It's April 8, and I'm starting to type up chapter 9. I'm not finished with it, but I wanted to start typing it. And I'm listening to this song on a CD my friend got me for my birthday last week, and I'm almost in tears because it's so beautiful to me right now. And it reminds me of this story so bad. I'll have to write something using these lyrics. I have a knot in my chest. It's been an emotional day.

I hope you enjoy the chapter. It's a long one. There is a bit of swearing in it, so brace yourself. Nothing extremely bad, just mad people, yelling. And remember I fixed the reviews, so everyone can review. The more you enjoy and review, the faster I write.

Disclaimer: I do not own The Suite Life or any characters, except the ones I make up.

In Zack's room...

A few minutes after Officer Peters left, Zack was sitting on his hospital bed holding Cody's blue blankie. He had packed it along with his and his mom's change of clothes, in case Cody was scared when he woke up. He was rubbing it against his cheek when suddenly his breath caught in his throat and he gasped. "Something's wrong," he said aloud, looking around uneasily. He felt dizzy and nauseous. Hopping down off his bed, he threw blankie over his shoulder and walked out of his room in search of his mother.

In the waiting area...

Carey was screaming at everyone in the waiting room. "What's a Code Blue? Someone tell me what the hell a Code Blue is!" she was wailing. Kurt tried to calm her down, but that only made her more angry.

"Don't tell me to calm down, Kurt! I have a right to know what's going on in my son's operating room! I'm his damn mother, I have the right to know!" she screamed, throwing his arms off of her. One of the nurses came over.

"Miss Martin, They're doing everything they can to make sure you're son makes it through that surgery. You've got the best surgical team in Massachusetts working on him right now. Please, sit down and I'll have one of Cody's surgical team come out to talk to you as soon as they can," the nurse said reassuringly. Carey reluctently sat down and started crying.

By this time, Maddie had wandered up to the waiting room after being told by one of the receptionist's that Cody Martin was in the middle of another surgery. She was worried and wanted to find Carey. Unfortunately, she found her in the middle of a breakdown.

"What happened, Carey? Oh God, is Cody ok?" she asked, worry painted all over her face. Carey shook her head.

"I don't know! He had to go in for another surgery, and now they're saying there's a Code Blue and I don't know what that is and no one will tell me," Carey said hurriedly. As soon as Carey said this, a voice rang out in anger, "What surgery?"

Carey, Kurt and Maddie turned their heads in shock. It was Zack, who was standing a few feet away from them, fuming.

"Zack, honey.." Carey started, wiping the tears from her face. She began walking toward him, but Zack took a few steps back, stopping her in her tracks.

"I said what surgery?" he asked through clenched teeth, balling his hands into fists at his sides.

"Zack, Cody had more damage done to his lung than the doctors originally thought and they had to operate again," Kurt explained, holding out his hand in hopes that Zack would take it. He didn't.

"Why didn't you tell me? He's my twin! Now he could be dying and I never got the chance to say goodbye!" Zack yelled. Shaking with anger, he ran down the hall, away from his parents. Carey made a move to go after him, but Maddie stopped her.

"I'll go find him. You need to stay here and wait for one of Cody's surgeons to come tell you what's going on," she said and Carey nodded.

Meanwhile, at Police Headquarters...

Lt. Brooks was standing in one of the interrogation rooms at the station, spinning a tea bag around a mug of hot water. Every now and then, he would look up at the man, who was sitting behind a square table in handcuffs, across the room. Behind a long, rectangular mirror (or what appeared to be a mirror), which sat on the wall to the right of Brooks, stood Officer Peters. He was watching the Lieutenant and the man in handcuffs intently with one arm crossed over his chest and the other with his hand in a fist over his mouth. Finally, after a long silence, Brooks spoke up.

"So, Felix," he said, putting his mug down on the table. He walked slowly around to the other side of the table and put both his hands on it. He leaned in, just inches away from Felix's face, and said, "What's this I hear about you stealing a diamond and shooting a 13 year old kid?"

"I didn't shoot no kid, and I didn't steal nothing either," Felix answered, shaking his head. On the other side of the wall, Peters was growing more and more angry by the second.

Brooks let out a fake laugh and clapped Felix on the shoulder. "See, Felix, I got at least six witnesses telling me that you did. They tell me that you held a gun on two innocent boys while your partner stole a very valuable stone," Brooks said, tightening his grip on Felix's shoulder with every word.

"Well, looks like your witnesses need to get their eyes checked, because that ain't how it went," Felix said, trying to pull himself from Brooks.

"You shot a kid, Felix!" Brooks said loudly, shaking his head. "I got an officer at the hospital right now, keeping me updated on his condition. If he dies, you win yourself a trip down death row on a first degree murder charge!" he added, with a sad smile.

"Stupid kid, he deserves to die," Felix muttered. All of a sudden, the doors to the interrogation room burst open and someone ran in, grabbing Felix by his shirt collar, and threw him against the wall.

"What did you say, you son of a bitch?" It was Officer Peters, fuming.

"Peters!" Brooks yelled, trying to pull him off Felix.

"If that boy dies, I will personally strap you down and stick that needle in your arm!" Peters screamed, shaking Felix, who was gasping for air.

"Peters, that's enough! Get off of him!" Brooks said, pulling Peters off of Felix.

"You just gonna let him do that to me? I'll file a complaint with the head of the department!" Felix said, straightening his shirt.

"Am I going to let him do what, Felix? I didn't see him do anything. Did you see him do anything, Mac?" Brooks asked to the officer at the door while guiding a very hot Peters out of the room.

"I didn't see anything, boss," Mac said, helping Felix up. Felix looked at the two of them, shocked.

"Keep him here while I talk to James," Brooks said to Mac, and then walked out of the room. He turned to Peters.

"What the hell was that, James?" Brooks said, crossing his arms. Peters looked away.

"That bastard needs to be put away, Ed. He's sick," Peters said, his voice cracking. Brooks sighed.

"I know you spoke to the twin of the boy who was shot. You're thinking of Susan, aren't you?" he asked, and Peters turned away again. Brooks shook his head. "You can't get attached to these cases, James, you know that!"

Peters looked at Brooks and said, "I'm sorry, Ed. It won't happen again."

"Damn right it won't happen again!" Brooks said, as one of the department receptionists came over and handed him a note. "It's from Paul, he says it's urgent," she said. Brooks read the paper and rubbed his hand over his face.

"What is it?" Peters asked, bracing himself for the worst because he knew that Paul was the officer stationed outside Cody's door. Brooks looked at him and let out a long breath.

"The kid made it through the second surgery," Brooks said, and Peters closed his eyes in relief. Brooks patted his collegue on the shoulder and walked back into the interrogation room.

At the hospital...

Carey was pacing up and down the hallway when one of Cody's surgeons came down to meet with her and Kurt. She began talking breathlessly.

"What happened? What's a Code Blue? Is he alright? Please, tell me he's alive!" she was saying through sobs. The surgeon put up his hands and tried to stop her.

"Miss Martin? Mr. Martin? I'm Dr. Brenton. Let's sit down, ok?" he said, ushering Kurt and Carey to the chairs.

"We had a few complications, but we managed to fix the rest of the damage to your son's lung. Now, the complication we were having was that we didn't know about an extra hole that was made by the bullet. So there was blood filling up his lung, and we didn't know where it was coming from. Now, now, let me finish," Dr. Brenton was saying, as Carey was becoming more visibly upset by every word he said. "Now, we missed this hole on the X-ray, so we called in Dr. Sipes to help us. That was the Code Blue that you heard. He's a specialist. He found the problem and helped us fix it. Cody is in recovery right now. He's still unresponsive and on a respirator, but hopefully that will change in the next couple of days. I'm going to check out some X-rays, but there is a nurse in with Cody right now. When she's finished, I don't see why you couldn't sit with him for a while."

Carey stood up, hugged the Dr. tightly and whispered, "Thank you." Dr. Brenton smiled and nodded. Then he shook Kurt's hand, who also thanked him, and walked away. Carey took out her cell phone to call Maddie.

In the hospital chapel...

Zack was sitting in one of the pews, staring at the alter. He hadn't been to church in a long time and didn't know whether he should be in there or not. But there was no one around and he needed somewhere quiet to be. He kept thinking about Cody, wondering if he was still alive.

"You would know if your twin wasn't alive, and you know that." Officer Peters' words were going through his mind, but Zack still couldn't help the horrible feeling boiling in the pit of his stomach.

"I just want my brother back!" he yelled, looking up at the figure on the cross in front of him and banging his fists on the pew in front of him.

"Zack?" called a soft voice from behind. Zack whipped around and saw Maddie standing in the door of the chapel. He sniffled and wiped his face with the back of his hand.

"What do you want?" he asked, turning back around to face the alter and folding his arms. Maddie walked up and sat down next to him.

"I just wanted to make sure you were ok," she said, nudging him with her arm. Zack jerked away and put his head down.

"Look, Zack, your mom didn't want you to worry. Besides, the doctors said the surgery was surefire," Maddie said, putting on a fake smile so she wouldn't show Zack how worried she actually was.

"Then why was she crying like that? And what's a Code Blue?" Zack asked angrily.

"The last time she told you what was going on, you passed out," Maddie said, looking at Zack, who rolled his eyes.

"Look, Zack, I'm sure..." Maddie was saying, when her phone rang. She held up a finger to Zack and answered it. "Hello?...Hi, Carey...Yeah, he's right here...Really! That's great!...Yeah, I'll tell him!" Maddie put her phone away and smiled genuinely at Zack.

"Your brother made it through the surgery, we can go in and see him now," she said, clasping her hand around Zack's.

Zack let out a small sigh of relief and the burning feeling in his chest started to subside. He looked up at the figure on the cross and whispered, "Thank you." Then he walked out of the chapel with Maddie.

He was finally going to see his brother.

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Ok, all done with chapter 9. I figured I'd spare you a mean cliffie. I was going to end it with the sentence Brooks looked at him and let out a long breath. But I didn't want to do that. Because I'm going on vacation for easter, and I won't have computer access for over a week! I hope you can all hold out for that long! Anyway, review! I like this chapter, so tell me if I'm right for liking it, or if I need to tweak it at all!

Have a good easter holiday everyone, even if you don't celebrate it!