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"Oh…my god…" Zack was the first to speak, but his words were empty, he was just so shocked at the news. Maddie and Cody couldn't speak at all, they just sat with their eyes wide and mouths hanging open, unable to process the news they had just been given.
"London…had cancer?" Zack continued speaking, his confusing very evident, Cody and Maddie's confusion however remained silent.
"Yes honey, she was always dying, and she knew it, I take it from your shock though that none of you knew" Carey said in a comforting, but slightly confused voice, she expected that maybe Maddie had known.
"Why wouldn't she have told me" Maddie quietly said, she didn't want to be, but she was hurt that London wouldn't have told her about her illness, that she was going to die. Maddie felt bad though that London had gone about this all on her own, it seemed that London had greatly matured, to be able to deal with all this herself.
"She had to go through all this on her own…she didn't tell anyone…she didn't give me a chance to help her…I feel so useless" Cody blubbered out, breaking into tears yet again, Zack put his arm around him and told him it was going to be ok
"She didn't tell anyone, it's not your fault, in some ways it's a good thing, at least London was prepared, even if her death was unexpected, it does explain her letters though, she seemed like she knew she was going to die" Zack said to comfort his brother, and to get his own thoughts out into the open, it helped Zack to think if he spoke, it wasn't a introvert like Cody.
"I can't believe I didn't know" Maddie wept "I'm such a bad friend" she continued, Zack spoke as he sat on Cody's bed comforting his brother
"Maddie, you were a great friend to London, if she didn't tell you then it's because she didn't want anyone to know, she wanted to organise herself alone, she might have been planning to tell us, but we'll never know, but I know for a fact London loved you Maddie" Zack's words were very heartfelt, but the situation was so crazy, Maddie simply wasn't able to feel good at that moment. Cody meanwhile sat mostly silent in his bed, thinking about how he would have loved to have been with London, and how he would have helped her through her illness, but another thought was entering Cody's mind, poisoning his thoughts, a sense of relief, relief that London was not his girlfriend, and that he didn't have to deal with his girlfriend dying slowly and painfully from cancer.
"Guys, this whole situation is incredibly hard for everyone involved, and there isn't much we can do, except stick together, I want you to know I love you, even you Maddie, and especially you two" Carey said rubbing Zack and Cody's hair as she said the last part.
"Do you want your friends back in here" Carey asked
"If Cody's alright with it" Zack said, looking down at his brother who he held in his arms, the person he loved most in the entire world. Cody silently nodded and Carey left the room to bring the others back in.
"Look guys, you have some time with your friends, I'll go see how Mr. Moesby is doing with this information, and I have to start organising London's funeral and stuff…and I just really want to be alone" Maddie said sadly before she kissed Cody and then Zack on the cheek, Zack wished it was on the mouth again.
"You know Zack, if you want to make a move on Maddie I'm OK with it" Cody said, noticing the latest of many long, loving stares Zack and given Maddie over the last few days.
Before Zack could respond though, Carey, Kurt, Barbara, Bob and Max re-entered the room. All were shocked to see the state that they were in, all bandaged up, looking run down and depressed, it was clear to all that the twins, especially Cody, were not dealing so well with the situation.
Zack was usually the strong twin, who didn't speak his feelings, who got less upset, and in this case it was true that Cody was a lot more upset about Zack, particularly with the loss of London and the near loss of Zack. Zack was however coping with the events less well than he let on, in the room of 6 occupants other than himself Zack recognised only 1, even his own parents he couldn't recognise. Zack had never been so confused in his entire life, how could he not recognise these people, his best friends, his parents, he was told it would come back in time, but it didn't seem to be happening, sure, by talking to Kurt and Carey he started to feel they were his parents, but visually, apart from Cody Zack was still alone.
"How are you doing Cody?" Barbara asked her upset ex boyfriend, she figured that the explosion and London's death were what were affecting Cody so much, but she had no idea of his love for London and the effect her death had on him.
"I'll be alright, eventually" Cody glumly replied, Barbara couldn't be happy with that response, it was so far from the happy, plucky Cody she had known, that they all had known.
"How are you Zack?" Bob asked, he tried not to show it, but Bob was extremely depressed that his best friend had no recollection of him, it was a terrible situation. Sitting in the corner of the room however was Max, a shadow of her former self, she had lost Tapeworm, her best friend for so long, and he was now gone forever, she didn't know what she was going to do, and with Zack not being able to remember her, and Cody being so down it didn't seem like she was going to get any pick me up in this room.
Cody finally got out of his shock and depression from the news Carey had delivered to see Max across the room, he ushered her over to him and she sat down on his bed.
"I'm so sorry about Tapeworm, he always said you were the best friend he ever had Max, it'll be hard for us all to get over his death, but he will always survive in our hearts, friendship always survives" Cody's words brought tears to Max's eyes, but not tears of depression, not tears of happiness either though, just tears, the words were so heartfelt, so true, they were some of the first things she had been told since learning of Tapeworm's death that didn't just seem hollow and empty.
As Maddie walked out of the hospital, about to walk to the parking Lot she ran into Marion Moesby, coming into the hospital to see Carey and the boys, and trailing behind him was the hotel engineer Arwin, she hadn't seen him around the hospital since the explosion.
"Hi Mr. Moesby, Hi Arwin, I haven't seen you around lately?" Maddie enquired
"I don't like hospitals, but I finally decided I needed to see the boys, so I trailed along with Mr. Moesby" Maddie smiled in response at him
"I'm just going off for some alone time" Maddie said in a depressed tone
"OK Maddie, Mr. Tipton would like to see you, to discuss the arrangements for London, he's in the imperial suite at the Tipton" Moesby said to her before they all said their goodbyes and Maddie headed off, now going toward the Tipton to see Mr. Tipton.
Up in the room the conversation had turned from the pleasantries to what everyone had been doing with the summer up until the explosion which had ruined everything, Cody still didn't divulge to anyone else his true feelings for London, he had wanted to be her Man for so long, but now talking about fun of summer helped sooth his pain a little bit. Zack was becoming more cheerful as well, now becoming more comfortable with everyone in the room. Max was still a shadow of her former self, but she was smiling occasionally, She had gotten onto Zack's bed and he was attempting gently roughhouse with her, to try and cheer her up, it was elating laughs from the room, but there was something troubling Max, Cody noticed this and asked
"Max, what's wrong? I can tell there's something on your mind"
"I just can't help be keep thinking why? I don't know why they would do this, I watch the news and they don't know, all they know is that it was domestic terrorists" Max replied glumly, the roughhousing put on hold. Zack and Cody hadn't watched news for fear of seeing images of the dead and the burnt out rubble, it would just have upset them.
"Mr. Tipton gave me a file, about why, from his FBI contacts a few nights ago" Carey piped up, no one, not even Kurt knew about this file, they were all shocked and surprised
"I couldn't bring myself to read it, I don't want anger on top of sadness" Carey glumly continued "But you can have it if you want to know Max" Carey finished
"OK, can I see it, please?" Max replied nervously.
OK well there we are 40 chapters people! Amazing, I had no idea this story would ever balloon out to be this big, but I love it and I'm hoping you are too! Please keep reading and please keep reviewing. Also, if anyone wants to just chat about life, the story, Cole and Dylan, the Suite life or anything like that then please, by all means, PM me.