Chapter 11:

Sam's POV

Walking into the hospital I couldn't help but feel like my heart was going to pop out of my chest. Keeping Damon in my arms and Danny in my hands I walked over to the nurses' station. That's where I saw Monica and Elizabeth talking.

"Sam what's wrong?" Monica asked when she realized that I was there

"Something's wrong with Danny. He didn't want to wake up this morning or eat. When I went to check to see if he had a fever I noticed that he had bruises all over. Something's wrong Monica, I can feel it."

"Okay, Elizabeth page the on call pediatrics doctor and get them down here now. Sam you need to breathe. Give me Damon and take Danny and we'll put them in a room." She said walking over to me

I never felt so afraid in my life. My kids where my life. I spent all my time with them. Trying to make up for their parents issues I guess. Watching as they looked over my son and asked him questions. When they started poking and prodding him, making him cry. I could do nothing but hold him and try to make him understand that this was all to make him feel better. I couldn't help but feel like I failed him somehow, like this was all because I failed to protect him.

After they got the tests they left us alone. I sat next to his bed with Damon sleeping in my arms waiting for the test results to come back. I sat there hoping that everything was okay, that maybe somehow he just got hurt from someone else.

"Mrs. Morgan, we have your son's test results back." The doctor said walking into the room

Turning to face him I just nodded going back to looking at a sleeping Danny.

"Mrs. Morgan, we have to run a few more tests to be sure. But it looks like your son has acute myeloid leukemia."

"What does that mean?" I asked unsure if I wanted to really know the answer

"What it means is that his body making too many immature blood cells in his blood stream and bone marrow. We will need your consent to do further testing."

"What tests is he going to have to have done?" I asked trying to keep the tears in

"To make sure I want to do a bone marrow biopsy. It involves putting a hollow needle into his hip so that we can look at the marrow under a microscope."

"Is it painful?"

"Not at first. But when the needle goes into the bone it will be painful because you can't numb the bone. Look I will give you some time to think this over but I urge you to hurry. With cancer no matter at what age it's always best to treat it as soon as possible." He said before walking out of the room

Nodding I looked at Danny and let the tears start to roll down my face. I didn't even notice when Monica came in and sat down next to me. The only thing that I noticed was Damon waking up.

"Sam what did the doctor say? Is Danny okay?" she asked taking Damon out of my arms

"Danny has cancer." I barely chocked out

"What? Are you sure?"

"Yeah his doctor came in here and said that Danny had acute myeloid leukemia. But he wanted to do a bone marrow biopsy to be sure. He's dying, he's three years old and his life might end." I said getting up and taking his hand into mine

"Sam, I'm so sorry. But he will get through this, he has his parents strength and that will help him get well again."

"I knew that something was wrong. But I just figured that maybe he had a cold or something and that the bruises were just because he was playing too roughly with Cameron and Aiden on Christmas. Not because he had cancer, I never thought that this would be happening." I said wiping the tears off my face only to be replaced by new ones

"Sam, I know that you probably don't want to go think about this at the moment. But don't you think that you should tell Jason about this. Danny's his son too and he should know what's happening." She said sitting Damon down on the chair and walking to me

"Honestly Monica I don't even care at this point. What's happening with my son is so much bigger than anything with Jason and me."

"Okay. I'll call him later. Sam he is going to get through this alive and he will be the little boy that we all know and love." She said squeezing my hand before walking out