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Bones, Joey and the gang were sitting in the hallway outside Billy's room in the hospital.
A doctor came walking down the hall with a clip-board in her hands, "Family of one William Darley?"
Joey pushed himself to his feel and approached her, "I'm Joe – his brother." Bones didn't stand up, but let Joey speak, it wouldn't matter if he introduced himself, it would just delay the news.
The doctor had a sympathetic expression on her face. "I'm sorry. But here is nothing we can do for your brother. His body is shutting down on it's own and there is nothing stopping it. There is nothing wrong with him that we can detect –"
"Then why the fuck is he dying?" Joey all but yelled.
"There are some things still unexplained by medicine science, Mr. Darley." She said calmly, "Sometimes when a persons emotional anguish become too much for the body to bear, it crumbles and shuts down on it's own. In short he has given up…"
"But….he's Billy…he-"
"My official conclusion is…" she sighed and bit her lip, deeply regretting, "...that William is dying of heartbreak."
Bones sighed. The one thing he thought he did right turned out to be his son's death sentence.
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