Chapter number 6. Statistics, the horrible truth
"Hello, haven't seen you all at the one time for a while" Jack greeted Maddie, Lucas, Beth and Tony as they made there way into the room that Jack's cell took up half of the space of.
"Hey" they all replied putting on a smile and tying not to sound to upset.
"So what's the weather like outside? there hasn't been any sunlight come through here yet".
"Oh, it's pretty cloudy, not much of a day" Tony told him.
"Dad, I know that look, what's going on?" Jack asked, seeing right through his put on cheerfulness.
Tony sighed and looked back at Beth, Maddie and Lucas who had also just stopped putting on there little happy act, "mate, um, it's Serena" he started.
"What's happened?"
"Last night Beth found her lying unconscious in the middle of the surf club car park".
"Is she ok?" Jack asked sounding concerned.
"She's still in a comer. But they found something else out last night, she's got Leukemia".
Jack's mouth dropped, "She's what, but, she can't die".
"It doesn't mean she's going to die" Beth assured him.
"Yeah, but it still means she's got a fairly good chance of dieing" Jack told her.
"Look Jack I know your upset about this, we all are, but lets just think about what we can do to help rather than what could happen if we do nothing".
"Alright, so how serious is it?"
"It's a condition called Acute myelogenous Leukemia, but there suggesting that we look into chemotherapy".
"Ok" he said nervously.
"I brought the informations sheets along with me so you could have a look if you want to" he said handing him a few sheets of paper. Jack took them in his hand reading quickly through them until he came to the statistics part.
"Only 19.8 percent survive?" he asked shocked at what the papers said.
"Yeah, that's why we need to start her in therapy as soon a possible".
"Dad, what if she does die?" he asked, tears were coming to his eyes.
"Look she's going to be fine" Tony told him trying to sound positive.
"Dad you saw what the statistics said, only 19.8 percent of people who have had the disease have actually survived it".
"Jack just calm down for a minute"Beth started, "Serena has a better chance because she hadn't started to show very many of the symptoms yet, she was lucky that the doctor did a blood test and found it".
Jack couldn't say anymore, he wanted to believe that she was going to make it through, but his heart was telling him the opposite.
"Mum, she's dead!" Dylan screamed when they walked into Serena's hospital room.
"Shh sweety, she's not dead, she's just sleeping" Martha explained picking him up and letting him stand in the chair next to Serena's bed so he could see.
"If she'd not dead then why isn't she waking up mummy?"
"She just must be very tiered Dylan" she lied, he was to young and innocent know the truth.
Although Dylan believed his mother, he still felt sad like something was really wrong, he sighed and flopped himself down on the chair.
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