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They waited in the hallway for what seemed like forever. Neither spoke or made a sound. Sara sat opposite the door on a plastic seat and Catherine sat down beside her. Burying her head in her hands Sara tried desperately to block out the noises coming from the room Jessica was in. Catherine simply stared at window of the door. At the angle she was sitting at she couldn't see anything, and to be honest she didn't want to know. Sara had been told to expect the worse, and now Catherine expecting it too.

After about 5 minutes, Sara spoke softly with her face still buried in her hands.

'I don't want her to die.'

Catherine just looked at Sara, a bit surprised she spoke. 'Of course you don't. None of us do.'

'Yesterday I would never have thought this would happen. Hell.. even 6 hours ago everything was fine. I so want to be able to tell myself that everything will be okay. But it wont will it?'

'I really don't know Sara.' She looked at her sympathetically and clasped her hand that was resting on her lap. 'But I meant it. I'll be here.'

Sara lifted her head up and gave Catherine a small smile, which told Catherine everything she needed to know. Slowly her smile faded and the thought of Jessica returned to both of their minds. They waited for a while longer before a doctor stepped out of the room and stood in front of them. A few more people walked out the room and Sara panicked. 'If no-one is in there trying to save her she is already gone.'

'I am very sorry,' the male doctor regretfully said. 'We did everything we could but we had to put her on life support. We believe her brain swelled more and put too much pressure on the oxygen supply. We think she is brain dead due to the lack of oxygen, but more tests will be carried out soon.'

He paused and looked at the two women in front of him. Both had a glazed look over their eyes and a look of shock across their faces. Taking a deep breath he spoke again.

'I would tell your family to come say their goodbyes. If we are correct the only thing keeping her alive is the life support and if tests come back positive for brain dead, it will need to be turned off.' With that said, the young doctor focused on the tears now falling from the brunettes eyes. 'You can go in and see her now.' He slowly walked away.

Sara couldn't believe what she was hearing. Although the doctors had said the chances were slim, Sara still held on desperately to that thought and now.. Now she was told the chance had gone. Catherine slowly took Sara's hand and together they stood up and walked into the room.

The amount of tubes around Jessica's young body scared them both. Her skin had gotten much paler and her eyes remained closed. For a while both of the women just sat at the bedside neither wanting to speak.

'Sara, should I go phone my mother and tell her to take the kids over?' Catherine spoke slowly and quietly. At first she didn't think Sara heard as she didn't respond right away but she nodded slowly. Catherine didn't want to leave her alone but the children had a right to know what was going on.

The children came not long after the call made to them. The time went by in a blur for Sara. She just couldn't make her brain register to what was going on. It had hardly seemed fair. For two years she had lived with an abusive family and had made it out of that okay, and now she was lying there about to die because of something completely unrelated.

They had one beautiful night with her, holding her hand and talking to her softly, and then she was gone. Leonard understood what was happening and the salty tears which flowed from his eyes told everyone that. But Kate just sat with a blank look on her face watching everyone else around her cry. Vaguely she understood death. She understood that her real mommy wont be coming back. Leonard had explained to her that mommy was needed by the angels in heaven. He said that is what happened when people die. Kate didn't understand why everyone got sad when the angels took someone to heaven. So Kate just silently watched everyone crying.

Well that is chapter 9 done. Sorry about killing Jessica, but it had to be done. Sorry about the delay too. Chapter 10 might be a little delayed but I'll be hoping to have it done in about a week.

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