A/N: Chapter 11 is here. Enjoy reading this chapter and please review.

Summary: Izaya has been having headaches lately and when more symptoms appear he decides to go to the hospital. There he gets to hear that he has brain cancer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Durarara!

The MRI had indicated that the tumor had indeed grown back and that the treatment didn't seem to have had much of an effect.

Izaya had a panic attack after the MRI, since he still wasn't able to move his legs. The doctors decided that it would be best if he stayed in the hospital, so he was once again admitted and was now laying in a bed in hospital clothing with Shizuo on the chair beside his bed.

Izaya hated being in the hospital once more and he hated it more that his legs wouldn't move and that he would probably need surgery soon.

"Izaya?" He heard the blonde saying his name and he looked in his direction.

"What is it Shizu-chan?" Izaya looked at the blonde, wanting to know what he was going to say.

"Should I go to your apartment and get you some stuff?" Izaya knew he would need some things, but he was planning on asking Namie and he would also need to tell Celty.

"I will get Namie to bring them." Izaya answered and then averted his gaze. "I want you to stay here." He mumbled after that.

"Alright, I will stay." Izaya could feel the blonde's hand grabbing his and hold it carefully in his own.

"Thanks." He said softly and then grabbed his phone with his free hand. He would need to tell Namie about this and send Celty a text. He decided that sending a text would be better to do first and after that he could call Namie.

[Celty, I have been admitted to the hospital again, so I don't need you transport anymore for now.] And send. He hoped that the woman wouldn't panic, since he honestly didn't feel like explaining it through a text.

Taking a deep breath he called Namie and held the phone to his ear waiting for her to pick up.

"Izaya, what do you want?" He heard her not so friendly greeting.

"Ah Namie, don't be so mean to me~" Izaya tried to sound mocking, but he knew he failed and that the woman would notice it. He could feel Shizuo squeeze his hand reassuringly.

"What happened? And don't give me that you're fine, because clearly something happened." The woman really knew him too well.

"I was admitted to the hospital again, so could you please bring my stuff here?" Izaya wasn't going to tell her more than that. She would find out soon enough when she got here.

"You're not going to tell me why?"

"I will tell you when you're here."

"Fine, just some clothes, your laptop and other necessities, right?"

"Yeah, that's fine."

"Alright, I will be coming over once I gathered everything. See you soon."

"Yeah, see you soon." Izaya said and then hung up. He almost put his phone away when he received a message.

[What happened? I will be coming over now.] Celty was clearly concerned.

[You don't need to come right away.]

[But I want to.]

[Shinra will suspect something.]

[Ah, about that… Ehm… He read the message you send?]

[What do you mean?]

[He knows you got admitted to the hospital and wants to come see you.]

Izaya cursed when he read that message. Shizuo gave him a questioning look to which Izaya showed him the messages from Celty.

"I didn't want him to find out. Now he won't leave me alone." Izaya complained.

"Yeah, I can try and keep him out." Shizuo offered.

"Don't bother, I knew I would have to deal with him sooner or later." He had just hoped that it was later.

[Fine, but if he gets irritating you need to take him back.] He answered to the woman finally.

[I will do that, we will be there as soon as we can.] Great it was going to get busy here, but how was he ever going to tell them the reason he was in the hospital. He knew that a surgery would be needed to happen soon, since then he would have the highest chance to get his legs working again, but the recovery would take a lot longer this time and there were risks, since they were planning on removing everything this time and with that came the risk of damage to his brain.

"You don't need to tell them about your legs if you don't want to. You can always just tell that you only needed a surgery." The blonde told him and Izaya gave him a small smile for that.

"It's probably better to tell or show them the truth." Izaya's smile turned sad, but he felt like he had cried enough already, he just felt empty and tired now, but he knew that sleep wouldn't come yet.

"It will be fine and I will be here with you, alright?" Shizuo said and looked Izaya in the eyes to make sure the raven knew he meant it.

"Shizu-chan… I honestly don't know what to do." Izaya told the blonde softly and Shizuo opened his mouth to speak when a knock came at the door.

Izaya cleared his throat, before facing the door. "Come in." He said and then the door opened to reveal Namie carrying a bag.

"I hadn't expected you to be here yet." Izaya told the woman.

"I took a cab." Was all the answer he got before the bag was dropped beside his bed. "I put everything in there that I think you will need and of course your laptop." Namie said and looked her boss over for a moment. "What happened that you needed to be hospitalised?" There was the question he had dreaded, but he didn't want to tell it more than once, so he wanted to wait till Celty and Shinra would be here too.

"Can you wait for a bit? Celty and Shinra are on their way too. I only need to tell it once that way." It was clear that Namie wasn't happy with this.

"Fine, but I hope they won't take too long." She said and then grabbed another chair to sit down on.

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Luckily it didn't take too long before a knock sounded at the door and Izaya called them in. The door opened and in walked Celty followed by a not so calm Shinra, even though Izaya could see that Celty herself wasn't that calm either.

"Izaya, what happened?" Came Shinra's voice and soon he found the doctor beside him on the other side then where Shizuo sat. "And what is Shizuo doing here?" Oh right, he didn't know that they were on some sort of good terms right now.

"Shinra, calm down." Shizuo said and glared at the doctor to make his point. "Izaya will tell you when he wants to, not because you forced him."

"It's fine Shizu-chan. I told them that I would tell them, so it's fine." Izaya said and he tried to smile reassuringly to the blonde, but it didn't come.

"It's up to you." Was all Shizuo said, but he didn't let go of the hand he had still been holding giving it a small squeeze to help the raven.

"Everyone except Shinra knows this, but since Shinra doesn't I will start at the beginning." Izaya started. "Shinra, in september I was diagnosed with brain cancer. I had surgery two weeks after I found out and it took me almost a month to recover from it."

"You had brain cancer?" The doctor asked, but Izaya made a move to tell him to stay silent.

"Actually have, since it's not gone. They weren't able to remove the tumor completely with that surgery and so they tried to remove the rest by giving me radiotherapy. Today was the start of my seventh week and my last planned week. This was also why I needed Celty to help me to and from the hospital. Even though the treatment should have been helping the symptoms had been coming back for the last week. So they had decided to do another MRI today, but after today's treatment something… happened." Izaya paused here. Did he really want to tell them this? They might pity him and he would show them how weak he really was right now. A soft squeeze in his hand made him look to Shizuo, who gave a small nod of encouragement.

Taking a deep breath Izaya nodded slowly too and opened his mouth to speak again. "After the treatment I… got of the bed and then... " Why was this so hard to tell? "My legs… They gave out…" He looked to all the people in the room, but he couldn't read their expressions. "I can't move them." He said softly and looked down at his lap not wanting to look at the other people.

It stayed silent for a while, it seemed that no one really knew what to say, that was until Shinra cleared his throat. "And what about the MRI? What did it show?" Izaya was honestly grateful to him for not commenting on what he had told and to just ask another question.

"The tumor has grown back, so I will need another surgery." Izaya mumbled, but still didn't look up.

"I see and they're going to try and remove it completely this time?" Izaya nodded and this time he did dare to look up at Shinra, since the doctor seemed calm with his words, but this was a mistake, since even though the doctor had sounded calm he definitely wasn't looking calm.

"It brings risks, since they can damage my brain, but they say it's the only way they can try and make my legs working again." Izaya felt tired and drained. Today had been too much for him, from the moment he had woken up till now.

"I need to leave now, there is still work waiting." Namie suddenly said and walked over to her boss. "You need to get back soon, alright? You still need to pay my paycheck." With that she left and then Shinra and Celty stood up too.

"We should go too." Shinra said, but Izaya wanted to ask something of Celty before they left.

"Celty, could you do something for me?" Izaya asked and noticed that he got the woman's attention.

[Of course. What do I need to do?] The reply came.

"Can you tell Haru-kun I'm back in the hospital? He should still be in the same room."

[Sure.] Was all he received before the both of them left.

"Haru-kun?" Shizuo asked and Izaya nodded.

"A boy I met when I was in the hospital the last time. Fifteen years old, heart disease, needs a heart transplant." Izaya told him the info. "I helped him with his studies, since he is planning on going to high school once he is out of the hospital."

"You helping someone?" Shizuo asked with a smirk.

"He's a really nice kid." Izaya said and then yawned. "I'm tired, but he might come, so I don't want to sleep yet."

"You should get some sleep." Shizuo said. "I will stay here."

"They might kick you out." Izaya told him.

"Do you really think they will be able to kick me out?" Shizuo said and showed a grin.

"No not really, just don't wreck the place." Izaya said. He tried to stay awake, but his eyes were slowly closing, too tired to stay open.

"Just go to sleep, if the kid comes, he can either wait till you wake up or come back later." Shizuo said and then Izaya closed his eyes to fall into a restless sleep.