The Little Cancer Soldier
Chapter 3: Blood and Heart
After Noah's second tour of duty overseas, he came home and saw Quinn with mascara running down her cheeks. Noah just asks, "Is Liza Marie okay?"
Quinn just shakes her head no before breaking down. Then she says, "She started getting weaker after you left and told everybody not to tell you. Puck, she looks just awful. She needs a blood transfusion, but the doctors haven't been able to find a match. She won't let anyone but Beth see her, and she keeps asking Kurt about his mom."
Then Quinn breaks down again before Noah hugs her and says, "Liza Marie is a fighter, Quinn, and I am not going to let her die."
Thirty minutes later, Noah walks into Liza Marie's hospital room and tries to hold back his tears as he says, "Hey, Squirt, how's my soldier doing?"
Liza Marie was too weak to talk and just gave him a thumbs down. Then she writes in a notebook, "I'm fucking dying, Nono! The chemo isn't working, and the doctors don't think I will be here much longer if they don't find a donor soon!"
Noah storms out and says to someone, "Who can I talk to about seeing if I'm the right person to donate my blood to my niece?"
Before he comes back in, he is followed by a nurse who says to Liza Marie, "This must be the Uncle Hulk you keep talking about?" Liza Marie just glares at the nurse as she holds up her notebook that had the word, Duh, written on it.
Noah chuckles before the nurse starts drawing his blood while he has a staring match with Liza Marie. When it was all done, the nurse says to Noah, "Now, this is going to take a couple of days to see if you are a suitable match for her. Ha, I hope she doesn't turn green after this."
Liza Marie raises an eyebrow and Noah says, "It won't. We only have matching tempers right now." Then he looks at Liza Marie before saying, "Her Mama and Papa are only blood related to her."
The nurse chuckles before saying, "All of your friends and her Papa's family have been fighting because of the fact she acts like you and her Grandpa Pat called you a fly-boy loser. Ha, I hope you are a match because that might shut them all up. Your wife yelled at them after your biological daughter left, and your niece would scream at your friends or her dads. Ha, her Grandpa Burt bet your wife twenty dollars that you'll be a match, and let's just say some nursing staff got in on that bet."
Noah chuckles as he says, "I don't want her Dada to hear about this because he hates when his dad bets on anything."
After this, Noah stayed with Liza Marie by her bedside for the next two days. As he prayed to God that he would be a match for her. Then one day, the nurse that took his blood runs into the room as Noah stands up and says, "You're a match!" Liza Marie smiles weakly as Beth comes into the room ahead of the others, and Noah looks at Kurt as he says, "I'm a match!"
Before, Kurt hugs Noah and says, "Thank God and I know about the bet. Ha, Carole told me. Now, prove to my daughter you are The Hulk, and she is just as tough as you." Soon, Noah is holding Liza Marie's hand as he watches his blood enter her through a tube with a needle that was in her vein as she is sleeping peacefully. Noah ended up falling asleep as this was happening, and a nurse had to wake him up before they took Liza Marie back to her room.
Before they get to her room, he hears Beth and Blaine yelling at each other and hears Blaine say, "Puck is just her friend and you being jealous of her is ridiculous. How would you feel if Rachel was jealous of you, Beth? Puck was her only hope to live, and you are acting like he is replacing you with my daughter!"
Soon a nurse goes into the room and says, "Your daughter is about to enter this room and considering the fact your father is the only one I haven't had to yell at since she has been admitted here. I think you all should leave, and as for you two. That is your daughter, and I find it crazy that the only ones she doesn't dread seeing is your husband or her Grandpa Hummel. Now, please leave, or I will call security."
After this, the others walk out as Burt, Carole, Quinn, Kurt, and Blaine stay in the room. Then Noah says, "I really would appreciate it if you guys didn't fight in front of Liza Marie while she is staying here, and I am only saying this because I know that that is what she wants."
Then he looks at Burt before saying to Kurt, "Kurt, man, I know this has to be stressful for you, and you are worried about losing her. But if you don't chill out and try to focus on helping her get better! You will lose her!" Kurt doesn't respond and just walks out as Blaine and Quinn follow him.
An hour later, Burt walks in with Carole and sees Noah holding Liza Marie as they set up in her bed watching TV. When Liza Marie notices her dad's, she buries her face into Noah's chest, and says, "They'll kill me, make them go away! Nono, I don't want to hear them fight about me!"
Then she started to cry before Noah says to Liza Marie, "Squirt, now, come on. This is your parents here. I'm just your friend, and I know listening to them fight hurts you. But they love you, and they are worried about you."
Liza Marie yells, "I know that, Nono, but they don't have to make me feel like I want to die just so they'll stop!" This made Kurt start to cry before he ran out of the room.
Chapter 4 will be up soon