A/N: thanks for all the reviews and guesses on what's wrong with Ashley! Oh and I don't own them.





*I can't believe it. * Ashley thought to herself as she drove home from the doctor's. *Oh god how am I supposed to tell Andros? * She pulled the car over and laid her head on the steering wheel and cried. "How do I tell him, if I can't even accept it?" She asked herself. After a few more moments of crying, she pulled herself together and drove home.



Andros nervously paced around the living room, "4 hours! 4 hours!" He exclaimed, "Where could she be? It wouldn't take 4 hours for a check up." Andros sat on the couch but immediately got back up and paced some more. "What if she's been in an accident?" He looked down at his left hand and fiddled with his silver wedding band. All these thoughts were going through his head and he panicked, "That's it! I have to go look for her!" He went into the kitchen to grab his coat and car keys, when he heard the door open.

"Ashley! Oh thank God you're alright!" Andros wrapped her in his arms and hugged her tightly. She weakly hugged him back.

*Define all right. * She thought.

"Where have you been?" Andros pulled away and saw the distant look in her eyes, "what's wrong?"

"I was driving around," Ashley said, "Andros, I need to tell you something."

Andros led her to the couch, "What is it?" He looked at her face and saw that she'd been crying.

"The doctor, he a, he found something." Ashley tried her hardest to be strong.

"Ashley?" he asked, "What did he find?"

"Cancer." She whispered, "it's already begun to spread."

Andros closed his eyes and pulled Ashley towards him, she cried on his chest. "Did he say how long?"

She made no effort to pull away from her husband, "He said the sooner I start treatment, the better the chances are."

"How long with treatment?" Andros ran his fingers through her hair.

"It depends on how my body reacts to the medicine."

"How long without?" He asked, even though he dreaded the answer.

"About 10-15 months. That's just an estimate." Ashley pulled away, and looked at him. "What are we going to do?"

"We're going to get through this." Andros cried with her.

They sat on the couch and cried in each other's arms. *Why does she have to go through this? God, she's been though so much already. * He thought as he held his crying wife.





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