Chapter 14

The first thing Emma felt the next morning was the strong arms that were wrapped around her waist. Thinking it was her boyfriend she rolled over and kissed him softly on his lips. "Morning." she whispered.

"Morning." she heard him reply sleepily as he nuzzled her shoulder. It was then she realized that it wasn't her boyfriend she was in bed with and where exactly she was.

"Sean?!" she yelped untangling her legs from his and jumping out of the bed.

"What?" he muttered opening his eyes and seeing her in her night clothes. "Oh! Where are the kids?"

Emma glared at him. "We wake up in the same bed in each other's arms for the first time in a year and you ask where our kids are?!"

"It's not like we did anything Em. Our kids were in here with us last night and now they're not." Sean said getting out of bed and slipping his jeans on over his boxers. "Forgive me for wondering what happened to them." She heard the bedroom door slam shut and then the door to the bathroom.

She sighed before quickly getting dressed and going downstairs. She found Mike sitting at the dining room table next to Manny stirring his cereal around in his bowl and Alyssa was sitting on Spinner's shoulders.

"Morning Mommy!" she said happily playing with Spinner's hair. "You and Daddy looked comfy so Uncle Furby said to let you sleep."

Emma raised an eyebrow over at Manny. "First where is Peter? Second why is she calling him Furby?"

"Peter's dad called, something about film school or something, so he left early this morning." Spinner told her trying to stop Alyssa from braiding the spikes together. "As for the Furby thing, she's decided my hair looks like her brother's Furby's."

Mike pushed his bowl away from him. "I'm not hungry anymore." Manny looked down at him sorrowfully as she let him crawl into her lap.

"Is it normal for him to do this?" Emma asked her.

Manny shook her head. "Em I think you should get Sean. He needs to go to the hospital like now."

Mike's little blue eyes widened as they filled up with tears. "I don't want to go back there Mommy! Don't let Daddy take me back there! I'll be fine I promise!"

Manny handed him over to his mother. "You got to go back there baby. They want to make you better." Emma said holding the now sobbing boy tight in her arms.

"But I'm not gonna get better! I wanna stay here with you and Daddy and Lyssa til then! Please Mommy!" Jay and Sean came into the room as he said that.

"Mike are you okay?" Sean asked bending down next to the two of them.

"Daddy! Don't take me to the hospital!" Sean looked over at Manny wondering what was going on with his oldest child.

Manny sighed and put her hand on his shoulder. "He needs to go to the hospital, Sean. This is the second day he's been like this, it's not good."

Sean sighed and put a hand on his son's forehead which felt warmer than normal. "Spin do you and Darcy mind taking Alyssa for the day?"

Spinner nodded. "Sure man whatever you need." he said before leaving the kitchen to go find his girlfriend with the little girl still on his shoulders.

"Emma take him out to the car get him in his car seat. I'll be out in a minute." She nodded before going out to Sean's car. He took a seat at the table and put his head in his hands.

Jay put a hand on his best friend's shoulder. "He's gonna be alright man. He's too young not to be."

"Yea." he said quietly before going back upstairs to grab his shirt, wallet and keys before going out to the car and driving the familiar route to the hospital. When they got there they took Mike right on in and due to his begging they let Emma go with him.

Sean stayed out in the waiting room until the doctor had him come back into his office so he could talk to him.

"We ran tests on your son's blood again and things don't look too good Mr. Cameron. His blood count was extremely low and his chemo is no longer working. With the way it looks the only way your son will make it through this is with the bone marrow transplant." the doctor told him sadly. "I'd also suggest leaving him here where we can monitor him and relieve most of the pain."

Sean scratched the back of his neck. "Has a donor been found yet?" he asked voice shaking just a bit.

The doctor shook his head. "We've tested all the family members you have brought in and we searched the registry and we've found some but they aren't as close of a match as we would like."

"His mother, along with his grandmother and uncle, is in town."

The doctor stood up from his chair. "Then bring them in. The sooner they get tested the better your son's chances are."

Sean nodded. "Thank you Doctor." he said shaking the man's hand and going back to the room they had put Mike in. "Hey buddy." he said walking in and saw him laying in the hospital bed with an IV in his arm.

"Hey Daddy." he said as Sean kissed him on the top on his head.

"Do you mind if I borrow Mommy for a minute? We'll be right outside the door." Mike nodded and cuddled up with the teddy bear the nurse had given him.

"What's going on?" Emma asked Sean as he closed the door.

"He needs a bone marrow transplant and so far we haven't found a match. Would you be willing..." Emma interrupted him.

"I'll do it." she said quickly.

Sean's eyes widened. "Really?"

She nodded. "He's our baby, I have to do something." she told him.

Sean smiled and wrapped his arms tightly around her. "Thank you." he whispered in her ear.

Emma breathed in his scent as he held her. "No need to thank me, Sean."

He pulled back and ran his hand through her hair. He had forgotten how good she had felt in his arms. "You finally put aside your boyfriend and everything else you had going to come when they needed you most." he placed a soft kiss on her lips and went back into the room.

Emma shook her head and regained her breath before following him.

TBC...