he can turn to. His family haven't spoken to Ratliff since he and Ross went out to the public about their relationship 16 years ago. How low. Kelly's not around anymore, Ross dreds to think Ratliff would stay with her.

The only people Ratliff has got really is Ross, Laura, Riker, Rydel, Rocky and Keely. It use to be Ross... In fact Ratliff can still have Ross.

Ross was lost so deep in thoughts about Ratliff and his whereabouts, and about if they'd ever be together again that when he was crossing the road.. He didn't see the van that was speeding towards him, at too much of a high speed, and he ended up getting hit by it hard. Over the bonnet of the car he went, hit the wind shield, onto half the roof of it... and smash onto the floor.

Then everything was black.

The last thing he heard was;

"ROSS!"

Whoever it was.. Ross just hopes they'll help him before it's too late.

Ratliff was actually coming back to Ross's to apologize for running off the way he did and that he just needed to cool off and get away from it for a little bit. He was almost certain that Ross would have a pretty good explanation for this. Why else would Ross cheat on him?

So as Ratliff was on his way round, he came onto the street where he saw Ross crossing the road, he was about to call him, but he saw a van coming down the road waaaaaaaay to fast... and then it knocked Ross off his feet onto the floor.

"ROSS!" Ratliff shouted from the top of his lungs.

He ran from the other side of the road and basically skidded on his knees on the floor, taking that the floor is concrete. It killed a little, but he really didn't care at this moment.

Ratliff shook Ross "Ross... Wake up..." He said as tears struck his eyes. Nothing. He looked to Ross's chest and saw his chest was slowly rising and falling... Almost like he was about to stop breathing. "No, no, no, no, no..." Ratliff chorused "d-don't you dare leave me..." he said as tears came out of his eyes. He took out his phone and called for an ambulance.

He pulled Ross into his lap and craddled him as best as he could and cried. Ross can't die. He can't. Especially with him thinking that Ratliff doesn't love him anymore. He looked at his hands.. They were pitted in blood. He was confused why. That was until he lifted Ross a little and saw the back of his head flowing like a river.

A nurse, at long last, came out of Jake's room "You his parents?" She asked.

Laura and Riker stood up "Yeah we are.." Laura said "is he okay? Please say he's okay..."

"Obviously he's still in his coma," The nurse said "but other than that he's doing great. We just don't know exactly when he'll wake up."

"Well.. What's your estimated time?" Riker asked concerned. He desperately wanted him to wake up. If he can't keep his son alive, then he wants to keep his wife alive, if he can't keep his wife alive, then he wants his son alive. Even though he would kill to have both of them.

But something just keeps on telling Riker that he's only going to be able to keep one and that's it.

The nurse sighed "It could be days," The nurse said "or weeks.. Or months."

"What if he doesn't wake up?" Laura asked with tears "how long are you going to keep him in a coma if he don't wake up?"

"If he doesn't wake up in 6 - 8-"

"Days?"

"No..."

"Weeks?"

"Months..." The nurse finished "then.. I'm afraid we will have to pull the plug on him."

Laura let out a cry, Riker took her into his arms and rubbed her back.

"Go on.. You can go see him." The nurse said moving out of the way of the door.

Laura and Riker went into the room where Jake was laid in the bed all beaten and bruised. His face was bruised and scratched like hell, his left arm was broken, he was hooked up to a life support and he had a breathing tube stuck in his throat.

The sight killed Laura on the inside. She was going to break down crying on the spot, but something stopped her. She was beginning to get a little bit light headed.

Laura stumbled a little and Riker caught her "You okay?" Riker asked "I know it's hard seeing him like this Laur... but you got to try stay strong."

Laura nodded "I.. I know." She said. That's what it must be. She must just be in shock from seeing her baby boy laid in a bed hooked up to a million machines. Even though she's exaggerating, it just seemed like a million machiens seeing a 12 year old boy hooked up to them machines.

She took a step towards the bed, she felt even more light headed. Riker had to come behind her cause he was worrying she was going to collapse or something. Laura took a deep breath before going to take another step.

But it seemed to much. She just collapsed right there and then, making everything go black.

Riker caught Laura in his arms and sunk to the floor with her "Laura!" He called shaking her a little "baby, wake up..." She was still breathing which was still a good sign. "Nurse! Help!" He shouted.

A nurse came into the room and ran over to Riker's side "What happened?" The nurse asked.

"I don't know," Riker said still holding her "she was perfectly fine... Then we came in here. She was fine. Then she seemed light headed and then she collapsed."

"Does she have anything wrong with her or any type of condition that might make her pass out?"

"S-she's got cancer.." Riker said sadly. His eyes widened "it doesn't have anything to do with that... Does it..?"

"I.. I don't know," The nurse said standing up "I'll have to get more help." She ran out the room "I need help in here!"

Riker looked down at Laura as he saw the colour in her face drainig, she shook his head "Don't leave me now Laura," he kissed her head "please.. its not your time yet.."

Maybe he was right about Jake and Laura.

He could only have one and loose the other...

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