Patricia sat at the dining room table, twirling her spaghetti with her fork. She didn't bother eating it. What was the point? Soon enough, she'd be dead.

She thought back to they day she found out. She had gone to the doctors for her yearly checkup. She expected him to say she had high blood pressure, or that she was just fine.

She was not expecting him to run some blood tests, make her pee in a cup, and leave her with the results that she had cancer.

Patricia didn't understand how she could even get leukemia; she was pretty healthy, and the disease didn't run in her family.

Patricia shook her head slightly and forced herself to disregard those thoughts. It didn't matter how she got it; she had it, and there was nothing she could do about it.

She stared at her friends' faces carefully, trying to figure out if Joy had told them yet.

First, Jerome and Alfie. They were being idiots as usual, throwing spaghetti at each other. They didn't look particularly disturbed, so she figured they didn't know.

Next, Mara and Willow. Willow was bouncing up and down excitedly, and Mara just rolled her eyes, grinning slightly. Patricia didn't think they knew, either.

Finally, her eyes landed on Fabian and KT, who were talking softly at the other end of the table. Now, there was some people who looked disturbed. KT's eyes were lined in red, and Fabian couldn't stop moving. He would tap his fingers on the table, or bite his lip obsessively, or run his fingers through his hair.

Yup, they definitely knew.

Joy, who wasn't sitting at the table, but instead up in her room, crying, must've told them earlier. Patricia didn't mind, though; she wanted people to know.

Then her thoughts drifted to Eddie. Eddie, who was probably just as emotionally distraught as Joy.

"Trixie, where's Joy? And Eddie?" She was snapped out of her thoughts by Alfie, who had taken a break from his noodle war with Jerome.

"Joy's upstairs, I think. And Eddie…why would I know? We broke up, remember?"

Just because she had cancer did not mean she was changing her personality. This thing inside of her wasn't going to soften her up a bit.

Alfie shrugged, and then continued whipping noodles at Jerome.

Okay, that's enough. She couldn't sit here any longer. She stood up, put her plate in the kitchen, and was about to leave when someone grabbed her arm.

Patricia looked down. Fabian had grabbed her arm, a look of sadness glinting in his eyes.

"Can we talk?" He said quietly.

Patricia nodded slowly, and followed Fabian and KT into the hallway. They sat at the base of the stairs.

"So…what's up?" She tried to break the silence.

KT swallowed. "It's true, then? What Joy told us?"

Patricia knew what was coming, but she pretended like she didn't.

"What did she tell you?"

Fabian wouldn't meet her eyes. "That…that you have leukemia."

His voice sounded so pained, like he actually was going to be depressed after she died. She suddenly wondered that, if she died soon, what this house would be like without her.

Don't think that you're better than everybody. She chided herself. This house probably wouldn't be that different. Everybody had survived (practically) with Nina leaving, and she was the Chosen One, the one that was important to everyone.

They could certainly deal with Patricia leaving. In fact, it might be better here, without her around. They wouldn't have to listen to her yack anymore.

Eddie would probably be happier, too. She was just like some obstacle that was blocking him from finding his love with KT, so with her gone, they could finally start a relationship.

She was doing it again. Getting so caught up in her thoughts that she totally forgot about her conversation with Fabian and KT, who were expecting an answer.

"I…yes. I have leukemia."

Her voice sounded so hollow she wanted to slap herself for sounding that way.

Fabian brushed his fingers through his hair again. "Oh no. This is bad. Very bad."

KT turned to him. "Well, thank you, Captain Obvious!"

Patricia almost smiled at KT's remark, because it sounded so much like something she would say she wondered if she had made a difference at this place.

"No, not this- I mean, Patricia, this is obviously horrible, but that wasn't what I was talking about. Eddie. He was looking for something in Frobisher's office. I had a guess to what it was, but now…Now I'm sure. I know what he was looking for."

KT and Patricia asked at the same time, "What?"

Fabian looked from KT to Patricia, finally looking her in the eyes.

Hesitantly, he said, "The Elixir of Life."

So, there was like, no Peddie in this chapter at all, but the next chapter is going to revolve around them, once Eddie finally gets up from his nap.