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Chapter 25

"Doctor, what's going on?" Heath asked the doctor as he took a seat in his chair behind the desk preparing to tell Heath and Charlie the news about April.

"This isn't the best news I need to talk to you about, and I'm really sorry. While April was in the delivery process there was a lot of bleeding. We managed to complete the delivery processing and the baby is healthy and fine. The amount of blood loss was caused by serve haemorrhage; unfortunately we weren't able to save April". The doctor hated passing on this type of information, it always hard and emotionally draining telling family and friends that their loved one had passed on.

"Thanks for letting us know, by any chance can Heath go see his son? This news is going to take some time to settle in", Charlie asked the doctor. The doctor just nodded his head and called a nurse to take Heath into a room to see his son.

Heath was in shock, the last time April and he had a proper conversation together, he broke up with her and now he had to struggle being a single dad for the first time to a baby. Heath had no idea how he was going to cope, let alone get through trying to deal with the death of April after losing Bianca not that long ago.

Charlie and Heath got up and followed the nurse in to a little room down the hallway, after they were a little bit more comfortable the nurse brought Heath's baby boy in and handed him to Heath. All Heath could do was stare down at him, and he brought a small smile to his face but not enough to subside the pain he was feeling knowing that April had been passed on.

Charlie looked over at Heath, before forcing a smile "I'm just going to step out and let the others know what is going on, I'll be back in a moment" she whispered quietly. Heath didn't respond to her, he didn't know what to say. He hadn't said anything since the doctor told him the news.

Charlie was out in the hallway, firstly she called Ruby and informed her that she would need to stay with the kids a bit longer and told her what happened. She couldn't believe it, after everything that had happened, both the Scott girls had passed on at such a young age. After speaking to Ruby she called Brax and informed him. Brax told Charlie he would be at the hospital as soon as possible and that she shouldn't have to deal with a depressed Heath on her own. Charlie then knew it was time to give Casey a call that was at home with Cody.

Casey offered to come straight down to the hospital, after dropping Cody off with Ruby at Charlie's place. Heath was going to need all the support in the world. They all knew it and they all knew it was going to be hard.

Charlie finally joined Heath back in the little room, where they sat there in quite with no idea what to say each other. Finally a nurse came in and told them that they needed a name for the baby, Heath just kept looking down at his baby boy before saying "Cooper Scott Braxton". The nurse wrote down the information before smiling and whispering "That's a beautiful name". Once the nurse had left the room Heath offered Charlie the chance to hold baby Cooper which she gratefully offered.

The next day….

The nurse had informed Heath he would be able to take home little Cooper today because he was so healthy, which he was looking forward to. Heath hated hospital but couldn't bring himself to leave while his baby boy was there.

Charlie looked over at Heath, and told him that she would help him out as much as possible, yet Heath still hadn't spoken a word to anyone since he had been informed of April's death. Brax had arrived at the hospital late that night as did Casey but neither of them could get him to talk. Brax was worried that Heath might do something stupid, but he could tell that he loved this baby more than anything.

Once they had finally arrived back at the Braxton household, they realised that all the baby stuff like the cot and what not Heath and April had brought was over at April's place. Ruby and Charlie offered to go get it while the boys stayed behind and looked after the kids.

Charlie and Ruby made a quite trip over to April's place, and went in and started packing up all the baby stuff. Ruby looked up from what she was doing and over to Charlie and spoke quietly "Who is going to pack up and sort through the rest of April's belongings?" "April's parents have been called, they're going to come out here and pack up the house but they want nothing to do with their grandchild", Charlie replied in the same tone.

Once they had packed everything up, and put it into the car they headed home. Casey met them out the front and helped them go set up the spare guestroom in the pool house as a nursery. Brax and Charlie had decided Heath could live in there for however long he needed. There was two rooms in there and Heath had already made one of them his own.

After they had finished, Brax took Heath who was carrying baby Cooper down there to show him what he had done. "This way you can have your own privacy but give us a yell if you need anything", Charlie said in a quiet voice. They all left the pool house leaving Heath and his baby boy in their alone to get settled in their new home.