Again, i own Nothing sourced from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

Carey Martin sat in silence in a small lounge room near the Boston Medical Centre operating rooms; there was a TV in the corner still covering the explosion which had now happened almost 5 hours ago. Carey was just sitting, hoping her sons would be alright, Cody had been in surgery a little over 3 hours now and Zack about half an hour longer, Carey expected Zack still had several hours to go and she didn't know about Cody.

The Boys father Kurt was on a train that had just reached Baltimore and was still a few hours from Boston, the time was now almost 1am and Carey had seen the death toll from the explosion rising, it was getting close to Oklahoma City has the worst case of domestic terrorism in US history.

A few hours ago Carey had been given news of mixed fortune via telephone call from Marion Moesby, Carey was glad Maddie Fitzpatrick was alive and well, but devastated to have the news of London Tipton's death confirmed to her. Carey was so deeply saddened by the waste of so many young lives that night, she wanted to do something to help, but she was too paralysed by fear for her own son's wellbeing.

No matter how sad Carey felt about London's death it was nothing compared to the feelings she knew Marion Moesby must be feelings, there was no one closer to London in the world, he was so much more like her father than her father, and Carey felt so deeply sorry for his loss, but he had said he wanted to be alone and she respected his wishes, she didn't want to leave the hospital anyways.

"Ms. Martin" said a nurse who had just walked into the Lounge, startling Carey and bringing her out of her deep thought train

"Your son, Cody is out of surgery, we're taking him upstairs now, I'll take you to the Intensive Care Unit and you can see him" continued the nurse; her warm face and smile brought overwhelming joy to Carey's heart.

"Do you know how my other son is doing?" asked Carey as she began to follow the nurse

"He's doing as well as can be expected, but it is a very delicate surgery, he's not out of the woods yet, we really won't know much for another few hours, but I'll have his surgeons come talk to you as soon as he's out of surgery?" answered the nurse with as much compassion as she could muster.

The nurse ushered Carey into a lift and pressed the button for the 12th floor where Carey assumed the ICU must be located.

The nurse ushered Carey down a corridor, again, painted in the standard hospital white, until they reached some large class doors.

"Now, when you want to come in here Ms. Martin, press that intercom and tell the nurse who you are" Carey was informed as the nurse indicated the green intercom button. The nurse then swiped her ID card and the automatic doors opened revealing the large ICU, it was a long room with beds lining the walls, all containing very sick individuals hooked up to all manner of machines, in the centre of the room was a nurses station and it was there that the nurse led Carey.

Carey was directed from the nurse's station to bed 10, and in it lay her sweet little Cody, compared to the other patients he had relatively little tubes coming out of him, he has a pulse monitor hooked up, was on oxygen and getting IV fluids, but he was not on a respirator like many of the others in the room. Carey noticed an empty bed station next to Cody and she hoped that it was waiting for Zack, she knew their recovery would be hastened if the twins were together, they had a special connection no one, not even their mother could fully understand.

"Now Ms. Martin, Cody is still coming off the anaesthesia so he isn't fully awake yet, but you should go over and talk to him, tell him you're here for him" another nurse told Carey.

"Hi sweetie, it's mommy" Carey said as she stroked Cody's soft blonde hair, she noticed he had bandages over his chest, she assumed that was where his incision had been made

"I want you to know I love you very much, and I'm so proud of you, and I'm so happy you're alive" Carey continued, again breaking into tears but this time tears of overwhelming happiness.

Cody moaned incoherently, the anaesthetic was wearing off, but was not yet worn off enough for him to be conscious enough to speak.

Cody recognised Carey was there, and he felt happy, but was still too groggy to be able to speak to his mother or to fully know where he was, in his mind he was incapable of proper thoughts so Cody just lay his head back on his pillow and closed his eyes, taking comfort from his mothers warm hands as she rubbed his hair and face, and held his hands.

A few minutes after Careys arrival a man approached the bed and introduced himself

"Hello Ms. Martin, I'm Dr. Williams, I'm going to be looking after Cody from now on and I thought I would come by and let you know what happened, and what will be happening from now on"

"Hello, I'm Carey Martin, thank you doctor" Carey responded

"Well as you know Cody sustained some serious chest injuries and on the way here his lung collapsed and he had lost a lot of blood due to serious internal and external injuries"

Started the doctor, Carey nodded indicating she understood

"The surgery we gave Cody was to repair and reinflate his lung, and to stop the internal and external bleeding, and we believe at this stage the surgery was a 100% success, and Cody should make a full and speedy recovery"

Carey smiled widely and hugged the doctor

"Thank you so much" she said

"My pleasure, now we are keeping him here in the ICU for at least the next 24 hours simply as a precaution, I would say his condition is stable at the moment" finished the doctor

"When will he be properly awake?" asked Carey

"Well, due to the stress of the night his body is likely to want to sleep so I wouldn't really expect him to be to talkative until morning, but his vital signs are all normal so there is nothing to suggest anything is going wrong at this stage" answered the doctor

Carey thanked the doctor and he left to tend to other patients, the ICU was full of people, mostly injured in the bombing. With at least one of her sons alive Careys thoughts briefly turned to why, but she didn't dwell on something she could not possible answer, instead she went back to hoping for Zack's recovery and she again wondered how Mr. Moesby was doing. Carey turned the TV on, the coverage of the blast went on, she was amazed to see that rescuers were still bringing survivors out who had been trapped, but there had been no reports about London Tipton, and so Carey assumed her body lay somewhere deep within the wreckage, she hoped that the body would at least be found. Carey decided she needed to call Moesby and Kurt again and inform them of Cody's condition, and see if there was any comfort she could offer Marion.

Well there is chapter 11 guys, hope you all like it! i decided even i am not sadistic enough to kill cody off, at least not yet anyways, i'm thinking the next chapter might be a bit more Moesby Centric, tell me what you think of that idea- if people arn't responsive to it i will go a different way! anyways, keep reading and reviwing! i love every one of your reviews, you guys make me so happy!

peace out!