Cameron got to the hospital and quickly found Leela, as he went to approach her he stopped short as he saw her wrapped up in Ziggy's arms; he felt anger boiling up inside him as he watched the way he was touching her; his girl.
Shaking away the anger he moved forward "Leela" he called as he rushed up to her and quickly took her from Ziggy's arms into his own "I'm here now"
"Cam, I was so scared, she started fitting..." Leela crying into his shirt "They've taken her for a scan" she mumbled as she continued to cry.
"Shh, I'm here now" he tried to comfort her but he was as worried as she was as he caressed her hair in a calming manner while glaring at Ziggy.
"Your daughter is back now if you'd like to go and see her" a Doctor told Leela.
Pulling out of Cameron's embrace she rushed to her daughter's cubical and as soon as she saw her she rushed over hugged her tightly.
"The Doctor said he will be back to discuss my results with you soon" Peri mumbled as her Mum hugged her a bit too forcefully.
"Where's Dad?" she asked causing Leela to look around "He was right behind me" she frowned as she walked to the end of the cubical.
Seeing Cameron and Ziggy standing just outside the cubical she grimaced as they looked to be having some sort of heated disagreement.
"Leela's my girl, stay away from her" Cameron warned as he walked away from Ziggy and into the cubical looking extremely irritated.
"Right, I've got your results" the Doctor said as he entered the room and drew the curtains behind him so that they could have some privacy.
The Doctor looked at the two parents "It's bad isn't it? Leela asked as she took her daughters hand and tried to prepare herself for the news.
"Mr Campbell, Miss Lomax..." he trailed off.
"Just tell us?" Peri said from her bed.
"Okay" the Doctor sighed before looking at her file which was in his hands "It's not the news we were hoping for"
"What does that mean?" Peri asked quietly.
"I'm sorry but your tumour has grown"
"What?" Leela asked in devastation "So what can you do now? You can fix it right?"
"The good news is it's only grown a small amount so for now we monitor it, we want to keep Peri in for a couple of days so we can monitor the progress of it and measure how much it's growing" the Doctor said as he looked at all three people in the room "This will help us to decide the next step"
"Can you treat it?" Cameron spoke for the first time since hearing the news.
"We will know more after we're monitored it but I think the medication I gave your daughter last time was helping to some extent so we will continue with that for the time being"
"So what now? We just wait?" Leela asked as she couldn't understand why they couldn't just help her daughter.
"Yes, that's all we can do for now"
"What about surgery, can't you just remove it?"
"It's not that simple, as I told you before it's in a very tricky place and now it's grown it's even more risky to operate, but monitoring it will help us to way up the risks and decide what to do next"
Suddenly Peri spoke "Where's Tom?" she remembered he came with them to the hospital but she hadn't seen him since the nurse brought her to the cubical.
"I think he went to the shop" Leela told her "He has been gone for a while though"
"If you haven't got anymore questions I'm going to leave you alone" the Doctor said before leaving the cubical, pulling the curtains shut again once he had left.
Cameron watched his daughter as she frowned slightly.
"I'll go look for Tom for you" he offered with a small smile.
Peri smiled at this and Cameron left in search of Tom.
"I'll be right back" Leela told her daughter before following Cameron out of the cubical.
They walked down the corridor for a bit before Leela stopped him "Where were you? I tried calling you"
"I was out of signal" he explained.
"Where were you to make your phone lose signal?" she questioned "I needed you, we needed you"
"I'm here now" he said "Beside you had Ziggy" he told her harshly.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Leela snapped.
"Just that you two seemed pretty cosy when I arrived" he said as he clenched his fists in anger.
"You weren't here" Leela shouted.
"And he was" he finished as he looked at her accusingly.
"Yes he was, he was here for me when you weren't, he was there for me when I found out Mark died" she told him in irritation.
"So you're angry with me for being out? Excuse me for having a life" he shouted causing he to plant an almighty slap across his cheek "I'm not angry at you for being out, I'm angry at you for being such an ass" she snapped.
"He still loves you Leela, he had his hands all over you" he said matter-of-factly.
"He was comforting me" she told him in aggravation "I. love. You. Cameron" she said, emphasising each word, needing him to understand that it was him she loved not Ziggy.
"Do you?" he questioned.
"Of course I do" she said in disbelief "How can you even ask that?"
There was silence as they both looked at each other daring the other to speak.
"Look I can't do this now" she sighed "Just go and find Tom, I need to be with our daughter"
He watched as she stormed off, feeling his anger fade slightly; he didn't mean to get angry but he couldn't stand the thought of Ziggy trying to steal his girl.
...
"What's wrong?" Peri asked as she noticed he Mum's red teary eyes.
"I'm fine" Leela said weakly before offering her daughter a smile "Don't worry about me, you just get better"
There was silence for a moment before Peri spoke again "I'm not going to tell him" she whispered causing Leela to look confused "Dad, I'm not going to tell him about you and Ziggy"
"Thank you" Leela breathed.
"But you promise it was only once?"
Leela nodded slowly "And it won't happen again?"
"It won't happen again, I promise" Leela told her.
"Good"
Please just bear with me, I have some much I want to include and sometimes I get muddled with how to write it all bujt im getting there, I think haha, anyway I have the next two chapters written and waying. I might post one or maybe both later tonight, depends.
Also, I want to thank my readers and reviewers bc it means the world to me it really does :)